double, double, toil and trouble

Chapter 17

"Are you sure?" Yukhei asks, "He might want to see you-"

"He'll probably be embarrassed", Donghyuck reasons quickly, shoving the antidote towards Yukhei as he just wants the Gryffindor to go and deliver the potion to Mark and leave him to his thoughts, "Anyway I'll... I'll just wait here, but you go, you go and give this to Mark, make sure he drinks it all, okay?"

At his skittish behaviour, Yukhei only concedes, taking the glass vial into his own hands, knowing that he needs to get back to his friend, "Okay."

Watching as Yukhei disappears behind the painting, the door to the Common Room closing once again, Donghyuck brings his hands up to his face, taking a moment to screw his eyes shut as he tries to calm down his racing heart.

Of course he wanted to go with Yukhei and make sure that Mark is okay... but honestly, he just needed a moment to brace himself before he faced him after everything that had happened.

Instead of breathing in a sigh of relief, his head and heart were confused. Mark was under a love potion when he kissed... Kaito.

"So, you finally figured it out, huh?" A voice taunts from behind him, Donghyuck spinning around so quickly that he fears he could obtain whiplash, "I can't say that I liked that nasty little water beam of yours. It wrinkled my freshly pressed robes."

Just the sight of the boy causes Donghyuck to seize up with anger.

"How dare you..." Donghyuck seethes, Kaito slowly advancing up the staircase to where Donghyuck was, not fazed by his fellow housemate's anger, "How... How dare you give someone a potion like that! I swear to Salazar, I would've turned you into an ant and crushed you with the heel of my boot if that wouldn't get me expelled. How dare you manipulate someone's feelings like that?!"

"This was just a little prank of mine", The Slytherin responds, sounding so indifferent, "You play them all the time on the school's Golden Boy... so why can't I?"

Donghyuck sucks in a deep breath as he rubs his hands over his face, frustrated at Kaito for not understanding why this had crossed the line.

"If you brew Amortentia wrong, it could be incredibly dangerous to the drinker!" Donghyuck explains, growing more upset as Kaito just shrugs, not even remotely concerned that his potion could've been damaging. However, what Donghyuck needed explaining to him was the choice of victim, "And why Mark? Why not me? Why did you choose him?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" The boy sneers, "You come from a pureblood Slytherin family, so why are you tainting yourself with a Gryffindor mud-blood-"

"I told you not to use that word-!"

"And I told you to watch yourself!" Kaito shouts, "You didn't listen, so I settled on this fun little experiment to expose your relationship. I'm sure mummy and daddy would love to hear all about your relationship."

Pureblood families tend to talk, a lot. Gossip spreads fast amongst their social networks, and so it looks like he was the primary target for this prank after all.

"Mine and Mark's relationship has nothing to do with you", Donghyuck tries to reason, "Why would you want to expose us?"

"A bit of fun, I suppose", Kaito replies with a smile, clearly not understanding- or perhaps understanding exactly, what Donghyuck's parents will do to him if they hear about him and Mark, "I want to make you squirm, most importantly though, I wanted to remind you of who you are, it seems like you didn't learn your lesson watching your parents turn their backs on your traitor of a brother-"

Hearing such a lowlife reference his brother has Donghyuck surging forwards, grabbing hold of Kaito's robes tightly, "Mark and Doyoung are twice the men you'll ever be"