LBS finishes her dinner with a satisfied burp. Hamburger, mashed potatoes and more vegetables than an Amish person has seen in their entire lifetime. She returns to the computer room where she had been working on the next chapter for A different kind of Gryffindor III. While she had been eating her mother had been in to check her emails and LBS suddenly gets chills when she sees the blank desktop.
"Oh no! No, no, no!" LBS yells in agony and flees the room running to her mother. "Mum? Did you delete my Word document?"
Her mother looks up, "Oh, I might have. Was it important?"
LBS screams and knocks her head against the wall in defeat and returns to the computer room with a grey cloud overhead. She settles down in the chair and opens a new Word document. Sighing in defeat she begins again, with no memory of anything she had written before.
Sometimes life sucks but you've just got to write your way through.
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Scorp walked down to the great hall alone. He had carefully warned Ann that talking to him for a while would not be wise. Now he just had to figure out how to make it up to Rose.
Whatever 'it' actually was.
While Scorp was pondering the mysterious 'it' something hit him with such force at he almost fell over.
"Scorp! Can you believe it? Hogwarts Scorp! Hogwarts!!" Lily's hysterical voice broke his chain of thinking.
"Ouch Lil," he groaned, holding his head, "You know, some of the professors won't take to kindly to you if you're this loud too early in the morning."
"And by professors you mean you?" Cassidy came up behind her friend smiling smugly. Scorp frowned at her, "Maybe I do, but it's still true. Besides I'm older than you so there!"
Cassidy looked like she was about to say a come back but Hugo came over and silenced her.
"Don't worry about it Cass," he said, "The Scorpion is always like this in the morning." Scorp frowned, "The Scorpion? Have you been listening to your sister again?"
"No! We have!" chorused Lorcan and Lystander.
"Oh great and this just completes the midgetted freak show," groaned Scorp.
"Well look who-"
"Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
Scorp shook his head in despair, "God away, please. I've already had my fare share of trouble this morning. Actually that reminds me," he turned to Cassidy, "Can I have a word?"
Cassidy looked shocked but nodded all the same. The others gathered around.
"In private," insisted Scorp, "If you want to you can tell them later." Satisfied with that the others scurried off to get breakfast.
"Look Cassidy," Scorp struggled to string the words together. How did you tell an eleven year old that some crazy person wanted to kill them? "Ok, so in Jamaica these muggles-"
"Tried to kill all the wizards. They were lead by Adam Dursley," Cassidy broke in. "I know. I do live in America, the MAP reported it. Gave Dad quite a shock."
"MAP?" Scorp asked confused.
Cassidy sighed, "Magical American Post. How did you know about Jamaica?"
"I was there at the time, don't ask why. I was one of the people who fought the Hunt-muggles. I-I almost killed Adam. Look the point if the leader of our gang was Ann Sampson. (A/N: those who read Lost Days will know Ann's last name was actually Davis. I changed it to Sampson because I couldn't remember the real name and couldn't be stuffed to find out. A friend pointed it out after.) Ann's hell bent on revenge since they killed her parents and well… the way she sees it is that she has to kills all of Adam's relatives, meaning you and the Potters."
Cassidy thought for a moment, "The Weasleys too?"
He shook his head, "I asked her. She's only after close blood relatives. If she were too broad she'd end up killing the entire wizarding race. I just want you to be on guard." Cassidy smiled, "Thankyou. You're are not like the Malfoys I grew up being told about . Draco and Lucius. "
"Yes well, I guess that's why I am no longer blood related to them."
"Really? How could that be?" asked Cassidy intrigued.
"A Magic blood-severing spell. If you did a paternity test, magic or non-magic, it would say I have no blood ties at all. No parents."
Cassidy blink, her eyes wide, "Really! That's amazing!" she flushed, "I'm sorry. That was really insensitive of me."
Scorp smiled kindly at her, showing compassion much beyond his years. "It's alright. I'm actually fine with it. There was never much love between me and my father."
"Well, thankyou all the same. See you around… Scorpion," Cassidy grinned and ran off to join Lily, Hugo and twins at breakfast. Scorp made to walk after her but was stopped mid step.
"Mister Nom!" he froze. Was he in trouble already? "Follow me." He followed the teacher in silence, all the way to her office.
"Scorpion," she said to the gargoyle. Scorp was wondering why everyone was using that word today but cast it aside as he stepped onto the spiralling staircase. Nothing at Hogwarts every made sense and he'd just loose brain cells by dwelling on it.
"In here," Charlotte opened the door to her office and pushed him inside. Scorp immediately sat down, then realising his mistake stood up again.
Charlotte laughed, "Sit down you silly boy." He grinned and sat back down.
"What's up Char-Headmistress?" he asked, "I'm not in trouble all ready am I?" Charlotte smiled, "No, unless you've done something? Please tell me you haven't done something!"
"I haven't done something," he repeated tonelessly.
"I'm going to take that as the truth not that just because I asked you too." Charlotte sighed and slid back into her seat. "How are you Scorp?"
"Me?" asked Scorp surprised, "I'm fine. Why?"
Charlotte shrugged, "You've had a rough two years and well I overheard you telling Miss Dursley about your dad…" spotting the look on his face she quickly corrected herself, "…Draco I mean."
"I'm fine. Perfectly alright," he insisted.
Charlotte sighed, "Alright, I'll take your word for it. Well now seems a good a time as any." She pulled out a draw and brought out a file. She set it on the desk and pushed it towards him. Scorp picked it up.
Application for Adoption.
Reason: Scorp Nom was blood- severed from his family last year and has since been without a legal guardian. He has been living in Ms. Bloom's house since August last year, before he was blood severed as he had been cast out of his home by Mr. Malfoy.
Applicant: Bloom, Charlotte R.D.O.B: 10/2/1980
Residence: 14 Loch St, Rowena Shire, Scotland.
Occupation: Headmistress at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Marriage Status: Unmarried
Subject of Adoption: Nom, Scorp (previously Malfoy, Scorpius H.)
D.O.B: 25/8/2006
Signed by Charlotte Bloom on September 1st 2019Charlotte's signature was underneath on a dotted line. Scorp stared at it in shock.
"You don't have to!" exclaimed Charlotte in a tiny voice, "I just thought… maybe…" Scorp grinned at her, "Of course I do! This is great Charlotte!"
She smiled thankfully, "Thankyou Scorp, you have no idea how much that means to me." she took a deep breath, blinked away her tears and started to explain, "There are three types of adoption for wizards. There is a normal muggle version. In a legal sense I would become your mother. There is what muggles call fostering, I would simply be your guardian. Or there is blood adoption. It is a spell like the blood-severing spell. You, in blood, become my actual child. You'd look more like me and you might even loose some of the things you inherited from Astoria and Draco. I completely understand if you don't want that…" she trailed off.
Scorp thought for a minute, carefully considering his options.
"I'll do the last one," he said.
Charlotte's eyes glimmered with tears, "You're… sure?" she asked hesitantly as if afraid he would change his mind. He nodded and Charlotte could barely conceal her excitement. She passed him and pen and he sighed his name in a flourish, under blood-adoption.
For the second in his life Scorp felt that warm sensation in his body as his DNA rearranged itself.
When it stopped Charlotte grinned at him. He smiled back.
"How do I look?" he asked.
She smiled, "Very me like. Here see for yourself." She pointed towards a mirror hanging on the wall.
Scorp stood up and slowly walked over to the mirror. Terrified he shut his eyes.
"Oh just look!" said Charlotte exasperated.
He opened his eyes.
They were green! Deep sea green.
His once light-grey eyes, the ones he always saw on his father were gone! And his hair! Ann couldn't complain anymore, for his hair was red!
Not like Weasley red, which has more brown in it.
No, his was more.. more deep… complete red. It wasn't even like Charlotte's who's was the real red hair colour, more orangey.
He couldn't describe it… he was taking too long to describe it.
"Scorp are you okay?" asked Charlotte carefully.
Red, real red. Not hair red, real red he decided.
"Yes I'm perfectly fine," he replied smiling, "I'll see you in astronomy… Mum."
Charlotte's eyes weld over with tears as she watched her son… her son. Walked out the door as Scorp Bloom.
A/N: My heart is filled with warmth. No Charlotte this does not make me your son/daughter (inside joke she thinks I'm Scorp… weirdo). Ok I need to fix some things while I remember them. Scorp's old middle name I said was Lucius in the first story. It turned out to be Hyperion. Not that it matters cause he renounced it but just so that you guys don't get annoyed at the inconsistencies. Also Teddy this year is turning 21 in April. I accidentally made him a year younger when I posted everyone's ages. My bad. Alright that's it.
Oh a little warning, my flu has advanced to the next stage and I'm coughing all the time so it could be a while until the next chapter. Sorry but I just feel so horrible and writing is the last thing on my mind. Sleeping is the first.