Alright, the time has come, finally get to find out what he's done. It didn't turn out exactly how I wanted but I was having some serious writers blocks and this is why it took so long. Anyways, it's shorter than most chapters but no worries there will be a lot more Scorpius and Lily now. Who's excited, I'm excited. Enjoy and review :)
Chapter 10 – Raven's Tale
The three of them walked to the library in an awkward silence. Lily kept giving Scorpius angry glares the entire time; not even 24 hours had she been friends with him and he was already making her regret it. The library was fairly quiet when they walked in Scorpius led when to where Lily usually sat. Lily gave him a small acknowledging smile as she ran her fingers over her Grandmother's engraved name and sighed. It was such a little gesture that it shocked her how much it meant to her.
"Explain." She demanded looking from Raven to Scorpius. Her heart was pounding in her chest, she didn't know whether or not to be worried.
"Please don't be mad at me Lily; I wanted to tell you I really did. You don't understand." She pleaded with her.
"Explain and I'll understand." Lily said simply looking at her friend. Raven glanced nervously at Scorpius and he nodded at her encouragingly.
"Well, you know how I moved around a lot when I was younger?" Lily just nodded and Raven inhaled nervously, "Well, around the time when I was 10 we ended up in a muggle village near Wiltshire." Lily remembered that Scorpius and Zenith lived in Wiltshire and she looked from Raven to Scorpius. Scorpius just chuckled and put his finger to his lips to silence what she was about to say. Lily shut her mouth with a glare at Scorpius.
**
The little copper skinned girl was dancing around in a meadow not far from her tiny stone house. Her long black hair that was braided down her back was flying around as she danced. A blonde little boy and a black hair boy came running throw the trees and stopped dead when they saw the little girl playing. They looked at her with curiosity as she danced carelessly through the flowers. The girl spotted them and smiled sweetly giving a small wave. The two boys looked from each other to the little girl.
"Hi." The little girl said as she ran up to them with a huge grin on her face. "My name is Raven, what is yours?"
"Scorpius Malfoy." The little blonde boy greeted her softly.
"Zenith Osterly!" The black haired boy shook her hand with a grin. "What are you doing?"
"I'm dancing!" Raven giggled and began twirling again.
"That's not how you dance!" Zenith yelled at her crossing his arms. Scorpius just stood there nervously.
"Is so!" Raven yelled back sticking out her tongue at them. "Try it!" She began twirling again.
Scorpius smiled and went to dance with Raven as they twirled around. Zenith stood there stubbornly until he got bored and joined in. The three danced around the meadow laughing until they heard a deep voice yelling for Zenith and Scorpius.
"Sorry, we have to go. Grandfather doesn't like to be kept waiting." Zenith apologized and Scorpius smiled at her.
"Bye." Raven smiled and continued to dance again as they ran off back into the trees.
The next day Raven was sitting in the meadow looking up at the fluffy clouds as they blew by in the sky.
"Hey, what are you looking at?" Zenith asked her curiously as he lay down beside her.
"The clouds." Raven said simply.
"Why would you do that?"
"Because they're always the same." She smiled at him.
"What?" He asked her curiously.
"They're the same everywhere I am." She giggled at him.
"That's nice of them." Zenith said looking at the fluffy clouds.
"I think so too."
"Do you have any friends?" Zenith asked her suddenly.
"Not here." Raven answered.
"I'll be your friend." He told her.
"Alright." She smiled at him.
"Scorpius too, he'll be your friend." He told her and they sat in silence watching the clouds.
The next couple weeks the boys would come to the meadow and they would play with Raven. They play tag or build forts in the trees near by, not caring that the two boys would be going off to Hogwarts and leaving Raven behind in her muggle town. One day though, the three were playing the meadow; Raven was making flowers fly around them when an older man with black hair streaked with grey and the same blue sparkling eyes that Zenith that had came running towards them angrily.
"Boys! Get away from her!" The man yelled angrily at the boys. Raven stood there looking confused, the flowers dropping around her. "No boy of mine will be playing with filthy mudblood! And Scorpius what would your Grandfather say if he saw you?" Scorpius gave Raven an apologetic look as he ran of after the older man and Zenith.
Raven went home, and questioning her mother on what a mudblood was and demanding to know why the boys could not play with her because of it. Her mother confused as her told her that the man must have been crazy and it was a good thing that she didn't play with those boys anyways. That was the night she was told she would be moving again.
The next day Raven was sitting in the meadow twisting the flowers around in her fingers when a shadow reached her.
"You're a mudblood I can't play with you anymore." Zenith said harshly to her.
"Mommy said that I shouldn't play with you anymore because you're crazy." Raven said simply.
"I am not crazy! You filthy little mudblood!" He yelled back at her.
"I am not whatever you just called me!" She stood up; they were the same height as they glared at each other.
"You are! Filthy muggle, animals my father says. You're an animal!" He snarled at her.
"Stop calling me that!" Raven demanded becoming angry.
"Filthy." He laughed at her.
"Stop!" She pushed him as hard as she could and he slapped her across the face. She stood there in shock holding her face. Out of nowhere Scorpius came and tackled Zenith to the ground and started punching him.
Raven ran away, vowing never to go back to that meadow again.
**
Raven exhaled and gave Lily a weak smile. "I was young, I thought he was my friend."
"That's not everything though." Scorpius said quietly looking at Raven. Raven looked down at her hands and Lily looked at her worried.
"What? Raven you can tell me. I'm fine really." She breathed out slowly. She may still be in shock for a bit but she could handle whatever it was.
"We dated," She looked up at Lily with wide eyes and Lily just waited, "Last year."
"How did no one know?" Lily blinked in shock.
"Well we were secretive about it, Zenith had an image to up hold you see. Couldn't be seen with a mudblood like me." She smiled softly. "Scorpius saw us together that's how he knew."
"Believe me, I wasn't too pleased." He said darkly.
"It was good at the beginning, he apologized for when he was younger. I moved right after so he never did see me again until I came to Hogwarts. He was charming; he is charming I should say. But he is very …"
"He has some issues." Scorpius chuckled and Lily tried to process everything. Scorpius and Raven had been friends this whole time, in a sense; was she really that oblivious to everything.
"He can be very frightening when he's angry. As I'm sure you saw." Raven shuffled in her sit nervously. "I broke it off with him finally." She sighed and smiled proudly.
"There was that one morning you did yell at him pretty furiously, I was even afraid." He laughed at her and she gave him a dark look.
"You were not, I also yelled at you I remember." She chuckled, gaining her confidence back. Lily smiled slightly at the two, she had missed her friend and nothing; not even a boy would change that fact.
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"What gives you the idea that you can do this Zenith?" Raven shouted at him.
"What the hell are you talking about Ra?" Raven flinched at her old nickname.
"Lily – how could you! How dare you, she's my friend. Do you even like her?" Raven stared him down.
"Ra, of course I like her, daughter of Harry Potter. Who wouldn't?" He smirked at her his eyes were dangerous. Raven turned around to see what the noise was coming from behind her.
"Oh look, the gang is back together again." Scorpius mumbled darkly as he emerged from the shadows.
"That's hardly funny Scorpius." Raven scoffed at him. "Maybe this may strike your interest though, Zenith over here has decided to go after Lily."
"Potter?" He looked between them both he felt his insides stir and an urge to lung at his throat.
"The one and only." Zenith challenged him.
"She wouldn't, Potter's far too smart for that." He stared him down.
"She's thinking about it." Raven retailed and Zenith smirk grew.
"What is that Scorpius? A hint of jealousy maybe?" Zenith sneered at him, "What would Grandpa say if he knew you were in love with a Potter?"
"I'm not in love with her! She hates me." He defended himself.
"Well you ladies have fun discussing. I'm off to find our fine miss Lily."
**
Scorpius gave Raven a look that Lily missed, whether or not there was more to that story she didn't care. Raven nodded and looked back to Lily to her staring at her with confusion.
"So is that it?" Lily asked slowly.
"That's it." Raven gave her a hopeful smile. "You're not mad are you? I am so sorry for avoiding you. I just couldn't deal with everything that had happened. I wanted to tell you everything trust me."
"Raven it's ok." Lily got up and hugged her friend. "Just don't be such a bloody idiot, next time tell me if I'm about to date a lunatic!" They both laughed and Lily gave Scorpius a faint smile. Maybe, just maybe they could be friends.
Raven stopped avoiding them after this and Lily thoroughly avoided Zenith the best she could for the rest of the day, although Alyssa had told her she saw him stocking around the Ravenclaw tower when she had come to see if she was okay. She figured it was best to steer clear of him for a while. Bryant had also come up to her to see if she was all right; she had never seen him so angry before. The news certainly did travel fast of Zenith and her little exchange as people in the hallway keep giving her looks and whispering. By the end of the day Lily was just glad to sit down in the common room with her cousins and friends.
"Long day Lils?" Fred asked her as Hugo sat down beside her and put his arm around her.
"Weirdest." Lily chuckled thinking back to how much had happened today. She gave Raven a small smile who was sitting quietly with Ivy and Kenda. Lily was absolutely exhausted.
"I can't believe, knew he was bad news." Al huffed; he had been the last to find out and was rather sour that no one had told him sooner. James kept glancing over at Lily; she was afraid that she might never get to leave the common room now.
"How about we leave it alone for tonight, I'm sure Lily doesn't want to discuss the whole thing today; especially with you crazies." Lucy scowled Albus and the rest of them. Lily mouthed thank and rested her head against Hugo.
"Don't worry it will be Christmas before you know it." He whispered to her and she gave a small smile.
"Well, if we can't talk about that, can we at least talk about how she's friends with Malfoy now?" Louis tried to repress a grin and everyone started laughing except Lucy.
"Louis!" Lucy yelled and she jumped on him playfully making everyone laugh even harder.
It was times like these where Lily was glad to have her family as crazy as they were. Lily looked around with a huge smile on her face, Kenda, Ivy, and Raven were all sitting at their feet laughing, Fred and Roxanne were sitting next to them on the couch, Louis and now Lucy were wrestling on the arm chair, while Rose sat with Chase at the table with a book in her hand chuckling, Owen was sitting near them staring at Kenda, and finally Katie was curled up in the other arm chair where James was sitting against. Lily was grateful to have each and every one of them.
Everyone stay in the common room for a while but it seemed, as everyone was exhausted from the day; slowly everyone made their way to their dorms. Lily was grateful to curled up in her red and gold blankets and let her thoughts take over. She realized she hadn't let herself cry, she had still lost someone she cared about dearly even if he was a raged lunatic. She let her tears fall softly as she thought about him; thought about how she had not meant much to him. Things had a funny way of working themselves out; the thing is she had lost someone but she might have gained someone else. When she finally drifted off into sleep, she dreamed – of soft grey eyes and rosy lips.
Also, thinking about fixing some of the older chapters, just a heads up.