Disclaimer: See chapter one!

A/N: Well let's just skip right into it then shall we?!

The Potions Disaster

"Good morning, Scorpius," Enry greeted, taking her seat next to the blonde boy. A smirk crossed his lips and he knew that she had every intention of accepting her fate as a member of the Death Eater Renegades. Why else would she suddenly be so pleasant to him?

She even reached over and helped herself to some toast and jam, which Scorpius had thought odd. Rarely Enry ate breakfast, but he decided she must have been in such a great mood that perhaps she was starting to act normal.

"White," Scorpius acknowledged curtly. He had refused to use her first name until she had stopped putting up such a fight. It was now nearly every day that he had to threaten her, and it was honestly tiring him. He didn't have time to bribe and threaten a stupid girl into something as important as the Death Eater Renegades. He wanted loyal followers.

Her smile vanished at the name and her face turned expressionless once again. "I see how we're being then, Malfoy," she said coolly, taking a bite of her toast.

On the other side of Scorpius sat Nabiki. She had draped herself across his shoulders and stole his attention for a bit. Malfoy often had public displays of affection with the girl, but it never went any farther than that. At least, that's what Enry always thought. But staring at Nabiki now, she was almost marking her territory. Of course, what every Slytherin girl would do to be the next Lady Malfoy.

"You can have him," Enry thought bitterly to herself. Across the room, Albus Potter caught her eye. Enry smiled satisfactorily. At least something would cause Malfoy to flip a switch today, and she was already thinking that the lecture he would give her would be entirely worth it.

"Wish me luck," Albus said, standing from his seat and the Gryffindor table.

Patrick slapped his friend on the back and with a rather inappropriate growl, he said roughly, "Go get the lass!"

Glyn muttered, "Goof lock," as his mouth was full of bacon and eggs. But Koden said nothing. He simply continued eating as if nothing was going on. In his own little world of denial. Albus sighed at his friend but did not let that get him down. Koden would get over it eventually. Now was the moment he had been waiting for all summer.

Calmly, knowing that a few eyes were on him already, he walked past the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff tables and made his way around to wear Enry was sitting patiently. "Are you finished?" Albus asked, spotting the toast still in her hands.

"Yes thank you," Enry replied, putting the toast down on her plate and getting up from her table. All curious eyes were on them now and at Albus' voice, Malfoy had looked up and his mouth fell open.

Albus beamed at her voice. It seemed like it had been so long since he had heard it and something pulled heavily in his chest when she stood closely beside him. He looked at her for a half second to judge whether or not he was making her uncomfortable, but she was having some sort of eye battle with Malfoy.

He looked from the blonde to the white-haired girl and then back again. It was like a silent argument and now he was the one sort of uncomfortable. Then Enry turned away and began to march off from the Slytherin table and Albus jogged after her.

"What was that about?" he asked, frowning in thought as he turned back to take one last look at the Great Hall.

"Nothing," Enry said calmly. "I told you that Scorpius might put up a fight, remember?"

"I thought you were joking," Albus muttered.

"Oh, Merlin no. I never joke," she said rather seriously as she descended the stairs into their Double Potions class.

They hadn't made it even to the bottom of the dungeons staircase when they heard footsteps behind them. Turning, they both looked.

Enry said nothing as she watched Malfoy approach the two of them, but Albus was getting a bit angry now. This was not Malfoy's place to bother them so much, and he had a hard time understanding Malfoy's anger. Was Enry that good of a Potions partner?

"What are you doing, Malfoy?" Enry asked as she turned back around and began to make her way to the dungeons classroom. From the tone in her voice, Albus guessed that this wasn't the first time Malfoy had bothered her.

"Oh nothing," Malfoy said venomously. "I just thought I'd drop a line to your parents today. Tell them how well you are doing and all. You haven't written them all year!"

Enry whipped around to face Malfoy, and Albus couldn't help but feel that he was a fly on the wall. What did Malfoy mean, and why did Enry look so angry now? Wait... that was anger right? Albus made a mental note to store away that look and review it later.

"Good! You can tell them how much fun I am having at Hogwarts this year and I eagerly await Christmas Break," Enry growled.

Malfoy's mouth drew into a fine line and he furiously clenched his fists. Finally, he smirked at her. "If that's what you want, I can put that in there."

Koden noticed two things when he walked into his Double Potions class. Albus and Enry were sitting uncomfortably together in a desk near the front, and Malfoy was sitting in the seat behind them with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face.

At least that cheered Koden up a bit.

The second thing he noticed was that he had been running late. And the only seat for a Potions partner was the one beside Malfoy. "You're taking a piss right?" Koden asked their Potions professor as he sauntered towards Malfoy.

"I'm afraid not Mr. Lighthand," the sultry lady returned. "Now hurry up, we don't have much time today."

"We have two bloody classes of this!" Lighthand exclaimed.

"Ten points from Gryffindor Mr. Lighthand, and another five if you don't sit down this instant!" Professor Berkeley said shrilly.

Koden grumbled a few profanities under his breathe, but took the seat next to Malfoy and sat as far as possible in their shared desk as possible. Albus turned to look sympathetically at his friend but Koden narrowed his eyes in betrayal.

A few of the students had started giggling and talking amongst themselves, but Professor Berkeley gave one quick wave of her hand and the class was silent almost instantly. "Moving along," she started, eyeing Patrick and Glyn near the back of the class who were still whispering to each other. "Today we have a very special assignment. The Calming Draught will be introduced to you today, and we'll get to work on doing the first part of the brewing."

The first part of their Double Potions was an enormous lecture from Professor Berkeley about the magical side affects, steps, and ingredients in the potion. Koden was daydreaming the entire time and he hadn't realized when it was time to get started until Albus turned around and kicked Koden underneath the desk.

"Oi, what's that for?" Koden asked, rubbing the place that Albus had kicked.

"Time to get started," Albus replied cheerfully, and without another word he turned back to the White girl and began chopping up their ingredients.

Frowning, Koden looked at Malfoy who was already finely chopping their root of Redweed. "What exactly am I supposed to do then?" Koden asked, hating the idea of having to be in such close proximity of the slimy git.

"Why don't you look at the board," drawled Malfoy, as he concentrated his every effort into cutting the Redweed as finely as possible.

Koden made a face at him, and then turned to stare at the black board. Malfoy had been right, their Professor had listed all the steps as always and he was happy to read that the next step was to combine boiling water with the Redweed and let sit for five minutes, giving them enough time to prepare the Newt legs. But by the time he had turned back to Malfoy, he saw that Malfoy already had the water boiling and the Newt legs were already piled in a perfect pyramid on the scale, being weighed.

"Let the git do everything then," Koden thought to himself. A pat on the back had him spinning around to face Glyn and Patrick.

"All right Koden?" Glyn asked, eyeing Malfoy suspiciously.

"We've come for ingredients!" Patrick said, pushing Glyn to the side and opening his hands to Koden. "Please sir."

Koden frowned. "Why don't you have your own?" he asked in a resigned tone. They were always begging for supplies from him.

Patrick shrugged. "We're poor?" Here he fluttered his eyelashes.

"You lying prat. You've used them all for something else haven't you?" Koden accused, digging through his backpack for some root of Redweed he could share.

"Maybe," allowed Glyn. "But we're still in need. I'll pay you back. My word!" Here he crossed his heart and then raised his hand in the air.

"Get out of here before I change my mind," Koden warned, thrusting the small bag of Redweed into Patrick's hands.

"Bless, me mate really does have a heart," Patrick said dramatically, wiping a fake tear from his eye.

Glyn joined in, wrapping his arm around his friend's shoulders. "Although covered in stone," he continued.

"I said clear off!" Koden shouted angrily. He was not in the mood for their games and dramatics that morning. He had had a pretty bad one so far. With a salute, his friends wandered back to their desks and sat down laughing.

"Oh you know how to pick them," Malfoy said calmly, stirring something in their potion. Koden's eyes scanned the black board. He was already on the seventh step? "Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum, a perfect addition to your little group."

"Careful on the sarcasm Malfoy. You just may choke from how much you're spewing," Koden retorted bitterly.

"You'd be one to know what things there are to choke on. Or perhaps I'm reading your friendships wrong?"

Koden snapped. He jumped out of his desk and tackled Malfoy to the ground. "WHAT'S THAT MALFOY? HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY?" Koden yelled, throwing a punch into Malfoy's face.

"Mr. Lighthand!"

"Koden get off him!"

But Koden didn't listen to the distant voices. He took out his wand and threw the first hex he could think of at Malfoy.

All hell broke loose in that class. Patrick and Glyn joined in the fight, wrestling two Slytherin boys that were well known mates of Malfoy's.

Their Professor was hit in the face with a flying stunning charm, before she had time to magic them all apart, and Albus turned in the direction the light had come from.

At the corner of his eye, he saw Nabiki slip her wand back into her pocket. "What do I do?" Albus asked Enry, who was watching everything unfold with calm eyes.

It seemed that it was now the Gryffindors against the Slytherins in an epic showdown. "I think you'd better get Koden off of Malfoy before they kill each other," she suggested. Albus nodded his head. Why hadn't he thought of that?

He leapt over the desk and tried dragging Koden off with his hands but to no avail. Turning back to Enry he shrugged.

"Oh never mind, I'll do it," she said smiling. Taking out her wand she pointed it at the two boys. "Levicorpus."

With that, both boys flew up by their ankles and dangled in the air, still trying to throw punches at each other.

Albus nearly slapped himself in the head. He had not thought of magic. Since when was he such a Muggle? Enry disappeared from his side, breaking up all the other fights and then Rennervating their stunned teacher.

Koden let his body hang, defeated. "Oi, get me down Al."

Albus looked at his now beaten and bloody friend. "I would mate, but I don't know the counter curse," Albus replied, shrugging. "You've got a wicked eye though." Sure enough, it was turning purple as soon as Albus had said it.

Before Koden could open his mouth again they were rounded on by a furious Professor Berkeley.

As soon as it had happened, the news of the potions disaster caused by the fifth year students was all around the school. But Koden did not have time to enjoy the pats on the back and high fives by his classmates. He was expected in the Headmistress' office, along with a few of the other students in his class.

"Me mum will definitely send a howler," Patrick said gulping as they marched together towards the stone statue which was already jumped to the side allowing them through to the spiralling staircase. It haunted Koden that he had been to this office so many times he couldn't even count them all.

He was surrounded by Albus, Patrick and Glyn (who were both sporting rather large bruises) and he was pretty sure the Slytherins had already come up; because he hadn't seen them along any of the corridors they took.

Sure enough, as they knocked on the large griffin door knocker, it swung open revealing about five Slytherin students. One of them was the Zabini boy that Glyn had duked it out with, another rather large Slytherin boy that Koden couldn't put a name to, but had put up a fight against Patrick. Then Malfoy was leaning against a wall, with a bright purple eye and a cut across his nose. Koden suppressed a laugh. And then strangely enough, Enry White and the beautiful Etheline Nabiki were standing on either side of the Malfoy boy.

Headmistress McGonagall sat behind her large desk and surveyed all of the students. Her eyes were cold and furious, and her lips were in a thin line. Koden knew this look all too well.

"All right McGonagall?" Koden called as he approached her desk with his friends.

"No, Mr. Lighthand. I am far from alright. It's been a long time since something this juvenile from a fifth year class has come around, and I was actually starting to enjoy that," she said furiously. "Now sit down." And she conjured up a few chairs for the new arrivals to sit in.

Koden did as he was told, stopping himself before he began to rub his black eye.

McGonagall then did what she did best. She was never one to really lose her temper; she would just stare at you until you could bear to look at her no longer, and then she would take house points, appoint detentions and send a letter to your parents.

By the time she had threatened each and every one of them and had stared them all to death she finally got around to the punishment. "Never before in my life have I seen such a humiliating display of House rivalry."

Koden hadn't even noticed his friend fidgeting behind him until he spoke up in a strong and clear voice. "Headmistress, I beg your pardon. But I don't really understand why myself and Enry are here. We did not join in this at all."

McGonagall waved her hand away. Albus had obviously taken that long to build up his courage, and she squashed that courage like an elephant on a mouse. "Guilty by association," she said calmly. Then continued her speech on the importance of house companionship. "One hundred points from each house," she declared and then raised her voice over the outcry that followed. "And two nights of detention with Cecil Roach. I hear he has a very fine use to put you all to."

"That crazy old man will kill us!" Zabini said, voicing the concerns of all the students. It was a well known fact their new Transfiguration teacher was off his rocker, and had more than once used his students as test subjects.

"Perhaps you should have thought about that before you caused such mayhem, Zachary," McGonagall said coolly. Her lips were set in that familiar line and Koden knew that there was no point in trying to coax her out of it. "Oh, and a letter will be written to all of your families. Expect some howlers tomorrow morning," she added after a few of the students had gotten up to leave.

"Please, Scorpius. I can't have my parents getting two letters in one night! They'll expel me," Enry pleaded as she followed the blonde boy up the stairs and into the Owlery.

Scorpius smirked at her distress. "Well I guess you should've thought before that hideous display you performed this morning." He had visited the medi-witch and most of his bruises and scrapes were gone, but the dishonour and humiliation he had suffered still stung him.

The small girl pushed her way past him and valiantly blocked his way to the owls. "Please," she begged, her eyes were wide and for the first time Scorpius had remembered, he had seen some emotion float through them.

"Step aside, White," he said hastily, pushing her to the side. He felt a tug on his robes. Was she actually going to fight him tooth and nail?

He turned around and appraised the girl. "I've had enough of this White. You have to make your loyalties clear. I don't need to be ridiculed and humiliated by you consistently. Especially in front of that Potter brat and Lighthand."

"Then give me one more chance," Enry begged now. "Please Scorpius. I will be loyal to the Death Eater Renegades."

He looked at her and narrowed his eyes. "Girl who cried wolf," he spat, and then turned on the ball of his foot and grabbed the nearest owl to him. It squawked defiantly but he held it calmly and searched his pocket for some string.

"No! I mean it. There must be some way to prove that I can be trusted," she said, searching desperately around as if the answer was in front of her.

Scorpius considered this. It wasn't like White to throw herself at his feet, nor was it like her to beg, or plead or even… was she crying? Something pulled inside of him and he suddenly felt a bit sorry for her. But before she could realize he was faltering he gathered himself back together.

"You will tell Albus Potter that you are not interested in him, and that he never speak to you again. Then you will make sure that you attend every meeting of the Death Eater Renegades. If you are to go somewhere, to study or to be alone and away from any other member of the Death Eater Renegades you are to tell me."

Enry nodded along to each one of his conditions. "And you won't send the letter?" she asked meekly.

"No. If you do all these things, I will write your parents the best update on you they've received yet, and you will be welcomed back at Christmas with open arms," Scorpius promised. He knew with those words that she was bought in. It hadn't taken much really, but he had won her in the end.

A/N:

1) The reason Enry is so desperate in that last part is because she's seen what Malfoy has written about her, and knows with all her heart her parents would absolutely disown her. Yes, even her father. She's been on thin ice her whole life.

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