Draco Malfoy and the Potions Pupil

AN: Hello! Here comes more excuses for not updating very regularly; I started a new job. I promise I will get this all up and do the sequel, it just may take longer than expected. Oh and also it's one year today since I first posted Lily Potter and the Potions Professor. Wow, I can't believe that it's been over a year since I was sitting at work staring at my computer and thinking: hmmm, what if Harry's kid hooked up with Malfoy... LOL. And now I've spent pretty much every day since obsessing over the pairing. Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter 19: A Close Call

Draco was pacing back and forth in his office looking exceedingly distressed. His usually slicked back hair was falling in messy strings around his face. His mind was racing with a million different thoughts but the one that was the most prominent was; what if Harry found out? He knew full well what could happen and it wouldn't be at all pleasant. He kept expecting Potter to come bursting through the door at any minute.

"What are we going to do?" said Lily, her voice breaking into Draco's thoughts.

"I don't know..." he mumbled, hardly able to speak aloud.

Lily suddenly pulled something from her pocket and for a moment Draco thought she was pulling her wand on him. She seemed not to notice him flinch.

"I think I should get out of here," she said, ripping the packaging from around what he could now see was Secret Message Parchment, a joke shop item that was popular among the students for communicating secretly during lessons.

"Take this," said Lily, handing a piece of the paper to him. "We can use it to keep in touch. I don't think we should be seen together. I'll get to Albus before he gets to my father, I'll tell him to keep quiet."

Draco listened carefully, grateful that she was taking charge; that she had a plan at all.

"But what will you say?" he asked realising that while she did have a plan, it wasn't a very good one.

"I'll think of something," she said, providing no reassurance whatsoever.

She'd reached the door and looked back at him.

He was suddenly overcome by a strange sense that the end was near but he managed a small smile and crossed the room to her. He kissed her quickly on the lips and then stared at her for a moment. She had the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen and he felt the familiar quickening of his heart beat as he looked into them. It was usually a welcomed feeling but today it was just painful.

"Be safe," he managed to say and then she was out the door and gone.

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Draco locked the door once Lily had left but as he did so he reflected on how weak of an action it was. If Potter found out the truth no lock on a wooden door was going to stop him.

Draco was still holding the parchment in his hands. He looked down at it; still blank. The clock which hung on the wall ticked loudly reminding Draco that with each second that passed, Albus was that little bit closer to revealing Draco and Lily's secret to Harry Potter.

Then, for the first time, his thoughts turned to Scorpius. He knew that his son was still not coping with Astoria's death. The truth was neither of them had even tried to cope at all and now Draco had moved on to someone else. How would Scorpius take the news? If Albus succeeded in his mission Scorpius would undoubtedly find out. It was yet another thing that would push Scorpius further away. While Draco had avoided the subject in the past, even within his own thoughts, he knew that he had not been a good father in the past few years.

A sudden noise caused Draco to jump and he swung around to face the door again. A tiny mouse scurried past and he felt a sense of both relief and embarrassment. He pulled his wand out and fired a spell at the innocent creature causing it to run off and under the door. Draco checked the clock again; time was moving so fast. Where was Lily? Where was Albus? Where was their father? He looked down at the parchment again; blank.

His wand was still in his hand so he decided to use it and began casting protective charms on the doorway. He was really getting worried now; if Albus had wanted to he could easily have been back in Hogsmeade by now. Harry could be on his way to the dungeons right now. It wasn't until now that the idea to flee struck Draco; why hadn't he considered it before? He frowned at the thought of his strange behaviour. Before he could think on it too long however he caught sight of something moving on the parchment which he still held. Looking down he saw some words appearing; Albus is taken care of in Lily's hand. Draco stared at the sentence for a moment. She'd done it. Lily said she'd stop Albus and she had. Crisis adverted; could it really be that easy? He felt a wash of relief sweep through him and he whole body relaxed. He walked to his desk, picked up and quill and wrote; thank you on the paper. As he tapped his wand upon the words and watched them disappear he smiled to himself. They had gotten away with it, for now at least, and that was all that mattered. He didn't care how she'd done it but Lily had stopped Albus from telling their father and she'd done it to protect him, Draco Malfoy. Lily Potter had just chosen him over her family, over Harry Potter and that gave him a feeling of triumph that he hadn't felt in a long time.

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