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Confronting The Past

Once he was sure that Al understood that he wouldn't tolerate any interference Scorpius gave Jordan his full attention, surprised in some corner of his brain that he felt so calm and in control of himself and the situation. A thick, hard layer of cold had settled over him, giving him the confidence and strength to face off against his love's ex boyfriend, who was taller and better looking than him but was, apparently, uglier inside than any creature he'd encountered in the magical world. And it was that ugliness that he saw now, the wretchedness of this thing disguised as a person who apparently did nothing but use the people around him.

"I'm Scorpius Malfoy, and from the sounds of it you and I have quite a lot to discuss, don't we?"

Scorpius was surprised at the flash of fear he saw in the other man's eyes, but then it occurred to him that the Squib really had no idea who he was dealing with. He and Jordan had never met before and with the exception of Mickey he wouldn't know any member of the football player's family, and he only knew the man's cousin to see him. Al would have considered it bad manners to have talked about him while he was dating someone else so…so as far as Jordan knew, he was as dark and inclined to maim or kill non wizards as other members of his family had once been.

The man didn't know him, but he knew the name Malfoy.

This could be a whole lot easier than he'd originally thought.

Scorpius deliberately did his best to impersonate his grandfather when he was pissed off now. "You used a Metamorphmagus to impersonate me in a video you had made. That was very unwise of you, Squib." He knew what a video was because while they'd been dating Al had taken him on a 'typical' Muggle date for laughs. The theatre and film had been fascinating, and he'd never forgotten it or the explanation the Gryffindor had given about how the movies were made and shown.

Now he just had to figure out why the man had apparently paid quite a bit of money to make this video thing.

Hearing Lucius's voice come from his sweetie's lips was more than a little disconcerting, Al thought as he forced his face not to reveal his surprise. Of course it hit him pretty quick just what Scorpius was doing and he felt smug pride that the blonde had once been his. His heart had the best taste in men, the Gryffindor thought as he gave Jordan a pitying look over Scorpius's shoulder for added effect.

And then it occurred to him that Jordan might blurt out what he'd done and Scorpius would never forgive him if he figured out what the bastard had done because of him.

Oh shit.

Reading his ex's expression easily Jordan turned his fear to anger, glaring at the man who'd played such hell with his formerly perfect world. "Dammit, Al. We had a deal. You didn't tell Malfoy about what I'd done and I handed over my copy and stayed the hell away from you. You came to the match, I didn't come looking for you."

"He overheard you, you IDIOT!"

While the two argued about who had broken their apparent deal Scorpius took a moment to wonder just what the hell his look alike had done on this video. The most logical assumption would be that the man had had the impersonator showing him in a bad light in order to upset Al. What had he done in the video? Something the impersonator hadn't liked when he'd found out the real purpose of the video. Would this Kurt person have agreed to do something really horrible like hurt or kill someone, because it didn't sound like that was it. Then again, maybe the impersonator had been led to believe that Scorpius wouldn't be out for his blood for impersonating him and had been clued in that that was a distinct possibility.

Wait, had Al just called the video perverted?

Mouth opening and closing several times the former Slytherin felt his control start to break up like a sheet of ice in direct sunlight. The point of the video made had been to destroy what lingering emotions Al had had for him, and what better way to do that on an emotional level but to make the Gryffindor think he'd been replaced.

The man impersonating him hadn't been hurting someone in the video, he'd been….

"You fucking son of a bitch!" Control snapping like a twig Scorpius took the two necessary steps and then swung out his fist and cold conked the surprised Squib before the older man had time to even raise his hands in defense.

Watching the man crumble to the ground was more satisfying than he'd imagined, but his whole body still shook with fury that was aching to be unleashed. But he was too well bred to just kick an unconscious man, especially since the fucker wouldn't feel it anyway.

Moving to stand beside Scorpius Al put a comforting and restraining hand on the blonde's shoulder. "Nice punch. I taught you well."

Looking over at Al Scorpius nodded in agreement and then asked what had to be asked. "How DID you know it wasn't me in that video?"

A rueful smile crossed Al's strained face as he sighed, rubbing the back of his neck with his other hand. "I believed it for about five minutes, but then my brain clicked in enough to see that there were three things wrong with the picture, no pun intended." Though the fact that it was a pun made his smile a little more genuine. "Well three aside from the fact that the odds of you being videotaped at all are minuscule. I guess he figured I'd be too upset to think that logically. He's the big picture sort of guy, he misses the little details a lot of the time."

"And those three are?"

"You sure you wanna know?"

Getting why the other man was dragging this out Scorpius reached out and took Al's hand, threading their fingers together as he reined in his fury to meet the Gryffindor's eyes squarely. "What he did reflects on him, not on you. I'm more to blame than you are, for hurting you so badly that you'd have anything to do with him."

Emotion swarming into his eyes Al lifted their joined hands and twisted them so that he could place his lips against the back of Scorpius's hand.

"Everything all right here?"

Both men turned their heads to see Teddy standing in front of the hallway.

Forcing himself to let go of Al's hand Scorpius motioned to the unconscious man lying at their feet. "I'd appreciate a hand throwing out this garbage, Cousin."

"Happy to help."

Leaving that to the two of them Al got out of their way as he watched them each take an arm and start dragging Jordan out of the hallway and then out of sight.

Slowly exhaling in relief the Gryffindor leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes for a moment as he got himself under control as well. And when he was sure that he had a handle on himself Al forced himself to head back to join the rest of their party, knowing they'd come looking for him as soon as they recognized who Teddy and Scorpius were dragging out of the place.

Everyone would have questions for him, which was not going to be fun, but on the bright side at least he hadn't had to answer Scorpius's question about the three things that had tipped him that the boy in the video hadn't been his.

"Thank Merlin for small favors."

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As Al expected everyone noticed Teddy and Scorpius removing Jordan from the place and they all wanted to discuss it, the volume only increasing when the other two men returned to the table and therefore could be questioned as well. But Teddy didn't know anything and by silent understanding neither Al or Scorpius were willing to discuss what had been said in the hallway. The only thing they were willing to confirm was the fact that it had been Scorpius who had punched out the footballer and not Al.

The persistent questioning by everyone except for Gellert would have gotten really bad if not for the person who walked into the place as they were finishing up their main meal and debating what was going to be ordered for dessert.

Having been paying attention to the door in the hopes that he'd get his own shot at Jordan Albus's eyes went huge as he watched the lone man come into the room, joining the majority of the women in the room who took a look and instantly started lusting like crazy.

Taking in the look in his lover's eyes Gellert would have been seriously pissed if not for the fact that his man was drooling over his twin.

Not that Tommy was actually his twin, the elf was just wearing the medallion that he'd made so that the creature could successfully impersonate him whenever necessary. Only in this case Tommy was wearing a black suit, silk shirt and tie, with a fedora on his head to complete the look of a thirties gangster to perfection. The fact that Tommy was grinning and winking at all the girls checking him out as he made his way over to their table probably boosted his aura of appeal too.

"Gellert…you have a twin?" Domi asked, a little off put to be finding someone who looked like her best friend's boyfriend so attractive. It was probably for the best that Gellert wasn't the flirty type the way this one was or her Alby would have his hands full beating the girls off with a stick.

"It's Tommy, my elf. He's just in disguise." And there was a hint of annoyance in his voice when he asked the elf exactly why he was there when Tommy reached the table.

Tommy shrugged his shoulders with a grin still on his pretty face. "Just following orders, Boss. You said that as soon as I got ya the book I was to get my little ass to you and hand it over. I'm here to hand it over. Heya, Red." He added, winking at his boss's lover.

More than a little mortified by his reaction, even though it was understandable given who Tommy currently looked like, Albus worked up a small smile. "Good evening, Tommy."

Holding out his hand without a word Gellert continued to give the elf a stony look until Tommy pulled a wrapped up bundle from a hidden pocket in his suit and handed it over. "By the way, you owe me a bonus for this one. The fat cat I got it from was a serious Ambercrombie and he totally tried to bleed me dry paying for that thing. I had to point out what happened the last time he tried to do that to you before he'd deal fair. Dirty, rat bastard. Scuse the language, Dolls."

"What's a Ambercrombie?" Flora wanted to know.

"Means someone who's a know-it-all, Little Doll." Tommy informed her, coming over to meet the interested little girl. "You're Flora, right? Heard all about you from Tristan and Anya. Nice ta meetcha."

"You talk funny." Flora chirped as she took the hand he offered, giggling when the elf kissed her hand in true debonair style. "I like you."

"It's so disconcerting to see someone who looks like Gellert act like this." Domi informed her boyfriend, who nodded in understanding.

Christopher understood the sentiment completely since he'd been the one who'd had to rein the elf in when Tommy had gone undercover as Gellert after the blonde had been injured protecting Anya. He was pretty sure that if he'd been in bad shape at the time the strain and stress of it all would have given him ulcers.

Amused and glad for the distraction the elf posed Al invited the elf to join them for dessert, grinning in thanks when the elf was more than happy to do so.

So while Albus and Gellert went on an information high over the contents of the old book Tommy entertained everyone else with funny stories about all the weird people he'd had to deal with because of his heartless boss, his use of thirties slang just making the tall tales that much more interesting.

It helped that Gellert was too engrossed in the book to correct or tell his elf to shut up.

So all and all the meal ended on a high note, and everyone forgot about Jordan. For the time being.

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Stretched out on his bed Al tried to move as little as possible, his muscles making it clear that they had not appreciated being abused. He really should have warmed up better before the football game. This was what he got for not playing sports on a regular basis. And as much as he hated the thought he was going to have to work out more after he recovered from his earlier exercise, Al acknowledged with a grimace, both at the idea and the physical pain. Man but he hurt all over the place, and he couldn't reach everywhere he needed to in order to numb the area with the cream Christopher had loaned him since Albus was still mad at him.

And there was no way he was getting out of bed to see the useless school nurse.

Thank Merlin his team had won or he'd be seriously pissed on top of the pain.

Not to mention the fact that he'd gotten to see Scorpius punch out Jordan which had been very satisfying and sexy to watch. His man rarely showed his badass side but when he did he was YUMMY to the extreme.

Since thinking that was not going to make going to sleep any easier Al tried to push the thoughts aside but wasn't really all that surprised when he wasn't successful. And hey, if he had to stay up all night because of muscle pain thinking about Scorpius was a pleasurable way to pass the time.

Though maybe he should try to think of something else before a certain area of his anatomy added to his pain.

As if on cue Al's ears picked up the sound of someone climbing up the ladder. And since he knew that their other two roommates were probably canoodling or more in Gellert's bunk the Gryffindor had a pretty good idea who was coming even before Scorpius stuck his head in.

"May I come in?"

"Sure. Forgive me for not sitting up, but that wouldn't be a good idea right now."

Concern coming into his eyes Scorpius scooted over so that he was sitting cross legged beside Al, facing him. "I thought Christopher gave you some stuff to put on your sore muscles since Wimbledon said you deserved to suffer for lying to him."

"Yeah, he did, but I can only reach so far."

"Why didn't you ask me to put it on you then?"

"I'd give you a look but that would involve moving my neck." Al quipped with a grin. "I'm a tough guy, I can handle a little pain."

Unlike Al Scorpius had no problem turning his head so that he could give the other man a look. "Right, that's why I could hear you groaning in pain from the bottom bunk, Mr. Tough Guy. Where's the cream, I'll rub it into your back and neck while you answer the question you avoided answering before."

Crap, he'd been hoping that the blonde would forget about re-asking that question, at least for a little while. And he'd rather the other man not have access to his currently vulnerable body when they had this discussion but that wasn't going to be an option it seemed, Al thought with a sigh as he slowly turned his body so that he was lying on his stomach. "Cream's on the shelf there."

Since it would seem cowardly not to Scorpius moved to straddle the other man's back, resting back on his knees so that he wouldn't transfer any of his weight onto Al as he pulled the man's shirt up. Grabbing the cream off the shelf Scorpius quickly transferred the lotion onto his fingers and began to rub it into the other man's back where he'd imagine the Gryffindor wouldn't be able to reach.

To distract himself from what he was doing and to drone out the sounds of pleasure his ex was making at his touch Scorpius brought up his question from earlier. "What were the three things that tipped you of that the guy in the video wasn't me?"

Curving into the touch in spite of himself Al took a deep breath. "I'm going to say again that you don't really need to know that. Suffice to say that you don't ever have to worry about that video surfacing. Not that most people from our world would even know how what the disk was, much less how to play it. They'd probably think it was a weird little Frisbee or something."

"I want to know."

Sighing, knowing that tone of voice well, Al gave in and concentrated on the pleasure of the man's touch to distract him from what he had to explain. "Well the first reason was that I knew there was no way in hell you'd ever allow anyone to video tape you having sex. Kurt knew where the camera was and it showed if you were paying attention, which I was once I'd come to my senses and started looking for other inconsistencies."

"Well of course I'd never let someone…why would anyone…Jordan must have paid that Kurt guy an unbelievable amount of money for him to have agreed to do what he did, even if he looked like me while he was doing it." Which was very, very freaky to him, especially since his second cousin and Flora had the same ability.

Al mentally debated and then decided not to inform Scorpius that Kurt had sex with people for a living. A very good living since the man was bi and could look like anyone you might desire to have sex with. Nice guy, all things considering. They'd bonded a little over their extreme dislike for Jordan.

"So what were the other two reasons you knew it wasn't me?"

Better to get it over with, Al told himself.

"You're not nearly as flexible as Kurt is. And I'd bet serious money that you're a bottom, not a top."