bakerstreet | Hogwarts AU

"Don't abuse that shit." Marcus laughs tapping his wand on the bottle making the cap pop off and hands it to Spot. Marcus throws his arm over Sean's shoulders again, relaxed and happy turning them to head back outside. "Did he burn them?" He asks as they head to the grill.

"He's actually fairing pretty well," Percy smirks pushing his glasses up on his nose.

"I can cook." Oliver rolls his eyes as he puts a few more done burgers on a tray Percy is holding and turning the sausages. "You guys have no faith in me." He huffs more amused than anything.

Angela comes over, "That's because you burned the first batch." She smirks.

Marcus takes the tray over to the table of actual food making sure Sean is following him. When he sets down the tray he nods for Sean to follow him, he flops down in a rocking bench under one of the trees in the backyard.

"You get all your stuff done?"

"I ain't stupid." Spot nudges him with a roll of his eyes and takes the beer, taking a sip before they head outside. Walking out there with Marcus' arm around his shoulders is actually kind of nice, it almost feels like they're a couple for just a moment - but it's stupid, he knows, and it's gone soon enough and he sips his beer and tries not to think about the lingering warmth across his back.

He follows Marcus and drops down into the seat next to him, sitting as close as he dared.

"Yea, just about. Got my transfiguration still left to do but that'll take me like two hours tops." he shrugs.

"Did you even look at it?" He smirks leaning against Spot a little wondering if the guy will get the hint or not. Or if Sean doesn't like him like that at all, he takes a sip from his beer. "Because I doubt it will take even you two hours." He laughs a little. "But you have a couple days to get it done." He says taking another sip and puts the bottle in the grass, and gives the bench a little swing.

Sitting under the trees in the sunshine, drinking beer with Marcus leaning against him, it was kind of like a little piece of heaven.

And it was torture.

"Sounds like a challenge," he smirks "I think you forget how good I am at transfiguration."

"Nope I didn't but even if you were in the sixth year class last year, you didn't get the NEWT summer work did you?" He asks smirking a little, "You're good, but it's also the quantity of the work." He snorts.

"Do you want me to stop flirting with you?" He asks arching an eyebrow.

"I am not just good I am amazing," Spot gives him a cocky smirk "Who was it who figured out animagus transformation when he was 14? Was it me? Oh, yea, I think it was me."

And then he takes a sip of his beer and nearly fucking spits it out.

"Wh-what?"

"Do. You. Want. Me. To. Stop. Flirting. With. You?" He asks again smiling a little, he shifts so he can look at Spot, sitting sideways turning his body. "I asked you out... twice, we'll three times if you count the match we went to..., I keep doing the casual touching thing." He shrugs, "So uh I'm guessing you're not interested." He says rubbing the back of his neck.

"...you asked me out.." Spot repeats, dazed.

He asked Spot out. All those touches have been deliberate. He's been flirting with him.

"Jesus christ..." he breathes.

"Fuck. No. I mean yes. I mean no, I do not want you to stop flirting with me, yes I am interested, I just didn't. I didn't realise that's what you were doing."

Marcus laughs and pulls a knee to his chest making the bench swing a little, he balances his chin on it looking very pleased and maybe a little smug. "Okay, I won't stop, maybe I should have been a little more, I dunno I haven't dated for a while." He shrugs and laughs again.

Spot loves his laugh, and from anybody else he might feel like Marcus was laughing at him, but it doesn't feel like that from him, somehow.

"Look I ain't... I ain't dated ever." he admits, worried that his total lack of experience might put Marcus off.

"I wouldn't call one boyfriend dating." He snorts shrugging a little. "Hey, you can actually go on Hogsmeads trips with me now." He smiles, "Where everyone goes on their dates during the school term." He says. "Not going to that stupid tea shop though." He says amused. "Wanna get another beer? See if the burgers are editable?"

Spot stares at him for a long moment, trying to puzzle through his words and not being able to make sense of them, the thought of actually getting to go to Hogsmeade is nice, sure, and going with Marcus would be even nicer, but is that his way of asking for a date? Are they dating now? He's never done any of this before and he doesn't know how it works and Marcus is not as obvious as he thinks he is, in Spot's opinion.

So he just nods a little awkwardly, and then drains the last of his beer and stands up.

"Sure let's go get something to eat."

Marcus puts the empty in the trash and grabs another beer and plats up some food on his plate.

It's nice the food, the drink, and friends, Marcus ends up with a good buzz and laid out in the grass watching the sky slowly change colors. Picking at a bar of chocolate.

Spot follows Marcus mostly, though at one point he gets drawn - without meaning to - into an impromptu tactics discussion with Cedric after letting slip he had a new broom now, and somewhere along the line he ends up talking to Oliver about the Bats game they went to see, so it's been maybe half an hour or more since he last saw Marcus.

By this point he's about four beers in and is just slightly more than buzzed, so when he spots Marcus lying on the grass with nobody else in the immediate vicinity, he saunters over and drops down next to him.

"Hey you." he says, tone a little accusing.

"Hey." He smiles at Sean, "Look at you making friends and socializing." He teases warmly. "Feel like it's gonna be a good school year." He says stretching out in the grass a little more. Even if he missed his mom and kept having thoughts about all the shit he wouldn't have anyone around for now.

"Shut up." Spot tells him seriously, a tiny bit harsher than he means to. He leans over Marcus, holding himself up with a hand either side of Marcus' head, and stares down at him for a second.

"You don't make sense," he tells him, that buzz giving him just enough confidence to actually give voice to some of the thoughts swirling about in his brain "You think you're being obvious but you're not and I don't get what's going on. So you need to just- oh to hell with it."

He leans down and presses his lips against Marcus'

Marcus laughs warm and easy but kisses Sean back his hand moving so his fingers could card through the hair on the back of Sean's head. It's nice, really nice. When the kiss breaks he smiles raising his eyebrows at Sean. "I don't make sense? I asked you out, asked you to go to Hogsmead, asked you to go to the game just you and me, asked you to go to the game with me and my friends, and asked you to come flying just the two of us..." He ticks off, before sitting up on his elbows and kissing Sean.

Spot's more than happy to kiss him again, even if he did just point out all the 8000 times Marcus was apparently trying to date him and Spot was utterly oblivious to it.

"Marcus," he says seriously, holding the other boy's face in his hands "I have never dated before," he kisses him again, just because he can, because that he understands, because it's nice "I have kissed someone three times in my life. You. Just now. I realise you thought you were being obvious but I am telling you right now, you were not being obvious enough."

"Okay." Marcus shrugs, Kissing him again, "Well that's all done now, think kissing you back is obvious enough." He laughs a little shaking his head. "Just admit you realize now, we've already gone on our first date." He teases laying back again folding arms under his head. "We can go to the first Hogsmead weekend." He muses happily.

Spot just sighs in frustration, but he doesn't look that annoyed. As Marcus lays back down he turns to lay down himself, using Marcus' chest as a pillow and staring up at the sky.

"Nah I refuse to allow my first date to be a date I didn't even realise I was on," he announces "Maybe I'll let you take me out to Hogsmeade, if you ask nicely." he adds with a smirk.

"I don't beg, and saying maybe you'll say yes just makes me think you don't actually want to date me." He teases pulling one hand out from under his head and putting an arm around Sean's middle, enjoying the closeness. "You'll like The Three Broom Sticks." He says fingers playing with the hem of Sean's shirt.

"Way to make a boy feel wanted," Spot rolls his eyes "If you ain't even willing to put the effort in. You're just lucky you're so pretty."

It was nice, lying here, just enjoying being so close to Marcus, the reassuring weight of his arm around him, he's pretty sure that if he turned his head he'd be able to hear Marcus' heartbeat.

"What's so great about the three broomsticks?"

"Food, butterbeer, friends." He smiles, "it's away from the school, teachers hardly ever go there." He adds easily, "You'll get to go to Zonkos, and Honeydukes finally." He adds with a yawn, the day of sun, beer, and good food butting into a relaxed and sleepy state.

"I do like butterbeer," Spot concedes. He trails his fingers over Marcus' arm idly.

"Honeydukes is the sweet shop, right?" His tone is casual, like he's just checking, but in truth he's pretty sure he's right and he's been dying to go there, he just won't admit it.

"Yeah, that's the sweet shop." He nods closing his eyes for a moment, "Get all kinds of stuff there." He muses, "I like the sugar quills and the chocolate. Wanna stay here or go sit by the fire with everyone before they start heading home?"

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