I was sitting in my bedroom at Grimmauld Place while Hannah and Gabby tried to curl Emmaline's hair. I was thinking about Scorpius – I missed him, I hadn't seen his yesterday or this morning – when an ear-piercing scream brought me back to reality. I jumped up and ran over to Emma. "What's wrong, sweetheart?" I asked her.
"I don't want curly hair. I want straight hair like you," she said burying her head into my chest.
Oh crap. I had straightened my hair that morning. I totally forgot she always wanted her hair like mine. I smiled at her and said, "If you let mummy curl your hair I'll give you a present early," I said kissing her forehead.
She thought about it for a minute before shaking her head yes. I smiled at her before getting up and running down the stair. I ran into someone at the bottom of the last flight of stairs "what the -," I said looking to see who I ran into. "MALCOLM!" I screamed jumping into his arms. Malcolm Jordan was the same age as James, he and James were best friends, and was my first boyfriend during end of third and the beginning of fourth year. He was also practically a member of the family. Daddy had dated his mum, Cho, in school and his dad, Lee, was Uncle George's best friend.
"Hey Lils," he said putting me back on the ground, "I heard I missed the big news on your birthday huh?" he laughed awkwardly.
"Oh my God! I was going to tell you I swear I was. I just, well, I'm sorry I didn't tell you," I sighed feeling slightly guilty. What we had wasn't love, not really, but it was close enough to know it hurt him to know I was with Scorpius. He was one of the only people I knew I could trust, and I loved him just not in the way he wanted me to.
"Lils, calm down. Macy told me this morning. She was all like 'don't break your own heart and ask little Potter out she's with little Malfoy,' I wasn't surprised in the least, I mean I always knew it was him, Lily," he told me honestly.
"It really has always been him hasn't it?" I asked mystified.
"Ever since the moment you met. I always knew one day you'd chose him. I just had to take my shot before you realized it was him you were looking for," he said brushing my hair away from my face.
I laughed. I really had missed Malcolm since I broke up with him. I hugged him before walking into the living room that was set up perfectly for a five year olds birthday with all the pinks and purples. I picked up the box I needed before going back upstairs.
When I was in my bed room there was a blonde muscular tall young man standing there with his back turned to me. I ran and jumped on to his back. "Briley, I'm not sure if your mother informed you, but no one is allowed to see Emma until I am done," I told him kissing his cheek.
"LILYBUG!" he said pulling me around so my legs were wrapped around his waist.
He was crushing me to his chest. "Can. Not. Breathe." I said breathlessly.
He laughed and put me down. "Sorry, Bug, I just missed you. I have to go back to Eastern Russia tomorrow," he sighed. He wasn't a big fan of being away from Dominique or me and Gabby for that matter, but he knew that was what he had to do until this sadistic Russian wizard was caught. He and Dominique had been together since they were fifteen, and they were both now twenty. I think she wanted him to propose, and we all knew he wanted to, but he was an Auror. That just wasn't an option at the moment.
"She misses you, you know. The other day we went out to lunch and she kept muttering in French about you loving adventure more than you love her," I told him before giving him a devilish grin, "I cast a charm on the bedroom at the end of the hall on the third floor. Go show her you love her more than adventure," I told him. I wasn't going to let Domi think he didn't love her. He blushed, but kissed my forehead and went to find her.
I looked at Emma who now had a head full of blonde curls, "Oh Emma you look so pretty," I told her before turning to her mother and sister, "Hannah, Gabby, out. I want all of you to be surprised when I'm finished with her. They left, so I turned back to Emma handing her the big box remembering the day I decided to get this dress made.
My entire family, Teddy, Scorpius, the Longbottoms, the Lees, and the Scamanders decided to take a week last summer and go to the Potter Manor in Scotland. I was showing Emma the pretty pictures of my family on the walls of the portrait room when she came across this picture of Catherine Potter circa 1820. She looked at me and said "Wily, I wants that dress." I smiled at her making a mental note to ask Catherine if the gown was still in the out. It was, and I found it later on in the week in the attic I began to design a small one that would work for Emma. I took her measurements two weeks before the party and worked with one of the seamstresses atTwilfit and Tatting's to get the dress made.
Back in the present Emma was pulling the light pink child friendly ball gown out of the box, and by child friendly I mean it's charmed to be indestructible. "Lily! It's the dress! From the pretty picture!" she practically screamed at me. I smiled at her.
"Yes, princess, it is," I told her. I helped her put on the dress, and finished her hair in the same way Catherine's hair was. In the end she looked like a five year old Marie Antoinette. I was baffled. I looked at the clock and it took me an hour to get her ready. The party was due to start in ten minutes, and I wanted Neville, Hannah, Briley, and Gabby to see her first. I walked to the top of the stairs telling them I it was time to see Emma. When they saw her I got mixed reactions. Hannah started crying. Neville started dancing with her. Gabby laughed and asked why I couldn't I have planned her fifth birthday. Briley whispered that he wanted her to be the flower girl his and Dominique's wedding. I spun around to ask him if he was serious, but he just put his finger over my lips.
When we walked down stairs with Emma everyone had their various reactions just like upstairs most of the women oooed and awed over her. The men smiled at our little princess. I found Scorpius and waked over to him. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead. I turned around so I could lean back into his chest. "I want us to have a girl," I told him before I could stop myself.
He smiled down at me and said, "What do you want to name her?" he wanted to have babies with me too. I was over the moon.
"Cassiopeia Astoria Malfoy, or Phoebe Addison Malfoy," I said. I could almost see our future child. It was crazy. I'd never thought about having children, but with Scorpius I wanted to have babies.
"What if we have a boy?" he asked with a smirk.
"Oh! That's easy! Apollo Dante Malfoy or Eros Alexander Malfoy," said beaming up at him.
"I'm okay with all of those but Eros. You do understand in Roman mythology that's cupid right?" he asked.
"I know that, but it's either that or Sirius," I told him. Now that we were talking about it really did want to name my child Sirius. Not just because of James, but because of dad's Godfather as well.
"That's fine with me, Lil," he said kissing my temple. "Have you talked to Malcolm?" he asked nonchalantly.
I turned around in his arms. His eyes were cautious, and slightly worried, "Scorpius, you have no need to worry it's you. It's always been you. Even when I was with him," I told him, "Remember that time on the train last fall when I almost fell and you picked up moving me out of the way last year?" I asked. He nodded. "That's when I knew consciously."
He smiled and kissed me until someone cleared their throat. I looked up to see Teddy standing there. "I understand you're young and in love, but a five year olds birthday party is not the place to be doing that," he said looking at us.
Teddy looked more than a little angry. "Scorpius, I believe my brother's and oh so lovely male cousin's want to speak with you about our 'blossoming relationship' as James put it," I told him grabbing Teddy's arm and pulling him out the back door. The moment the door closed behind me I let go of Teddy's arm and took in his blazing eyes and bright red hair. His anger only made me angrier. I put my hands on my hips and glared up at him. "I swear to God, Ted Remus Lupin, you need to get over yourself! He is your cousin! His grandmother helped fucking raise you! How can you act like this? Have you gone completely mad? And what about me? I thought you loved me, Teddy. If you loved me you would let me be happy!" I ranted practically screaming at him. During my rant his hair had gone back to its sandy brown color. My anger had died down too, and I was now sad, "I love him, Teddy," I told him looking down at my perfectly manicured slightly tanned bare feet.
"Lils, you're so young, but you're smart, independent, grown up, and beautiful. You're only fifteen, and he's seventeen. I know what seventeen year old boys want, and he's not getting that from you at this age," he said defiantly.
I pulled back and looked in his eyes, "Is that what you wanted from Victoire when you were seventeen?" I asked him. He looked at me and stuttered for a moment before looking away from me. "I didn't think so," I said smugly.
He sighed and looked at me, "But, Lily, couldn't you wait a year or so?" he asked me desperately. I had to admire his persistence. . .
But it was not going to work, "I could, but I don't want to. I have been in love with him since I was eleven. I'm not going to let you keep me from loving him," I told him. I couldn't take this anymore. I needed to go for a run.
I went to my room and changed into a pair of running short, a tank top, and a pair of tennis shoes before going down stairs.
I was putting my hair up when Roxanne walked up to me. "Can I join you? I need to get away from all of these children.
I laughed taking in her beauty. Roxie was the most beautiful of us all with her caramel colored skin, hazel eyes, and mahogany hair even curlier than my natural smooth ringlets. "Of course, I miss running with you. I have some more running clothes in my room," I told her. We were about the same size. She was a little taller and a size bigger, but it would do. We ran pretty much the same pace throughout the next twenty minutes. I went to turn around. Roxie just looked and me and said, "You can head back I'm going to keep running. I have my phone if anyone needs me," she told me adding the last part as I slowed down looking at her reluctantly.
When I got back to the house the boys were on the front porch. "God, Lily, it's like a thousand degrees out here," Albus informed me.
"Actually, Al, if that was the case we all would have burned up with the temperature reached seven hundred and forty degrees," I informed my brother.
Albus glared at me while everyone else laughed. Scorpius clapped him on the back before walking over to me. "It was a Hyperbole, baby," he informed me.
I beamed up at him, "Hmmm. There is nothing I love more than a sexy man that has a brain," I said seductively before wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing him. It was a tender loving short kiss.
When we pulled apart Scor wrinkled his nose, "I love you, Lily, I really do, but you smell horrible," he told me honestly. What did he expect? I had just spent the last hour running. in this kind of heat I was bound to smell.
I rolled my eyes, "Well, love, if you would let me go take a shower I wouldn't smell like sweat," I informed him before taking his hands off of my ass and pulling myself out of his arms.
After my shower I remembered I need to talk to Macy. I found her sitting on a couch talking to Albus about something. I stood in front of her with my hands on my hips. "Why did you have to be so cruel when you told Mal about Scorpius and me?" I asked her.
"Lily, someone had to tell him. It's not like you were planning on it," she said snidely.
Macy and I had never gotten along very well, but I put up with her, because she was Rose's best friend. "Actually I was planning on telling him," she looked skeptically, I added, "I wasn't going to do it today, though. I was going to ask him if he wanted to go to lunch because there was something we needed to talk about, and that was going to be when I told him," I didn't want Albus to hear, so for the next part I put my face mere inches from hers, "If you ever interfere with my personal business again you will regret it," I told her before walking away.
I walked into the kitchen and look out the window for a few minutes trying to calm down. I felt two strong arms encircle my small waist. "Lily, what's wrong?" Scorpius asked putting his chin on the top of my head.
I sighed. He would find out eventually anyways, "I had a confrontation with Macy, because she told Malcolm we were together before I could break the news to him gently and I hate her anyways, but now she's interfering with my personal life. I don't understand how sweet little Rose could be friends with such a bitch!" I told him in a rush.
We head a gasp to our right and saw Rose standing there looking hurt and angry. "Rose, wait," I said but she was already heading out the door. "Fuck!" I said. Kreacher looked up from where he was sitting with reproach in his eyes. "Sorry," Kreacher I said running off to find Rose. I found her sitting in one of the bedrooms on the third floor. "Rose," I said putting my hand on her shoulder.
"Do. Not. Touch. Me. Lily," she said seething. I was taken aback she was never like this.
"Rose, what's wrong? This is more than me calling your best friend a bitch," I asked her gently.
"I love him, Lily!" she screamed at me.
I was confused who did she love? "Who?" I asked her. Please, God, please don't let it be Scorpius, but of course I couldn't be that lucky.
"I love Scorpius, but he's always been madly in love with you. I always hoped you never realized you loved him too, but of course you did because you're little miss perfect getting whatever she wants! You have a boyfriend that adores your, two boy who love you but you don't love back, perfect friends, a brain that could rival the brightest in both our world and the Muggle world, brothers who spend their lives protecting your honor, you're in Gryffindor and you're always the most beautiful person in a room! How much more annoyingly perfect can one person be?" Rose practically screamed at me.
I glared at her. She might be my cousin, but I was not going to let her speak to me like this, "I'm not perfect. Not by a long stretch of the imagination. It's not my fault you're in Slytherin. I can't help it that I'm smart or beautiful," personally the only reason I thought I was beautiful was because I looked just like my grandmother with my dark auburn curls and creamy skinned that tanned slightly, and tiny but curvy frame. That's not my fault. I have good genes, "As for Scorpius, he was never yours, Rose. He's mine. I'm not saying that to be a bitch, but it's true. Look at the heart diamond in the middle of my necklace," I told her.
She looked up, and said, "It's a ruby, Lily, not a diamond."
I took the necklace off, and she watched as it turned back to the normal color of a diamond. "It's charmed, Rose. It's red when the person who gave you the necklace loves you, and his Patronus changed to mine when he realized he couldn't live without me. We belong together, Rosie, and neither of us can change that," I told her putting the necklace back on.
That just made her angry. "You have everything I want and for that I hate you, Lily," she said turning away from me.
I ran out of the room before she could see my tears. I ran up to my room and sat on my bed crying for God knows how long until Uncle Ron came in my room, "Lily," he said holding me to his chest. That only made me cry harder. "She won't stay mad at you. She'll get over it. She's like her mother that way."
I pulled back and looked into the blue eyes that matched my own perfectly, "I don't think that's true. She said I had everything she wanted and she hated me for it."
He looked shocked, and more than a little angry, I mean, I am the baby. Even if I was the one with the old soul I was still the baby, and even if Rose was his daughter this family practically revolved around protecting me. "I'm going to go talk to her," he told me kissing my forehead and walking away.
I lay back down, and was just drifting to sleep when Hugo came in the room. I looked at the boy who could be my twin if his hair was a slightly darker red. "Lily, it's time to open presents," he told me. I must've looked at panicked as I felt because he told me Uncle Ron took Rose home.
I walked down stair and watched Emma open her presents. She was able to open some of them with her mind which was pretty awesome to see. She got so many toys and little girly things. Roxanne, Gabby, and I spent forever trying to find her present, but we ended up going to a Muggle mall, and getting her a pair of little kid glass slippers like from the Muggle movie Cinderella Aunt Hermione used to let us watch when we were younger. She loved them. The rest of the day went by smoothly. We had cake around five before everyone left.
After everyone left all of us teenager, and Dominique and Briley went to my room to watch a movie. They told up about their engagement, but they were waiting until Victoire had the baby to tell the adults. We watched a movie and Kreacher brought us dinner and snacks and such as we watched movies.
Around twelve fifteen we were playing truth or dare when we heard an ear piercing scream. I noticed it was Victoire, so I ran like a bat out of hell down the stairs to where she was sitting on the couch screaming, "No! It's too early! I have a month left!" Teddy grabbed her arm and Apparited to St. Mungo's. People all around us were Appariting. I looked up at Scorpius who just nodded before Appariting to the hospital. I slept on and off for the next three hours until a Healer came into the waiting room asking for me. I followed him back to Tori's room. She and Teddy were sitting on the bed with a little baby in a pink blanket in their arms.
"Hey, baby, look it's your Aunt Lily," Tori whispered to the baby. I walked over and saw she had Tori's strawberry blonde hair but her eyes were like teddy's hair. They changed colors as she looked at me. They went from the deep purple that was there when she looked at her mummy to an indigo color.
"She's beautiful. What did you name her?" I asked.
"Nymphadora Lily Lupin," Tori said handing me the small baby girl.
I sat there looking into her eyes watching them go from indigo to bright purple. "Lily," Teddy whispered when both Dora and Tori were asleep, "go to bed. You look dead on your feet," he took the baby from me kissing my forehead before I walked back to the waiting room.
The moment my family saw me they began their twenty questions game. Dad saved me by telling them to be quiet. "It's a girl. Her name is Nymphadora Lily Lupin. She's five pounds. Both her and Tori are fine and asleep," I told my family and visibly saw them relax. I walked over to my mother. I was tired, and I knew any of my family's houses close by would be hectic tonight and tomorrow. "Can I go to Scor's tonight? I need real sleep, and I'm not going to get that at home," I asked.
"Yes, that's fine," she told me giving me a hug.
I was so tired I practically fell into Scorpius' lap when I asked him if I could just stay with him. I was half asleep with my head on his chest when I remember I hadn't asked him if we could leave. "Baby?" I asked.
"Hmmm?" he mumbled. He was tired too.
"Can we leave? I'm so tired," I said pulling him out of the chair.
When we got back to his house we went straight to bed. It had been a long day, so the only thing that happened was spooning. It made me feel like such a grandma.
A/N: I know I changed up the story around the necklace a little bit, but it felt right, and I liked it. I hope you liked this chapter. Review?