Note: Lily's Thumbelina in this story!

Story 6: Thumbelina

Once upon a time, there was a lonely woman who longed for a child to call her own. One day, she visited a friend who gave her a seed.

"Plant it in a flowerpot," She said. "And see what happens." The woman did as she was bid and as time went by, a beautiful flower, a lily, had bloomed She kissed the flower and watched it unfurl, revealing a beautiful, yet tiny girl inside. She had beautiful deep red hair and emerald green eyes. The girl greeted her and the woman picked her up.

"I will call you, Thumbelina." She said with a loving smile. The little girl, smiled and although her mother loved her very much, she had dreamed to be big. She wasn't too happy on the fact that she was so small and believed that she was the smallest one in the world. That is until her mother read to her about the fairies.

"They're small, just like me!" She said happily but she pointed to the wings. "But what are those?"

"Those are wings Thumbelina. These are fairies and fairies have wings so they could fly."

"Have you ever seen a fairy?" Thumbelina asked her mother, interest and fascination clear in her eyes. Her mother smiled and said that she thought that she had once. Thumbelina smiled and then sighed. She wished that she was big but her mother, once again, had told her that it was best if she stayed as she was. Thumbelina smiled and as they got ready for bed, Thumbelina asked for the book to be left open and she rested in her bed as her mother retired for the night.

On the outside, the fairies were flying around, changing the foliage to accommodate the changing of the season. It was autumn now and the royal fairies were out. They were there to oversee and assist of the season change but one fairy was not present. The Prince! Astoria Malfoy, Queen of the Fairies looked to where her son would be but found his place empty.

"Oh, don't look now, my love…" She said as she got her husband's attention. "But our son is missing again."

"So he is," Her husband, Draco sighed. "I think he feels like a ponce on that butterfly my parents gave him."

"But why?"

"It doesn't give the right idea to the young ladies." Draco said with a smile as he handed his wife a lilac.

"But what about how the court would think?" She asked. "Draco love, it's autumn today and we are changing seasons. He should be here!"

"Astoria…" Her husband whispered.

"He'll hurt himself!" She said. "Oh I hope he's not on that blasted dragonfly! He's the Heir for Merlin's sake!" Draco laughed good-naturedly as he listened to his wife. She had a point but he was not ready to reprimand his son for being young. He wanted to give his son a choice and if riding the dragonfly is what he wanted then by Merlin, who was he to stop him?

Scorpius on the other hand, was riding the wind on his dragonfly named Flame. He would rather do the AK on himself before he rode the white butterfly his grandparents gave him. I am not a poof! He thought. I may be a Prince but there is no way I'm ever riding that poncey thing! I'm a GUY! Girls ride butterflies! He was about to zoom off when he heard a beautiful voice through a window of the small cottage. He steered Flame to the windowsill and looked in. There he saw a beautiful young girl, a bit younger than himself but he didn't care. She stole his heart! He watched her dance for a bit then laughed.

"May I cut in?" He asked with a chuckle. The girl was startled and ran off, hiding in a teapot. Thankfully it was empty.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to startle you. I mean no harm. Now will you come out?" He smiled down at her and she crawled out the other side. The Prince nodded and flew to her. She blinked and stared at him.

"Wha...what are you staring at?"

"You….you're one of them." She said as she pointed to the book. "I thought I was the only one my size in the whole world! My name is Thumbelina, thank you for coming to visit."

"The pleasure is mine. My name is Scorpius." Thumbelina smiled and they talked a bit. That is, until Flame made some noise.

"Oh, that's Flame, my dragonfly. He's on the sill. He's rather impatient if he has to stay in one place for too long."

"Why didn't you say so? Come on!" She said as she walked out, with Scorpius in tow. She saw the beautiful black, blue and silver dragonfly and she told Scorpius how amazing he was. Scorpius smiled and offered her a ride, which she happily accepted. They rode into the night, enjoying each other's company and falling more and more in love. Of course, as they were flying, a toad saw her and was smitten by her beauty and voice. He went to his Mummy and told her, which gave Ms. Toad an idea to steal the young girl away.

The young couple returned a little before dawn and were saying goodbye. Scorpius was about to kiss her when he heard his mother.

"Scorpius!" She called, luckily she was far off.

"Not right now Mother." He said as he tried to lean in for another kiss, barely registering the fact that his mother called for him. "Mother?!" He repeated as he told Thumbelina to hide, hiding with her.

"Who was that?"

"That's the Queen of the Fairies, my Mother."

"Your Mother….so that makes you…"

"Yes I'm the Prince but can I see you tomorrow?"

"Your…tomorrow?"

"Let me talk to my parents tonight and I will come for you in the morning."

"Will they like me?"

"They'll love you but say you will?"

"I will." She said. "Yes." Scorpius smiled and slipped his ring onto her finger, making it quite clear who she belonged to. After that he flew off and left her to pleasant dreams.

As she slept, she didn't realize that window was still open. If she had been awake, she would have noticed the cloaked toad that hopped in and trapped her in her walnut shell bed and was taken far away from home in the middle of the night.

She awoke on a lily pad and was scared at what she saw. She saw an ugly toad and her three ugly sons; Cornelius, Barty and Dudley. Now these toads were the showbiz sort and they wanted Thumbelina to join in to make them rich…(greedy as their human selves) Thumbelina refused and tried to explain that she had to go home so that she would meet the Prince of the Fairies as for she was going to marry him. Ms. Toad said that it was better to be on the road rather dealing with the domestic duties of marriage and the household. Now, out of the sons, it was Dudley who wanted Thumbelina for his. Ms. Toad said that she was to marry her son but to not move from the lily pad while she gets the Reverend to marry them.

As they left, Thumbelina was allowed to cry. She wanted to go home and the lake was not her home. She didn't love the toad and the more she thought about, the sadder she became. A passing by Swallow saw her crying and after wiping a tiny tear away from her face, asked gently what was wrong. When she was done telling the Swallow her sad tale, the Swallow's heart went out to the tiny girl. She asked where the Prince did live and after leaving Thumbelina in the care of friendly creatures, she took off. Thumbelina and the creatures tried to make it to her house but since she was so small, she couldn't tell if she was going the right way. In fact, she wasn't too far away but they bumped into a conniving beetle.

"Wow, you're beautiful." The beetle said with a lecherous grin. "I would love to have you sing at the Ball." Thumbelina refused, for all she wanted to do was go home and wait for her Prince. The beetle grabbed onto her and flew to a cave. Inside Thumbelina couldn't believe what was going on and when the other beetles ridiculed her because she wasn't a bug; she was gone faster than anyone could say 'fairy dust.'

In the course of all this, Prince Scorpius had approached his parents and told them about Thumbelina. His parents were ecstatic and urged their son to bring the young girl. However, when he told them that she had been stolen away, the King took action. He had the animals looking far and wide for his future daughter-in-law. Scorpius, on the King's suggestion, went to search but was warned that the winter was coming so he couldn't fuck around.

The winds picked up and the air was growing more frigid by the day. Thumbelina knew that it was winter time coming but since she was so tiny, she passed out. Luckily she was near the home of the field mouse that took pity on poor girl and took her in. While she was being nursed back to health by the mouse, the toad and the beetle had formed an alliance and went to lynch Prince Scorpius. As luck would have it, the prince had fallen into a lake, for the wind was too strong for him and he had frozen in it. They had cut into the lake, making sure that he came out as a perfect block of ice. Now they had to wait.

Thumbelina's mother was another person who was waiting for her, praying for her daughter's safe return.

When Thumbelina awoke she was told by the field mouse that her beloved was dead, frozen. She couldn't believe it, her heart felt like shattering. Scorpius was her soul mate and she failed to accept that he was gone. The field mouse introduced her to the mole and the mole fell in love with her voice. He asked for her hand in marriage and while she refused, the field mouse, who was a money hungry whore, spoke for her. Within the week she was at the altar but she said hell no and ran. When she escaped, she found that the Swallow was waiting. She climbed onto the Swallow's back and was happy. The Swallow flew to an empty villa and told her to sing.

You will be my wings

You will be only love

You will take me far beyond the stars

The ice began to shatter but there was much to be done. The swallow joined in.

Let me be your wings…It chirped. Thumbelina sighed and sang with it.

You will lift me high above…Everything we're dreaming of will soon be ours…

Anything that we desire…anything at all…every day you'll take me higher… Thumbelina stopped for a moment, telling the Swallow to get off the reefer seeds and that her Prince was never coming back. She was startled when an unmistakable male voice followed the next verse.

And I'll never let you fall

Thumbelina and her Prince ran and hugged each other, happy that they had found each other at last. The next day, there was a wedding and all of her friends and family were invited. The Prince and his new Princess bid them all goodbye and flew off to live happily ever after.