-WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ OR SEEN THE CURSED CHILD, DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT-
Okay so I finished the Cursed Child yesterday and I immediately started righting a fanfic because thERE WAS SO MUCH SCORBUS. And I mean I shipped it before, but now we actually have MATERIAL and CONTENT, and it's so overwhelming I'm actually planning on starting a Scorbus support-group.
Anyway…
Story Summary: Life isn't plain sailing when Albus and Scorpius get back to Hogwarts. Stressed out with exams, secrets and bad dreams, they must find a way to feel at home without almost destroying the world (again!). Contains spoilers for CC.
Chapter Summary: Albus is a jealous and gay little shit
Warning: Honestly if you haven't read or seen Harry Potter and the Cursed Child yet, stop, because this chapter actually contains text from the play. Also there's like one swear word in this chapter. Rated T just in case.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, or any of the characters mentioned. I also do not own much of the text that is in this chapter, which was taken from HP&TCC Act Four, Scene Seventeen.
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Scorpius and Albus ran into an empty classroom, full of excitement. They slammed the door after themselves.
"I can't believe I did that." Scorpius said, slightly out of breath.
"I can't quite believe you did that either."
"Rose Granger-Weasley. I asked Rose Granger-Weasley!" Scorpius grinned, leaning against one of the desks. Albus wished he wouldn't; he couldn't help but admire him.
Happiness literally radiated from him, and it infected Albus and made him all warm and fuzzy inside.
And then he remembered why Scorpius was so excited.
"And she said no," he said sharply, not wanting to drag it on further. As Scorpius babbled on about acorns (and – ugh – marriage) he wondered what his adventure had really done.
Before it, he had been an enormous loser who was constantly in his Father's shadow and had a crush on his only friend.
And now? Well, he was still an enormous loser, and still fancied his only friend. But now? Now he was not only in the shadow of his parents, and siblings, and fucking name…but now he also had to watch his cousin. And not only that, but the one person he felt he could be himself around favoured said cousin over him.
'I could kiss Scorpius right now,' he thought. 'I could kiss him and he could kiss back and all would be well and nothing would go wrong.'
"You are aware that you're an utter fantasist," he said, more to himself than to Scorpius.
He had to get the idea out of his head that Scorpius would ever love him back.
He had tried shutting him up, but Scorpius didn't seem to have gotten the message. So Albus put on his best yes-I-would-love-you-two-to-hook-up voice, which didn't sound at all like he wanted to shoot himself in the face, and said: "You do know logic would dictate that you're a freak? Because Rose hates you."
And maybe it was a low blow, but if there was one thing Albus was good at, it was getting under people's skins. His dad would tell you.
But Scorpius took it in the light-hearted way he took everything; this just made Albus love him more.
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When Rose poked her nose in and spoke so innocently, saying "Hi" like she hadn't stolen Albus's best friend, he honestly didn't know what to say.
Scorpius didn't seem to either. Albus didn't know if that was a good thing or not.
"This is only going to be weird if you let it be weird," she sniffed, and Albus couldn't believe her fucking nerve.
She was the one who had abandoned him on the first day of school. She was the one who hated him because of his house. And she was the one who suddenly expected everything to be okay.
She was the one making it fucking weird.
