A.N. :: I appologize for my really long absence... but... I really have no excuse other than no inspiration... I leave for Germany at the start of Feb... so hopefull I'll have some then...

This chapter is sorta based on a true story... sorta... ^^... and there are references to two other series in there... let's see who can find them!!! I appologize to anyone who takes this the wrong way... I mean no offence... It's just a story...

Masochism/Masochist/Masochistic

Lily sat sprawled across her seat in the cinema. She sat with her bottom on her own seat and her feet resting in Scorpius' lap, who was sitting in the seat to her right. On her stomach was rested an amount of junky cinema food items, of which the two of them were picking at in regular intervals. As the film played out, Scorpius' face was contorted into a seemingly permanent expression; confusion mixed with a dash of oddity. Lily herself, though, continuously pulled faces at the screen and kept calling out comments about lame acting and "The unholy non-cannon-ness that was this cripe." As she so nicely put it, along with sporadic bursts of laughter at things which Scorpius couldn't find anything about them to be funny.

Every so often, Scorpius would take a glance to his own right, across the cinema aisle and gulp. For, there, sat a group of scary looking twelve year olds who kept glaring at his girlfriend like they wanted to murder her. He swore that he saw one bare her teeth and another begin to crack her knuckles threateningly in his direction. He swiftly spun to face the front and stared at the screen for the rest of the movie. It was a relief for him to grab Lily in his arms and carry her out of the cinema in a rain of popcorn, away from the pre-pubescent girls. He pointedly ignored the cinema attendant who had given him a sour look as the trail continued from the cinema to the lobby.

"Oops." He winced as he set Lily down on the floor, and then again when she whacked him on the upside of the head.

"What the H to the E to the double toothpicks, Scor?" Scorpius raised an eyebrow at her and pointed at the six girls making their way towards them, rolling up their sleeves. Lily glanced at them, looked at him reproachfully, and then turned to face them. She crossed her arms under her chest before she glared at them and tilted her head up slightly. Bring it. The girls stopped in their tracks and spun on their heels, fighting each other to be the first out of the sliding glass doors. Her expression was highly amused when she turned back to Scorpius. "You're nineteen and you're afraid of a group of twelve year old girls." It was a statement, not a question.

"Very funny. Ha ha. They looked like they were going to beat us to death because of you." He gave her a What the Hell? look as she shook her head.

"With what? Their overly large hot pink handbags? Merlin, you're such a wimp sometimes."

"Oi!" He reprimanded her. "I don't fight girls." He corrected himself before she could interrupt. "Other than you on occasion. And I was concerned for your safety." He nodded to himself. Lily rolled her eyes and grabbed his hand, pulling him along so that they could begin the short walk from the cinema back to her house.

"So what did you think of the film? I thought it was horrible." Scorpius shook his head as he wound his arm around her waist.

"You're the one who wanted to see it," he reminded her.

"Only to see how it compared to the book," she replied indignantly. "And even the book was way better than that. And man that book has serious flaws." Scorpius smiled as she began to rant about just how stupid the film was and how most of it made no sense.

"You know," heinterrupted when he sensed that they had come to a lull in the ranting. "I believe that I'm the masochist in this relationship." Lily stopped dead on the sidewalk, gawking at her boyfriend.

"What are you talking about?" She demanded. Scorpius laughed and pulled her along.

"What I'm saying is that, while in their relationship, that Ed dude was the Masochist, being all; 'I love you and I want to be with you forever, but being around you hurts me because I constantly want to kill you'-"

"You want to kill me?!?"

"Sometimes, yes, but that's not the point. In our relationship, I'm the Masochist because something bad always happens, such as those girls today, that ends up with me being hurt or in danger because of you, and yet I continually put up with it and take it happily because it means I'm with you. See, I'm a Masochist." He nodded solemnly as they turned down another street and past a park.

"Well, whatever. That's your problem, you're the one who does put up with me. I'm not changing." She thought to herself for a moment. "But you had better not be comparing me to the weak and clumsy Muggle." She shuddered to herself, causing Scorpius to laugh.

"Never!" heexclaimed. "You're so much better than her. She deserved what she got." Lily giggled to herself.

"Scor, were you even really paying attention to the movie?" Scorpius scratched the back of his neck.

"Uh, for the most part. I was kinda making an escape plan around the last ten minutes or so…"