DAEMON

Merlin why did Scor always fall for the most inappropriate girls? The last time I had seen him like this was in our fifth year. He fell in love with Caterina Lopez. She was an incredibly beautiful seventh year. Long black hair, a smooth brown complexion and a body that made jaws drop. With her thick Spanish accent and dancing brown eyes she was exotic and captivating. And boy did Scorpius fall hard. He followed her around like a puppy. And she treated him like one too. To her he was a cute distraction but nothing to be taken seriously. He didn't even care that she was screwing both him and Christopher Nott at the same time. She quickly moved on to someone with more experience and fewer inhibitions and left him shattered. It was only after that that he became closed off to everyone except us and it was also when he started his serial screwing.

'Hello babe,' someone said from behind me.

'Hi Reyna,' I said, smiling.

Reyna's my ex girlfriend. We're still really good friends though. It's difficult to not be friends with her. She's got a wide mouth that's always smiling, big blue eyes and light brown hair.

She kissed my cheek and settled down next to me at the Slytherin table.

'So what's this I hear about you getting it off with Michael Davies?' I asked teasingly. 'I didn't know brawny Quidditch players was your style.'

'I went for you didn't I?' she said, grinning.

'I may be a Quidditch player but I'm not exactly brawny. Davies's built like a horse,' I said.

'You know what they say about horses. They're very well-,' she stifled a giggle, '-endowed.'

I grimaced.

'Oh don't look at me like that. You know I would've jumped into bed with you in a heartbeat. You were so damned gentlemanly you never even asked,' she said. 'Anyway did you hear about the massive row Lily and Danny got into. The name Scorpius Malfoy cropped up fairly often.'

'I'll talk to him,' I said.

'Good 'cause Danny's a nice bloke and Scorpius is well… he's Scorpius,' she said.

'Oi he's my best friend,' I said, defending him.

'And Danny's mine. I don't want him to get hurt. And believe me it's difficult to resist Scorpius Malfoy,' she said.

'I don't quite get that. I mean he obviously doesn't give a fuck about the people he sleeps with,' I said.

'That's all part of the attraction. Every girl who jumps into bed with him thinks she can change him. Get him to be more open and less of a man-whore,' she said.

'Is that why you slept with him?' I asked. I knew she screwed him before dating me.

'Maybe. I also wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I must say he does live up to his impressive reputation,' she said.

'That's good to know,' I said dryly.

She got up and pulled me up too. 'Come on,' she said. 'We're going for a walk. I haven't talked to you properly in ages and I feel weird sitting at the Slytherin table.'

She linked her arm with mine and we walked out to the grounds. We saw Ariana and Arya sitting at the edge of the Black Lake.

'So what do you think of our new Head Girl?' she asked.

I shrugged. 'I'm ambivalent. Rose hates her, Al wants to do her, Lorcan wants to have a meaningful relationship with her best friend. So she's been a rather contentious topic of discussion lately.'

'Ah the Wolf Pack,' she said. 'How I have missed hanging out with you.'

'Is that sarcasm?' I asked laughingly.

'Well noted Mr. Zabini,' she said. 'You're all lovely people, but together you can be very intimidating.'

'I thought you didn't mind my friends,' I said, a little miffed.

'I don't. Don't even mind Rose that much though most people think she was sent from hell to punish us for our sins,' she said.

'Rose is different,' I said. 'Most people just don't get her.'

'I understand Rose perfectly,' she said. 'She's insecure because she feels she doesn't have her mother's love. She desperately wants to be a better person but can't help being extremely bitchy. She uses boys to boost her ego, not because she has a huge one but because she needs the admiration. Oh and she cares a lot about you boys and is secretly worried that you'll leave her.'

'Oh wow,' I said, a little bit stunned.

'I hung out with you for six months it's fairly easy to pick up on this stuff,' she said.

'How did you know about the mother thing?' I asked.

'It's easy. All that sniping at Ariana and the fact that she can't talk about Hermione Weasley without either breaking down or getting very angry,' she said.

'You should be some sort of psychologist,' I said looking at her in awe.

'Well I do want to be a healer. So maybe that'll happen,' she said in a very businesslike manner.

'I missed you Rey,' I said, squeezing her hand.

'Missed you too,' she said, smiling at me.

LILY

'We have to for rounds,' Scorpius said putting his hand on my shoulder.

'Scorpius,' Zabini said warningly and his hands dropped to his side.

Daniel looked at Zabini thankfully. 'She'll be over in a second,' he said authoritatively. I really hate it when he uses that tone. Scorpius just shrugged and moved away.

'I don't like him,' Daniel said. 'The way he looks at you. It just unnerves me.'

'There's nothing to worry about,' I said, rather untruthfully.

'I'm not blind Lily,' he said, almost resigned.

I sighed. 'I really want this to work Danny. You and me,' I said.

'I know you do,' he kissed me and I went to join Scorpius.

'See you later mate,' he called to Zabini's retreating backside.

'So what are we doing tonight?' I asked.

'Well since I have been warned off you by basically everyone I know it has to be something that involves clothes,' he said.

'You were planning something that didn't?' I asked.

'Maybe,' he said smirking. I couldn't even tell if he was joking or not. I pushed down an irrational wave of disappointment.

'We should probably do our rounds first,' I said, attempting to be responsible.

He nodded and we quickly finished them off.

'I have a brilliant idea,' he said.

He pulled me out to the Quidditch field. 'Have you ever played Quidditch at night?' he asked.

'No, normal people don't do that,' I said.

'Well sometimes when we can't sleep or we're just exceptionally bored we play Quidditch,' he said. I didn't need to ask who 'we' were.

'How have you not gotten caught yet? And how do you even contact each other, you're all in different houses?' I asked.

He smirked. 'We're just very quiet and as to how we contact each other well that's a secret.'

Ugh. I hate a mysterious Scorpius.

'How about you tell me how you contact each other and I'll tell you a secret of my own,' I said.

'Okay but only after the game,' he said.

He pulled a snitch out of his pocket.

'Scorpius have you been stealing Quidditch supplies?' I asked accusingly.

'Maybe,' he said, completely unrepentant.

'I still cannot fathom how you got Head Boy,' I said.

'Don't worry Lilykins neither can I,' he said laughing.

'Don't call me Lilykins,' I said. 'Or Lilypad or any other stupid nickname. It's annoying.'

'Relax Lilyp-' I whacked him on the head. He just laughed and we went to get the brooms.

There's something oddly exhilarating about playing Quidditch at night. You can barely see the snitch and the fact that you aren't supposed to be out on the pitch and have to be very quiet makes it more exciting. We chased after the snitch for about an hour. Scorpius caught it and we went to sit in the stands feeling absolutely exhausted.

'Okay now you have to tell me your secret,' he said.

'Okay but only if you tell me yours,' I said.

'Yes yes. Now tell me,' he said, impatiently.

'I have three bottles of Firewhiskey hidden under my bed,' I said.

He raised his eyebrows. 'Why?'

'Millie Donaldson's gotten caught twice already so she begged me to hide her stash. I should probably inform someone that that girls heading towards alcoholism,' I said.

He laughed. 'Okay so I guess it's my turn now.'

'Yep, spill,' I said.

'Rose put a protean charm five notebooks. Anything that's written in one of them automatically gets transferred to the others. We use them sparingly though so we mostly use owls,' he said.

'Oh that's disappointing,' I said. 'I thought you had found passageways into other common rooms.'

'Not quite there yet,' he said laughing. 'Though judging by the way Albus is pursuing your friend Ariana we might have one leading into the Ravenclaw common room very soon.'

'Well Rose'll be happy,' I said. 'She hooked up with Arnav Corner yesterday. Saw them making out near the greenhouses.'

Scorpius shrugged. 'Well at least he's a step up from McLaggen.'

'I miss Rose sometimes,' I admitted.

'You miss Rose?' he asked incredulous. 'You actively avoid her.'

'As in I miss the old Rose. The one who would help me when I fell down or sneak me dessert when I was in trouble and had to go straight to my room after dinner,' I explained.

'She's still the same person, Lils,' he said.

'Not to me she isn't,' I said.

He took me in his arms. 'She still loves you. It's just difficult for her to show it.'

'I know she loves me. I just don't think she likes me much anymore,' I said. Oh Merlin I never tell anyone any of this stuff. But there was something about Scorpius that made it seem okay to tell him.

'I like you,' he said, gently stroking my hair.

a/n: I just realised that I have a math exam in less than a week so you might not get updates as frequently. So I hope you like this. I plan to introduce a couple of more characters. Arnav Corner's definitely going to make an appearance and might get a POV chapter. Please tell me what you think of the chapter :)