Chapter 1 : What's a Git?
Hi. I'm Scorpius. Scorpius Malfoy. I'm 6 years old. My dad is Draco Malfoy and I don't have a mom. I'm currently out with my father. We're in Diagon Alley.
"Scorp, I'm going to get something, alright? Stay right here, okay?" he tells me. I nod. He ruffles my hair and he goes into the book store. I stay there. A minute or two passed. He still didn't come out. I'm bored. What's he doing in there? Pooping? I know he told me to stay, and I know that I told him I would. But I'm bored.
I walk around and I get lost in the sea of people. I wander around. Then I get scared. I look around and I can't see Flourish and Blotts anymore. Obviously, I can't see my dad, either.
I get more scared. I start to cry.
A pretty woman approaches me. I should be scared of her, dad said to never talk to strangers. But she seems nice. She pulls out a hanky and wipes my tears with it.
"What's wrong?" she asks me. She hands me the hanky and I wipe my tears myself.
"I'm lost." I tell her.
She asks me the last place I saw my mommy. I tell her I don't have one. She lowers herself so she's practically the same height as me. She puts a comforting hand on my back and rubs it. It calms me down.
"What's your name?" she asks again.
"S-Scorpius." I say. Her mouth makes an 'o'.
"Malfoy?" She questions. I nod.
"Well, Scorpius, I'll send a message to your daddy to come and get you. In the meantime, do you want some ice-cream?" she asks me. I wipe the last tears off of my cheeks and I hand her back the hanky.
"Yes." She smiles at my answer. And she pulls out her wand and mutters something quietly. Something silvery bursts out of the tip, it's an otter! It flies away.
She smiled. "Okay!" she says. She holds out her hand and I take it. She leads me to a small place. I'm guessing it's where the ice cream is. We go inside and sit at a table. Someone comes and asks us what we want. She tells the person that we'll take a 'banana split' and a coffee.
"What's your name?" I ask her.
"Haven't I told you yet?" she asks me. I shake my head. "It's Hermione."
"Hermione." I try it out. I decide I like the sound of it. "I like it." She smiles at my reply. I smile back, enjoying the fact that I made her smile.
She asks me about myself. I tell her. She's fun to talk to. She pulls out here wand and does some tricks with it. She takes a napkin and she makes it into a rabbit. I clap happily.
The ice-cream arrived. I grin, seeing how big it is. I've never eaten such a big ice-cream before. It has a cherry on top and there are two bananas. She takes the spoon in front of me and scoops up some ice cream. She holds it in front of my mouth, motioning for me to eat it. I giggle and I open my mouth widely. I put it in my mouth. It's really yummy.
"Mmmm." I say. She smiles. I like that she smiles a lot.
There is a bell sound, meaning someone just opened the door. I turn around and I find my daddy.
"Daddy!" I say. He pulls me up from my chair and he hugs me. I hug him back.
"I told you not to go anywhere!" he scolds me.
"I'm sorry." I apologize. He turns to the woman.
"Granger." he says to her. I'm confused.
"Her name's Hermione, Dad. She's really nice and fun." I tell him. She smiles.
"Okay, Hermione. Thanks." he says. She smiles in return.
"Dad, you can sit here with us." I offer. I point to the seat next to Hermione. He looks nervous. Then he sits.
"Do you want some?" I ask him, pointing at the ice-cream. He shakes his head. "Why? It's really good."
He sighs. He takes a spoon and scoops some up. He puts it into his mouth. His eyes widened.
"It's good." he says. Hermione giggles. He takes another scoop. "Really good."
"Who knew Draco Malfoy had a sweet tooth?" she teases my dad. Surprisingly, he smiles.
"Who knew Hermione Granger would be sitting with Draco Malfoy and his son, eating ice-cream?" he says back.
Hermione raises her eyebrows. "Touche." They start talking, but ice-cream interests me, more. So I don't pay attention. They're talking about weasels. I think. I tend to tune things out when I'm eating. Now they're talking about my mom.
"She died while giving birth." Dad told her. Hermione put her hand on top of his. She apologizes, although I have no idea what she's apologizing about.
Dad waves his hand and someone comes. "One coffee, please." he says. The person rushes off, probably to get his coffee.
He asks Hermione how she is doing. Huh. "Do you know each other?" I ask them.
"We went to school together, Scorpius." Hermione says, her smile getting a little smaller.
"Were you friends?" I ask them again.
Dad looks a little embarrassed. "Not really."
I'm curious. "Why?"
"Because she was a know-it-all." he pretends to whisper to me. He whispers loudly, no doubt that Hermione heard it.
Hermione rolls her eyes, but she doesn't seem mad. "No, it's because your father was a meanie, Scorpius." I giggle. "Weren't you, Draco?" she teases him. This is new, Dad doesn't like teasing a lot.
Dad looks surprised, I don't know why, though. He smiles and laughs. It's a nice sound. It's been a long time since I've heard him laugh like that. "Yep, I was a git." he says.
"What's a git?" I ask. No one answers me, though. Hermione staring behind me. So is dad. Hermione looks sad. Dad looks like he wants to break something. I turn around to see what's the matter. Nothing is. There's just a red headed man with a blond woman. They're both laughing and the man kisses her. That's gross. Ew.
I turn back to Hermione and Dad. Looks like they think the same about the kiss as me.
Hermione and Dad still don't look at me. I look behind myself again, I think I missed it.
They're walking to a table in the corner. They start kissing. Ew. What's wrong with them?
I turn back again. Nothing was wrong, right? Hermione has tears in her eyes. Dad stands up suddenly. He marches over to them. Maybe dad know them.
He starts yelling at them, which causes them to pull apart, thank goodness.
The red headed man yells back. He stood up too. My dad's taller. Hermione stands up from the table, too. I'm very confused. Why are we all standing up?
She goes over to them. The red headed man looks surprised to see her, then he starts saying sorry to Hermione. He pleads with her. He grabs her hands and kisses them. She pulls them away and wipes them on her robes. She's crying. She's also screaming. She pulls out her wand and points it at him. Then she took a deep breath and put her wand down. The red headed man looks relieves. But Hermione slapped him, instead.
I go over to them. I can hear what they're saying clearly now. None of them seemed to noticed me.
"What are you doing with her?" Hermione screams at the red-headed man.
"What are you doing with him?" the man says back, pointing at my dad. He looks angry.
"I'm here because his son was lost and I met him here to give his son back to him!" she yells angrily. Tears are falling down her eyes.
"Well-uh-she's my friend!" the man defends. The woman who he was kissing seemed to be surprised. "We're just friends, honest!"
Dad punched the man. I'm afraid. Why's he punching people? I've never seen dad like this before. He always controlled his temper. He was always calm. This was new.
"Stay out of this, Malfoy!" the man says to my dad. Dad glares at him. He pulls his arm back to punch him again, but Hermione stops him. She put a shaking hand on his shoulder.
"I want a divorce." Hermione says finally. I don't know what a divorce is, but I'm sure it's a bad thing, seeing the expression on the red headed man's face. He looks like he just woke up from a horrible nightmare.
"No! NO! I'm sorry, Hermione! It won't happen anymore, this is the last time, I promise you!" he yells desperately. He looks close to crying himself.
"Anymore? Last time?!" Hermione repeated angrily. "How long?" she demands.
The man looks down at his feet sheepishly. Dad's holding Hermione's hand tightly. Good job, Dad.
The man opens his mouth to speak. "Four months."
Dad looks even furious now. Hermione's crying even harder. Dad puts an arm around Hermione. He turns to me and lifts me to his chest with his other arm. He apparates. We're in our house now. So is Hermione. She's still crying. Dad put me down. He led Hermione to our dining room, without taking his arm off of her shoulder. He turns to me quietly.
"Go to your room and play, Scorpius."
I obey. I hear dad telling Hermione insulting things involving weasels. What was his deal with weasels?!
Today was weird. I got lost, then I got found. I met Hermione, and now she's crying at our house. Dad seems nice to her, that's the most weird thing. He's not like this to other women. He hates their teasing, he scowls when they do it. But when she did it, he responded back happily. Huh. Crazy.
A/N Thanks for reading! If I get positive feedback from this, I'll be sure to continue it. If not...well...I'll have to rethink this.