I know I have not updated in like forever and I am so sorry! But yay a new chapter is out! Thank you to those of you that reviewed I loved it! So please keep reviewing and I will keep updating (just hopefully not at a snail's pace like I have been)
On to the story!
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Albus slowly opened his eyes. His head was pounding non-stop and it almost felt like someone was kicking him... "Albus! What the hell are you doing? Albus?"
"James?" Albus asked thickly. What was James doing in the fifth year dormitories? He never came in here! "What are you doing here?"
"It's the great hall, everybody comes here! What are you doing here passed out?" It took Albus a second to realize that he wasn't in his dorms and he was in fact passed out in the corridor next to the great hall. "Do you know how lucky you are I found you instead of Filch? He would have given you detention for the rest of the year!"
"I know, I know, it won't happen again. I swear." James rolled his eyes, he couldn't believe that his little brother was stupid enough to go out and get drunk off his ass. If dad ever found out Albus would be in trouble. If mom ever found out he would just be dead.
Albus tried to soothe his throbbing head but nothing was working. What had happened last night that would have made him get this drunk? Oh right...Acacia. The memories of the night before slowly started making their way back to Albus.
Acacia had been obnoxious so to ignore her Albus had started drinking. Something else had happened...but what? Then the memory of soft lips slowly started coming back to him. 'Wait...lips?' Albus thought to himself. Had he kissed Acacia?
No, he remembered soft blonde hair. Acacia had curly brown hair. Who had blonde hair...Oh dear god, he had kissed Scorpius!
How had Scorpius reacted? Maybe he could just play it off as if he didn't remember...No, that wouldn't work. He had to go and find Scorpius and beg for forgiveness.
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It took almost two hours before Albus finally found Scorpius in the library. Of course he was surrounded by his friends. "H-hey, can I talk to you?" Albus asked awkwardly.
"Sure," Scorpius shrugged standing up to follow Albus. Albus was thankful that Scorpius had gotten up and he hadn't had to ask. "So what do you want to talk about?" Scorpius asked once they were in an empty corner of the library.
"About last night..."
"Nothing happened, what are you talking about?" Albus couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was positive what he remembered wasn't a dream. "Oh wait, are you talking about when you kissed me and told me you loved me?" Albus could tell that Scorpius was pissed.
"I wanted to explain..."
"Explain? I wonder how you would explain this to the headmaster? I bet she would love to hear all about this."
"I wanted to say sorry if I made you feel awkward or whatever," Albus said before he could be interrupted again. "That's all I wanted to say, what you want to do about it I don't care."
Albus turned to leave, this had gone about as well as he could hope. The only problem was that when his mother found out he had gotten drunk and then kissed another guy he would be grounded for life. "Wait!" Albus turned back around surprised. "I-I won't tell anybody about what happened...I mean you didn't mean any of it. It was just because you were drunk, right?"
"No, I always wanted to admit how I really felt in some poetic way but it slipped out when I was dead drunk. The truth is I have liked for a really long time. I know that you might find me creepy after finding all this out but I don't care, I don't want to lie anymore." Albus said in one breath without a pause.
Scorpius just stood there for a second not knowing what to do. This was not the way he had expected the conversation to turn. The only reaction he could figure out was anger. "If anything like this happens again I will use an unforgivable curse on you," he growled before turning on his heel and walking away.
Albus sighed as he flopped down on the floor. He couldn't say he was surprised by Scorpius' reaction. He smiled sadly, at least he had been able to kiss Scorpius without getting killed. It was something that he figured would never happen again.
Scorpius sat down at the table across from Adair again. "So what did Potter want?" he asked looking up from his homework.
Scorpius shrugged, "Nothing really, he just had to ask for help on something." Scorpius could tell that Adair knew he was lying, he could feel that his ears were still burning. Adair just shrugged figuring he would find out eventually.
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It had been a week since Albus had kissed Scorpius and told him his true feelings and the boys hadn't talked at all since. Albus had barely even seen Scorpius, the Slytherin was good at avoiding him.
"What am I supposed to do?" whined Albus in the Gryffindor common room. "Even when we are in the same class I can't talk to him!"
"How am I supposed to know?" Lysander shrugged. "Cornering him in a hallway or something would be a deadly idea and even if you did get to talk to him what would you say? Sorry for kissing you and telling you about my undying love, just forget about that?"
"You stopped being helpful," Albus growled. Lysander shrugged again and turned back to his homework. There was nothing more he could say to try and help his friend out.
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Scorpius rolled over on the couch again. All he wanted to do was sleep but whenever he closed his eyes all he could think about was that damn kiss and Albus. This had been going on ever since that day in the library. Since then he could barely get any real sleep and whenever he did sleep his dreams were filled with the other guy.
It was true in all five years of going to Hogwarts he had never dated a girl, or even really been attracted to one. He had just assumed that that meant all the girls here were simply not for him, not that he was attracted to guys. He growled as he stood up and started walking towards his dorm, he would hex Albus into oblivion for putting that idea into his head then maybe he would be able to sleep!
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Albus waited for potions to end. He had decided what he would do to get Scorpius to talk to him again, even if it might get him cursed. Finally the teacher dismissed them from the class. Albus' seat was right next to the door of course Scorpius was as far from him as possible. That meant that the Slytherin would be the last one out of the classroom.
He watched and saw just what he had expected. Scorpius had hung back even after his friends had left so that the two of them were the only ones left in the classroom.
Scorpius realized too late what Albus was doing. He looked around and silently cursed when he saw that they were the only two left. He grabbed his bag and walked towards the door, he just had to get the hell out of there.
Scorpius walked past Albus staring at the ground hoping that he would get the message. He did not want to talk and Albus better not pressure him. He sighed when he was out in the hallway and Albus still hadn't done anything, but his relief was short lived when he heard footsteps behind him. He was late for dinner because of the jerk so of course they were the only two in the hallway.
"Scorpius! Please, I just want to talk," Albus quietly begged falling into step next to him. Scorpius just ignored him and kept walking, he didn't know how stubborn Albus was but he could be just as stubborn.
"Scorpius!" Albus grabbed Scorpius' wrist just wanting to make him stop and talk to him. Scorpius flew around and punched Albus. He hadn't even realized what he'd done until Albus fell.
"What is going on here?" Both boys turned to see Professor Blackwood looking down at them.
"N-nothing," Scorpius said stepping away from Albus.
"Nothing?" the professor exploded. "That will be at least twenty points from Slytherin and a detention tonight after dinner!"
"It was my fault, I started it," Albus said standing up hurriedly.
"Fine, thirty points from Gryffindor as well. Now both of you get to dinner! Scorpius I will see you after," he growled. Both boys walked to the great hall with Professor Blackwood watching them the entire way.
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"So how did it go?" Lysander asked excitedly right as Albus sat down next to him.
"Horribly, he got a detention."
"Detention? How the hell did that happen?" Lysander asked confused. Albus just shook his head, he was not in the mood to talk about it. "Well, I guess that is just one more thing to add to the list of things to apologize for," Lysander laughed. Albus glared at him, his friend was walking on thin ice lately.
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Scorpius showed up at Professor Blackwood's office right after he had left dinner. He gently knocked on the door and opened it when he heard someone from inside telling him to come in. "Good evening," Professor Blackwood said without looking up from the papers he was working on. "For your detention you will be washing all the floors and desks in this and three other classroom." That wouldn't be too hard, Scorpius knew how to get it done and he would be able to get out of here. "Of course you will be doing it in the muggle fashion." Scorpius hated Albus with a passion now.
Scorpius grabbed the wash cloths and buckets that he would need and started working. He had never done such demeaning work in his life! He could not believe how dirty the floors of these classrooms got! Didn't the house elves ever clean them?
After about four hours of working he was finally done. His robes were clinging to him and there blisters on his hands that hurt like hell. "Can I go now, sir?" he asked after he had put all the supplies back into the closet.
"Yes, but I don't want to see you in detention again." Scorpius nodded before running out of the room, he still had homework to do but all he wanted was to collapse into his bed.
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Albus walked down the hallway, he had to try one more time to talk to Scopius. He probably wasn't in the best mood right now but at least there would be less professors around that could get either of them in trouble. He looked down at the maurader's map wondering where Scorpius was.
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Scorpius was walking down the hallway thinking of all the homework he had to get done. He had two essays due tomorrow that he hadn't started yet, maybe Ivy would let him borrow hers...
"Hey Scorpius," Scorpius turned around just in time to see Aiden shove him through a door, throwing him to the floor. He looked up and could see Blaine jamming the door and Poe looking down at him, "I've been wanting to talk to you."
"What do you want Poe?" Scorpius growled started to stand up. He was surprised when Poe shoved him back down again.
"Well this morning I received a horrible letter from my mother, it seems my father has been sent to Azkaban for crimes he committed as a Death eater. It got even worse when I learned the one that turned him in was your father, a Death eater that betrayed the dark lord!"
"I have nothing to do with that!"
"Well, now you do," Poe growled shoving his wand into Scorpius' throat. "I am going to make your family pay the same way mine has! Crucio!" Scorpius cried out as the pain flooded through his body.
"Stop! Stop! Please!" Scorpius cried wanting nothing more then for the pain to stop. He could hear the three others laughing, he knew they were not going to stop until someone made them. Scorpius could tell that his body was writhing but he had no control over himself, everything but the pain was a blur.
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Albus looked down at the map, he couldn't understand what Scorpius was doing in the girl's bathroom on the second floor. There were three other names that Albus didn't recognize and something about the way they were standing worried him.
He ran as fast as he could to where he knew they were. He stopped at the door, the noise making him physically sick. Scorpius was screaming in pain as three stood above him. "I never thought he would screech like that," laughed one of the guys looking down at Scorpius.
"Expelliarmus!" The boy that had laughed at Scorpius flew through the air before hitting a wall and falling to the ground unconscious.
"What the hell? Who's there?" the two guys yelled turning around looking for the source of the curse. Albus was happy that he had decided to steal the invisibility cloak from James before he left the dorms.
"Stupefy!" the other two fell to the floor. Albus threw his cloak off and ran to Scorpius, "Are you okay? What happened?" he asked bending down next to Scorpius trying to see why he had been in so much pain before.
Scorpius wasn't moving, he was gasping for air. "Damn it!" he cursed lifting Scorpius into his arms. He didn't know what was wrong but he couldn't stand to see Scorpius in that much pain.
"Stop." Albus almost didn't hear the faint whisper from Scorpius, he stopped and looked down at Scorpius who was glaring back up at him. "What are you doing?" Scorpius asked with a cold look. Albus didn't know what to say, he had thought Scorpius was unconscious.
Scorpius had been surprised when the pain had stopped, he had been ever more surprised to open his eyes and see that he was staring up at Albus. He couldn't say that he was mad, he didn't really know what he was.
"I-I thought...I didn't know what was wrong so I was taking you to the hospital wing," Albus tried to explain awkwardly.
"No need, I'm fine," Scorpius said trying to get out of Albus's arms.
"Wait!" Albus said tightening his arms so that Scorpius could not escape, "You were screaming in pain, Madam Pomphrey should make sure you're okay!"
"They used the crutiatis curse, I'm fine now that they stopped," he promised finally standing up.
"I'm sorry." Scorpius looked back at Albus confused, what was he apologizing for?
"For what?" Scorpius asked dumbly.
"This is all my fault, you got detention because of me then this happened. Before, I also wanted to apologize for that time." Scorpius bit his lip, he wished that there was something he could say but there wasn't. "Um...I guess we better get to sleep," he said awkwardly turning around to walk away.
Scorpius grabbed Albus' shoulder spun him around and kissed him. He was surprised when Albus immediately deepened the kiss probing his lips with his tongue. Scorpius pulled away after a minute surprised at how much he hadn't wanted it to end.
"What was that?" Albus asked with a stupid grin on his face. In all honesty it was an experiment, Scorpius wanted a way to explain away the feelings that he had been feeling lately. The kiss had just made him more confused, he had liked it too much.
Scorpius did the most cowardly thing in his life, he turned on his heel and ran.
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Oh, poor Albus. So review and I will update and you will find out how Albus reacts to this new development!
