A/N – I'm so sorry it has been so long! Had exams this month and before that was Christmas so you can understand my procrastinating.
So here is a nice long chapter for you to keep you going until my next update, enjoy.
Shout out to MissPotter94 she was amazing when I needed her help on this! Read her stories!
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter
"Are you sure you don't want anything?" I checked with Scorpius for the third time before I left for Hogsmeade.
Scorpius apparently caught a serious case of the Man Flu; which is just the normal flu but a million times worse because men are notoriously over-exaggerators. It worked out well for me though, because it gave me more time to work on his scrap book.
It didn't take a genius to work out that he wasn't going to do as his mother asked and I guessed he was secretly too shy to ask people for their photographs so I decided to do it for him. A late Valentine's Day present.
"Besides from you to stay at school with me all day?" Scorpius smirked - or tried to smirk.
"A selection of sweets would be great, and I need a new Quill. You don't have to do this though, I can just write mother and she'll send them." Scorpius told me, I shrugged and fastened up my coat.
"I want to do this though." I smiled at him, moving to sit on his bed. I ran a hand through his hair, ignoring his protests. "Please get some sleep while it's quiet? All the other guys are going so you won't be interrupted. Oh, and Lucy went to the kitchens earlier. I made her get me some chicken soup for you." I almost forgot about the sealed bowl in my bag and got it out for him, nudging him until he moved into a sitting position.
"Eat it. If you're too sick to play Toby won't forgive you which will put him in a bad mood which will put Luce in a bad mood and she'll take it out on me and I'll take my bad mood out on you." I teased him, leaning over to give him a quick and sterile kiss on his cheek.
"Sweets and a quill." I promised him, pulling two clean packets of tissues out of my pocket and putting them on his bedside cabinet.
"Will you just go before I pull you in this bed and refuse to let you go to Hogsmeade?" Scorpius tried to tease me but his chuckle afterwards ended up in a rather nasty, wet, coughing fit.
"I'm going. I can play a hot-healer but I am not cleaning puke up." I shuddered and quickly backtracked. I pretended not to hear him call after me,
"You're the hottest healer I've ever had!"
I wanted to be quick around Hogsmeade so I decided to go round the shops myself; once you've seen the village in your third year you get over all the original excitement. I was as quick as possible in Honeydukes and bought both Scorpius and myself a large enough selection of sweets to tide us over until the next Hogsmeade visit. I had just bought Scorpius' new quill and a scrapbook - which took me nearly an hour to decide upon. I ended up choosing a very Slytherin type, black leather, a green binder and solid silver clips to hold the photographs down. For the first time I really appreciated being everybody's favourite daughter and niece and loved the fact that my parents, aunts and uncles loved sending me extra pocket money.
"Lily!" I was just walking back to the castle when I heard my brothers shout me. Rolling my eyes and pulling the zip of my leather jacket up further to protect myself from the cold, I turned and put on a fake smile; it wasn't that I was annoyed with my brothers, I was just annoyed with how they constantly babied me and made a show of making fun of Scorpius and the other Slytherin's, and then adding 'no offence, Lily,' after each joke like it made it so much better.
"James, Al." I smiled when I reached them; as usual Roxanne and Rose were with them as well as the usual group of Gryffindor's, Ravenclaws and the occasional Hufflepuff.
"What are you doing here alone?" James asked me, I had to keep myself from rolling my eyes as he put his arm around a blonde Ravenclaw girl from fifth year.
"Shopping, James." I told him calmly. "I actually have a load of homework -"
"We're not going back for a few hours yet, come on we'll buy you a drink." Albus practically took my hand to walk me to the Hogs Head.
"Albus, I really should get back -"
"Don't be stupid, what's more important than spending time with your brothers?" Albus scoffed as he practically pushed me through the door.
"Spending time away from my brothers." I snapped; not really in the mood to deal with Albus and James glaring at every boy I smiled or even looked at. Merlin help if I actually spoke to one.
"What is up with you?" Albus narrowed his eyes at me as James looked at me cautiously.
"I told you already, I should get back. I picked a few things up for a friend and he's ill -"
"He?" The two of them fumed together.
"Who the hell is this friend?" Albus glared.
"Getting you running errands for him?" James seethed, trying to look in the brown paper bag.
"It's none of your business!" I glared back, moving the bag to behind my back. "He's ill so he asked me to pick some things up while I was in the village; now if you don't mind, I need to get back." I turned and stormed away, before either brother had a chance to call me back.
After checking on Scorpius again and finding him find asleep, I left his sweets and his quill on the foot of his bed in a brown paper bag and decided to take some photographs of our friends for his scrapbook.
I know that Toby, Talia, Lucy and some others saw me coming out of the boys dormitories but I ignored them and hurried up to the girls to get the camera; if they want to cover our secret, then I'll still act completely dumb.
"Lily, what are you doing?" Lucy asked me after I came back down from the dormitory with the camera in hand and after changing in a pair of old ratty sweat pants and one of Scorpius' hoodies that I stole - now that it's known as an unofficial secret about our relationship, I don't really care for keeping the secret while in Slytherin.
"I...I um, I decided to take some pictures." I shrugged and took the first one of the huge statue of Salazar Slytherin in the center of the common room; that would be ideal for the first picture on the first page.
"Of a statue that you see every day?" Lucy raised an eyebrow and smirked at me; I rolled my eyes and turned the camera on her, snapping away of her and our friends all lounging around the sofas in front of the common room.
Astoria Malfoy was right; Slytherin's do love getting their photograph took. Once they realized what I was doing, every student from seventh to fourth year was posing in hilarious positions for photographs. Talia even took the camera from me and made me join in with a few of them.
"So...since when were you into scrapbooks?" Lucy asked me quietly when the two of us were curled up in the same armchair in front of the fire. The magical camera enabled us to see the photo's we had took so we were cuddled into a blanket, green of course, and were flicking through them, laughing at most of them.
"Since I saw Scorpius' mother ask him to make one and he did nothing." I told her honestly; after making sure we wouldn't be overheard.
"This is for him? I knew it!" Lucy grinned smugly; she nodded down to the camera and smiled at the picture of me on Lucy's back, arms wrapped round her neck and both of us smiling at the camera in big, toothy, identical grins.
"I love this picture." Lucy laughed, I laughed too; mainly because I loved it, but partly because I knew from the lack of teasing of my making a present for Scorpius, it meant that she knew how much I liked him and was telling me in her own way that when the inevitable fall out happened, she'd be there for me.
"Hey, you heard?" Toby caught everybody's attention as we all sat round the Slytherin table in the Great Hall. I was sat with the sixth years and a few seventh years; mainly because Scorpius was sat with them and the two of us were sat beside each other, looking as if we were talking to other people but holding hands under the table; actually, his hand had moved the back of mine to gently rub up and down on the inside of his thigh.
That boy has no sense of shame.
"Heard what?" Lucy asked as her boyfriend went to sit beside her and opposite me.
"Your Daddy's coming in." He teased me, dodging when I threw the crust from my toast at him. "No seriously, your Dad and Uncle are coming in to give a talk to the sixth and seventh years who study Defense. We're there from first lesson till lunch" Toby handed a torn piece of paper over to me.
I had to bite the inside of my lip to keep the smile from growing when Scorpius leant in closer than necessary to read the paper with me; if anybody from another table - meaning my family, looked over they couldn't tell he was doing it on purpose so his other hand went behind me to rest on the left hand side of me, so he was trapping me in his arms.
"Your cousin Molly nearly bit my head off when I took that from the wall; she's putting posters up everywhere. Doesn't she have anything better to do than kiss arse?" Toby smirked and laughed, as did most of the others we were sat with.
"You know," Lucy commented, taking a sip of her coffee before she finished. "Lily's cousin Molly is the same person as my sister, Molly." She looked at her boyfriend with an arched eyebrow.
Rolling my eyes as Toby tried to backpedal; I looked up at Scorpius who was still reading the poster intently.
"Ready to meet Daddy?" I teased him, snickering when his eyes widened.
"Your Dad hates me." Scorpius muttered, pulling away but still keeping our hands together.
"My Dad hates your Dad." I corrected him. "He...he isn't fond of you." I didn't bother sugar-coating it. My Dad didn't know Scorpius so he couldn't hate him...yet.
"Well my Dad seems to like you." Scorpius shrugged a shoulder, making me pale.
"You've told him about us?!" I hissed, aware that the people around us were trying to make it obvious they weren't listening, when in actual fact they were all listening.
"Yeah! We're close...you haven't told your parents you've got a boyfriend?" He raised an eyebrow at me; I could tell from the dark look in his eyes he was hurt that I obviously hadn't told my parents I had a boyfriend - even if I couldn't tell them who it is.
"And have my Dad come up here and interrogate every guy in the school and force me into a Chastity belt? Not likely." I scoffed and rolled my eyes, turning back to my breakfast.
"Seriously...apart from your cousin; does anybody else know you have a boyfriend?" Scorpius practically growled, it was so low that only I heard him though.
"About a quarter of the school." I muttered back, looking obviously up and down the Slytherin table; when our housemates saw Scorpius and I looking at them they looked away quickly, except Lucy and Toby - who had clearly become Scorpius' best friend. Those two just smirked at the two of us and then returned to their small argument.
"But not the people that matter! Not the Hufflepuff losers who I have to sit and listen to in Transfiguration talk about how hot you are. Do you know how much I want to rub it in their faces that you're mine?" He hissed, right close to my ear.
"If you can't handle the secrecy then fine, it's stopped." I hissed back.
"Secret out?" Scorpius shot back, looking at me with a dead-pan expression.
"No, our relationship is stopped." I hissed back at him, glaring.
I don't even know why I was so angry with him; he was just voicing what we both thought and felt.
"Wait -"
"I'll see you all in Defence. I'm going to walk up with my brothers." I told the sixth years, they all looked rather uncomfortable, even more so when I spat the last part at Scorpius who just scoffed and shook his head.
"You gonna tell me why you're in a pissed off mood?" James asked as the two of us walked behind the Gryffindor sixth and seventh years.
"No." I sighed and repeated myself for the tenth time since I stormed over to the Gryffindor table.
"You know, we all know you're going through this growing up phase, the clothes, make up, completely turning your back on your family -"
"I have not turned my back on my family! I've got friends other than the people I share genetics with James!" I yelled at him, feeling my already bad mood going from bad to worse.
"Keeping your hair that colour," He carried on as if he didn't hear me. "But we are still family. I don't see why you won't tell me what's going on with you. You're in a bad mood so you storm away from your friends and then don't expect me to ask what's going on. Come on Lily! Just tell me!" He yelled at me. By this time we were in the Defence corridor and judging by the lack of students, we were either very early or late.
"No! There is nothing going on with me! I'm pissed off because I have a bunch of interfering, over-protective brothers who won't -"
"What the hell is going on out here?"
We both stood straighter and groaned at the sound of Dad's voice. He didn't sound impressed
"Well? Would you like to tell me why - what on earth are you wearing?" Dad stopped his rant once he got a proper look at me; I looked down and raised an eyebrow at his over-the-top reaction.
Admittedly, I'd made some adjustments to my uniform. My black skirt was a couple of inches shorter than it was two months ago...and a lot tighter. My knee high black socks with the Slytherin green ribbons around the tops probably weren't helping. And I couldn't find a clean jumper, so my light grey cardigan with the sleeves rolled up probably wasn't the best choice...and perhaps I should have fastened another button - but in my defence, I didn't realise I was going to be spending all morning with my father.
"My uniform, Dad." I shrugged, keeping a cool face. I peeked over his shoulder and saw most of the students and Dad's team of Aurors all trying not to make it obvious that they were looking through the door way, trying to see the great Harry Potter yell at his kids.
"That is not a uniform! You look -"
"I look like, what, Dad?" I hissed, not giving him a chance to reply I just sent him a scathing look and stormed past him.
Before the little incident occurred, I was intending on sitting with the Gryffindor's for this session; but since I wasn't in the mood to deal with James and Albus glaring at me, Dad shooting me distracted glances and the other Gryffindor's talking crap about my housemates, I walked over to the Slytherins. I made sure I strutted a little, shaking my hips and holding my head high as the seventh year Slytherin girls did when they were sneaking out to go clubbing out of hours.
I calmly sat beside Talia, briefly noting that there was an empty chair beside me, and smirked when a clearly angry James and my annoyed Dad walked in the room, shutting the door behind him.
"We're missing one." One of Dad's Aurors nodded to the empty chair beside me; I didn't even need to look around to see who this chair was meant for.
"Where's the Malfoy kid?" Uncle Ron demanded, briefly checking the list of names he had been given; obviously he didn't need to know who was missing, I'd bet my broom on the fact he was inspecting every Slytherin boy when they walked in to see if they were Scorpius.
"Very professional." Talia muttered, loud enough for the entire room to here.
Uncle Ron was saved from replying by the door being slammed open; we all looked up to see the Charms teacher, Professor Bell, stood in the doorway, she moved aside so a scowling Scorpius could storm into the room, he ignored Bell, my Dad, Ron and the other Aurors, kicked his bag under his chair and sat in it, briefly looking at me as he did.
"Sorry for the interruption; apparently Mr. Malfoy decided he had somewhere of more importance to be. Mr. Malfoy, I'll be writing your father." Bell told Scorpius, who just shrugged a thick shoulder.
"If you've got nothing else to do but write to my father, I suggest the Headmistress looks for a new Charms tutor." Scorpius told her cockily; I knew what he was doing, trying to get him into trouble so he'd be pulled from the session, so he didn't have to sit with me for four hours.
"And I'll be mentioning in my letter that you'll serve four days of detention starting Monday." Bell blushed slightly as she tried her best not to glare at Scorpius.
"You do that."
"Twenty points from Slytherin, Malfoy. Auror Potter, Auror Weasley, if you have any problems from him..." She sighed and looked over the rest of the Slytherin's before she finished, "then feel free to send for me." She nodded and smiled at my father and uncle before she gave Scorpius one last warning glance and left the room.
"If she doesn't trust us, why are we allowed to be here?" I sighed as I inspected my nails. "Surely we untrustworthy snakes should be locked in a tank for the session." I scowled; ignoring the laughs of my housemates and smirking when I saw my Dad and Uncle take a deep breath each.
"Lily?" Dad sighed and looked right at me.
"What?"
"Shut up. You're in enough trouble." That made the Gryffindor's laugh, my two brothers even more so and the Slytherin's all either stifle their laughs or look at me curiously. I saw Scorpius glance at me out of the corner of my eye.
Unfortunately, we're both too stubborn for our own good so we stayed how we were sat; him slouching forward, elbows resting on his knees, head resting on one hand as he scowled at the floor, me sat leaning back into my chair, running my fingers through the ends of my hair, inspecting for split ends.
"Why are your brothers looking like Christmas came early?" Talia whispered as Dad began his speech of why he was here with a bunch of his trainees. I looked away from my hair to see Albus and James sat with their usual posse of loyal followers, each of them looking at me with huge, identical, smug grins.
"Because we argued - well, I argued with James, Albus just picks a side most of the time. Dad went to yell at me but then Scorpius distracted him." I whispered back, arching an eyebrow at Dad when he looked right at me, his silent way of telling me to pay attention.
"You're really pissing him off today, aren't you?" Talia laughed, nodding to my father who had passed over to Ron and was now standing and trying his hardest not to glare.
"The men in my family have been pissing me off for the past fifteen years; it's about time they got some form of payback." I shrugged a shoulder and turned my attention to whatever my uncle was saying.
I only realized or acknowledged that the chairs had been changed into two long rows; one of Gryffindor's and one of Slytherin's, with a space in the middle where Dad, Uncle Ron and four of his trainees were standing.
"That dark haired trainee is kind of cute." Amelia Warrington, a seventh year, whispered to me and Talia from behind us; I looked over my shoulder to see more chairs behind us in a separate row; I wonder if my Dad found it ironic or annoying that more Slytherins than Gryffindor's took DADA at N.E.W.T. level.
"I guess." Talia shrugged, I saw her eyes were on the ginger one; the small but stocky ginger trainee who was whispering to the only female trainee.
"What about you Lil?" Amelia asked me; I peeked a glance at Scorpius, whose head at turned in my direction slightly. "Do you think he's cute?" I knew she was teasing me, because she glanced obviously at Scorpius, as was all other Slytherin's within ear-shot.
"I don't know…I don't like brunettes." I shrugged, looking down at my lap where I pretended to be interested in straightening my socks. I took a silent deep breath to give me some courage before I made the first move.
"I like blondes." I added, almost like an afterthought. I was too busy looking through my lashes for Scorpius' response; I neither saw nor cared for the other Slytherins' response.
I saw Scorpius sit straighter, scowl replaced by his most arrogant smirk he had. I didn't look up from my lap as he moved so he was sat straighter, moved his legs out so they were stretched out in front of him. I didn't see what he did next but it must have been good…or stupid, because Ron stopped speaking, I heard most of Gryffindor gasp. I looked up a fraction to see my Dad glaring at me, Ron glaring at me and my brothers and cousins – except Dominique who looked amused, all glaring at me.
Well…not me, more at Scorpius' arm that was draped over the back of my chair and the goading look he was giving both my brothers.
I pretended like I didn't notice his arm round the back of my chair and I just ignored the looks my brothers and cousins were giving me but I feigned a look of surprise at my uncle and Dad's face.
"Mr. Malfoy, are you comfortable enough?" Dad asked through gritted teeth.
"Perfectly comfortable sir, please feel free to carry on." Scorpius waved his hand in front of him, I pretended that it was that what caught my attention and made a show of turning in my seat to look at his arm on the back of my chair.
Rolling my eyes and shaking my head I just looked at Dad, forcing the smirk from my face and putting on bored expression.
I waited until Dad started speaking and was distracted by explaining what we would be doing before I spoke to Scorpius.
"You do know he could kill you? Or arrest you?" I asked him out of the corner of my mouth, making sure I looked like I was interested in what Dad was saying.
"He could…but Daddy's little girl wouldn't be very happy if her boyfriend was dead or in prison, would she?" He teased me; I had to admire his nerve when he pulled his arm closer to me by a couple of inches to gently rub the top of my arm without my Dad or Uncle noticing.
I glanced at my brothers, but they were too engrossed in listening to the speech to pay attention to whatever was happening to me. Rose and Roxanne were listening to him intently too.
I moved my attention back to Dad, but then my attention went back to the Gryffindor's when I saw something that made my stomach suddenly feel like it was made of lead.
Dominique was sat smirking at me, when she saw me looking at her she nodded her head slightly at Scorpius hand on the top of my arm.
Scorpius spent the rest of the session doing stupid little things to annoy my dad, uncle and brothers. He kept his arm on the back of my chair, laughed and said my name too many times and leant across me to have a conversation with Talia. I actually thought my brothers, cousins, father and uncle were going to murder him when we were practicing spells and Toby sent Scorpius flying into the wall; when Scorpius got back to his feet, he was clutching his arm, looked round to see he had the full rooms attention and smirked at me, "Kiss it better Blue?" He winked at me, making me roll my eyes but blow him a kiss, smiling wickedly at Albus and James afterwards.
Each time he did something my family members would glare at me like it was my fault – well it was but they didnt know that. I knew that this was just Scorpius's messed up way of demanding that we tell people and the sooner the better.
When Dad waved his wand around the room so the room so the desks and chairs returned, I sat at a table that gave me full view of my brothers, who were sat at the same table with our cousins and their loyal friends; I openly laughed when I saw the two of them glare - and James being stopped by Rose from getting up, when Scorpius sat beside me.
Dad, ever the over-protective father, made sure that he and Ron had a House each to oversee the group work he had told us to do - and coincidentally, Dad's house was Slytherin. Everytime the conversation from our group swayed away from the topic, he was there reminding us to stay on task.
To make the situation even worse Dominique kept swivelling around in her chair to give me a knowing smirk and a look that said we need to talk. Great I'll just add that to the list of awkward conversations I will be having today.
Finally the session ended and everyone stood up, gathering up their items that were spread across the desks. Slowly we started to file out. I purposely avoided speaking to anyone and made it my mission to get out quickly and hide before Dom could confront me.
"Lily, stay behind I need to speak to you." I heard my dad say loudly and sternly over the buzz of students. I rolled my eyes before spinning around to face him.
"Oh sorry dad, I've got places to be, people to see. Maybe next time?" I replied plastering my face with a sarcastically apologetic look. "Or feel free to send me a letter!" I finished giving him a quick wave and almost running out the room after noticing some of my family members edging closer.
Once out the room and hurried off in the opposite direction of the other students. They were all heading for lunch in the hall but if I did the same I would have to face both Scorpius and Dominique and most likely my father and brothers too. Instead I took the scenic route to the Slytherin common room.
I rounded the last corner in the dungeon and snapped the password at the plain wall that also doubled as the common room entrance. It slid open and I stormed inside thinking it would be empty but there was a certain blonde stood there waiting.
"Lily – "he started but I held up my hand to silence him.
"Do you want to die Scorpius?" I asked him calmly and he just stared back looking confused and a little arrogant - I bit down the part of me that found him incredibly hot when he was confused and arrogant.
"Because that's what would happen if my family found out about you." I snapped at him.
"I don't care; I don't want to be your dirty little secret any more Lily!" Scorpius hissed back stepping closer. "I want to be able to hold your hand in public, I want to be able to kiss you freely whenever I want, I want to be able to go on dates with you!" he finished standing right in front of me. I scoffed and looked up at him.
"Well I want a pink hippogriff to fly through my window and bring me breakfast every morning but some things just are not possible!" I shouted back sarcastically. He didn't reply so I turned on the spot and stormed away down the corridor that lead to the dormitories, intending to go and scream into my pillow...or hide until Dominique graduated school.
"I want you Lily!" I heard him shout as I disappeared around the corner. The passion in his voice caught me and made me stop. I turned back around and slowly made my way back into sight. Scorpius was staring at me with his eyes dark and open. "I just want you Lily." He repeated simply.
"I want you to be mine, I want to be yours. I want to be like Toby and Lucy, sitting in their own little bubble all the time, sending each other little looks and everybody knowing that I've got Lily Potter as my girlfriend!" He yelled, running a hand through his hair in frustration and kicking the nearest arm chair.
"Is that what this is about? You want to be the boy in school that's claimed Lily Potter?" I narrowed my eyes and glared at him.
"Are you stupid? I want people to know that we're together! That...I want people to know that you want me, regardless of our surnames." He sighed and refused to meet my eyes. If somebody heard this argument, I knew without a doubt that they wouldn't guess Scorpius Malfoy - the boy who didn't care about other people, about impressions and certainly not about consequences, was the one shouting.
I closed the space between us as he spoke once more.
"Lily...I just want you." He practically begged me, holding his hand out for me to take.
I took it and stepped even closer to him, squeezing his hand tight.
"You just have to trust me, If you really do want to be with me you will understand that we need to give it time. You need to give me time before I can tell my family. I promise you it won't be much longer, kay?" I replied all my anger melting away at the sound of his pleading voice.
He used his spare hand to tilt my head back, moved his head down so his face was nestled in my hair. "Fine, but one condition." He murmured, pressing his lips to the top of my head for a second.
"Anything." I breathed back, the feeling of his lips on my head sending shivers down my spine. I felt him drag me backwards, not even aware of where he was taking me
"Let me show you how much I want you." He whispered in my ear.
Scorpius and I were kissing.
Hard.
He had me pinned up against the wall next to his bed with my legs wrapped around his hips, one of his hands cupping my bottom, supporting me and the other running through my hair. My shirt was unbuttoned and Scorpius' was removed completely, I remember practically ripping the buttons from his shirt as I pulled it off of him as soon as we were in his dormitory. I moaned loudly as he trailed his hand from my hair down my back. He echoed that sound as my hands left his neck and made their way down his bare chest, fingering the hard abs.
Suddenly the door burst open and we pulled apart in surprise, me dropping to the floor and Scorpius standing in front of me protectively.
Stood in the doorway was Dominique looking half annoyed but half amused. Lucy arrived behind her out of breath; she shot me an apologetic look.
Dominique stepped into the room as I blushed and did up my buttons quickly. Scorpius sighed heavily and moved to sit on his bed, rooting through his trunk for a fresh shirt.
As soon as I was dressed appropriately, I turned to Dom, preparing to beg her to keep it a secret...and preparing to deal with the gloating Scorpius was obviously going to give me whenever we were alone next.
He won; my family would get to know pretty soon.
"I knew it! I hope you two know what you're doing because James and Albus are going to Avada both of you - and your Dad Lily! He's going to murder you!" Dom shouted as she stepped closer. "You blondie, out! I need to speak with my cousin." Dom ranted, pacing up and down the boys dormitory, kicking dirty clothes out of her way. Scorpius opened his mouth to protest, but I shook my head at him.
"I'll be in the common room; yell if you need me." He muttered, standing up and smirking purely because he knew he had won one.
Dominique waited until Scorpius had shut the door before she turned to me and Lucy - who had made herself comfortable on Toby's bed.
"I love being right; she told me I was imagining things! I knew it!" Dominique laughed, coming to sit on the bed with me. "So, how long?" She asked me, looking at me with wide, alert, Veela eyes.
"Since just after Christmas -"
"So that is why you were so pissed off? Because he hit on me?" She cut me off and nodded as she obviously filled in the blanks.
"We solidified what it was." I carried on as if she hadn't interrupted me.
"We kissed and stuff before that...but then we rowed and fell out and I went on a date with Kieron and he...did whatever with Bennett." I scowled at the thought of the schools biggest slut, who always had a glare for me whenever she saw me.
Dominique only nodded slowly, taking all this information in.
"Dom?" I whispered, glancing at Lucy quickly.
"You aren't going to tell anybody, are you?"
"Don't be soft! Of course I'm not! I am so excited that you two are doing something! It is only the male relatives in our family who can't see the sexual tension between the two of you! Even Rosie commented on it. She said he must find you hot and that's it!" Dominique laughed at how dense our usually intelligent cousin could be.
"I'm also excited our little Lily-Pad is growing up!" She teased, reaching out to curl her finger around a lock of my blue hair.
"Promise you won't say anything? We are going to tell them...just not when everybody wants to murder him." I muttered, smiling as she smiled.
"I can keep a secret Lils, especially for my favourite cousin!" She grinned and winked at me.
"Now, I and Luce will go get some lunch and you two can finish whatever we interrupted. Also - you need to remember that James and Albus have access to objects that make it very easy to spy on you." Dominique reminded me as she stood up and pulled Lucy from her boyfriend's bed.
I sighed when I remembered the Marauders map and the invisibility cloak...perhaps I can persuade my mother to make the boys give me them for a while.
Perhaps I can come up with a spell to take my name from the map.
"What are you doing, Lily? What's with the blindfold?" Scorpius asked as I led him through a selection of secret passageways - the map in my bag; I stole it from James' trunk while he was at Quidditch practice. Scorpius had a blindfold over his eyes - not that I didn't want him to know where we were, I just enjoyed being in control for a short period of time; because I knew as soon as I gave him his gift, I'd be putty in his hands.
"Seriously, I have to admit; I'm a little turned on now." Scorpius muttered a couple of seconds later, making me smack him on the arm.
I still didn't answer, I just kept hold of his hand until we reached the middle spot; the most secluded area in the entire school. To find it, you had to discover the secret passageways within the secret passageways.
I sat down on the plush carpet and pulled Scorpius down with me. With a simple wave of my wand, the torches around the small room lit up, not too bright, a romantic hushed shade.
"You can take it off now." I smirked as he pulled the blindfold - my school tie, off as soon as I finished speaking. He looked around sharply, smirking at the lighting and the soft flooring before he turned to me and arched a perfect eyebrow suggestively.
"Before I give you this - not that," I rolled my eyes as his smirk turned into a cocky smile. "Before I give you this, please, please, don't get mad at me!" I was dreading this part; the part where I tell him I read his letter from his mother.
"When we had practice and you got sick...you left your bag and I carried it up for you but I dropped it and accidently saw the letter and parcel from your mother." I told him in one quick breath, wincing in anticipation of the yell he was about to give.
"I know."
"I didn't mean too, it just fell out and I wondered - wait, you knew?" I stopped and looked at his face; he was smiling and trying not to laugh.
"Yeah, I when I was ill I wondered what my new camera did, my old one was good enough so I didn't need a new one, picked the box up and to my amazement it had been replaced with a hairbrush with a lily on it."He arched an eyebrow and just shook his head. "I was wondering when you would tell me you took it."
"Borrowed," I corrected, pulling his camera out of his bag. "Here you go." I handed it back to him but he just put it back in my lap.
"Keep it. I won't miss it, the one I bought over summer is the same, this one has a better quality or something but I like mine enough. My parents won't even know its missing and I have a ton of camera's at home." He shrugged a shoulder and held his hands up when I held it out to him.
"If you don't keep it I'll probably end up leaving it at the bottom of my trunk and my mother will find it when she cleans it when I go home." He insisted. I knew he wouldn't let me leave without it, I accepted but made a silent note to give him an extra gift in return.
"That isn't why I brought you here...this is." I took a deep breath as I pulled the thick photo album out of my bag and put it in the small space in front of the two of us.
"I felt bad for not getting you a Valentines present and I saw your letter so..." I trailed off as he carefully opened it to the first page; the photo of the statue in our common room. I watched nervously as his face wiped of all emotion as he flicked through the pages, I used magic to elegantly caption every photograph with names, a place and a date so he could keep it for a long while and remember everything if he looked at the photo's in several years time.
I watched as he flicked through pictures of our friends, of me, of him, I'd spent the past two weeks taking sly photographs of him when he didn't realise; practising, goofing off the common room, around the grounds, I even took one while he was smiling right at me after a...session of ours.
I saw him smirk and I looked down to the photo he was looking at; one Lucy took of the two of us at practice, pulling funny faces at each other. He was blowing his cheeks out and crossing his eyes as I scrunched my face and stuck my tongue out at him.
He looked through the rest of the photos and smiled when the final one was one of him in the middle of most of the guys from fifth year and up from our house; I can remember that day, they were all just being teenage boys, making disgusting noises and smells, telling crude jokes, laughing at each other, hurting each other and trying to prove who was the strongest male.
"If you don't like it I can change -"
I was silenced by Scorpius gently moving the photo album to the side of us, and him practically attacking me. One of his hands went to my hip while the other cupped my cheek as he pushed me back against the floor. I didn't have time to say anything because his mouth covered mine; this wasn't like any other kiss we'd had...although it was similar to our first kiss, our second in the classroom and the one before Dominique walked in on us, but it was still unique; it was passionate and gentle at the same time. It was urgent, yet patient. Hot, yet oddly calming.
Before I knew what he was doing, he'd moved his hand from my hip to my knee, pulled it up and gently nudged my other leg into the same position so he was laid across me, in between my legs, holding himself up by one forearm and his own knees.
I tried to move so I was on top of him - he seemed to prefer that, but when my arms moved he took both of them in two hands and pinned them beside my head; he also changed his position so he was sort of straddling me, but keeping himself up on his knees.
"That was the greatest gift I've ever received...thank you, Lily." He whispered, his face inches away from my own. I was too busy trying to catch my breath and trying to control the sudden urges my body felt for him to respond.
His lips found my neck and he began doing his favourite thing - marking me.
I didn't mind - they were easy enough to cover up, and I liked them. I liked stroking my fingers across them and remembering just how they got there.
He let moved his hands from pinning mine to the floor, but I still didn't move them as he moved to unbutton my blouse slowly. I ignored the butterflies in my stomach and tried to keep the smile from getting any bigger.
"Please tell me this isn't a hand me down from Dominique." Scorpius muttered when he straightened his back so he could see me in just my bra.
I blushed as I shook my head, mentally rolling my eyes at the comment about half my wardrobe being Dominique's cast-offs.
I didn't have time to think of anything else as his hands slowly moved to the line of my skirt. His long fingers tickled my stomach and ribs as they gently made their way up my torso until I felt them cautiously feeling the outline of the black lacy bra I was wearing.
I smiled when Scorpius smirked at the silver snake charm that connected the two cups of my bra together.
"Slytherin through and through." He murmured as he ran his finger over the charm; I shuddered automatically - he'd never done that before.
Before he could do anything else, I'd sat up and put both hands round his neck, bringing him closer to me. As we kissed, not like we just had, more urgent and passionate this time, I quickly and carelessly undid the buttons on his shirt and yanked at his tie, not bothering to lift it over his head - I didn't want to move away from his kiss.
"It's getting late." Scorpius muttered as he flicked through the photo album once more. We finally pulled away from each other about half an hour ago - before we got any further than groping and snogging and neither of us would have been able to stop ourselves.
I was lying on my back in my underwear - extremely thankful that this morning I had decided to actually wear matching underwear, my school skirt and shirt crumpled against a wall somewhere. Scorpius was laying on his front, in only his trousers, though they were undone and slouching around his hips.
"We should probably get back." I sighed not taking my eyes from him as he looked through the photos of him and his friends.
"We probably should." Scorpius agreed, looking down at me with a satisfied smirk on his face.
At the same time we both groaned but moved to stand up so we could get dressed.
Since I was only wearing my skirt, shirt and normal length socks, I was pretty cold when we were finished dressing so Scorpius peeled his jumper off and handed it over to me. I gratefully accepted it - knowing full well he wouldn't be getting it back. I would add it to my collection of his clothes I stole; t-shirts, hoodies, sweatpants, jackets, and now a jumper.
"Don't forget your camera." Scorpius smirked as I sighed when he pulled my bag open to put his camera inside of it.
I rolled my eyes, but as he put it in my bag I noticed a faded piece of parchment and remembered the map!
"Hang on!" I grabbed his hand as he went to open the one and only door. I pulled the map out, opened it and activated it.
One quick scan and a couple of repeated checks gave me what I wanted to know.
"It's two a.m." I told Scorpius while I was putting the map back in my bag; I saw Scorpius frown at it in confusion but he didn't question what it was.
"Best not get caught then." Scorpius nodded, holding the door open for me.
"Best not...but that parchment was a map of the entire school - and everybody on it. The only people in the corridors now are the ghosts and they all seem to be in the Astronomy tower...and we're on the third floor." I smirked at him, holding my hand out.
He smirked back and stepped closer to me, but ignored my outstretched hand; he instead wrapped one round my waist and pulled me closer to him, he leant his head down to kiss me lightly.
"That would be more exciting if we were actually in a corridor and not a hidden passageway." I teased him, kissing him back briefly before I led him out of the many doorways and hidden exits.
We walked together to the Slytherin common room with our arms wrapped round each other; it was bliss. Not being worried about getting caught together - let alone touching each other!
When we got to the common room and the division of the separate corridors leading to dorms, Scorpius refused to let me go.
"Sleep in my bed - I promise to get you out of bed before the guys wake up." He took my hand and slowly walked backwards towards his dorm.
"Scorpius I'm not ready for -"
"I'm not asking for sex." He whispered bluntly, rolling his eyes at the confusion. "We've had the best night, let's make it better by waking up with each other. No funny business, I promise - alright I'm lying, minimal funny business. I promise." He corrected himself; when I simply laughed and shook my head, he knew he had won so he took both my hands, turned round and pulled me after him.
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