A/N – Right so here is a nice long update for you guys. I think the story progresses a bit in this chapter so enjoy!
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"Must I be here?" I whispered as I followed James through the passageway into the Shrieking Shack.
Him and Albus had practically kidnapped me from the Great Hall during dinner and then James put the invisibility cloak over Albus and I so if we got caught sneaking out of school, he'd be the only one in trouble.
"Yes! We haven't seen you in weeks! Besides...you know what Mum likes better than us!" Albus hissed from behind me; I rolled my eyes and was just grateful I decided to wear dark clothes today - mud stains on my light blue jeans would have caused too much suspicion when I returned.
"Mum? I don't understand." I frowned and waited for James to climb out of the hole into the Shack.
"It's Mother's Day in three days, Lil." He reminded me as he and Albus helped me out of the passageway; Albus moved his knee so I could stand on it and James then practically lifted me out.
"And?" I frowned again as James and I each grabbed one of Albus' hands and helped him out of the hole.
"And we suck with gifts -"
"You haven't gotten your gift yet?" I gasped; they really did leave it to last minute!
"It's Thursday." I pointed out when James held the cloak open for Albus and I to get under. "Daddy will be either be in the flat above George's shop or in one of the pubs. He'll kill us if he sees us." I reminded the two of them, smirking when they groaned.
Serves them right for leaving things till last minute.
"The three of us won't fit under here!" Albus moaned. "Not while we walk, the cloak will move from three sets of feet." He pointed out.
"I'll get on James' back, Al you go in front and get as close to James as you can." I instructed the two of them with a simple thought.
James, one of the biggest guys in the school, would have no trouble carrying me to and from Hogsmeade.
"Nobody hears about this." James sighed when Albus moved so he was an inch away from his chest.
"If you two didn't leave Mum's gift to last minute, we wouldn't have to do this." I hissed, holding the top of the cloak up with one hand as I wrapped an arm around James' neck to hold myself up.
"Yeah yeah, we're rubbish sons. We know." James joked as Albus led the way down to the Village. Luckily the freakishly cold weather we'd been having lately had warmed up a little so there wasn't snow to leave foot prints.
I forgot just how much I did like being with my brothers and how comfortable we always were around each other; as we walked through a field, the quickest way to get to the main street, I rested my head on James' shoulder and sighed in contentment.
I really need to start spending some more time with my brothers.
"Where were you last night?" I looked up from my Defence Against the Dark Arts essay to see Scorpius looking at me with a slight frown on his face; the entire class was working in silence on a practice N.E.W.T mock exam so he was speaking really low.
"I was with my brothers in Hogsmeade." I whispered back, looking for his reaction.
He scowled a little, but that didn't tell me much. Scorpius always scowled; he generally wasn't a naturally smiley person.
"Why?"
"Because they hadn't got Mum a gift." I whispered to him, carefully because the Professor was looking round the class, determined to find someone who wasn't working in silence.
"Why is that your problem?" He asked me, his brow furrowing slightly.
"Because they're my brothers and she's my mum." I reminded him, scowling a little at his attitude.
"Potter, Malfoy - shut up!"
We all jumped at the bark from the Professor, and after sending him an apologetic nod I turned back to my essay.
"I still don't see how you couldn't just tell them to buy their own gift...my dormitory was free all night." I jumped again when I felt his hand on the top of my leg, but then relaxed when I felt him begin to gently stroke it.
"Because I haven't spent time with my brothers in a while." I whispered, putting my hand on top of his, slowly rubbing my thumb over his hand.
"Well we'll have tonight. The other guys are all doing something."
"I said that I would go to the Gryffindor common room tonight - spend some more time with them and Hugo and the rest -"
"You see Hugo in your classes - how often do we get the chance to have an empty dorm room?" Scorpius pointed out - the stroking on my thigh was tempting me to agree to spend time with him and forget about my brothers.
"Alright - you should have had enough time to finish your work. Those groups I put you in last lesson, re-join and swap papers and we'll peer mark." the Professor called out, making Scorpius and I both sigh. Dominique and Albus were partnered with us in yesterday's lesson - and a fight nearly broke out between Scorpius and Albus.
"I'd suggest taking your hand from my cousin's thigh, Malfoy." Dominique walked round the back of us and whispered in the space between mine and Scorpius' heads.
"Bite me, Weasley." Scorpius muttered, practically throwing his exam paper at her.
"Here, Al; we'll swap." I smiled at Albus when he came and sat directly opposite me, throwing a small glare at Scorpius who just arched an eyebrow at him.
"So, are you just eating dinner with us and then have one of us sneak you down to your common room under the cloak tonight?" Albus asked as we looked over the answers on each other's papers; Albus was good, really good.
"Um, well I thought I'd hang out in my common room first and then maybe come to yours later -"
"You said you would hang out with us all tonight. I re-scheduled our Quidditch practice - Hugo is coming up from the Hufflepuff common room!" Albus insisted.
"I know, I just have some homework to catch up on since I couldn't do any last night!" I looked up and smiled at him, showing that I wasn't mad.
Albus scowled at me for a moment before he said anything; "You never do your homework on a Friday night."
I didn't know what to say to that and Dominique was looking from me to Scorpius with teasing grin on her face, thankfully Albus couldn't see her.
"Well...um...we have a practice tomorrow and then I plan on sleeping my way through Sunday." I came out with an excuse and a lie pretty quickly. "Look, Al, I'll be in your common room by...nine-thirty at the latest. I'll even bunk up with Dominique or Rose tonight if it keeps you happy." I sighed and tried not to notice that Scorpius' jaw clenched tightly and he subtly moved his arm away so it wasn't innocently resting against mine.
"Fine, fine -"
"WHEN, you have finished organising your social lives, would it be too much for me to ask for the four of you to actually do your work?" We all jumped when a big thick book came crashing down into the middle of the desk; we looked up to see Professor Smith standing glaring at the four of us.
"At least we have social lives to discuss." I muttered under my breath.
"Twenty points from Slytherin Potter - and a week's detention for unnecessary cheek." Professor Smith screeched; I didn't know he had heard me.
I was already in a pretty bad mood from Scorpius' obvious dislike of my spending time with my family - and this just made it worse.
"Twenty points and a week's detention for stating a fact? No wonder you're the defence teacher; so defensive." I scowled up at him.
For a second I thought he was going to hit me or at the very least jinx me - and the whole class waited with held breath as they seemed to think the same.
"Fifty points and that's two weeks. Anymore and I'll have you stripped of your position on the Slytherin Quidditch team." Smith leaned down so we were face to face and his own face turned into a nasty sneer.
I opened my mouth to snap back at him, but Scorpius kicked me under the table; I looked his way to see him and the rest of the Slytherins shaking their heads at me. Toby was glaring at me.
"Got nothing to say, Potter?" Smith asked me, straightening back up.
"No, sir." I muttered, forcing myself to look away from him.
"Good, now class, seeing as Miss. Potter has put me in a lovely mood - I want another paper completed for Monday's lesson. Anybody who gets below an 'E' on it will be re-doing in detention until they get an 'E' or above." He walked away, pointing his wand at the cupboard so that dozens of papers flew out, one paper landing in front of each student.
"What's got his wand in a knot?" Lucy asked me when she saw Scorpius walk straight past the two of us as we stood outside the Entrance Hall, waiting for the doors to open to the Great Hall so we could eat lunch.
"He's sulking." I sighed, following him with my eyes casually; he walked over to where Toby and the sixth years were stood with the seventh years. "Because I'm spending some time with my brothers tonight."
"Makes sense." Lucy retorted sarcastically, pushing past some Hufflepuffs so get to the front of the line as the doors opened themselves.
"I'm beginning to understand that boys rarely make sense, Luce." I muttered; I wasn't sure if she heard me or not because she was too busy smiling over at Toby. "Go on, I know you want to sit with him." I nodded and rolled my eyes when she grinned and practically ran towards him.
I have too much pride to go sit with her since Scorpius was sitting there too, the fourth year girls couldn't be found, the fourth year boys were sitting with the fifth year boys, all of whom are creeps, and the fifth year girls are all skanks.
"Looks like I'm eating alone." I sat at the table, ignoring the look I could feel from Scorpius and simply filled a plate with food.
"Aren't we popular today?" I looked up from the book I pulled out after a few forkfuls of my steak pie and smiled at the sight of Dominique dropping gracefully on to the bench opposite me. "I saw you from the other side of the hall." Dominique explained, grabbing an empty plate and filling it with her own food.
"I take it Malfoy isn't happy you're with us tonight?" she guessed accurately.
"Nail on the head." I noted, putting my book away now I had somebody worth speaking too. "You know, you're probably going to have to stop calling him 'Malfoy' when we finally...come out."
"You're dating Scorpius Malfoy, Lily; you're not a closet lesbian." Dominique laughed.
"You know what I mean."
"So...you two planning on making it official - ooh, are you bringing him to the Burrow?" Dominique smirked wickedly at me as I just groaned and stopped myself from banging my head off the table.
"Yes, I plan on making it official at some point...I just like the fact that there isn't many people who know about us...its fun. And yeah, I'll be bringing him to the Burrow...most likely for your parents' anniversary party at the latest." I set myself that date on purpose; on the first of August every year without fail, Grandma Molly threw Aunt Fleur and Uncle Bill an anniversary party and sometimes the older kids brought along dates; I heard Lucy planning on taking Toby and I decided by that point I will have introduced Scorpius as my boyfriend.
"Thanks." Dominique grinned at me,
"For what?"
"Apparently my Dad isn't pleased with me and my partying ways - Louis is such a snitch, so you bed hopping with the Malfoy boy will take the focus away from me -"
"And your bed hopping?" I teased her.
"Exactly!"
"Lily, wake the fuck up! This is quidditch practice not nap time" I heard Toby shout at me as I let the snitch whiz past me for the third time in the last 20 minutes. I swore under my breath and took off after the golden blur. The fresh morning air suddenly jolting me awake.
I had spent last night in the Gryffindor common room catching up with my family. Unfortunately having such a huge family meant I was there hours, all night in fact. By the time the boys got tired and went up to bed it was two in the morning. It was so late I didn't bother going back to the dungeons so instead bunked with Dominique. Four hours later I was up and running back to the Slytherin common room to grab my stuff for quidditch practice.
I scanned the grey skies having lost the snitch again. They gave me clues to the whereabouts of the item I was searching for so instead averted my gaze to the rest of the team below me. Toby was making them do drills that involved the chasers and beater. Even from hundreds of meters above I could see the stress etched into Toby's face. The upcoming match against Gryffindor was really bothering him.
I myself was bothered more about Scorpius. I knew he was in a mood with me, even after I purposefully lied to my brother and turned up at the Gryffindor tower later so I could spend a little time with him. I started to head back down closer to the grass my mind wandering back to the last time I had seen Scorpius the night before.
"Right Scorp, I really have to now." I whispered against Scorpius's lips. We were laid on his bed with him on his back and me straddling his waist. He was in nothing but his boxers and I was in just my jeans. My top had been discarded when we first started making out. I felt him sigh as I rolled off of him and went in search of my top.
"Where did you fling my shirt?" I asked. I heard the bed squeak but he didn't reply.
This boy was so annoying when something didn't go his way.
"I don't see why you have to leave now?" Scorpius murmured from behind me. I almost jumped when I felt his breath on my shoulder but relaxed when I felt his arms snake around my waist.
Why was he making leaving so difficult!?
I turned around quickly to face him. He was still in just his boxers and as usual he was smirking.
"You know why! I'm spending the evening with my family. I've already left it as long as I can." I told him simply. I spotted my top draped over the lamp on his bedside table and sidestepped around him to grab it.
"Lily, you've had 15 years with your family! He snapped from the door. "Just stay with me for Merlin's sake."
His tone made me raise my eyebrows at him. He simply scowled back.
"Don't be spoilt Malfoy!" I replied shaking my head and walking past him out the door.
I had just touched down on the ground still daydreaming when someone shouted my name. I turned towards the sound just as something smacked into the side of my head. The world suddenly went dizzy and I felt my eyes roll to the back of my head as I crumpled to the ground.
Seconds later my eyes reopened and I instantly knew what had happened. How stupid do you have to be to get hit by a bludger whilst on the ground? I stayed star fished on the cold grass whilst the rest of the team ran over.
They all huddled around me, Lucy, Talia and Scorpius looked worried but Toby just looked pissed.
"Seriously Potter have you got a brain? You could have been killed! If we lose you before the match we are screwed!" Toby ranted on and on almost pulling his hair out before walking off.
"Right practice over! And someone take Potter to the nurse!" He barked over his shoulder.
Lucy leant down, grabbed my hand and pulled me up.
"You okay?" she asked glancing at my head. I grinned at her.
"Yeah I'm fine Luce "
"Okay, I'll go and try to calm down Toby." She replied smirking slightly.
"He's pretty pissed off Luce; I don't think talking to him will do any good right now."
"Who said anything about just talking?" My best friend replied with a wink before running off towards her boyfriend. A few others followed but at a slower pace. I laughed and bent down to pick up my broom stick.
"Whoa." I murmured throwing out my arms to balance myself as I was hit with a dizzy spell. Someone grabbed my arm.
"You are not fine!" Scorpius spoke from my right. "I'm taking you upstairs to the hospital wing right now. Don't even try to resist." He spoke and started to walk before I could even protest.
"Honestly I am fine." I insisted as Scorpius led me to the hospital wing; he hadn't said a word since we left the pitch and we were now walking up the stairs from the entrance hall.
"Yeah?" Scorpius muttered and looked down at me. "Then walk up those steps without my help." He nodded over to the small number of stairs that led to the hallway that the hospital wing was in. Curious to what he meant, I glanced down and saw that he had one arm draped around me back; I rolled my eyes when I realised it wasn't to keep me close but to keep me standing up.
"Idiot." I scowled at the floor but aimed my comment at Scorpius.
"Says the moron who got hit by a bludger after she got off her broom." he retorted, sending a small glare my way.
"You're a jerk." I muttered, stepping forwards and pushing the heavy doors to the hospital wing open.
"Bludger to the head." Scorpius told Madam Pomfrey who rolled her eyes, muttered something under her breath but pointed to the closest bed.
"I'm sorry." Scorpius whispered so low I barely heard him.
"Pardon?"
"I said I'm sorry...Toby reminded me that you Potter's and Weasley's used to be super close. Apparently the full school is noticing how you're branching off." Scorpius came over to sit on the bed beside me and put his hand over mine; luckily our practice robes covered them.
"We still are super close; I've just decided to make friends with people I haven't known since I was born."
"Here you are Potter, drink these and then you'll be free to go." Madam Pomfrey bustled over with a tray with three potions on.
Without saying anything else, she put the tray on the bedside cabinet, gave me the once over with a knowing smile on her face and then left to go back to her office.
"How do you think your brothers will react to...this?" Scorpius asked; I knew he was fighting back a grin as I made a face at each vulgar taste the potions left in my mouth.
"Teddy won't care." I knew that straight away. "James...he'll flip but then he'll come round but Albus cannot stand you but I don't care, we're probably the least closest." I mused as the two of us left the hospital wing; I felt better straight away so there wasn't a need for Scorpius to keep his arm around me.
I didn't tell him that though.
"My cousins...well Dom and Lucy know. Rose apparently has a hunch according to Dominique, Roxanne won't care, and Molly won't be bothered unless we break school rules." I didn't ask his intentions when he directed me away from the direction to the entrance hall and just played along with whatever he was plotting. "Hugo and Louis really won't care. Hugo doesn't care about much and Louis cares about pulling pranks or stitching his sister up."
I grinned when Scorpius kicked a locked door until it opened to reveal an empty, dusty classroom.
"This isn't the common room." I pointed out as he took my hand and led me inside.
"I know...I thought I'd show you what you missed out on last night." Scorpius smirked as he turned round so he was walking backwards towards the desk at the front. When he reached it he simply put both hands around my waist and lifted me up.
"I'm sorry for being a selfish, spoilt jerk." Scorpius muttered as he moved in closer to me.
"You missed out possessive, arrogant and demanding." I whispered; his response was to dig his fingers into my waist and pressing his lips against mine.
I giggled into the kiss the same time he growled deeply; I felt him nip at my lips so I eagerly opened them and grinned when I felt his tongue trace over every aspect of my mouth.
As per usual lately, my hands developed a life of their own because within seconds they had gone from simply resting on his arms to pulling open the buttons on his practice uniform and pulling the fabric up; I pulled away for a brief second to pull his shirt over his head but then our lips were meeting again.
Instead of him pulling away and going to my neck, this time I did; and for the first ever time, I marked somebody. I quickly nipped at a patch of his skin at the side of his neck and sucked at it.
"Oh fuck!" Scorpius groaned and grabbed my waist tightly; I knew it would bruise but at this point I didn't really care.
"You know...you're pretty over dressed." Scorpius whispered as he pressed his lips to the top of my head.
"You may have to do something about that then." I whispered back, moving my mouth to his chest.
"Well, you may have to stop sucking me." Scorpius retorted; I knew he was smirking but at this specific moment, once again I did not care - all I wanted to do was have his hands on me once more.
Quicker than ever, Scorpius peeled my training shirt off me. At the same time I gulped in all my courage and made a quick decision.
As our lips connected furiously, I put both my hands on his chest and slowly made my way down. Scorpius had stripped to his underwear plenty of times before, that isn't what made me nervous.
Scorpius had groped me before, my boobs and my bum tons of times...but that's it.
I decided that for once I would be the first to grope him...the one part of our bodies we hadn't ever touched before.
I slowly unsnapped his training pants and pulled the zipper open; making his pants slack and slouch down to his knees.
Scorpius moved away from my mouth and took his lips to my shoulder; there he nudged my bra until the strap fell down my arm.
"You're beautiful." he whispered against my skin, making me shiver with excitement. Normally I'd have whispered something back to him...but this time I just simply bit my lip, closed my eyes and moved my hand down to his boxers and then further down.
"Holy fuck!" Scorpius hissed into my shoulder when he obviously felt me wrap my hand around his dick - well, try to wrap around it.
Going on instinct, I slowly began to rub my hand against it and judging from the short, raggedy pants of breath that Scorpius was giving off; it was the right thing to do.
"Lily...what..." I cut Scorpius off by taking my spare hand and putting it in his hair. I then grabbed a chunk and pulled his head from my shoulder and kissed him soundly on the lips all the while I was rubbing him faster and faster.
"I'm serious...I'm gonna -"
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"
We both jumped but didn't separate when we heard Professor Smith's shout from the doorway.
"Potter! Malfoy! PUT YOUR CLOTHES ON!"
I quickly pulled my hand away from Scorpius and reached around for my shirt; I found it and pulled it on as Scorpius pulled his pants up and then grabbed his own shirt.
"Sir, I -"
"Save it. I've sent a note to the Headmistress." Smith stopped the two of us, looking from one of us to the other cautiously. "She's bringing your parents in."
"They'll kill us!" Scorpius and I hissed at the same time.
"Look...we all know your parents don't exactly get along -"
"Understatement of the year." I scoffed and ran a hand through my hair, looking desperately at Scorpius.
"- but that's what happens when we find students...in situations such as these." Smith stumbled around what exactly he had found us doing.
"You might want to straighten yourselves up...the entrance hall is full of students ready to eat." Smith told the two of us as he nodded at us to leave the room.
Scorpius and I quickly and regretfully straightened our clothes and our hairs before we followed Smith from the room.
We didn't dare hold hands as we walked through the corridors of the castle - we didn't even look at each other.
All that was going through my head was that I needn't be worried about introducing Scorpius as my boyfriend - my father was going to kill the pair of us.
"Moors."
Professor Smith snapped the password at the Gargoyle that guarded McGonagall's office and stepped back so the two of us could step onto the spiralling staircase. Normally, I'd have walked the rest of the stairs but this time I wanted to drag the time out as long as possible.
The door was already open and I could see two people sitting in front of the desk already but I couldn't make out who it was exactly. I could see the Headmistress talking to them with a very serious look on her face.
"I know that teenagers will be teenagers but underage sex will not be tolerated - ah." McGonagall stopped mid-lecture when she noticed Scorpius and I had entered the room.
"Mr. Malfoy, Miss. Potter, take a seat. We're just waiting for your parents to get here Miss. Potter." McGonagall nodded to two smaller chairs on either side of the four chairs clearly indicated for our parents.
I quickly glanced at Scorpius before we moved to sit in our own chairs. He met my eye and gave me a small, assuring wink before he nodded to the chair I was to sit in.
I could feel the eyes of everybody in the room on me as I sat down but I didn't dare look up from my lap - I didn't want the first time I be introduced to Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy be right now.
"Ah, here they are." McGonagall muttered when we all heard the fire place roar into life; out of the corner of my eye I was a little relieved to see my mother floo in first.
"Minerva, Harry is currently -" Mum stopped speaking when she realised who was in the room with her. I forced myself to look up and I saw her look from Scorpius to his parents slowly with a shocked and defeated expression on her face.
"He's on a mission so we can start now." Mum sighed as she moved to sit in the chair beside me. I looked away when I saw the glare she was giving me.
"As I was telling Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy, Mrs. Potter, underage sex will not be condoned under the roof of Hogwarts. I know kids will be kids and I know that since those two are both in the same house, on the same Quidditch team and share the same group of friends that there is no point in trying to keep them separated. I suggest that you make sure your children are aware of the responsibilities of sex -"
"We weren't having sex!" Scorpius and I both interrupted her at the same time - I don't know about him, but I could feel my face burning up every time she hinted at what we didn't do.
"We were just making out!" I insisted, glancing at Mum quickly.
"Miss Potter, we're not fools. The two of you had no clothes on -"
"We had clothes on!" Scorpius assured his parents.
"We...alright we got a little...erm, carried away but it was just a snog -"
"Then why does he have a hickey on his neck?" Mum snapped, nodding to Scorpius who slapped his hand over the bite mark on his neck, which was a lot larger than I thought it would be.
"I need to go get their school files from their head of house. I'll give you some privacy." McGonogall excused herself and left the room.
An awkward silence deafened all five of us and nobody spoke for a while.
"You...you're not going to tell Dad are you, Mum?" I had to lick my lips before I could say anything.
Mum didn't say anything for a second; she just looked at me through a neutral expression. "I knew it. I knew this was happening."
"Knew what?" I scowled at her; I looked at Scorpius to see him just watching me as his parents watched my mother.
"The hair, the clothes, make up, attitude...I knew it was him."
"Excuse me?" Astoria Malfoy glared at Mum.
"Sorry, that came out wrong. I meant, I knew when I read that Scorpius was coming here, I knew that this would happen. Are you honestly telling me that you didn't think he would leave this school without dating one Weasley?" Mum arched an eyebrow at Draco who just smirked and shook his head.
"No, Lily. I'm not going to tell your father or your uncle or your brothers. I might not like you very much now, but I still love you." Mum shook her head and looked down at me.
"I have a few conditions." She arched an eyebrow at me and carried on before I could say anything. "You get that colour out of your hair."
"Done."
"You come home for Easter."
"Done."
"By the time you go back to school...you will have told your father and brothers about the two of you." Mum told me strongly.
I quickly glanced at Scorpius before I answered her.
"Mum...Easter is in two weeks and -"
"It's that or I tell him when he comes home in two days."
"Mum...they'll kill the pair of us." I whispered; I knew I was over-reacting, but only slightly.
"No they won't. They won't be happy but they won't kill you. I mean it Lily, when your father and I pick you up from the station, I want your old hair and I expect for him to know about the two of you by the last day of the holidays." Mum reminded me.
I didn't say anything; I just nodded my head slowly and looked back at Scorpius who opened his mouth to say something but the sound of the door opening caught everybody's attention.
McGonogall was walking in, with two folders in her hands.
"Mr. Malfoy, you will be assisting the house-elves in the kitchen with clearing away after every meal for the next two weeks. Fifty points will be taken from Slytherin house in your name." McGonogall told Scorpius.
"Yes Professor."
"Miss Potter...just yesterday you recieved a fortnights worth of detentions and fifty points from your house after an incident in Defence Against the Dark Arts, am I right?"
"Yes, Professor." I answered her, feeling like I was shrinking to an inch tall.
"So within the space of two days you have lost your house one hundred points and earned yourself a month's detentions. Miss Potter, I don't believe that's fair. I believe another punishment is in order."
"Professor that's not fair -"
"Miss. Potter - you are banned from playing seeker in the next Quidditch match for your house team. I'm sorry Miss Potter, but the students will not think this is fair that you've miss-behaved so much in two days and still have luxuries such as playing Quidditch. The two of you may return back to your common rooms while I discuss things further with your parents."
"What the hell?" Lucy looked up from her spot in front of the fire place; I had just grabbed a glass from a table and threw it as hard as I could at the wall; resulting in a shower of shredded glass to reign over the group of sixth, fifth and fourth years sitting there.
"Lily, calm down -" Scorpius followed me in the common room and grabbed my hand to stop me reaching for somebody's WWN and smashing that up.
At this moment, I didn't really care that we were holding hands in front of everybody - or that he then gently ran his hands through my hair.
"Calm down?"
"What happened?" We both looked away from each other to see Dominique stood behind us, the stone wall closing shut behind her.
"We got caught." Scorpius admitted a bit roughly. At his admission our friends all began to howl with laughter - except Toby, Dominique and Lucy who seemed to guess something else was wrong.
"Albus and James haven't said anything." Dominique muttered, looking at Lucy.
"We got caught by Professor Smith. Two weeks detention and fifty points each -"
"For snogging?!" Lucy yelled.
"We...we were doing a little more than snogging." I glared at the sofa, wanting to punch something or run away.
Toby is going to kill me.
"There's something you're not telling us." Toby accused, looking from me to Scorpius.
"Lily...she's been stripped from the team." Scorpius told Toby carefully.
I don't know what exactly happened...but I think that Toby jumped for me; all I know is that Scorpius grabbed me and pulled me behind him and when I looked round from his back, Lucy was standing in front of Toby.
"Sorry!"
"You two just couldn't be normal and have a normal relationship?!" Toby shouted; thankfully it was only our friends in the common room with a few other older students.
"How will we win the match with no seeker?" Toby growled, kicking a chair over.
"I'll play seeker." Scorpius told him simply.
"Oh great! Two chasers! Brilliant, well done Scorpius!" Toby applauded him sarcastically.
"I'll play Chaser!" I stepped round Scorpius and for the first time in hours, I grinned.
"You said you -"
"Have been banned from playing Seeker not Chaser." I pointed out. "She specifically said I wasn't allowed to play Seeker. We're not breaking any rules by me playing as a Chaser -"
"Can you even play as a Chaser?" Talia asked.
"She's brilliant at it! She plays at home when Albus and Roxanne both want to seek." Lucy told Talia but then looked at Toby. "Honestly T, she is good. I'd say she's a better Chaser than a Seeker."
Toby looked down at his girlfriend and then started pacing and running a hand through his hair quickly.
"This better fucking work, Potter or your arse is on the line."
I lay in bed, completely still, staring at the canopy as my alarm went off. Lucy stirred and groaned in her bed beside me but our other three roommates' didn't even move. Today was the day of the Slytherin vs. Gryffindor match, highly anticipated by everyone included me. Not only was I going to have the chance to thrash my Brothers and cousins but I was also going to get to play chaser. We had been vigorously practicing all week with me playing chaser and Scorpius as a seeker. We're good, really good
I rolled out of bed, slapping my alarm as I did, silencing it. I moved to my trunk and pulled out my Slytherin uniform neatly ironed and ablaze with the emerald and silver colouring. Holding that and some clean underwear I popped into the bathroom. Inside I had a quick two minute shower to wake myself up before changing into my normal clothes, tying my hair back tightly and packing my uniform in a bag. Since no one knew I was playing I couldn't exactly sit in the hall in my uniform.
When I finished and walked back out Lucy was sat up in bed rubbing her eyes. She grinned at me in excitement and I did the same back. Not wanting to wake the others up I motioned to the door to show my cousin that I would wait for her in the common room.
The rest of the team, minus the keeper Bryce, were already in the common room. Talia and Toby were stood around the coffee table discussing last minute tactics from what I could hear, Adam was pacing around the room and Scorpius was sat calmly on one of the leather sofas.
No one looked up as I entered. I walked straight over to them and joined Scorpius on the sofa. He smirked leaning in closer and placed a hand on my thigh. Since the night we had got caught a week ago Scorpius and I hadn't bothered hiding our relationship in front of our housemates. They all had some sort of hunch about it anyways. Besides, Slytherins are all loyal to each other. The older girls may hate me for being with Scorpius - but they won't snitch on us for it.
"Right so this is what we know-" Toby stated, lifting his hand and counting off the facts. "The Gryffindor beaters are definitely going to be targeting you Scorp and they are all going to be confused that Lily is playing let alone playing chaser."
In the last week it had spread round the school that I wouldn't be playing seeker today. We knew that no one would suspect me playing chaser. It was only my family that even knew I could play in the position of chaser. It was definitely our element of surprise.
We stayed the same for the next twenty minutes, after that our housemates began to stir. They all emerged from their dorms dressed warmly wearing their green and silver hats and scarves. When Lucy and Bryce appeared we were sent off to breakfast with a round of applause and many cheers.
As per usual on a match day the great hall was alive with colour. Today it was green, silver, red and gold. Everyone was buzzing; the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin match was always the most anticipated. Mainly because the rivalry was the incredibly intense but also because we happened to have the best players in the whole school.
I sat down at our table and instantly filled my plate with food, more than usual. I had to eat loads in the morning before a match otherwise I couldn't think straight.
Over the other side of the hall I could see the Gryffindor team enter. My brothers and cousins were stood proudly in their uniforms. I smiled and waved at them, they did the same back although they looked a bit disappointed. I knew that was because they thought I wouldn't be playing.
Finally we heard the clock chime nine times. With that all the people in quidditch robes instantly stood up and started to head towards the door. I followed my team; everyone watching just thought that I was accompanying my team to the changing rooms. No one noticed my kit since I had charmed the bag so it was incredibly small and shoved it in my pocket.
We made our way towards the changing rooms. Scorpius was walking next to me looking incredibly nervous. I elbowed him slightly making him look down at me.
"What's up? You know you will be fine out there and we will kick Gryffindor arse." I exclaimed.
"I know, it's not that. It's my mum; she's coming to watch today." He grimaced slightly at the thought making me laugh.
"So? Mine is too. She couldn't miss the chance to see most of the family play." I explained to him, showing I wasn't nervous. "My dad would be too but that mission he was on got extended so he's still away." My mum had told me this in a letter she had sent during the week. She explained that she was coming in and reminded me again of the conditions she set on the weekend when she was called in.
"It will be fine Scorp...at least we're both going to be fully dressed when she's here this time." I assured and reminded him as we arrived at the changing rooms with the others.
Toby was just about to push the door open when a shout stopped him.
"Miss Potter, what are you doing here? I believe we agreed that you would not be playing today." Professor McGonagall snapped at us. We all turned around to face her. None of us looked guilty. I stepped forward to explain.
"Actually Professor we agreed I would not be playing seeker. You did not say that I couldn't play in another position like chaser." I replied calmly, I had to bite the inside of my lip to keep a smirk from showing on my face. Nobody could be as sly and as devious as a Slytherin... The headmistress looked shocked that she had been outsmarted.
"And if you stopped us from playing now we would have to forfeit. That would break the hearts of everyone here to watch today. Not to mention Gryffindor wouldn't get a chance to beat us and even you don't want that do you Professor." I carried. The women in front of us thought it over for a send before regaining her voice.
"Honestly Professor...we're not breaking any of your rules. You stated clearly she couldn't play Seeker...you didn't mention anything about any of the other positions." Scorpius reminded her calmly.
For a second I thought she was going to drag me into the stands to sit with her for the remainder of the match but instead she arched one long thin eyebrow and simply said,
"You better hurry up and dress. You remind me so much of your mother."
And with that she was off in the direction of the staff spectator tower.
I quickly changed as Toby went over last minute game plans. I rolled my eyes when Scorpius smirked at the sight of me in my underwear, I was glad that I no longer blushed that he was checking me out - I can't even begin to imagine the teasing Lucy would give me if she saw me blush as Scorpius looked at me.
We all sat quietly in the changing rooms, relaxing and breathing before the excitement of the match. From outside we could hear the commentator spring into action.
"Everyone welcome to the most anticipated match of the year! It's time to see the snakes and the lions battle it out!"
We stayed in silence still listening as the commentator listed the players. We all smirked at the sound of boos when he mentioned that I would now be playing. They were definitely going to be surprised.
The sound of the crowd picked up. Gryffindor were emerging from the changing rooms at the far end. Their names were being announced and people were going crazy.
Albus' name was the last to be announced and with that we all got up and headed towards the door where we mounted our brooms.
"And now the Slytherin team!" The voice boomed and the doors swung open. Bryce was the first out.
" Slytherin keeper Bryce Tammet!" the crowd cheered as Bryce made his way around the stadium.
The butterflies were starting to go crazy in my belly. What if it didn't work like this? What if having me as chaser lost us the match.
Lucy looked back at me and gave me an assuring smile. I grinned back.
"Slytherin beaters Adam West and Lucy Weasley!" the commentator's voice carried across the stadium as Lucy and Adam flew away. I heard a huge cheer come from the visitor's tower and winced against the early sun to see who it was. I wasn't surprised to see my mum because she quite often came when Slytherin played Gryffindor but I was surprised to see Aunt Hermione, Aunt Angelina, Uncle Percy and Teddy.
They were all cheering loudly and I'm sure I could see pride etched across Percy's face.
"Slytherin seeker..." I heard an intake of breath from the crowd as this was announced. Everyone was desperate to know who was replacing me. "Scorpius Malfoy!"
There was a blonde blur and he was off. The crowd was going crazy. I'm sure some of them knew that Scorpius was also an excellent seeker.
"And finally the Slytherin chasers, Talia Modest, Captain Toby Kalt and – "There was a pause before he carried on in a confused voice. "Lily Potter?"
I smirked and imagined him looking at the headmistress extremely confused. In front of me Talia and Toby shot off and I followed them. The reception was incredible, people were so shocked. I passed my family and they were all looking confused too, I'm sure mum had told them all I wouldn't be playing.
Even when I looked below the Gryffindors were looking strange. We all knew that they thought it was going to be an easy win today, they had been singing about it all week.
Albus, James, Fred and Roxanne's faces were pale and they looked worried. I knew what was going through all of their heads. 'Lily playing chaser, not good'.
A whistle sounded and everyone flew into position. I stopped and stayed hovering between Toby and Talia. We were opposite Roxanne and the two other Gryffindor chasers. I could see James at the other end covering his hoops. Fred was facing off against Lucy to the left. He looked completely neutral you would have never guessed that he was facing his cousin.
I looked up towards the two seekers. Albus and Scorpius were glaring at each other menacingly. Oh shit we hadn't thought that through. Those two would probably end up smacking each other instead of chasing the snitch.
I sighed and pushed that thought out of my mind as the referee walked towards the middle carrying the quidditch trunk.
A second whistle sounded and all the balls were released into the air. There was an almighty cheer as the match began. I zoomed forwards ducking underneath Roxanne and grabbing the quaffle from the air before she could even grab it. I heard her swear loudly before I was off again.
I rushed down the right side of the stadium, two gold and red blurs on my tail. I dived over a bludger and spotted Talia a little ahead. Pulling my arm back I threw the quaffle as hard as I could and it landed with a satisfying smack in Talia's outstretched hands.
I didn't stop to see what she did with it but out the corner of my eye saw her pass it to Toby. I suddenly knew what to do. With a smirk I flew towards James at the hoops. He noticed me and was momentarily distracted thinking that I had the quaffle. This gave Toby just enough time to slip in and send the quaffle flying through the top hoop.
The crowd whooped loudly as the commentator announced that the score was ten nil to Slytherin. I grinned widely before moving again.
The quaffle was passed around a bit by the Gryffindors. As soon as it was in the hands of the slowest chaser Matthew Smiths I turned towards Lucy and screamed her name loudly. It was perfect timing, my cousin knew exactly what I wanted her to do. She swung around and smashed a bludger straight towards Smiths. He had to slow down in order to dodge it giving me the chance to fly close and rip it from his hands.
I wasted no time; I flew upwards and did a tight loop leaving me facing the opposite way. I sped towards James a, smirk across my face. He stared intently at me trying to tell what I was going to do. I pulled my arm back and feigned a throw to the right. James did what I expected and dived leaving the left hoop free for me to score.
"Slytherin twenty Gryffindor zero."
The game wore on and after what I predicted was about an hour the score was seventy, forty, the lead to us. Everyone was tiring and the Gryffindor passes were becoming sloppy. I was taken full advantage of that and catching the quaffle mid throw whenever I could. Lucy and Adam were doing their best to keep the bludgers away from us. Lucy had even sent a bludger flying at the other Gryffindor beater after he had batted one my way.
The solid ball had smashed straight into his broom and set him flying into a viewing tower. Lucy had laughed and thrown her bat in the air to celebrate as the crowd both cheered and jeered her. I looked up to see Uncle Percy looking really shocked. I'm sure he had no idea how violent his youngest daughter had become.
Throughout the game there had been no sign of the snitch although there had been plenty to watch with the seekers. Albus and Scorpius were both showing off trying to prove who had the biggest cock or something stupid like that. I felt like flying up there and slapping them both. If Scorpius missed the snitch because he was too engrossed in his testosterone competition with my brother there would be hell to pay.
I was brought out of my little train of thoughts regarding my boyfriend and brother when the quaffle was thrown in front of my face, aiming for Roxanne who was zooming up towards me; I caught it easily and tucked it under my arm. Roxanne made a swipe for it at the same time I dropped it and kicked it over to where Toby was hovering.
I flew forwards losing Roxanne and giving Toby an option. I was about two meters above the top hoop and about ten meters out. He lobbed the quaffle at me and I caught it straight away and then immediately threw it towards the hoops. James didn't see it coming from above and it sailed straight through.
I smirked at my brother before throwing my fist in the air and flying off.
As I was flying down the pitch, gaining on the third Gryffindor chaser Hayley Sanderson, I flew past Scorpius and when he extended his hand I slapped it and grinned at him - at this present moment I didn't care that our face was gleaming across the huge screen for the entire stands to see.
Another hour later and I had just thrown the quaffle on to Talia. The crowd gave an almighty cheer and I looked up to see my brother and secret boyfriend racing upwards getting higher and higher. They had spotted the snitch.
I took advantage of the whole team being distracted by this and managed to slip another one past James who by now was looking absolutely furious. He wasn't used to anyone getting this many passed him. At home if Roxanne wanted to play her natural role of Seeking I would play Chaser since Albus refused to play any other position and I would often help James train over summer, meaning one thing.
I know everyone of his tricks.
I looked up again to see that the seekers were lower again and I could now see the golden blur. Albus and Scorpius were neck and neck and gaining on their prey.
There was a cheer as Toby scored again. But hardly anyone was paying attention to that now; everyone's attention was on the blur of blonde and raven black hair as they battled it out for dominance. After realising nobody was paying attention, Toby, Talia and I stopped flying and hovered on our brooms, watching Scorpius and Albus chase after the snitch. I saw Lucy and Adam hover with their bats in their hands, ready to knock Albus back if he got closer than Scorpius.
Scorpius had the size and strength but Albus' stature gave him the speed. We all held our breath as Albus reached out. He was going to get it. But then something strange happened. Scorpius managed to predict what the snitch was going to do next. He suddenly dropped so he was beneath Albus and zoomed forwards. Scorpius then turned upwards sharply and cut off my brother. As he did this the snitch also dropped just in time for Scorpius to reach out and grab it.
There was silence for seconds as everyone wondered what had just happened.
"Scorpius Malfoy snatches the snitch from beneath Potter's nose. Slytherin win!" The whole stadium erupted. Scorpius grinned wildly and started a victory lap. The rest of the team including myself set off in pursuit of him. We flew the circle in a perfect arrow head shape waving and grinning at everyone cheering us in the crowd. Scorpius slowed to a stop in front of the visitor stand. I watched smiling as he hovered next to the front row and hugged his mother. I recognised her easily as Astoria Malfoy and was only briefly surprised to see her sitting beside my mother.
All the girls and women watching 'awwed' as he pulled out the snitch, kissed it and handed it to his mother before flying off. We all followed him as he made his way to the middle of the grass where the Gryffindors had already landed. We landed next to them and instantly threw ourselves on top of our seeker slapping him on the back and shouting his name.
One by one we peeled ourselves off, walking in the direction of the other team to shake hands. I made my way through the team shaking Albus and James's hand last. They grinned like always and pulled me into a quick hug.
After I pulled away from my brothers I turned back to my team and saw Scorpius hugging Talia; I felt a huge grin break into my face and I ran at him. When he saw me he opened his arms the same time I jumped up and hugged him, wrapping my legs around his waist.
"WE WON!" I practically screamed into his face as I put my hands on his shoulders. I looked over his head and saw that once again Scorpius and I were on the huge screen for everybody to see.
To the people in the stands - excluding our mothers obviously, it simply looked like two team mates congratulating each other. To my brothers and cousins it looked like Scorpius was groping me as I hugged him. His hands were a little too close to my bottom than my back and he was too comfortable with having me in his arms.
I dropped down and turned to face my brothers as they made their way over to us, with Roxanne and Fred behind them.
The looks on my brother's faces were a mixture between anger and curiosity. Luckily Lucy and Toby had seen what had happened and stepped in to help. Lucy jumped on James and hugged him hard whilst Toby stood in front of Albus blocking his view and offered his hand to shake.
I thought I had been saved but Albus being Albus wouldn't let it go. He side stepped around Toby and confronted me.
"What was that?" He asked, glaring at Scorpius. Even though his voice was dangerously low, we could still hear it over the cheering crowd.
I heard Scorpius chuckle from behind me before I could answer and silently willed him not to taunt my brother anymore. Albus may not be as big as James or Scorpius but I know for a fact that Albus is more cunning and sly when fighting and has no problems in using his biggest strength to his defence - his wand. I've never seen anybody duel like Albus does, it's like he was born to win every duel he has.
"Albus it was nothing, I was just congratulating Malfoy on catching the snitch, we are on the same team after all." I tried to convince him, stepping in before Scorpius could expand on that chuckle.
"Yeah Potter we are on the same team. And plus I think your sister is big enough now to handle a little hug from the big bad Malfoy." Scorpius snarled as he stepped forward and teased my youngest brother by swinging his arm lazily round my shoulders. "Besides...your sister owes me. She came to me and begged me to swap positions after she got kicked from the team...and who could resist a face as beautiful as hers?"
No matter how big Scorpius was, Albus would win in a fight with wands - it's as simple as that. Scorpius' taunts to Albus made him snap and within seconds he had shoved Toby away from him and withdrew his wand from his sleeve and had it pointing at Scorpius dangerously.
"You get the fuck off of her Malfoy!" Albus exploded taking a quick step towards us. Scorpius stepped away from me and squared up to Albus, seemingly not at all fazed by the wand in Albus' hand. There was a smirk on his face and it didn't fall when James jogged over and stood next to his brother, if anything it got bigger. Especially when Toby fell into place next to him opposite James.
There weren't many people who could calm Albus down; I, our parents and James seemed to be the only people who could do it most of the time. Rose and Teddy could occasionally calm him down but not always.
I tried to get in the middle of them but they all pushed tried to push me away.
"Stay out of this Lily!" James snapped. Sweet Merlin this was not going to end well.
"What is going on here?" I turned when I heard the voice of my oldest brother Teddy. He had obviously come down to wish us congratulations. I saw him look from our brothers on one side and me and my two friends on the other side. "You lot break it up." He ordered stepping between us lot... I breathed a sigh of relief.
"What happened?" Teddy asked calmly after the four of them had unwillingly backed down.
Toby and Scorpius stayed quiet leaving my brothers to speak. Scorpius was still smirking in Albus' face and my brother still hadn't loosened his hold on his wand.
"This twat here has got his hands all over Lily." Albus growled. "There's something funny going on I know it Ted."
Teddy looked from Albus to Scorpius and then he finally looked at me.
"Is there Lils?" My brother was looking at me openly, his turquoise hair blowing around in the wind.
I glanced from Scorpius who was still smirking arrogantly at Albus, to Toby who was stood with an empty face, to Lucy who was watching me too with an empty face, to my brothers. Teddy was looking at me through narrowed eyes, Albus was glaring at Scorpius but James was looking at me through brother eyes. He was looking at me like he was working something out and remembering something that happened years ago at the same time.
I looked away from James quickly and looked back at my oldest brother.
I gulped quickly and looked him right in the eyes. I hated lying to my brothers but I couldn't let this come out right now.
"No! We're friends!"
Teddy stared at me for a moment before nodding, ruffling my hair and turning away. He walked past my brothers and put an arm round each of their shoulders, leading them away from us.
"See you next week." Teddy called over his shoulder walking back over to where my mum now stood on the sidelines looking concerned.
Shaking my head I picked up my broom from where I had discarded it earlier and headed towards the changing rooms. I only had a week left till the Easter holidays. How was I going to tell my family that I was in fact secretly dating the son of my dad and uncles nemesis?
Thoughts?