Unknown betrayal - Bo's PoV
December 1997
I held Emma close to me as we danced. The jazz band that had taken over after Emma and Rhia were really good. I glanced at our parents. James was dancing with mum while Lily danced with Sirius. I couldn't find April at all but I didn't let that bother me.
"Hey, look at me." Emma said with a smile. I laughed and turned to look at her.
"Sorry, just making sure no one was watching." I said. She looked at me her look of curiosity. Despite everything about her being a player then nearly losing everything last year Emma was still so innocent. I liked her that way, her eyes showed how little she actually knew.
"Watching what?" She asked.
"This." I said before bending my head down slightly and pressing a kiss against her lips. Emma pulled away a little
"Ok, that's ok then" She said before kissing me again. I don't know how long we were kissing for before Emma was pulled away gently.
"Ok, calm it children." came Lily's voice. I opened my eyes to see Lily looking at Emma and me suggestively. "I hope you two weren't in the middle of anything." She said cheekily. Emma grumbled and looked away.
"Lily." I said happily. She smiled at me and tucked a strand of hair away from her face.
"Bo, you're looking much better, how are you doing? We don't hear much from you anymore." Lily said. That was true. I was busy trying to actually get a job. I'd found a nice little job working in a muggle shop. They didn't mind me having a few days off a month and it was only a little distance away from where I lived.
"I've been keeping myself busy." I told her. "Trying to get a job." Lily frowned.
"You still haven't got one?" She asked with some concern.
"He's got one in a muggle shop." Emma said, "Bye mum." Emma took my hand and tried to get away but Lily stopped her.
"Not so fast Emma." She said with a knowing look that made Emma walk off to break Rhia and Harry apart to try and talk to them.
"It's a nice job." I told Lily. "But I do miss the contact with the wizarding world." Lily gave me a slightly sympathetic look. She knew I hated sympathy as much as my dad did.
"Well, James might be able to get you a job at the ministry." Lily said.
"No, really, it's ok. It's nice not having people look at you then judge you because you're what I am." I said to her. Lily looked at me like I was being stupid.
"Bo, don't let something like that stop you. You have just as much potential as Remus did but he was scared of people judging him. It was only Jenny's love that stopped him from withdrawing within himself completely." Lily said, I looked at her sceptically. How could she know what it was like to be like me? Lily was perfectly normal. "At least let us try and get you some kind of job?"
"I don't know. I hated being at school and having everyone judge me like that." I told her truthfully. She touched my arm and gave me a reassuring smile.
"We won't let that happen, Emma won't let that happen. You know, I've heard she's rather proud about dating a werewolf." Lily said.
"Not so loud." I hissed to Lily. She gave me a knowing smile and was about to say something else when April interrupted us.
"Sorry to break you apart." April said, "Lily, Andrea's having a few problems so I took her back to Grimmauld Place. Lily frowned. Andrea was having problems? She seemed to be enjoying herself last time I saw her. She looked a little emotional but she still looked as though she was enjoying herself.
"What's wrong?" Lily asked.
"Seeing her parents together is a bit too much for her." April nodded towards Harry and Rhia who were now talking to Emma, Ron, Hermione and that Quidditch player...Jordan Winters was it? Well in any case Harry didn't look at all comfortable with the arrangement, I didn't blame him, Jordan and Rhia where quite close according to Emma. I excused myself from April and Lily and went to where Emma was sipping a cup of something. I didn't doubt that it could be alcoholic... never mind. I put my hand on the small of her back and put my mouth to her ear.
"You want to go for a walk?" I asked her. She turned to me curiously, her green eyes as inquisitive as ever.
"Ok." She simply said with a smile. I gave Harry, Rhia and Jordan a smile before taking Emma's hand and leading her away from what I could call the dance floor except we were actually on the quidditch pitch. Emma and I made our way through the throng of people in the crowd and to the main part of the building. We went up a few sets of stairs. At one point I was actually carrying Emma because she told me she had twisted her ankle...which turned out to be a lie by the way! Once we were at the ball room we went out onto the balcony that looked over the entire stadium. I put my arms around Emma as she leant against the railing of the balcony. Emma was beautiful and sometimes I forgot that she was still three years younger then me. She seemed really mature for a fifteen year old. She would finally be sixteen in six months but that didn't mean that we were going to do anything. Emma leant forwards as she looked over the balcony causing her hair to fall over one shoulder to reveal the back of her neck and her other shoulder.
"Look, it's mum and dad." She said pointing at a couple that look like Lily and James. "Oh, they're so going to do it tonight." Emma said with a frown. I laughed and pulled her closer towards me.
"And that's bad because?" I asked her.
"Think of your parents doing it! It's just disturbing, like when I found out mum was pregnant!" I felt Emma shiver in my arms. I fought the urge to laugh. Emma turned to look at me.
"What's so funny?" She asked.
"You are." I replied. Emma raised an eyebrow and gently pressed her lips against mine.
"You know, you do have a flat where there aren't any parents." Emma suggested.
"Do you really want to go?" I asked as I kissed her again. This time more passionately then I'd done all night. It wasn't that I was trying to seduce her, I really wanted to but she was just too young and I'd already decided that I'd wait until she was ready, not when I told her to.
"Wow." Emma said after the kiss. "After that I'm up for anything," she said as she snaked her arms around my neck. I placed my arms on the small of her back but carefully, as we kissed I moved them lower and lower. The heat of the night was really getting to me, I wanted nothing more then to take Emma back to my flat but her parents where here, I'd seen and heard the complaints from and about Harry and Rhia. I didn't want to have to be under parental supervision every time I saw Emma. Strangely though, her parents trusted her more then Harry when it came to relationships. I started kissing Emma's neck and let her play with my hair when I heard her gasp. I suddenly stopped and looked at her. She was looking at someone behind me. Turning I saw the person in the doorway clearly.
"Malfoy." I hissed.
"What are you doing here?" Emma asked as she pressed herself closer to me.
"Have to make an appearance at the social event of the year and if you haven't noticed, everyone who's anyone is here." He said with a sneer.
"You weren't invited." I said, stepping in front of Emma.
"Calm down Lupin, I'm not here to steal your girl just yet," Malfoy said, he looked past me to Emma. I didn't like the look he was giving her at all.
"You can leave now, you've made your presence known," I said to him.
"Have I? I'm barely noticed whereas you and your golden circle of friends get all the attention. I'm not leaving until I get some kind of attention from the press," He said.
"Fame isn't everything Draco." Emma said.
"Really? It's how you get known, I want to be known and I will be known, be it for a bad reason or a good one, now hands off MY girl Lupin." Malfoy said getting out his wand. Oh crap. I got out my wand but didn't hold it up ready for a duel.
"Seriously Malfoy, just walk away." I said, "You don't want to do this."
"You don't know what I do and don't want half-breed." He took a step closer and in the light that came up from the pitch he looked a bit rough, a bit like he'd been drinking. Drunk wizards are not good. I glanced at Emma and nodded for her to get help.
"I'm not leaving you to fight Malfoy," Emma said stubbornly.
"That's right I'm too powerful aren't I?" Malfoy said, "Emma, what can this half breed give you that I can't?"
"Draco, go home, you're obviously drunk," Emma said as she took a cautious step towards Malfoy. I kept hold of her hand but I had to let go once she got out of reach.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Malfoy said. He sent a curse at Emma, which knocked her to the floor.
"Don't you hurt her!" I snapped. I sent a hex flying at Malfoy, which hit him square in the chest. He stumbled back into the dark and empty ballroom. I went to Emma's side to see if she was alright.
"I'm fine, honest." She said with a wince. "Bo look out!" She screamed.
When I woke up Hermione was leaning over me.
"Are you ok?" She asked
"Hm, yeah." I said getting up uncertainly to be engulfed by Emma.
"Thank Merlin you're ok." Emma said. "I thought he'd sent an illegal curse at you" I gave Emma a quick reassuring kiss. My chest hurt so much, like someone had hit me with a sledgehammer.
"Malfoy doesn't have the ability to send those kind of curses, yet." said Harry from the Balcony door. I looked at the younger adults. Ron and Harry seemed to be exploring the inside of the ballroom.
"What are you guys doing up here?" I asked them. Emma and Hermione helped me to my feet. I felt a little shaky on them but I was ok once I held onto Emma.
"Hermione saw Malfoy down there." Ron said nodding to the pitch, "so we followed him and it turned out that he came up here to curse you."
"I've never seen him drunk before, what did he want?" Harry asked. I looked at Emma. Should we tell them?
"Uh, nothing." Emma said quickly. Harry looked at Emma sceptically.
"Emma." Harry said.
"It was nothing Harry." She said, "Honestly. Besides whatever his reasons were we'll be able to sort them out once we get to school."
"Well, we better tell you parents." Hermione said.
"No, don't tell them." Emma said. I looked at her.
"We really should." I told her.
"No, we shouldn't." She said directly at me. Emma had told me what she'd known about the future. Andrea had told me a fair share as well but all I really knew was that it depended on whether Emma and Malfoy got together or not. I would not let Malfoy get so powerful that he would be able to take Emma away from me.
"Yes we should, you know that the future depends on how powerful Malfoy gets!" I said.
"It does?" Ron asked. "Who told you?" Hermione looked at Ron like the question was absolutely absurd.
"Who do we know who's come from the future?" Hermione asked him tiredly. Ron looked at her slightly confused then he looked as though he realised who we were talking about. I had to admit that I liked Ron for his slightly slow wit. I'd never really envisaged Ron and Hermione together but here they were engaged...weird isn't it?
"We should get back." Emma said.
"To the party? Nah." Ron said, I saw him glancing at Hermione. She gave him a confused look.
"What?" She asked.
"Well you do have an empty house and I'm finding the party a little boring, I think we should all go to yours." Ron said.
"What have you been drinking?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing." Ron said defensively.
"Well, I'd go to Hermione's but I want to spend more time with Bo." Emma said. I put my arms around her almost protectively, I don't know why but it did feel comfortable.
"Well, I'm up for going round yours but I'll be a third wheel." Harry said.
"No one is coming round mine!" Hermione said.
"Why not?" Ron asked.
"Because…" Hermione said.
"Why do you have a free house anyway?" I asked her.
"Oh, Helena went with mum and dad to Scotland for the holidays. I'm staying with Ron." Hermione told us.
"Really?" Emma said with a note of curiosity.
"Nothing's happening." Hermione said. Both Ron and Hermione were becoming a bright shade of the colour red. We all started laughing then, fortunately Hermione and Ron also saw the funny side so we made our way down back to where the dancing was happening. Emma and I started dancing again while Harry searched for Rhia. I spotted her by the stage in Jordan's arms but they weren't dancing like they were a couple, just like if they were friends. I really hoped that Harry didn't take it the wrong way. Nope, didn't look like it. I stopped dancing with Emma and took it upon myself to try and keep the peace. I managed to intercept Harry before he reached Rhia and Jordan.
"They're just friends." I told him.
"Like hell they are. He has hidden agendas." Harry said, glaring at the quidditch star. He started again for Rhia and Jordan.
"Harry!" I said to him. I turned slightly to see what they were doing. Bad time to turn around. Jordan was leaning down with his mouth near Rhia's ear. Rhia laughed at that was it. I found myself on the floor and Harry on his way over to Rhia. I got up and went after him.
"Get off her!" Harry almost shouted as he pulled Jordan off Rhia.
"Harry, what are you doing?" Rhia asked him as she took his arm.
"That creep. I don't trust him." Harry said.
"Hey, I was just telling her something." Jordan said.
"Of course you were." Harry said with a huge amount of scepticism in his voice.
"Harry, I told you they're just friends." I said.
"What's going on?" Came Sirius' voice through the crowd. The crowd parted and Sirius looked at Harry about to hit Jordan in the face. Sirius' wand was out quickly and Harry froze in mid punch.
"Dad!" Rhia said turning around. Rhia may be annoyed but I felt rather relieved that Harry wasn't about to do something stupid. Thinking with his heart not his brains. I turned to Emma who came over to talk to Rhia.
"Rhia, over by your mother now." Sirius said. He turned to everyone else, who were watching. "Nothing to see, carry on." He said. Sirius was joined by James and Lily now who looked at their son with disapproving looks.
"Emma, do you mind going home?" Lily asked Emma.
"Can I go to Bo's?" Emma asked hopefully. I watched as Lily and James gave each other a weary look.
"Ok, whatever." Lily said, "Just be at home for lunch time tomorrow, we're having lunch at one." Emma nodded and hugged her parents one by one. I gave them a grateful smile but got pulled over by James.
"You hurt her and I'll know." He said. I nodded. I understood perfectly well. I didn't want James Potter cursing me to kingdom come. I took Emma's hand and led her away from the commotion. We passed April and Rhia on the way to somewhere where I could apparate us both back to my place. Yes, it was illegal but who cared? My girlfriend's dad used to be minister of magic and my godmother is head Auror. We found a little spot away from the main crowd, holding onto Emma's arm I apparated both of us to my apartment. Emma swayed a little as she appeared to lose her balance.
"Are you ok?" I asked her.
"Never apparated before." Emma replied. I smiled slightly and kissed her.
"Bo? You home?" Came a girl's voice…oh shit! Emma looked at me with an expression I couldn't read. The light came on and I looked into the face of my neighbour.
"Bo, you're home!" She said happily. Ladies and gentlemen, my neighbour Catherine! She had long brown hair that was tied into an untidy bun, her eyes were a blue grey colour and she was a nice person really except for one major personality flaw. She was in love with me. We'd first gotten along great after I'd given her my spare key but after that I kept finding her in my flat like it belonged to her. No matter how much I tried to get her to go away she still stayed in my house, I'd even tried to summon my keys back but that hadn't worked either.
"Cat, what are you doing here?" I asked her as I went to her and grabbed her arm.
"I didn't know when you'd be back so I just-"
"I told you not to come to my house!" I said through gritted teeth, I looked anxiously at Emma, who had her arms crossed. She didn't look impressed at all. I know how this must look to her and it's really not what it is. Catherine turned and looked at Emma.
"You must be Emma Potter, I've heard so much about you." Catherine said shaking me off and holding her hand out to Emma. Emma simply looked at her hand and then at me.
"Explain yourself Bo." She said coldly.
"She's just a neighbour, she comes over sometimes," I said.
"To do what?" Emma demanded.
"Oh, I just make him food, keep the house clean, you know that kind of stuff, since Jenny got cancer no one has been here to look after Bo, and you at boarding school and all." I rolled my eyes.
"Cat, my grandmother visits me three times a week, I do have someone to look after me, beside I don't need anyone to look after me-"
"And a few nights every month he has the worst nightmares, you can hear him sometimes through the walls." Catherine said.
"I know," Emma muttered. "I think I should go home Bo." She said.
"No, Emma, don't. It's not what it looks."
"How do you think it looks Bo? I'm never around, I'm at school for most of the year and you haven't exactly been very accurate with your letters it seems." Emma snapped at me. I turned to look at Catherine.
"Can you just leave!" I snapped at her.
"Ok, remember, if you need anything, I'm just down the hall." Catherine kissed my cheek like she always did and left the house. The moment the front door clicked shut I wiped my cheek. I found Catherine really annoying but I put up with her because she was a free house keeper. I turned back to Emma who was literally glaring at me. I'd always feared the day those green eyes were directed at me with that angry look.
"Seriously Emma it's nothing. She just does the housework." I said to her.
"It doesn't look like it." Emma said. "How do I know you're not cheating on me?" She said it like it was difficult to get out. I could see her shaking. Her rage was becoming apparent now. I went to her and held her tightly though she still remained tense in my arms.
"Emma, do you really think I'd cheat on you?" I asked her.
"No." She muttered.
"And I never will, you have to trust me." I said to her. Emma looked at me sceptically and scowled slightly.
"Alright, whatever, I'll forget it, now can you help me out of my dress?" Emma asked me. I smiled as she turned around. She pulled her hair over one shoulder to reveal the zipper on the back of her dress. It was so easy to take things further with Emma if I wanted to right now. Dare I try it? What if James and Lily found out? I decided to risk it. I kissed the back of Emma's neck. I felt her entire body tensing as I put my hands on her body. I kissed her shoulders and let my hands drift to the top of the zipper.
"Bo," Emma said turning around. I looked at her with a smile, her eyes still had that angry flare in them.
"Emma." I replied.
"I'm really not in the mood right now." She said. "Just help me get changed." I tried my best to stifle a disappointed sigh. I had to admit that I really wanted to get closer to Emma, like really really wanted to but I couldn't. I unzipped the dress then went into the living room. I guess I'd be sleeping on the floor today! Having no sofa was kind of annoying. I arranged the bean bags and cushions as best I could and took off the dinner jacket and untucked my shirt. I looked at the spot I'd be sleeping in and conjured a blanket and summoned my sleeping clothes.
"Merry Christmas." I muttered to myself. After I got changed I lay on the cushions and the floor and looked at the ceiling. I reckon bringing Emma back wasn't the best of ideas but then how was I supposed to know that Catherine would be here. I heard Emma clearing her throat. I looked up to see her in the doorway looking at me, she'd changed and was frowning.
"You don't have to sleep on the floor you know?" She said. I gave her a grateful smile but stayed where I was.
"Just to be on the safe side in case any adults do fancy dropping in on us." I said to her. Emma came over and sat next to me.
"No really, please." She said holding out her hand. I gave her a smile and sat up.
"Aren't you worried that I might do something?" I asked her. Emma laughed.
"You, do something to me, I'd like to see that." Emma said, "If anything you should be worried, you know what I'm like, or what I used to be like."
"I suppose" I muttered.
"So you'll sleep with me?" Emma asked me. I shook my head. I wasn't going to risk getting caught by any of the adults. Emma seemed to understand and made her way back into the bedroom.
A/N:-I have to kinda admit that i'm getting bored of this story...i wanna start a new one! only a Lily'James one...i like Lily and James. Anyway, going to africa for two weeks, leaving tomorrow so i'll be back on the 14th Sept. I may be able to write another chapter tonight, and if i do i'll give it to someone i trust to post it up while i'm away. Anyway, hope you like this chapter, it was originially going to be a Ron/Hermione chapter from Hermione's PoV but someone talked me out of it, saying that what i'd written was out of character for Hermione so, this is the result. Anyway, next chapter is Kaylee's chapter...then poss Hermione or Ron (I need to get htem in this story more) and then Orion possibly...i don't know which order i want the main features in my story to be...we'll see though. see you guys in 2 guys possibly