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Passing Colors

"So, what do you think?" Lily smiled as she turned to her Mum as they stood in a quaint yet sprawling cottage home. The cottage had once been a gorgeous home settled away from the road on a lane of its own. Large wooden beams once glittered against the lights of the chandeliers and hanging lights, but were now covered in dust and cobwebs. Hardwood floors gleamed from underneath brightly colored rugs; and a family had called it home… "I think with a lot of renovations it could be restored perfectly."

Ginny looked around the fixer-upper with a critical eye, before her eyes landed on her hopeful and clearly enchanted daughter. "I think that for you it would be perfect. You enjoy this sort of thing." She smiled as her daughter hurtled herself into her arms, hugging her tightly.

"Oh! I am sooo glad you said that because I signed the papers this morning." She grinned as her Mum shook her head and laughed.

"Of course you did." She smiled as Lily ran a finger across the dust leaving a clean streak against the molding. It was moments like these that she cherished…moments where Lily was alive and thrilled to be so. Lily's personality was so different from her own in so many ways…but the drive and the love they had for people and things bonded them into one in the same… "So when does the work begin?"

Lily smiled as she sat down on a dusty kitchen cabinet. "As soon as the designers and contractors come tomorrow. We'll do a walk-through then…Adora's going to come with me for it."

Ginny nodded with a smile as Lily beamed. "Congratulations, Dear. Your very first home." She wrapped an arm around her thin shoulders as they both surveyed the room with a new-found excitement.

"So, how do I look?" Roxy pouted her lips as she primped in front of a floor-length mirror. Her black hard shined from its place amongst glittering combs as tendrils of curls fell about the back of her head. She looked at Lily from her side of the mirror, as her cousin sat on her bed in a very pale blush pink gown.

Lily looked up from her book with an instant grin. A straight strand of auburn hair falling across her forehead in a pretty swoop. "Gorgeous, Roxy!" She stood up as she fastened Roxy's pearl necklace around her neck. "I can't believe it's already your engagement party." She smiled as she shook her head. "I'm really so happy for you." She smiled happily as Roxy glowed.

"Lily, I know I joke…a lot." Both cousins laughed as Roxy took both of her cousin's slender hands in her own. "But…I truly do love him so much. And I know we never talk about what happened between you and…Scorpius." Her voice was gentle as she spoke and Lily stared at her impassively. "And I know the family talks poorly of him a lot. But, I know he loved you…the way I love Reid. And my point is - you don't just stop loving someone once you've fallen in love like that."

Lily pulled her hands back and faked a smile as she began to move away from her cousin. "Roxy…"

"You don't, Lily. And you know that. All I'm saying is there's more to this story than we know." She watched Lily's back as she spoke.

The clock chimed in the hallway causing Lily to turn and hold her head up high. "Come on, let's get you to your party!" She smiled as she pulled her cousin through the hall and did her best to forget their conversation.

"Two, under Narcissa…" Narcissa Malfoy surveyed her favorite restaurant as the matradee checked his list and nodded as he reached for two menus.

"Hello, sorry, Grandmother. My meeting ran late." Scorpius smiled as he hurriedly pecked his grandmother's cheek and smiled slightly at the matradee who held his arm out to lead them to their seat. "How has your day been?"

Her eyes scanned the unusually busy and noisy restaurant as she caught sight of a side ballroom full of Weasleys, Potters, and Woods laughing, loudly talking, and passing the champagne around generously. "Busy. And yours?" She smiled as she looped an arm through his awaiting open one, aware he hadn't noticed the gathering.

"It would've been fine had my first appointment not been late…set the tone for the entire day." He shook his head as he helped his Grandmother into her chair before sitting in his own. "I'm famished." He sat his menu to the side as Narcissa's eyes remained glued to the entrance of the ballroom causing Scorpius to look back and see the scene in front of him.

"Ahh!" Lily called with a laugh as Fred popped open a fake champagne bottle and glittery confetti covered the room. If they were any normal family, this behavior in this type of upscale restaurant would be forbidden. But, because they had standing and wealth, it was perfectly acceptable that they acted as eccentric and childish as they so chose which at the moment suited Lily just fine. She was keen to forget Roxy's words and enjoy the party that would continue to get wilder as the night continued and the attendants became drunker.

"Ay! Time for a speech, Maid-of-Honor!" Roxy called from her seat on Reid's lap as Lily gracefully made her way so that she was standing atop a chair as the rest of the guests laughed and waited. She grinned at Roxy before scanning he room, her eye catching that of a familiar man she spied outside of the room, who was staring at her…Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy…before smiling slightly and lifting her hand in a half attempt at a wave before clearing her throat, shaking her head, and beginning her speech.

"Perhaps you should say hello?" She pursed her lips as Scorpius turned back to face her.

Scorpius smiled at her, admiring her precariously beautiful and off-touch form from afar. "No, perhaps when one of our two parties is finished I will." He turned and smiled at his curious Grandmother who picked up a fork and examined it.

"If you say so, Darling…" She smiled as she set the flatware back down and folded her hands.

Lily felt herself twirling around the floor as Fred held onto her as they danced their way across the martini lounge hidden off a street of Diagon Alley, long past dinner's ending. The cousins had decided to celebrate the engagement a little longer, per usual. "Come on Fred! Faster!" She laughed, her body feeling detached as they literally danced circles around everyone else.

"Stop showing us up!" Roxy bossed with a laugh as Reid slowly spun her. "This is my event after all." She joked as Fred dipped Lily so low she just missed the floor before pulling her quickly into a twirl causing Roxy to roll her eyes with a grin.

"Sorry, little sister!" Fred called with a laugh as Lilly giggled drunkenly. "Lils and I can't help we're the best dancers in the family. Should've paid more attention to those lessons…" He snickered as he spun Lily out to James and Adora began dancing with him in one fluid motion.

James chuckled as he caught Lily, who fell into his open arms, before leading her over to a chair and handing her a virgin drink. "You seem really happy tonight." He smiled as Lily tipsily grinned at him.

"Do I?" She took a liberal swig of her drink before winking at her brother. "Then I think I deserve an award, Jamesie." She raised her eyebrows as she finished her drink. "Because I'm so numb I can't even feel my fingertips!" She laughed as she got up and twirled around the floor on her own, James' head too clouded and confused to do anything but stare at her with a loopy smile.

Scorpius sighed as he leaned over the ledge of the balcony connected to his room. The cold air hit his face and blew his hair around softly as the moon shone down. Lily had somehow managed to escape the restaurant before he could say anything, which was fine. But the longer he stayed in London and the more he saw her the more he became all-consumed by her. She might not have been as enigmatic or magnetic to anyone else as she was to him, but he found that the thing he had been running from for years was exactly the person he had been longing for. And he just wondered how her heart felt… Did it still beat a little quicker when he stepped into a room? Did her nerves tingle when he spoke? Did her mouth go dry in anticipation of his? He shook his head and sighed as his owl hooted beside him and he stroked her back letting his mind clear in its own time.

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