Property Tax

by Nanaho-Hime

For The As Lover's Go Contest

Disclaimer: I own nothing

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Summary: Scopius Malfoy has a problem with Rose wearing other men's clothes. ImnotjealoushutupAl.

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He'll never tell her for the sake of his dignity (because she's already completely and effectively diminished the majority of it), but he absolutely hates it when she wears her male cousins clothes. She wears James's Quidditch jerseys, she wears Al's pajama bottoms, she wears Fred's ridiculous looking sweaters, she wear's Hugo's ties, and even Louis's shoes and he hates it. She's a fashion disaster and her logic is she likes wearing her male relatives' clothes because it reminds her of them, it comforts her.

And maybe it makes sense, but when Scorpius sees her in one of James's oversized shirts he feels an ugly, roaring…something in his chest. (Al insists its jealousy but Scorpius doesn't put any stock in the words of the most socially and romantically retarded person to ever attend Hogwarts).

And, after all, why on earth would he be jealous of her cousins. (The Weasleys don't seem too into incest but he can't be too sure, they're Weasleys and they are a bit strange.) And, puh-lease, it's Weasley, skinny, freckly, bushy haired tomboy Weasley, with the most beautiful pair of mind blowing blue eyes he's ever seen in his life. Not that those matter. At all.

"I don't see what the problem is," Rose pulls the fuzz off of Fred's ridiculously overly large orange sweater. It clashes horribly with her hair and she looks ridiculous and he wants to break Fred's arms for purely unrelated reasons, of course.

"It's just strange," he argues gritting his teeth, and ignoring the loud roaring thing in his chest, "I mean it's like you're advertising 'property of ' insert male here."

Rose frowns because that's such a Scorpius thing to say, and it irritates her because he acts like she's something to be owned.

"I'm no one's property," she mutters tersely, her blue eyes warning him to shut his mouth, but that thing is roaring in his chest and he sees red every time he sees her in other guys' clothes (and Al says it's called the green monster and imnotjealousshutupAl).

"Then wear your own clothes," and it's such a stupid and lame come back.

"Girl's wear their brothers' clothes all the time," Rose huffs because he's so stupid and, lately, he's been such a moody arse, and, damn it, she should be the only one with PMS in this friendship/rivalry thing.

"They wear their boyfriends' clothes too," Scorpius counters and he bites the inside of his cheek, and tries to calm the roaring thing in his chest, and tells the Al voice in his head to shutthehellup.

But now Rose is looking at him strangely, and damn it was he that obvious?

"Would it make you feel better if I wore your clothes too Scorp?"

Scorpius scoffs, because he's dancing on glass now and it might just break, and then the world will explode, because she's Weasley, Rose Weasley, "I don't care what you do."

She rolls her eyes but she's smiling softly, and the next day she raids his closet, and walks around in his clothes all over Hogwarts and the roaring thing in his chest goes away.

"Scorpius?"

She's wearing one of his dress shirts, and he feels very warm, because she's his.

(take that JamesPotter FredWeasley HugoWeasley LouisWeasley imnotjealousshutupAl)


A/N: Eh…Reviews would be awesome :)