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Behind That One Tapestry...

Lily giggled as Scorpius' nose bumped against her own, and their lips parted due to her uncontrollable grin.

"What?"

"Nothing."

Lily giggled again.

Scorpius breathed a laugh, the air from his nose gliding over her cheek. He leaned in again.

Lily giggled.

Scorpius pulled away before their lips could touch.

"What is it?"

Lily couldn't help the obscenely wide grin that spread across her face.

"Nothing."

"You keep laughing. Are you laughing at me?"

Lily ducked her head, pressing a palm to her mouth to hide her grin and smother her giggles, but she couldn't seem to stop laughing. In fact, the bubbly feeling inside her stomach expanded a bit more, and she chortled louder, her hand not quite able to keep the sound in.

Scorpius closed his hand around her wrist, pulling her palm away from her mouth. Lily glanced up at him, and promptly burst into a new round of giggles.

Scorpius huffed a little, letting go of her wrist and crossing his arms over his chest, bumping the heavy tapestry they hid behind a little by accident. "I don't see what's so blasted funny," he whispered, leaning forward in an attempt to peer into her eyes. But it was futile, Lily had covered her face with both hands, her shoulders shaking with mirth that Scorpius could not understand.

"Lily!" he hissed, grasping her shoulders as she continued to chortle in her palms.

Lily dragged her fingers down her face, shaking her head as though to clear it, "I- I'm sorry!" she gasped, and clapped her hand to her forehead, shaking her head again.

"I'm just so... so-" she grinned up at Scorpius, brown eyes sparkling merrily. Scorpius grinned back, thumbing her hair away from her face, letting the silky red strand rest against his forefinger as he continued to stroke it with his thumb, "So what?" he whispered, leaning closer. His head tilted and the side of his nose brushing against hers. He bent lower, closing what little distance remained between them.

"So what, Lily?" he breathed against her lips, smiling against her mouth.

"So happy," she whispered in reply, her hands sliding up over his school shirt clad shoulders to clasp behind his neck, her thumbs brushing the skin beneath his collar. "So... so... happy..." she whispered, pressing her lips against his between each word.

Scorpius kissed back, his hands gripping her waist, pulling her closer. Again he bumped the tapestry with his elbow, causing it to swing against the flagstones, brushing the sides of their feet, and allowing light from the corridor outside to stream into the rather dark alcove in which they stood.

Lily's fingers slid into Scorpius' hair, tousling it in a way she knew he hated it to be tousled. But Scorpius didn't move to stop her this time, instead, his arms wound around her back, one sliding up to tangle in the edges of her long red hair, the other pressing firmly against the middle of her spine.

Lily pulled away, opening her eyes, and resting her forehead against his, catching her breath.

She chuckled lightly.

So did he.

"I take it this means yes?" asked Scorpius, widening his eyes in mock ignorance.

Lily rolled her own eyes, pulling her head back to look at him wryly, as if to say; what do you think?

Scorpius chuckled again, his arms squeezing her tightly around her middle, "I should have taken Al's advice and just asked you months ago," he said, lightly nuzzling the tip of her ear. "You have no bloody idea how long I've waited for this."

Lily snorted in a most unladylike manner, "You're damn right you should have taken Al's advice, then I wouldn't have had to wait around for you to finally, finally, work up the guts to ask me in the first place."

Scorpius pulled away, an affronted expression upon his pale face, "Now wait just a minute-"

"Oh I don't think so, I've been waiting for months," she mocked, "Years even," she added wickedly.

Scorpius removed his arms from around her to cross them over his chest, "A bloke's gotta have some time, y'know?" He huffed, his lips twitching when she pulled his arms away from his chest and held his hands in hers.

"And besides... How was I supposed to know you fancied me, anyway? You never said-"

"Oho! That's rich! What's a girl supposed to do? Carry around a sign that reads, Hey you prat, I fancy you too?" Lily scoffed, shaking her head at her boyfriend of a little over seven minutes... not that she was counting or anything.

"It would help..." grumbled Scorpius, but he couldn't help the smile that took over his lips. He felt... giddy. Light and elated. The weight that had sat on his chest since the end of fifth year had lifted, leaving him shamefully happy.

Lily laughed, a beautiful golden sound, that warmed his ears and caused his insides to wiggle about joyously. How anything could sound golden, Scorpius didn't know, but he was certain if Lily's laugh could be captured in a bottle, it would be gold and silky... and it would smell of peppermint... and chocolate... and flowers. Just like Lily... his Lily.

Lily Luna Potter, of whom he had fancied for two long years. He would be seventeen in two and a bit months, and for the first time, he wished his birthday was father away.

The closer he was to being of age, the closer he was to finishing his education at Hogwarts... and the farther he'd be from Lily. He cursed himself -not for the first time- for being such a ninny about asking her out.

Perhaps they could have been together since last year...

Lily was laying her head against his shoulder, the top of her head resting just beneath his chin. Scorpius craned his neck to press his lips against her hair, breathing in deeply as he did so. Flowers... lovely, sweet-smelling, spring colored flowers. The ones that he'd seen growing in the Potter's garden that first summer he'd come to visit after second year. Where he had first seen Lily.

She had been lying beside the flower bed, beneath an apple tree, staring up at the sky through the leaves, twirling her apple core between her fingers by the stem, and her hair, spread out around her like a hallow. Even then, the glistening red locks had been thick and wavy from the plait it had been released from.

It had taken a great deal of pleading for Scorpius to be allowed to visit at all. He'd asked his mother the minute he'd found her after stepping off the train, and her reply had been to direct him to his father, to whom Scorpius had pleaded for days.

But in the end, his father had relented, though he refused 'to step foot in Potter's house' as he'd said it, but that was all right, mother had floo'd over with him. And now she and Mr. and Mrs. Potter were on quite good terms, one might even go so far as to say that they enjoyed each others company. Scorpius had never said as much... he didn't want to push his luck.

Aside from home and Hogwarts, the Potter's house was the best place in the world. Everything there was always so jolly and high-spirited. With Albus and James... and sometimes even his own cousin, Teddy and his -now- fiancee`, Victoire. It was lonely at the Manor... with just himself, and Mother and Father.

The Burrow was a grand place too. Or Scorpius thought so anyway. All the hustle and bustle, the noise and the chaos. People crowding everywhere. Nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmothers, and grandfathers...

The only relative the his father permitted to visit was Grandmother Malfoy... or just Grandmum, as Scorpius called her. Scorpius didn't mind though, father had explained two years previously just exactly why no one else visited. And Scorpius understood his father's need to cut off old ties... after all, he'd met Grandfather Malfoy, and he was a right old git, if Scorpius said so himself.

Lily's thumbs brushed against the skin at the back of his neck again, and Scorpius shivered.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked softly, sliding her head back against his shoulder to look up at him.

Scorpius kissed her forehead lightly, "Nothing."

"Good."

And her head left its spot on her shoulder, so that she could stand on her tiptoes, and tug him down to kiss her.

One of Scorpius' hands cupped her cheek, his thumb brushing lightly over her smooth, rosy cheek, the other hand slipped to rest against her mid-back once more, and she pressed herself closer to him, making him stumble and brush against the tapestry yet again.

"OI! WHAT THE DEVIL'S GOING ON HERE!"

The tapestry had been yanked back, and light blared into both Lily and Scorpius' eyes, causing them to let go of each other and shield them.

"Get your bloody hands off my sister!"

James Potter stood just outside of their previously hidden spot, his eyes nearly bugging out of his head and his nostrils flaring with every breath he took. The air between them fairly crackled with tension, but before James could open his mouth to blister Scorpius with his tongue, Lily drew herself up to her full height, which -strictly speaking- wasn't very tall. But she appeared quite impressive with her face and ears flushed bright red, her brilliant brown eyes narrowed dangerously, and her hands stationed, quite firmly, on her hips.

She tossed her hair over her shoulder with a single agitated movement, removing one hand from her waist to poke her brother in the chest with her pointer finger.

"Now you listen here, James Sirius Potter! If you so much as breath one word of this, to- to- to anybody," she jabbed him in the chest a bit harder, causing James to take an involuntary step back, and Scorpius' lips to wobble precariously, "I'll write Mum and tell her just what I caught you and Patricia Mandy doing in the garden last spring!"

James' mouth dropped open, his cheeks burning, and his mouth working furiously to form coherent sentences.

"And don't think I won't!" Lily jabbed him a final time, but instead of returning her hand to her hip, she wrapped it firmly around Scorpius', glaring at James all the while, daring him to say a word against it.

James regained the ability to speak, "Fine!" He hissed, taking two steps closer to Lily, "Just bloody fine!" He sneered at Scorpius one last time before whirling around and stalked down the corridor, hollering, " And I'm still going to tell Al!" without turning back to look at them.

Neither Lily nor Scorpius bothered to tell James that Albus already knew.

Scorpius sighed with relief, "Thought he'd skin me alive for sure!"

Lily scoffed, tossing her hair back with a haughty sniff, "I've got too many sodding brothers around, can't have a decent snog without one of them barging in!"

Scorpius' eyebrows raised... can't get a decent snog without one of them barging in? Just how many had she had? He made a mental note to broach the subject later.

"What is he doing here anyway? Of all the people that could have walked in on us, it had to be my brother who graduated two years ago!"

"Maybe he's got a meeting with McGonagall or something..." answered Scorpius, shrugging his shoulders unconcernedly. His attention had long since left James' mysterious appearance. In fact, it was focused solely on James' younger sister... The way her hair rippled against her back, and the way her considerably smaller hand felt, wrapped inside his.

Scorpius leaned forward without even realising what he was doing, but a small hand against his chest stopped his progress.

"Oh no you don't, James could come flying back down that corridor at any minute," said Lily, tapping his cheek with the pads of her fingers.

"Come on then," said Scorpius, pulling her along behind him, "I know this lovely place by the lake..."

Lily laughed freely, trailing along behind him, allowing him to pull her weight, "Alright then. But I've still got to study, mind. And so do you."

Scorpius stopped pulling and turned around, "There's this spot in the library as well..."

Lily laughed again, and Scorpius decided that making her laugh would be one of his top priorities from that day forward.

"Oh, go on then! You silly- mmmph!"

By the time Lily's dazed expression had cleared, Scorpius had pulled her halfway down the corridor, and was swiftly nearing the exist to the grounds.

A/N: So this will be a two part... possibly a three part... maybe even a whole story (I adore this pairing...) It sort of follows A Day In Life, With Draco Malfoy, so yeah, it's in that Universe. I hope you like it... I was bored, and I didn't feel like doing my work or working on my Just For Now chapter... and so, Voila! Check me out on twitter for updates on chapters and stories (at)MarieLewis_4 and/or at LiveJournal MarieLewis4

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