double trouble | simon, claudia & jessie (PG13)

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Summer was in full force and Simon couldn't be more happy about the fact. School had been extremely stressful the past year so he was glad to be able to let loose during the free months before his final year started up. His only concerns currently were getting his drink on and quidditch. Oh, and art, but that was a given. This summer had already been more eventful than his previous years. The past years he never had someone staying in his house for an extended amount of time. Simon hadn't been aware that Jessie and his sister, Sofia, were friends until she showed up at his house one day and informed him that his sister invited her for the summer. The borders were closed for Americans to go home and Sofia had always been one to love community service.

Simon didn't mind at first, he didn't really mind now either, but things were definitely changing. Fast. Within the span of a couple of weeks their relationship had done a 360 and he was honestly still trying to process it all. After numerous heated make out sessions, he found himself thinking a lot. Simon was flighty, he wasn't good with emotions, and the idea of making himself vulnerable enough to have a girlfriend kind of freaked him out. Simon and Jessie showed up at the party together but it didn't meant they were ~together. To be fair, in his head, he figured it made sense if they were going to the same place to show up together...

Most of the evening was spent with Jessie drinking and mingling. The party was bustling and there was people scattered everywhere throughout the Weekly penthouse dancing and having a good time. This was certainly going to the biggest party of the summer. As Jessie got distracted by a group of Gryffindor gals, he took it as an opportunity to slowly sneak away. Simon wasn't trying to hide from Jessie but he was certainly trying to see what else the party had to offer.

With a red solo cup in hand, a spliff behind his ear, he sauntered around with his typical neutral expression, his body loosened from the alcohol. It wasn't until a familiar face caught his eye that he smiled. Claudia Watkins. He noticed her from across the room and was drawn to her instantly. The Slytherin was perched on a chair looking radiant as ever, especially in his inebriated state. Simon wasn't expecting to ever see her at a party with how disciplined she was, but she had recently sustained a dance injury which gave her more free time. 

Simon approached her as soon as he saw her, "Hey you!" he greeted her with a smile, reaching to wrap his arms around her to give her a drunken embrace. "Wasn't expecting to see you here!" he told her happily with a gentle squeeze and a kiss on the cheek, "How does it feel to be the most beautiful girl in the room?" Simon asked her, never missing the chance to flirt with Claudia, no matter how corny. Sometimes her reactions actually made it worth it.

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Claudia had decided to go to the party after a bit of an internal debate. She didn’t have a lot of friends and figured that most of the people there would hate her and that it would be weird. But she also knew that she had enough guys wrapped around her figure that she was sure she’d end up with someone to mingle with. She had walked around and checked the place out for a bit, it was kind of fun, being a part of it all. It wasn’t something she had ever expected. She had gone to the school balls. But never to any of the parties that students threw. She had better things to do and often stayed on her own, dancing in an empty classroom while everyone else drank and had fun. She was above that.

But now she wasn’t. Now, despite all of her years of training, she was nothing more than a normal teenager. So when she heard about the Weekly party, she decided to go. Even though she couldn;t really say she was close to any of the Weekly siblings. It promised to be a big party, and she wanted to see what she had been missing out on all those years. So far she had found a few people to kill some time with, but she couldn’t help but bite her lip when she saw Simon approach her. She had caught a glimpse of him earlier, with Jessie. While it still kind of annoyed Claudia to see them together. She had tried to stop caring. It wasn’t as if he was the only guy she spent time with either; but he was definitely her favorite. He admitted that he wasn’t expecting to see her here and she shrugged. She knew that it wasn’t really her scene, but maybe it was now. “Didn’t really have anything better to do.” she admitted, taking a drink of the varied liquids in the cup in her hand. She rolled her eyes at his comment. But she liked it, and in her already slightly inebriated state, it made her blush, openly and unashamed. “It’s just another day’s work.” she smirked cooly. “What have you been up to?” she asked, looking around the room.

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Claudia told him it was just another days work of being attractive, his lips tugged at the corners slightly, liking her answer. She was quick. When she asked what he was up to tonight he wondered if he should mention casually showing up with Jessie. That would potentially make things tense, so he decided against it, focusing on the radiant young lady in front of him. He was easily intoxicated by her appearance, it was not hard to put his hands on her, especially when he was inebriated off of mixed alcohol. Simon raised his drink to his lips before answering "Just hanging out." he shrugged lazily, his cool tone almost bored, but he smiled, "Happy that I found you and that you decided to get out and do normal 'teenager-y things'." he told her, knowing that Claudia was usually too disciplined to attend outings like a party. They were considered 'distractions' to her, just like Simon Svendsen was a distraction to her dance career.

His icy blue saucers fell to where her boot previously was on her foot, "You look like you healed up nice." he told her in an optimistic tone, gesturing to her bootless foot. "Would you like to dance?" he asked her with a smile, offering her a hand. Any chance Simon got to touch Claudia he would, they were magnetic, he always found himself wanting more. Since there were people dancing and mingling it was the perfect moment to get Claudia in his arms.

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He said that he had just been hanging out and was happy that she was out and choosing to do normal, teenger things like they had talked about the other night when she appeared at his house with little notice with a boot on her ankle. For a moment she had forgotten about it, thanks to the alcohol in her hand. But there was always something that brought it back into her mind. The reminder that she had snapped under pressure. That she had fallen. That she hadn’t been good enough. He snapped her out of the rabbit hole she was falling down in her head by adding that it looked like she had healed nicely and then finally asked her to dance. Her heart almost stopped. It was almost like just the word was giving her PTSD. But regardless, she quickly tossed back her red cup, taking the rest of the liquid into her mouth and swallowing it all in one go. “Why not?” she agreed, hoping down off her stool. She and Simon had never done something so physical in public. They had walked together, pushed each other against walls in empty hallways around the castle, and down unspeakable things in abandoned classrooms, but never something like this. What did she have to lose anymore? “You might have to teach me your moves though. I don’t think mine would cut it here.” she teased.

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When Claudia agreed to dance, his drunken smile widened, glad that he wasn't going to have to beg for her company tonight. In his already inebriated state he could see it being potentially risky since they didn't usually partake in public displays of affection, even something considered as small as dancing in public, but Simon didn't really care right now. Well, he didn't care if she didn't care, honestly.

Simon actually liked to dance. It wasn't a fact known by many, but he indeed did enjoy shaking and grooving, especially when it involved a pretty lady pressed against him. Most of the time he had no idea what he was doing, he just sort of went with the flow. His favorite was to moonwalk but there was always a time and place for that one. 

Claudia told him that he'd have to show him some moves and he laughed with a confident nod,  "Oh, don't you worry. People will be jealous of our moves." he promised her with a smile. As they reached the area where people were dancing and bobbing around, he offered a hand so that he could spin her in toward his body playfully, "Have you never danced for fun?" he asked her in disbelief, his eyebrows furrowing with curiosity. He knew that she was teasing but he wondered when he last time she got to dance just for the fun of it. Simon took a step back so that he could show her a move, "Oh, here, I got one for you-" Simon transitioned into "the robot", where he moved with a mechanical smoothness before offering her a kiss on the cheek and a proud smile.

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Claudia had no reason to believe that Simon liked to dance, so she just figured that he wanted an excuse to be able to touch her in public, or, that he wanted to do something that he knew that he would enjoy in an effort to make her smile. He was sweet like that. It was a side that she didn’t see often, but she felt like she had seen more and more since her accident. But as he took her hand he assured her that people would be jealous of their dance moves. When she accepted his hand, he pulled her in, letting her spin as she came into contact with him.

Her heart raced, no matter how many times they touched, she still got the same, familiar, thrill rush through her stomach. But this was the first time she ever noticed it. It was likely the alcohol. “Of course, if it wasn’t fun I wouldn’t do it…” she insisted. She had loved ballet, that was how she got started, begging her mom to let her keep doing the lessons. It was the most fun she had ever had. She wasn;t ready to admit yet how much of a chore it turned out to be, and how much of a toll it really took on her mental state, her personality, and her body.

He stepped back and then said that he had a dance move to teach her before breaking out into a mechanical, stunted dance that even Claudia Watkins the elite dancer knew to be the robot. She laughed, and laughed even more as he kissed her on the cheek playfully. Maybe it was the music, maybe it was the alcohol, or the sudden feeling that they were the only two people in the room, but she let go, and started to move her arms and back to mimic him. Claudia Watkins was doing the robot and grinning like an idiot. “Good one.” she giggled.

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Simon was well aware that Claudia had fun with dance, it was one of the many reasons why she was passionate about her craft. He had more fun teasing her about not having fun since she was usually so serious about the matter. The past couple of weeks her personality was much more laid back, and he could tell that she was allowing herself to have fun since her accident. The half-vamp felt bad when he thought about her getting hurt and crushing her summer career plans but Simon thoroughly enjoyed this version of Claudia. The elite dancer version he was used to was incredible, but he liked seeing a more personal side to the snake.

Claudia started moving her arms mechanically for "the robot" and Simon nodded along, matching her grin and bringing a hand to cup his mouth to hype her up. "Oooh shit, watch out. C-Watz in da house. I knew you had it in ya," he encouraged her, tickled that she was participating. They didn't usually partake in any form of public displays of affection, so dancing and goofing off in public was huge. Simon thought dancing was innocent enough, though in his drunken state he found himself wanting to hold her body against his. When he was with Claudia there were times he felt like the only people in the world, this was one of those moments. She was so captivating, he was effortlessly fixated on her, sometimes it scared him. Especially when Nate dared to point it out often and call him 'whipped'.

People around them on the dance floor were swaying together with close hips in a 'dirty dancing' style, as well as a sloppy couple straddling each other in a fit of passion. As tempting as it was, Simon knew better than to pull a move like that with Claudia in public. The lion considered himself lucky to have the opportunity to mess around with the hottest girl at Hogwarts so he wasn't going to jeopardize it by disrespecting her. The lion reached for her hand to spin and dip her playfully, "If I told you that you have a nice body would you hold it against me?" he asked as he waggled his eyebrows animatedly at the radiant female, more looking to make her laugh at a yet another stupid pick up, with a double meaning. Hey, sometimes they worked with her.

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Simon seemed to be thrilled that Claudia was dancing with him and Claudia was fairly stoked about it too. She wasn’t sure that she’d let herself act like this normally, but now, with her blood coursing with what was probably vodka, and her hair down, she was having the time of her life being silly with Simon on the dance floor. But then the song ended and everyone around them began to sway. Normally, she wasn’t sure that she’d allow herself to be caught dead being so intimate with one person in public like that. But here they were now, at a party. It would be rude to not do what everyone else was doing, she reasoned with herself in her head. He took her hand and spun her into him, making a comment that she couldn’t help but smirk at. “I think we both know I would.” she leaned her head close to his and whispered. “Wouldn’t be the first time.” she did what she was imagining that he wanted her to do, and pressed against him, wrapping an arm around his neck loosely.

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Simon offered a small but satisfied smile when Claudia told him that he already knew the answer to that cheesy pickup line. Truthfully, he did, he just wanted to get her closer to him and it worked. As she pressed her body against his, Simon's hands fell to her hips, dangerously close to her bum but they both seemed too intoxicatedly frisky to care. "Don't know what I've done to get so lucky," he said with a tone tainted in sweetness, already knowing that was a comment that could be considered 'too sentimental' for Claudia Watkins but he was too intoxicated to care. Deep down he meant it. The lion enjoyed whispering sweet nothings to the snake, sometimes he was able to break through to her and it was a great feeling. His lips pressed down on her shoulder, an awful attempt to behave himself but he knew better than to kiss Claudia in front of the epicenter of the party.

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With her body pressed against his, he let his hands find her hisp and gripped them. She loved the feeling of his hands on her, even if a layer of fabric still separated them. It was nice. She pressed her hips against his and continued to sway to the music, trying to let him lead their movements, which was something that she wasn’t used to, but wanted to be better at. It was hard for her to relinquish control when it came to dance. He said that he didn’t know what he had done to get so lucky and she let out a deep breath that she didn’t know she had been holding in, feeling herself melt into him. Since when had he gotten so sweet? A few times recently he had gotten sentimental and at first it had scared her, but now, while wearing the rose colored glasses that came along with several cups of alcohol, she kind of liked it. “Simon…” she moaned in a whisper as his lips pressed against her shoulder. “people are going to start to think…” what exactly, she wasn’t sure. But something.

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As soon as the words slipped from his lips he knew he fucked up. Simon had a way of getting too sentimental lately with the Slytherin girl. Claudia effortlessly brought that side out in him and it was starting to freak him out. While he had the alcohol mingling in his bloodstream, it was difficult to refrain from saying such comments or holding her against him. The kiss on the shoulder was a bad idea. He knew it. When Claudia told him that people would start to 'think', his expression faltered, "I'm sorry, Claud," he told her, his tone conveying that he was sincere. He didn't want to upset Claudia or ruin the moment. Simon removed his hands from her waist as if an electric force had been put up. The half-vamp had to force a smile to numb himself, the lion inside of him hating how it felt. "People are going to think whatever they think regardless," Simon said softly, honestly not trying to make a big deal about it.

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His hands moved from her waist as he said that he was sorry. That nearly broke her heart. She wanted to beg him to put them back, to keep his hands on her. But his reaction snapped her back to reality. They were on the dance floor, in the middle of a party which most of their school was at. And she suddenly had no reason to care what anyone else thought. She wasn’t a dancer anymore. She didn’t have anything that Simon would be a distraction from. She didn’t have any reason to want people to take her seriously as a dancer if she wasn’t even dancing. Well, professionally dancing she meant. “Well then maybe we should give them something to think about.” she closed the gap between them, pressing her lips to his in the middle of the dance floor, her hand reaching up for his cheek in the very public display of affection.

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For as long as Simon knew Claudia, she was never one for public displays of affection. It made sense if you took the time to get to know the beautiful snake, she was more reserved when it came to those affairs. It seemed that she had a sudden change of attitude when Simon mentioned that people would 'talk' regardless, she flipped it back and insisted they give them something to talk about, pressing her lips against his. Simon felt fortunate she would break that rule for him, so he kissed her back without hesitation, hands falling back to where they were previously. They shared a heated kiss on the dance floor, the alcohol fueling their lowered inhibitions. The thought of how he showed up at the party with Jessie and how she could be anywhere spectating the scene never crossed his mind. He easily slipped back into his old, selfish ways. Simon pulled away from the kiss to breathe and ask, "Do you wanna get out of here?" hands still glued to Claudia's perfect form. He was the luckiest guy ever to be granted that temporary permission.

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Simon kissed her back and Claudia gave into him, letting him touch and kiss her. It was an odd feeling, she felt entirely out of her own body, kind of like she was floating nearby watching the scene but in the sea of adolescent bodies, she and Simon were the only ones in focus. If she was sober she would have snapped herself out of this. But in this moment, and not often before now; she just let it go. She felt like a teenager, not a dance prodigy in training. Not a professional or an elite athlete. She was suddenly just a 16 year old. And that was all she needed to be.

He asked if she wanted to get out of here and she nodded, eagerly “please.” She felt the desire ripple through her body as she let him take her hand and lead her through the party and finally out the door.

simon sixten svendsen (The end)
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