"Your perfect-conquering-hero thing? Maybe it's not for your comfort, but you hide in it just the same."

"I'm not... It's..." He runs a hand against his scalp, that nervous tic he gets sometimes. "Whatever else I am I'm still human, alright, and not letting people in is a very basic human thing to do in this place where at any moment anyone can just, just, just be torn to pieces in front of my face because I chose to save the group of five instead of him, no matter that if the seniors who were around had deigned to help they could have all survived—" He cuts himself off and sighs. "Yeah, I'm hiding a ton behind the persona and you're even wrong, actually, a lot of it is for my comfort. Or... maybe not comfort, but you get it, alright. I still know that I'm risking a lot and I still know that weapon of mass destruction or no I might still lose you so at least I'm facing that bit heads-on, alright?"

Lex sighs heavily.

"If I ever see you deciding whether to save me or five people, I'll slap you into next week and hopefully by then you'll have learned to multitask. If something's going to kill me, yell at me about it and save who you have to, and I'll handle it. And, moreover -"

Lex shoves Scorpius into the nearest wall and kisses him. "Fuck you," he says when he comes up for air. "Once more for good measure."

Okay that's permission, right? If he pulls Lex against his body and leans down to kiss him again and runs one hand through Lex's hair and one under Lex's shirt that's fine?

Lex will permit this, briefly! Then he withdraws and says "I'm enough of an exhibitionist to fuck you in the showers, but I'm not enough of an exhibitionist to fuck you in the middle of the bloody hallway. Come on."

...that's such a terrible idea. SUCH a terrible idea. Why is he following Lex anyway. Who knows. Brain empty only barkbarkbarkbark available.

Lex hooks a finger through his front belt loop and pulls him along when he's going too slow. In this fashion they reach the toilets very quickly, and it still being technically during classtime, they're mostly empty. The showers are even more so.

And Scorpius is multitasking, he is multitasking getting rid of his clothes and casting a spell into a showerhead that sends four waves of different kinds of magical energy up and through the piping, and by the way they hear a clang clang clang from the inside he did hit something, who knows what, he doesn't care.

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Lex will strip too, then. He still looks like someone used all of his raw material to stretch him out, like he should be four inches shorter and forty pounds heavier than he is.

As soon as his clothes are off (and semi-folded) outside the stall, he starts kissing Scorpius again, and grinding against him like he has entirely forgotten the purpose of this visit.

Scorpius would like to disagree! He would like to disagree very much! This is exactly the purpose of this visit. He'll even turn the hot water on and— "Wait are we gonna do anal and if so do you wanna top or bottom, or decide later, I have a potion—"

"I'll do you first, why not, sounds like fun, give me that - did you really take alchemy track just for that you absolute slut - how do I use it -"

"No, I'm the one who takes it, gets rid of any, um, undesirable detritus and also relaxes the muscles and has a lubricant effect too—" He pulls away to grab a little plastic case with four pinky finger-sized vials from his knapsack and downs one—shivers a bit—okay that was long enough not kissing Lex can they resume that?

Yes they can!

And Lex spends a few seconds on a general cleaning spell for himself, he traded someone a mortal flame incantation for it back in freshman year - the running water makes the spell stronger, he feels the grime coming off of him. His skin is so pallid it's practically glowing but at least it's clean.

He grinds on Scorpius some more. "How long does it take to get you ready, or does it just -"

"It does just," Scorpius breathes, and he kisses Lex once more while he reaches down between them to give him a stroke or two.

Then he turns around, hand still around Lex, and leans forward a bit, resting his other forearm against the stall wall and his forehead against his forearm. He arches his back and perks his butt up, guiding Lex with his hand and—

Wow, that feels good.

Lex was using what might be called "misdirection", earlier when he said that virgin's blood didn't matter so Scorpius couldn't make any predictions about his sex life from the recipes he got. Scorpius could perhaps make predictions about his sex life from the general state of his social life, which is approximately nil. Which is to say: wow, that feels good and is an entirely novel sensation.

He pants into Scorpius' neck. "This - this is - nice," he says inanely.

"Yeah?" Scorpius breathes, equally inanely, and he guides Lex all the way into himself—yeah that is a very good potion at what it does, actually—moaning as he does, eyes squeezed firmly shut. "Take me," he says once Lex is all the way in. "Use me, do me, do whatever you want with me, God, Lex—"

Lex pauses for a moment, hilted in Scorpius.

"You - you want me to - be mean to you now?"

"Yes," he says very vehemently, then stops himself. "—sorry, I, uh, get it's your first time. We can, uh, take it slower if you want? I just, I want—you."

"Um. Yeah, slow is - slow is good."

Slowly, he withdraws, then pushes back in. "Does that - feel good for you too -"

He lets out a long soft hiss of a moan, eyes fluttering shut again. "Yes," he breathes. "Want—you, whatever you want to give me," he adds in a low rumble. His hands are curled into fists, and Lex can feel Scorpius's muscles resisting him now that he's the one pulling and pushing—clearly the potion doesn't, ahem, loosen him up completely, but all signs point to Scorpius finding this a pro not a con.

"Happy to provide," Lex says. He thrusts in again, and sucks on the side of Scorpius' neck, gently, just enough to leave a mark.

"Oh, yes, please—" Scorpius whines, tilting his head out to give Lex more access to the skin of his neck. He presses his back out, a bit, trying to get as much skin contact between his body and Lex's as he can.

Lex keeps sucking and nibbling and maintaining skin contact and - he feels like he's bursting with life and light and other things, is this really what it's supposed to feel like when you're not angrily yanking at yourself in a tiny miserable cell or trying to have one off in the woods so your mum doesn't know about it while mosquitos are biting you in places that shouldn't be bitten -

- he doesn't last very long. He lets out the happiest noise he's probably ever made and hugs Scorpius close as he releases.

Scorpius hasn't come in days and he's been intensely horny and then he feels Lex's release inside and he's not sure whether it's that or the hug but he's soon having his own release directly at the wall, hands free, but he forces his mouth against the back of his hand because he's just heard a trio of voices walk into the bathroom and he does not want to come loudly to an unsuspecting audience like that. Probably. It's a muffled moan rather than a loud one.

With his free hand he does reach behind himself to just... run the tips of his fingers and fingernails against Lex's side, lightly, just expressing random affection as he spurts his last shots and calms his breathing down.

Lex strokes Scorpius' skin in turn and hums vaguely.