CHAPTER SIX

"Hey man" said Mike to Scorpius as he caught up to him on his way DADA 5th year class.

"What"? Asked Scorpius a little to sharply.

"Nothing man, really, just wanted to know how detention was going that all"

"Oh, my bad. Longbottom doesn't make me do anything. Just help arrange some stuff and check homework or test, but thats about everything. And yet I have another week to go"

"Oh, well that good at least its not so bad right"? And with that Mike saw Maddie coming towards them and Mike gave her a small smile with a nod, but she completely ignored him and started to talk to Scorpius.

"Scorpius, isn't this fun. We get to have a class together. Too bad we're not partners" and she just smiled not realizing that her comment about the whole partner thing could insult Mike, but she did not care. Scorpius walked past her ignoring her just like she ignored Mike. What a gullible fool he was.

"Scorpius wait up" Maddie yelled and caught up with him. Arriving together, they walked in and sat on a table, Mike with Maddie behind Scorpius, Lily yet not present. Scorpius put his head down not wanting to look at the door waiting for her to arrive, and not looking at Maddie looking and trying to talk to him and Mike staring at Maddie like a lovestruck fool. He didn't know how long he was like that when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He didn't want to look up to see Maddie touching his shoulder when he wanted it to be somebody else, and so he kept his head down.

"Malfoy, Malfoy are you okay"? Said a voice that did not belong to Maddie. Looking up, Scorpius saw Lily's soft concerned eyes on him. He looked at his shoulder to see that it was her hand that was touching him. He smile inwardly.

"Yeah, I'm good. Just a little tired that all"

"You sure" he nodded and she gave him a small smile. Maddie noticed and took in on the conversation.

"Scorpius, are okay. Do you want a head massage? I can give you a head massage" asked Maddie.

"No, but thanks" and that when the bell rang and everyone turned forward to pay attention to the teacher. Pausini walked in and looked everyone in the eye without blinking.

"Okay students, today you will all learn how to do an easy spell. The spell is easy to do and fun for everybody. Alright, the spell is Rictusempra, and your partner is to help you how to do it. Alright start" and with that, the students started. Scorpius turned towards Lily and she towards him.

"Okay, you like she said its easy, you flip the wand thus, said the word and there you go" Scorpius said.

"What is it though"? Lily asked. Scorpius grinned.

"You'll see" and thus he pointed his wand at her, she gave him a small smile, and said the magic word.

"Rictusempra" and before Lily knew it, she was laughing and giggling grabbing onto her stomach trying to make the thing that was tickling go away with no success. At that moment, Scorpius wanted to stop tickling her with the wand and tickle her with his own hands.

"Stop, stop, stop Scorpius" she said while holding her stomach and looking at him with pleading eyes. He stopped. She caught her breath.

"Okay my turn" and before he could protest, she did the spell perfectly and he was being tickled. He started to laugh and hold on to his stomach, he couldn't stop laughing. He looked up at her and saw that she was laughing as well and when their eyes caught each other, they both stopped laughing. He wanted to lean forward and kiss her, but then he realized they were surrounded by other people who were also laughing. Behind him, Mike was laughing so hard.

"Falk, Falk stop please, my stomach is hurting" and he said this really fast and on a short breath. Scorpius looked at Maddie who was not smiling and looked like she was not about to stop.

"Maddie, stop" Scorpius said "really Maddie stop, his face is turning blue" and at that Maddie looked at Scorpius, smiled and stopped.

"Young, Young you okay. Can you breath"? Lily said as she ran over to her him and tied to see if he needed help. Mike looked at her and smiled slowly nodding his head and his breath leveling. "Good" she said as she walked back to her desk.

"Thanks" Mike said to Lily and also smiled at her. At that moment Scorpius wanted to erase Mike's dumb smile and have Lily smiling at him.

"Alright students I hope you had fun with that" said Pausini as she walked went to the front of the class as she had checked some students. "Now, I decided that you and your partner would practice some of the spells I have here on this list. You can learn as many as you like and master them and then, every week for half the class we will have duels to see who has practiced and how they are doing" and Pausini handed out a piece of paper to everybody. Scorpius looked at the sheet and saw that the spells went from easy to hardest. Looking over them, the easy ones where the ones that people usually got to learn during their first three years, then he mediums ones through their fourth to fifth year and then the hardest one through their sixth and seventh year.

"Whoa, this is a huge list" said Lily as she looked over the spells and Scorpius agreed with her. So many and they would have to learn many of them for Lily to be prepared for the duels, and the practice would be outside of class. So Scorpius had an excuse to be with her.

"You can start today or any other day. You can have the rest of class to yourself" said Pausini after she went over most of the spells on the list which has taken up most of the class period that was left except for five minutes. A girl raised her hand.

"Yes" Pausini said.

"When are we to practice"? Asked the girl.

"When? Well your going to have to take time out of your life for practice because I'm not going to" and with that she sat down at her desk ignoring everybody else who had a question.

"Well, should we practice something out of this list sometime soon"? Asked Lily. Scorpius looked at her and wondered when the best time would be.

"Not this week much really since I have detention after practice" replied Scorpius to her question. She nodded.

"Yeah I forgot about that. How is it going is Longbottom being hard on you"? He smiled at her.

"No, his pretty easy overall just one more week to go"

"Yeah about that, you never told me why you got into a fight with Professor Jaeger" Maddie suddenly blurted out. Turning to face her, he looked at her with a annoyed face.

"I don't know" he replied and that when the bell rang. Getting up, he left without waiting for Mike or Lily but he just did not want to be in the same room as Maddie. Grabbing his broom from his dorm, Scorpius went outside and once outside started to fly. He was up flying for some minutes before he decided to come down when he saw his teammates going in to chge to their practice robes. Landing in front of the locker room and about to go in, he heard his name being called. Turning around, he saw Lily in her football practice uniform and give him a small smile.

"Hey" she said. He nodded. "you ran out of the classroom pertty fast. You okay"? He ran a hand through his hair.

"Yeah, it's just that Maddie got me a little mad but thats all"

"Okay, I, ah, I just wanted to see if – " Longbottom came up from behind her.

"Miss Potter, miss Potter" Lily turned to look at him.

"Yes Professor"

"Miss Potter I just came to tell you to come to my classroom after your practice. I need to talk to you about that plant of yours" Longbottom said.

"Of course Professor I will be there" Longbottom nodded and then looked at Scorpius.

"Mr Malfoy, you two come in for your detention I have new things for you to do" and with that Longbottom walked away. Scorpius signed.

"Well I'll see you later I have practiced" he turned around to leave.

"Yeah later" he heard Lily and he went inside to change.

"I'm here professor" Lily said as she walked in into one of Herbology greenhouse which housed many plants taken care of by Longbottom. Longbottom came out from behind a huge vine like plants hanged form the ceiling.

"Lily, your early aren't you"?

"Practice got out early since we took it easy today and have a game tomorrow" Lily replied to his question and he nodded.

"Alright, lets take you to Boomerang. God knows how much he missed you" Longbottom whispered the last sentence. Lily followed his to the back where there was a table with only one plant and is was Boomerang. Boomerang was the name for the plant. The plants name was Fanged Geranium

and it liked to bit people, well people except Lily and if it did it was a nice soft bite for affectionate instead of a hard paining bite. Lily went up to him (him because she could not imagine him being a her) and caressed his leafs. Boomerang moved a little and made a small sound, he was tired.

"Boomerang, hey its me Lily. Are you tired, yes you are or then you bite me real hard" and the plant grabbed one of her fingers and bit hard just to tell her he was not tired. That was so him always acting strong.

"He just woke up this morning from his hibernation" Longbottom said as it caressed Boomerang because it was too tired to bite and soon enough he wouldn't be.

"Really, kinda early don't you think" Lily said.

"Yeah, but the weather has been kind cold lately and snow might come sooner then expected". Lily nodded and looked at Boom. Boom was a winter plant that stood out. The stem and leafs where a white color while the top resembled a Fire Lily with its black petals with its orange and nonburnable fire center coming out of it. The mouth was where the fire came out and if touched there, the petals would close and the hidden teeth would bite into your skin while the nonburnable fire would become burnable and burn you, but a low burn. When Boom burped, an outburst of fire come out with a booming sound coming out as well.

Fanged Geranium was a rare plant to be found in the wild but one winter day when Lily was walking back to Hogwarts from Hogsmeade when she stumbled upon a black flower with a fiery center and took it to Professor Longbottom to check it where he told her that the flower was a Fangs Geranium and because its stem had been cut from under it by pure nature or a human, the plant was weak and Lily decided to take care of it. Every since then, when she found the plant in her third year, she has been taking care of Boom.

"Well thanks Professor for taking care of Boom" Longbottom nodded.

"No problem, its nice having such a plant in here you know" He looked behind her.

"Malfoy, your early too. Did practice end early as well"? Lily turned around to find Scorpius behind her with his broom in one hand.

"Yes Professor" Scorpius said. "What would you have me do today"?

"Well lets see, well I don't think there is anything I need for you to do except the usual, water the plants in greenhouse four and five, I do the last two" Scorpius nodded.

"Well, I have to go and do the watering and some paperwork, I will see you later Lily and Malfoy. And Lily what time does your game start I want to be there"?

"Its at 11 sir" Longbottom nodded.

"okay, well I will see you tomorrow and Malfoy you have the next two days off" and with that Longbottom went out. Lily tuned back to Boom who stem was straight up meaning it was awake and Lily decided to have some fun with him and try a new spell.

"Rictusempra" she said pointing her wand at him and the second he started to laugh, flames started to come out of its center meaning the exchange of a lot of oxygen. Lily saw a person come stand next to her. Lily stopped and watch the plant relax as its stem bended a little. Lily smiled.

"A Fanged Geranium" Scorpius murmured. Lily nodded.

"Yeah,"

"Why are taking care of it"?

"Well I found it one day and I just kept it here and still do"

"So its pretty tame"?

"You could say so"

"Huh, can I touch it"?

"Sure go ahead" and Scorpius did so as he went for the stem and then to the petals where suddenly the petals closed around his finger and bite him. Scorpius pulled his finger out of it.

"What the..., thins thing is not tame" he told Lily while looking at his finger which was red.

"yeah well he does not like you" Lily told him back as she started to pet Boom and caressing its petals, while Scorpius looked at her when the plant did nothing to her.

"Its pretty tame towards you. My mother has a couple of theses at the house and they light the pathway in the winter at night. They didn't like me either for they bite me when I tried to touch them. They liked my mother though, just like this plant like you" Scorpius told her. Lily laughed. Scorpius looked at her with small smile on his face but yet confused over the joke which he did not understand.

"Did I say something funny"? Lily shook her head.

"No, its just cute how it seems you think everything would like you yet they don't" and Scorpius just raised at eyebrow at her.

"Well most things do like me, its just these bloody plants that don't seem to" and Lily kept on laughing and before she knew it, he too was laughing. They laughed a while before they stopped. Lily looked around her, trying to find the food fro Boom.

"Are you looking for something"? Scorpius asked her.

"Yeah, I just need to know where the flies or worms are for Boom"

"Boom"?

"Yeah Boom, that his name" she said looking at him in the eye. He just smiled.

"yeah there over there" he said pointing at a shelf. Lily went over and looked for them till she found them, only to be at the very top shelf where she could not reach.

"Um, Malfoy, do you think you can grab this for me" she asked looking around for him to find him already starting to water the plants around them.

"Yeah sure" he came over to her. He looked up but she could tell he would not be able to get them either. Looking for a stair to use, she did not hear Scorpius.

"What? I'm sorry I didn't hear you"

"I said that I could lift you up there and then you could grab them, hows that sound"? She nodded. "Okay, put your foot here on my hand and then pull your self up while grabbing on to those side bars there and then grabbing the bottle" and again she nodded. Pulling his sleeves up, Scorpius intertwined his hands together and Lily looked at them, then she put her foot on them, pulled her self up and felt him pushing him up, and then she grabbed the side bars. Grabbing the bottles, Lily decided to put the bottles on a lower shelf which she could grab herself because she knew getting down would be hard with the bottles. "Ready"? He asked.

"Yeah", letting go of one of the side bars, Lily leaned down and grabbed one of his shoulders when her hand holding onto the side bar slipped and she felt herself falling back. With one hand she tried to catch something to hold onto but no such luck for next thing she knew, she was on her back with a weight on top of her getting off her. Opening her eyes slowly, Lily saw his blond hair bending down on her chest, his hands and knees holding him up, but then he looked at her their eyes locking. She laid down still, not wanting to break her eyes away from his, his hair falling in front of his eyes. Bringing her hands up to his face, Lily pushed his hair back behind his ears, then traced his jaw to his chin where he had small short spiky amounts of facial hair that he had not shaved. When she got to his chin, he turned his hand without losing eye contact with her and kissed her palm. He then blinked and got off her so fast she thought that she had imagined the whole thing. Getting up herself with his help, Lily grabbed the bottle and took them to Boom who ate happily for he had not eaten meat in a long time. Looking behind her, Lily saw Scorpius watering the plants without looking at her, and when Lily was done, she decided to leave.

"Bye Boom, I'll see you tomorrow" and she caressed one more time, and when she got to the door where Scorpius was, she stopped.

"Are you coming to the game tomorrow"?

"Yeah, I guess Jeal will be bugging me about it later tonight to go. Are you coming to my game, its at 6 P.M." Lily nodded. She would not miss it for the world.

"yeah, Jeal will be bugging me to go" she sgave him a small smile as did he.

"Alright"

"Yeah, later" and with that she walked away and went to her dorms where she found Jeal and Dani and she told them about Boom. Later that night, as she was about to go to sleep, Lily remembered back to that moment and wondered what he'd been thinking and how all of a sudden he turned away from her. Later that night, Lily dreamed of them together in the greenhouse as they had been earlier that day.

Alright so I have been sick this last few days and tired and so on and with school and basketball, less energy for other stuff. Sorry bout that and I hope you liked this chapter. Not my fav. Chapter but I will try to make it better. Thank you and please R&R since I never ask for it.