A/N – disclaimer I do not own Harry Potter.
Personal note - I have changed my pen-name from 'misspotter94' to 'nadenelouis3'
Nadene is my actual name and I don't want to have an alias any more.
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Lily's P.O.V.
"Hello this is Scott Williams, I can't talk to you right now so please leave a message and I or my assistant will get back to you."
I scowled and rolled my eyes when I reached the answer phone of Scott once again.
"Scott, its Lily again – just call me when you get this message. We need to talk." I tossed my phone on the bed and headed into my wardrobe, pulling my robe loose on the way. I grabbed the first underwear set at random and pulled them on before I headed back out and out of the bedroom. I picked up one of the letters that Angelina forwarded to me from the Quidditch Correspondence and opened it as I headed down the stairs into the kitchen.
"It is with great regret that we tell you we are forced to take legal action regarding your recent actions concerning your position within the England National Quidditch team . . . "
"Recent actions?" I muttered to myself, glaring down at the letter in my hands informing me that I was being sued. "Recent actions? I fell fucking pregnant you complete and utter dickheads. I swear to fucking –"
"Good evening to you to."
I whirled round in the entrance to the kitchen and saw Scorpius, Dominique, aunt Fleur, Jenna and my mother sitting around my living room. Scorpius was standing in front of the window and when he saw me in my state of undress he cleared his throat and turned to look out of the window intently. My mother and aunt Fleur rolled their eyes, Dominique smirked and Jenna blushed and looked away from me and certainly not in Dominique's direction.
"Wh-what are you all doing here?" I gasped, putting a hand over my heart and feeling it beat at a mile an hour.
"We knocked you didn't answer so we let ourselves in." Dominique shrugged. "Wanna put some clothes on Lil? I don't know whether Jen or Scorpius is gonna jump you first." She teased.
I stuck my tongue out at her but headed further into the kitchen to put on the clothes that I had laid out before I headed into the shower.
"They're suing me?!" I called out as I pulled on the short skirt.
"They're doing me as well, don't worry about it!" Dominique's voice got louder and closer. I looked up and saw her head into the kitchen following me; she too looked really pretty in a pair of high-waist shorts and a dusty pink tucked in shirt. Her usually long and wavy blonde hair was scraped up into tight sock bun.
"Don't worry about it? I've been served! They want millions!" I screwed the letter into a ball and tossed it to her which she caught easily. I grabbed the shirt I laid out and pulled it on as I walked into the living room.
"Wow, they're only suing me for breach of contract – holy fucking Merlin –"
"I swear our daughters have more of a foul tongue than all of our sons put together." My mother pursed her lips and shook her head when she saw me walk in with my buttons still undone. "Lily! Would it kill you to dress properly – "
"First of all, I'm not exactly naked. Second – this is my house and you broke in." I scowled at her and sat down in my chair where my make up bag and small mirror were ready for me. "And everyone in this room has seen me naked more than once – except Jenna. Sorry." I rolled my eyes and pulled my make up bag to my lap.
"They're suing her for four million." Dominique held the letter out to Scorpius who whirled round and snatched the letter from her.
"Four million?" he yelled. "How much did they pay you?"
"One and a half up front . . . and then they were going to give me one million if we got to the quarter finals, two for the semi finals and five for the final . . . ten if we won." I muttered as I applied lipstick. I slipped into the black wedges that I decided to wear.
Scorpius scowled as the other women in the room seemed to be completely overwhelmed by the sheer amount of money that I could have been paid.
"So out of a potential, let's just say twenty million you got one point five and they want four back in compensation for . . . – don't worry babe, they're not getting a penny." Scorpius assured me. He came over to sit on the arm of my chair and read over the letter in his hands.
"I'll speak . . . to Al tomorrow . . . it'll be fine." I smacked my lips together and dug for perfume in my make-up bag. "Um, not to be rude but why are you here?" I looked up at Scorpius after putting makeup in my clutch bag and a smaller bottle of perfume. Scorpius looked up from the letter and widened his eyes.
"Oh yeah, um – I'm gonna go to Wales tomorrow with my mother and father, spend the day with Grandmother Greengrass." He scowled and rolled his eyes. I laughed lightly, already knowing that Astoria either blackmailed or bribed her son into spending an entire day with the world's most horrid woman. "So I came to tell you I'll see you Monday . . . and to, erm . . . " he blushed a little, got up and slowly walked over to where he was previously standing. He bend and picked up four bouquets of flowers; a beautiful selection of different coloured lilies, a pretty selection of daffodils a bunch of expensive looking red roses and a bouquet of pure white daisies. He also had one little gift bag hanging off of his pinkie finger.
"Happy mother's day." He smirked a little and handed my mother the roses. He came over to me and handed me the lilies, he surprised me by handing the daffodils to Jenna and finally moved to stand in front of Dominique and handed her the daisies.
A part of me wanted to ask why he was giving Dominique flowers but when she took them with a huge grin and placed one hand on her flat stomach it clicked. The small part that wanted to ask vanished and instead it inspired my smile. I saw Dominique look up from her flowers to Jenna and then her ecstatic smile grew even bigger when she saw her girlfriend smiling at the flowers too.
"Scorpius! These are gorgeous!" my mother delicately placed her flowers on the coffee table and hurried over to hug Scorpius tightly. She kissed his cheek and then smiled lightly at me.
Dominique hugged him tightly and Jenna awkwardly nodded at him.
Scorpius turned to me finally. I placed my flowers next to my mothers and then wrapped my arms around his neck and pressed my lips against his. "I love you. So bloody much." I whispered; the wedges made the two of us the exact same height so it was easy for me to rest my forehead against his. Scorpius moved his hands to my hips and pulled me closer to him.
"You know . . . maybe I could meet my parents at Greengrass Gables tomorrow morning." He whispered suggestively. I felt his smirk against my lips and I couldn't help but let out a giggle. I tried to nod but really my face just moved up against his so we were Eskimo kissing.
"Okay, put my daughter down. We have reservations and I am starving and we also need to be at the concert by eight." Mum tutted and picked up her wrap.
"I'll meet you there." I mock-glared at her. My mother, aunt, cousin and Jenna all laughed lightly but one by one apparated out of my house.
Scorpius chuckled slightly and shook his head. "You didn't have to do that." He smirked down at me. "I need to get going myself. A few of the guys are heading over to James'. We're having our own guys night."
"Guys?"
"Yeah. Me, Al, Bobby, James, Freddie, your dad, Ted, your uncles, Lou, I think your granddad . . . and Hugo too." He nodded. I laughed and shook my head.
"So every male in my family." I rolled my eyes. Of course they'd use this mothers and daughters night out as an excuse to drink beer, make disgusting sounds and smells with their bodies and talk women – well excluding Teddy, Bobby and now Scorpius.
Those three are constantly under strict instructions to keep comments about their sex lives to a minimum since they're the in-laws.
Scorpius smirked and nodded his head. "James is inviting a few of Dem and Selena's brothers too." He added. "I want to give you something . . . you don't have to accept it if you don't want it." He held up the small gift bag that was in his hand.
I looked down at the bag briefly before I looked up at him curiously. When he held the bag out I took it hesitantly and pulled out a small wooden jewellery box that held the overly familiar Malfoy family crest on it. The box itself is worth at least a couple of hundred galleons so I knew that whatever jewel was inside it must be worth at least ten times that.
I pulled the lid of the small box open and felt my breath catch in my throat.
Resting on a small velvet bed was the most beautiful ring I have ever seen in my life. A true Slytherin ring. It was thin but beautiful. The silver formed a knot though and inside the knot was the most precious stone I have ever seen in my life.
"Jade." Scorpius whispered. I looked up from the ring to see his eyes burning into my own. The grey in his eyes was blazing with emotion, with love and want and everything that I knew was burning through my own eyes. "It's a knot ring. My great-great-grandfather Septimus Malfoy had it made for my great-great-grandmother Evangeline Crabbe. According to the archives in one of the older vaults, Septimus sent her it while she was a fifth year Slytherin student and he was a graduate working for his father, Nicholas', company. Knot rings symbolise a relationship where promises and vows aren't quite tied up yet . . . but they hold all of the intentions. It's a promise ring." He explained as I looked back down at the ring.
The silver twisted into a knot and inside the knot sat the most precious and beautiful Jade stone I have ever seen.
"You remembered." I let him pull the ring out of the box. Ten years ago when we first got together I told him my favourite jewel was a Jade stone but he never bought me anything Jade. I have several jewellery boxes in my loft full of diamonds, rubies, crystals and a hundred more beautiful pieces of jewellery with all forms of jewels but never has he given me a Jade before.
"I remembered." He repeated. I let him take the bag and box from my hand and drop them down on the chair beside us. I bit my lip when he gently put it on my left ring finger. "I was always going to give you a Jade for our tenth anniversary . . . but things –"
"I love it." I pressed my lips against his, once, twice, three times.
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I hurried through the restaurant a mere thirty minutes after my family. I waved off the welcome waiter and headed for the table where I could see aunt Fleur laughing at something. They were sitting at a rectangular table, with my mother and aunt sitting at either end. Dominique was sitting next to her mother, with Jenna on Dom's right. I quickly decided where to sit, on the empty row of chairs opposite Dom and Jenna or one seat up from Jenna and on my mother's left side. Considering Victoire and Selena were coming to join us I decided on sitting on my mother's left.
"Well, well, well – look who finally decided to show her face!" my mother scolded me as I sat down.
I couldn't keep the smile off of my face even though the four of them were shooting me disapproving looks.
"Really? Blew us off for sex?" Dominique mocked. I opened my mouth to correct her when she interrupted me. "Your shirt was fastened a button higher a half hour ago." She pointed out.
I glanced down and saw that more of my chest was on display than intended but still shrugged. "We didn't have sex. I'm here and he's gone to James' house." I told her honestly.
"Scorpius? Yeah he came in as we were leaving; he's a very happy man tonight." Selena said as she dropped into an empty chair on the opposite side of the table, on my mother's right so she was directly opposite me. Demi sat in the space between Jenna and I and Zoey went to the other side of the table, sitting next to Selena, leaving an empty chair next to Fleur for Victoire to sit in.
I smirked at Dominique and knew she understood why Scorpius was heading to my brother's house a very happy man right now. Demi watched our brief exchange and inclined her head towards me.
"You totally gave Scorpius a blowy didn't you?" she teased me. Dominique heard and she and Jenna giggled lightly.
"What's funny?" Victoire asked her sister when she sat down next to Selena.
"Lily's sex life –"
"I don't want to know." Mum shook her head and held up a finger and pointed from me to Dominique and then to Demi. "You girls – be good!" she playfully warned us three.
Demi opened her mouth in pretend outrage as Dominique acted shocked. I just rolled my eyes and picked the menu up.
"We're always good!" Demi protested weakly.
"Have you got a problem?"
I looked up from my menu when I heard Dominique snap at someone.
Jessica O'Keefe was standing behind Victoire, Zoey and Selena, looking from Dominique to Demi and then to me. I watched through narrowed eyes as her eyes zoomed in on my left hand which was on the table.
Her face turned into a heavy scowl, making it look like she had swallowed something sour.
"Wipe that skank look off of your face before I knock it off." Dominique hissed.
"Pregnant." Jenna and Victoire reminded her at the same time.
"Well I'm not and I'll happily smack it off her face." Demi sneered.
I looked from Demi, to Dominique and then up to Jessica with a heavy sigh. "Is there something we can help you with?" I asked politely.
"No matter how many rings he gives you, he'll toss you aside." She looked down at the ring on my finger. I felt the eyes of everybody around the table head to my finger so I spread my hand out so they could all see. "Ask his whore." She nodded at Demi who stood up but Jenna grabbed her arm. "No matter how many times he tells you you're special and that –"
She was cut off from speaking because the jug of water in the middle of the table floated until it was just near her head and then it poured over her, soaking her right through her expensive looking dress.
"Dominique!" Fleur hissed.
Dom just shrugged and grinned. "Wasn't me."
We looked towards Demi who smirked at Jessica as she stormed away, creating a trail of puddles in her wake. "Nope, if it was me I'd have chucked the damn thing in her face." She watched her leave the restaurant.
"Ginny Potter, tut tut." Aunt Fleur looked down the table to where my mother was discreetly putting her wand back in her clutch bag.
"She insulted my girls in front of me and I won't have that." Mum shook her head and looked from me to Demi. "Nobody upsets my girls and gets away with it." She reached out and touched Selena's arm and mine and smiled towards Demi.
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When Lucy finished on a particularly high note we all stood up to applaud her; the sounds of thousands of people stamping their feet and clapping their hands was quite deafening.
I settled back down in my chair in between my mother and Demi and looked at Lucy on the stage; no matter how many times I see Lucy perform I will never truly get over how much awe and respect and pride that runs through my veins whenever she's in the middle of a stage and singing her heart out or dancing up and down a runway in seven inch high heels or strumming on her guitar serenely with her eyes clothes – that girl really is the single most talented member of our family.
"Alright guys, this is the first time I've ever performed this song and it's another one for my mummy." Lucy spoke into her microphone as she kicked off her heels and the band behind her moved around quickly. "This is the song that my parents first danced to at their wedding and . . . it's like the track that I grew up listening to." She spoke to the one hundred thousand members of audience.
"Oh I love this song!" my mother gasped and looked down to where Aunt Audrey was holding a shaking hand over her mouth, her eyes swimming with tears.
I looked back towards my cousin and saw her ran a hand through her hair and clear her throat, which echoed all around the packed out arena.
When her voice started it was deep but beautiful.
"A-at last,
My love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song,"
Behind Lucy, on a huge screen which every member of the audience would be able to see, was a collection of photographs of my aunt and uncle, of Lucy and Molly and their mother.
"The skies above are blue,
My heart was wrapped up in clover
The night I looked at you,"/
The photographs of Lucy and her family changed to photographs of my grandmother and her children, then to photos of Lucy and Molly's other grandmother and their mother and uncle when they were young children.
"I found a dream, that I could speak to
A dream that I can call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known"
The photos changed to the last Weasley/Potter family portrait that we had taken, at Molly's wedding seven years ago.
"Oh yeah yeah
You smiled, you smiled
Oh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
for you are mine . . ."
The family portrait changed into photos of all of us. From Bill and Fleur on their wedding day, through my uncles Percy, George, Ron and then my own parents'. One of my uncle Charlie twirling a five year old Victoire round on the dance floor at my parents' wedding. Photos of baby Victoire, baby Molly, baby James and the rest of us with our parents. A photo of Dominique and I in nothing but our nappies standing in the sand on the beach close to her house both with huge grins on our faces. The photos continued as Lucy repeated the song at the very loud and eager demand of the thousands of people behind us. They moved from baby photos of my cousins and I to toddler photos, to our childhood and then our teen years. A photo of Molly and Percy dancing at her wedding. One of Lucy and Audrey at Hugo's wedding. One of all my female cousins, me and our mothers on the morning of my wedding.
My mother took my hand at that picture but I sent her a reassuring smile.
Lucy pulled the microphone away from the stand and ran a hand through and her hair. "I love you mum, grandma Molly, my sister, my cousins, my aunts . . . all of you have loved and nurtured me and made me who I am today. I love you all and happy mother's day. I need to go and change and pee and have a drink . . . ladies and gentlemen please give a warm hand for Scott WILLIAMS!"
My mouth fell open as I followed where she was pointing behind her.
Scott was walking out, dressed casually in a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and trainers. A guitar was in his hands.
Lucy half ran half danced towards him, hugged and kissed his cheek and then darted the way he came from.
"Good evening!" He stepped up to the microphone and grinned and waved out to the mass audience. "So . . . Lucy asked me to perform with her tonight – do you guys mind?"
I kept my mouth closed when the entire stadium yelled out one massive "NO!"
Scott laughed and pulled the guitar to the front of his body. "Unfortunately, I only have time to do one song and I'm . . . I'm going back to my roots. I wrote this song a few years ago and, well it's pretty obvious who it is about. I've played it a couple of times before and y'all seem to like it."
I closed my eyes tightly and let out a deep breath; I know which song he is going to sing.
I heard him sing softly before I opened my eyes and looked up at him. When he wasn't hiding behind lights and instruments and dozens of dancers, his voice was beautiful.
"Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered, for your touch
A long, lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?"
I stood up and grabbed my bag from next to my feet.
"I need to leave . . . uh, I can't be here."
My mother took my arm and shook her head. "No. No, you are staying and when he is finished you are going to his changing room and you are telling him about the baby." She told me firmly.
I opened my mouth to tell her to let me go and that I would tell Scott in my own time and in my own way but the words wouldn't come out.
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I had to wait in line for twenty minutes and then a security officer had to speak to his boss, and then they had to speak to their boss and then they had to speak to their boss who spoke to Taylor, Scott's body guard/driver/best friend, to make sure it was allowed for me to see him. Even then I had to wait outside of his changing room as he showered and changed.
"You can come in now."
I scowled heavily at the door before I pushed it open and walked in. He was sitting at a dressing table, tapping away at a small computer. I immediately knew what he was doing just from a simple glance – he was writing.
He was wearing large, black square rimmed glasses, had a pencil sticking out of his mouth as he chewed on it, his brow was burrowed in deep concentration and he was wearing the grey hoodie that he always wore whenever he was writing something serious. He looked younger, more relaxed and . . . and more like the Scott that I could see myself falling in love and easily spending the rest of my life with.
"Lily . . . you look –"
"I'm pregnant."
I snapped my mouth shut.
I didn't mean for it to come out that way. I wanted to tell him gently, carefully, slowly.
"Marry me."
"No."
"I'm pregnant and it's yours and I'm with Scorpius and we love each other and –"
"I don't fucking think so!" Scott stood up so quickly his chair fell backwards.
Experience from Scott losing his temper had me stepping back quickly, unfortunately for me that meant me pinning myself against the door.
"You're pregnant with my kid and you're shacking up with your ex? I don't fucking think so!" he snarled.
"You don't get a say in the matter –"
"It's my kid! I have every say in the matter!" Scott yelled. "It's my kid and I refuse to let him be anywhere around it –"
"I don't give a damn what you want –"
"I don't care what you want Lily, I'm saying no. I am not having that man be around my kid –"
I felt something inside me snap. Something deep inside me that I hadn't felt in a long time. I stood straighter and squared my shoulders, I raised my chin and glared down at the man in front of me.
"This baby isn't yours. This baby isn't Scorpius' – he's mine. He or she is my baby and he will stay with me for as long as I am breathing and if that means I'm going to live and marry and be in love with Scorpius Malfoy for the rest of my days then my baby will be there too –"
Scott stepped forward and slammed his hand against the door right next to me head.
I slammed my knee up in between his legs and pushed his shoulders away from me.
"NO!" I yelled at him. The force of my push and attack of his groin area had sent him falling to the floor in a heap, groaning and clutching his crotch. "No, you never touch me or scare me or intimidate me ever again." I reached for the door handle without looking away from him and quickly pulled the door open.
# # #
Scorpius was lounging on across the sofa in my house.
I apparated into my kitchen and was momentarily surprised to see him laid there, remote control in one hand and the other behind his head. He looked up from my television and smiled at me when he saw me standing there.
"Hey babe, you're home early." He glanced at the clock and then sat up when I kicked my shoes off and ran for him.
I flung myself on his knee and wrapped my hands in his t-shirt as my lips met his. He responded in kind, his hands went to my waist to keep me steady on his lap and he let me attack at his neck with my mouth.
"What hap –"
"Shut up and take my clothes off."
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A/N –
Disclaimer – I do not own the song's "At Last" by Etta James or "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brother's.
Sorry again for such a small chapter, but I think the ending was a pretty good way to end it.
I want to say I'll have a lot more time to write now since I've finished my first year of university but I now also have a job and I plan on doing as many shifts as legally possible, haha!
