Authors Note: This is a drabble I wrote for the community ASS_LDWS. This is week one's entry which couldn't be over 300 words, had to include the word Lugubrious, and polyjuice potion as a plot device. Please be gentle, this is my first fanfic, let alone drabble.
As Scorpius sat in his bathroom, he gave his cauldron one last stir, and felt an air of finality fall about him. He was finally going to ease his lugubrious mind once and for all.
Scorpius couldn't remember when he'd consciously realized his fascination; he just figured it had been there since he had seen that beautiful boy. Scorpius thought about the moment he had first seen Albus Potter. It still brought a blush to his cheeks and he cursed himself for feeling like a cliché. Scorpius had just seated himself at his house table after being sorted into Ravenclaw, when he looked up towards the front of the Great Hall and heard McGonagall's voice call out Albus' name.
Remembering the incident, Scorpius' heart skipped a beat in remembrance and his insides churned in a sensation Scorpius had come to know intimately.
How had it come to this? His feelings toward Albus stretched beyond the realm of crush and into the land of obsession. For the last four years, Scorpius' feelings for Albus had never waned but he never let anyone find out. He had his father to thank for that. Scorpius had never forgotten when his father said to him, "Never give anything away, Scorpius. There are people who will try to break you."
Scorpius thought about these words as he doled himself a goblet of the murky potion and added 3 strands of Albus' hair that only weeks of observation had yielded. His eyes tensed shut as he braced himself and swallowed the goblet's contents and waited for his skin to stop crawling and his stomach to settle.
Scorpius opened his eyes and smiled at his mirror companion. He spent the next lonely hour in complete bliss, being as close as he had ever been to his love.