Lily Potter and the Potions Professor

AN: I wasn't sure if I should post this so soon after the last chapter but since you all asked so nicely how couldn't I? Enjoy.

Chapter 19: An Unlikely Hero

Malfoy was pacing back and forth in his office looking exceedingly distressed. His usually slicked back hair was falling in messy strings around his face and he looked like his mind was going a million miles a second. He kept throwing anxious glances at the door.

"What are we going to do?" said Lily finally regaining her movement and speech.

"I don't know..." he trailed off.

Lily suddenly remembered the other reason she'd come there. She pulled the pack of Secret Message Parchment from her pocket.

"I think I should get out of here," she said as her mind started to work again. She ripped the packaging from around the parchment and pulled one piece out.

"Take this," she said handing it to Malfoy. "We can use it to keep in touch. I don't think we should be seen together. I'll get to Albus before he gets to my father, I'll tell him to keep quiet."

Malfoy was listening intently to her; "But what will you say?" he asked.

"I'll think of something," she said to him as she reached the door and looked back at him.

He managed a small smile and crossed the room closing the gap between them. He kissed her quickly on the lips and then stared at her for a moment. The pain in his eyes was almost too much for her to bear.

"Be safe," he told her and she couldn't help but sense a note of finality in his words.

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When Lily emerged from the dungeons only a minute later she didn't have to look far to find Albus.

"What do you think you're doing?" he bellowed startling her so much that she jumped back and ran into a suit of armour which clanged loudly drawing unwanted attention from a bunch of students nearby.

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" cried Lily as she steadied herself and glared at her brother.

"Gave you a heart attack?" Albus exclaimed. "You can imagine my shock when I heard you two!"

"Keep your voice down," hissed Lily grabbing his arm and dragging him down a corridor and out of view of the students who had stopped what they were doing and were listening intently to the siblings squabbling.

Thankfully, Albus decided to use some discretion and lowered his voice.

"What were you doing in Malfoy's office?" he demanded.

"I thought you would've known considering you were eavesdropping," she said coolly.

Albus opened his mouth, closed it again and then opened it again but said nothing.

"Did Dad send you?" Lily asked angrily before Albus could say anything.

"That's not the point," said Albus weakly. Lily had always had an uncanny ability to trip her brothers up whenever they confronted her; even when she was clearly in the wrong.

"I can't believe this," muttered Lily.

"Neither can I," stated Albus. He was strangely calm about the whole situation now which, although favourable to Lily's situation, did cause her to worry about him.

"Are you going to tell him?" she asked plainly.

"Tell him what?" asked Albus and Lily realised that maybe her brother hadn't heard as much as she first feared he had.

"That I have detention," she invented suddenly.

"Detention?" asked Albus incredulously.

"Yeah, what else?" Lily asked testing him and eagerly awaiting his response.

"Lily," he said with a sigh. "I know you don't have detention with Malfoy. I know what you were doing in his office. I know about you two."

Lily eyed her brother suspiciously. Why was he so calm about this? Something wasn't right but she couldn't figure out what it was. As she pondered the strange behaviour of her brother she caught a glimpse of green and silver out of the corner of her eye and turned quickly on the spot just in time to see a tall figure in Slytherin Quidditch robes disappearing around a corner. Leaving her brother without an explanation she followed the mysterious person. She'd just rounded the corner when she came face to face with...Scorpius Malfoy, who had his wand out and an intent look on his face. They looked at one another for a moment before he chuckled.

"Well, well if it isn't Lily Potter," he said smirking.

Lily frowned and then looked over her shoulder at Albus who was still standing in the same position with a glazed look on his face. She turned back to Scorpius and looking at his wand finally realised what was going on.

Her eyes narrowed on the boy who resembled his father so much and said cautiously; "The Imperius Curse."

"Well done, you are a bright one," he mocked.

"Stop it!" she said angrily although still a little wary.

"I'm trying to help you," he shot back, no longer smiling.

"Help me?" asked Lily. "By using an unforgivable curse on my brother?"

"By stopping him running off and telling daddy on you," he said. "But if you'd prefer to just let things run their course." He made a movement as if to release the curse.

"Wait," said Lily biting her lip. What was she doing? How could she allow this to happen to her brother to save her own skin?

Scorpius smiled again; "You surprise me Potter. I didn't think you had it in you."

"I don't," said Lily weakly. "I just..."

Scorpius waited for her excuse but she said nothing. He stepped around her and, controlling Albus, made him approach them.

"What're you doing?" asked Lily, ashamed that she felt a little intrigued by Scorpius Malfoy.

"I told you I'm helping you," he said as Albus finally reached them. "Obliviate!"

He'd acted before Lily knew what was happening. He'd cast the memory charm only a second after he'd finished his previous sentence.

"What? No!" cried Lily as the panic rose within her.

"Calm down," said Scorpius. "He'll be fine, I know what I'm doing. I'm just erasing his memory of what he overheard you and..." He trailed of and did not speak his father's name.

Lily looked down at the ground and felt her face redden. She was talking to Malfoy's son, who clearly had somehow found out about her and his father. She suddenly felt very awkward.

Neither of them said anything for a moment while the memory charm did its work. Once Scorpius was happy with the result he marched Albus back out of the corridor they were hiding in and released him from the Imperius Curse. He then grabbed Lily's arm roughly and steered her into a nearby classroom, shutting the door behind them.

"You could go to Azkaban for that," she said in an attempt to sound like she had something that she could hold over him.

He smirked and chuckled again. Lily was surprised at how much he looked like his father yet how much he seemed to repulse her.

"But who will ever know?" he questioned her.

She watched him for a moment; trying to figure out his motive.

"How'd you learn that?" she asked. Yes, he repulsed her but he also intrigued her to almost an unbearable extent.

"My father didn't lose the tricks he learnt from the Death Eaters just because he's… how does he put it? ...Reformed," said Scorpius with an air of amusement.

Lily didn't say anything. Malfoy had taught Scorpius how to perform an unforgivable curse? If he'd done that, what else had he taught him? What else were they both capable of?

"Anyway, let's move forward, shall we?" said Scorpius pulling Lily from her thoughts.

"What?" she questioned.

"I know about you and my father," he explained conversationally and again Lily felt herself blush. "It's not really important to me. He can do what he likes. But I know that it may cause unwanted attention for my family and I don't particularly want anyone else finding out."

"So..." said Lily trying to catch up. She still had no idea how to take Scorpius; this wasn't at all how she expected him to react.

He let out a sigh of irritation and said; "Soooo..." he dragged the word out. "I'll agree to keep this a secret as long as you do something for me."

"Oh," said Lily still extremely confused by everything. "What?"

"I don't know yet but I'm sure I'll think of something," Scorpius said as he considered the deal.

"Oh ok, well... thank you," she said awkwardly.

"You're welcome," he said with another smirk.

His gaze was becoming quite unnerving and Lily was just beginning to wish he'd leave when he spoke again.

"I'll see you around, and remember mum's the word or in this case dad," he laughed and went to the door, exiting without so much as a backwards glance.

Lily stood there staring after him, her mind still trying unsuccessfully to process the events that had taken place since her departure from the Three Broomsticks.

With nothing else to do Lily extracted her piece of message parchment from her pocket and grabbing a spare quill from the teacher's desk scribbled on it; Albus is taken care of. She hesitated for a moment considering whether or not she should inform Malfoy about his son's knowledge. At length she decided against it and pulling out her wand she tapped the parchment three times and watched the words disappear as though they were being absorbed by the paper.

After a couple of minutes the unmistakable handwriting of her Potions Professor appeared and she read two words; Thank you.

Satisfied with this outcome Lily returned the parchment to her pocket and exited the classroom.

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