Bound for Glory

written by: albe-chan

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction and I do NOT own Harry Potter or any of the characters mentioned, I am making no money from this, and any similarities with real life are purely coincidental. This work will contain MATURE THEMES, such as coarse language, mature subject matter (scenes containing graphic sex, nudity, etc.), and/or violence. Please, if you are not over the age of 18, or of majority in your country, DO NOT READ THIS! You have been warned!

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The next day Lily had classes all day, three in a row, and all of them were hard and boring now that finals time was ramping up. She had just grabbed a coffee after her last class, bogged down with notes and textbook readings, and revision assignments, and was headed to the Library to get some study time in before going to paint until Scorpius got off work, when someone shouted her name.

She turned and Kelly was jogging toward her. "Hey, I thought it was you. The red hair, it's a total give away." Lily smiled a little at that. "So, I just wanted to talk to you, preferably before class on Thursday, about...y'know. Bumping into you, on the weekend." Lily felt herself blushing a little and was glad that Kelly's cheeks were pink too.

"Hey, as far as I'm concerned, school is school, and outside of it is another universe."

The blonde seemed relieved at that. "Good. And I totally didn't know Al was your step brother. Weird."

"You have no idea," she mumbled. "Scorpius, my fiance, is his best friend."

Kelly laughed. "Wow, ultra awkward."

"Oh yeah, it's bizarre central," Lily agreed with a chuckle. "Can I just ask you one thing about...um, Friday, though?"

Kelly bit her lip and shrugged. "Sure, I guess."

Lily tried not to be embarrassed but couldn't help it. "What did Al say, exactly, after he said you don't want shoes like mine?" The redhead got a bad feeling when Kelly's whole face went bright red.

"Uh," Kelly said, looking down, putting her hands in her jean short pockets. "Well, just that, uh…" She seemed more embarrassed than Lily felt, but the redhead had to know. Because if it was a lie, she'd punch her stupid step brother. "Well, he said you wear those kind of shoes because you know there's people who are, y'know, into shoes like that."

Lily frowned. "That is so not true. I wear them because I like them."

Kelly looked relieved. "Really? So no one's ever like gotten off from your shoes?" she asked quietly, looking around. "Because I have these really awesome lime green platform wedges and I was going to wear them out this weekend, but I'd be kind of weirded out if someone got turned on by my feet, y'know?"

Lily blushed. "Um, well, I wouldn't say anyone's gotten off on my shoes," she said. Not exactly, 'cause he didn't get off. Kelly's eyes went huge. "I mean, there was kind of this one time… Never mind, the point is, I like nice shoes. And you should wear the wedges if you go out. Shoes like that are meant to be worn out and admired."

Lily regretted her choice of words when Kelly looked shocked. "Uh, maybe. I dunno," she hedged. "Are you headed to the library?"

"Yeah, lots of studying," the redhead muttered, still embarrassed herself.

"I'll come with, if you don't mind. There's a couple things, uh, I kinda wanted to ask you anyway. Uh, sort of about Friday, too." Lily almost smiled.

"Sure."

She found a quiet corner of the library with Kelly, but instead of studying, they spent their time whispering. Lily told Kelly about some of the various clubs she'd been to with Scorpius and some of the people, both likeable and loathable, she'd met. She even briefly glossed over her training. Kelly seemed genuinely curious. "So wait," Kelly said after Lily had mentioned The Silver Spoon. "I don't get it. You don't talk, like, at all?"

Lily shrugged. "Not really. They talk, and I mean, I listen, but we don't really say anything."

Kelly blinked. "I don't get it," she repeated. "What do you do then?"

Lily blushed massively and was relieved when her phone rang. "Hello?" she said after picking up.

"You're not painting," Scorpius said.

Lily glanced at the time. "Shit, no, I'm at the library at school. I lost track of time."

"I'm peeking at the one you have on the go," Scorpius said. "It's good, darling. Very good."

Lily frowned. "Stop peeking! It's not finished yet!"

"I only peeked a little. The drawing is enticing, though." She could hear the smile in his voice.

"That's mean. Get out of my room and come get me."

"I'm on my way, darling. But it really is good. I almost don't want you to sell it."

"Okay, I'll see you in a bit. And if you really want I'll keep that one. You can hang it in your office when you get the promotion."

"If I do. I'll be there in ten."

"You will. Love you, bye." She hung up and packed up her bag. "That was Scorpius. He's coming to get me."

"Oh, okay." Kelly gathered up her own stuff. "I should probably head out, too." Once they were outside, headed to the parking lot, Kelly asked her again. "So at this club, what do you do? I seriously don't get it."

Lily blushed and shrugged. "I mean, obviously, there's...y'know. I dunno, it's hard to explain the dynamic. We go, he talks to whoever, and I get tested." Kelly made a face. "Like," she explained, face going more red, "endurance, and stuff. And sometimes speed. It's complicated and I don't know all the rules and shit, but basically, if I do well, there's the reward of, y'know, finishing. Or other stuff. And if I don't do well, which is not the norm, I'd like to add, there are punishments. But they're not bad. Some of them are actually really good."

"No offence, that's kind of...whoa," Kelly said. Lily shrugged. "I mean, I think I get it, sort of. But that's not really my thing." Lily bit back a smile. She had a pretty good idea what Kelly's thing was.

"Oh?" the redhead asked. "So what do you and Al do, then?"

Kelly's face went red now. "Uh, y'know, we party. Sometimes there's like, y'know, role playing and stuff. It's…" She blushed more. "I mean, it's a little out there I guess, but like last Saturday, we went to this one place where, like, you can pick your theme." Lily's brow furrowed. "So instead of it just being you, you're acting out the role of something else. Like we did this one where he was the prison guard and I was the prisoner, and he gets to, y'know, have his way with me or whatever."

"Huh," Lily said thoughtfully. "I guess that's not really my thing…" She thought about it, but she definitely wasn't into pretending she was someone else. Though she supposed she could see the lure of it.

"It's kind of intense," Kelly said conversationally, "but I've never been with someone like Al. I mean, like that."

"Yeah, that I get," Lily said. "Scorpius kind of opened a door for me."

"Exactly," Kelly said, sounding relieved. "I mean, I never thought...y'know."

"I know." Lily smiled. "I'm glad you like him, though. Although I don't get it personally. He's annoying and kind of cocky."

Kelly laughed. "I don't get what you see in Scorpius. He's kind of proper." Lily smothered a laugh.

"You should meet their friend Constantine."

"Yeah?" Kelly asked. "What's he like?"

"Tall, dark, handsome, too charming, and he likes to bite." Kelly's eyes went wide. "Oh, not me. Not really at least, because Scorpius doesn't let him, but I don't think he'd mind. He'd probably want to bite you, too. He's kind of a man whore, but I know he'd like you for sure, because you're new. But yeah. He's more laid back. You'd probably like him."

"So long as he doesn't bite anything," Kelly murmured. Lily did laugh now, and then Scorpius's car pulled into the lot.

"Well, I guess I'll see you Thursday," Lily said.

Kelly hugged her briefly. "Thanks for talking with me. It's kind of been like eating me up inside, not being able to tell anyone without them thinking I'm a total deviant or whatever."

"It's not so bad being a deviant," Lily said with a smile. "I like it, anyway."

Kelly smiled. "Me too. See you Thursday."

She waved as Lily slid into Scorpius's car. He leaned over and kissed her and she blushed a little. "What were you two talking about? You have that caught in the headlights look."

Lily licked her lips, blushing a little more. "Honestly? We were talking about sex." Scorpius arched a brow. "Not graphically or anything. Just, y'know, comparing notes. She thinks you're too proper." The blond smirked a little at that. "I told her I don't get what she sees in Albus. He's annoying and a douchebag."

Scorpius chuckled. "Different strokes for different folks, darling."

"Definitely. But she said she needed to get it out, which I can get. I mean, if I hadn't met Alexia, I'd probably have had several major freak outs. Just saying." Scorpius smirked.

"Speaking of Alexia," Scorpius said, pausing at a red light, "you should talk to her about a threesome." Lily almost choked on her own tongue.

"Excuse me?"

The blond glanced over at her. "Despite what you may think, darling, I'm not entirely opposed to sharing." Dark red brows lifted. "It would be strictly for training purposes. It's a very different dynamic with another body, and although you might not think so now, there's the very real possibility that you'll be uncomfortable watching another woman take pleasure from me."

Lily pursed her mouth. "At risk of starting an argument, I'm pretty sure I pitched you this idea last year, and you flipped out."

"Because you'd just turned down my offer of marriage and I didn't want to risk you possibly breaking things off with me to have an open field." Lily blinked at his honesty. "And," he added with a small smile, "you were pitching it to be meddlesome. Con is my friend, and he'd have been very pissed if I aided and abetted Alexia in her attempts to wrangle him into marriage and commitment. But now that he's gone and wrecked that all on his own, I've no qualms taking Alexia into the playroom with you to see if you'd ever be interested in a repeat. If she wants. And, of course, if you still want. I know she won't get attached either, now."

"Why would Alexia get attached to you?" Lily asked, brow furrowed in confusion as they pulled into his parking garage.

"Not me, darling. You." He smiled at her surprised expression. "You're entirely likeable and far too lovable for me to have risked letting you entrance her before I wrestled you into that ring. Despite appearances, Alexia is very tenacious and unfailingly loyal, and possibly more stubborn than you."

"Oh," Lily said as they got into the elevator. "I mean I'll ask her. I dunno if she'll be interested, after Constantine, though."

Scorpius smirked and kissed her. "You have no idea, then, how utterly easy it is to become obsessed with you. After the first night, I couldn't even think straight, because all I could think about was having you again, and not just once, but how to convince you to stay with me long term to have you lots."

She smiled and rolled her eyes. "Somehow I doubt that. You were just after my perky tits and tight pussy."

"Those too. But you really are very easy to obsess over," he murmured. "You're sexy and smart, and very talented, and you're not conceited about any of it. And you are, without doubt, the best submissive I could ever imagine."

The redhead sighed, shaking her head. "You have to say that, but if you insist."

Lily called Alexia on Thursday morning, just after ten thirty. "Hey are you busy, or do you have a second to talk?" she asked, hoping she wasn't interrupting anything work-related.

"I'm on break, so I have...seven minutes left."

"Um, okay. There's no nice way to say this, so I'm just going to ask. Do you, um, maybe want to have a threesome?"

"With who? The two guys on CSI: Miami? Hell yeah."

Lily blushed, agreeing with that statement, but forged onward. "Um, I meant with me. And Scorpius, obviously."

"Sure. When is good for you?"

The redhead was speechless for a long moment. "Um… I'll have to get back to you on that one, because I didn't think you'd just say yes, so I didn't plan that far ahead in my mind," she replied.

"Take your time," Alexia said. "Have you found a venue yet?"

Lily rolled her eyes. "I'm going to check out the Botanical Gardens tomorrow after class. You should come, if you can. I'll be out at four. But I'm just going to scout it out, I'm not going to book anything."

"Sure, I'll come with. Are you inviting the vultures?"

"Hmm, I don't really want to…"

"Then don't. I'll pick you up and we'll go. Just to scout it out."

Friday at four, Lily was headed to the parking lot. Alexia was waiting, and they headed to the Botanical Gardens quickly. "They close at five, and you're going to want to see as much as possible."

They paid the six dollar admission and went in, and less than fifty feet in, Lily was wishing she could simply sit down and paint. The flowers were gorgeous and she wandered, awestruck and wishing she had a photographic memory to be able to capture the various blooms, thriving in the muggy air that was frizzing her hair out. Eventually she returned to the task at hand and they went back to the front desk. "Hi, I was wondering if there was someone I could speak to, or make an appointment with, to talk about possibly having my wedding here."

The receptionist smiled. "I'll just see if she's still here." The woman got up, went into a back room, and then a blonde haired huge boobed woman, wearing clothes that stretched the limits of spandex, even if she looked alright, appeared. She looked like Barbie, after too many boob jobs and lip injections and tans.

"Hello, honey, I'm Cynthia. And first of all, congratulations." Lily blinked.

"Thanks. Um, I'm just want a basic outline of things. I'm not here to book anything."

Cynthia gave them the grand tour anyway, laying out various packages. "Okay, so how much is it to have the whole deal?" Lily finally asked. "Like, ceremony and reception and...whatever the other things are." The redhead had only listened vaguely. She'd been in love with the flowers and thoroughly distracted. "And what do the flowers look like the third week of June? I have my date, June twentieth of next year."

"Oh, I think all of our June is filled for next year already," Cynthia said, face falling a little. Lily frowned. "Let me just check." They went back to the reception, even at the announcement for five minutes to closing and Cynthia got a large appointment book out, flipping the pages, then pausing and running a finger down the page. "You're in luck. I have June twentieth still available. The next closest is July sixth."

Lily took a deep breath. "Could you, maybe, reserve it for me or something?"

Cynthia grinned brightly. "You can put a deposit down now which will save the date for you, if you want, but if you change your mind, you won't get it back."

"How much?" Lily asked, glancing at Alexia, who looked shrewd.

"Ten percent of the full cost. To reserve the whole day, especially a weekday, with the Deluxe Occasion package, is going to run you somewhere around twenty eight thousand."

"And that includes the package details, like the chairs for the ceremony and reception, the tables and wait staff, and sound accommodations?" Alexia demanded. "And there's not going to be the birds flying around, right?"

"Of course, and the birds aren't part of the Spring display, just the Summer one, so you'll be bird free," Cynthia said. "But we are closing, and I have appointments first thing Monday morning. And I know a lot of brides are looking at next June. Very popular month, because the late spring and early summer flowers are at the peak of bloom. So if you'd like to put down your deposit now…" The busty blonde grinned, and even though she looked like a thirty year old Barbie who'd met with too many plastic surgeons, Lily admired her tactics.

She bit her lip, hesitating, then took a deep breath. "Better to have it, even as a fall back," Alexia whispered.

"I'll take it. Do you accept credit cards?" Lily said, the blooms around her convincing her.

Cynthia grinned wider. "Of course."

Alexia beamed at her when they headed back to the car. "Well that's settled. Your wedding is going to be spectacular. And to think, they had your day available and everything."

"I can't believe I just did that," she breathed, sliding into the passenger seat. "I just spent twenty eight hundred dollars that were not mine." Alexia rolled her eyes. "Serious, this is Scorpius's credit card and it's going to eat me alive, because I feel like I'm stealing. And he said he doesn't care, spend whatever, but that's a lot of money. That's like almost half of what I made last year. And oh God, if I change my mind, not that I'm going to, but if I did, it's going to just go poof! This is a lot. Holy crap, how do you know if you're having a panic attack?" She put a hand to her chest, feeling her heart beating madly.

"Breathe," Alexia said softly when they got to the car. Lily sucked in a deep breath and let it out. "Just call him."

Lily dialed, still feeling on the verge of freaking out, and took another breath. "You're supposed to be studying," Scorpius said when he picked up.

"No, I went to look at a wedding venue instead, with Alexia, and I didn't tell our mothers, and it's like super gorgeous, the Botanical Gardens, and I mentioned the date I had picked for the wedding, and the lady I talked to said it was the like the last day in June available, and the next closest thing was July sixth, so I sort of put a deposit on a venue," Lily said very fast.

There was a beat of silence. "Okay. Why do you sound like you're freaking out?"

Lily's mouth fell open even as Alexia smirked. "Um, I just dropped twenty eight hundred dollars on your credit card, and there's another twenty five thousand or so still to pay for the venue, and that's like, enough money to buy a brand new car." To her consternation, Scorpius chuckled. "It's not funny, I'm having anxiety about this!" she snapped.

"Darling, breathe. You're not going to bankrupt me. And I told you, there's no limit on the VISA. Charge the whole damn affair if you'd like."

Lily's eyes widened. "Don't faint," Alexia said firmly.

"I can't put twenty eight thousand dollars on your credit card," she whispered.

"Certainly you can. When I say no limit, I'm not kidding."

"Scorpius," Lily said, trying to reason with him, "that's literally like four times what I made last year."

"Closer to five, but sure," he said easily. "You do remember upon meeting my mother how you asked if I'm filthy, Old Money rich? And I said yes? I wasn't kidding then either."

"But it's still-! And you haven't even seen it!"

"Do you like it?" Scorpius asked.

"Yes. It's amazing, and it smells good, and it's kind of humid, but not gross, and-"

She could hear the smile in his voice. "And you want to get married there?"

"Yes."

"Then I don't need to see it." She chewed her lower lip, still feeling bad about spending so much money just to have a wedding and reception somewhere. "And darling, the country club ballroom would be at least double that price to book, so stop feeling guilty." Lily still felt guilty, although her eyes widened. "I have more than enough money for you to get what you like. Spend it, or I'll have to resort to spending it on you."

"I guess," she mumbled.

"Good. The next time I have to convince you to spend money on the wedding, I'm going to make you wait for the last item in the bottom drawer until our damn wedding day if I have to," he rumbled in her favourite bedroom voice, the one that made her nipples hard.

"Okay," she breathed. "Bring food home with you," she said.

"I will. Go study. I love you."

"Love you," she said with a small smile, and hung up. Alexia smiled over at her.

"All better?" Alexia asked, pulling into the underground parking for Scorpius's condo and parking in a visitor's spot.

"Yeah," she breathed. "Thanks. Sorry, but it's weird for me, spending his money. Even if he can afford it." She thought back to her senior year of high school and the two years of college afterward, when she'd scrimped and saved every penny she'd made from the odd babysitting job and the allowance her mother had wired into her bank account. Lily had always been thrifty, especially before Ginny met Potter and married him and his fortune. She had always had enough, but the thought of buying things simply because she wanted them and they were pretty had been very foreign. Even after moving back in with her mom, Lily had made sure she spent only her own money on things she wanted and needed for painting and had still always done her best to get the price as low as possible when she did have to spend money.

"You're probably the only woman on the face of the planet who's marrying a guy who's totally loaded and has anxiety over spending his money." Alexia grinned. "Then again, that's part of your charm. Seriously, though, what else is Scorpius going to do with the money? Buy another suit?"

Lily laughed. "I guess," she said.

"Lily, come on. To put it in perspective for you, you know how Constantine took me on vacation?" The redhead nodded. "He spent more on that vacation than you will on your wedding venue." Golden hazel eyes widened. "And that's after I convinced him we didn't need to charter the yacht for a month or take a private jet to Greece." She smirked. "If there's one thing I've learned from my mother, when a man gives you his credit card, and it's only in his name, maxing it out has no detriment on you whatsoever, except possibly running out of closet space." Lily was still in shock, she was certain. How in the world did one spend that much on a vacation? "Besides, after you're married, it's half yours anyway, right?"

Lily snorted a bit at that. "Not really. He made it, I just said yes to the handcuffs."

Alexia grinned. "Let him spoil you, Lily. Eventually when you're old and grey you'll still be stuck with him, but there will always be new shoes to buy and new places to go." The redhead laughed.

"Are you coming up?" she asked, undoing her seatbelt. Alexia shrugged.

"Sure, I guess. But just for a bit. I don't want to impose on you or anything." Lily waved a hand as they walked to the elevator.

"Yeah right. Besides, I need your help, with wedding stuff." They pored over magazines, Lily pointing out what she liked, Alexia asking her questions she hadn't ever even thought about. "Wait, I have to make an appointment to looks at forks and spoons and plates and shit, just to pick what I want and have some company show up with the place settings?" Lily asked, wide-eyed, a couple hours later.

"Yup," Alexia, who'd been helping Lily by taking notes in a large notebook for her, replied. "And then you need to find out if your florist is going to be supplying vases for the table arrangements, or you need to think about renting those too. And we should get started on your seating arrangement. That's going to be something that undergoes at least five redos."

Lily gaped. "This is terrifying," she murmured. Alexia grinned.

"We're just getting started. And would you prefer to leave it to someone else's discretion? Like your mom? Or Scorpius's mom?"

The redhead groaned, flopping back on the arm of the couch, just as her fiance walked in. "Hi," she said. "Alexia's here, helping me freak out about wedding stuff. There's literally a million and one things to do."

"Not quite, but close," Alexia said easily. "I should probably get going."

Scorpius smirked a little and arched a brow at the petite asian woman in silent question. She nodded as Lily threw an arm over her eyes. His mouth pursed a little and he tilted his head. Alexia glanced pointedly at Lily, who was now bemoaning that she hadn't studied.

"What do you have to study for, darling?" he asked.

She moved her arm. "Colour Theory." Scorpius rolled his eyes.

"Hmm," he said noncommittally.

"Did you bring food?" She looked at Alexia. "You should stay for food. Food makes life's problems bearable."

"I really-"

"No," Lily said simply, getting up and dragging Alexia by the hand over to investigate what they were having. Scorpius glanced at Alexia, and she smiled a little, then shrugged.

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