A/N: So... hi. I know it's been a very long time since I updated, but since I had already finished writing this a (very) long time ago, I figured I might as well finish it here. This is the final chapter, and I hope it's somewhat enjoyable :)

When Lucy woke up, she felt slightly disoriented. Having no idea where she was at first, she sat up straight in the bed. She didn't recognise the room, but as she laid back down, memories of the previous few days flooded back to her mind. She was instantly greeted by a headache.

After lying in the bed for a little longer, Lucy decided to just get up. She stumbled out of the bedroom and was met by a strangely familiar living room. As she walked into the kitchen, she was also met by a familiar someone.

Scorpius looked up, surprised, as she sat down in the chair opposite him. "Hey," he greeted her. Lucy just smiled in response. She would still need some time to adjust to this situation. "Did you sleep well? Do you want something to eat?"

Lucy yawned and nodded. "Yes, that would be great. How long did I sleep?"

Scorpius checked his watch. "I'd say twenty-four hours." Lucy nodded, still a bit sleepy, and he stood up from his chair. "I hope you don't mind some cereal?" he asked. "I don't have many other things."

"Cereal is fine," Lucy replied. She looked around the kitchen again, and concluded that he must've gotten rid of all the articles and photos of her with which he had decorated his flat.

He saw her looking, though, and blushed a little. "Did you come here when you were looking for me?"

"Yeah, I did, at first," Lucy answered, and he nodded, understanding it all. They didn't continue talking about that subject. As she ate, she could feel his eyes on her.

"What do you think we should do now?" he asked promptly.

Lucy put down her spoon. "I have no idea," she replied honestly. She was still a little tired, after all. "If your parents hate me and my family hates your family… what can we do?"

Scorpius nodded, sighing. "I know. But… do you want to do nothing, then?" He didn't seem very happy with that idea, Lucy noticed. And neither was she.

"Of course I want to do something," she told him. "I… would like to give this a chance."

He smiled happily at her. "Yeah, me too," he said. "I just don't know how."

"We'll just have to talk to them," Lucy said. Her idea didn't seem to be approved of very much by Scorpius.

"I don't know if my parents will listen to me," he muttered. "They're used to me doing whatever they want me to do."

Lucy raised an eyebrow at him. "Seriously? You never stick up for yourself?" That was at least slightly disappointing. Of course, she could have known this already – he had never told off James or Rose at school either whenever they pestered him again.

"Hardly," he muttered. "I did it yesterday… and a few weeks ago. Apart from that, never."

"Never?" she asked. This was worse than she thought.

"At least in the past couple of years," he confirmed, staring down at the table. "Quite a turn-off, isn't it?"

Lucy debated for a moment what she should say to that, so in the end, she just shrugged. "A little. You'll have to grow at least something resembling a spine if you want to survive my family."

He grimaced, obviously remembering the taunting at school. "I know. I can try, of course. So you want to talk to our families, then?"

"We'll need to talk them eventually anyway, don't you think?" Lucy asked, laughing a little at his apprehensiveness. "So we'd best get it over with soon. Besides, I don't think we even need to inform my entire family – my parents and sister will make sure that the news will be spread."

"I'll need eyes in my back, then," Scorpius mumbled. "Your cousins will murder me."

"No, they won't," Lucy said, patting his hand from across the table. "I'll tell them to leave you alone."

"Would they listen to you?" he asked doubtfully.

Lucy shrugged. "They'd better. Now, let's go see your parents first."

He pulled a face. "Do we have to?"

She smiled at him sweetly. "Yes, we have to." She stood up and walked around the table, towards him. It was odd – he was taller than she was when he was standing, but he seemed to shrink under her gaze now.

"Alright then," he mumbled, standing up as well. She smiled again, stood on her tiptoes and kissed him lightly. He smiled back now and told her, "Now I remember why I'm doing this again."

Lucy grinned. "Let's see if your parents think that's a good reason as well."

Scorpius' face darkened. "I have very little hope that they will."

Lucy didn't expect anything else, but they could at least talk to them. They'd find out soon enough. After five more minutes of putting off their visit to the Malfoy manor, they went there anyway. There wasn't really a way out of this.

"So," Scorpius said as they were standing in front of his parents' house, "just to make this clear – you're my girlfriend now?"

Lucy smiled slyly. "If you think you can handle being my boyfriend, then gladly."

"I can only hope I'm suitable for that task," he said softly, gazing at her face.

"I'm sure you'll be more than suitable," she replied, blushing a little. "Now, come on, man up for a moment – we can do this."

"I hope you're right," he muttered, but he rang the doorbell anyway.

The House-Elf that opened the door squeaked as he saw the both of them. Trembling, he led them across the house, and when they stopped in a room Lucy hadn't seen yet, he told Scorpius, "Master Scorpius must be very brave or very foolish to bring this girl here." Immediately, the Elf squeaked again and started thumping his head into the nearest wall.

Scorpius reddened a little at this, and asked the Elf, "Stop that, will you? Can you just get my parents?" Turning to Lucy, he said, "Sorry about that. They're just… very afraid of my parents."

Lucy smiled in response. "That's alright. I couldn't really expect them to be happy about me coming here, right? Besides, I think you're very brave. Very… defying."

Scorpius laughed a bit at this, but before he had the chance to reply, the door opened and his parents walked in. When they saw who was with him (obviously, the Elf hadn't dared to tell them this detail), they both scowled.

"Scorpius?" his father asked. "What's this supposed to mean?"

Astoria hadn't taken her eyes off of Lucy yet; she stared at her with the greatest dislike Lucy had ever seen. Scorpius, in the meantime, seemed to have gained some confidence to stand up for himself.

"I'm here to introduce my new girlfriend to you," he said, wrapping an arm around Lucy and pulling her closer. His father started muttering under his breath, but Astoria didn't seem to think that would do. Instead, she started yelling.

From the first to the last word, Lucy didn't understand a word of what she was saying. She had tried to listen in the beginning, but it was just one enormous string of words that didn't make any sense whatsoever.

Scorpius and his father didn't seem fazed, though, so it had to be a somewhat regular occurrence. It would be something she'd have to get used to, then.

Once his wife was done, Scorpius' father said, "Scorpius, you're clearly still under the influence of that love potion." He sent Lucy a vicious look. "Or maybe she fed you another one. You're delusional. Do you honestly think I'm alright with this? That your mother is alright with this?"

Judging from their reactions, Lucy thought she could say that they were not alright with this. This wasn't her time to talk, though.

"The love potion stopped working ages ago," Scorpius told his parents, and Astoria's eyes turned to slits. "Yet I couldn't stop thinking about her. We want to give this a shot, whether or not you approve. Right?" Lucy nodded meekly. "In other words, you'd better get used to having Lucy around."

Lucy blinked at this. She wasn't exactly planning on regularly visiting these two people, but she reckoned that she would have to if Scorpius wanted that. Just not too regularly.

Astoria now turned around and almost stormed out of the room, and her husband shook his head. "She's not happy with this at all," he told Scorpius and Lucy. "And neither am I. Scorpius – can I have a word with you? Alone?"

Reluctantly, Lucy let Scorpius sit her down in one of the chairs, after which he followed his father out of the room. She could only hope that he wouldn't be cursed or brainwashed now.

Almost an hour later, Scorpius came back. He almost fell down in the chair next to Lucy's, and she looked at him concernedly. "Are you okay?" she asked him, looking him up and down.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied. "We talked. A lot. It'll take them some time to get used to this idea, but I think I managed to make it clear that this is not just a joke or a complete accident."

"That's good, right?" Lucy asked, wanting to be completely sure.

"As good as it can possibly be at this moment," Scorpius confirmed.

Lucy nodded. "Do we have to stay here now? Or can we go if we want to?"

"We can go," he replied, his eyes closed. "To your parents, right? That'll be good."

"I know," Lucy said. "But the sooner we go there, the sooner it's over."

Scorpius nodded, though his nod was barely visible. "Let's go then," he said, standing up again. "Maybe we can be out of there before dinner."

Lucy wanted to laugh at his fear for her parents, but she knew that they wouldn't be very amused either. She stood up as well, and followed Scorpius as he walked out of the manor. Once they were able to apparate, she turned towards him.

"Are you ready for this?" she asked, slightly nervous.

"No," he replied, "but you're right. We'll have to do this, so let's just do it."

She nodded curtly, took his hand and disapparated. Scorpius looked surprised upon seeing her parents' house. Granted, it wasn't as big as the manor he grew up in, but she hoped he didn't think it was too shabby. She had always loved the place herself.

As he smiled at her, she knew that he didn't mind the relative smallness of the place at all. She rang the doorbell, and Scorpius inched away from her a little. He probably didn't want to get on her father's bad side immediately by appearing needy or something like it.

Indeed, it was her father who opened the door, and while he seemed surprised to see Lucy at his doorstep, completely unannounced, that was nothing compared to the look on his face when he saw Scorpius. The latter looked rather uncomfortable too.

"Hey daddy," Lucy said, smiling innocently at her father. "Can we come in?"

Her father blinked. Apparently, he had been hoping that the fact that Scorpius was here as well was just a coincidence – that he shouldn't actually be here. "Yes, of course, Lucy. Come in."

To avoid Scorpius getting the front door slammed shut in his face, Lucy took his hand again and gently pulled him after her. Her father looked at her as if she was crazy, but she ignored that for the moment. She would explain things when her mother was present too.

Luckily, her mother was in the living room. She, too, looked quite surprised by Scorpius' presence in their house.

"Lucy?" she asked. "What's going on?" By now, Lucy's father had joined them as well, and he was looking at Scorpius with a certain apprehension.

Right. Now was the moment. "Well," she started hesitantly, "I want you to meet Scorpius." They knew his last name anyway, and it would do more bad than good, mentioning it here, she figured. "We're – dating now." She took his hand and smiled at her parents, who looked about to pass out by now.

"Dating?" her father said in the end. "A Malfoy?"

"Yes, dad," Lucy replied, rolling her eyes. "That's his last name."

"Are you sure that's such a good idea?" her mother asked carefully.

"What do you mean by that?" Lucy retorted, sounding perhaps a little more vicious than she intended.

"The Malfoy family isn't the most reliable one in this world," her father responded. "They don't exactly have a good name, as I'm sure you'll know."

Lucy could feel Scorpius tense up next to her. "That's not a very nice thing to say," she told her father. "It doesn't say anything about Scorpius. If you must know – his parents weren't too happy with this either."

"Of course they weren't!" her father exclaimed. "Malfoys and Weasleys don't mix. They don't match."

"Yes, we do," Lucy mumbled. Her father narrowed his eyes and turned towards Scorpius.

"Are you that boy who sent all those letters? The one with the love potion?"

Scorpius sent Lucy an exasperated glance; she had, after all, forgotten to tell him about the fact that she had told her parents about that. "Uh – yes," he replied. "That was me, sir."

"Lucy," her father said promptly, "kitchen, now." Her mother stayed behind; both she and Scorpius looked rather uncomfortable.

"What, dad?" she asked angrily after her father cast a Silencing spell on the kitchen.

"Are you serious about dating this boy? He's no good for you, Lucy. Absolutely no good for you. His family is evil, and you're just a little girl. He'll surely abuse that."

Lucy snorted. "You obviously don't know him at all, then, dad. He wouldn't hurt a fly, because he'd be scared the fly would tell him off. And sure, his family isn't the nicest in this world, but he's not like his parents at all. I work with his mother, and if he was anything like her, he wouldn't be here now."

"If that's what you think," her father said. He sighed. "Fine. We'll tolerate him. We'll try to be polite. That doesn't mean we like him – and trust me, nobody else in the family will approve of this."

Lucy rolled her eyes. "Sure, dad. I just wanted you to be aware of this situation. We'll leave you alone now, okay? Have a good night."

Even though their talk had gone better than she had expected beforehand, she was still peeved that her father had to act this way. She briefly hugged her mother goodbye, leaving it to her father to tell her what was decided, and almost dragged Scorpius out of the house. There, she told him what her father had said, and she learned that her mother hadn't said a word.

"Do you want to go for some dinner somewhere?" Scorpius asked. "I'd invite you over, but I don't often eat at my flat."

Suddenly remembering something, Lucy smirked. "No, that's quite alright. I know a place. Let's go." Before disapparating, she took out her wand and quickly cast a spell on him.

As they landed, he almost fell, but she had figured he would. "Lucy?" he asked, panicking. "What did you do? What's going on?"

Lucy smirked again, even though he couldn't see her. "I told you, Scorpius… when I'd find out who you were, I'd take you out on a blind date. Have fun trying to eat without vision."

She led him towards a table, chuckling to herself. Scorpius was muttering under his breath, not unlike his father earlier that day. This might be the start of something very good.