A pounding headache.

I groan in despair, not wanting to wake up just yet. So I snuggle into my warm pillow.

Now, it's early in the morning, and the logical part of my brain has just started to kick in, reminding me that no matter how long I've been sleeping in the bed, the pillows wouldn't be warm.

That seems to have jolted me awake.

I slowly opens my eyes, only seeing black.

Looking down at my torso, I breathe a sigh of relief, realizing I recognizes the pale arms possessively wrapped around my waist.

" Scor. Scorpy. Scorpius! Wake! Up!"

My eyes widen, headache forgotten, and I sit up, looking behind my back, I see the stormy grey eyes of Scorpius Malfoy staring back at me, equally confused.

" Why- why is there a ring on your finger. And how the hell did we end up here? And most importantly what that bloody hell happened last night?" I questioned, not caring if I worsened his headache.

He sits up, swinging his legs over the side of the bed. Taking in our surroundings, I notice that we somehow managed to stumble into the Leaky Cauldron. In one corner of the small bedroom, a pile of our stuff lay by the window on an equally small table. The brown wall facing us had a large elaborate detailed carving of a forest.

I walk towards the table, noticing our shoes and socks laid haphazardly on the floor. On the table was an assortment of items. My bag, wand and jewelry all grouped together in a pile, and his wand and a couple other miscellaneous items that he carries around lay on the table as well. I grabbed a rolled up scroll, and brought it back to the bed were he was sitting, legs dangling off the edge.

" Maybe this might help us figure out what happened last night." Scorpius says to me as I comb out my ponytail from last night, leaving it loose.

Taking a deep breath in, I open the seal, unrolling the document.

Marriage Document

On this day of July 15th 20XX, 10: 36 pm, the Court of Marriage in the Ministry of Magic recognizes that Lily Luna Potter and Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy are now legally and magically bound together as a wedded couple. If the marriage is broken through adultery, any form of abuse, or other misdemeanors. The party that breaks the contract without consent of the other, shall be stripped of their magic. If the couple wishes to split mutually, they must wait a year and a day to divorce without any fines or other charges.

I couldn't breathe. I must have re-read that paper forty times or more before everything finally sank in.

" Scorpius... We're married. And I'm not joking. I'm no longer Lily Luna Potter. I'm officially a Malfoy now."

He grabs the parchment from my hands, reading it himself before running his hands through his white blond and green hair.

" We really got married didn't we? " Scorpius laughed disbelievingly at our situation.

" We have to wait a year to divorce. My grandfather is turning in his grave."

" Well that's a good thing, right?" I try to say optimistically.

Then I realized, I have a ring too.

I bolted away from the bed and checked through my pile of jewelry, putting on the four pairs of earrings, my Slytherin pendant, and my leather bracelet. Finally, I came to the ring.

" Merlin Scor, when you buy a ring, you buy a ring."

He seemed puzzled as a wordlessly handed him the ring. The silver band held together small emeralds and diamonds that surround a larger princess cut diamond.

He seems to praise the ring silently as I mull over the document.

" Were not allowed to date anyone else for a year. The magic that bonds us together knows what we do, and if we cheat. "

He blows out a stream of air, handing me back my ring. As I slip on the ring and my black and white converse shoes, I grab his hand in mine and give it a light squeeze.

"Maybe we can ask whoever was on duty last night about what happened."

So, after throwing back a hangover potion, we head down to the front desk with all our belongings, hiding the scroll in my small backpack.

To my surprise- and horror, out of all the people to be possibly working the shift, it's my Uncle Neville.

Cautiously, I head towards the front desk keys in hand.

" Hello Uncle Neville ! Here at the keys for room 24B, and I have a couple of questions concerning last night?"

Uncle Neville takes the keys from my outstretched hand, and begins to file everything away into their right places as he speaks.

" Well, I remember you two stumbling in around one or two in the morning today, mumbling about getting married and honeymoons and telling the families so I went ahead and assumed that you two were drunk out of your minds from Fire Whiskey and that Bulgarian Hodopt. So I gave Lily the room key, and you two went to bed apparently. Lily, where do your parents think you are at the moment? "

I winced, remembering that I was 'Staying at Teddy's and taking care of Remus ' although Teddy knew about my plans to go to the party, he still covered for me.

"... At Teddy's."

He sighs, shooing us to the fireplace to floo to our respective places. Mine to Teddy's and his to the Malfoy Manor.

Stepping out of the fireplace without falling was celebration of its own, but I still needed to confine in someone of this whole crazy mess.

"Teddy? Victorie? Are you still sleeping?" I call out into the flat.

When no one answers, I shrug my shoulders and head into the guestroom where all my overnight bag was, and jumped into the shower, washing off the dirt and grime and makeup from last night.

I ponder the events of the last couple of hours.

" And here I thought I was gonna get married with a big wedding... "

/ re did a couple of things throughout the book! -nori