~Astronomy Tower~
n. the place to make your best friend really uncomfortable

Scorpius liked looking at the stars. One could say that he was overly fond of the sky and the stars. But another could say that it was natural to have an interest in your own namesake. If you disagree, kindly permanently stick your head to a toilet (please).

Scorpius just liked looking at the stars. Even if he had not been named 'Scorpius', he'd still look at the stars and the sky and the birds and admire their freedom. He knows that and his sister and his best friends know that so it doesn't matter who else thinks that. The sky was a place untouchable by wizards and muggles alike and that's what made it so amazing. Whatever way you looked at it, nature was supreme.

That's why Scorpius had snuck out to admire the all-covering blanket of shimmering nothingness that was stretched to the edges of everywhere. He loved watching the skies change every month. Day by day, the skies shifted and to think that he was watching this while all this was happening.

He glanced to his side. He couldn't have done it without Albus's invisibility cloak and he certainly wouldn't have planned this expedition if Rose hadn't told him that Scorpio, the constellation, was going to be visible today.

"Isn't this exciting?"

"Merlin's hat! Of course this is." Albus chuckled. "Sneaking out after curfew is just genius. You're our navigator Rose. You knew how exciting that was."

"Not the sneaking around part you idiot!" Rose whisper-yelled. "I'm talking about the constellation. Though passing by Professor Slughorn was close."

Scorpius smiled. Rose was just being overly cautious. Slughorn had been as slow as a slug when they had passed him. He was stumbling drunk and inebriated back to his own quarters. No doubt, to dispel of his hangover with some choice potions. No wonder he was a potions master.

"You're being awfully quiet Scorp. Are you having a good time?" Rose asked in a softer tone.

"I'm having a great time." He grinned at her in the dark. He wasn't sure she could see. "How could I not when I'm looking at my name sake in the sky with my two best friends?"

"Oh. Yeah. How could you not?" Rose muttered under the cover of darkness.

If he wasn't mistaken, she even sounded a little disappointed.

"Are you having a good time?" He murmured into her ear so as not to disturb Albus as he dozed in the late hours.

"Smashing." Her voice seemed to be as soft as the wind blowing through the trees.

What an odd girl. One moment she was fine and the next she was feeling down. He had no idea why. Maybe she was having doubts about seeing Scorpio. Obviously the view that she was seeing wasn't good enough. But from where he was sitting the sky was pretty clear and very starry. Perhaps she would like to see what he was seeing.

"Good." He slung an arm around her shoulders and shifted her so that her back was pressed against his chest. "You get a better field of vision from this point of view. The turrets surrounding the quidditch pitch don't get in the way."

"Uh, thanks."

"No problem."

He felt her turn around he wondered what she was doing. Scorpius could almost feel the way her eyes seemed to flit across his face. Whatever she saw, she seemed satisfied so she turned away. Leaning her head back against his collarbone she wiggled so that she was sitting in his lap.

"What are you doing?" He practically hissed.

"Getting comfortable. Why do you ask?" She sounded smug. He couldn't understand why she would want to be this close to him. Was she cold?

"No reason." He muttered into her hair.

"Am I making you uncomfortable?"

"A little."

She answered with her silence. He sighed into her hair and sat back to watch the sky.

"Is that Scorpio?"

"Yeah. Pretty cool isn't it?" He couldn't help but say proudly.

"Yep."

She seemed to smile as she tilted her head up so that her head was pressing against his throat and making him a little bit more than uncomfortable. She stared into his eyes and made him wonder how her eyes couldn't be so clear when it was so dark. He wasn't sure what she saw when she looked at him but he knew that she looked like a magical creature (not that he was calling her feral). Her eyes were luminous and her hair was wild and untamed spilling down her back and onto his chest.

He felt his own face heat up. Rose's gaze was piercing, she could have been reading his soul and taking a peek at all his memories and he wasn't sure whether that as a good thing or something else. His mind wasn't working under her strangely hypnotic gaze and all thoughts of privacy were flying out of his ear and trying to eat a pixie (not really). She smiled and he was sure he saw her eyes twinkle as she parted her lips and muttered, "So that's the real Scorpius, huh?"

He just gaped (a little teeny bit) dumbstruck and finally settled his inner turmoil but answering.

"Yeah."

The dark hid all that was to hide and all the while, Scorpio flew over the sky watching over all who cared to watch it.

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