Prissy is Manly :Benjamin:Gabe:

[James Dillion Halsey]

James was not happy right now at all, he felt like a little brat that was being scolded. He made one mistake, and he went through his punishment, he didn't see why his trainer was in his house right now. He didn't understand what even happening right now, but here was sitting on the couch, pissed as hell staring at his trainer. But rewinding only a few minutes, James had been just happy to be coming home, maybe catch a movie with Gabe, but that was not the case seeing Benjamin in his living room the second he opened the bloody door. He could only expect the judging he had yet to hear from the Telly that was sitting right here in his living against the wall, he just opened Ben was uneducated enough to know what it was. 

Back to present time, James was now sitting on the couch, half ready to scream at the older man, half ready to chuck him out of his apartment. Because who the hell said he could just walk in here? Finally letting out a breath, he didn't even look for Gabe when he had walked in the door like he normally did, damn this man for intruding. "I don't know if I'm going regret asking...but what are you doing in my house?" His voice was not the same as when he was relaxed at home, the relaxed feminine tone that tone that James had come to use was not present at at all. Looking at Ben, James was serious and rough, only Gabe would know the difference between the two, because James only could relax at home or at the bar. 

James could only hope Gabe wasn't home yet, that he was hanging out in the bedroom or something, or Gabe didn't just let Ben in. That would not only send up red flags that Gabe was way to trusting or that they needed to secure their house a hell of a lot better, either or, they would be fixed before James went to bed tonight. 

[Gabriel Roman Sykse]

Gabe sat in the bedroom with his guitar in his hand and his headphones in. He was playing lightly trying to figure out the notes for the song he was writing. In the living room was one of James friends that he'd let in and since he knew James would be home soon, he decided to let the guy chill in the living room alone, he was sort of creepy and Gabe didn't want to talk to him. This song was in his head and he had more important things to work on, so he'd ended up in his room. A few moments went by before he paused in his work and got off the bed to make sure the guy wasn't robbing them or something. As he walked out he saw James on the couch and the look on his face said bad news. "I let him in," Gabe murmured as he walked into the kitchen. "Said he was your friend or something, I don't know." He shrugged and grabbed a sandwich and a soda. "Hope you don't mind," he said as he walked into the living to look at the two. Brown eyes lazily glanced from one to the other. "I've got work to do so I'll be in the bedroom," he spoke nonchalantly.  

Generally he'd be all lovey dovey, but since he had no clue who this guy was, Gabe had kept his emotions in check. His attitude was the same, but he didn't seem as caring at the moment, which mimicked his mood when he didn't feel like dealing with James. He probably would have been in such a mood regardless. Music was priority and not even James was allowed to interrupt that.

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Benjamin was quite done with James actually. Ever since day one it had been nothing but complaining and half done work. The boy gave him the expression like he didn’t want this at all. Mostly because Halsey was not taking anything serious and considered the consequences. The boy he was supposed to train had him looking like a fool in front of all the other high ranked Death Eaters. Now everyone was telling him to stop being so soft on his trainees and that he actually should start cursing them if they screw up again. Benjamin didn’t like using violence on his people, he preferred to spare his energy to wipe away the filth of the planet. Then again, if it would help everyone in the end, he would consider it. Last training he was about to use the curciatus curse on Rowan and James but he managed to keep himself from doing it. Instead, he decided to confront James with what could happen if he really screwed up some time. So yeah he kind of decided to go to the house of the boy. Which was not hard to find for someone like Ben.

Despite that he had prepared many things to get in, he actually didn’t have to use any because James’ house mate let him in way too easily. What was it with James and easy people. Well with James being all difficult maybe something easy could help. Ben could not see how James would get along with someone who had his own opinion. For a long time, he had just waited alone as the boy mad moved upstairs. Not exploring the stuff in the house because that would be simply rude. However there were a few objects which struck him as being muggle objects. Or they were some new kind of magic he missed out on during his time in Azkaban.

Benjamin just stood there in the middle of the room with his arms crossed waiting for his trainee to come home. As the kid finally did, Ben looked up when the boy questioned him. “I didn’t broke into your house, just so you know. Your house mate let me in. He is way too trusty. If I was someone else, he could have been dead. But I have no intention of killing your friends.” He said calmly but his face betrayed that there were serious matters to discuss.

The other boy joined them and said about what happened which Benjamin confirmed with a nod. Only the boy left shortly after. He waited till the Asian boy had disappeared out of sight before he continued. His voice took a rather serious and disappointed tone. “Where were you today? We were supposed to do a mission with Davenport. You weren’t there so we did it with just the two of us. Things went smoothly but I won’t allow you to pull one of your tricks any more. You have been disrespectful, careless, clueless and rude. Sorry that I am saying this but is this really what you want? Because I cannot feel your passion for this. Every time you get something to do, you just want to rush it and rushing creates mistakes. Mistakes have consequences.” Stopping for a moment to catch his breath again, he looked the boy in the eyes before he let his gaze go through the house. “This all, your friend upstairs. You could lose everything if you are not careful. I just want you to know okay? You should not hurt the people you care for just because you want to get home early.”

[James Dillion Halsey]

James looked up at Gabe, and nodded, they weren't friends. "Gabe, this is Ben, he, uhm, works with me." Unsure of how to introduce the older man, but he had complained about Ben before to Gabe, so if Gabe had listened, he'd know who Ben was. When his boyfriend talked about work in the bedroom, he nodded, it was his music again. James knew to stay out of the bedroom when Gabe got into it, at that point it became Gabe's space. Really they should get another room for it, so that Gabe could actually have his own space. James put that in the back of his head to bring it up with Gabe at a later date. "Ben is training me."

When he moved his eyes back to Ben after Gabe walked away, he was annoyed that Ben was in his house, but he knew that the man didn't break in. Letting out a breath when Gabe was out of hear shot, James didn't really clue Gabe into everything he did, just enough to soothe that he was alive and wasn't going to end up hurt. Was there a mission today? He hadn't known, or he would have been there. He knew that Hunter would have understood too. "I hadn't realized we had one today...I'm sorry for missing." James was honestly worried now about Hunter now, he was trying to make the man proud of him, and hearing Ben list off the negitive parts of James's behavior, he knew that Hunter would not be feeling that. "I, I hadn't realized." James with regret, he knew he would have step up.

"No! I want to do this!" James rushd to say, he didn't want Ben thinking he was only in this for kicks. Hunter got him in, he wanted to stay in. Looking up to the hallway, Gabe was his world, he couldn't loose him. Ever. "I'm sorry. Damn...Look, I'll do better. I'll be there, the next training, the next mission...Sir, I just, I'm not trying to make excuses. Gabe worries when I'm gone too long without planning. I try to get home to him so he doesn't have to. I promised him I would."

[Gabriel Roman Sykse]

Gabe smirked when James mentioned that this was Ben. Gabe wanted to tell Ben that he'd heard a lot of nasty things about the older male, but he decided to keep his trap closed. He didn't want to get James in toruble. "Nice to meet you," he said before he left the rooom and headed back to the bedroom. He played around with his music for a moment before he paused and went to stand at the bedroom door and listen to what was going on outside. He didn't want to eavesdrop, but he knew something was up. They never had Death Eater company over, so either James in trouble or something was about to happen. James never gave him the information he really wanted, so he cast a charm, took a seat against the door and silently listened to the conversation.

He flinched lightly as James was scolded and he knew that it was his fault. He worried too much about the younger male and James was always trying to balance his own wants and Gabe's demands. The guitarist sighed as he heard James defend himself and then he got up and walked out of the room, stopping beside the table. "Um, it's probably not my place to intervene on this conversation, but I want to apologize for causing issues with James' training. " The musician looked to Ben. "I ask a lot from James, but it's because I get worried that he's going to get himself killed, but I see that's causing a problem. Had I known I wouldn't have asked him to be home when he should be with you." He looked James. "He's honestly all I've got and if he doesn't come home in once peace, well, I don't know what I'd do."

Gabe fell silent for a moment. "I just don't want to see him hurt or killed. I know he thinks he can handle himself, but I'm always going to worry." He shrugged and then looked back to Ben. "I don't want to be the cause of James not succeeding, because he wants this, he really does." He glanced at James before looking back to Ben, fixing his brown gaze on the other male. "Forgive me if I'm asking too much, but...could you keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't get killed please?"

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Benjamin tried to stay calm, which took his tools because he was quite tired and worn out. His life had been busier than ever and he actually wished that he could have taken another profession. Often he left the castle and he was worried that people might get suspicious. He wanted to get this over quickly and return to Davion’s house to get some sleep. Tomorrow he would be returning to the castle again, his schedule was like no other. There was barely time to sleep. Letting out an annoyed sigh when James told him he didn’t even knew about the mission.

“How could you forget about something like that? These missions are ordered so we have the right amount of men on each one. This was supposed to be so I could check if you were making any progress. You’ve honestly disappoint me Halsey.” As he spoke, he is face looked rather serious. Benjamin had no idea what to expect of this kid any more or if he even could trust him. “Sorry is no excuse for anything. If your mate gets killed because you weren’t paying attention, do you go to his mother and say sorry? Sorry does not bring a person back from the death, son. This is no child’s play this is a matter of life and death and one slightest mistake could be your end.”

Raising his eyebrow when the kid rushed to say that he wanted this and started to find a way out. “If you want this, why don’t I see that back when I train you? I know that training is no fun, none of this is but it has to happen anyway. Other people don’t see that what we are doing is something good. They say that we are evil and should be locked away in Azkaban. Trust me, you don’t want to be there.” His eyes pierced the young Death Eater and he just hoped that James would realize how serious this matter actually was. “Tell me, what does this all mean to you? Why do you want this?”

The Asian boy came down stairs and found it necessary to take part of their conversation. If Benjamin really was a cold and not caring person he would have sneered the kid away telling him that this was none of his business. However Ben was not what others thought he was, so he would actually use this to explain the other boy a little bit. If he could laugh, he would’ve right now. These boys were really something, he had never seen two friends worrying this much about each other. “Sweet Merlin you guys are just like a fresh married couple. I wish my wife once said such things about me.” It was almost adorable if the situation wasn’t this serious. “Gabe? Gabe was your name right?” He asked the boy who he just met. “Listen carefully. I’ve been into this for a grand 19 years. Before my parents already pushed me to be ready one day. I can assure you I won’t let James die as long as he is my trainee. However once the training is done, I want you to trust him in his own skills. I know he has it in him we just have to find it.” He ensured the boy and was actually a little bit disappointed in the lack of confidence the boy had in his friend. Maybe that said something after all.

“The things that will get him hurt is rushing things and sloppy work. I want to prevent such things by managing to get even the slightest detail perfectly in shape.” Looking in between the two younger males, he wondered how he could make them understand. Benjamin barely talked this much, unless something really was on the matter. Donovan wanted him to train them more strictly even if that meant using curses. He was against using curses against students, even when they were quite useless.

[James Dillion Halsey]

Wanting to explain that he hadn't even known there was a mission to begin with, but he decided it hadn't mattered. Even if he had, he numbers of other mistakes that around going on that out did the one that could have been excused. "I really am sorry, I'm.." As Benjamin said he was disappointed, all James could think about was Hunter. Hunter was going to get word of this, he was going to be so upset when he found out. James was never scared of his mentor, but he thought of disappointing got made James feel like dirt. "I'll do better, I, I wouldn't want to risk someone's life that badly. I take this seriously, I just have other things I take this seriously too." The younger male wasn't sure what to say to his trainer, he wanted to prove himself to be better, but he didn't know how to yet. He wanted to prove that to a lot of people as of now.


Even though it was childish of James, he only had Gabe and Hunter as his family, he didn't want to loose either of them. Right now with all this, James was just worried about what Hunter was going to say to him. Sure they joke around sometimes, but honest disappointment was not something James wanted to experience again. They had a lot when James first lived with Hunter, but as time went on, James learned the rules and started to look up to the older man. So even though what Ben was saying was important, the words that came out of his mouth was, "Please don't tell Hunter." He looked up Benjmain, asking him in the best way he could, he didn't want Hunter to know about this visit or James's actions. He had promised Hunter that he would good with Benjamin, and that promise was not being held up very well.


He was told not to get close with these people, not to trust them, was he allowed to trust his trainer? James thought about it for only a second, it didn't matter if the man knew his reasons or not, they all had them. "I grew up in a muggle foster care system, they treated me like shit because I was different. In more ways than just being a wizard. Muggles...I have yet to meet one decent muggle. I learned to fight the muggle way because it was my only protection at the time. Getting rid of them or separating them from us, getting wizards to live in this world over their world. We need to fix this, because I wasn't the only one." The conversation gave James an idea, he knew what he was going to do to prove himself to everyone. Well to the Death Eaters in the least, Gabe won't like it. James hoped Gabe would just be okay with him after everything was said an down.


When his boyfriend came into the room, James worried a little about what Gabe had actually heard. Frowning a little, he didn't want Gabe to worry about this anymore than he already did, James probably should have taken the conversation elsewhere, but he was sure that Gabe was hooked into his music by the time he had started talking. "Gabe, we, can we talk later this isn't something that.." James was drown out by the fact this his boyfriend was not finished speaking. Standing up, he went to grab his boyfriend's wrist, not to pull him away from them, but to get his attention. James didn't want to upset Gabe because this was a more personal topic and the last time they talked about James's work, Gabe had gotten really upset. James would never get used to that, and he didn't want it to happen again. He promised he'd come home, he did, every day, he came home. "I told you not you worry, I thought you were doing your music?"


James couldn't help but be amused by what Ben thought of them, they were more than friends for sure, it was rare that someone couldn't spot their relationship right away. Should he say something or should he just let Ben think what he was already and just let it go? "Uhm, Sir, Gabe is my boyfriend." It would make things more clear for Ben if he did know, but he knew a lot of the purebloods were against this. He just hoped Ben didn't care enough to say anything about it to them, because James would not be sure how to handle that one. Ben was better than him a in a duel, hands down.


When Gabe paused, James thought he was done, so he went to pull his boyfriend away from Ben, not wanting his boyfriend apart of the conversation really, but not going to actually start something in front of Ben. He froze when with the words that came out of his boyfriend's mouth, keep an eye on him? Was he a fucking child now? "I'm not a child Gabe." James's voice was obviously annoyed, he didn't even bother to mask that. When Ben agreed, that only fueled his irritation, "I'm not a fucking child, I'm willing to learn from you, but you are not my bloody babysitter, nor are you." James turned on Gabe for a second, trying to express how he was pretty ticked off without making a scene.

[Gabriel Roman Sykse]

Gabe's expression was almost comical as he listened to Ben talk about his and James relationship. "We might as well be. I have to look out for this guy, even if he does claim he can handle his own." Gabe couldn't help but cast a warm smile in James direction after Ben had finished speaking. His brown eyes glowing. "I know he can take care of himself," he said honestly, "but I can't help but wonder if he'll come back sometimes. Maybe I should give him more credit." He shrugged and then looked to James who was asking about his music.

"I was playing, but I got sidetracked." He gave a dismissive wave and then nodded as James introduced the him as the boyfriend. When he was pulled towards James he didn't protest until his boyfriend snapped. Gabe's expression was immediatly annoyed. "Shut up, you should be glad that he's willing to  keep you alive. Damn it James, sometimes it's better to accept help rather than to reject it. Stop being stupid and spoiled." Merlin he couldn't believe James right now.

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Listening to his trainee talk, Ben just hoped that James understood why he was doing all this. Though it seemed to finally get through a little bit to the boy. Only the short man shook his head at the request he was given. “Give me one good reason not to tell him. He already was there the evening you and Wendelin screwed up. Hunter is like your guardian, right? I keeping things from him and or lying isn’t the best idea.” He said, looking the boy in his eyes. Why would he fulfil the request of a boy who could not follow up to his?

When James explained his reasons for joining, Benjamin could see that the boy wanted justice. James knew like no one else how cruel the muggles could be. There was still hope for the boy, if he just listened and learned, he could become a great warrior. Yet it was the discipline he lacked that was needed to become one. That was why Ben was for. “It seems that you understand. Muggles are barbaric and cruel. They’ve been destroying the world and each other for centauries now. They are a selfish race.” With this, wanted to let the boy know that he understood him. “Mudbloods are technically muggles, I’m sure they will bring in the same hate and destruction into our world. You know that we have to stop them before we end up like them. We need to protect our family and friends form such terror. I’ve seen the things they do to their kind, just because they believe in something else or live in another part of the world.” No this was not a world he wanted his daughter to see. He had to do something before she turns an adult and leaves school.

Ben looked from his trainee to the other young man who now was back in the room. It seemed that James didn’t want the guy to hear this. While Ben had always tried to keep his Death Eater side separate from his family, his wife found out of course. She always had been the one person who he could not hide a thing from. Even when he looked at the young man called Gabe, he didn’t interfere of listened much to the two talking. It was something between the two and he didn’t want to get in between.

As James told him that this Gabe was in fact the lover of him, Benjamin face turned a little bit but the expression could not really be placed. “Well... that explains... Don’t worry, unlike most purebloods who would never approve of such a thing. I know some men who married a pureblood woman to make sure the bloodline continued. On the other had they have a male lover who wasn’t known by the wife. It happens more often than you think. You just have to be lucky that you don’t have to face your parents with this. I heard some don’t go easy on their poor children.” He said, pretty much calm, not really sure if it was necessary.

Growling again, he closed his eyes and had to count till ten in his head to stay calm as James suddenly started to whine again. When James spoke to him, he opened his eyes again. “If you are not a child, why don’t you stop acting like a know it all brat who is absolutely useless.” He snapped, it was this kind of attitude that tested his patience. And well, he once was a patient man but the same could not be said any more. “Everyone starts from the bottom and has to work their way up. I’ve been there too but because I worked with care and respect I left the trainee position within two months.” Clearing his throat, he had to remain calm, there always seemed to be some wild anger in him that he usually kept locked away. However it seemed that some situation brought it up and Benjamin was afraid that if he gave it, others would get hurt.

“Thank Merlin, I’m not your babysitter, But I am your mentor, it is my task to make sure you are all right and that you become a fighter of use. Why don’t you just stop being such a stubborn knuckle-head and try to see things from someone else’s shoes. I’m not here to bully you or anything, but if you cannot handle this, you clearly aren’t strong enough to survive in this world.” Glad that his wand wasn't in his hands because he could think of a hundred charms and curses he could throw to the trainee's head. With speechless magic you had to be very careful. "Next time when I get cursed for your mistakes, you will get them back, from me personally. I went easy on you, but if you keep this act up it will be no more Mr. nice-guy and trust me I can get worse than this, you would not want to know." Was this a threat? Benjamin was getting quite pissed, he had no idea if the anger came form the beast he always kept hidden from the world but he quite felt an urge coming up which he tried to ignore. His eyes moved to the window and he saw the moon. That explained quite a lot, it was almost full, sighing, he tried to focus himself on his breathing.

[James Dillion Halsey]

James didn't want Hunter to know about everything, as much as he did want him to know. The man had been James's most trusted, and now, with Ben sitting here in his house, James was scared of what Hunter would do. What he would say. Nodding his head, accepting Hunter would find out. "I hate that I've already embarrassed him this much. He's going to hate me..." Even though hate was an extreme word, James felt nothing short of pure shame at this point.

Narrowing his eyes and sitting up straighter, James nodded. He didn't think Muggles should have anything to do with this world. Wizards should be brought here, no matter where they came from, they should be raised by wizards. "Sir, I think muggleborns need to brought here to learn at birth. They should learn here how to become a wizard, not at the age of 11. I was born a pureblood, but I was raised in the muggle world. It's not unfair and it's not right." As much as James loved his boyfriend, he hated that Gabe was a half blood. He was just glad that Gabe didn't mention it enough for James to deal with it. James just didn't like where Gabe came from, that he had muggles in his life. In James's eyes, Gabe would always be better than them, so he hated how it could effect the older man.

When everything started to turn on him again, James glared at Gabe, anger and hurt burning in him. Of course his boyfriend had no faith in him. James needed to change, everyone doubted him when he acted like himself. The youngest male knew how to fix it, he become someone else. He did it to survive foster care, and he did it when he ran away, he stopped slowly when he came to live with Hunter. "Do not tell me what I can and cannot do, go back and play your music or whatever the hell. This has nothing to do with you. You are not apart of this, therefore you have no say in this." James didn't scream, didn't move, didn't let his eyes leave Gabes. He couldn't believe Gabe was willing to humiliate him like this. Did Gabe even care about how Important this was to him? Didn't his love ever listen? Turning to Ben with his comments, "I think it's time you left. This is my home, and unless you have anything more to discuss that cannot wait until a training date, I think it's time you left my home now." James knew enough about proper pureblood manners that he didn't show his anger by anything else beside the narrowed eyes and strict tone.