defeating the inner dragons

[exolliarmus]

►recipient:: Heavenwrites

►title: Defeating Inner Dragons

►pairings: kris/baekhyun

►rating: NC-17 

►word count: about 11.5k 

►summary: Kris is in love with Baekhyun so he invites him to spend christmas with his family in Romania. That Baekhyun happens to be a huge dragon fan and Kris the heir to the most famous dragon-taming business, of course does come in handy.

►author's notes: at first, I really didn't know where to go with this fanfic but then this happened and i just really hope that you like it. this is for you, heavenwrites~ enjoy!

It was funny how the one thing Kris had never quite liked about himself turned out to be the thing that had made his crush take interest in him in the first place. Being the one and only heir to his family's quite successful dragon-taming business - and at the same time having an unbelievable fear of fire - was of course not the best combination. Hence, he had never thought that there was ever going to be a day when he'd voluntarily speak about dragons to his crush, always afraid that the topic of his maybe too-well known fear would ever come up. Ever since the long and quite disastrous article Reeta Skeeta had published two years ago after the Wu's had provided the Triwizard tournament with four of their dragons, giving Kris the title of “the most handsome 19-year-old heir she had ever seen” - he had been 15 at that time – “but biggest crybaby when close to fire” had made a laughing-stock out of him for the following months.

Two years had had to pass for people to finally start forgetting about it. He was in his seventh year now; being a prefect and leader of his house's Quidditch team, student with the best results for his OWLs in his fifth year, and extraordinarily tall and handsome – one thing Reeta Skeeta had well spotted. There were so many things Kris would have liked to tell Baekhyun about himself - anything to make him fall for him - but there the Slytherin was, asking question after question about the fricking dragons.

“I mean, do they really eat living horses? Isn't that like totally weird?” Baekhyun was saying, having rambled on about all of the stuff he had apparently read about dragons and now stopping to wait for Kris to answer.

“They do, sometimes,” the Hufflepuff said, wishing that the boy would soon decide to change the subject, but he didn't look like he would anytime soon. His eyes were wide, glimmering with sheer interest as he looked at Kris like he was the most fascinating person on the planet.

“Man, I wish I could see that with my own eyes,” the boy almost moaned at the thought. Kris swallowed hard at a tone of voice he had only dared to imagine up until now.

“Well,” the Hufflepuff started, suddenly having the best idea of his life and hoping to god that Baekhyun wouldn't think he was crazy, “I'm going back home for Christmas, so if you are interested, you could come with me,” the Hufflepuff said, watching the Slytherin with caution as his eyes grew wide and the smile on his face disappeared, turning into a shocked and completely dazzled expression.

Oh no.

“You... are inviting me to come with you? To Romania?” Baekhyun asked quietly, giving Kris not the slightest clue if his expression was due to how crazy he thought Kris was from inviting a stranger to celebrate Christmas with his family, or how much he just couldn't believe his luck. “You would... do that?”

“I would,” of course he would, he had loved the guy for almost a year now, he'd do anything “We live in a really huge house so you'd have your own room, own bathroom, and you could go and watch dragons every day, if you wanted to,” he continued, hoping that Baekhyun was liking the idea and he wasn't adding up to the possible crazy first impression he could be making. “But you probably want to spend the time with your famil-”

“NO!” Baekhyun stammered all of a sudden, leaning over the Hufflepuff's table in the great hall and grasping a hold of both of Kris' hands, a shiver running down the older's back “I want to! Yes, I do!”

“Are you guys getting married?” Kris could hear Zi Tao mumble with a full mouth from beside him, but neither of them answered, Baekhyun filled with excitement and Kris' body threatening to overreact any second.

“That's,” the Hufflepuff started, coughing a little before he continued “really great.”

Baekhyun seemed like he was going to explode from happiness, squeezing Kris' hands in his small ones so hard it almost hurt. “Yes! Great!” Baekhyun repeated before he shot Kris a smile that was so mesmerizingly beautiful, the Hufflepuff would have loved to just cup the boy's cute face into his hands and kiss him senseless.

But of course he couldn't do that.

“Oh my, there's not even two weeks left!” Baekhyun suddenly remembered before he let go, leaving Kris' hands with a cold feeling “I need to pack. I need to tell me parents! I need to buy a lot of- Oh my!” and before he could freak out any more, Baekhyun was gone, having stormed out of the great hall, probably on his way to the dungeons.

Not quite having realized what all of this meant yet, Kris leaned against Zi Tao, closing his eyes at the thought of spending two weeks with Baekhyun... in his home in Romania... over Christmas, the probably most romantic time of the year.

Baekhyun had been right.

OH MY!










“Why don't I play Quidditch, you ask?” Baekhyun repeated, shoving a spoonful of soup into his mouth before answering “Because I'm shit at it.”

“Really?,” Kris said watching Baekhyun put down his spoon.

“I'm already not very good at flying. How on earth would I ever handle quidditch?” Kris laughed at that, imagining Baekhyun trying to avoid a quaffle with a cute scared expression on his face “Oh god, don't imagine it!”

“I'm sorry,” the Hufflepuff said not really meaning it, though, as he continued watching Baekhyun who was kind of smiling back at him now and then shaking his head to continue eating.

“Anyway. If you invited me so you'd have someone to play quidditch with on your vacation, you definitely picked the wrong person!”

“I can go two weeks without quidditch, don't worry,” Kris smiled watching Baekhyun nod almost in relief as they finished their meal in silence. They were some of the few last people at dinner that day, as most people had already left for their homes and their ride would come around tomorrow morning.

“And you parents are ok with it you said?” Kris wanted to make sure after he had watched Baekhyun lick the rest of the soup off of his spoon and almost grown a hard-on from it..

“They are. I hate our huge family Christmas parties in our mansion and they know it. Glad you invited me, I would have died of boredom.”

“Well, I'm sure the dragons won't bore you,” Kris said happily, watching Baekhyun's face slowly grow into a wide smile.

“The dragons. Of course.”








The moment they arrived at platform 9 ¾ and Kris saw his father who had come to pick them up with their portkey to Romania, the Hufflepuff started to feel how real all of this truly was. Baekhyun was going to go home with him and spend two week there together with his family.

That was his big chance to make the boy fall in love not only with his family's dragons but also with Kris. And as far as the Hufflepuff was concerned, there wasn't a lot of work left for that to happen because Baekhyun was already looking at him like he was his favourite person on the planet and Kris loved that feeling.



Only a short while later did they appear in the backyard of Kris' family house with a loud crack, followed by Baekhyun stumbling against him, almost crashing down into the snow and clinging onto Kris' arm so he wouldn't fall - apparently not used to travelling such long ways with a portkey.

“Sorry, I'm a bit dizzy,” the Slytherin said, the huge smile on his face half hidden by the woolen scarf he was wearing. He was still leaning heavily against the taller guy but looking up at the villa that was only a bit of a walk away from them now.

“'Huge house, you called it...” Baekhyun said at the astonishing size of the Wu's home and looked up at Kris who was smiling, feeling all kinds of happy sparks running through his body at Baekhyun's more than satisfying reaction “Wow, I always thought that my family was rich but” he pointed to the building and then to the piece of land that belonged to them, surrounding every direction with apparently no end, “compared to this, I've been living in a cupboard under the stairs.”

“Well, my parents are really good at what they do,” Kris explained smiling and decided to take a huge risk. He wrapped an arm around the smaller boys hips, pulling him against his side to steady him “Can you walk like that?” he then asked, trying not to blush too hard as Baekhyun looked up at him, his side burning at the touch.

“Yea,” the Slytherin smiled, slightly leaning against him again “Thanks.”









The moment his mother saw them stumbling into the house as Baekhyun's arms wrapped around Kris' stomach, she shot her son a knowing grin before introducing herself and telling Kris to show Baekhyun around the house before lunch. He did, leading him to his guest room first that was right next to his own and almost as big.

“Are you sure you don't want me to pay you for this?” Baekhyun asked, letting his body drop into the soft sheets of his king sized bed and looking up at Kris before pulling up his legs “Because I can, you know.”

“I don't need any more money,” Kris laughed but stopped when he saw Baekhyun make a strange face before propping his head up on his elbow.

“Who said I was talking about money?”

The Hufflepuff swallowed hard, not sure if Baekhyun actually meant what Kris thought – hoped! – but before Kris could even think more about it the boy was laughing out loud and standing up again, walking over to the window to enjoy the view over the little river that was now completely frozen but normally flowed past their backyard.

They were silent for a minute while Baekhyun stared at his surroundings and Kris watched him do so, smiling along and thinking about how fricking lucky he was considering that until a month ago the boy probably hadn't even known his name.

The two of them had never had any kind of relationship even though they did have a lot of common friends and had hung out together because of that. It was just that Slytherins didn't really like Hufflepuffs and nobody really liked Slytherins, it was ridiculous but nevertheless how it was, that's why Kris had never really looked twice at the boy, too blinded by his greenish attire. But then, almost a year ago, Kris had seen Baekhyun dance with a Ravenclaw girl at the annual Yule ball. He had been wrapped in a black-yellow robe that had caught the Hufflepuff's attention right away and god, had he fallen hard. After that he had pretty much avoided talking or meeting up with Baekhyun, if possible, too afraid that his feelings would be too obvious and the Slytherin would find out. But then, about a month ago, the boy had suddenly started to take interest in dragons because of a project for his advanced class and yea... that's why he had approached Kris and now here they were.

“Want me to show you the rest of the house?” the Hufflepuff asked after a while.

“All of it?”

“Nah, just he important bits. Like the bathroom, my room, the kitchen, the pool.”

“You guys have a pool? Oh why am I even asking, of course you have a pool,” Baekhyun laughed seeming both amused and surprised.

“It's really nice:”

“Well, you should have told me, I didn't bring my swim trunks.”

“Oh you won't need any,” Kris said, about to tell him that there was a pair of them in his cupboard, but before he could, Baekhyun was grinning again, snorting when he saw Kris almost blush as he realized how this could have sounded. “I didn't... mean it like that.”

“I'm sure you didn't,” his voice was so sarcastic it was obvious that he didn't believe a word.

Baekhyun watched Kris unfold into an embarrassed mess, the tall guy stumbling over to the cupboard and opening the door to point at the few pieces of fabric that lay there – he had asked his mother to put some emergency clothes in Baekhyun's size, just in case.

“No, I really didn't,” the Hufflepuff pulled out the dark blue pair of swimming trunks from the lot, showing it to Baekhyun with a slight blush on his face “see?”

“Oh,” he nodded knowingly but oddly enough Baekhyun didn't seem at all embarrassed about his mistake when he smiled “Ok then. I'm looking forward to it,” he was still smiling when he passed by Kris and went to open the door “Let's finish the tour quickly so we can go down and eat lunch. I'm starving!”

“Yea,” Kris said, still slightly troubled and putting the shorts back before he followed the Slytherin out of the room “Me too.”









They spent that whole day together, most of all walking around on the Wu's properties where Kris showed Baekhyun the small Quidditch training spot his parents had had especially made for him when he had become the captain of the Hufflepuff team. The boy had tried to make Baekhyun get on one of of his brooms so he could teach him proper flying but the Slytherin had declined quiet harshly, obviously not in the mood to fly after dinner time. For a few seconds the Slytherin had seemed almost mad at Kris' attempts. The Hufflepuff's mumbled 'maybe next time' which had been returned with a flinch of Baekhyun's shoulders, had Kris note down in his head that this was apparently a sensitive subject to the boy. After that the mood between the two of them had been kind of weird, Kris afraid to say something wrong and Baekhyun complaining about being very tired.

They went to bed early that day, Kris falling asleep worrying about how he had managed to upset Baekhyun already.

The next morning, he was woken up by a loud crashing sound that made him flinch up into a sitting position, sleep still heavy on his lids when the second crash came. This time he was sure that it had come from the room right next to his which was currently occupied by Baekhyun. Only after a few moments of confused thinking did the Hufflepuff realize that something bad could have happened. He jumped out of his bed, just wearing his sweatpants as usual when he ran and opened his door just so he could storm in on Baekhyun lying on the ground, dozens of sheets and clothes having fallen on top of him, together with one of the wooden boards of the shelf, covering almost all of his body.

“Oh god, are you ok?” Kris asked, not knowing what to do or think as he walked over to the struggling mess that was Baekhyun and helped him get the board off of him.

“Sorry, I was just trying to reach a second blanket when it all came falling down on me.” There was almost an amused smile on his face as he crawled out of the clothes and stood up, Kris pulling him up by his arm, “Not my fault your family is so freakishly tall, they just put everything on the top shelf.”

“Oh yea, sorry about that,” Kris said half-joking before he saw Baekhyun reach out to rub his head where he had probably pumped together with the floor “Did you hurt yourself?”

“Nah, it's nothing.”

“You sure?”

“I’m sure,” Baekhyun rubbed his head for just a few more times before he put down his arm smiling up at Kris who was smiling back, so relieved that everything was ok between them after all. But then Kris noticed something. Just a short while after exchanging those smiles, Baekhyun's eyes had wandered off, slowly gliding down his body.

Oh bullocks, Kris only then realized as he watched Baekhyun's intense stare leave a hot feeling on his body over every place his eyes had been. He was almost half-naked, chest fully exposed and his pants hanging low showing the thin trail of dark hair that was leading down from his belly button to his crotch. There was no way to cover himself now, that would just make Baekhyun think that he was some kind of uptight weirdo. He was nevertheless uncomfortable having the Slytherin look at him like that, obviously checking him out. Or maybe uncomfortable wasn't quite the right word. It was more of a 'too comfortable'.

Feeling blood rushing down in a place where it should definitely not be rushing right now, Kris was more than relieved when Baekhyun's eyes suddenly snapped up again and he said:“Breakfast,” before coughing a little, an almost-blush on the Slytherin's cheeks, “How about some breakfast. Meet you in the kitchen in five- or maybe fiveteen minutes?”

Kris didn't need to ask what those ten additional minutes were for when he nodded, trying not to look at Baekhyun any more because he was too embarrassed and quite riled up already.

“Fifteen minutes sound good,” Kris just said back before they locked eyes for just a second, a silent agreement between them and the Hufflepuff turned around and left without another word, closing the door behind him.

Rushing back into his own room, afraid that his parents could see him in such a state, he shut the door behind him quickly, leaning against it and breathing out in relief as he looked down at his half-hard penis that was forming a strikingly obvious bulge in his pants.

“Shit,” he wanted to scream in desperation because he had just basically blown his I-just-want-to-be-friends cover. “Shit shit shit!”









Kris did make it down to dinner in fifteen minutes, his little problem having taken care of itself after the Hufflepuff had started to worry too much about how he could have been so stupid. He was afraid that Baekhyun would treat him differently now, would be cautious around him and not use that uncomfortable but nevertheless really cute dirty-humor he had any longer. Just having been able to really befriend the boy he'd been in love with for over a year, Kris just didn't want it to turn awkward already.

It had, though. Baekhyun had already been seated at the breakfast table with Kris' mother, buttering his piece of toast when Kris had entered the kitchen to sit down opposite of him and Baekhyun just wouldn't look at him. The Hufflepuff wanted to cry.

“How about I take you to see the dragons today?” Kris' mother suggested after Baekhyun had emptied half his cup of pumpkin juice, looking up at her with interest, “Kris' father left before breakfast and I'm flying down there right after. You can accompany me if you want to. Corly might even let you ride her.”

“Corly?” Baekhyun asked, a smile appearing on Kris' mothers face.

“She's a six-year-old Ukrainian Ironbelly who has a thing for pretty boys.”

“I see,” Baekhyun answered followed by a nervous laugh and Kris could sense that something was wrong, “I'd really like to go with you, Mrs. Wu, to see the dragons. But riding them? I gotta pass,” he said and to both Kris' and Baekhyun's surprise, his mother just smiled.

“Not a fan of heights, I guess?” she had realized so quickly that Kris wanted to punch himself in the face for not even having thought about the possibility that there could be something more behind Baekhyun not being a fan of flying.

So he was afraid of heights.

Baekhyun didn't admit it though, as his fingers started to tense around the handle of his mug and it was obvious that he didn't really like to talk about it.

“That's ok sweetheart, everyone is afraid of something,” Kris could feel his mother's eyes on him and for a moment he was really anxious she'd bring up his little fire-fear thingy which of course wouldn't be news to Baekhyun but nevertheless the last subject Kris ever wanted to talk about now. “But you do want to come with me and look at them? I'm just going down for a few hours anyway, so you won't get bored, I hope. We can walk, it's not that far.”

“Yes, I'd love that.”

Of course he would. Because he'd not have to face Kris then.

He probably shouldn't have been so disappointed at this, after all Baekhyun had come for the dragons in the first place, but Kris nevertheless felt himself loosing his appetite at those words. Looking down at his plate of scrambled eggs, he sighed.

“Ok then I say we leave right after breakfast,” his mother sounded happy, obviously excited about the fact that she could share her work with someone who'd actually care for it, unlike Kris ever had in like ten years. She stood up, plate empty when she took a last sip of juice before she walked to the door “I'm gonna get myself ready and wait for you outside in 15 minutes. We'll be back before lunch Kris,” his mother addressed him and he nodded when she disappeared out of the room.

Kris felt Baekhyun look at him slightly taken aback.

“You're not coming with us?” the Slytherin sounded more than confused and Kris did not quite know why. Everybody had read the article. Everybody knew that Kris could hardly look at a dragon without starting to shiver and freak out. His fire-phobia had not been a secret. But Baekhyun seemed absolutely clueless and almost hurt when he continued “Is it because of what happened earlier? Do I make you that uncomfortable?”

“You don't. But dragons do,” the Hufflepuff answered returning the confused stare Baekhyun was looking at him with “I don't like them, you know that.”

“I was supposed to know that? You never said a word:”

“I didn't think that was necessary. After all the article about me two years ago was pretty clear about that fact,” Kris hated talking about this. He hated it because it made him think about his horrible experience as well as how bad he'd been treated after the article came out, even by his friends. Most of them hadn’t meant any harm when they had joked about his fear but that hadn't made their comments hurt any less.

Baekhyun's confused gaze had turned more into an uncertain and sorry kind of look when he lowered his voice “I had no idea that was true. I just assumed everything Reeta Skeeta wrote was highly likely to be total crap.”

“Well, that bit was true.”

“Oh,” was all Baekhyun said before the two of them fell silent, both uncomfortable, non of them touching their food.

Kris wanted to say something but he didn't know what. First of all, he wanted to change the subject because the thick air that was surrounding them was making him almost suffocate from sudden nausea. Second of all, he had the feeling that maybe there had been some kind of misunderstanding between them. Baekhyun didn't seem to mind what had happened earlier but Kris couldn't be too sure.

“Ohm,” he started and felt Baekhyun's head flinch up, obviously having hoped that Kris would be the first one to say something “about earlier-”

“Yea, about earlier,” the Slytherin quickly said, suddenly stiff in his chair “I'm sorry about that, I can usually control myself better, you know,” that uneasy laughter was back, none of it reaching Baekhyun's eyes. Kris had no idea what all of this was about. Why was he apologizing for Kris' hard on? “It's just that I really like you,” the Hufflepuff's ears sharpened at that, not thinking about interrupting Baekhyun anymore “and you were almost naked and I'm also just a guy, you know,” he didn't dare to look up at Kris “I'm sorry, I must have freaked you out.”

Really, Kris had no idea what this was about but at that moment he wasn't sure if he cared because Baekhyun had just said that he liked him and then something about not being able to control himself when he'd seen Kris naked. This sounded so much like a confession that Kris' heart was beating so hard in his chest, he almost felt like Baekhyun could hear it too.

“Why aren't you saying anything?” the younger boy asked sounding uncertain after Kris had been busy trying to calm himself down and keeping himself from doing anything rash like leaning forward and giving Baekhyun a kiss just to see how he'd react, if he would return it or not. “It's not like I'm the only one who got hard, you could at least try to be understanding about this.”

Wait... what?

“You got hard too?” Kris asked this being brand new information to him. But now, thinking about what Baekhyun had said, it was the only thing that made sense.

“Yes?”, he said sounding almost offended that Kris hadn't noticed, “did you not listen to anything I just said?”

“Sorry Baekhyun,” he answered sincerely, still feeling a little confused but more than that relieved, “but the 'I like you a lot' part kind of left me unable to focus on anything that followed.”

And then Baekhyun's cute “Oh,” was back before he almost blushed – almost, because Baekhyun never really blushed, he was far too self-confident for that to happen – and their eyes met, Kris longing for more to happen than that.

“So... you like me?” Kris asked and he didn't even know why he continued “even though I'm afraid of fire?” That comment seemed to catch Baekhyun by surprise when he frowned.

“Why would that change my feelings?”

“I don't know,” Kris said unable to really reason with Baekhyun even though he'd always been sure that his fear was something that would somehow always stand between him and anything, really. The Hufflepuff knew that he was a good catch, he was handsome, had a lot of money and wasn't stuck-up about it, but somehow, because his fear had always been such a big deal to him it had only seemed natural that it would be to other people as well.

“Of course that doesn't matter,” Baekhyun said strongly, suddenly seeming very understanding when he saw the slight worry in Kris' eyes “Does it matter to you? That I don't like,” he paused, swallowing hard, “heights?”

“Of course not!”

“See?” he then asked back, suddenly a slight – and very relieved – smile on the Slytherin's lips. “Who cares about fears when we like each other.”

It was probably because he was so happy and compared to earlier in the best mood ever, that made him say the following words even though they were so out of character and scaring Baekhyun was the least thing he wanted to do, “I never said that I like you, though.”

And then Baekhyun snorted, leaning back in his chair confident as he spoke, “Oh please, you've been starring at me for months. And then the first time we talk to each other you offer to take me home with you for Christmas. How else would you explain that kind of behaviour?”

Kris just grinned at that. If Baekhyun had told him that he had known about Kris' feelings before their little conversation, Kris would have freaked the fuck out but now that he knew that Baekhyun liked him back, this just put a wide smile on his lips.

Kissing him was one of the things he wanted to do now. Hold his hand. Hug him. Kiss him some more. But before he could even decide what to do first, Baekhyun's eyes had suddenly gone wild as he jumped up quickly.

“Oh no your mum is waiting for me. I totally forgot!” he was already storming towards the door when Kris called “Wait!” after him and Baekhyun stopped.

“Don't go now... we just... isn't this a kind of important moment?” Kris asked scratching his head in question.

“You know what else is important?”

“Dragons?” Kris asked, almost disappointed but making sure that his voice didn't sound it.

“No. I really couldn't care any less about dragons, to be honest. I just pretended to like them to have a reason to talk to you,” Baekhyun grinned when he saw the Hufflepuff gaping at those new informations “Your mum liking me is what's important here!” Baekhyun said strongly to Kris' positive surprise “So I can't ditch her on our first date. See you later,” the Slytherin said smiling when he saw that a similar expression had appeared on Kris' face.

Kris expected Baekhyun to disappear right that moment, out of the door, but instead he leaped forward, soft fingers hard against his neck, and pressed his lips to Kris' for only a second. The touch was gone before Kris' could return it and Baekhyun had shown him one more toothy grin before sprinting out of the door.










The few days until Christmas were spent happily holding hands, having long kissing sessions whenever they could and Kris noticing how incredibly good the two of them got along despite their different interests.

It was the coldest of the December days yet, the 23rd, when Kris was awoken by quiet tapping sounds coming closer and the weight of another person lying down beside him in bed.

“Can I sleep here?”, Baekhyun whispered after Kris had turned a bit, showing him that he was awake, but didn't even wait for an answer before he pulled half the blanked over his body and positioned his head under Kris' long arm, putting one hand on the taller's naked stomach and slightly moving his cold fingertips against the hot flesh, making Kris gasp but pull Baekhyun closer anyway. He answered with a quiet 'Mhm' and felt Baekhyun exhaling hot air through his nose against his arm.

Both of them were dead tired, but something stopped them from falling asleep, wanting to feel every second of this. Being pressed against each other in a cold room, hidden under a thick blanket, it was getting warmer and almost uncomfortably hot but neither of them moved away because this was just too nice of a feeling. Kris heard the younger boy hum against his arm, felt his lashes brushing against it everytime the boy blinked. Something about this was so perfect that Kris couldn't imagine ever wanting to get up and move again. But then Baekhyun hunched, Kris almost considering to press him down so he wouldn't end this wonderful moment, and suddenly their noses brushed against each other before the Hufflepuff felt Baekhyun press his lips against his softly for just a moment, and then do the same again and again until Kris was returning the lazy kisses, lips barely opening to take Baekhyun's upper lip between his and slightly sucking on it.

He was kissing Baekhyun. Byun Baekhyun. The boy he's been having a crush on for such a long time, and it was perfect. So so perfect.









The breakfast table was sparkling, so were the walls and literally anything in the kitchen when the two tired boys came down to eat the next morning. Kris' parents welcomed them with much excitement, hugging each of them tightly before grasping them by the shoulders from behind and leading them to the table, pushing them down next to each other. With a single tap of her wand, Kris' mother made one of the most spectacular breakfasts the two of them had ever seen appear on the table and for a moment both of them were thinking that this might even beat last years extraordinarily brilliant Halloween feast at Hogwarts. The smell of sugary apples, strawberry pancakes, greasy but nevertheless delicious looking bacon, baked beans, eggs, cocoa, and from somewhere the smell of Kris' favourite cinnamon rolls were caressing the insides of their noses. So when the Hufflepuff looked to his side, seeing Baekhyun gleam at the food in front of him with a huge excited smile on his face, Kris couldn't believe it was possible, but he felt even better. Christmas had always seemed like the perfect holiday for him, the 24th even better than his birthday or the day two years ago when they had won the housecup. But this... Kris was experiencing a wholly new level of happiness.

The food tasted even better than it smelled and when they were done - every plate on the table empty - none of them were sure if they were even gonna handle tonight's huge Christmas dinner anymore. Kris had put his hand on his stomach, slightly rubbing it against the tightness of his pants when he felt small fingers come around his, squeezing them in satisfaction.

“This was such a wonderful meal, Mrs. Wu, I think this has been and will be the best meal of my life” Baekhyun said, so much satisfaction in his eyes one could think he'd just had the best sex of his life – or maybe just Kris would think such a thing.

“I'm glad you liked it. Just wait for dinner. You might change your mind,” she was grinning, always having been very confident in her cooking skills – for a very good reason! - when her husband put an arm around her, proudly reminding them that he had been the lucky one to marry her. Baekhyun laughed.

“The two of you, make sure to be down here again at 6pm. Until then, I don't care what you do, just don't bother me in the kitchen, alright?” still smiling, Kris' mother pulled out her wand once more and started floating the dirty plates into the dish washer, his father helping by doing the same with the glasses and silverware.

“Oh, I think we might need to lie down some more before doing anything else,” Kris said amused, looking over at Baekhyun who was still holding his hand under the table, his thumb lightly rubbing against his “right?”

“Right,” the Slytherin agreed and Kris didn't know if he was seeing things or if Baekhyun had just winked at him before looking back to his parents who had stood up, in the progress of cleaning up the table. “Do you want us to help?”

“Oh no need for that, dear. Just enjoy your day. Off you go.”








Instead of staying inside and doing some of the 'lying down', though, Baekhyun carried his full stomach up the stairs as fast as he could and then put on his gloves and scarf, suddenly eager to build a snowman in the shape of a unicorn. “I can't draw for shit but building stuff shouldn’t be that hard, right?” Baekhyun had said and tossed the closest pair of woollen scarf and hat in Kris' direction, the taller boy catching them with ease. “Are you good at stuff like that?”

“I'm actually quite on the artsy side to be honest,” the Hufflepuff admitted, blushing slightly as he saw the amazed smile passing over the Slytherin's face as if he was proud to hear that there were more good things to find out about him.

That smile disappeared quite quickly, though, the moment Kris had started to pile the snow, the planned hooves turning out to look more like dangerously big boils. Kris stared at his failed attempt with questioning eyes, wondering where he had gone wrong.

“Well, I guess I have found your weakness,” Baekhyun said when Kris turned to look up at the boy who was standing over him, just watching him work on his leg. For a moment the Hufflepuff felt bad about disappointing Baekhyun but then there was suddenly that really huge grin on the Slytherin's face before he bent down and started scratching some of the snow from the pile, trying to make it look even remotely like a unicorn's leg, “Artsy side,” he said under his breath, his eyes gleaming as he shortly looked up at Kris and then down again “You're cute.”

They spent a almost two hours on their 'unicorn' until they realized that this was never going to work without magic and they gave up, letting their tired and cold bodies fall back into the snow, next to each other as they looked up at the sky. It was only after a few moments, that Kris felt Baekhyun's gloved hand coming around to squeeze his. The Hufflepuff turned to look at Baekhyun with a smile, who was looking right back at him, his nose red and lips almost a shade of blue.

“Let's go back inside,” Kris said at the sight even though he'd have loved to stay like this for a while longer, freezing but the feeling of a warm body right next to him, “You should warm up. Take a hot bath if you want.”

“A bath?” Baekhyun asked, his voice suddenly a shade darker “Only if you accompany me.”

YES Kris wanted to scream both in shock and anticipation but instead he felt himself grow a shade of pink before he almost whispered “Are you sure?” and saw Baekhyun nod, a smug grin forming on his face. Kris swallowed hard before he watched Baekhyun get up on his heels and pull him up by their still entwined hands.









“Here I come,” Baekhyun said, Kris closely watching his every move with a slight blush as the naked boy got into the tub in front of him, finally letting his body glide down, everything but his face hidden under the mountain of bubbles in less than five seconds.

The room was dark, just the light of one single candle, seated at the other end of the bathtub, giving light to the fogged room. Baekhyun let out a nerve-wracking sound when his back came in contact with Kris' chest before he settled back, leaning against him confidently as if they had done this a thousand times before - as if he wasn't at all nervous about the hard on that was poking at his lower back. Oblivious to the fact that this was a highly sexual moment, their most sexual moment yet, Baekhyun made satisfied humming noises, moving his arms so they were lying on his side, on top of Kris', quickly feeling up his fingers and entwining them with his.

Why wasn't he nervous? Kris could feel his heart beating in his chest so loudly, he was sure Baekhyun could hear it too, but the Slytherin seemed so relaxed, like this was nothing at all special to him. How could he when Kris felt like his world was going to collapse of either too much excitement or fear of doing something weird or wrong?

“You're tense,” he heard the smaller boy in his arms mutter but didn't answer at first. Only when Baekhyun turned his head back a little to look at Kris, did he clear his throat to answer.

“Little nervous, sorry.”

“Don't be. We've seen each other naked, worst part is over,” he grinned, voice sounding amused before he turned his head back and made that relaxed sound again. Kris watched him close his eyes and lean a little more against him, his light brown hair tickling his chin.

Kris didn't really feel like that was the case, though. He could think of so many more possibly deadly-embarrassing situations to arise, it was hard trying to let those thoughts go like Baekhyun was obviously successfully doing right at that moment. What if he did something wrong? What if he wouldn't be able to get Baekhyun hard? What if he sucked at giving handjobs and blowjobs? What if he used too much teeth or saliva? What if Baekhyun would change his mind after experiencing Kris' horrible performance? What i-

“Stop thinking, will you?” and the voice was suddenly so much closer than he remembered Baekhyun's head to be. It was coming from right in front of his face and it was only when Kris had snapped out of his thoughts that he saw that Baekhyun had changed positions, now face to face with Kris and his legs positioned on either side of Kris' lap. Baekhyun's hands came up to Kris' neck. Feeling that the Slytherin was watching his every move, the way his adam's apple was bobbing up and down from nervously swallowing too much and his eyeballs moving from left to right and up and down because Kris just didn't know where to look. Both of them knew what was going to come next. Baekhyun was going to lean forward and kiss him again and thinking about just that was wonderful, but of course it wouldn't stop there. More was going to happen and Kris was literally freaking out at the thought. He didn't know where to put his hands, didn't know where to look or what to say and Baekhyun felt his nervousness, looking at him with a bit of an amused knowing smile “Why are you so nervous?”

“Why aren't you?”

“Because I have no reason to be. This just feels right,” the boy whispered before he leaned forward and pressed his mouth to Kris ever so softly. The heat that was suddenly spreading through his heart was nothing compared to what the hot water or even the feeling of Baekhyun pressed against his crotch had made him feel. This was so incredibly warm and comfortable and like Baekhyun had said it, so so right, there was absolutely no reason to be nervous about any of this. “Doesn't it?” Baekhyun breathed against his mouth before he kissed him again, only just lips touching a few more times before they deepened their kiss and Baekhyun slung his arms around the taller boy's neck. His body was flush against Kris', the Hufflepuff could feel Baekhyun's perky little nipples pressing into his flesh when he used his palms to slide over the whole of Baekhyun's back, putting a certain amount of strength on them as to press the boy harder against his chest.

They were kissing for so long, neither of them even noticed the bubbles slowly disappearing and the water cooling down, and before they could even get the idea to let some more hot water flow into the tub, there was a loud uncertain knock on the door. Both of them looked up, separating for the first time in what felt like hours and breathing heavily as they looked at each other.

“B-Boys?” It was Kris' father's voice and the Hufflepuff felt bad for making his dad this uncomfortable. The man had obviously no problem with his son's sexuality but Kris could understand why it would be weird to have to disturb your son's sexy time. “Food is almost ready. I'd give you some more time, but your mother spent hours on this and if it were to get cold, she'd probably flip shi-”

“I get it, dad. We'll be out in five.”


The boys listened to Kris' father's slow retreating steps before Baekhyun started laughing, pressing his face to Kris' neck followed by a small kiss. “That must have been so hard for him,” he laughed, looking up again and the boys grinned at each other, still holding each other close.

“Carry me out?” Baekhyun suddenly asked, clinging onto Kris upper body harder and for a moment Kris wasn't sure if they were gonna survive this, the risk to slip and fall with Baekhyun in his arms too high, but then he saw the excited grin on his boyfriend's face and he couldn't help but return the smile and say:

“Challenge accepted!”








His mother hadn't made any false promises about the quality of her food that evening. Kris couldn't quite believe that she had been able to get even better at cooking, always having been sure that she'd already mastered the art, but then he had been proven wrong. So had Baekhyun who was leaning against Kris from the side after eating his third bowl of dessert and loudly complaining about getting fat and ugly and his Slytherin friends abandoning him if that was ever to happen.

“Well, you still have me then, right?” Kris said laughing, feeling similarly full though, as he felt his stomach make grumbling noises - he already knew that this was going to be a very uncomfortable night. But it would be worth it!

“Gotta take care of me when I'm old and fat. Can't leave me, I'll hex you,” the Slytherin threatened cheerfully but Kris had a feeling that there was somewhat truth behind those words. Not that he was ever going to find out. Leaving Baekhyun was at the top of his list of Things I Would Never Do.

They spent some more time talking, his mother asking Baekhyun about his family and telling him some more about the dragons they'd gone to see together the other day. “If you want, you can see Corly later.”

“Later?” Baekhyun asked, pointing at his stomach, “I don't think I can move anywhere today.”

“But you'll have to. We're going down to the dragon's nest in a few minutes.”

“We are?” Kris asked confused, correcting himself “You are?” Because his mother and father knew better than to expect him to get anywhere close to the dragons ever again.

“We are,” his mother said strongly, though, something strange in her voice and even though Kris had no idea what she was trying to pull, he didn't question her. Watching her stand up and grab her coat and scarf, the boys followed her slowly out of the kitchen and into the hall. Kris was eyeing his father suspiciously, but he wouldn't even look at him, obviously not allowed to tell him anything.

“What's going on? Why are you taking me down there? You know I don-”

“We know. Just trust me, will you?” his mother said strongly, before grasping her son's hand for a second, squeezing it as to tell him that it was alright.

He did trust her enough to follow her, Baekhyun riding on the broom behind him, squeezing Kris' stomach so tight that it hurt, but Kris knew that the boy was afraid so he let him, occasionally glancing back to see that Baekhyun's eyes were tightly shut and he was hiding most of his face in Kris' neck anyway. He did not trust her enough not to get afraid, though. As they got closer to the dragons and Kris could see a flame from a safe distance, that incredibly dangerous sensation of wanting to run away and scream and freeze and just die on the spot came over him again, and for a moment he was about to turn around.

“Are we there yet? Please tell me we are there?” Baekhyun was whispering a second later though and when he felt the shiver of the two small hands that were clawed into the front of his robes, he knew that he had to do this. Baekhyun was fighting his fear, he could too. Kris had no idea what was going on here, but there must be a reason for his parents to bring them here even though they knew how afraid Kris was of all of this and Baekhyun hating flying so much.

“Almost,” Kris tried to sound reassuring but the flames and roars getting closer were making that kind of hard on him.

Landing with a soft thud in the snow on the ground, a few metres away from the nest, Kris did not immediately follow his parents who were already walking over to where the dragons were.

“Wait,” the Hufflepuff called after them nervously, Baekhyun standing beside him to squeeze his hand, unable to comfort him, though, as he was still too effected from the long flight they'd just taken. “You can't expect me to just follow you in there.”

He hadn't been here for over ten years, they had gotten him this far, but he would not set foot in that building, knowing what was waiting for him behind those closed doors.

“It's your Christmas present, Kris,” his mother said, a smile on her face.

“My Christmas present? What? A panic attack?”

“No, silly!” his mum called, before she saw the serious look on her son's face and knew that he was not going to follow them any further “Wait here...” his parents disappeared into the building, closing the door behind them and the two boys were left standing there, the wind blowing fast past their shivering bodies.

“I don't get it... what are they trying to pull here?” Kris said out loud but was not expecting an answer when Baekhyun stepped from next to in front of him, looking up.

“Just wait and see. I think you might like this,” the Slytherin said to Kris' surprise, having calmed himself down a little.

“Wait, you know what this is about?”

“I think I do. They didn't tell me but remember how I came here with your mum a few days ago? Well she showed me something and I thought that it might have something to do with you and your fear of fire.”

“What do you mean?” but before Baekhyun could even open his mouth to answer, the door was opening again.

Kris couldn't breathe at the sight. His mother was holding onto a long enchanted iron rail that was slung around a fire-red dragon the size of their school's gamekeeper Hagrid and she was pulling him behind her through the tiny door, the dragon making squeaking sounds as he ducked his still-uncoordinated wings to get them through the opening - his father following behind.

“What...” Kris started, too much air having left his lungs already, as his hand dropped out of Baekhyun's and he made a few unsteady steps back, almost tumbling over and landing with his ass in the snow. “Don't.” He didn't understand. “Why.” He couldn't breath. The monster was only a few steps away from him. It was still almost only a baby, yes, but those could spit fire. He'd have only to open his mouth and the flames would be able to reach Kris. He couldn't breathe.

“Calm down, darling. This is Cora. She's your present.”

This was a nightmare. A bad joke. There was no way that this could really be happening.

Kris turned around. Unsteady on his feet, he just wanted to run away, somewhere he could breathe, somewhere he'd be safe from this fucking monster, but suddenly Baekhyun was holding on to his arm to hold him back and when Kris saw him do that despite his knowledge of his fear, his heart broke a little at the thought that nobody even took him serious.

He couldn't face it. He just couldn't.

“She can't spit fire!”

Kris almost didn't hear those words coming out of his boyfriend's mouth. But he did, and he took a few seconds to take them in.

“She can't spit fire, Kris. You don't need to be afraid of her.”

Not sure how to feel about this yet, Kris stayed put where he was, steps away from the dragon and dared to look at it in the eyes. For a moment he didn't believe it. The dragon looked like any other dragon, her skin even the colour of fire. How could it not spit fire? He had never heard of any breed like that and he was sure his parents would have told him sooner if there had been such a thing.

“She's a Chinese fireball. Was born without the ability to spit fire, though. The moment I held her in my arms after she'd hatched from her egg and looked at me and spit hot steam in my face, I knew that she was different.” his mother started, finally taking a few steps forward and Kris was letting her without moving away “She was born for you, Kris. I know it.”

Baekhyun was taking his hand again and Kris could feel all eyes on him. His breathing had returned to normal but he was still uncertain whether the creature was safe for him to get closer to.

“Nobody has taught her how to fly yet, Kris. I thought it would be best if her new owner did,” his mother looked at him with so much hope in her eyes. So much hope and something else Kris realized was regret.

When he had been a little child, he had loved dragons more than anything. He had grown up with them, played with them, flown with them. They had always been his better friends, when nobody his age had been able to keep up with him on a broom. But then one of their Horntails had broken loose and set their house on fire when his parents had been gone. Kris had been trapped inside of his room, the fire everywhere and everything had changed. From one day to the other, his fear of fire had made him unable to even be close to a dragon without flipping out. And he knew that somehow, even though it was ridiculous, his parents, especially his mother, had felt responsible for this. And now, the way his mother was looking at him, like she had been waiting for this moment for such a long time to make everything ok again, Kris could not turn away from her as she was approaching to finally stop right in front of him.

Cora looked at him with her huge marble eyes and somehow the realization that she could not harm him was hitting him so hard. He reached out with the hand that was not squeezed by Baekhyun to lightly touch the side of her face. The dragon made a sound through her nose, blinking twice before leaning her head against his hand and closing her eyes. Kris laughed a little, so much relief washing over him as he used his long fingers to trace the dragon's rough skin slightly up the side of her face up to her head to pet her.

Pretending not to notice the tears that were running down his mother's cheeks, Kris grasped the rail from her, and watched her let go hesitantly.

“Is she big enough yet?” he asked not sure if the girl would be able to carry him but his mother nodded in union with his father who was watching astonished as Kris pulled the dragon and made her get down on the ground with just a flick of his hand, like he had done this just yesterday when really it had been ages.

He was going to do this. Nothing was stopping him. She couldn't spit fire, this was just one of the creatures he had loved so much as a child - just that this one would never be able to hurt him.

His leg was already bending over her thick back when he saw Baekhyun standing in front of them, a proud smile on his face, nodding when he saw that Kris was searching for his eyes.

“Do you want to do this with me?” Kris asked the boy even though he knew that Baekhyun would probably say no, seeing that he had just gotten over the broomride which had already turned him into a shivering mess.

But Baekhyun nodded.

It took him a moment to climb on the dragon, but with Kris' help and a steady arm wrapped around his stomach as the smaller boy settled himself in front of Kris on the dragon, they were ready to take off.

“Thanks mum and dad,” Kris said, suddenly feeling like this was such a huge step he was taking and he was so glad that they had made this possible for him and that Baekhyun was by his side to experience it with him, even though the Hufflepuff could already feel him shivering again at the prospect of flying up into the air again.

“No. We are so sorry,” his mum almost cried, a hand covering her mouth as she watched Kris give the dragon her first soft jab against her wings so she would know how to move them during the flight.

“Don't be. It was never your fault and you know it,” the Hufflepuff said with a smile on his face before he gave Cora the final signal to take off. And she did with one hard flap of her wings, right into the air, making a loud squeaking sound.

“Oh god,” Baekhyun was shouting afraid of falling off of her because the only thing he had to hold onto was her long neck and Kris' arms and since this was her first real flight, Cora was swaying insanely from one side to the other, but Kris had everything under control, knowing exactly what to do next.

“Open your eyes, Baekhyun,” he shouted when they came closer to the Wu's properties again and even though he hesitated for a while, the Slytherin opened his eyes. A fearful sob came from his mouth at first but then Kris changed direction and they dove down over the frozen lake, going faster and fast, coming closer to the place where the lake flowed into the sea and suddenly, when Kris looked at Baekhyun's face, all the fear was gone and he was gleaming at the sight in front of him, mesmerized by its beauty.

“Look at it!” Baekhyun shouted, daring to point with a finger to the horizon and even though it was completely dark outside, the view made Kris never want to get off of Cora again. “Look! Look!”

“I am looking Baekhyun,” Kris laughed into his ear from behind, squeezing him closer against his back and smiling from one ear to the other, even though his face was freezing so much and his eyes were watering from the cold wind.

“This is amazing!”

“I know!”

“And you know what makes it even better?” Baekhyun was suddenly screaming, turning his head to look at Kris who was closer than he had thought and suddenly their lips were almost touching “That we are doing this together,” he said, looking Kris' in the eyes before they suddenly focused on his lips “Thank you for asking me to come here with you.”

And then they were kissing. High up in the air, riding on the back of a dragon, Kris the boy who was afraid of fire and Baekhyun the boy who was afraid of flying were kissing, and they had never felt this happy before in their lives.









When they got home, the first thing Kris felt like doing was taking another bath because god, he was so cold, he couldn't even feel his toes anymore. A quick heating charm, his father used on all of them took care of the problem, though, and the two boys retreated upstairs, going into Kris' room and quickly changing before lying down in bed together.

Both of them knew that this was the moment something was going to happen and this time the Hufflepuff wouldn't be freaking out. The two of them had just experienced a very important moment together, both of them fighting against their fears together and probably even getting over some of it after years of suffering. The way Baekhyun had, without as much as a second of thought, climbed onto the dragon with Kris because he had known how much this would mean to the Hufflepuff, Kris had developed a completely new kind of emotion in his heart which he didn't quite know how to call it yet. But one thing was clear, this thing between him and Baekhyun was so fricking real, realer than Kris thought it was ever going to get, and there was absolutely nothing at this point that could stop him from doing what he was about to do.

It hadn't even taken them minutes until they'd started making out again, Kris rolling on top of Baekhyun, the smaller boy having to deal with the uncomfortable weight but not even caring because with it came the heat and the sensation of another body so tightly pressed against his.

Kris used one hand to glide under Baekhyun's shirt, feeling up his chest and stomach with his fingertips, softly touching every inch of it - and with one swift movement let his hand disappear in Baekhyun's pants to cup his boyfriend's cock. It only took the boy a few seconds to start getting hard at that, pressing his hips up a little under the heavy weight that was Kris and playing with his hair to press Kris' mouth harder against his.

Remembering how he always did it to himself, Kris started jerking Baekhyun off, happy to notice that the boy was reacting to it, breathing harder into their kiss and slightly moving his hips. His hands came down to rest on the Hufflepuff's lower back when he was close to coming and it only took a few more ups and downs of Kris' hand before Baekhyun moaned out loud against his lips and came, digging his nails into his boyfriend's flesh.

They didn't take a break then, though. Kris had grown hard from just watching Baekhyun go crazy underneath him and they were still kissing when Baekhyun started shifting a little, pulling up his legs to wrap them around Kris' hips.

“Let's go all the way, hm?” the boy asked from underneath him and all Kris did was nod in excitement before he pulled Baekhyun's pants down, making the boy have to unwrap his legs again. Their clothes were gone in a minute, scattered all over the floor when Kris layed down on top of him again, their dicks pressing against each other, flesh against flesh and Kris could feel himself growing insanely hot at the idea of what was about to happen.

His fingers quickly found their way between Baekhyun's legs and in no time he had first one and then two fingers inside of him, moving them carefully around to stretch him enough. It was only after he had entered the third finger, that he found that one special spot and Baekhyun made a kind of high pitched sound at the shock of being touched there for the first time.

They took their time preparing Baekhyun, all the while exchanging kisses and leaving marks on the smaller boy's neck by slightly sucking and biting on the sensitive skin of his neck, when he started urging Kris that he was ready.

Positioning himself between Baekhyun's legs and holding the Slytherin's hips up so to find the right angle more easily, Kris asked if he was ok one more time before he finally pushed his cock inside slowly. Loud sounds, a mixture between moans and squeaks left the Slytherin's mouth as Kris slowly pushed inside, the heat and pressure too much to handle while being completely quiet, even though he had tried really hard to keep his voice down.

“Are you alright?” Kris asked after he had pushed almost his full length inside and Baekhyun nodded, breathing hard and nails digging into Kris' arms and leaving bloody red marks. Kris wanted to hold back some more because he could see that this was a little much on the boy but it was so hard to hold himself back when he was given permission to start. So he did, slowly though, only moving a bit at first and waiting until the clench of Baekhyun's hands had loosened a little and the Hufflepuff was sure that this wasn't uncomfortable for the little guy anymore.

As soon as he had picked up some speed, Kris literally felt that it was impossible to hold himself back any longer. And he also felt like he finally understood why people were making sex out to be such a huge thing because god damn it, if this wasn't the best thing he had ever felt in his life, he didn't know. The way Baekhyun's tight hole was squeezing him and feeling so hot around him, not letting go, was making him go crazy, hot sparks running through his whole body right into his crotch and his head was only telling him to go faster and harder. Baekhyun who had long given up on keeping his voice down, was moaning shamelessly, still tightly holding on to Kris as the taller boy pushed inside him harder than ever and both of them could feel themselves getting close.

The moment Kris came, a low groan escaping his lips, he grasped Baekhyun's penis and started jerking him off which made the smaller boy last for only a few more seconds before he came as well, Kris still riding out the best orgasm of his life as the Slytherin was spurting his cum over himself and Kris.

When they had calmed down from the aftershock of their first time, Kris slowly pulled out, lying down next to Baekhyun who was about to fall asleep, but just awake enough to snuggle closer to his boyfriend and whisper a “God please let me continue dreaming about this,” before his eyes closed and his slow even breathing told the Hufflepuff that the boy had passed out.








If his parents had heard them having sex the night before, they were doing a hell of a good job pretending they hadn't, and both Baekhyun and Kris were very thankful for that. Breakfast the next morning was relaxed and long-lasting as they sat there for hours talking and then decided that the four of them should go down to Cora and pay her another visit. After all Kris and Baekhyun had only a few days left in Romania and the two of them had somehow fallen in love with the female dragon on Christmas eve, wanting to spend every second they had with her.

“Kris can't wait to go see a dragon, who would have thought that this was ever going to happen?” his father said while biting into a piece of apple, watching his son grin at him and stand up.

“Thanks to you guys,” he told his parents before they all got up to see Cora.






Saying goodbye this year was harder than ever. Kris felt like this was the best time he had ever spent with his family and leaving Cora for a few more months until he could see her again wasn't the easiest bit either. Baekhyun holding on to his hand through all of it made it more bearable though and when they got into the train back to Hogwarts, waving Kris' parents goodbye one last time, the two of them were smiling still.

The two of them sat down in a compartment together, quickly changing into their school robes before they were joined by a few of their friends Zi Tao, Sehun, Jongin and Kyungsoo who were seated opposite of them and not even trying to hide the shock when they saw the two of them entwine their fingers and smile at each other.

“So... the two of you?” Jongin asked and even though it was obvious, seeing them nod, he still looked more than shocked. “Who would have thought.”

“I told you, didn't I?” Zi Tao said, looking over at Jongin offended “and none of you believed me.”

“Well excuse me but a Hufflepuff and a Slytherin? That's kinda hard to believe, isn't it?” Sehun answered amused, not noticing the blank stare Zi Tao was giving him before the four of them turned back to Kris and Baekhyun who were watching their friends bickering with a grin on their face.

“So,” Jongin started again and Kris and Baekhyun were listening carefully when he asked, “Did you fuck?”

“Oh come on!” Kyungsoo said annoyed, elbowing the boy in the side and Jongin whined a little before he turned back to the two to hear their answer, but they didn't say anything except grin at each other, looking forward to their summer in Hogwarts. Together.