Title: Falling For You
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Scorpius Malfoy, Lily Potter, Alarice Zabini
Prompt: Fall
Word Count: 921
Rating: PG
Summary: Scorpius fell off his broom, and Lily might be falling for him.
Author's Notes: It's all J.K. Rowlings's.
Scorpius spun the quaffle around in his hand and threw it up in the air. He caught it deftly and pretended to swerve out of the way of one of the opposing team's chasers before taking a seat on one of the benches in the changing room. He was tense, to say the least, about today's match against Ravenclaw. The eagles had put up a good team this year, and their seeker was nothing to laugh at. But if Slytherin won by at least two hundred points than they would move ahead of Gryffindor for the Quidditch Cup.
As captain, Scorpius had come up with a load of plays for his chasers, and he had made sure that the whole team understood the stakes for this game. He knew that they had a good chance of winning; it was just getting the win by the right margin that Scorpius was worried about. But he couldn't do much about it anymore, because the match was due to start soon and he was simply waiting for all his players to get out here. In time, all of them were sitting before him, waiting for him to start his pre-game speech.
"We all know what this game will tell us. I know we can win, but we have to win by two hundred at least. It's going to be hard, but I know we can do it. When you think about it, we only need to get fifty points ahead and than just grab the snitch. I know that we're good enough." His six teammates all shouted and threw their arms in the air, excited to play. A few minutes later, they all mounted their brooms and took off.
The green portion of the stands erupted as the Slytherin team took a lap around the pitch. They landed in the center of the pitch, where the Ravenclaws were as well, and Scorpius shook hands with Davis, the blue captain. The balls were releases and the whistle was blown, all fourteen players flew off in different directions, the keepers heading over to their posts, the beaters to the bludgers, the seekers to fly around and start looking, and the chasers to try and get the quaffle.
It was an exhilarating game. His players were following all of his strategies, and they were already ahead by forty points. Ravenclaw scored two goals in a row, but so did the Slytherins. Another minute later, Scorpius had made the shot to bring them fifty ahead, and he gave the signal for his seeker to try and capture the snitch as soon as possible. But as Scorpius made to try and stop one of the blue chasers from scoring, he saw a bludger out of the corner of his eye, coming straight at his head, and he could do nothing to stop it. He was off the broom, falling, and then it was all black…
Scorpius was awakened by two people arguing. They weren't loud, but his head was pounding already, and they weren't helping. He opened his eyes, the sunlight pouring from the windows causing him to blink a few times until he could adjust. He was ion a bed in the Hospital Wing. Alarice was on one side of the bed, her pretty features marred with disdain, and Lily was on the other, her face red.
"You're the one that's being completely unreasonable." Alarice hissed. "We will not-"
"Morning, ladies." Scorpius said, cutting off his girlfriend.
"Nice going Potter, you woke him up!" Alarice said to Lily before turning to him. "Hello dear, are you feeling alright?" Lily answered before Scorpius could even open his mouth.
"Course not. He got hit in the head with a metal ball, then fell off his broom." She than directed her attention to Scorpius. "It was a right fall, mate. You weren't too far off from the ground though, so that was good."
"What about the game? What happened?" He asked, suddenly remembering what had happened They needed to win by two hundred, but what if at the last second, Ravenclaw scored? Lily smirked, and he knew that did not bode well for the Slytherins.
"Davies had already thrown the quaffle by the time you were hit, but your keeper saw you falling and he wasn't looking at the ball, but your seeker was already going for the snitch, and he got it. So you guys won, but only by one ninety, so we Gryffs are still in the lead."
"Damn it! How the hell?"
"I know, right." Lily was grinning.
"Stop making him feel bad, he's been seriously injured!" Alarice said, pouting.
"How do you know what he needs?" Lily asked.
"I'm his girlfriend, I know. Alright, Potter?" Scorpius watched the two girls bicker over his bed, just wanting the noise to stop. After weighing over the options in his head, he decided that Lily would want to talk to him, while Alarice might just want to snog.
"Bug, can we talk later? We can go over the match and all." He said, giving her a pleading look and gesturing his head to Alarice in an obvious attempt to communicate without words what he was hoping to accomplish. Lily raised her eyebrows, but nodded.
"Fine, Scor. We'll talk later." She said, obviously not thinking it was fine with her. She stood up and left.
It was as she was walking out of the Hospital Wing, looking back at the couple, that she realized she might just be falling for Scorpius.