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Chapter Three: Cherry Bomb (The Runaways Cover)
It was closer to dawn than dusk when Scorpius woke from the after-sex nap they had decided to take. Cherry's arms were wrapped around his waist so tightly he worried he would wake her as he got up, but his feet finally touched the clothing littered floor.
Scrambling around in the dark, he pulled on what he assumed where his clothes and slipped out into the corridor connecting all of the girls' dorms. Luckily the hallway was lit and he had indeed put on his own clothes.
The bottle of Vodka he had downed before showing up to take Lily to his secret sex room was now almost out of his system. Naturally, as soon as the though of alcohol crossed his mind, bile rose in his throat. The potted plant at the end of the hallway got most of the abuse that always followed alcohol consumption.
When Cherry had shown up at Hogwarts they had sorted her into Slytherin, not that she would have fit well anywhere else, so he didn't have to risk getting caught by Filch out in the main part of the school. Creeping across the common room, Scorpius' heart almost stopped when he spotted a dark form curled up on the black leather couch.
Roland had tried staying up to talk to his intoxicated friend, but had eventually fallen asleep at the effort. That was fine with Scorpius, but it only prolonged the scolding he was sure to get.
Oh, who was he kidding? A scolding wasn't even close to the worst thing that would happen to him in the next twenty four hours. He knew how badly he had fucked up, but who had expected his good behavior to last longer than this anyway?
Not even Lily could teach the old dog new tricks. He was, and forever would be, the king of Slytherin.
Or should he say, the king of fuck ups.
When Roland finally awoke it was five o'clock in the morning. He found Scorpius in his bed, still dressed in his clothes from the day before, surrounded by a terrible stench. Lily was no where to be found and something told him that she wasn't in her room either.
Taking off through the corridors, he didn't even care if he was caught by Filch. At least that would be one more person looking for the poor, lost girl. He was just about to go looking for the school attendant when he saw her sitting against a wall in a corridor only lit by one torch above her head.
The redhead had her legs pulled up under her chin with her thin, pale arms wrapped around her calves. She was also wearing the same clothes as before, except for her long sleeved shirt that was balled up in her lap. She looked even smaller than normal in just a bra and jeans, making Roland's stomach churn as he examined her further.
As he crouched down beside her, he noticed dark bruises covering her arms and ribs that looked like they would fit Scorpius' fingers. Her long hair was tangled and eyeliner was streaked down her cheeks.
"Jesus Christ. What did he do to you." It wasn't a question, not that she would have been able to answer him. Her entire body was shaking, whether from fright or cold he wasn't sure. More than likely a combination of both.
He wasn't sure how long she had been here or how long it would have taken for her to be found, but he was extremely angry with himself for falling asleep when he should have been looking for the obviously traumatized girl. Roland took her shaking hands in his, "Lily, did he make you have sex?"
Her blue eyes grew even larger than normal and filled with tears, but she neither confirmed nor denied. Not that Roland could blame her, the trauma of getting attacked was enough to scare you into silence, especially if it was someone that was supposed to love you.
It had never been in his nature to judge Scorpius and the stupid things he did, because he had always done something worse, but this had gone too far. Maybe the stress of commitment was getting to him or maybe he wasn't as happy as they had all thought, but none of that excuse what Scorpius had done. Especially if he had raped this girl.
"I'm taking you to Hugo, babe." Roland pulled the limp body into his arms, running towards the moving staircases that led to the Gryffindor common room. To his relief, the Fat Lady realized something was seriously wrong with the girl he carried and didn't ask for a password for entrance.
Roland headed straight for where he was sure held Hugo's dorm room. The younger boy didn't have the luxury of a room to himself, so Roland woke up the entire room of fifth years when he entered the room.
Rushing to get out of the bed so Lily could be sat down, Hugo screeched at the gawking boys to get out of the room. He didn't know what was going on but at the sight of the small, trembling girl he wanted to cry and puke at the same time. Scorpius had done this, he was sure of it and he wouldn't stop until he had payed for it ten times over.
As he joined Roland beside the bed, Hugo took the shirt out of his cousin's grasp. She turned on her side and let her eyes close, so out of it she didn't even realize that she was almost naked from the waist up. Not that it mattered with only two gay boys in the room, but it still would have freaked her out under normal conditions.
"I asked if he'd ra- forced her into anything. She didn't answer me." The tall brunette whispered as if he'd never had to say something so horrible aloud before.
Lily had fallen asleep in her fetal position, her body trembling randomly as if she was being shocked. Pulling his blankets around her thin body, Hugo sat back on his heals where he was squatted next to the bed.
Running a hand through his short hair, the thin boy squeezed his eyes shut against the thoughts of what had happened. "We'll just wait until she's up to telling us what happened. There's no point in going to Uncle Percy until we know for sure that it was Scorpius. As for the others that saw you bring her in, we need to perform a memory erasing spell on them before the blab to anyone."
Roland nodded once, turning to leave the room but stopped short when he heard the deathly truthful tone of Hugo's last comment."
"I swear to God, Roland. If he raped her, I'll kill him."
Luckily, Roland had gotten to the Gryffindors before they had the chance to tell what they had seen. Since it was still too early for anyone to be awake, he and Hugo led Lily through the dark corridors back to the Room of Requirement. This time it transformed into a room fit to stay in without having to leave.
They had realized that there was no where else to keep Lily. The dorm rooms at Hogwarts were designed to store many students, they weren't good for hiding a secretly hurt witch.
It was Tuesday, so both Roland and Hugo had to go to class but they promised Lily they would be back as soon as they could. She had simply nodded in agreement. Hugo had brought her thick pajamas to cover her irregularly cold body and had pulled her ratted hair away from her face. Yet she still looked like death itself, even with the worst of her injuries only bruises.
After they had left, she slept for hours, finally awaking to the sound of Roland entering to bring her food. He was alone and extremely worried that she would find this threatening as if he was going to hurt her too.
Lily seemed to realize this, because she etched a meek smile onto her face. "It's okay, Roland. You don't have to treat me like a child, I know you aren't going to hurt me."
"Right now I just need to know how hurt you already are. If something- if he- it's just important to know exactly what happened. Can you do that for me? Then I'll leave you alone." His face was kind as he sat next to her, reaching out to hold her hand in an effort to make her relax.
Images of Scorpius' face flashed through her head, making her entire body jerk back from the physical contact of Roland. This seemed to scare him more than offend him but she still apologized vigorously. "I don't want to. Please don't make me."
Heart breaking, the tall brunette nodded. "Of course, Lil. Just tell me when you're ready okay? I have to get to class, I skipped out on lunch to come see you. Hugo will be here as soon as he can."
He was almost to the door when Lily blurted out the answer to his question. "We didn't have sex. He tried, but I said no."
Relief hit Roland hard. Smiling, though still upset over the entire situation, he left the small redhead in the magical room once again.
It took every excuse in the book, but Hugo managed to get all of Lily's professors to believe his lies of where she was. By Friday, Lily was so sick of staying in the boring room all day long by herself. Hugo and Roland agreed that she was looking normal enough to rejoin the other students, as long as she tried to act like herself.
Not having spoken much more than a few words over the past few days, Lily wasn't sure if she could pass normalcy off at this point. Hugo had managed to trick her roommates, even Elle and 'Manda for it was just easier to keep them in the dark on this, into thinking she was in the nurses wing and had told the nurse that she was in her dorm. Luckily no one had crosschecked the information, leaving them to take care of her in peace.
On her way to breakfast that Friday, Roland stopped her on one of the emptier staircases to talk to her. "How do you feel?"
"Better. I'm not sure I can do this, I'll break down if I see him." She whispered the words, more in an effort to convince herself than to keep the conversation a secret. "I'm not strong enough."
Stopping in front of Lily to keep her from continuing down the steps, Roland grabbed her shoulders as if he was about to shake her. "You're the strongest person that I know. This isn't the Lily I know and love. The old Lily would walk straight up to that jackass and cuss him out. Maybe punch him in the face, but you get what I mean."
This actually managed to make the redhead laugh, "He's your best friend. You really want me to punch him? He was drunk, I though you'd understand that better than anyone."
It was true, Roland had blown off a lot of the things he had done simply because he was drunk, but his eyes were now open. The day he had found Lily, he had looked everywhere for Scorpius but every class they had together, he wasn't in. He was obviously avoiding his best friend and for good reason, Roland had half a mind to strangle him into unconsciousness. But violence wasn't the answer to this problem.
"I don't think I would classify him as a best friend at the moment. More like the idiot from my childhood that never grew up. At any rate, you need to tell him who you are, since he's seemed to have forgotten."
Lily shook her head, a red curtain falling around her face. "What if I don't know who I am anymore?"
"You are Lily Luna Potter, daughter of the Boy Who Lived. You aren't a little girl that can be walked on." She laughed at how corny he was being, "I'm serious! He was lucky to have you, Lily. And if you're scared to even see him in the hallway, then you should move on. It's time."
It was time.
Cherry had found Scorpius in the Great Hall, eating by himself. Taking a seat directly beside him, she let her blonde head fall onto his broad shoulder. It worried her slightly when he stopped breathing, but soon he relaxed enough to calm her nerves.
"Where did you go the other morning? I was hoping to wake up to your gorgeous body." She made her voice sound smooth and sexy like she knew he always enjoyed. Raking her perfect nails up and down his thigh under the table, the blonde looked up at the boy of her dreams. Little did she know he had been trying to avoid her along with Roland, but had finally just given up.
Scorpius was much less happy to see her than she was to see him, his stomach churning as he thought of what had happened that night. He had started drinking that morning, keeping an unhealthy amount of Vodka in his system all throughout the day.
Seeing Lily walking in the hallway had awakened something inside of him, making him suddenly extremely aggressive. He had left her in the Room of Requirement just as dinner had started, so he went back to the Slytherin common room to drink even more.
It hadn't been until Scorpius had consumed his body weight in Vodka that he had joined Cherry in her room. During the summer that the Malfoy's had spent their entire vacation on the tourist island, Scorpius and Cherry had been inseparable.
He definitely didn't think they were in love, more like obsessed with really good sex. Over the years he had kept her number just in case he needed something to distract him from life, but that had been the only time it had come to use.
Putting on his fake act, Scorpius forced a sly smirk onto his face. "Well I didn't want to get caught in your room and ruin all chances of doing that again. We wouldn't want that, now would we?" It was like taking candy from a baby.
Cherry glowed at what she took as flattery rather than a complete lie. She obviously hadn't gathered how much Scorpius regretted their little affair.
Hushed whispers rose up in the Great Hall around the blondes, making the hair on the back of Scorpius' neck stand erect. Gliding into the dining hall on a cloud of emotions was the young redhead he had claimed as his in this very room a year ago. Or at least he thought it was Lily.
Black stilettos clicked angrily against the hard floor, leading up smooth legs just barely covered by dark denim, short shorts. A deep, wine colored shirt hung across one shoulder and fell off the other, the lacy sleeves pulled down over her knuckles.
Bright red lipstick colored her lips and her eyes were lined by darkness, making it easy to lose oneself in their depths. The blush on her pale cheeks was so exaggerated she looked like she had walked right out of the seventies. Yet none of this compared to the biggest change of all.
Her hair, that used to hang simply down to waist, was now cropped to the top of her shoulders. Lily couldn't count the amount of times that Scorpius had told her to never change her hair, his favorite thing to do was bury his face in it's depths. That was of course the reason she had demanded Hugo take scissors to it that morning. The skilled boy had even went as far to cut swooping, sexy bangs over her left eye.
Needless to say, Scorpius was shocked. Lily wasn't the type to suddenly change so many things about herself. He didn't understand that this was her metamorphosis into herself again, this was her way of saying that she could be so much better without him.
"Lily, wow. You look great." The blonde boy had risen to his feet without realizing it as she stopped on the other side of the table from him. The hushed whispers that had slowly gotten louder during her progression towards the table now cut off completely, everyone waiting for the standoff that was sure to come.
Raising one finger towards the object of her hatred, Lily turned to the gorgeous blonde girl staring at her in shock. "First I'd like to say thank you, Cherry." The girl's shock only deepened at this, but she said nothing. She didn't need to, Lily was going to continue. "You saved me from having to find out down the line how much guys suck. I guess you really can learn a lot from elders.
"Next, I'd like to congratulate you for gaining a new fuck buddy. I know it must be a great success for someone like you to know how much of a home wrecker you are." With each word Lily's smile became larger, the sincerity of her statements was almost scary. "I hope you have a very happy and successful life. Now,"
Turning to Scorpius, the redhead placed her hands on the table between them and leaned towards him. Consequentially, the entire Great Hall leaned in so they could hear the rest of this soap opera going on in front of them. It struck them as interesting that there were no professors in the entire room to stop this explosion of hatred.
"As for Scorpius, I'd also like to say thank you. You've made me realize how much I've changed over the past year just to be the girl that would make you happy. That Lily wasn't me. I'm strong, intelligent and amazing. I think I forgot that, but now I remember."
Scorpius opened his mouth, his face turning a brighter red than it ever had before. He had never been so humiliated in his life than at that moment when Lily took all of their dirty laundry and drug it through the Great Hall for everyone to see. But the look in her smoldering eyes stopped him from speaking, so he waited.
"Honestly, Scorpius, I just hope you two are happy together. I obviously wasn't enough for you, but maybe she will be. You fit each other like puzzle pieces, trust me. Finally, I just want to warn you that if you ever bother me or my family again, it will be the worst thing you've ever done. Understand?" She didn't wait for his response, "Good. Have a good day, Malfoy."
Ending her tirade with an exaggerated wink, Lily left the silent room without looking back. There was nothing that Scorpius could say to her that would get rid of the pride she felt for herself at that moment.
To her surprise, Roland was standing beside the entrance to the Great Hall when she emerged, obviously having heard it all. She didn't expect the brilliant grin and fist bump she received from the older Slytherin, but she really didn't expect his congratulations.
"That's the Lily I know."
Lunch couldn't come soon enough for Hugo and when he finally broke free of Potions he ran to find his boyfriend. The standoff between Lily and Scorpius that morning was the biggest topic going around school, even larger than when they had gotten together.
Of course the Slytherins viewed the entire thing as a bitchfest for Lily, but the other houses couldn't be happier that the prince of Slytherin was finally put in his place. Hugo had been told at least twenty times to tell Lily how brave and inspirational she was. Even though he hadn't been there to witness the apparently epic event, the thin boy was extremely proud of his cousin.
But now it was time to confront his own problems. The rivalry that was sure to spring up between Lily and Scorpius' circles would without a doubt screw with his relationship. It was hard enough to be gay in any school but to be two gays on the opposite side of a rivalry that had gone back for centuries was a ridiculous concept in and of itself.
Roland seemed to sense what he was thinking, because he pulled the thin boy to an empty portion of the Gryffindor table. The professors didn't seem to fond of students sitting at whatever table pleased them, but they seemed even less pleased when it was these particular boys. They had learned to let these things just roll off their backs, not caring what anyone thought as long as they were happy.
"Have you talked to Scorpius yet?" Hugo talked in a hushed voice, picking apart a dinner roll with his long fingers. As if he had been summoned, Scorpius entered the Great Hall with Cherry on his arm.
At least he didn't have to lie about his "affair" like most cheaters would. Lily seemed to have taken care of that for him, for everyone in the school knew what had happened between the two blondes. Hugo had been relieved to find that she hadn't brought up his attempt at forcing sex with her. For some reason, every time he thought about the event the word "rape" popped into his brain. Then cold chills would flow up and down his spine freely.
Shaking his head, Roland watched his best friend from behind a curtain of dark hair. "I haven't gotten the chance. What am I supposed to say anyway? He'll just blow me off, I'll get pissed and we'll fight. The last thing I want is to be in detention just a few weeks into my last year."
Hugo understood the older boy's concerns, but he still had expected Roland to say something. Lately he had been the only voice of reason Scorpius seemed to have, especially with him losing all the characteristics that he had gained while with Lily.
"I know. I guess I'm just worried where this will leave us." The thin boy avoided Roland's eyes, not wanting to show just how worried he really was.
Pulling Hugo's chin up in order to stare into his eyes, Roland smiled in the most reassuring way possible. "Just because they didn't work out doesn't mean we won't. This right here, it's the most real thing I've ever felt. And I know you feel that way too, so we'll be together as long as that feeling stays."
"It'll be forever for me." Hugo whispered, laying his forehead against the brunette's.
Sorry this took so long to be put up! I'm trying to write two Fanfics at the same time and read a few new books that I picked up, but I finished this chapter! If you haven't read The Maze Runner trilogy, I would definitely try it! Especially if you loved the Hunger Games.. I personally love it. :) ANYWAY! Leave reviews please! Love you guys!
