All I know is we said hello
And your eyes look like coming home
All I know's a simple name and
Everything has changed
-Everything Has Changed, Taylor Swift
Lucy arrived at the quaint little Australian house at- she checked her watch- exactly 2:19 PM... Or 11:19 PM. If she was in Australia, she might as well have her watch right. She raised a hand to knock on the door but stopped, remembering what she was told. It'll be late by the time you get here, so DON'T KNOCK. Climb into my room. My window is the middle one on the right. There's a tree right next to it.
Oh goodie, Lucy thought. Climbing.
With a sigh, Lucy went to the side of the house and started to pull herself up. And then she remembered.
I'm a witch. Whisking out her wand, she mumbled 'Allapsu' and pointed it at herself. Suddenly gliding, she knocked on the middle window and waited. After a while, she knocked again. There was a scream from inside.
Cursing, Lucy plummeted from the sky, having lost her balance due to the shock.
"Oh no, dammit. Wingardium leviosa!" Lucy was lifted back up and she as soon as she was in eyesight, she glared at the girl in the window.
"I told you to climb the tree!" The girl protested.
"Whatever, Elizabeth."
"It's Ella! Now come in and go to sleep, I'm tired."
"What?" Lucy said, climbing into the window to the dark room. "Sleep?"
"Yes," Ella replied. "You have a cot set up over there. Sleep on it. Sleep, the thing you do in the middle of the night."
"But it's the middle of the afternoon!"
Ella lied down on her bed and mumbled 'Englanders' before rolling over and falling asleep.
-/-/-
Lucy got hit by a pillow and her ears was tickled by an unfamiliar voice telling them to get up the next morning.
"I can't believe it," Lucy said blearily.
"What?" Ella responded, halfway dressed already.
"It's like the middle of the night. How is the sun up?"
"It's seven-thirty. In the morning."
"Arg. Who was that who woke us up?"
"My stepbrother."
"What's his accent?"
"English-Australian. Him and his dad are from England. His name is Scorpius Malfoy."
Lucy knew about him. He was Albus's rival in school, Albus being a Gryffindor and him being a Slytherin. But Draco Malfoy and his son went abroad after Astoria's sudden death.
But Lucy could feel her heart plummet. She got a glimpse of Scorpius as he threw pillows at them; he looked amazing and his accent. He seemed good natured too; seemingly cheerful to be awake and waking up his stepsister and her friend.
But he was a Malfoy and Malfoys didn't mix with her family. They were forbidden.
With a quiet sigh, Lucy got dressed and trudged downstairs.
-/-/-
"Why are you snickering at me?"
"Well..."
"What?!"
It was breakfast on the fourth night of Lucy's stay and Ella wouldn't stop snickering at her!
"You're changing the colors of your vegemite."
"So? It doesn't look very appetizing. I'm trying to make it look better."
"And periwinkle vegemite looks better?"
"Shut up."
"Oooh, the gal who tells everybody to shut up is now being told to shut up!" said a voice, walking in. That voice.
"Hi Scorpius!" Lucy said, perhaps a bit too excited.
"Hey. Are you okay? You haven't touched your breakfast."
"I'm fine. Starting now." Lucy picked up the toast with the now brown vegemite on it. She opened her mouth and-
"Wow. This is really good."
"Yup," Scorpius said. "Hey, some friends of mine and I are having a party tonight. You want to come?"
"Um," Lucy looked at Ella who was smirking at her but also shrugging as if to say do want you want to do. "Just me?"
"Yeah."
"Like a date?"
"You could think of it like that."
"Okay... I'll do it."
-/-/-
Lucy was always the crazier one out of her and her sister, Molly. At Hogwarts, Lucy was the one sneaking out with boys while Molly would only stay up all night to study. Molly would give a guy a soft kiss, Lucy would go in hard, no matter who was there. And Molly would definitely not go to an all night party with a Malfoy and then proceed to snog him hard in a broom closet for somewhere close to an hour. But Lucy would and Lucy did.
Lucy and Scorpius channeled Molly and learned that night. They learned that while kissing you could breath through your nose.
And Lucy discovered new things. Eight new things. Scorpius' abs.
They both explored. Each other's mouths.
Lucy's family would be proud of her. She did the three things her father taught her to actively do. Learn, discover and explore.
The only problem was it was with a Malfoy she was learning, discovering and exploring.
Scorpius whined when she pulled away.
"What's the matter?"
"Well," Lucy bit her lip. "what if my parents or your dad finds out? We'll be as good as dead."
"We'll just have to take that chance won't we?" Scorpius replied, winking cheekily at her. She was going to protest when Scorpius tuggeded her shirt off. "Want to really party?"
-/-/-
"How was the party?" Ella asked the next morning, with that stupid smirk still on her face. Lucy fingered the still fading love bites on her neck.
"It was amazing," she whispered.
-/-/-
On Lucy's twenty-second birthday, she got sick.
She had at least 'celebrated' a few nights before with Scorpius; of course nothing too bad- they wouldn't go too- Oh no. Oh damn. It can't.
But an hour later, as she looked down at the stick in her hand, her fears was confirmed.
-/-/-
Their goodbye did not include much talking.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
Lucy wished she would've taken the offer to stay when her breakfast landed on her plate for a second time. But Lucy needed to go back home; her two months were finished. She would miss Scorpius but she would move on. Probably. But she wouldn't forget him.
(And she would never forget the red stick at the bottom of a trash can, glowing positive.)
A/N- Thoughts?
For QL, Chudley Cannons, chaser 3, prompts 4, 9, 11
For Quidditch Pitch, amazing
For the Taylor Swift challenge, Everything Has Changed
For Hogwarts, History of Magic
(This fic is for the two people of Partybee as the 'Bee', Lizzie, loves the Weasleys and the 'Party', Safari, loves Taylor Swift)