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Idia stares at his reflection in the mirror for a second before groaning as the stupid foundation that he got from Vil and Rook fails to cover the bruise on his cheek and his black eye.
He can’t remember the stupid glamor spell, so he’s attempting to put make-up on even though he knows nothing about it. He’s putting in this effort, and failing, all because he promised to go to Silver’s birthday party. They’re holding it a bit later than they wanted but the overblots and school events had screwed with all May birthdays. It’s now Silver’s turn, and Idia had to promise to come.
He refuses to break his promises, even if he’d really like to because of the… extenuating circumstances.
“Radish Sprout, why are you still hiding? You’re supposed to be at the dinner with us, you promised Ortho, the human, and Silver that you’d come- What Happened?!”
Idia jolts at the low, familiar growl of Leona Kingscholar, and he turns, dropping the foundation and brush in his shock. But then his eyes go wide as green eyes narrow on him, and he covers his face with his hands as he turns around to hide.
“What’re you doing?! I told Ortho I would be there soon, and I responded to the texts! Why did you come to get me?! Get out!” screeches Idia in a panic through his hands, voice muffled but clear as he freaks out.
“Radish- Idia Shroud, if you don’t tell me who put that bruise on your cheek in the next five seconds, I’m going to tear this school apart until I find them and leave them writhing.” snarls Leona angrily as he stalks forward, turning Idia around.
He’s quick to yank Idia’s hands down, narrowing his eyes on the bruise that’s turning a dark purple on Idia’s cheek and the darkening black eye.
“It’s not important, and really- did you- you just- no, no! I-it’s not im-important. I-it was a stupid, a stupid thing-it’s okay!” stammers Idia uncertainty as he takes a step backwards, trying to put space between them even though Leona isn’t having it. “Stop being- you- I’m fine! Stop getting closer, I-“
“You’re not fine, and you’re not okay." snaps Leona seriously, hands holding fast to Idia’s wrists as he steps forward and cuts him off again with narrowed green eyes. “Stop arguing with me and tell me which bastard hurt you before I go find out myself!”
“It doesn’t matter! I-I’m- it- you can’t do anything anyways! They’re not in your dorm.” argues Idia weakly, trying to shrink back as his hair goes pink, a pink strand falling in front of his face.
“I. Don’t. Care. I will hunt them down and beat their ass. Tell me who they are.” growls Leona as he lets go of a hand, reaching up to lightly brush his knuckles over the bruise. “Who did this?”
“Why does it even matter? They’re in Heartslabyul and Octavinelle, that’s all I’m telling you because it’s not important. They only did it because both of them have feelings for you and Malleus. I don’t know why they came after me, but they said to stay away from you two.” explains Idia, still stumbling over his words even as he gives the only bit of information he can because Leona is too close, and his heart is pounding in his chest.
“There were two?! Did they fucking take- what year?” Leona’s growl is so loud that Idia shrinks back, but then the door opens and they’re both turning their attention to it.
“Hey what’s taking so- why is there a bruise on Idia’s face?” Malleus steps into the room, but his eyes flare with anger as he takes in the bruises that Idia is still trying to hide. “Who hurt him? Idia, who did that to you?”
“Some bastards from Octavinelle and Heartslabyul who have crushes on us apparently.” growls Leona as he looks at his boyfriend, his courted partner.
“Oh, so I need to speak with Rosehearts and Ashengrotto about finding out who put their hands on our Shroud? I shall do that as soon as we get to Diasomnia.” says Malleus evenly to Leona before his serpent eyes narrowing momentarily on the bruises then he meets Idia’s eyes dead-on and poses a question to him. “Idia, would you like me to glamor you for this dinner, or do you want to go as you are?”
“Glamour, and then you two forget about this.” mutters Idia as his eyes drop to the floor, head tilting down.
“We won’t forget about it. You’re ours.” growls Leona harshly as he steps to the side, letting go of Idia’s wrists solely because Malleus is pulling out his magic pen.
“But I’m not though- you two are- you two have been courting and made your relationship official like two months ago. I’m not- I’m just a person.” mutters Idia in confusion as Malleus says the spell, then Idia melts as the magic warmly washes over him.
“You are ours too. We’ve made it clear that we’re planning to court you once we know if you’re interested in that. Maybe it wasn’t clear enough… Ortho said it wasn’t, we should’ve listened to him.” huffs Malleus as he steps forward, tilting his head to the side to ensure that the glamor was properly in place.
“Y-Yo-You two- you two want- you want- what?! Y-you want to- to c-co-court- court me?! There’s no way- you- no, this- it’s- it’s impossible-" stutters Idia in disbelief as he shakes his head at the words being spoken into the air.
“Not impossible because it’s true, Radish Sprout, so believe it.” huffs Leona with a growl to his voice as he crosses his arms over his chest.
“Idia, we want to court you, but only if you’ll allow it. Clearly, we haven’t been as forward as we hoped, but that ends now.” adds Malleus sternly as he tucks his pen back into its place and looks Idia in the eye with Leona stepping up to stand beside him, shoulder to shoulder. “So, Idia Shroud, will you allow Leona and I to court you?”
“Would you be interested in being courted by the two of us?” asks Leona as he poses the question as well, emphasizing that both of them want to court him, not just Malleus or himself alone.
Idia glances between them several times, uncertainty wringing his hands together as his brain runs a mile a minute. But they’re being honest, and he can tell… he can’t deny how badly he wants this too.
“I- I’d really like that…” murmurs Idia as he turns his eyes to the floor of his room.
“Then we can give you the courting gifts after the party.” offers Malleus softly as his hand comes up to cup Idia’s cheek, brushing a soft, barely there kiss to Idia’s forehead before stepping back again. “Are you ready to go then?”
“Y-yeah, I- Yes, I am.” replies Idia as he pulls in his stuttering, wanting to show that he means this, all of it as his hair tinges pink again.
“Good, then let’s go, sweetheart.” says Leona brightly as he takes Idia’s hand, kissing it once before tugging him out of the room behind Malleus. “But you have to tell us who the jerks who did that to you are.”
“I-I can do t-that.” sighs Idia almost reluctantly, though he understands that as his future partners and the ones courting him, they have to know of any problems coming towards him.
It goes for all of them in terms of courting, so Idia isn’t surprised by it… now that he knows he’s being courted anyway.
“Good.” says Malleus in a deep, threatening tone.
“But this means I get to court the two of you as well.” says Idia firmly, wanting to be equals and knowing that they are courting each other too.
The kisses that are placed on his hands as they are held in soft grasps, make his heart flutter as they exit into the mirror room and head to Diasomnia.
He can’t wait to court these two amazing men.