Scorpius leaned against the wall in the common room, the cold felt good against his head. Lately he hadn't been feeling well but he couldn't miss his classes. "You look like hell," Mordred sighed sitting down next to him.
"Thanks, thats just what I wanted to hear," Scorpius growled standing up. It was about ten minutes before their next class started and he didn't want to be late. He grabbed his bag and started walking towards their dormitory's exit.
"Hey," Mordred called grabbing Scorpius' shoulder and making him stop, "I'll take notes for you today, you should go back to bed or maybe even to the hospital wing." Scorpius rolled his eyes, the last thing he needed was Mordred worrying about him.
"I'm fine, its nothing more then a cold or something," Scorpius shrugged. Mordred rolled his eyes, he knew when his friend was lying and now was one of those times but when Scorpius was in this mood there was no changing his mind.
"Fine," Mordred sighed knowing he had already lost this argument. At least it was the last class of the day, hopefully he would get better soon. The last thing Mordred wanted was his friend to get sicker.
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Scorpius threw all his papers into his bag, it was almost time for lights out and if he stayed in the library he would get a detention. He must have dozed off or something, just a second ago there had still been plenty of time before lights out. Maybe he really was getting sick or something.
He slowly started walking towards the Slytherin dorms. He was feeling seriously light-headed, good thing classes were over for the day. Finally he made it to the Slytherin common room and fell down on one of the couches, for some reason he felt exhausted.
"What were you doing out so late?" Mordred asked when he realized that Scorpius had finally returned.
"Dozed off in the library, I'm fine," Scorpius waved it off.
"You need to be more careful!"
"Stop sounding like my mother would you! I'm fine!" Scorpius growled. Mordred was seriously getting on his nerves lately. When the hell did he get a second mother? He grabbed his bag ready to go back to his room to sleep when all his books fell out. Scorpius sighed in frustration and bent down to pick up everything. "Aw man!" His potions homework was missing, it had taken him almost three weeks to finish all of it.
"What's wrong?" Mordred asked bending down to help Scorpius with his stuff.
"I have to go back to the library," Scorpius said standing up. If he wasn't careful Filch or his cat would catch him and the last thing he needed was to get a howler from his father for getting a detention.
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Albus pulled out the maurader's map to make sure Filch was going in another direction. The late night escapades weren't irregular for him, he usually went out when he wanted to talk to the portrait of his namesakes. Dumbledore's and Snape's portraits were next to each other and when he had a problem they were usually the best to ask. He also knew they could keep secrets. He had no one else to ask what he should do about his feelings for Scorpius.
He stopped when he noticed that Scorpius was in the hallway pretty close to him but he wasn't moving. Filch wasn't too far away either, if Scorpius wasn't careful he would get caught.
Albus changed directions and started walking towards where Scorpius was. He wanted to know why the other boy was out this late too and he would also warn him about Filch. He stopped in the hallway that the map said Scorpius was in but Albus didn't see him. The map never lied, he had to be here somewhere.
Albus walked further down the hall, according to the map he was getting close but Albus still couldn't figure out where he was. "Lumos!" Albus froze when he saw a very pale, very unconscious Scorpius laying at his feet. "Scorpius! Hey, Scorpius!" Albus shook him trying to wake him up.
Scorpius wouldn't have just fallen asleep in the hallway, what was he doing here? Albus' hand brushed against Scorpius' face and flinched at the heat. Scorpius was so sick he had passed out in the hallway? Why hadn't he just gone to bed?
Albus would ask him later about that but right now he should get him to the hospital wing. He would worry about people asking questions later. Albus pulled Scorpius onto his back, he was surprised by how light the other boy was. He shook his head, too many weird thoughts, he just had to get to the hospital wing now.
The hallways had never seemed so long and dark before. Albus had never gotten lost so many times, the thought that Scorpius was so close kept distracting him. Finally he found the right door and knocked on it as hard as he could. He hoped Madam Pomphrey wasn't a heavy sleeper.
"What is going on? Why all the noise?" Madam Pomphrey asked annoyed as she opened the door. She froze when she saw Albus carrying Scorpius, in the middle of the night no less. "Come in, come in, what happened?" she asked as she ushered them towards a bed.
"I was walking through the halls and just found him passed out!" Albus explained as he set Scorpius down gently on the bed.
"I will ignore that you were out so late," she sighed as she gathered potions and whatever else she needed to help Scorpius. Albus nodded appreciatively as he sat in a chair next to the bed. Madam Pomphrey noticed this but said nothing, it wasn't her business why the other boy wanted to stay here.
Albus sat there watching as Madam Pomphrey did what she could for Scorpius, after about twenty minutes she was done. "He will just be sleeping for the rest of the night, you can go back to your room, you know."
"Would it be okay if I stayed here?" Madam Pomphrey shrugged but nodded before walking away to leave the two boys alone. Once Albus was positive that the woman was gone he turned back to Scorpius and picked up his hand. It was eerily cold to the touch, "You seriously scared me, I didn't know what was wrong with you. Heh, I must sound pathetic to you, sorry." Albus leaned back in the chair, he would stay here for a little bit longer then return to his dorms. It would be bad if Scorpius woke up and found him here. There would be too many questions he wouldn't know how to answer.
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Albus rolled over, he could tell he wasn't in his bed so where was he? That's right he had dozed off before he could leave last night. At least no one saw him here, Scorpius should still be asleep.
Albus finally opened his eyes and froze. The Slytherins staring back at him did not look happy. "What are you doing here?" Ivy asked. She was standing over Scorpius holding a cloth on his forehead.
"Sleeping." Yeah, it was stupid thing to say but Albus had just woken up. He wasn't awake enough to think of a good lie.
"We figured that," Mordred sneared, "we were wondering why?"
"After I brought Scorpius here I must have fallen asleep by accident, I'll be leaving," Albus said quickly standing up to leave.
"Wait you were the one who found him?" Ivy asked stopping him. Albus nodded, speaking to Ivy was pretty intimidating. She had a look about her that screamed she would kill you if you angered her. "Then you brought him here?" Again Albus nodded not knowing what to say. "Why?"
"Because I figured he needed help," Albus shrugged, "not a huge deal."
"Oh...well thanks, we were worried when he didn't come back to the dorms last night," Mordred mumbled. Albus nodded towards them again before finally being able to escape. When he was finally out of the hospital wing he took a sigh of relief, that could have ended badly.
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"Well that was weird," Adair sighed when Albus had finally left the room.
"I thought he was stalking Scorpius because he wanted to duel him or something but if that were true he wouldn't have helped him. I wonder what he actually wants..." Ivy commented.
The three of them had been shocked first to learn from a prefect that Scorpius was in the hospital wing then it had gotten even worse when they arrived to see how their friend was doing and finding Albus asleep next to him in a chair. "Maybe he really just passed him in the hallways and fell asleep here," Mordred shrugged. Adair and Ivy looked at him as if he had just used an unforgivable curse on Scorpius or something. "What?" he asked annoyed with the looks.
"Nothing," Ivy shrugged, "just last year you would have hexed a Gryffindor sleeping next to Scorpius to throw up slugs or something, now you're standing up for him." Mordred rolled his eyes, that was not what he was doing but arguing with Ivy was worse then arguing with a brick wall. In some places the wall might actually be reasonable.
"What are all of you doing here?" Scorpius asked looking up at the three of them.
"Scorpius! You're awake!" Ivy cried hugging him.
"Yeah, morning. What am I doing in the hospital wing?" he asked looking around. The last thing he remembered was sneaking into the library to get his homework and leaving again. Had he not made it to the Slytherin dorm or something?
"You passed out in the hallways last night and Albus had to bring you here," Mordred laughed.
"Albus?" Scorpius asked confused.
"Yeah, surprised us too, but maybe next time when you're sick you won't sneak out of the dorm in the middle of the night." Scorpius nodded, he had to admit this time Mordred was right. If someone other then Albus had found him like that it might have ended badly.
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Albus finally made it to his dorm and fell down on his bed. He had stayed up too late watching over Scorpius and was still exhausted. He was glad, and surprised, that he had been able to leave with no permanent damage.
"Where have you been all night?" Lysander asked falling into the bed next to him. Usually he would shove the other boy out of the bed but he didn't have the strength for it.
"With Scorpius," Albus responded without thinking.
"Scorpius? Wow, you move quick," Lysander laughed. Albus growled and shoved him out of the bed. He was not in the mood for this conversation right now. "Oh come on! Tell me! I wanna know!" he begged leaning over the side of Albus' bed.
"I snuck out last night to talk to Dumbledore and Snape when I noticed he was in the hallway unconscious..."
"Albus! Please don't tell me you did something!"
"No! I took him to the hospital wing you pervert!" Albus growled. "Then I stayed there just to make sure he was okay and accidentally fell asleep. This morning I woke up when his friends came in to see him."
"Aw, such a sweet beau," Lysander laughed. Albus glared at him for a second before turning onto his other side and closing his eyes. He was too tired to talk with Lysander right now. The other guy's energy never seemed to end.
It was about twenty minutes of Lysander smacking him in the back and bothering him before Lysander gave up and walked out of their room. Albus closed his eyes and was asleep almost immediately.
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Wooh! Second chapter! You gotta keep reading to see if they get together! (You know you wanna see that!) So review and my chapters will come out faster! (Promise!)
