Unhappy Endings

62: After Dinner Drinks

"Puișor, you simply must join me for an after-dinner drink!" Karkaroff walked beside you as you headed toward your quarters.

"No, she simply does not." Severus was right next to you. He had only just gotten a step further with you, there was no way that he would lose you to this Romanian bastard.

"I was not talking to you, Severus." Karkaroff's voice turned dark and you looked at Severus. He was unafraid. "I have business with you later. Right now, I have business trying to woo this puișor."

What does that even mean? You thought to yourself. "It is alright, Severus. I can handle a drink with our guest."

"Then you won't mind if I join you?" Severus raised a brow. "Perhaps Rolanda will join us as well."

The older witch, who had been watching but not involving herself finally found herself put on the spot. Did she help a long time coworker? Or did she give you an opportunity that she wasn't sure you wanted? She looked to you with her yellow eyes. You nodded once.

"I'd love to, thanks Severus!" She smiled and joined the group as Karkaroff grumbled darkly and rolled his eyes.

"Fine. Let us return to the, how you say, teacher's lounge?"

 There, it turned out, Rolanda was especially talented with mixing drinks. As other teachers came in and out, you found yourself truly enjoying your time. That is, if you ignored a sulking professor and a sulking headmaster. Neither had gotten what they wanted from you, as instead you drank and celebrated the new year with various others. And what kind of party would it be if you didn't get a little past tipsy?

"S-Severus!" You toddled over to the dark man against the wall. "Want to drink?"

"No." He responded, he knew if he started, he would be drunk and hung over the next day. Today was not that day. "Karkaroff is ogling you."

"So?" You hiccuped and turned orange randomly, hiccuped and turned back. Severus' heart melted a bit at how cute it was. "I'm ogling you." Severus blushed and noticed you shimmying your way closer to him. "Karkaroff is handsome, I will admit he is my type..." Your eyes and your hair began turning a lilac hue, then flickered to fuchsia. Severus was starting to think of these colors as preemptive to romantic feelings. He would be right. With Karkaroff's eyes watching carefully, you sidled up to Severus and pulled him down by his collar to your height. "I have my eyes on someone else."

"Oh?" Severus hid his smile from others behind his hair. "Who?"

A short pause and you pulled him fully into your body, your lips on his lips. The room went quiet for a moment and then slowly resumed. Severus pushed you against the wall and began working his lips against yours in a slightly more familiar way. Normally, it would have humiliated him to have such a public display of affection. But everyone was intoxicated, he was proving to that idiot Igor that he was more desirable than him and he was getting to kiss a very lovely woman.

AN: I don't know why I imagine this couple as a heavy drinking couple, but I do. Something to do with it being the only way to lower their inhibition.