Albus p.o.v
Omg. Is my head under a train or something? It feels as though it is being ripped open by Voldemort himself! What the hell happened last night? I heard voices. I recognised them as Hugo and Frankie's. I tried opening my parched mouth to let them know I could hear them but nothing came out other than a sort of moan. The talking stopped then I heard a new voice come into earshot. Lily she sounded angry. And I'm not talking about 'you broke my doll' type angry. More like the 'you nearly killed us' sort of angry. Oh no. what had I done last night? I can't remember anything. Absolutely nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nil. The last thing I remember was going for a walk down one of the secret passage ways to hogsmead. Now I'm here. In fact where is here? I tried opening my mouth again; using the last of my much weakened strength I asked where I was.
"The hospital wing." Hugo answered.
"What? You can't remember trying to kill my boyfriend?" lily shouted at me. Wait! Who was her boyfriend and why did I try to kill him?
"Who's your boyfriend?" I asked genuinely worried why she sounded so angry.
"What? You just tried to kill him and you don't know who he is?" she scoffed her anger calming down. Not much but at least it was something.
"No. I can't remember anything. In fact the last thing I remember is walking towards hogsmead at about 7pm last night." I said trying to sit up.
"Oi. Sit down now!" a voice shouted from the other side of the room.
"Huh?" I said looking down the hospital wing.
"But I want to see lily!" another voice said. Lily looked down the hospital to see whoever was in the other bed. Without a second glance at us she ran towards the door. I looked to see if I could see who was in the other bed. Nothing.
"What happened?" I asked Hugo and Frankie.
"You beat up scorpious mate." Frankie said looking back towards me.
"WHAT? I mean why would I even do that?" I thought out loud.
"We don't know mate. That was what we were hoping you would know." Hugo said answering my question.
"Bloody hell." I said sinking back into my bed.
"Wait. Lily said that you tried to kill her boyfriend. There going out!" Frankie realised. What my little sister was going out with malfoy. Suddenly memories from this morning flashed through my head. The confrontation in the common room. The punch from lily, the spell aimed at scorpious.
"Oh my god I was such an idiot" I shouted at myself. I needed to get this mess sorted. NOW!
I pulled myself out of bed ignoring the warnings from Hugo, Frankie and Madame Pomfrey. Even though poppy was at the other side of the room she could still see me get out of bed. God I swear she had eyes in the back of head. I ran over to scorpious bed, not expecting to find lily lying next to scorpious kissing him.
"What the hell." I said loud enough to make myself heard. When they heard my voice, they instantly pulled away, fear evident in lily's eyes.
"Don't hurt him." she whispered. My heart fell. My own sister was afraid of me. I could feel the tears falling out of my eyes and I did nothing to stop them. I couldn't. I was frozen to the spot; all I could do was breathe, and believe me that was hard enough.
"I'm not going to hurt him or you for that matter" I said quietly shaking my head. "I came to apologise for everything. I was drunk and I honestly couldn't remember anything until we realised you two were going out, I'm truly am sorry."
Lily started crying silently. Then she got up and started walking towards me. She raised her hand and then slapped me round the face.
"What?" I asked, my hand instantly raising towards the red patch on my cheek.
"Drunk or not, you still knew what you were doing, alcohol just bring out the true person from within you. He saved my life, albus. If that's not enough for you then you don't deserve to be in any part of my life." I just looked at her. She was disowning me. My own sister was disowning me. Then I remembered what she said about scorpious saving her. My thoughts drifted.
2 year ago.
Scorpious p.o.v
"Lily"
I shouted to my best friend. It was winter and lily and I was walking by a big tree near Hagrid's hut. We were both in our 4th year and were just about to meet hagrid. I was just thinking about the potions homework we had been set the day before when suddenly a branch came flying through the air. Panic shot through me. I remember my father telling me about the wimping willow and how the slightest movement could set it flying. I was just about to pull lily out of the way when the branch took her flying towards the lake. I ran. I never took my eyes off her lifeless body flying. Then when I was halfway across the grounds I heard a splash. She had landed. I needed to get there quick otherwise she would drown. I ran as fast as I could. Once there I gave the lake a quick once over to see if I could find lily floating on the surface. There. About 50m in I could she her lying face down. I pulled off my shoes as quickly as I could and I ran in the freezing cold water .I started to swim. I reached her after about 1 minute. Luckily she had landed on her back, but just as I had reached her she had turned over inhaling a lung full of freezing cold water. I rolled her over again and I put my hand on her chest to see if she was breathing. Just, but she was. I put my arm around her waist and pulled her towards me. I started swimming again. Once we reached shore I pulled her limp body on to the grassy grounds of Hogwarts. I looked to see if I could see her chest rising. Nothing. I panicked and started to cry. I couldn't lose her. I just couldn't. I wiped away the tears and I started to push down on her chest. I didn't know much about muggle first aid, but luckily for me, and lily, I had watched a muggle show one holiday at lily's house. Her mum was very interested in muggle inventions, just like lily's grandfather. After a few pushes a bit of water came out of her mouth. 30 pushes later I pushed back her head and pinched her nose, to stop any air coming out. I bent my head and put my lips over her mouth. I breathed deep into her mouth to help her body get the oxygen that she needed. I pulled up, took a deep breath then did it again. I started hitting her chest again 30 times, while I started shouting for help. After around 4 rounds of doing the mouth to mouth and the compressions, lily finally started breathing for herself again. I let out a deep long breath, relived. No-one had heard me shouting, so I snaked my hand around her neck and legs and carried her towards the castle, never realising that I had just saved my future girlfriend's life.
Lily's p.o.v
"Drunk or not, you still knew what you were doing, alcohol just brings out the true person from within you. He saved my life, albus. If that's not enough for you then you don't deserve to be in any part of my life." I said angrily. If disowning him as my brother was what I had to do then fine, I really didn't care. It wasn't about the fact he had nearly killed scorpious, well that did matter but it was more to the fact that he couldn't accept my decisions and mistakes. I know I hadn't been going out with scorpious for longer than a day but still, he had been my best friend since the 1st day of Hogwarts. He needed to accept that. I would understand if it was James who had flipped, I mean he had always been the overprotective brother. My mind flashed back to when my family had found out I was friends with Scorpious. Uncle Ron was the only one with a problem everyone else was fine with our friendship. "He left his grandfather for me before we were even going out. Isn't that enough?" I said, not angry but somewhat confused. I watched as my brother attempted to open his mouth, but to no avail. Then luckily for him professor longbottom stormed in with Allie following.
"I need to know what happened this morning." He said loudly. My mind went wild, but before I could say anything Albus cut across me.
"It was all my fault sir. I was drunk. I had snuck out to hogsmead last night through one of the passages. I had got some firewhiskey and some muggle alcohol that a man was selling cheep. Then once I had got it, I snuck back to the common room and got heavily drunk. I then saw lily and scorpious together and I flipped. I took it all out on him and I shouldn't have. I cast a strong stuplify curse oh him and then lily came out from no-where and accidently knocked me over knocking me unconscious while she was in a rush to see what had happened to scorpious." He finished quickly. After he had finished he looked down at his feet messing around with his hands. He always seemed to do that when he was nervous. I felt sorry for him. I had punched him and he took the blame for everything. I heard professor longbottom shout at Albus quietly and he was just starting on his punishment before I stopped listening. I suddenly felt very different towards him. Don't get me wrong I was still extremely angry with him but my anger had subsided a little uncovering a sort of guilt in the process. I quickly looked up to scorpious who only knew me too well. He saw the look in my eyes and nodded. He gave me a quick smile which I all so happily returned. I then looked round at Albus and slowly walked over to him I put my arm around his back and gave him a hug. He needed one. I noticed how albus was quite shocked about my sudden change of heart. I mean only 5 minutes ago I was disowning him and now I was hugging him. After a few moments I pulled away to tell professor longbottom that I had punched him. Professor Longbottom didn't look angry, more confused. "You know what why don't we just forget all this. It's just too early and I'm just too confused t even think about sorting this out, and it looks like you guys have sorted it all out. All long as you're ok scorpious?" he asked.
"What? Oh erm yes. I'm fine." He said looking at me and smiling. I smiled back and then smiled at Neville. Hey I can call him that. He is my practically my uncle.
"Good. Just let's make sure that this" he said twirling his finger round at all of us "never happens again." I smiled again looking at my boyfriend and my brother.
"It won't" I said still smiling. Neville nodded his head and with that walked away. As soon as he was out of the room Hugo, Frankie and Allie came rushing over to see what had happened. As soon as we had filled them in on what had happened, an angry Madame Pomfrey ushered us all out including scorpious because he seemed to of miraculously recovered. Once we were outside, albus pulled me aside from the rest.
"I'm sorry. I really am." I nodded and smiled. Go I liked smiling today. "Also why did you take the blame for me, he totally believed that you accidently pushed me over."
"He did but I didn't. You should not have had to take the whole of the blame when me and scorpious should have told you. We were just waiting till we told everyone tomorrow night once we left for the Easter holidays because you know how dad will act." I joked hugging him again.
"Yeh. Come on we better get going before they realise we have gone." He said as he started walking away. I ran to catch up with scorpious. I pulled him aside just like albus did minutes before, but this time we didn't just talk. I pulled his head down to mine, his lips pressing down on mine. It wasn't a hard kiss but it had a lot of passion, all that had just been bubbling up since our 1st year. After about 10 minutes we both had to pull away to catch that all important oxygen for our lungs to stay alive.
"Wow" scorpious breathed into my neck.
"I know." I said looking into his eyes. "One more thing. Were telling my parents tomorrow night"
Well it's safe to he wasn't expecting that.
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