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Chapter 10: Total Eclipse of the Heart

After seeing Scorpius in the library, Lily decided it was time to suck it up and go back to classes. She was working hard but she couldn't keep her mind off of him. It was a ridiculous concept, a Potter and Malfoy dating but it seemed to be the only thing in life that she wanted.

It was late on a Thursday evening when a large, gray owl flew into the girls' cracked window. Lily was laying on her stomach across her bed, trying to study but was having trouble due to Elle's blasting music and 'Manda's snoring.

The owl dropped a rolled parchment beside Lily's open laptop before returning to the open air outside the window. Neither of Lily's friends had noticed the owl or the note, so she quietly opened it, not wanting them to be suspicious.

To My Beautiful Red,

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

I would really like to go to the dance

With you.

Wow that didn't really rhyme all that well did it? Anyway, the Halloween dance is

next week and I thought maybe we could go together? Email me your answer.

I'll be waiting.

Prince of Slytherin

Lily smiled to herself, she couldn't get over how charming he could be. It was a hard thing to come to terms with. She immediately opened her email, determined to not let him know how deeply she was falling for him.

Firecracker13: How could we go together? It's not like everyone is just going to look away.

PrinceofSnakes: Well I wouldn't care anyway, but the dance is a Masquerade. So no one will know.

Firecracker13: Uhm hello? Neither of us have exactly discreet hair.

PrinceofSnakes: Temporary dye? I don't know. We can figure that out later. Will you go with me or not?

Lily bit her lip, looking at her two friends as they tried to ignore each other but still be keenly aware of what they were doing. She knew this could be potentially disastrous. Yet she couldn't make herself care. She made up her mind in that split second.

Firecracker13: Okay. It's time for someone to set an example at this school. See you in class tomorrow.

With that she closed her laptop, not bothering to look at his reply. She already knew his reaction would be shocked, but happy. And it was definitely time for the two teens to be happy.

Scorpius was bouncing off the walls after Lily accepted his offer, he couldn't stop smiling as he flopped down on the couch in the Slytherin common room. He wasn't even aware of the girls staring at his bare chest, because he had forgotten to put on a shirt in the heat of his excitement.

His best friend noticed however. Roland rolled his eyes, grabbing the TV remote from a tiny first year. He still hadn't figured out what was going on with Scorpius, and it was starting to really worry him.

"Oh yeah, Tami Courtney came in here saying that there's someone here to see you." Roland didn't turn away from the screen to tell his friend this, having already lost interest in the news.

"Really? Do you know who it is?" Scorpius' stomach dropped, he had a feeling it wasn't a welcome visitor.

Shrugging, Roland flipped through channels. Scorpius didn't bother putting on a shirt, everyone in school had already seen his abs, though most were envious. He made his way up the dark stairs towards the large Fourier leading outside, coming to a halt when he saw the signature blonde hair that he had inherited in a slicked back ponytail.

He turned to sneak back down the stairs, but it was too late.

"Hello, Scorpius." Draco Malfoy turned to look at his half-naked son in disgust. "I see that you're as modest as ever."

Face burning from the inside out, Scorpius folded his arms across his chest in the hope that it would cover enough to get his father to pay attention to other things. "Hello, Father. Why are you here?"

There was many reasons his father could have been lurking around his school, he didn't ever need much reason to pry into other people's lives, but Scorpius couldn't stop from letting his secret relationship with Lily invade his mind. No one knew about their meetings besides the two of them and Professor McGonagall, and he was sure she wouldn't have told.

Draco's thin lips curled up into a sinister smile, "You never were much for small talk, were you? Well, since you don't care to catch up, I am here to touch base on the upcoming Halloween Dance."

Heart beating at a million beats a second, Scorpius kept himself from shaking in his washed-out jeans. There was no possible way his father would know about his plans. Unless he had hacked his computer, but he doubted it. The older Malfoy knew about as much about technology as his pet cobra.

"I have been talking to Lorinda Shelton. She has informed me that you haven't invited her daughter, Lori, to the dance yet. I wanted to see what had kept you from it." Draco looked out of place in the bright, homy school when he should have been sitting in the dark, cold office in his matching Mansion.

It was a wonder that the spawn of him hadn't come out in a reptilian egg. That was probably what had been expected from the former Prince of Slytherin, and who could blame those that had thought that? Draco was about as warm and fuzzy as his pet cobra.

Scorpius frowned, mentally slapping himself for forgetting about his long standing agreement with the Shelton's. He was practically contracted in to taking their beyond slutty daughter to ever single dance Hogwarts hosted. It was a sad fact that her namesake outweighed the facts that she had slept with every male, and probably some females, in school, including, to his horror, Scorpius.

"That's because I wasn't planning on asking her this year." Clinching his jaw, Scorpius forced himself to say this aloud. Maybe it was time to start sticking up for himself, and for Lily.

Fire flared in Draco's eyes, "You will ask her, Scorpius. You will go with her to the dance and you WILL NOT disgrace this family do you hear me?" He didn't wait for the answer, spinning on his heel and storming out the front doors of the castle.

Scorpius grabbed a fist full of his hair, well aware that, no matter how much he wanted to, he wouldn't go against his father. He wasn't ready to fight that battle yet.

But was he willing to risk happiness to please his father?

Lily walked through the dark hallways of Hogwarts, in search of her cousin that was no where to be found. Even 'Manda, his newly proclaimed girlfriend, hadn't seen him in the past twelve hours.

She had been searching for almost an hour when she found him sitting alone on top of the astronomy tower, it was a wonder that she had found him in such an unlikely place but something had internally drawn her here.

"Hey, you." She joined him at the peak of the roof overlooking the lake, thanking god that she had chosen to wear tennis shoes instead of stilettos. "What are you doing all the way up here?"

Hugo didn't jump at the sudden appearance of Lily, he was used to her randomly popping up in the same places as him. They had always been drawn to each other in that weird mental, twin way. "I just felt like being outside, but you know how the Professors are about being out of the castle at night."

Nodding, Lily pulled her knees up to her chin and wrapped her thin arms around them. "I haven't been up her in a while. But I thought maybe you would be. I guess I was right."

The two teens sat in comfortable silence, listening to the sounds of the world outside of wizardry and magic. Hugo reached out, wrapping his arm around his smaller cousin's shoulders and pulled her against his chest.

"I've really missed you lately, Lil."

Burying her face against his neck, she whispered back. "I have a date to the dance."

Hugo just nodded, knowing better than to pry. Why ruin the moment? She would tell him what she wanted him to know, and the rest would be hers to keep for herself.

"He's a really good guy, underneath everything else going on in his life. I just wish it didn't have to be the way it is." Lily mumbled, staring at the moon glinting off of Hugo's boot buckles.

They fell quiet for a few more moments before Hugo sighed thoughtfully. "Things will work out. They always do."

If only that were true for him.

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