'You follow me?' Marlo asked, as he handed Lily a gun. 'As Muggle as can be, understand?'

Lily nodded. She was dressed casually: jeans and a 'Beatles' t-shirt…to get the 'Muggle look' right. Scorpius was dressed in jeans and a well-fitting shirt. Lily tried not to stare. She decided to constantly glare at him as an excuse to check him out. He returned the gesture.

'Would you two stop it?' Marlo snarled. 'I don't care if you hate each other's guts, you're going on this mission and you're going to like it! You brought it on yourself, so stop acting like a bunch of kids!'

Scorpius gave him the tiniest of nods and Lily just shrugged. They were supposed to pose as Muggles, from London. They were supposed to 'lose' their way and end up in Yorkshire. From there, it was up to them to arrest Jupiter Jenkins, the Muggle killer.

'You've got a plan worked out, then?' Marlo asked.

'We'll figure it out as we go,' Lily said.

'Alright, then. Be careful, I won't accept failure,' he warned. 'And, you know, don't get yourselves killed. Off you go!'

'See you,' she said, turning. Scorpius waved and walked ahead of her. He reached the car first and jumped into the driver's seat. Lily narrowed her eyes. 'Shit,' she muttered.

'What?' Scorpius asked.

'I left this trunk back in the warehouse, could you go get it?' she asked, in a honeyed voice.

'Why can't you?' he asked, grumpily. He didn't want to get up.

'It's really heavy!'

'Ugh,' he grumbled. 'Fine, I'll get it.' He got out of the car and started towards the warehouse, when he heard a dull thump. He turned to see Lily smirking at him from the driver's seat.

'Well, what're you waiting for?' she asked, 'Let's go!'

Scorpius pinched the bridge of his nose to stay calm. He had wanted to drive. He could easily lift her out of the seat since she basically weighed nothing, but that would create problems. He got into the passenger seat, all the while glaring at Lily. On the bright side, though, she seemed to be coming back to her usual sneaky self.

'So,' he said, after ten minutes of silent driving. 'What's this car?'

'It's called a Ferrari,' she replied, her eyes on the road ahead of her.

'Hmm. Was it expensive?'

'Wouldn't know,' she shrugged. 'Just Confounded the bloke selling it.'

'He'd notice it was missing,' Scorpius pointed out.

'Not if he never knew it existed,' she said, glancing at him. 'That's the beauty of the Obliviate.'

'You wiped his memory?' he asked, incredulously.

'Not all of it. Just the part about the car…Merlin, I'm not that cruel! He probably had a family and shit.'

Scorpius gave a relieved sort of sigh. 'You're a pretty okay driver, you know.'

'I'm a brilliant driver, yes.'

Scorpius laughed. 'Not according to James, for some reason. Apparently, he puked after you drove him somewhere.'

Lily laughed, recalling that time. 'Yeah, well, James is a pussy. He can't stand something going fast.'

'You are going pretty fast, actually.'

'What? I'm just going at an 80! That's nothing! You wait till we get on the highway.'

'Oh, Merlin,' Scorpius muttered. You brought it on yourself, he told himself. 'What's our plan?'

'You ask a lot of questions, you know that?' Lily told him, sounding slightly annoyed.

'Excuse me for wanting to know something that could possibly endanger my life.'

Lily rolled her eyes. 'Just play along with whatever I do, alright? That's the plan.'

'That's the plan?' Scorpius asked, aghast. 'I'm going to die.'

'Are you a wizard or not, you big pussy?' Lily demanded.

Scorpius glared. The next half hour passed without any conversation. The silence was actually comfortable. They both seemed relaxed. This seemed to bother Lily, for she asked, 'D'you realize we could actually die?'

'Good morning, Lil,' Scorpius said, with fake enthusiasm. 'Well, duh.'

'Ugh. You know what I mean.'

'You mean why're we so relaxed when we know this?'

'Yeah.'

'Dunno,' Scorpius shrugged. A smile took over his face as he said, 'Maybe it's because we're together.'

Lily burst out laughing. She stopped the car for a full five minutes of non-stop laughing. Scorpius joined in, as if he could help it.

'That has to be the cheesiest shit I've ever heard you say,' Lily said, grinning.

Scorpius looked mock-offended. 'I am hurt!' Lily laughed again as he said, 'I meant that! How could you hurt me like that?'

'Of course you meant that,' she said, sarcastically nodding.

'Yes, I did,' Scorpius said, pretending to be honest.

'Because you care about me,' Lily teased, in a sing-song voice. 'Because you love me!'

Scorpius laughed a little and rolled his eyes. 'Start the car, squeaky.'

'Yes, you love me!' she finished, grinning and starting the car. Little did she know, he actually did.

Things seemed to ease up between the two after that exchange. Occasionally, one of them would burst out laughing, causing the other to join in. Eventually, they reached the highway. The car was going at the same speed for the first kilometer. After that, however, things seemed to quicken drastically.

'Lily,' Scorpius warned. 'Slow down.' She didn't even look at him. She just kept driving faster and faster, causing Scorpius to get queasier and queasier.

'It wouldn't hurt to slow down a bit, Lil,' he said, one hand on his stomach. 'I kind of had a heavy dinner!' No response. 'LILY! Are you fucking crazy?'

Suddenly, a sound came from behind them. It sounded like a police siren. Immediately, Lily brought the car to a stop. Scorpius and her were jerked in front, causing Scorpius to knock his head against the dashboard.

'Now look what you've done!' he hissed.

'Just remember the plan,' Lily whispered, as she lowered her window.

'Plan?' Scorpius said, blankly. 'What plan?'

'Madam,' said the angry voice of a police officer. 'You shouldn't be driving like that.'

'I'm sorry,' Lily said, innocently.

The officer softened a bit. 'Er…yes. What made you drive like that anyway?'

'She's bloody mental, that's why,' Scorpius muttered, to softly for the officer to hear, but loud enough for Lily to hear. He received a well-aimed kick in the shins and had to cover his face with his hands to prevent himself from screaming.

'What's wrong with him?' the officer asked, a little too curiously.

'It's like I was saying,' Lily said, miserably. 'He, here, can't believe it! Neither can I, actually. We were on our way home, when these two old people just appeared in front of us. It was like they came out of nowhere! And then there was fire…and flashes of green and-'

'Madam,' the officer stopped her. He gave a long sigh, taking in what she'd just said. It was perfect. She had the exact expression of someone who'd been through a traumatic and implausible experience. It also helped that she was good looking and had slid her top a little lower than necessary.

'Madam,' he said again, shaking his head and looking at her face. 'It's clear you've been through a lot…I'll- er- I'll just give you a ticket then, shall I?' He quickly got out his notepad and wrote Lily a ticket. 'Come by to the station and pay that…is that okay?'

'Thank you ever so much, officer!' Lily gushed. 'What would your name be?'

The officer blushed. 'It's, um, Jupiter…Officer Jenkins, actually.'

'I'll make sure to ask for you,' Lily said, with a seductive smile.

'Yes…well, take care, then. Er-yes…' He looked around, glanced at Lily one last time and made his way back to his car. Scorpius was now just staring at Lily, confused.

Lily waited till the officer drove off, and then turned to Scorpius and smirked. 'He was too easy.'

'What?' he demanded.

'Don't you pay attention?' Lily asked, starting up the car. 'Marlo told us that his informants told him that Jenkins was posing as a police officer. What a twat, he is…didn't even bother changing his name! No wonder we got this case.'

'Oh,' Scorpius said, trying to remember when Marlo told them that. Oh yeah, he remembered, I'd been staring at Lily then. Of course. 'So-' Scorpius started, and then saw Lily's top. It was…low. Very low. Provocatively low. Such provocation should be banned by law, Scorpius thought, gritting his teeth.

'So what?' Lily asked, glancing at him.

'So that's why Jenkins was stuttering like a girl,' Scorpius finished, regaining his cool demeanor.

'What ever do you mean?' Lily asked, innocently.

Scorpius rolled his eyes and gestured to her top.

'Oh, this little thing? It has a life of its own, I tell you,' Lily said, with mock-seriousness. Then she flashed Scorpius a wide smile and said, 'All in a day's work.'

Scorpius gave a small laugh and stared at her, taking her appearance in properly for the first time in months. Her fringe had grown longer and was almost in her eyes. Her eyes seemed to be a darker shade of blue than before, and they held the sparkle that he hadn't seen in a while.

Feeling someone staring, Lily turned and gave Scorpius a questioning look.

Scorpius shook his head in response. 'What now?'

'You decide,' Lily said.

'Really?' he asked, shocked.

'I guess you deserve to, for once.'

'I do,' he confirmed, grinning. 'Let's stay the night at some motel.'

'Motel, huh?' she asked, squinting to see ahead in the dark.

'Yep.' Oh if Lily knew the things going through Scorpius' head!

I'm sorry for the long wait. Pleaseee forgive me! Hope you all liked this chapter, though. Review and thanks a lot for reading! :)