If you really Care

When Lily was seven years old she went through the phase of wanting to know all about dramatic love stories. The kind that makes you wish that would happen to you one day when you hear them. One evening after Lily was supposed to be asleep her father came into check on her. He found her sitting up in bed and looking out of the window.

'Lily what are you still doing up, I thought you were asleep an hour ago?' Harry asked his daughter

Lily turned her head to look at him and said in a small voice, 'Dad, can you tell me a story please?'

Harry had never been able to not oblige to his daughters request, she was a true Daddy's girl and Harry had been wrapped around her little finger straight away.

'Alright sweetie, but then you need to get some sleep.'

Harry came and sat down on Lily's bed and Lily curled up next to him waiting for him to begin.

'Once upon a time there lived a small muggle girl. She lived with her parents and sister in a small town in the countryside. The girl didn't have very many friends as many of the girls at school disliked her because she was far more pretty and clever than any of the others. The girl was best friends with a boy who lived in the same area. One day the boy told the little girl that the reason she could make strange things happen was because she was a witch. The reason he could tell was because he was just like her, he was a wizard.

The two best friends were so excited to be going to Hogwarts, a school where they would learn lots of magic. However upon their arrival they were sorted into different houses. The girl became a Gryffindor student and the boy a Slytherin. The two decided that this wouldn't matter because they were still best friends. The girl was admired by all the boys in her year group, but she didn't even realise how beautiful she was.

During their time at school the boy became friends with some other boys in his house and he began to practice a very dark form of magic. The girl disapproved of his friends but still stuck by him. She would constantly stick up for her friend when the boys in her house began to pick on him. However one day the boy made a remark about the girl's background, the girl never forgave him for it. It was a remark made in the spur of the moment, it was unlikely he truly felt those things but words can't always be taken back.

After their final year at Hogwarts the girl went on and married a boy who used to tease her old best friend and they had a son together. The boy and girl never became friends again she had moved on. The boy went off and became a supporter of a very dark wizard.

The boy found out a plan that the girl was going to be killed; he went and begged the dark wizard to let the girl go. The girl however refused to leave her sons side and so she died anyway. It was her love for her son that saved her child.

The boy was devastated at the loss of someone he had truly cared for. He began a kind of double agent, fooling the evil wizard into thinking he was on their side when really he was working for the good side. When the child of the girl came to Hogwarts the boy was the potions teacher at Hogwarts. He resented the child because he was a replica of his father, a person who had tormented the teacher. Though the boy never realised it until the end, the teacher always did his best to keep him safe. He protected and helped him from a far ensuring the boys survival.'

'Why did he do it?'

'Because the teacher had loved the boy's mother all that time. It's called unrequited love, a love that isn't returned by both people. The boy loved the girl the entire time so after her death he did his best to keep the only thing left of her alive.'

'Who were they?'

'The little boy was me. The girl was Lily Potter, my mother and the woman you are named after. The boy was Severus Snape, the man who saved my life countless times before it was too late for me to realise what he had done and repay him for it. This is a story of true love because even though Lily had stopped caring about Severus though he was slightly bitter he never stopped caring for her.'

'Wow, so that's what it's all about.'

'If you really care about someone, you will never stop caring about them no matter what the situation is.'

Lily sat on the floor with her back against the wall in the music room. She had found herself remembering the bedtime story her father had told her several years ago and had come to a rather sad conclusion. If houses hadn't mattered to Lily and Severus then why should two wars later houses matter to Lily and her family? If her family had really cared for her, then they would have overlooked the situation and carried on. They wouldn't have acted like she'd committed a horrible crime.

Footsteps coming into the nearly silent room pulled Lily from her thoughts. She looked up and saw Scorpius closing the door behind him. He turned around and looked at her straight in the eyes making Lily feel slightly nervous before he started walking towards her. Without a word he sat down right next to her. He stretched his legs out and his side was in full contact with hers from the shoulder right down her feet. Lily licked her lips as she felt herself blush lightly at the proximity they sat in. The room was quiet except for the sound of their steady breaths.

After several minutes of silence Lily turned her head to look at him, 'Well?'

'Well what?' Scorpius asked in confusion turning his head to look at her inn return.

'Are you going to say anything? Or are you just going to sit there?' Lily asked in slight frustration.

'Well I was waiting for you to talk really.'

Lily sighed, 'what do you want to know?'

'What do you want to tell me?' Scorpius countered.

Lily thought about it for a moment before reeling off everything that had happened, the letter her parents sent, her potions lesson and the fight with Hugo. When she had told him everything she suddenly felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She had stood up when she had begun and had been pacing the room as she talked. Whilst she moved Scorpius remained on the floor his eyes following her movements.

Scorpius said nothing in reply to what she had said instead he stood up quietly and walked towards her. He pulled Lily into a tight hug wrapping one arm around her waist and the other came to rest near the top of her back. He brought her flush against his body and held her. When he felt Lily relax into his hug he moved his mouth to her ear and whispered, 'you don't need to hold it together around me. Just let it go.'

At his reassurance Lily buried her head into the crook of his neck and let the tears she had been holding in out. As they rolled down her face Scorpius brought a hand up to her hair and ran it through her hair and began to trace patterns on her back. Lily felt so safe standing in his arms and honestly felt like he wouldn't let anything bad happen to her. When she had cried all the tears she was willing to give up for this she pulled back from his hug. Scorpius released how tight he was holding her but still kept his arm wrapped around her waist. He brought his other hand up and gently wiped the tears from her face before smiling at her and saying, 'there, you're all better now.'

In a small voice Lily looked up and said, 'thanks Scorpius.' with a genuine smile.

In a hushed low voice Scorpius looked at Lily and said, 'anytime Lil. I'm here whenever you need me, no matter what it's about.'

Despite having only known him for a few short days Lily felt that she could trust him.

When Scorpius glanced at his watch he saw that it was time for dinner to begin. He knew that if Lily didn't show up to dinner then the Gryffindor's would take that as a victory. In a joking voice he said to Lily, 'Come on precious, let's get some food into you, we can't have you wasting away on us. We'd be ever so sad if you went that way.'

Scorpius picked up both of their bags and then together they walked towards the Great Hall ready to face whatever would come next.

I hope you liked it, I won't be posting for a few days but I will be back soon! Please let me know what you thought x