lucyalbus (with implications of mollyjames & hugolily); "You make me weak," "I want you," & forever love
as requested by Vanity Sinning Starship Ranger
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Lucy Weasley is never a second choice to anybody.
It's not that she has to be everyone's first choice - just not anyone's second. She can't let Lysander hold her as she stains his collarbone with lipstick while he's giving her sister googly-eyes, and she can't let Scorpius eye that short skirt that shows off her legs while his arm is slung around Rose, and she can't let Albus date that Longbottom girl while he's always ready to give into temptation.
The looks between them aren't subtle, those looks of feverish want at family dinners, when their fingertips meet as he passes her a roll or as her thigh grazes his as she scoots in next to him. She wonders how their parents don't see it (or maybe they do, and choose to ignore), but she couldn't care less because whether they're oblivious or pretending, she knows this kind of thing has happened before - she's heard Molly moan James' name some nights, and smelt Lily's perfume all over Hugo.
"Stop," he whispers when she finds him in her dad's old room, looking for a spare shirt as his is stained with meatball sauce, and from the moment she sees him shirtless it all goes downhill. "You make me weak," he cries at her, but he has the ghost of a smile on his lips.
"I want you." she moans into his throat, scratching at him, clawing at him. "Get rid of that Jodi girl, Al - and come chase me."
And then he gives her this look that makes her heart fall out of her mouth and her intenstines twist up - that look of pure innocence and befuddlement that reminds her it doesn't matter that he wants her too or even that he's her cousin; it reminds her he's Albus Severus Potter, and he's innocent and quiet and shy and Lucy Weasley is anything but - Lucy Weasley is the devil personified, and she is ruining him.
He's the boy who desires forever love, romantic nights spent holding hands and taking boat rides on the lake - she's the girl who desires hot passion, romantic nights spent under the sheets with fresh bottles of wine always in the cooler.
But she knows he'll always be looking at her like this, but he'll always be looking at Jodi Longbottom like that, and knowing she's secondhand, second choice will kill her more.