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Mateship

The next two hours were a complete blur. After the eventful fall of Scorpius Malfoy, it just seemed everything went completely downhill.

A few seconds later Dad had disapparated to St. Mungo's along with Teddy, Al and Victoire. Al only got to go because of the fact that Scorpius was his best friend. I had no intentions of going, but the panicking and fear was slowly poisoning my mind and I didn't like it at all.

After they rushed to St. Mungos, everyone headed back to our house. We all sat indoors, finding ourselves in the same position as we were this morning: in front of the fireplace with a mug of butterbeer, but there was one difference- instead of the friendly chatter we had between us, there was now silence hushed inbetween us, and secretly we all prayed nothing had happened to Scorpius; he may be a Malfoy, but anyone Albus considers family - we do too.

Lost in my worries for Scorpius, I had not notices that suddenly, a rather familiar glistening patronus appeared in sight, it was Teddy's wolf. His low voice filled the eerily silenced room.

"He's conscious, you can come see him now,". It took everyone a few moments to digest the message.

"Come on then!" I piped up, snapping my family out of a trance. They all chattered behind me, and I led them to the door. Mum's voice shouted instructions to everyone, "Lily and Esha, you're with me. Jam- JAMES! Listen to me! James and Jai, you're both with Uncle Fred," James and Jai high fived and Uncle Fred sent them a wink.

Her eccentric shouts continued,"Roxanne, Fred! Go with your mum! Hugo, Rose; go with Ron! Hermione, you are fully in charge of Louis and Dominique... PERCY WEASLEY YOU BETTER LISTEN!" - Uncle Percy glared at mum and then gave his full attention, "Molly, Lucy go with your Dad; Percy be careful! Mum and Dad, you'll get there by yourselves, now brace yourself missy!"

"Sorry mum," I sighed. She gave me a nod and everyone rushed to where they were supposed to go. St Mungo's would have a field day with all the Weasley family entering; I'm not exaggerating - all of them.

A sea of red vanished from my site, and I realized we were last to go. "Lily dear, I'll have to go alone with Esha; my arm hurts too much from Quidditch . I'll send Teddy here as soon as I can," she suddenly said. Before I could interrogate her, she Disapparated. I grumbled under my breath, and the cold was lashing my skin. I crouched into a ball against the door. I thought about what would happen if anything serious happened to Scorpius; and annoyingly, tears started rolling down my eyes at the thought of it. My lone tears soon turned into hysterical sobs, and after a few minutes of my head buried into my knees, I heard a familiar crack if Apparating. I didn't bother looking up and I heard whispers.

"Who's she?" An unfamiliar voice shrieked. I heard a worried grumble and I looked up. Crap. Oh no. Not right now- this can't be happening.

Mr and Mrs Malfoy. At my doorstep, staring at me like I'm a psychotic weirdo or something! I may have looked like one at the moment though, so that was understandable.

"Mr Malfoy?" I sniffled quietly. His head jerked suddenly out of his mystified trance. He raised his eyebrow.

"Are you looking for Scorpius?" I asked politely while I stood up curtly; I had been brought up with manners. Mrs Malfoy looked at Mr Malfoy and they quickly exchanged glances.

"Astoria, this is not the time. Ask later," Mr Malfoy's voice was low and he sounded like he was going to throw a hissy fit any second. Wow, Scorpius is so much like his Dad it's unbelievable.

Astoria - Mrs Malfoy scowled and nodded to me. It took me a while to realise they were talking to me. "He's in St. Mungos," I stuttered out. They looked at me curtly and said thank you. They quietly and quickly Disapparated.

Me, being the idiot I am, widened my eyes in shock and fell to the floor. What the actually hell is wrong with me? You know what? I don't care! I don't care what Scorpius' fricking parents think of me! I. Do. Not. Care.

Who am I kidding? I cared - I cared about what my crush's parents thought of me! I groaned in frustration and limply fell to the cold floor. So now I looked like some suicidal weirdo tramp who was sprawled across the pavement in front of the Potters house.

Out of my idiocy, I started laughing. I laughed because I only realised how much of a complete utter freak I was.

When I said I started laughing, I especially did not mean the happy kind of laughing; the laughing that only a maniac/psycho would laugh after they had finished demising a plan to bring Lord Voldemort back to life. Out of my hysterical laughter, I had not actually realised that Teddy was there, standing in front of me. This fact did not stop me laughing whatsoever. Teddy looked slightly scared.

"Lils, are you okay?" He asked, gulping afterwards. I just continued laughing. He helped me up and then calmed me down. Soon enough my brain decided to start working and sensible gibberish came out of my mouth.

"," I replied.

"Excuse me?" He asked. He nodded at me, the panic was growing in his face.

"," I said yet again. Did I actually call this sensible gibberish? For one, I was pronouncing my 's' like a 'sh'. I sighed - giving up all hope of ever speaking normally again. "Heh?" he said, utterly panicked and confused by now.

"I COMPLETELY MADE A COMPLETE FOOL OF MYSELF TEDSTER!" I screamed. His eyes looked less panicked and he thanked the lord we didn't have neighbors for another two miles. "How, may I ask?" He questioned.

"You see, Mum left me -"

"Yeah because she had a dodgy arm from Quidditch-"

"And told me to wait for you -"

"Yeah, and I come an-"

"WILL YOU LET ME FINISH?" I shouted at him. He nodded in a 'sorry' way. I continued to tell my tale of woe and sorrow...

"So yeah to sum it up; Mother dearest ditched me, told me to wait for you, I was worried about Scorpius and started crying-" Teddy smirked at this. "Don't give me that smirk Teddy, so carrying on, I was a mess, curled up in a ball outside the house and then BAM guess who decides to appear?" Teddy was still recovering from the huge 'BAM' I exclaimed. "Who came? Me? That still doesn't explain-" Teddy interrogated.

"As I asked before, please let me finish? Anyway, so then Scorpius' parents show up! I thought it was you, but then I was like, I thought his parents were divorced-"

"Wait, HEH?" He cried. I rolled my eyes at him and he glared at me for an answer. "- Well yeah his parents showed up, and I was on the floor thinking it was you, then I was like damn; and then they looked at me like I was a psycho and whatnot-" Teddy broke down in hysterics when I told him the psycho bit. "-Anyway, I told them Scorpius was in St. Mungos and then Dra- Mr Malfoy was like not now Astoria and I was like heh?" Teddy was no in even more hysterics.

"And then I'm guessing that's when you realised you looked like a retard and broke down into some mental laugh?" He managed to say in between his laughs.

"Yep,"

By now we were both clutching our stomachs for air. We calmed down and Teddy broke the silence after our little laugh attack.

"Also Scorpius was calling your name in his sleep," He said deadly serious. I suddenly blushed a bright red; and only one thought came to mind - the human tomato attacked, again. I grabbed hold of Teddy's arm and we Apparated to St. Mungos.

"LILY!"

Before I knew it, I was mauled to the floor by my brothers and the Gupta siblings. I couldn't tell why they decided to suddenly attacked me, but my train of thought was broken by Esha screaming down my ear, "I have so much to tell you," As I opened my eye, I saw that Jai was now getting off from the top of the pile. Everyone else started getting up, and I found myself to breathe again. I sighed in relief and Esha kept giggling non-stop when Albus playfully tickled her. Practically at the same time; me, Jai and James rolled our eyes.

"GET A ROOM," the Weasley kids shouted. I couldn't help but to laugh a bit. Then I came back to reality and realised we were in a magical hospital. Teddy joined my side and led me to Scorpius' room; no one followed and I was suspicious that they were planning a prank on me or something.

"Teddy..." I asked cautiously.

"Yeah?" He replied

"You aren't planning on pranking me or anything; I mean no one came with me or anything!" Teddy chuckled, and he stopped.

"Well you know I said Scorpius was saying your name in his sleep?" he asked. I nodded and he continued talking "Well everyone knows that now; and also everyone has already seen him," I nodded and he saw my cheeks and ears turning the original Weasley red. He chuckled and I hugged him. He smiled like an idiot, and told me what a great sister I was. We finally reached Scorpius' room and inside were Mr and Ms Malfoy. I cringed (and trust me, I showed it) at the sight of them and they gave me a weird look. I entered the room properly and all signs of conversation had stopped. Scorpius got up at the sight of me and I felt the corners of my mouth turning up.

You know that feeling I got at the beginning of the year when Scorpius and Al set off those firewords? The insides like jelly and tingly spine thing? Well that is what I was feeling at the exactmoment.

"What is she doing here?" Ms Malfoy said. Mr Malfoy gave her a diminishing look and looked straight towards me with the very familiar grey eyes Scorpius had. Thank Merlin Teddy had left, otherwise he definitely would've started a scene with laughter erupting. He now knew about the very awkward and cringing scene about a half hour before and he definitely would have split his sides.

"Mum, Dad this is Lily; Lily Potter," Scorpius said. He had stumbled at the Potter bit. I was perfectly acknowledged with the fact that the Malfoys and my Dad hadn't had the best of experiences when my Dad was in Hogwarts, in fact we had gotten so used over Dad giving the cold-shoulder, it was quite a surprise when Al announced his new best friend was a Malfoy.

His Mum smiled a bit at the words that had come out of her son's mouth, and his Dad tried suppressing his annoyance. Blatantly it did not work, considering you could hear him cursing under his breath. Or that's what he probably thought, if he shouted any louder, I wouldn't be surprised if France could hear.

"Son, we're leaving; I'll see you in the Easter break okay?" His Dad quietly said. Scorpius nodded and his Mum gave him a kiss on the head. Scorpius slowly blushed and hugged his Mum. He waved as they scanned me on the way out. In silence, I walked towards Scorpius' bed. His Mum and dad were having a pretty heated discussion outside.

"Astoria, I told you; it's my turn in the Easter," Mr Malfoy's voice grew slightly louder.

"He's my son too, I'm sure you're aware of this, considering I conceived him," Ms Malfoy argued back.

"I'm aware of this, but I'm sorry, if you get him for three-quarters of the summer then spare me at least two weeks!" their semi-hushed voices were slowly raising towards hysterical. I heard Ms Malfoy scowl and stomp off in her abnormally huge heels. I sat down on the edge of Scorpius' bed and sighed.

"Sorry you had to hear that," Scorpius managed weakly. He smiled and I smiled back.

"Sorry I've been ignoring you for half the year so far," I replied back.

"It's okay," He managed with his ever-growing grin. Great, now I had to get the weird tingly feeling didn't I?

"Are you okay, I mean you took a pretty hard fall-"I said, but was suddenly interrupted by an annoyed Scorpius. "Could we not talk about that? I mean because every time I talk about, it kind of hurts more than it should," I nodded and asked, "What did you want to talk about then?" Silence abolished us both; it wasn't a nice silence, a very uncomfortable and awkward. Somehow I kind of knew where he was going with this.

"Don't interrupt me with this, because it's a bit embarrassing," He said.

"If you even heard what happened before I came here, then you wouldn't even know the meaning of embarrassed," I laughed out. He looked a bit confused, raised an eyebrow and continued, "Is that why it was so awkward between my parents and you?" I nodded, cringing at the thought slightly. He raised another eyebrow very slightly and carried on and away into the apparently embarrassing thing he needed to tell me.

"Well the thing is, I really like you Lily." He grimaced with embarrassment and my face remained blank. "The thing is, I don't want to ruin the mateship-"MATESHIP? Really, what is honestly wrong with friendship? Merlin, Scorpius was a bit weird. "-with Al, and he's your brother so if I mess anything between us then it would be really awkward. Also the age difference doesn't help, because you're one of the youngest in your year-"also true, I was born in the month of July, the same as my dad. "-and you know, with you going out with Oliver and everything, also you're in your first year Lily, you wouldn't get into anything serious and also-" he gasped for breath, it seemed he managed to say all that with one breath because he was really embarrassed to talk about it, "-your reputation wouldn't exactly be the greatest if your went out with too many people; especially in your first year," He winced in embarrassed and he looked really out of place with blonde hair and bright red cheeks.

"Scorpius, just chill. That wasn't embarrassing and I'm glad you told me. And I totally agree with you, I shouldn't get into anything serious and not with too many people either, so thanks," I said. I knew he didn't mean to offend me or anything; but even then I smiled with gratitude.

"And Scorpius?"I asked with one final thing to say.

"Mmhm?" He mumbled, I could tell he was sleepy from all the potions and medication he was forced to take down.

"I like you too," I replied; then I left the room. As I turned to look at Scorpius one more time, I saw him with a massive grin on his face. Great; that was a massive weight lifted off my shoulders; I finally told him I liked him, and this time I knew the feeling was mutual.

When I reached the lobby, there was a whole different story. Between Al and Esh, there was a rather heated shouted match between them. They weren't in the lobby actually, that I lied about. They were in a separate room and even then you could faintly hear what was going on.

"I don't understand! Why would you even do that!" Esha shouted, sounding quite annoyed.

"Can't you see it? And you're smart yourself – WAIT! Don't even play dumb!" Al argued back, with anger in his voice.

"What?" Esha asked, surprised.

"You still like Scorpius; THAT'S WHY!" Albus screamed at her; in a very childish way – like she had stolen Mr Spiderman (Mr Spiderman was Al's favourite toy when he was younger, he still has it and was fascinated by the muggle comics and movies made about it).

After that I heard Esha gasp and start sobbing. Al stalked off angrily and swung the door open full force.