CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Scorpius was in shock. Sure he had thought that she had some sort of crush on him and he never intentionally did anything to give her hope. But for her to have a fake him for whatever reason she had in mind pissed him off. To be in love with him (which he never thought of, strong word for him) and to go this far for that, she had to have a motive behind it all and he was going to get it out of her. He looked at Maddie and her eyes even redder and tears falling down waiting for his answer which he did not know how to say without her going crazy. He looked around, people where now looking at him and he needed a place to be far away from them. From Mike, his sisters, East and McBay, everyone. Everyone but Maddie and the impostor who was holding his head up trying to stop the bleeding. But where? When he saw one of the greenhouses and students could there if it was open. He would try it. He grabbed Maddie's hand and saw he face light up a little, but he just glared at her and her face turned frightened again and grabbed the impostor on the ground by his collar and hoisted him up. Once up, he grabbed the back of his jacket and pushed him towards the greenhouse. He heard people behind him and he stopped, turned his head towards them and glared at them.
"Do not follow" he said in a stern voice and kept on walking. Once he saw the lock was open, the three of them walked inside. Once inside, Scorpius put on a charm on the door to prevent anyone from going in or from going out. He took a deep breath and turned towards the two guilty people. Maddie's face was scared as was the impostor, but he had his wand out. Scorpius had really good defense so he could probably take his wand out fast, but he didn't want to just yet, only if he had to. He took a deep breath.
"Who are you"? He asked the impostor. The impostor just looked at him, ready to chant a spell, but he saw that Scorpius had his wand no where in sight so he relaxed a little.
"I should ask who are you"? He said. Scorpius laughed.
"Don't joke around with me, I might not know your real face but I do know that I am the real Scorpius. So unless you want to get in trouble you better give me you name". The other guy flinched and Scorpius knew he had him. The guy didn't want to get in trouble, so that was a good thing.
"My name, it's..."
"And it better be your real name, I don't want a another fake thing out of you mouth" Scorpius interrupted.
"Fine, my name is Charles Rutten"
"Ah Ruttten, not surprised" Scorpius said. So Rutten it was, a sixth year and a terrible student and every year he tried out for the Quidditch team only to be rejected. Maybe he had done this in order to pay back at Scorpius for not putting him on the team. So had gotten that out, now what he needed was purpose. He turned towards Maddie.
"Why would you do this Maddie"? Scorpius asked Maddie and she was shaking and hiccuping.
"I ah... hiccup... I just wanted you to love me... hiccup" Maddie said, looking at the ground. Scorpius felt pity for her. Her parents were hard on her, and only showed any kind of affection towards her when she did well on something or went out to get and got it. That was how she acquired love and Maddie thought that was what it would take for him to love her.
"Maddie, I don't love you and you can't force anyone to love you just because – " Scorpius was saying when she cut him off.
"But you love her don't you. You love that fucking bitch of Lily Potter" Maddie said with a sneer and Scorpius was taken aback. What? As Scorpius thought before, love was a hard and complicated word and should not be used so easily by some simple weak emotions.
"No, I do not" Scorpius said calmly, and she was shocked but only for a second.
"Yes you do, for whatever reason you denying it, I know it. I see the way you look at her, when you talk to her everything that has to do with her you have this soft look in your eyes and only directed at her. With your other girlfriend, it was never like this and that is why it was so easy to have them dump you" Maddie said and Scorpius signed. He had felt bad for those other girls he had dated, one because they had some bad threats from Maddie and the other one for being so weak minded and not doing anything about it or or just because they didn't like him as much. But for him to be so obvious of the fact that he liked Lily made him mad because this was what he did not want to happened. He knew if Maddie found out, she would do many things against her to get her away from him such as having her mad at him and not wanting to fix things. Like what has been happening the last two weeks. Or more like he mad at her for what she had done. He was going to find out how much Maddie had been involved.
" How much were you involved in this whole thing" Scorpius ask her wanting to have her forget about him loving Lily and not her.
"I didn't do anything really, I just had Rutten turn into you" she said turning her head away. Scorpius signed.
"You planned that whole date thing didn't you"? Maddie didn't respond "You must of done other things that I am not aware of? I'll get it out of my sister if you don't tell me" Again she didn't respond. "Who other were you accomplices"? Scorpius asked her, and again she didn't respond. She might be mean, but she was one to to stay quite about the others.
"Fine, I guess you won't talk anymore. He turned to walk away, only to have a hand grab his arm. He shook it off. "I don't think I can be your friend anymore" he said, happy that he could say and he would have some peace from and her and sad that it had to end this way. He heard a sob.
"Just tell me one thing" Maddie said her voice hoarse.
"Anything" Scorpius said, anything for her to give up on him.
"It's Potter isn't it" Scorpius signed. How many times has he done so today.
"Yes, I like her" he said, hearing the words outside of his mind for the first time. He turned to face her, her eyes tightly closed with tears escaping through her eye slits, running down her pale cheek. He wanted to hug her and console her, because after all, he had known her for a long time and suddenly it was over. Their friendship over.
Scorpius went outside the building where he found Mike, Jeal, Dani, Easy and McBay all with their ears pressed to the greenhouse walls, apparently trying to catch something. Their eyes were big with wonder but Scorpius didn't feel like answering their question and he just walked to the Slytherin common rooms, with only Mike and his sisters following since East and McBay where in different houses. They went inside only to find the commons room empty of everyone. Everyone either still in Hogsmeade or somewhere in the school. Scorpius sat down on one of the arms chairs, he head back and his eyes closed. Taking deep breaths, Scorpius thought of everything that had happened that day, and what he wanted to do most was duel was Lily. But he didn't know where she was and he couldn't. Opening his eyes, he found Mike and his sisters sitting on the couch across from him.
"What"? Scorpius said in a bored voice.
"What happened" Dani said in a soft voice. Scorpius signed.
"Nothing really, she said nothing except question me why I didn't like her". They all nodded.
"Yeah, so then I have a question for you"? Jeal said.
"What"? Said Scorpius.
"Was that you with her that last trip to Hogsmeade"? So Lily wasn't the only one that knew about that, even thought Scorpius thought that she had been making it up.
"No, I stayed here to study. Didn't feel like going out" Scorpius said.
"What"? Mike suddenly shouted. "So Maddie wasn't on a date with me. Was that a fake Maddie to distract me from you"? Mike kept on shouting.
"Wait, oh yeah" Scorpius said "you had told me later that day that you had been with Maddie all day. That means that she is covering up way more then she wanted me know"
"Not necessarily, Mike told us that you were on a date with her. We never saw you two" said Jeal wanting to clear up something else then the fakes running around.
"But I never talked with you guys, I was with Maddie all day"
Suddenly, someone else came in. They all turned around to see Lily come into the Slytherin commons room with a plate on her hands. When she saw Scorpius, her eyes quickly moved to Jeal and Dani and went to sit on the other arm chair in the circle, looking at the plate.
"Lily, where have you been"? Asked Dani.
"Just walking around. I went down into the kitchens and got my cinnamon roles that I made yesterday. Want some"? Lily asked and everyone got on except Scorpius, even though she offered him twice. It was quite for some time before Jeal spoke.
"Lily, remember how Mike told us two weeks ago that Scorpius was on a date with Maddie" Lily looked at Scorpius for a second and nodded.
"Yeah, I didn't tell you guys but I also saw them at the Three Broomsticks" Lily said and Jeal and Dani where in shock.
"What"? Jeal screamed "What do you mean? Why didn't you tell us"? Jeal said standing up looking mad.
"Because Jeal, you were already mad at him for what Mike had said" Lily said.
"And you where at the Three Broomsticks because Jaeger had taken you there" Dani said, looking thoughtful again. Lily nodded and Scorpius was mad. So she did go on a date with Jaeger before and it was that day she had almost broken her neck kissing that bastard.
"So, the Maddie I was with wasn't the real Maddie" Mike said softly, his brown eyes looking sad as they looked at the ground.
"Yes Mike" Jeal said, looking quite angry and still standing up. "She was playing around with you. She never cared about you all she wanted was Scorpius" and at this, Scorpius winced. Mike looked down at the ground even sadder then he had been. But at least he finally has seen the real Maddie.
"Wait, what happened"? Lily asked and Dani filled in Lily telling her everything. Lily nodded looking shocked but in a way happy, and Jeal, now sitting down, looked at Lily.
"Anything else that you didn't' tell us"? She asked in a cold voice. Lily thought for a moment then nodded.
"Yeah, when we were at the shop I saw Maddie and Malfoy walking arm in arm laughing together and looking happy" Lily said, looking a little sad. "And I also saw them kiss just when I was about to leave the Three Broomsticks. Thats all I saw that day". And then Scorpius got it. Maddie had done all of this in front of Lily knowing that she was watching and did it to tell Lily to back off and it was perfect because Maddie had known that Scorpius had no intention of going out that day and so she put her plan to work, thus working because Lily saw it. The only way it would work really was if Lily was taken to the Three Broomsticks by someone who knew of the plan and also thought that Lily liked Scorpius and she would be hurt thinking that he likes someone else and make her not want to talk to him. But who?
"That bitch, kissing a fake Scorpius for her own selfish purposes" Jeal said. At that, Scorpius decided to go visit a certain person and have a chat with him. See if he could find something out.
"You did what"? Travis roared as he saw the small pale blond girl crying on his desk, telling him that Scorpius knew everything. "You told him everything"? The girl shook her head. "Say what you have to, don't shake your stupid head at me" Travis patience was running low. Today he had gone in search of Lily only to find her with Scorpius dueling and laughing with him, not fighting and bickering at each other like they were supposed to.
"I... I only told him about Rutten nothing else" Maddie said, her cheeks smeared with wet tears.
"You better because I you mention my name it wont be good for you" Travis threated. Again Maddie shook her head.
"No of course not. I'm not stupid" let me rephrase that Travis thought "I have lost Scorpius, but the only reason I didn't give you out was because even though he is lost to me, you can still separate them and I want that more then ever. I want him to be away from her and I want her to be unhappy " Maddie said. Well, Travis thought, at least she still thought of their original plans even when she gets nothing. But to him, she was unless. She had been found out and was good no more.
"Good, thats good. Well Falk, thank you for you help, but don't ever bother coming into my office again. I want you out of here and pretend like we never joined forces because you are not part of this anymore" Travis said, smiling at her shocked expression. Stupid girl, Travis thought. Poor stupid girl.
"But...but... I will tell him all if you don't let me stay" she said, pointing her finger at him. He leaned back against his chair, his hands behind his hand.
"And what, if you do Malfoy and Lily might get closer then ever and you have no proof of what I have done" she glared at him, and he laughed, knowing he had her there. There was no evidence of him, he was clean and she knew it. She held her head up high.
"Well" Maddie said wiping her tears off with a handkerchief, "I will take my leave" and with that she walked out of his office. He smiled and leaned back. He had gotten rid of her, that was one good thing, she had ran out of uselessness, not very good, but he knew he would win in the end.
Stupid stupid stupid. Maddie thought as she walked down the corridor of Hogwarts. She thought that by protecting Jaeger, they would still be able to separate them even thought it would be much harder for Maddie to get Scorpius, hard but no impossible. She wanted to scream and break things, but for now she had to stay calm. She could not just give up yet on those two hating each other forever.
Ahh, so hard to write sometimes. I was stuck on this chapter but I hope I got my point across. I actually dislike this chapter, but I don't know what to do to make it more exciting. Oh, well, next chapter should be better since I found this situation really hard.