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jamie
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"You sitting with us today, Lils?"
"Thought I might check up and see how my big brother and his paramour are going," Lily replied, grinning and giving Scorpius a huge wink. "No one will object to me sitting here, will they?"
Scorpius laughed. "Lily, you've been sitting here on and off for the past four years, why would they bother now?"
"Well, " she said, squeezing in between the two boys. "After Al's performance at lunch, I rather think they're expecting front row seats at a more revealing show."
Scorpius looked around at the students and sure enough, there were several who were scowling at Lily. He blushed, wondering if everyone knew what they'd done earlier. Not that he regretted it; he would never regret anything he and Al shared. But they were private things for he and Al alone, not for the whole school to bear witness to.
Of course, next time they should probably be a little more circumspect in their actions. Anyone could have seen them.
"It wasn't that bad, was it?" Al asked. Scorpius could hear the embarrassment in his tone and when he looked up at Al he frowned when he caught his eye, mouthing "No regrets."
"No, not that bad. Not if you want to call making most of the girls so jealous they want to curse Scorpius," Lily replied, laughing at their red faces.
"They did not," Al protested.
"They did, Al. The rest of them wished they were Scorpius."
Al hung his head in his hands. Scorpius was glad that they hadn't dished up the food yet, or Al probably would have planted his face in his dinner.
"Bad luck for them, then that there is only one of me and I have a sexy boyfriend who hunted me down and had his wicked way with me." All Scorpius' attempt to make Al laugh accomplished, was to make him groan and bury his head deeper into his hands. Lily whacked him on the shoulder.
"Grow up, brother of mine. You two have something worth being smug over. So what if they know, or think they know what happened? So what? They're all just jealous they're not getting any."
"And thus, the reason for you sitting in between us would be?" Scorpius joked.
"One of the girls set up a recording device under the table. Someone thinks that you two can't keep your hands off each other and they wanted to watch. Personally, I can think of better things to perve over than my brother giving his boyfriend a hand job under the table."
Scorpius' mouth dropped open and he stared at Lily who grimaced and lifted his chin to shut it. "That is even worse, Scorpius dear. You'll give them ideas."
"Lily!" Al exclaimed. "Enough! You shouldn't even know all this stuff, let alone make jokes about it!"
"You two are too easy." Lily sighed and reached for a plate of food that had appeared on their table. "What is this?" she asked poking a piece of meat with a fork.
Scorpius took a look and picked up a smaller slice with his fork, lifting it to his nose and smelling it. "I have no idea, rabbit maybe?"
"Hm…rabbit. I haven't had that before. They say it tastes like chicken."
"I've never heard that," Scorpius replied. "My dad always said it was stronger, gamier than chicken, but that it was food for servants, so I've never had it, either."
Lily shrugged and put the piece on her plate, as did Scorpius. "You not eating, Al?" he asked, because Al was still sitting there with his head in his hands.
"Don't think I can show my face," he said dejectedly.
Lily laughed and Scorpius had to bite his lip to stop him from laughing, too. "They'll all just gush over you if you let it get to you and then I will be obliged to hex several of them after they make me listen to their opinions on how cute you are and how adorable you look when you blush and get all flustered."
Al snuck a glance at Lily, and Scorpius could see the tell tale smile lines around his eyes.
"You know how I hate listening to comments on how adorable and cute you are. You're my brother, Al, no girl should have to put up with that." Scorpius heard the teasing laughter in her voice along with the fondness.
Al took his hands away from his face and smiled properly. "In the interests of you not being docked house points for hexing half the fourth year girls, then."
"It's the least you could do," Lily added, tasting her rabbit. "Hm, not bad," she said. "Eat up boys, you need to replace all that energy you used at lunch time."
He could clip her over the ear in exasperation, but he was too glad that he had Lily as a friend and that he and Al had her support. Instead, he tucked into his dinner deciding two things. Firstly that his dad was deluded; the rabbit was really tasty even if it didn't taste of chicken, and secondly, now was not the time to bring up the subject of Davies. There would be plenty of time for that.