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The Ice We Skate

Viktor often found himself taking walks by himself outside Hogwarts’s castle in the evening of the dead of winter. Most of the other students called him crazy, but his Russian roots allowed him to barely notice the cold in the air. In fact it largely reminded him of St. Petersburg…during summer.

As one of the first students to take part in the Wizarding Schools Exchange Program, he occasionally found himself simply needing a break from the constant attention and fake smiles he found himself constantly plastering onto his face. Viktor would wander aimlessly until curfew then quickly head back to the dungeons of the Slytherin common room pretending like he had been studying in the library for the majority of the evening. No one would question him, and they would simply adorn him with the affections he used to love but was now finding quite trying.

On this particular walk he found himself walking in the direction of the lake, a place he normally stayed away from. (Giant squids? No thank you.) Caught up within his own thoughts he barely noticed the small black figure slowly skating across the lake ice. That is he did not take notice until he saw it jump up in the air, execute a beautiful quad salchow, and land again with a small wobble. Viktor froze in his tracks mesmerized as the ebony haired figure began to increase the speed of his dance into an intricate step sequence. Viktor heard the complicated music sequence that seemed to flow from the skater’s steps and body, yet there was no music.

All too soon the skater came to a rest in the middle of the ice still unaware of the single spectator who had become enthralled in his performance.

As the skater stopped bent over panting, Viktor recognized him as one of the other foreign exchange students. As the skater straightened up he quickly became aware of the silver haired figure staring at him. Freezing, the skater simply stared back looking like a deer caught in headlights. Viktor soon realized, and quickly brought his hand up, winked and waved at the skater. Even from where he was standing Viktor could see the blush spread out on the skaters face.

Now this is going to be fun. Viktor thought to himself.

Quickly taking his wand out Viktor transfigured his shoes into black ice skates, and he stepped out on the ice.

As he skated to the middle of the ice he noticed that the other skater, was covered in what seemed to be about 10 layers of clothes compared to his measly 3 layers, and the skater still looked cold.

“I thought I could join you on the ice my beautiful ice fairy. Would you mind if I joined you?” Viktor asked with a flirtatious tone.

The other skater blushed even harder at this and stuttered out a “Y-yes”

Viktor delicately raised an eyebrow and asked, “You would mind? Or you wouldn’t mind?”

At this the skater said, “I-I wouldn’t mind! Sorry…”

Viktor smiled sweetly at the skater and getting tired of simply calling him “the skater” in his mind inquired about his name.

“Now tell me, my ice fairy what is your name?”

With a sheepish smile the skater replied, “Katsuki Yuuri, just call me Yuuri though...”

Smile growing Viktor replies with, “Hello Yuuri, my name is”

“Viktor! Viktor Nikiforov.” Yuuri interrupted bringing the blush back full force from its previous receding state. “S-sorry, everyone knows who you are in school.” Yuuri stumbles out quickly trying to explain himself while gesturing to the school half-heartedly.

Just then a howl came piercing out of the woods, startling the two boys from their seemingly isolated bubble of conversation. Viktor, realizing how late it had become, sighs in sadness as he realizes that tonight, he would not get to skate with the adorable blushing boy before him.

Turning to Yuuri, he says, “It appears that the awful curse that has been put upon us prevents us from skating together tonight, but tomorrow perhaps we could meet on the ice yet again my ice fairy?”

Small smile gracing his delicate lips Yuuri replies with a nod, and together they skate to the edge of the rink to transfigure their skates back into the boots that they walked through the snow in.

As they begin to walk back to the castle, Viktor begins to realize how cold it has been getting, and if he noticing how cold it is… He turns to look at Yuuri who has blue chapped lips and chattering teeth along with a small shivering body. Viktor reaches over and pulls Yuuri to his side in an attempt to warm him up, and also because it gives him an excuse to hold the beautiful boy closer to his body.

At first Yuuri stiffens then relaxes into the warmth of Viktor. Ten minutes later they are walking through the doors of Hogwarts into the delicious warmth that the castle has to offer. Sadly, once inside Yuuri pulls out of Viktor’s embrace but before the disappointed look can fully settle on Viktor’s face, Yuuri says shyly, “We still technically have 30 minutes until curfew, would you want to grab some hot chocolate with me?”

Surprised, Viktor all but shouts “Yes, I would love too!” Then thinks and says, “Wait I have no idea where the kitchens are. Do you?”

With a small smirk on his face Yuuri simply replies by grabbing his hand and pulling Viktor along down the corridor.

Soon Viktor finds himself with a warm cup of hot cocoa in his hands, leaning against the wall with Yuuri, watching the house elves work dutifully in the kitchen. Soon they begin talking about their hometowns and their families back at home, until Viktor asks the question, “Yuuri why were you skating out on the lake by yourself?”

At this, Yuuri looks down into his almost empty cup of hot chocolate and says, “Before I was admitted to Hogwarts as a 3rd year transfer, I was actually a competitive ice skater in the muggle world. Sometimes when I need to clear my mind I return to skating.”

Without pausing, Yuuri continues on with, “When I found out you had also been admitted to the school as a fifth year, I couldn’t believe it. I had watched you skate so many times on the T.V. at the junior competitions that…that you actually were the person who inspired me to really start to work harder and try to get into the same competitions as you.”

Dropping his volume and examining the contents of the mug even further, Yuuri says, “It was my dream to skate on the same ice as you.”

At that admission, Viktor was left staring. He knew that he had inspired people before, hell he still had a fan base eagerly awaiting his senior debut, but he hadn’t realized that he could inspire someone to skate like Yuuri had earlier that evening. Someone who literally seemed to create a whole orchestra of music simply with his body.

Stretching his hand out under Yuuri’s chin, he gently lifted the almond eyed boys head up to meet his own azure eyes. “Yuuri, I may have inspired you to start ice-skating, but you have just inspired me to keep ice- skating.” With a small smile he adds, “And technically you have now skated on the same ice as me.”

At this, Yuuri smiles and seems to relax a little from the tense position his body had taken when speaking. He then inquires, “You know, since we are still both practicing for ice skating, maybe we could start practicing together?”

“I would love to Yuuri” Azure eyes filled with true joy as he looks into his not so distant future.

Suddenly a girl’s head pops through the door with a Ravenclaw Prefect pin pinned to her robs. “Yuuri! Viktor! You are both breaking curfew, ten points from Slytherin and Hufflepuff each! Also detention, for both of you, three days.”

Shocked, Viktor is about to argue that they were only a few minutes past curfew when he looks at the clock on the wall and realized it was in fact actually two hours past curfew. Had it really been that long? Before he could say anything in dispute however, Yuuri started quickly speaking in what sounded like sad, scarred, and confused Japanese. From what Viktor could decipher, he was actually reciting the recipe for something with pork cutlets and rice? What the? Oh.

Quickly catching on to the idea, he began to quickly spout the Russian National Anthem in the most confused voice he could. He couldn’t really pull off the sad angle as well as Yuuri- it was Russian after all- but the trick seemed to do the job. The prefect took pity on the sad and lost foreign exchange students and retracted the point penalty but kept the amount of detentions intact.

Which, honestly, Viktor was fine with because it meant he got to spend more time with Yuuri.

The prefect then decides that it is her humble duty to escort them back to their respective common rooms. All the while Viktor and Yuuri continue to babble in their native languages switching between nursery rhymes, national songs, and random food recipes.

Right before Yuuri escapes into the Hufflepuff common room he turned to look at Viktor who winked and said in Japanese “Tomorrow after dinner, the lake.”

To which Yuuri smiled and nodded before fully disappearing. The prefect looked even more confused at this and turned to Viktor speaking very loudly and slowly saying “You can speak Japanese?”

As they began walking back to the Slytherin dungeons he pretends to try to figure out what the prefect had said and right before slipping inside his own common room said in perfect English, “I can actually speak a little Japanese, and I am fluent in English, Russian and French. By the way, I’m glad that you enjoyed my recitation of the Russian National Anthem along with the recipe for Borsch. Good night!”

The look on the prefects face was priceless. Before she could say anything else though, he put on his most charming and heart stopping smile then proceeded to disappear into the Slytherin common room.

As he got ready for bed that night the smile on his face was, for once, a beautifully real smile.

He couldn’t wait for tomorrow.

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