Hello everybody! It's good to be back in the Harry Potter Universe!

This story may seem a bit familiar to some of you. I started it a few months back and got a couple of chapters onto the site but then I had the worst writers block of my life. I ended up taking the story down completely and changing some things, planning out the plot and the characters better and now I'm finally ready to put it back up. So if it seems familiar that's why.

So if you're new readers be reassured that this story is now in the best shape it could be in and if you did read the beginnings of it before, thanks for coming back and I hope you like the new detail!

A few warnings now: This is Slash as in it involves a relationship between two men. This story also talks a lot about suicide so if that subject makes you uncomfortable then this might not be the story for you. Finally, Ginny is not portrayed in the most positive light in this story. I don't feel like there is any full on Ginny-bashing but if she's one of your favorite characters you might not like this story either.

Enough dawdling. Lets get on with the story! Woo!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of it's freaking amazing characters.

Everything hurt.

He had always hated the mornings but this day in particular his limbs were stiff and ached as if he slept on them wrong and ugh, he must have slept on everything wrong last night. He frowned, there was a lot more shuffling around than normal too. He was usually the first one of his dorm mates to wake up, he must have slept in.

He didn't want to get up but he knew he had to, if the others were already awake that must mean that classes started soon…he groaned and opened his eyes. At first the light was so bright he couldn't see anything, which was weird, the dungeons weren't exactly known for its natural light. And as his mind slowly woke up more, the pain seemed to get worse; it was much more than just general morning achiness. As soon as his sight cleared up he realized he was looking at the ceiling of the hospital wing.

There wasn't enough time for him to be confused before all of the memories came rushing back. His first thought was Oh, that's why it hurts so much and that was quickly followed by Shit, it didn't work.

"James he's awake!" he winced at the sound of his little sister's voice. She may be in her fourth year but to him she was still his annoying baby sister.

"Al! What the hell happened?" James suddenly came into his line of view. In his last year at Hogwarts he was a good six inches taller than Albus with auburn hair and brown eyes, they looked nothing alike and acted nothing alike.

"Yeah, thanks I'm fine." Albus said sarcastically, if James didn't know he casted the curse on himself he wasn't about to tell him.

"Who cursed you? Mom and Dad are already on their way here and they're going to want answers!" James said loudly.

"Why are they on their way here?" He groaned, he had never really given much thought to what would happen if the curse didn't work…

"You almost died Al! If Malfoy hadn't found you, you would be dead!"

"Scorpius found me..?" His voice was quieter than before, something James quickly picked up on. His brother may be an annoying ass but he wasn't stupid. Unfortunately.

"Since when is he Scorpius? You shouldn't be friends with him, you know what his father did."

"We're not…friends and who his family is doesn't matter."

"Of corse it matters-!"

James was cut off by someone shoving him out of the way. Very few people were bold enough to shove the eldest Potter child away like that; James was renown for his temper. And not many would dare show that much disrespect to a child of Harry Potter anyways. Albus knew who it was before he saw the blonde hair and pale fingers grip the side of his bed.

"What happened and who do I need to kill?" Scorpius ground out, fixing him with his intense stare that he had seen many times before. Just not in this situation, though they had been in a bed…but his brother and younger sister definitely weren't watching them.

He was stunned into silence, just looking up at Scorpius dumbly. He was completely confused why he looked so angry; their relationship had never been anything more than physical. Scorpius shouldn't care what happened to him…

"Answer me now Albus." Scorpius said, clenching the mattress of his bed harder.

"Hey! Who the hell are you to talk to our brother that way?" Lily piped up, normally she was even more hot headed than James but Scorpius was undisputedly one of the most handsome boys in the school. Even if she didn't like him in any sense of the word, his looks made it hard to hate him. Well, at least for girls and other guys of his particular persuasion. James on the other hand who was completely straight and could care less how Scorpius looked wasn't so easy.

"Yeah, get the hell out of here Malfoy. You're the one that probably did this to him! Look, Albus is so scared of you he can't even speak! Get the fuck out of here!" James yelled, reaching for his wand.

"Scorpius didn't curse me!" Albus tried to sit up but winced and decided that that wasn't a good idea.

Everybody looked to him as if they had forgotten he was even there. Typical. Their conversations could be centered around him but in the end his input was rarely necessary and never desired.

"Then who did?" Scorpius asked, more softly this time, which just confused him even more. He was beginning to wonder if he really was dead and heaven was actually just some sort of weirder version of life…

"I can't say…"

"Why not?" Scorpius' eyes grew darker, he was angry now, that much was clear.

"I just can't."

"Maybe he doesn't remember" Lily offered.

"No, he remembers." Scorpius said surely, shaking his head.

"How do you know, you could only know that if you were there!" James accused again.

"That doesn't even make sense." Scorpius gave James an exasperated look.

"Scorpius didn't do anything!" he said again but it went ignored.

"You're just the same as your father, a sick, twisted bastard who will stop at nothing to get power!"

"Don't say anything about my father!" Scorpius drew his wand and pointed it at James. Honestly Albus couldn't really blame him. "My father is a good man, he made some mistakes and he's paid for them, dearly. I didn't hurt Al, I wouldn't hurt him. And if you don't believe me then use that pea sized brain of yours and think for a minute, what motive could I possibly have for hurting him? He's in my house, he's my…friend…I have no ill will against him whatsoever. The opposite is true in fact." Albus wasn't given time to mull over the meaning of Scorpius' words or even decide whether to be pleased he called him a friend or distraught that that's all he was. Before he could consider any of that James had his wand pulled out as well.

"You're a Malfoy, that's all the motive you need."

"He didn't do anything!" Albus tried again but was drown out by Lily's yelling.

"James' stop it, remember, one more fight and you'll be expelled!"

"What is going on here?" Everyone froze and looked over to where Headmistress McGonagall stood in the doorway to the hospital wing with Madam Pomfrey Jr, the old Madam Pomfrey had retired several years earlier and her daughter took over. Behind them stood Albus' parents, looking at everything shocked. Who could blame them either, they get a call that Albus was cursed and almost died then arrive to see their other son pointing his wand at someone else's throat. It must have been a long morning…though both of them had probably seen worse in their life…

"He's the one that cursed Al!" James accused.

"Is this true?" The headmistress walked over to Albus' hospital bed and he was relieved that someoneplanned on listening to him.

"No he didn't. Scorpius had nothing to do with it." That wasn't completely true but what part Scorpius did play in it wasn't his fault…not really…

She looked back up at James and Scorpius "There you have it. Now, put your wands away before I ask you both to leave." she said, sounding aggravated.

"Are you alright?" Ginny walked over to stand beside Lily. She looked over him worriedly, Madam Pomfrey had been able to stop the bleeding enough to save him but she hadn't been able to just magically stitch up the wounds like she could with most injuries. Because of that he was wrapped up tightly and still in significant pain but despite that he put on a smile for his mother.

"I'm fine mum, really." He said, trying to keep the disappointment out of his voice. He was still convinced that what he had tried to do last night was the right choice for everyone.

"Who did this to you?" She asked

"I don't know." He lied and heard Scorpius snort in disbelief somewhere on his other side.

Ginny looked up at Scorpius sharply "Well since you seem to know so much why don't you tell us who did it then?" she said curtly, making it clear where James' got his views on Malfoy's from.

"Albus should." He said, crossing his arms and suddenly it hit him. Scorpius already knew… He didn't know how but he could see it now, Scorpius definitely knew that he had tried to kill himself. He should have realized it sooner, not only was there anger but there was disappointment and, was that hurt, in his eyes as well?

"Albus just said he doesn't know." Ginny reminded coldly. "This spell is obviously dark magic, Madam Pomfrey couldn't even heal it completely. And who in this room has an unlimited supply of dark magic at his disposal?" she asked pointedly glaring at Scorpius.

"Mom stop it! I just said that Scorpius had nothing to do with it!" Albus felt like a broken record having repeated himself so many times.

"Yes Mrs. Potter, that is quite enough." McGonagall said with a disproving frown on her face. She then looked to Albus' father who had been surprisingly quiet this whole time, standing at the foot of his bed. "Mr. Potter, I'm afraid I didn't just call you here because of your son. We were unable to decipher which curse had been casted to cause this, you're the top auror that deals with dark magic and we were hoping you could assist us so we can find a better way to treat the injuries. "

"I know the curse…" His father said slowly. "But only three people should know it, one, the only one that knew how to completely heal it, is dead…"

"Please explain."

"The curse is Sectumsepra. It was invented by Severus Snape and when I was in my sixth year I cursed Draco Malfoy with it."

A lot of things happened at once, Ginny reached for her wand; James opted to just dive for Scorpius with his bare hands. Harry tried to pull James off of Scorpius and the Headmistress quickly disarmed his mother. In two seconds everything had gone into chaos, his mother and brother taking his father's words as enough evidence that Scorpius was behind this.

"I did it!" Albus yelled as loud as he could but everybody kept on struggling and yelling over him, everyone except Lily who had been closest to him. She stopped and stared at Albus in disbelief, she took out her wand and shot a few sparks into the air until everyone was looking at her, she just gestured towards him. Albus took a deep breath and repeated himself. "I-I did it…I used the curse to try and kill myself…"

Thanks everybody for reading! Please review and let me know what you think. Since this story is already mostly written I should be able to publish a chapter every day or two but I still love any comments or constructive criticism you have.