Author's Note: This is my entry for the love triangle challenge on the harry potter fanfiction challenges forum. I hope you enjoy it. I had to make it slightly AU because otherwise how was I gonna write Marauders Lily with next-gen Molly and Scorpius?

Prompts:

Molly Weasley/Scorpius Malfoy/Lily Evans
One of your characters is cutting another's hair. The third walks in and comments on the hair.
"Marriage is a forever type of thing, you know that... right?"
"You mean... that wasn't you?"

Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with J.K.

Cutting it Close

Molly Weasley sat in front of a large mirror and looked at herself. She was pale, with her mother's long dark hair and her father's big green eyes she felt like she had a rather classic look about her and that her features combined in a very average way.

Usually she was happy being average, it had never bothered her before and she hadn't believed it ever would, but that was before her fiancé had commented on it. She had heard it from Lily, who had heard from Rose who had overheard a conversation between Albus and his best friend, her fiancé, Scorpius Malfoy.

She didn't believe that he had truly meant it with any sort of malice, but he had told Albus how hot he thought short hair was on a girl, like Roses' pixie cut. Which is why she was here sat in front of the mirror in a magical hairdresser's shop about to have her long, brown curls cut into something 'hotter'.

"Hi! My name is Lily Evans and I'll be your stylist. What can I do for you today hun?" asked a middle aged woman who slipped two pale hands into Molly's hair and ran her fingers through it. The woman was quite tall with shockingly green hair and beautiful, straight auburn hair. She didn't need a pixie cut.

"I, erm, I would like to get my hair cut." She stammered nervously, one hand still clung to one of her curls almost possessively.

"You don't look very sure there sweetheart," the kind woman's smile was now laced with concern as she observed the sick look on Molly's face.

Molly looked at herself in the mirror once more and, remembering what Scorpius had said, she forced herself to sit up a little straighter and a slightly strained smile curved her lips. "I'm sure, I would like a pixie cut please."

Lily spent another second looking at the younger girl with concern before shrugging. "If you're sure," she then picked up her wand and walked around Molly, observing her from all angles. "Okay then, I'm going to start from the top, we'll gauge where you're comfortable with and then I'll begin. Yeah?"

"Yeah," Molly agreed.

"No!"

With a gasp that was perhaps a little too dramatic for the situation Molly spun in her seat to the large man standing in the doorway. Scorpius frowned down at his fiancé. "Molly what on earth do you think you're doing?"

"I- I'm getting a pixie cut," she stuttered frowning in utter confusion. "You told Albus you thought they were hot."

The tall blonde walked into the shop and came to take his place behind her, resting one pale hand on her shoulder. Lily chose that moment to make herself busy elsewhere.

"Obviously someone has been listening to Chinese whispers, and as you know they always get distorted."

"Wait," she turned the seat and stood up so she was facing him properly. "You mean… that wasn't you?"

"Not even a little bit," he smiled at her threading his fingers through her hair. "I love your hair, long, and I want it to stay that way. It's so beautiful. Blaise thinks that pixie cuts are hot, which I was telling Albus about."

Molly frowned suddenly becoming shy. "Scorpius, marriage is a forever type of thing, you know that…right? You can honestly tell me anything that you'd like me to do and I will do it."

"Molly, love," he tilted her chin up to him. "You are perfect just as you are and I never, ever want you to change. I love you."

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