Al woke up in the middle of the night finding that he had a strange craving for hot chocolate despite the fact that it was June. Shrugging, he quietly tip-toed downstairs. Even though using the stove when you are only half-awake is usually a bad plan, Albus (being Harry Potter's son) didn't quite have the sense to think about that as he made himself a cup of hot coco.

After he was about half finished with his favorite midnight drink, he realized that he heard something from the living room. He listened closer. It sounded like…..sobbing. Maybe Lily had had a tough break-up with Jacob? No, Lily was much tougher than that…she would have been more angry than anything else anyway…..she probably would have told him…those sobs were much too deep to be her anyway.

He quietly stepped into the living room. "Hello?" he asked and immediately the person silenced. Whoever it was almost had a chance to leave before he caught a glimpse of him…almost.

"Scorpius?" Al asked. "Are you alright?"

"Not really," he said, thickly.

Al sat down on the couch and Scorpius plopped down next to him. "What's wrong?" Immediately after he said it, Al realized that it was an incredibly stupid thing to say. His parents had just disowned him after all.

"I know I shouldn't be bothered by it," Scorpius said staring at the floor. "I mean, they've never liked me. Nor do I even like then. I haven't for years now." He seemed to be talking more to himself than Al.

"Scorpius, they were your parents after all. Why wouldn't you be upset?" Al asked.

Scorpius seemed to remember that he was there, though he didn't look surprised to see Al. "This." He rolled up his sleeve to show a scar above his elbow to reveal a reddish-purple scar. "My mum did this. I don't think Dad ever found out, nor would he have cared. How could I possibly be upset about being disowned by the woman who did this?"

Al just stared at the scar, horrified. "Why didn't you ever tell me about this?"

"It only happened once. I didn't tell anyone about it," he said. Al didn't know what was worse. The scar or the nonchalant tone of voice Scorpius used when he spoke of it.

Al took a deep breath. "They were your parents. You'd known them your entire life. It's only natural for you to miss them at least a little bit."

"I like how you said 'they were your parents,'" Scorpius said bitterly. "I guess everyone has accepted that I don't have parents anymore."

"That's not true," Al said, not quite sure where he was going with it, but it sounded good. "You do have parents. Mum and Dad," he realized.

Scorpius gave him a strange look. "Harry and Ginny?"

"Yeah, you almost always spend the holidays at our house and they both really like you. Dad sometimes says that you remind him of his godfather, Sirius," Al said. "I guess that you're sort of my unofficial adopted brother."

"Wouldn't that be Teddy?" Scorpius asked.

"No, he's slightly more official since Dad was his godfather."

Scorpius didn't say anything, but he quite liked the idea of being an unofficial Potter.