Disclaimer:
erkk... I feel so sick... my head hurts badly... I don't own harry potter... but i wish i did... Scorpius and Lily are just too cute... ... I think when I finish this chalange, I might repost it in order... what do you think?
Black Gloves
Scorpius trudged the lonely path to Hogsmeade. Usually he would have gone with Rose and Albus, but Rose had a date, and Albus was in detention. After an hour of mindlessly wandering up and down the corridors of the castle, he had given in and gone to get his winter things from his bedroom, deciding that a drink at The Three Broomsticks sounded like a good idea. Along the path from the castle, he smiled as he saw some of the third years involved in an epic snow war. He scooped up a handful and threw it at one of the ones that he knew, hitting his target dead on the nose. He spent the next half an hour being slaughtered as his younger peers joined forces against him. He left them with a smile on his face, he was drenched to the bone, but the fun had marginally improved his day. He chuckled to himself quietly as he cast a quick drying spell.
Scorpius had reached the outskirts of town when he saw them, lying in a ball on the snow covered road. He bent down and gently plucked the material from the ground. He realized that they were a pair of black gloves that someone had dropped on the way down. Placing them in the pocket of his long coat, he realized that whoever had dropped them would be missing them sorely in this weather. At the thought, a strong gust of icy wind blew at him. He shivered and pulled his coat around his thin frame tighter, bracing himself as he set off against the wind.
Scorpius spent the remainder of the day in The Three Broomsticks, chatting with random students that entered. When the elderly, yet still pretty landlady announced that it was time for them to all return to the school, Scorpius was one of the last to leave. He glanced wearily up and down the almost empty street, his formerly high spirits leaving him due to the cold now creeping into his clothing. He heard voices and saw two people still standing around in the now shin deep snow. Scorpius frowned as their angry tones met his ears.
'Just give them to me!' a female voice shouted.
'No! They're mine! Get your own!' A burly male voice yelled back. Scorpius raised an eyebrow as he recognized the voice of Russell Flint. Not many people were brave enough to talk o the Slytherin Keeper, let alone to yell at him. He walked closer to the pair and grinned as he recognized the red haired female who was glaring at Rusty with a heated passion.
'Flint!' she screamed. Flint cowered back slightly. 'Just give them to me and get over it!' Flint shook his head, but his face showed just how scared of the short female he was. If there were three people in the world that Rusty Flint was afraid of, it was his father, the Bloody Baron, and his Quidditch captain, Lily Potter. The latter was the one standing before him. 'Flint!' she whined, while managing to pout, glare and look incredibly cute all at the same time. Scorpius decided to but in, before Flint got hurt.
'Hey! What's going on?' Lily glared at him and Rusty gave him a look filled with relief.
'Nothing…'
'She's trying to steal my gloves!'
'Flint!' She barked.
'Well, it's true!' He protested. Scorpius laughed at them and put an arm around Lily's shoulder.
'Run, Flint. I'll hold her off.' Flint didn't need to be told twice. He ran as fast as he could in the direction of the castle, not looking back once.
Scorpius turned to Lily with an exasperated look as she pulled away from his grasp.
'Why?' he sighed.
'Because. My hands are frozen. He seemed to be the best target at the moment.' Scorpius wasn't convinced. He raised a thin brow at the girl before him.
'Look!' Lily pulled her hands out of her jacket and shoved them on each side of Scorpius' warm neck. Scorpius let out a shout as the chill hit and he jumped back. Lily gave him a triumphant smirk. 'Told you.' Scorpius glared at her and pulled his collar around his neck tighter.
'Whatever.'
'Now… give me your gloves!' she insisted.
'No!'
'Yes!'
'Nooo!'
'Yes!'
'No- hang on a second!' Scorpius dunked a hand into his pocket and pulled out a squishy ball of black.
'My gloves!' Lily snatched them out of his long fingers and pulled them over her own frozen ones. 'You stole them!'
'No, I didn't!' Scorpius protested.
'Did too!'
'Did not!'
'Did too!'
'Did not! You were the one who dropped them this morning!'
'Oh…' Lily blushed a bright pink. 'Thanks.' She said quickly.
'You're welcome.' Scorpius smiled. They stood awkwardly for a moment.
'Walk me to the castle?' She asked, hope resident in her voice as she extended a black gloved hand.
'Okay!' Scorpius all but squeaked as he took it in his own.