AN: SO...I'm kind of a little bit/incredibly accident prone, always getting injured and things, which is kinda what got the idea for this fic into my head. I'm a MASSIVE Lily Luna Potter fan, not sure why, just am, and while I was supposed to be doing revision, the first line and this image of Lily limping into the hospital wing came into my head, and I just HAD to write it down. I am also a big Scorpius/Lily fan, so I just had to work him in somehow. I thought it would be nice to just write one where they become friends, with the possibility of more. I may or may not write another bit to this of them as a couple, I can never tell where my inspiration will take me :P Anyway, I hope you enjoy this, I certainly had fun writing it :D
Disclaimer: I unfortunately own none of this *goes cries in a corner playing with the characters in her head*
"What have you done this time?" Madam Pomfrey sighed when she saw Lily Potter limping through the hospital wing door.
"Fell off my broom again. Al tried to mend my hand," the red-headed girl said far too cheerfully considering her condition as she showed Madam Pomfrey her hand. It appeared fine apart from the fact that it was bright green.
"He seems to have fixed the bones though, and at least it's not glowing anymore," Lily added as she sat down on her usual bed. Harry Potter's youngest child was accident prone to say the least and spent almost as much time in the hospital wing as she did in her dormitory.
"That boy will never learn," the older woman said, shaking her head in frustration but smiled none-the-less. "You'll have to take a potion for that so you'll be staying in overnight. Again," she added as she walked over to get the potion. This would be the second night that week Lily would be spending in the hospital wing, having nearly blown herself up in potions four days previously.
Lily kicked her shoes off and swung her legs up onto the bed, making herself comfortable while she waited. Madam Pomfrey came back with a glass phial containing a colourless potion.
"Two spoonfuls should do, it will probably tingle a little bit," she told the smiling girl, handing her the potion with a small metal spoon. This had become a regular practise now as Lily was so used to taking potions, she had become incredibly familiar with the medicine cabinet.
"Is anything else hurt? Or has your brother tried to heal anything else?" Madam Pomfrey asked Lily as she took two spoonfuls of the potion then handed it back to the Healer.
"My leg's a little bruised from the bludger, but I managed to persuade Albus to leave it," Lily replied, pulling up her trouser leg to reveal the formation of a large black bruise on her shin.
Madam Pomfrey sighed and shook her head mumbling something about Quidditch being far too dangerous as she went to a cabinet full of potions and medicines.
"You know what to do with this," she told Lily when she got back, handing her a tub of a thick cream before heading off to check on her other patients.
Lily unscrewed the lid and started rubbing the cream onto the bruise slowly. Her body relaxed and a look of contentment spread across her face. After she'd been rubbing the cream in for about 5 minutes, she screwed the lid back on the tub and put it on the table next to her bed, before lying out on the bed and closing her eyes.
About 10 minutes later however, just as Lily was starting to doze off, the door to the hospital wing burst open and someone rushed in, holding their robes up to their face so you couldn't see their face. No sooner had the student entered, they stopped for a second, before falling back, apparently passed out on the floor.
Lily looked up to see Madam Pomfrey rush over to the casualty and levitate them to the bed next to Lily's before drawing curtains round the bed, shielding it from view.
It was a couple of hours later that the curtains were gone and the student began to stir. Lily watched on quietly as they stretched, groaning slightly as they woke up fully.
"What did my brother do this time?" Lily asked conversationally, when the patient seemed fully awake.
"What," the boy asked groggily, not fully aware of his surroundings.
"Well I heard James talking about doing a prank this evening, so assumed you were the unfortunate person on the receiving end of it," Lily explained calmly, sitting up in her bed.
"Oh, Potter, should have known it was you," the boy mumbled, also sitting up to reveal a blonde head of hair and a slight bump on the top.
"What, because I'm always in the hospital wing? It wasn't actually my fault this time, I could have quite easily mended my hand but Albus insisted on doing it, but ended up turning it bright green. It was quite a nice colour actually, now it's quite pale, so it doesn't look so nice," the Gryffindor girl rambled on, lifting her hand up to examine it.
"How on earth did he manage to turn your hand green?" the boy asked incredulously, curiosity getting the better of him.
"I'm not completely sure, I think he got a bit muddled up between the spells, he tends to do that sometimes," Lily smiled fondly at the thought of her older brother.
"So you think it was your brother's prank that injured me then?" the boy changed the subject, frowning slightly.
"Probably. I don't think it will have been aimed at you specifically, James has nothing against you, Al's the one with the problem, I keep telling him he's being stupid with the whole Potter/Malfoy rivalry thing, but he won't listen," Lily shook her head, rolling her eyes.
"Oh yeah? So you don't have a problem with me then?" Malfoy raised an eyebrow at her in an almost playful manner.
"Not so far, but then this is the first time I've really met you, so I don't have much to judge my opinion on. You seem alright though, and I tend to be quite a good judge of character," she shrugged her shoulders, smiling at the older boy.
"Well as long as you don't go pranking me as well, I'm sure we'll get along fine. I'm going to have to find a way to get your brother back though," he said with a slight smirk.
"Oh I would just leave that to my parents, they're pretty good at coming up with punishments. Last time they got a letter home they took his broomstick off him for 2 months, he almost went insane, it was highly amusing," Lily grinned. "But I'm sure if you really wanted to get him back, I have a few tricks up my sleeve. I still haven't got him back for turning my hair purple last year," she added, a slightly mischievous glint in her eye.
"I wouldn't have taken you for the prankster type," Scorpius chuckled, looking at the younger girl appreciatively.
"Well I have Weasley blood in me, I was bound to be a prankster to some degree. I'm just more subtle than my brothers and cousins, I have the brains in the family," Lily said jokingly with a wink.
"That sounds like Slytherin talk to me," he said teasingly, smiling back.
"Oh don't you start, James and Albus are always saying I should be in Slytherin," she rolled her eyes with a slight huff.
"You say that like it's a bad thing, all the best people are in Slytherin," Scorpius joked, adding a wink of his own.
"You would say that though wouldn't you? I'm quite happy being in Gryffindor and anyway, green would clash horribly with my hair," she flicked her hair up as if to emphasise the point.
"You have too much cheek to be a Slytherin though, most of them wouldn't get your jokes," he winked again, although he actually meant it.
"Oh but you do?" Lily asked, smirking slightly.
"Yep, I'm the one with the brains," he answered with a smirk of his own.
"Touché," Lily chuckled slightly. She then gave an involuntary shiver, pulling her covers up to cover her more.
"Cold?" Scorpius asked, noticing the younger girl shiver.
"I think the potion for my hand has the effect of drawing heat out as well, so I'm currently feeling freezing," Lily explained, giving another shiver.
"Well I'm currently quite toasty here, I think the potion I had is having the opposite effects," Scorpius observed.
"Come keep me warm then," Lily said, a little twinkle in her eye.
"Excuse me?" the Slytherin boy seemed a little taken aback by Lily's request.
"Come keep me warm, it's really not fair for you to keep all that warmth to yourself when there's a small, innocent, helpless girl freezing her butt off over here," Lily said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world as she put on her very best puppy dog eyes.
"You want me to get in bed with you?" Scorpius asked, an amused expression on his face.
"Stop being a perv and come keep me warm, I'm freezing," Lily complained, rolling her eyes in a joking manner.
"If we get in trouble, I'm blaming you," Scorpius warned jokingly as he got out of his bed and walked over to Lily's.
Lily grinned and shuffled over on the bed, making room for Scorpius to slip in. He swung his legs up onto the bed and pulled the cover over him, putting an arm awkwardly around the smaller girl.
"Thank you!" Lily grinned like the Cheshire cat as she wrapped both arms around him and rested her head on his chest, completely ignoring his awkwardness.
Scorpius chuckled, shaking his head as he relaxed a little, letting his arm wrap round her and rest on her shoulder.
"Ooh you were right, you are warm," Lily said, a pleased expression on her face.
"And you're really cold. It's quite nice actually," Scorpius commented, smiling down at the girl resting on his chest.
"See, it's a win-win situation," she grinned, shifting slightly to get into a comfortable position.
"You're certainly a strange one," Scorpius chuckled, shaking his head in amusement and looking down at Lily.
"Aww, thanks," Lily said in an overly sincere tone, looking up and winking at Scorpius.
"And yet I seem unable to come up with any clever, yet cutting remarks that Slytherins are so well known for. Oh the affect you have on people Lily Potter," Scorpius almost murmured the last part, a curious expression on his face.
"It's all part of my cunning plan. I'm very good at observing people and what pleases them. I should really have far more detentions than I do, but I always seem to be able to work my magic," Lily winked, a devious look on her face as she explained to the older boy.
"Such a Slytherin trait right there, are you sure the hat didn't get it wrong?" he asked seriously, a slight frown on his face.
"The hat actually considered putting me in Slytherin, but I wanted to be in Gryffindor. Only don't tell anyone that...it's my little secret," Lily added quietly, almost shyly as she looked serious for a second.
"Why Gryffindor over Slytherin? Because of your family? Or Slytherin's reputation?" Scorpius asked curiously.
"Neither really, I guess I just feel more brave than ambitious. When I looked at the two house tables, all you Slytherins were sitting there with straight backs and neat looks, everything was in order and so perfected. Then when I looked at the Gryffindor table people were chatting away, robes untucked, playing games and things...It felt like home, like where I belonged," Lily took a while over her answer, choosing her words carefully.
"I understand," Scorpius nodding his head. "I'm almost jealous of you for that, I've grown up in that strict, disciplined world. Sometimes it would be nice to let loose a little," there was no bitterness in his tone, just a hint of regret and possibly longing.
Lily's face brightened with a grin big enough to light up the room. "You'll have to come round next holiday, you should get a taste of letting loose with a bunch of Potters and Weasleys around."
"Hmm, I'm not sure, my parents might not be too keen on that..." Scorpius said hesitantly, although the longing was still vaguely present in his tone and expression.
"That wasn't a request, it was an order. If I can get round Mcgonagall then I will have no difficulty with your parents," Lily said in a commanding voice, the hint of a smirk on her face.
"You're mad," Scorpius laughed, shaking his head at the Gryffindor.
"Yep, and you can't get enough of me," Lily smirked fully, a twinkle again present in her eyes.