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Free time was rare for Blake these days with his training schedule as intense as it was. He wouldn't trade his career for anything, but it was still nice getting some time to himself. Usually he would have spent the day with Lars but he was in the Netherlands visiting his parents, and Blake...

Blake didn't know if he had ever been this happy before in his life. His gaze kept alternating between the rings on his finger, and the man who had put them there, heart bursting with joy every few moments. He was married, to the love of his life. It was hard to focus on the reception going...

Winter was always the hardest season for Quidditch, and with his nose frozen and lips chapped, Blake felt the warmth of home like an embrace, pulling him close and soothing his aching muscles. He had known playing professionally would be a different level than a school team, but even after a...

Of all the ways today could have ended, there was a sort of poetic tragedy to this. Blake had spent so much of his life thinking of himself as the conqueror, unmatched by anyone in his path. Then he had seen himself for the villain he was. And now, now that he was trying so hard to be the...

It felt good, closing out his time at Hogwarts with another cup win. Slytherin had held the cup for as long as Blake had been Seeker, and that was an accomplishment he could look back on with pride for the rest of his life. But winning meant that his time with the team wasn't quite over, so he...

It was slowly, gradually sinking in to Blake that his time on the Hogwarts quidditch pitch was coming to a close. He had one match ahead of him, two if he was lucky. And then all he could do was hope he was good enough to secure a place on a professional team. As hard as he was trying to dig...

Though there was no reason to hide anymore, there was something fun and nostalgic about hanging out in abandoned classrooms with Lars. As much as he relished the freedom to be with his boyfriend in public, Blake still cherished the time they spent in private, away from the rest of the school...

Blake almost didn't recognise the person he had been a year ago. Ruled by fear, trying to hide his secrets behind a disasterous arranged date, lashing out at anyone who came near. The last Yule Ball had been one of the worst days of his life, and just coming near the Great Hall brought a...

Studying wasn't especially high on the list of things Blake needed to do for the career he hoped to have, but the NEWTs were coming one way or the other, and he didn't want to completely flunk. The notes he had taken in classes over the years were sparse and all over the place, and they didn't...

Looking at his team in front of him, Blake didn't quite know how to process his mix of emotions. This would be his final year as captain of the Slytherin team, his final year leading a team of champions. Though he had begun looking into openings on professional teams, it was difficult to know...

Every time he thought about the fact that this was his final year at Hogwarts, Blake felt the bottom of his stomach drop out. Time had gotten away from him somehow, and now he was facing down adulthood coming closer at a terrifying pace. It was hard to keep off his mind but he still had one...

Blake had known from the moment he kissed Lars at the Quidditch match that he wouldn't be going home for the holidays. He was both surprised and grateful that Lars' family had agreed to have him to stay with no hesitation whatsoever, though he knew better than to take the hospitality as...

The closer their match against Gryffindor got, the more anxious Blake became. He had to win this match. Slytherin were champions, and he wouldn't be the one to ruin their reputation. So he had booked more pitch time than usual, hoping to give the team every chance he could to prepare for...

The more tenuous his situation with Lars became, the more committed Blake found himself to reform. If he could just... fix the mistakes of his past, make himself into the kind of person who deserved someone like Lars, maybe he could salvage the mess he had made of their relationship. So he had...

The longer he was with Lars, the less Blake understood how he had ever lived without him. All of the fear and anger that had carried him his whole life seemed to matter less and less every day. What had once felt like a monster lurking in his chest had turned out to be nothing but flowers...

If one thing had become clear to Blake this year, it was how much apologising he had to do. The further he stepped away from the way his father had raised him, the clearer it became how many people he had hurt over the years. As much as he wanted to believe it was nothing but ignorance...

Blake really didn't want to do this. It wasn't like he had to. Professor Josephs had just suggested he think about the way he saw the girls on his own team, but the more Blake had thought about it, the clearer it became that this was something he needed to do. Apologising to Alice had been...

All his life, Blake had been sure that he knew himself. Never even questioned it. He was a champion, a winner, a popular kid. All the things his parents wanted him to be. Captain of the team, the life of the party, hanging out in all the right crowds. And then... everything had changed. He...

B l a k e C h r i s t o p h e r V a n H o u t e n And not till today when I walked out my door • Would I have thought the eyes I’ve got could see what lies in store F A M I L Y Marcus Irons - Father, estranged Vanessa Irons - Mother, estranged Jenna Irons - Younger Sister, estranged F R...

Blake had been thinking about today all holidays, and it felt a little surreal to actually be here. Leadership had always come easily to him; it was something he had come to expect from life, from his hockey team to quidditch. But now that he was actually in charge on his own, everything had...