Uncovering the Truth

Scorp's POV

Another bloody riddle. "I'm part the part of the bird that's not in the sky; I can swim in the ocean and yet still remain dry. What am I?" It repeated for the third time.

"Oh, I don't know! Why can't you just let me in? Please. I need to see Rose Weasley!" I begged feeling like kicking the door down. It just remained closed. Then I saw a two small blonde fourth years come racing up. The Scamander twins. They were both really weird and most people avoided them. Lorcan was the one with glasses, Lysander without but apart from that they were identical.

"What are you doing up here?" said Lysander in his usual jubilant Irish accent. "You're not supposed to be, you're in Slytherin."

"Well done for noticing pea brain. Anyway can you solve this bloody riddle?" I asked not in my best mood.

The doorknocker asked the riddle again and Locran pondered it. "Hmm." He said, "What do you think Lysander."

"I don't know Lorcan. Maybe if someone hadn't been so rude my thoughts may not have been interrupted." Lysander said.

"Ok guys, sorry. I'm not in the best of moods and I was hoping that I could see Rose Weasley. Please guys help. I'll pay you." I pleaded

"Pay?" asked Locran sounding interested.

"He's learnt his lesson Locran." Lysander said before saying to the handle, "the answer is the bird's shadow."

The door swung open and they climbed in. I didn't want to go on again so I called them back, "Hey guys, could you perhaps get Rose for me? I'll give you each a chocolate frog."

Locran immediately said, "Make it two and you have yourself a deal."

Lysander hit him then said to me, "No problem, I'll do it for nothing."

A few minutes later and Rose Weasley came out. "Hi Scorp, the twins told me that you wanted to see me."

"Yeah, it's Al. He's in the Hospital Wing. I need you to go and see James to speak to him. I'll fill you in on the way." I said as we started walking down…

"So you think that James said something to Al then?" Rose asked after I had explained the whole thing to her.

"Well it seems plausible, he knew that Al was gay and he looked very angry. Al said the same things to me as James said." I told her, wanting to forget what they had both said yet it was hard. Al's words kept replaying constantly in the back my mind. It hurt but I was just going to have to get through it. Like I got through all the other shit in my life such as every hating me and telling me that I should kill myself because of my surname from people who didn't even know me. But what hurt the most was the fact it was Al who had said those things. My best friend, the boy I loved.

"Scorp, I'm sorry. Al didn't mean all those things, he loves you, I know it. He's just under so much stress." Rose said trying to comfort me but it wasn't working.

"Of course he meant them. Anyway here's the plan. You go to James and pretend that you just found out and you're really shocked. He should spill the information. But you must act shocked and disgusted. Act as if you're on his side. Say what you have to say, I don't care and Al will never find out." I said giving her the briefing as we arrived outside the Common Room.

"Ok, where will you be?" she asked biting her lip nervously.

"I'll just be outside; if he's coming I can hide easily enough. Good luck." I said, hoping that it would all work out.

"Yeah." She said before turning to the portrait of the Fat Lady and saying, "vectis ad cor."

She went in as I chuckled to myself at the Gryffindors attempts to seem a bit cleverer with a password in Latin. I waited nervously; my fingers crossed hoping that Rose would be quick. Five minutes later she came out looking as anxious as I was. "So?" I asked, "What did he have to say?"

"Um, he said he couldn't understand why Al was gay and he said what he had told to him. He said some pretty bad stuff and it was really hard to go along with it all but I think I had him fooled." Rose said frowning.

"Oh, what exactly did he tell Al?" I asked intrigued to know how Al was so upset and to see if I could help.

"Well Al asked him some advice on how to get you to feel more comfortable with you, so of course James asked who and Al told him. Then James was completely disgusted and told him he was a freak; that he wasn't his brother and he was a perve. He said he knew that he hadn't been right from the start and had been trying to keep Lily away from him. Then apparently when he walked away Al was in tears but James said that he doesn't care about Al and wants nothing to do with him anymore. Oh and to make matters worse he's written to Uncle Harry." Rose explained as we walked along in the general direction of the Great Hall. I couldn't believe it. That James could be so horrible and say all those things to his brother. Then the fact that Harry knew. That wasn't good. I'd met him on numerous occasions when I'd been round to the Potter household and he seemed really nice, but I don't think he'd appreciate that we were gay. And Ginny certainly wouldn't. She like most people didn't like the fact that I was a Malfoy and didn't really talk to me when I went around to the house. She didn't seem the sort of person who'd be so accepting towards it.

"Merlin's Beard!" I exclaimed, "Poor Al. Why did I have to be such an idiot, none of this would have happened if I had just-"

"Don't blame yourself Scorp. James is a homophobic dick! You didn't want it to go so fast and that's fine. It was going to happen one day, someone would find out. But you need to talk to Al, or at least when he gets out of the Hospital Wing." Rose said, patting me on the back.

"I suppose you're right. I'll go now, to Al, he's probably still asleep but it's the least I can do." I said, "You can come if you want."

"It's probably best if I stay out of it for a bit. But just a warning, I'd stay away from James if I were you. He's pretty mad."

"Oh, I'm sure that I can handle James. Anyway thank you so much! You've been such a good help. I could kiss you right now!" I smiled at her. She grinned back and moved in closer to me.

"You can if you want." She said. I didn't know what to do, it was one of those awkward situations, I mean I didn't know that Rose would take it literally! She moved in before I could say anything and started to snog me full on. After everything she had done for me and Al I couldn't really pull away. I didn't kiss back but I didn't stop her at the same time. It was just like the last kiss between us. When she finally pulled away my heart stopped for a second. There stood Al, looking as though he was about to burst into tears. He'd seen it alright.

"Al!" I called out but he just ran away. I put my hands to my face and groaned. "Shit shit shit shit." I muttered.

"Crap, Scorp I'm so sorry." She said.

"Well thanks a lot. You've just managed to make things much better!" I said sarcastically before running of in the direction that Al had gone. I'd seriously messed everything up this time.