Scorpius paced back and forth in front of the Weasely shop. That was where he had told Albus to meet him today. They were going to go back to his house and tell his parents what was going on. There was no way Scorpius would have the strength to do it alone. He needed Albus with him!

"Hey, sorry I'm late," Albus said finally running up to Scorpius. "With my family it's almost impossible to sneak out unnoticed, I'm really sorry," he apologized.

"It's okay, come on we better get going," Scorpius said walking into the shop. They had agreed to meet here because they could use the fire place and floo powder to get back to Scorpius' house quicker and more unnoticed then any other place. Scorpius quietly thanked God that Albus' uncles had started this store in such a popular street. No one would question seeing the two of them their, even if they did talk or walk next to each other.

"I'll go first," Scorpius said taking a handful of Floo powder and stepping into the fire place. "Manerii de Serpentis!" Scorpius said before disappearing into a cloud of green flames.

Albus grabbed a handful of the powder and stepped into the fireplace. He took a deep breath, this would be a very interesting day and if it was anybody other then Scorpius he would consider running. "Manerii de Serpentis!" he said as clearly as possible and felt the flames surround him.

"Scorpius where did you go?" Astroria asked noticing her son appear in the fireplace. "I was looking for you earlier."

"There is something I have to talk to you and father about," Scorpius said looking down at the ground. Astoria could tell that there was something bothering her son, he was too nervous for it to be some small thing. She was about to comfort her son when she saw Albus appear in the fireplace.

"Scorpius what is going on?" she asked, all words of comfort flying from her head.

"It's kinda a long story," Albus said standing up. Astoria could only nod as she turned around and walked out of the room going to look for her husband. Albus wrapped his arms around Scorpius, the smaller boy was starting to shake and Albus was worried he might pass out. "Why don't we go sit down and wait for your mother and father?" Scorpius nodded and tried to walk as steadily as he could to the closest couch where he collapsed. "Don't worry, it will not be as bad as you think."

Draco and Astoria walked back into the room. Astoria had a look of confusion written over her face whereas Draco's face remained emotionless. Albus tried to make himself as calm as possible. Scorpius was already freaking out, he had to be the calm one. "Hello Sir, Ma'am," Albus said as politely as he could manage. He wasn't used to these kind of situations, he wasn't exactly sure what he was supposed to do.

"Hello Albus. So Scorpius your mother said that there was something you needed to talk to us about. What is it?" Draco asked coldly sitting it down on a chair across from them. This was going to be a lot harder then Albus had ever thought.

"Albus and I have been...going out for almost seven months now," Scorpius said looking down at the ground, unable to look either of his parents in the eyes.

"You two have been...dating?" Astoria choked on the last word. "As in...but he's a boy!" Scorpius slowly nodded not knowing how to respond to that. Out of both his parents he had expected his mother to react the best.

"If this has been going on for seven months why are you just now telling us?" Draco asked looking his son directly in the eyes. Scorpius bit his lip, how much should he tell his father? "Scorpius tell us everything," Draco said calmly resting his hand on his son's shoulder.

"When we first started dating I wasn't planning on telling you...ever."

"And you were okay with that?" Draco asked looking straight at Albus.

"Yeah, I mean, I didn't want to force him into anything. He didn't want to come out and tell people about us I wasn't going to make him. As much fun as it would be to not have to hide every time we want to just hold hands..."

"Anyway, he better digress," Scorpius growled making Albus smile sheepishly. "As I was saying we didn't plan on telling anybody so we started dating in secret. We used this room that Albus knew about...the room of requirement is what he said it was called." Draco nodded knowing the room that his son was talking about. "Then a little over a month ago James approached me, he knew about Albus and me and blackmailed me. At first he just told me to break up with Albus but pretty soon what he wanted me to do got...worse."

"Blackmailing you?" Astoria asked her eyes darkening. "What was he blackmailing you with?" she practically growled. Albus and Scorpius looked at each other, neither of them knew exactly what they could say to that. "Scorpius what did he use to blackmail you?" Astoria asked again making Albus flinch.

"Photographs," Scorpius finally said breaking the silence. Albus watched as Scorpius removed one from his pocket and laid it down on the table that sat between the two of them and his parents. "Some were like this, others were worse," he said staring at the ground. Albus could tell that it was a picture of them making out. Not as bad as most of the photographs but still not something he would want his parents to see.

Astoria picked up the picture, her glare growing even darker. "He threatened me with not only telling the both of you by sending these to the house but he also threatened to send them to the Daily Prophet and say I had seduced Albus. I was scared that our family would be even further shunned because of something that I had done."

"What did he want you to do?" Draco asked looking at the two boys that sat in front of him. This made the both of them squirm. Showing them the pictures was bad but telling them what James wanted was worse. Scorpius looked at Albus almost pleadingly, he couldn't say it, not to his parents.

"James wanted Scorpius to sleep with him," Albus said holding Scorpius' hand. He was half expecting one of the Malfoys to pull out their wand and kill him, make him pay for what his brother had done. He wouldn't disagree with them, He half thought he deserved it too. Instead of there being yelling like he had thought Draco stood up and marched out of the door. Astoria looked at her son with an apologetic look before following her husband out the door.

"Draco?" Astroia asked when she walked into his study where he was just standing, glaring at a wall. "I can tell you are mad, but what I can not tell is at who," she laid her hand on his shoulder finally getting his attention.

"I'm mad at myself! If I had not been such a fool when I was younger our son would not be blackmailed like that! There would not be a threat of our family being shunned further! He is sixteen he should not have to worry about things like that!"

"You are not the one that made this situation. James Potter did. We can't stand here and blame ourselves, we have to go and protect our son. Forget what you did in the past and concentrate on what we have to do now!" Astoria said wrapping her arms around her husband. "Now you better get back to Scorpius and tell him that you are happy for him and Albus and that we will deal with the James situation. I am sure he is sitting down there freaking out that his father may hate him."

Albus looked at Scorpius and could see that he had become even paler then when the conversation had started. He wrapped his arm around Scorpius and pulled him into his chest. "I always loved your pale skin but it doesn't look as good with a tint of green."

"Albus, please not right now," Scorpius mumbled moving to pull away from Albus. "My father probably can't even stand to look at me and my mother...I can't believe this is happening!"

"They don't hate you." Scorpius looked at Albus with a 'how the hell would you know' kind of look. "Trust me, they don't hate you. They don't think you're weak and they do not feel embarrassed about you. This just must be a lot to take in. It will take them some time to adjust."

"Why is it you are always the one reassuring me and I am always the one needing protection?" Scorpius asked smiling slightly as he rested his head against Albus' chest.

"Because I am the one that caused all the problems so it is the least that I can do," he smiled kissing Scorpius gently on the lips.

Both boys jumped apart when they heard the door open. Draco walked in with Astoria behind him. The two couples just stared at each other for a moment before Astoria broke the silence. "I have to say what you told us today is...shocking, but we wish the best to the both of you. When you came home over winter break we realized that you seemed happier then ever before, I guess we figured out why," she smiled as she walked over to her son and hugged him.

"However we are not going to be so kind to James, I don't care who he is! No one is getting away with blackmailing my son in such a horrible way," Draco said walking over to his son. "I know this puts you into a bad position," he said looking over at Albus.

"Not anymore, as soon as he hurt Scorpius, which also hurt me, he stopped being my brother," Albus said with a look in his eyes that Scorpius rarely got the chance to see.

"Do your parents know about this?" Astoria asked.

"No, we were planning on telling them tomorrow when James as well as my younger sister will be out of the house. We both figured it would be much easier that way." Astoria nodded as she hugged her son again. She hated that her son had been scared to tell them about this, but it seemed that the both of them had created this situation. It was partly their fault that James had been able to do this.

"If something like this ever happened again please do not hide it from us. We will help you," Draco said hugging his son. "You do not have to deal with something like this alone, ever again."

xxxx

Ginny pulled cups down from the cupboard. All of her children were out at the moment and her brother and Hermoine had dropped by. She set them down on the counter and flicked her wand making the boiling water pour itself. She smiled when she walked back out and noticed Harry and Ron laughing their heads off while Hermoine just shook hers. Being able to get together like this was rare, but it still seemed too quiet without all the children.

Ginny was surprised when she heard the door open. "I'll go see who that is," she said standing up. She wasn't expecting any of her children back this early nor was she expecting anyone else. "Oh Albus, you're back ear..." she stopped when she noticed who was standing next to her son in their house.

"Hey mom, can I talk to you and dad? There is something we need to talk about," he said sheepishly, as if he had done something wrong. Ginny slowly nodded and motioned for both of the boys to follow her.

"Who was at the door?" Harry asked looking up from the table where he and Ron had been comparing quiditch scores that they had bet on last week.

"Albus and Scorpius," she said trying to sound much more calm then she actually felt as she sat down next to her husband. "Albus said they have something to talk to us about."

"What are you doing hanging out with a Malfoy? Harry why is your son hanging out with Slytherins? Especially that one!"

"Ron, stop it!" Ginny growled making her brother quiet down. "Sorry about that, now what is it you need to talk to us about?" she asked smiling warmly at her son and Scorpius who were both looking more and more nervous.

"Well...first off...we're..dating," Albus said trying to look for the right words and only coming up with the most basic. "We have been for a while now."

The four adults just stared at the two boys. None of them knew what to say, Out of everything that they had expected Albus to tell them this was not one of them. "Oh..." was all Ginny could choke out.

Albus had a moment of sick humor. This was the quietest he had ever seen his family, and his uncle Ron was even here. "You have got to be joking! Was there seriously no one else? You had to go after a Malfoy? Even worse, he is a guy! Are you really not that picky! You are a Potter! You can have any woman you wanted!" Ron yelled slamming his fist on the table.

"Shut up!" Albus yelled jumping from his chair. "I don't care what petty frikin issues you have with his dad! Scorpius is the guy I love! Yeah, that's right! The guy I love!" Ron slowly fell back into his chair, unable to respond to that. "Anyway, there is more to what we need to tell you."

Ginny and Harry looked at each other. What else could their son have to tell them after a declaration like that? "Go on Albus, we are listening," Harry said urging his son to continue.

Albus nodded and tried to find the right words for what he was about to say next. He smiled when he felt Scorpius squeeze his hand under the table trying to reassure him. "James found out about us. He used that to blackmail Scorpius. First into breaking up with me, and then into trying to sleep with him. Scorpius was able to get away the first time but the reason we are telling you is because James didn't stop. He didn't plan to either. He threatened that if Scorpius did not meet him in a few days at the beginning of the quiditch season he would use his blackmail."

"You keep just saying blackmail, what did he use?" Ginny asked gently.

"Photographs, he continually sent them to me with an owl and even left one on my pillow," Scorpius explained. "They were of the two of us, some were of us kissing, some were worse." Harry just nodded as he looked at the two boys. Scorpius could feel his hands start to sweat. What if they didn't believe him? It was his word against their son's. Ron had already shown that his word obviously meant very little in this house.

Scorpius was surprised when Ginny stood up and hugged him. "I am so sorry that you had to go through something like this. I am so sorry!" They believed him! He wouldn't be thrown out and thought of as a liar.

"Do your parents know about this?" Harry asked looking up finally. Scorpius nodded, he was still intimidated by the great Harry Potter. "I need to talk to Malfoy," he said standing up and walking into another room.

Ron stood and followed Harry into the other room. They would use the floo powder network and contact the Malfoys. They had to talk to them before they figured out what they were going to do.

Hermoine turned to the two boys. "Does anybody else know about this?" she asked motioning to the two of them.

"Lorcan and Lysander," Albus said not looking at Scorpius. Scorpius couldn't believe what he had just heard. He was glaring at Albus, when had this happened? He wanted to ask but not with his mother and aunt standing around them.

"Okay, don't worry we will make sure this stops," Ginny promised hugging Scorpius and Albus one more time before following her husband and brother, Hermoine right behind her.

xxxx

Harry walked up to Malfoy. He had to talk to him, he owed the man at least that after what his son had tried to do to Malfoy's only child. "So what are you going to do with him?" Draco asked looking Harry straight in the eyes.

"We have decided he will not be attending Hogwarts next year, instead he will be headed to Romania. Victor Krum will be waiting there for him. Maybe the hard manual labor and having to deal with creatures like dragons will help him realize what he has done is wrong. If he does something like this again he will be forced to live like a muggle."

"If your son does anything like this again to Scorpius I will kill him." Harry wanted to argue with Draco, tell him that he could never do something like that. He couldn't. If it was the other way around he knew Ginny would have already killed the bastard that had touched her child, and he would have helped her. Now it was their son that was the bastard.

"I will make sure that doesn't happen. Scorpius doesn't deserve that," Harry agreed.

Draco nodded and started walking away but stopped and turned back to Harry. "It's sad that this is the first time we agree on something. I really wish it could have been something else."

"Yeah, I do too."