PART 3 OF GLITTER & EXPLOSIONS.

"Okay, we're all here, right?" James looked around at the Weasley-Potter and one Malfoy gathering.

"Maybe it'd be easier to tell if there weren't so bloody many of you," Scorpius muttered.

"Shut up, Malfoy," said Rose, Victoire and James.

"Why are we here?" said Rose looking disgruntled. James noticed that her hair was messier than usual and her first two buttons were undone. Curious.

"Um," Victoire was looking distinctly uncomfortable and kept shooting sheepish glances at Teddy, "Lily's gone."

"Gone?" Al looked unsurprised.

"She finally cracked and ran away from home?" Scorpius looked impressed.

"Er, no," Fred looked worried but couldn't help being a little smug, "She ate my Time-Twister Taffy-"

"Merlin, that was dumb-"

"-And got sent into the past-"

Al shook his head slowly.

"-And we've got to save her before the Death Eaters spot her!"

"… And you couldn't just tell mum and dad this?"

"Er, no," said James matter-of-factly, "They would have brutally murdered us then danced on our graves."

"And we definitely don't want that," drawled Scorpius, smirking at James.

Rose snickered quietly into her hand and James was getting increasingly more suspicious. Scorpius' hair did look more ruffled than usual; and they had carefully arranged themselves in their seating around each other as if-

"Bloody hell!" shouted James suddenly.

"What?" everyone froze.

"You're not- you're not sleeping with him are you?"

A moment of long awkward silence, like the ones you get when your cousin shouts out to the rest of your cousins that you're sleeping with another cousin's best friend. I'm sure you know that one.

Rose's face was starting to resemble a quaffle in colour.

"James!" she hissed.

Al turned to Scorpius slowly, "You're sleeping with my cousin?" he said lowly.

Scorpius was so pale he practically blended in with the tiles, "Al-" he started.

Al whipped out his wand ad pointed it at his best friend.

"Albus!" Ginny's voice came so suddenly everybody jumped. Ginny was standing in the doorway with her hands on her hips.

"Mom!" said James hollowly; his eyes automatically unfocused. So many cattle prods.

"Ginny," Victoire said nervously. The woman was scary, when pissed.

Albus just looked back at his mother levelly. His wand was still pointed at Scorpius. Ginny paused for a moment; he looked so much like his dad just then-

"What in Merlin's name is going on here?" she screeched, "Put your wand away, Albus, you're underage."

Al slowly lowered his wand, still glaring fiercely at the boy that had practically been his brother for six years.

Rose's face was gradually turning redder.

Victoire stood in the corner looking momentarily flabbergasted. Hugo was sitting with Molly whispering; they probably hadn't even noticed anything that happened in the last half hour; most likely discussing something dreadfully boring like cauldron bottoms, knowing them.

Then Teddy strutted into the room in a gold Victorian dress. He looked from Ginny, to Albus, to the still gaping Victoire. "Ah," he said, "Bad timing."

Victoire face palmed.

I'm pretty sure there's only going to be two more parts to Glitter & Explosions then we're FREE.

I love putting Teddy in dresses- :')