A/N - so another shortish chapter. I could have went on after this but I think this is enough for one.
This is where the drama and the main plot begins to thicken and span out.
I hope after this chapter you begin to stop hating on Lily, haha.
Disclaimer - I do not own Harry Potter.
Dear Lily,
How's it all going? Is Scorpius any better? Dominique?
Well, I already know, I've been getting updates from Lucy. I just wanted to be aware if they took a turn for the worse so I could be there for you.
Anyway, Ed tells me his club have put in an offer for you? Apparently they've offered for you to come and train for three weeks with them before the British season kicks off? What are you going to do?
I'm a little bias, but the Lions are one of the best teams in the world, seriously! They have a great support system - and not to mention they pay you a hell of a lot more than the Brits do!
I'm fine - got another number one album under my belt, all thanks to your amazing cousin. She's penned some brilliant songs for me while she was out here - and I swear I heard her and Ed getting to know each other during the night, if you know what I mean?
This may - alright, it will sound highly inappropriate considering our current circumstances and the fact Ed's my brother and Lucy is your cousin, but - if she's anything like you where, he must have had the night of his life.
I can't stop thinking about you; I miss you.
I've never missed anybody this way before.
I really do want to see you again.
All my love,
Scott.
I re-read the letter for the tenth time since I got it. Luckily it went straight to my house instead of Scorpius' flat.
If he found that he would have kicked off.
Over the past two weeks things have been going from strength to strength; Dominique could now walk unaided and had started training again - only a different, more intense workout than the one Selena and Bobby gave me. Scorpius was now using crutches on his bad days and a simple cane on his good days. He too had returned to training, only his weren't as intense as the one I received from my sister in law and cousin in law.
I returned to training also; thankfully my mother had took me under her wing and got me in shape for my first official training session - it was just like I hadn't missed an entire year out.
My offers from around the globe was now public knowledge and all of my teammates and Rhiannon, my coach, were encouraging me to take the invitation to train with the New York Lion's. My mother wanted me to take it, Angelina wanted me to take it, James wanted me to take it.
There's only one person who didn't.
"If you go, you go but I'm not going to lie and say I want you to take it. I don't want you to go to America." Scorpius told me honestly one night in bed after I hesitantly told him about the many offers. "Even more so to New York while he is still there."
That was a week ago and I hadn't brought the subject up again - my relationship is more important than my career.
"Aunt Lily!"
I was brought out of my thought process by my six year old niece jumping on me and diving for my letter. I quickly folded the letter up and slipped it back into my pocket - Katy would no doubt show off her new found reading skills by announcing the contents of my letter to my brothers, Scorpius and my parents.
"Hey there Kitty-Kat!" I grinned and accepted the hug from the rainbow coloured haired youngster.
"Smelly-Belly is holding baby Roddie." Katy told me as she settled on my knee at the same time everybody else came in the sitting room to join us; Annabelle was carefully holding baby Aphrodite in her arms, with a cautious Albus and Teddy in front and behind her, ready to catch the baby if Annabelle slipped.
Scorpius came in last, slowly on his cane.
"Katy, what did we tell you about calling your sister names?" Victoire sighed as she settled into an armchair, with Teddy going to sit on the arm.
"That it isn't very nice and that I shouldn't do it." Katy recited in a perfect imitation of Victoire's voice - it seems Katy has a greater influence on her metamorphmagus genes than Teddy did. He could never master the art of voice control, whereas Katy can do it perfectly.
"So why are you still doing it?" Teddy asked his youngest daughter.
"Because it makes Mummy cross, Daddy." Katy giggled and cuddled into me as she said it. "And it's funny when Mummy is cross." She added once she thought she was safe in my arms.
I didn't pay much attention as Teddy chastised Katy; I just sat and tried not to think of how much fun training in the US could be.
They take Quidditch a lot more serious than they do in the UK - and that's saying a lot. They have many different leagues and many different tournaments every year - whereas we only have the one tournament every single year.
They have two matches a week and train six days a week - including match days.
"Can I put the wireless on?" I heard James ask; at Dad's nod he walked over to the wizarding radio and fiddled into some radio channel.
"And as it has been for the past couple of days our main storyline tonight is of course on the career of Lily Potter." Holden Finn's voice came out of the speakers, making me sigh in frustration; of course James would put the Sport Station on.
"With offers from all around the world, will Miss. Potter stay in England? She has offers from America, Australia, Russia - even the Romanians want a piece of the action! We've interviewed her team mates, her manager, her mother, her coach and now we have the views of two of the biggest wizarding celebrities in America - the brothers Ed and Scott Williams!"
I felt everybody's breath intake at the exact same time.
I acted like I wasn't listening, and just carried on stroking Katy's hair softly; but I was highly aware of Scorpius' eye on me, his Auror instincts alert for my reaction.
"So, Ed, Scott, how have the two of you been?"
"We've been just great, thanks Holden!" Scott greeted the host back.
"Let's cut straight to the point...it's no secret that you and Miss. Potter were close at one point -"
"You could say that, yeah." Scott laughed.
I closed my eyes, not wanting to see the annoyed looks on my brothers' faces.
"So, what do you think of the suggested change in Lily's career?"
"I think she's a damned fool for not accepting anything. That girl is the single greatest female player in her country - she can only get better! We American's play an entirely different game, she's made for that. Not only that, but she's a brilliant girl and I know she's made for better things than England and her life. She's going to outgrow and become bored in her life. She needs this change. She could be exceptionally happy if she does take an offer up."
I felt my cheeks blush when he said that; those were the exact same words that he said to me regarding our relationship.
"What say you, Ed? You're a brilliant player - could Lily handle the demands from American Quidditch? Or any of the other demands from the other countries?"
"I...I think that with the right training, the right experience and care...Lily could improve from a great player into a legendary, world class number one player. If you look at her statistics -"
I tuned out at that point and opened my eyes again, looking down at Katy and at nobody else in the room.
Scott was sending me another message - that was him telling me I should accept the offer from the Lions and end things with Scorpius.
I offered to help my mother clear up after dinner; once Scorpius, Teddy, James, Albus and my Dad had taken the three children into the living room, my mother shut the kitchen door and turned to me.
"Lily, forget about Scorpius and his problems with letting you go to America for a second." She told me gently; making me groan and roll my eyes in annoyance.
"No, listen!" Selena insisted.
"What do you want to do?" Victoire asked me, taking my hand and leading me over to the kitchen table where the four of us each sat down, leaving the pots in the sink.
"I want to go to America!" I whispered, hating myself for admitting it. "They have a completely different reaction to Quidditch out there and -"
"Then go!" Mum interrupted me.
I knew this was taking a lot for her to encourage her youngest child and only daughter to go back to America - considering how much it wrecked my life on the last visit I had there.
"Lily, I'm going to be honest in a cruel way; if Scorpius truly loved you like he used to, if he trusted you like he used to he wouldn't have no problems with you going to the States to practice for three weeks." I flinched when she said that; I'd been thinking that but I didn't dare mention it to Scorpius or myself.
If he loved me still, if he trusted me like before then he certainly would not be bothered about me going to train in America for nearly a month. We were apart for longer than that due to my work commitments before we fell pregnant and got married.
"Mum, stop!" I stood up and pushed my chair back so hard it went flying to the floor. "My relationship is far more important to me than anything else. I fucked it up last time, I'm not doing it again." I ignored the calls of my name and just walked out of the kitchen door and down the hall.
"Scorpius, are you ready to leave?" I looked straight at Scorpius and didn't acknowledge my brothers or father.
Teddy knew me the best out of the three of them; he'd be able to tell if something was wrong straight away.
"I want to go home; I've got an early start tomorrow and it's getting late." I muttered, glancing at the clock and rolling my eyes as Scorpius replied.
"It's five thirty." Scorpius frowned and checked his watch. "And you start at normal time tomorrow -"
"Are you coming with me or not?" I snapped, moving out of the way so my mother and sister-in-law's could past me.
"Erm, I'll just see you at the flat -"
"Actually, I'll just stay at my house tonight. I don't want to wake you in the morning. I'll see you tomorrow." I sighed. "Bye Annabelle, bye Kitty-Kat." I waved at my oldest nieces before I turned and left the hall way and back through to the kitchen; not really caring for the confused scowl Scorpius gave me or for the looks my brothers exchanged with their wives.
I walked quickly through the kitchen and into the back yard so I could apparate away into the privacy of my own house.
Just as I was getting out of the bath, I heard a ringing noise echoing throughout the entire house.
"I knew I shouldn't have bought a damn muggle house!" I moaned to myself as I ran through my bathroom, through my wardrobe, out my bedroom and into the second floor landing to grab the house phone - it was only really for the muggle side of things that I keptt it.
My mother and father practically forced me to buy a few of the local businesses and houses in the village beside my house, as a form of financial security. In the end I hired an accountant who dealt with witches and wizards buying and controlling things in the muggle world.
"Hello?" I was glad of the fact that when Lucy took me shopping in the muggle world for muggle devices, she chose the phones that didn't have a wire connecting them to the wall.
"Lily?" I smiled when I recognised the voice on the other end of the phone.
"Hi Scott! How are you?" I cradled the phone in between my ear and shoulder as I picked the towel that dropped from my body when I ran out of my bedroom.
"I'm fine, how are things?"
"They're fine; is there a reason why you rang me?" I cut straight to the point as I towel dried my body and then walked into my wardrobe looking for some fresh pajamas.
"You mean apart from listening to your beautiful voice?"
"Of course."
"Well, I'm in London, like I literally just landed and the handyman from my apartment has said that there was a flood in the apartment above mine and the ceiling has collapsed." He sighed and sounded stressed; as I focused on the background, I actually could hear the familiar sounds of traffic.
"You're on your way to my house aren't you?" I laughed and shook my head at his confidence.
"I'm about forty minutes away, I tried ringing your mobile but it's cut out -"
"I lost that weeks ago. It's too small!"
"Well that was a waste of money - so can I stay? I promise I won't have sex with you!" He teased, making me laugh.
"Well, unless you want to of course." He added with a chuckle.
"You know I would love to have you stay don't you?" I groaned, pressing the button on the phone that Lucy told me would enable me to hear Scott's voice even when I put it down.
"Is Malfoy living with you?"
"Well, no -" I sighed as I pulled on a pajama top over my head.
"Then why can't I stay? It's only for three days and then I have a concert in Canada I need to get too. I'm here on business only - I can't even go to a party!" He pretended to sob, which had me laughing again.
"Promise me that you won't get me in trouble? We only need to be in the same country as each other and people think we're having hot sex."
"I wish we were having hot sex again. I'll see you in a half hour, Potter." I could practically hear the cocky smile in his voice.
"You didn't promise -!" He cut the phone off before I could remind him of his promise.
"Perfect." I groaned and turned back to my wardrobe - I couldn't face Scott Williams in a pair of flannel pajamas.
"So let me get this straight," Scott cleared his throat and leant back on the sofa. "You want to go to America?"
I nodded and drained the rest of my wine.
"You want to go train with my brother and the Lions?"
I nodded again as I poured another, very large, measure.
"But you won't because your ex-husband throws you a scrap of attention every now and then?" Scott worded it bluntly and cruelly - but he was practically correct.
"No! I won't go because if Scorpius knows I'm back in New York he'll freak out and then any chance of salvaging our relationship and making another go of things would be totally ruined." I explained.
"What would he do if he found out that the reason your relationship was wrecked in the first place was sat on your couch, getting you drunk?" Scorpius asked me gently.
"He'd freak out." I muttered, knowing exactly how Scorpius would react if I told him I had Scott Williams staying in my house again.
"Can't say I blame him - if we were a couple and you had him staying in your house I'd be pissed." He nodded his head slowly before checking the time on his watch.
"I have to be up and ready for training in five hours." I groaned, seeing the hands on his watch tick into one a.m.
"I'll be at meetings all day. You probably won't even see me apart from at night." Scott told me when we both stood up and took our glasses and the take-away food he had with him into the kitchen.
"I'll probably stay at Scorpius' tomorrow night and the day after that." I shrugged and put the left over food in a container and then into the fridge.
"Why don't the two of you live here? There's so much space that you wouldn't even have to see each other if you didn't want too - I mean, do you even go anywhere higher than the second floor?" He teased me; he was right though.
Including the huge basement, my house had five floors; the basement, the ground floor that had the kitchen, a bathroom, several closets, the sitting room, a dining room and a utility room. The first floor had my bedroom, wardrobe and bathroom, three more bedrooms and two extra bathrooms with even more closets. The third floor had four more bedrooms, each with a personal bathroom, a games room, a half-full library, an office I never used, and another two bathrooms. The fourth and fifth floor was a two-story attic that had dozens and dozens of old furniture that came with the house.
"I'm thinking of selling the place actually." I admitted as the two of us walked through the kitchen to get to the main staircase, switching lights out as we went.
"I wouldn't." Scott shook his head and looked around. "I like it - it is showing your family that you're an adult now. A very successful adult; you bought this out of your own money with no mortgage. How many twenty two year olds can say that for themselves?" He pointed out.
I didn't have time to answer him because we reached the room that he used when he was last here.
I woke to the smell of bacon and eggs and it took me a minute to remember that I had a house guest.
I stumbled down the kitchen staircase and smiled when I saw Scott fully dressed in a muggle suit with one of the aprons that Gran bought me but I had never used covering the front of his suit.
"Ed swears by greasy foods to wake him up for practice." Scott told me when he saw me looking from my spot in the doorway.
"I don't normally have breakfast." I shrugged and walked slowly into the kitchen, cursing myself for not putting socks on.
"I also remembered how cold this floor was so I turned on the floor-heating, I hope that's alright." He laughed when he saw me tiptoe along the warm floor.
"Um...sure. My floor didn't seem too warm." I frowned as I sat at the island and helped myself to coffee. The wooden floor in my room was actually surprisingly cool.
"I know, I remember it being wood and hot wood doesn't really work so I changed it. Your bathroom floor is warm though, I didn't know if you wanted to shower or not." He explained as he walked over from the stove with two plates with eggs, bacon, sausages and toast on them.
"What, no flower?" I teased him, sliding a cup of coffee over to him.
Scott smirked and quickly pulled his wand out of his inside pocket; he pointed it at an empty glass, conjuring a perfect white lily flower.
"You can come again." I laughed, tucking into my breakfast.
I ignored the curious glances as I walked into the changing room with a big smile on my face; Scott really did know how to make me laugh. He waited around in my wardrobe as I showered and dressed for practice and just had general chit-chat; he said he didn't like to think of me being alone in the house.
I ignored the teasing that my teammates gave me as we practiced for nearly twelve hours; and then as we all practically collapsed on the changing room floor afterwards.
"So, Lily?" Mia came to shower beside me, either to talk to me so others couldn't hear or steal my soap and shampoo, I don't know.
"Yeah?"
"Are you coming tonight?" She asked me, standing with her hand out for my soap when I had finished with it.
"What's tonight?" I frowned, not remembering any party or anything I had been invited too.
"Your leaving drinks." Mia smirked at me, reaching for my shampoo before I had the chance. "We're having leaving drinks for you before you go training." She told me, ignoring the eye roll I gave her.
"I'm not going to America Mia." I scowled and snatched my shampoo back.
She didn't say anything as we rinsed and dried off; it was only when we got back to the changing room did she strike up a conversation again.
"Why not? Lily, you're a brilliant player. Better than any of us in here, better than your brother, better than your mother and everyone knows it." She told me as we both began to dress slowly.
"The entire team has decided to send you there." She joked.
"The entire team needs to understand that I am not going to America!" I hissed, throwing a hair brush at her, which she of course dodged with her brilliant seeker skills.
"Why?" She repeated.
"Because my relationship is just starting to take off -"
"As soon as you graduated you signed for this team." Mia interrupted me with a fact. "The week after you signed, the team went to Dubai for a training session - for a month. If you're arguing that your relationship can't handle the separation then you're lying."
I just sighed and finished dressing in silence.
"It's not the separation that's the problem." I admitted; I could trust Mia. She's probably the best friend I have that I don't share genetics with.
The rest of the team had either left, in the shower or in the sauna so I knew we wouldn't be interrupted for a while.
"It's Scorpius...he doesn't feel comfortable with me going back to New York, not after last time." I moved to sit on the bench, resting my back against the wall and closing my eyes - completely exhausted after that intense training session. We only took a break to have some lunch and that was six hours ago.
"Why not? Because Scott will be there?" Mia asked me, I opened my eyes to look at her as we spoke and frowned again when I saw her not even looking at me. She was just re-arranging her locker.
"Yeah. He won't even go to my house because Scott's been there." I told her, standing up and going back over to my locker so I could grab my wand and magically dry my hair.
"Bit hypocritical isn't it?" She muttered, when I turned to look at her I saw she wouldn't even meet my eye and looked highly uncomfortable.
"It's understandable." I argued.
"Look, Lily - I didn't want to tell you this but...I think I have too." She sighed and turned to look at me, forcing herself to look me in the eye.
"Scorpius is acting like it's just you that's the problem...well after you left to go to New York I saw him in a club, we got to talking and..." I felt every single ounce of strength drain from my body.
A part of me wanted her to stop talking, to leave and to not come back.
"Go on." I forced out, a bigger part of me wanting to know everything she had to say.
"And he made a pass at me. He kissed me but I promise I pushed him away. I tried telling him he was drunk but he told me he was only tipsy and that I shouldn't feel guilty because you'd left him - but I knew then and I know now you love him!" She practically begged me.
"I told him he was hurt, ignorant, angry and grieving and to go home and wait for his wife, which is what he did! But Lily," She reached out to take me hand gently. "I believe you when you say nothing happened with Scott in America, I just think you should know that Scorpius isn't as innocent as he makes out." She whispered.
It took me nearly an hour to gain the strength to leave the changing room; and it took that time for me to convince Mia that I wasn't mad at her.
I believed her when she said she pushed Scorpius away; she's my friend and I believe and trust her.
It's the man I was married to that I don't trust.
I apparated home first to change into comfortable clothes, I could sense a long night of arguments ahead and I didn't want to do it in the outfit I was wearing.
I quickly dressed in a black blouse, a black skirt, black tights and black pumps, wearing a very expensive thick gold bracelet to bring out some colour.
Once I was dressed I apparated straight into Scorpius' apartment, landing in the hall.
Straightaway I could hear voices coming from the sitting room; I walked into see a room full of Malfoy's and Jackson's.
Astoria and Draco were sitting on the sofa talking to Robert and Michelle Jackson, Selena and Demi's parents.
Scorpius was nowhere to be seen but Demi was sat at the long dining table with some of her sisters, Selena included.
"Kitchen." Demi smiled when she saw me looking for Scorpius.
I nodded slightly and headed there.
Scorpius was standing with James, Albus and some of Selena's brothers.
"Oh hey, I didn't know if you would be coming tonight." Scorpius nodded when he saw me.
I went to say something but one of the Jackson brothers, Robert Junior I think, handed me a bottle of muggle beer. Needing some dutch courage, I took a long swig.
"I thought you said you weren't going to drink any more?" Scorpius scowled when he saw what I was doing.
I let out a deep breath and looked at the bottle in my hands as I spoke slowly. "I did. People go back on their words though...some people do that a lot." I forced my eyes to look around the room; all of the guys could sense an argument brewing between the two of us.
Selena's three brothers looked severely uncomfortable, Albus was stood with his eyes closed and James was looking at me through concerned eyes.
"Lily -" Scorpius began; I could tell straight away he was going to tell me to shut up or to go in the other room, so I got in there first.
"I had a little talk with Mia today." I told him, looking him square in the eye and scrutinizing his reaction.
He narrowed his eyes and his shoulders slumped a little, but other than that his posture remained the same; cool, laid back and uncaring.
He ignored the glares that my two brothers gave him.
"That must have been nice for you." He eventually said, taking a drink from his bottle.
I felt like a knife had been stabbed into my stomach and he just twisted it while laughing in my face.
"Surprisingly...it wasn't." I spat at him.
"We'll give you guys some space." Marley Jackson cleared his throat and led his brothers from the room.
"Lily, are you going to be alright?" James asked me quietly; I looked away from Scorpius to see my oldest biological brother standing and looking at me through kind, caring eyes. Albus was stood on Scorpius' other side looking at me through a similar expression.
"I'll be fine guys. I'm not staying long." I assured them with a nod.
When the two of them passed me, James gave me a quick kiss on the forehead while Albus stopped and looked from the two of us slowly before shaking his head and walking out, closing the door firmly behind him.
As soon as the door was closed, Scorpius started;
"So what's with the dramatics then Lily - are you crazy?!" His drawling, laid back attitude had reached its peak with me, before I know what I was doing I had thrown the glass bottle at his head; with me being a superb Chaser my aim was perfect, but with him being a superb Auror, he moved in time to receive only a little bit of beer in the face.
"You tried it on with Mia?" I hissed at him; not caring that the entire living room will have heard the glass shatter against the wall.
"Yeah -"
"She's my friend!" I yelled, extremely hurt that he didn't even try to deny it.
"And I was your husband!" Scorpius moved closer to me; I briefly noted he wasn't using his cane or crutches. "I was your husband and you left me alone while you went to seek comfort from Williams' dick!" He spat at me, glaring down at me.
I moved closer too so that the island was separating the two of us.
"I did NOTsleep with Scott in America!" I screamed in his face, or as close to his face as I could get. "Nothing happened until I came home and we both decided our marriage was over!" I banged my fist on the island in frustration, not caring for the ache it caused.
"I don't believe you -"
"I don't really care any more if you believe me or not." I interrupted him again with a short shrug.
"You can believe me or not, it's your problem now. But the reality is that I was the only one who was faithful in our marriage - you're the one who cheated. Making a move on my friend and then telling her that she shouldn't feel guilty?" I didn't even need to shout to get the truth across; he understood how I felt plainly.
"How about you? Do you feel guilty?" I asked him seriously. "When even was it? Before you went to Sophia's? After?"
"The weekend after we found you." He admitted, looking me right in the eye. "The second weekend that your face was plastered all over every damn newspaper and magazine across the world as Scott Williams' latest girlfriend." He spat out, his scowl turning into a glare.
I nodded my head slowly and turned so I could walk around the kitchen, not caring when I crunched some glass into the floor.
"That weekend...do you know what I did that weekend?" I asked him, looking at him briefly; he had turned so he could follow my every move with his eyes. His intense, serious, Auror-trained eyes that didn't miss a trick.
"Fucked Scott Williams senseless?" He asked me in an acid filled tone.
"No, no I didn't. I spent that weekend in counseling. I spent that weekend talking about everything that happened that resulted in me being there, that resulted in us being like this." I waved a hand in between the two of us. "I spent that weekend, the weekend you tried to sleep with one of my best friends, that very same weekend, crying over Olivia, begging to have swapped places with her. Pleading to be dead and for her to be alive." I told him through gritted teeth, surprising myself at how cold my voice had gotten.
I saw him flinch when I said that; but I didn't care if I upset him.
"The next month was the same - Scott and his counselor helped me get past it - to move on from it. That's what I did there." I stepped closer to him and stopped when I was practically skin-to-skin contact with him. "I didn't have wild, adulteress sex. I grieved in private, I got help from a very dear friend. All while you were trying to bone my best friend." I whispered, reaching up on my tip toes so that I could whisper that last part directly into his ear.
I wanted him to hurt, to feel guilty, to feel remorseful over what he did.
I didn't give him time to reply - I didn't care much for his reply.
I just turned away and walked towards the door.
"Wait!" I heard him talking but I carried on walking; intending on going to his bedroom and collecting the few belongings that I had in there and then leaving.
I opened the kitchen door and walked down the short hallway and into the living room, stopping slightly when I saw all of Scorpius' dinner guests looking shocked and guilty to have been caught trying to listen to our conversation.
"Lily -" James stood up the same time Albus did.
I just looked over my shoulder briefly to see Scorpius hurrying out of the kitchen, only limping very slightly.
"I'm fine guys, I'm just going to get a few things and then leave. Sorry for interrupting your night." I didn't bother looking back at Scorpius as I moved through the guests to get to the door that led into his bedroom.
As I passed through the living room, I realised that a lot of the things in there were still mine.
A couple of the chairs I bought, a lot of the photo's on the walls belonged to me - even the dining table was mine!
I made a mental note to ask for them back as I walked into the bedroom.
"Lily, look I can explain, just please look at me." Scorpius practically begged; I knew the people in the sitting room would be able to hear, so I didn't bother in replying. I just quickly collected the small amount of clothes and toiletries that I had in his bedroom and bathroom.
"Do you mind if I borrow this? I'll send it straight back." I grabbed a small backpack from the walk-in wardrobe and used it to put my belongings in. Once I was all packed I grabbed the strap of the backpack and walked out of the room, trying to ignore Scorpius walking backwards right in front of me.
"Scorpius please move out of my way." I sighed when he stopped me from walking anywhere.
"Scorpius, you're embarrassing yourself in front of your family and friends." I shook my head at him and tried to move.
"I don't care! Just please listen to me -"
"Why? So I can hear your pathetic excuses?" I snapped and straight away regretted it - I didn't want to have another public argument. Nothing in my life can be private.
"No, so I can tell you that I love you that it was a mistake and -"
"And it meant nothing?" I finished for him. "That she meant nothing and she was just there?" I mocked, shaking my head in disgust.
"Yes! It didn't mean anything! Mia was just there and...and it could have been anybody!" He nodded his head and took both of my hands in his and pulled me closer to him.
"Scorpius, please let go of me. I just want to leave." I whispered, looking up into his face and biting back the part of me that felt like crying when I saw tears in his eyes.
"No...I don't want you to go; I can't let you walk out on me again, please." He whispered back.
A tiny part of me screamed at myself to just forget what happened and to hug him and wipe his tears - but then the bigger part reminded that smaller part that he kept quiet what he did for nearly a year and that at first he didn't even seem guilty; it was only when I made it clear we were over did he feel guilty.
He thought he could treat me like rubbish and get away with it.
"We've been back together for two months - and in that two months you haven't shown me an ounce of respect. You've let me nurse you back to health, take you to appointment after appointment, put up with your snappy attitudes and what? At the same time you were laughing that you'd tried it on with my best friend and gotten away with it?" I pushed his hands off me and stepped backwards.
"When everything came out over Scott and me, you made me feel two inches tall." I spat at him, all previous thoughts and feelings about dignity and wanting to leave without creating a scene flying through the window.
"And then Mia tells me you tried it on with her before everything - you're a liar, a hypocrite and we're done." I took another look around the room and felt a stab of pity when I saw Draco and Astoria look at their son guiltily, the Jackson's all look extremely uncomfortable, James glaring at Scorpius and Albus looking at me with a worried expression.
"I'm leaving now. Goodbye Scorpius."
"I'll give you a couple of days to cool off and then maybe we can talk...like Wednesday or something -"
"A couple of days?" I repeated and shook my head. "Oh no, I'm going to America tomorrow."
"You said you didn't want to go to America." He frowned and looked confused for a second before he closed his eyes and sighed.
"I lied; I lied and said I didn't want to go because I wanted to stay and work at our relationship...but you threw all chances of that out of the window, didn't you?" I didn't want to deal with any more arguments so I simply walked past him, turning to avoid having to brush by him, and walked out of the apartment with my head held high.
Rhiannon,
I won't be in training today. I know that you said that personal relationships should not make an impact on training and I'm sorry but I just can't make it in today.
I should also tell you that I've decided to go train with the Lions. My Aunt Angelina will be in touch regarding the paperwork.
I'll be leaving tomorrow.
Lily Potter.
I sent the letter as soon as I woke up.
After I sent that, I showered and dressed - making an effort to show people that even though I was emotionally crushed on the inside, on the outside I was fine.
I dressed in a neck to foot tight grey dress, putting a long sleeved leather jacket that stopped at my ribs on over that. I brushed my hair until it was poker straight and let it hand down my back. I applied black eye make up, making my hazel eyes really shine and stand out.
I topped my look off with a black leather across the body bag where I stuffed my wand in.
First place on my list was Aunt Angelina's; there I told her that I was going to America the next day and for her to release an official statement to the press saying I was taking the Lions up on their offer to train there for three weeks and that regarding my previous statements about being fine and happy in England, I was now rethinking and taking all my offers into account.
Since it was early enough, I knew she'd be able to get it in time for the afternoon edition of the Prophet.
The second visit on my list was my parents; unfortunately I couldn't see them both at the same time. My father was working all day and my mother was in France, commenting on a friendly match between France and Italy.
I apparated into the ministry entrance and made my way up to the Auror's headquarters, smiling and waving to my Uncle Ron when I passed him.
"Daddy?" I knocked on the open door before I stepped in.
From the warm smile that he gave me, I knew straight away what happened last night had already gotten around the family.
"Hello baby girl, come on in." He waved me in so I walked in and shut the door behind me.
"I'm guessing Albus and James told you what happened last night?" I guessed, moving to sit in the chair opposite his desk.
For a minute, Dad looked uncomfortable and looked down at the folders on his desk before he spoke.
"No...Scorpius and Dominique returned to work this morning. Selena told me why Scorpius was distracted. I also got a notification from the Editor of the prophet about five minutes ago that there would be an approved story and statement from you in their afternoon edition." He leant back in his chair and looked at me through sad eyes before he continued.
"So I'm guessing you're releasing a statement saying your relationship is over for good...or you're releasing a statement saying you're going to the States." He sighed and smiled at me sadly.
"I leave tomorrow. I wanted to tell you and Mum before you read it in the paper."
Dad smiled again but he didn't have to say anything; I knew what he'd say and he knew what I'd say back.
We simply sat and discussed the exciting three weeks ahead of me.
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