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So...when I first wrote this...I don't even know how long ago, it was low *cough* highkey crappily written and the chapters were much shorter. This was originally 882 words. Now it is 2,302 words. That means I wrote an extra 1,420 words. Meaning I was less than 350 words away from tripling the word count.

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Love Z 3

Chapter 2. Ties Broken

Albus's eyes shot open as he felt someone shaking him awake. "What the hell, Lils?" His words still slurred with sleep, muttered out. He looked over to the side, expecting to see the ginger-red hair of his sister, but was instead met with the blonde of his friends. He gave Scorpius a confused look until he saw the robes on his friend and suddenly hit him. Albus practically jumped out of his bed and ran to get dressed. He heard Scorpius say something about it being 8:50 as he slipped his pants over his legs, nearly falling onto his bed doing so.

By the time that he was fully dressed and ready, class had already begun. And after they ran down the stairs and were rushing to their first class, Potions. The two quickly became thankful that they lived in the dungeons. But, even due to their Common Room being in the Dungeons, they had no clue where to go, it caused them to be nearly 10 minutes late and out of breath. When they noticed that the door ajar they assumed that they could slip in without being noticed, however Professor Slughorn did take notice. "Ah, there's our two missing students!" They jumped as they heard his voice and he laughed, "I was beginning to believe you were skipping class on your first day!" The two looked down, embarrassed that the Professor called them out on being late. "But it's no problem, just take a seat next to Miss. Green."

Scorpius and Albus walked over to where Anneliese was sitting. Once they sat down, they looked down into their laps. Refusing to meet anyone's eyes. Anneliese leaned over and whispered to the two boys, "I was beginning to think that you two weren't going to show. My god, you two."

"Well excuse me for not being used to having to be up by 8 am to be at classes at 9." Albus muttered back to her.

She rolled her eyes, "Technically, you should be up even earlier so you can eat breakfast."

Albus held back a groan, "Don't remind me! Now I can't eat until lunch...whenever the hell that is!"

Anneliese bit her lip, "Sorry Al. Hopefully you won't die." Albus leaned back as she leaned a little over him to talk to Scorpius, "And you?"

The blonde sighed and grabbed the text book from his bag, "I have nothing to say as I am usually up by 7 am." And all three of their attentions turned back to the board and all turned to the page that was written on the wall.

"By the way...your family, well mostly James, was staring at the Slytherin table for the majority of lunch. I just...thought you should know, y'know?"

Albus sighed and nodded as he began to take notes on what was written on the pages. He tried to ignore the sinking feeling in his stomach. He knew, full well, that for whatever James's reason for staring at the Slytherin table this morning wasn't good. And that he most likely was looking for Albus. Why? Albus didn't know.

Not yet...at least.

"First day of classes is done! You have no idea how long this day was!"

As Anneliese rolled her eyes at Albus, he stuck his tongue out at her. "Quit complaining Albus, we have 4 more days of this, plus Wednesday we have Astronomy."

His silly tongue-sticking-out face turned sour as he glared at her, "I hate you right now."

She just shrugged, "I know, but I'm not wrong."

Scorpius laughed, "She has you there Al."

Albus was about to retort about how Anneliese doesn't have anything, but he stopped in his tracks when he heard a voice call out to him. "Albus! Albus, wait!"

The three 11 year olds turned around and Albus gave a half smile to his cousin. "Rose! What's up?"

Once she caught up with them, she swung her curly red hair over her left shoulder and pulled her bag up her shoulder. "James wants to talk to you."

He raised an eyebrow, "What about?" While he looked at his cousin with genuine concern and question, his friends stared at her with suspicion. Of course, Albus didn't see this, but he had a good idea that they were.

Rose looked at Albus with shock, "Oh! I-I don't know. He didn't say." She glanced away from him for a moment, "All he told me was that he wanted you to meet him in front of the school doors."

He nodded and turned to his friends, "I guess I'll see you two in a minute." He sighed, "Guess I need to go see what he wants."

His friends gave him a concerned look, "You sure you wanna go alone?" Anneliese's voice was full of concern.

Albus nodded and waved her off. "I doubt James would do something to me. He's my brother, after all."

The two nodded and walked to the Great Hall, barely not seeing the look the multi-freckled girl gave them. But Albus did. And it took everything in him not to comment on it. Hoping that it was just a trick of the light. But he knew, deep down, that it wasn't. He was silent as he walked out to where he was told his older brother was. Thinking about what his brother could want. But he was sure that it had something to do with him being in Slytherin. It didn't take long for his eyes to find the unruly black hair, so similar to his own, of his brothers. "James?"

His brother turned around, the look of worry and concern was obvious on his face. "Albus!" He wrapped him into a hug, "I am so sorry that you're in Slytherin!" He pulled away and stared at Albus, "I never thought that it would actually happen! I only joked about it, cause y'know, your middle name is Severus and he was a Slytherin. I-I never thought that a Potter could be in Slytherin! I mean...I'm pretty sure that there hasn't been a single one of us who has been a Slytherin in the past, over 100 years! And I'm sure that we could always-"

"I actually like Slytherin, James." Albus crossed his arms.

James rolled his eyes, "Albus, you can't possibly be serious!" When Albus didn't budge on liking Slytherin, James ran an aggravated hand through his hair. "I've known those people for 2 years, they certainly are not nice!"

Albus scoffed and rolled his eyes, "Maybe to you! Maybe because, at least from what I've heard, you never even gave them a chance! C'mon Jamie, you said it doesn't matter what house I'm in! And mum and don't-"

James interrupted Albus, "I joked because I didn't think you would become a Slytherin! I've had 2 years of experience with those guys! You've only known them for a few days! You don't know anything about them!"

"I don't believe that! They've been nothing but kind! They accepted me into Slytherin without a question! They're a little rough around the edges, perhaps, but who's fault is that? Who's the one that gets assumed their bad purely because of their parents past mistakes and what house they're in?" Albus argued.

"What are you getting at Albus? Are you saying you're one of those...snakes?!"

"So what if I am? I am a Slytherin, James? I don't possibly understand how bad that could be!"

"You are a Potter! A Potter! We are Gryffindor's, not Slytherins." Albus noticed the venom that dripped from James's mouth as he said the last bit.

"I wonder how you would react if you found out who my friends are." He muttered under his breath, but unfortunately, James heard.

"Who? Who are you friends with? A Malfoy?"

Albus crossed his arms again, "Actually, I am! What's wrong with that, James? He's not his dad's past mistakes! Just like we aren't our dad's past rights! I-I mean seriously! What do you expect me to do? Not make friends with the kids in my house?"

"You already had friends, Albus!" James yelled. "Friends who were good for you! Friends whose parents were Death Eaters and Pureblood supremacists!" His face was stone cold with anger, "Rose told me she saw you with Anneliese Green." He was no longer yelling. "Did you know her mom went to Durmstrang? The biggest fucking school full of Pureblood supremacists. Their Headmaster was literally a fucking Death Eater."

Albus rolled his eyes, "Well, no. I didn't know about Anne's mom. But so what? Viktor Krum went there too. And he's not a bad guy. And I mean...shit, we had a Death Eater as a Headmaster."

Now it was James's turn to roll his eyes. "But Snape was a spy." He crossed his arms, "You can't be friends with a Malfoy and a Green."

Albus stared at James, dumbfounded. He scoffed, "Well guess what James? I am friends with them! Like I said, they aren't their parents! The war ended 19 years ago! Before any of us were even born! You need to let that go! Let-let past mistakes of parents go and not judge their kids because of it!"

"I can't believe it." James scoffed, "3 days and you've already been corrupted. I thought-actually, you know what. Nevermind."

Albus raised an eyebrow, "No. No, do finish the thought." When James said nothing. Albus let his arms fall to his sides and nodded his head softly, "Well, I haven't been corrupted, I am no different than I was before I was sorted." He pulled his bag up his shoulder as he turned on his heel and began to walk away. But, he stopped, not turning around, but still said one last thing and he only glanced back. "You know, they are right, you are an asshole who clings onto old stereotypes."

And with that, Albus walked away from his brother and went to join his friends in the Great Hall. He ignored their questioning looks as he sat down next to them. He just threw them a happy smile and started to grab some food.

A few days had passed since Albus's argument with James. He hadn't mentioned what was said to anyone. But everyone could feel the tension between him and his family. At first it was just James, but then it got to the larger scale and now people in classes could feel how tense things were between Albus and Rose.

And while Albus hadn't mentioned it to anyone. It seemed like James had. Or at least the letter from his parents said that he did.

Albus jumped when he heard the sound of a hand slamming down in front of him. "Alright, Albus, you have had a pissed off look since you got back from your talk with your brother. And now you're staring at that damn letter you got this morning! What the hell is up?"

He quickly put the letter in his back pocket and looked up at Scorpius confused, "What're you talking about? Nothing's wrong."

Scorpius just scoffed, "Nothing's wrong my ass. Don't you dare try and lie to me dude."

Albus's eyes looked down, "It's really nothing."

He heard Scorpius sigh and sit in the chair next to him, "I don't believe you. But whatever, I guess. But just know, I'm always willing to listen to whatever you have going on."

Albus shook his head, "I just don't want to talk about it. That's all."

Scorpius nodded, "Okay, I'll believe that. Well, on another note, do you have any understanding of what is happening in History of Magic? I promise that I'm listening to Professor Patil, but she's just...boring. The best thing about that class is her throwing glares at you and Rose. What's that for, anyways?"

Albus snorted, "My dad took her sister to the Yule Ball and my Uncle took her. I'm assuming she's still bitter over it."

"That's so…"

"Ridiculous?"

"Yeah."

"I'm gonna fucking murder your brother, Potter!"

Albus froze as he heard Aidan, Anne's oldest brother and the Head Boy, pissed off voice coming from behind him. He refused to look back to him, terrified of what his eyes may see if he did. So he cleared his throat, "W-why's that?" His eyes were glued to his lap.

"Why? Why?! Are you really fucking asking me why? That asshole just fucking cornered my fucking little sister and threatened her!" That got Albus to turn around. And now he saw the angry face of Aidan Green.

"What?"

"Yeah. The fucker said that she had to stop corrupting you or else she'd have to deal with him! Then fucking proceeded to have one of his fucking friends dump all of her shit into the goddamn toilet. Professors Longbottom and McGonagall are already dealing with his punk ass. But I fucking swear, if he doesn't stay in line and fucks with my family again, he's a fucking deadman. Got it?"

Albus nodded silently and watched as the 17 year old angrily walked away. "Holy shit. If I didn't hate your brother before. I sure do now. Who the hell does that to a fucking first year?"

"I-I don't know." He couldn't even believe James. Why would he do that? What would he even gain from it? Albus couldn't understand. One day James was saying how Albus needed to drop his Slytherin friends and now James is threatening them? It made no sense to him. Especially if he got caught by a member of the staff. The amount of trouble he could get into.

Was he really that determined to show Albus how much he hates Slytherin house? And if he was willing to threaten an 11 year old. Who knew what he would do when Albus was older.