Chapter 4 - Back to Hogwarts
The first week seemed to fly by as the atmosphere in the castle was still electric from the summer holidays; things had started to fall into a norm as Lily made her way from class to class, excited to be back. Conversations flew between classes in the hallway as everyone tried to catch up. Scorpius would throw insults Lily's way and she would retaliate with an equally rude comment. All in all things at Hogwarts seemed to be in full swing.
By the second week things really started to kick in as Lily noticed walking into the common room with her arms full of books and also that everyone seemed to either be reading textbooks or nose deep in papers. She walked over to where the Weasley-Potter clan had taken over; they were all sitting around the large fireplace as it cracked. They were all extremely close, some closer than others like Lily and Hugo but they all needed each other in one way or the other. It wasn't uncommon for them to group together like this.
Lily dropped her books on the coffee table in front of Rose's and dropped at her feet as she had her nose deep in her book. Lily grabbed her Asiatic Anti-Venoms textbook with exhaustion and started flipping through it in no real attempt to read as Rose started playing with her hair like she always did. Lily had always looked up to Rose when she was little. She always thought that she was extremely smart and pretty. Lily wanted to be just like Rose, it was one of the reasons she had grown out her hair. Now she still thought highly of her, although Lily thought that it might help if Rose let loose once in a while.
Lily noticed that even her brother, James, was writing in a notebook as he sat in the big red arm chair. Fred who was sitting against the side however was fast asleep. It made Lily and Rose giggle as Fred let out a loud snore and James looked down at him with amusement. This caused Hugo and Al, who were sitting on the ground too, to look up from their papers and laugh with her and James.
Lucy who was lying down with her feet across Louis's lap on the big long couch had looked up from her book causally to see what they were laughing about. Louis who was half asleep and half pretending to writing joined in the giggles as well. Finally, Roxanne, not even looking up from her textbook grabbed the pillow that was beside her and threw it towards her brother's head causing several heads in the common room to look up curiously. This also caused Fred to jump up as though he was under attack, sending the whole Weasley-Potter clan into hysterical laughter.
"Oi, what was that for!" Fred yelled at Roxanne.
"Well how do you except anyone to get any work done with you snoring obsessively?" Lucy said a matter of fact.
"Who was annoyed by my sleeping?" Fred asked sweetly looking over his family as everyone put their hand up and started laughing again.
"You're out numbered I'm afraid, mate." James snorted.
"I guess you're right!" He joked as he walked over to where Lucy was laying and squeezed himself between Lucy and Louis, right on her legs.
"What do you think you're doing?" Lucy asked him sarcastically as she put down her book and raised an eyebrow at him.
"Just getting comfy." Fred smirked at her and she rolled her eyes as she closed her book.
"Well, I'm off to bed so you can have my spot." She laughed as she slid out and Fred jumped into her spot.
"Wait up, I'll come too. I've had enough of this, Astronomy homework." Roxanne said picking her books.
"Yeah same here." Rose stood up, stepping around Lily to pick up her stack of books.
"Goodnight everyone!" Lucy yelled at them.
"Night." Rose waved at everyone.
"Fred, go to bed." Roxanne teased him.
"Ha!" He snored at her and they all waved as they went up to the girl dorms.
The rest of the Weasley's and Potter's stay around and talked mostly about quidditch but after about an hour, everyone in the common room except Lily and Hugo had gone to bed. Lily closed her book with a sigh and slid over to where Hugo was sitting on the floor.
"Good to be back?" Lily asked him cheerfully.
"Good to be back." Hugo grinned at her and then looked at her seriously. "How have you been?" Lily look at him confused and he just had to give her a look. She sighed and lowered her voice even though no one was in the common room.
"They come and go."
"The dreams?" Lily nodded. "Liles…"
"They're not really, I mean yes they come and go but it's not a big deal! It's not like they mean anything. They're just bad dreams." Hugo was the only one Lily had told about her dreams she'd been having for the last month or so. They weren't really dreams, more of a nightmare than anything else. "I haven't had any since I've been here, I swear." She crossed her heart with her finger in a goofy way, hoping to make him laugh.
"Okay, well if they start again, let me know." He gave her a concerned look.
"You worry about me too much." She teased him; it was usually her worrying about him.
"Who else is going too?" He chuckled.
"Mmm, let me think, everyone in this family!" She laughed. The truth was the Weasley-Potter clan was extremely protective of Lily as she was the youngest out of all of them. It wasn't always a good thing, often she only would talk to a boy once and then he would avoid her after that.
"Just looking out for you Lilies, you are the baby after all." He was teasing her now.
"You're only 4 months older than I am!" She lightly punched him in the shoulder.
"Those 4 months mean I'm not the baby!" He wrapped his arms around her tight.
"You're such a prat sometimes." She giggled.
"I've missed this." He laughed and Lily grinned at him.
"Me too." She said as she put her head on his shoulder and let out a yawn.
"Time for bed?" Hugo chuckled at her as she nodded. Hugo stood up and held his hand out to Lily, and pulled her up. They packed up their books and papers, and head off to their dorms.
"Night Hugo." Lily smiled sleepily at him.
"Night Liles." He chuckled as he went off to bed.
Lily dropped her books at the end of her bed and collapsed on her bed, not realizing how tired she actually was. Today had been a long day and she just wanted it to end now. She then realized she was still fully dressed and pulled herself out of bed unwillingly to undress, and change into leggings and a big white tee. She then curled up in her big red Gryffindor blanket feeling very cozy. She let her thoughts take over and drifted into sleep.
Around five in the morning, Lily started tossing and turning, she was having one of her nightmares;
She was walking down a street she knew but couldn't place. It was dark, very dark, no street lights were lit and it was perfectly quiet, too quiet. It's eerie. There is a light at the end of the street, where her family stands, all of them – her father, her mother, her brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, Teddy her grandparents, all waving at her. She looks at them in confusion not knowing what they want as she walks slowly towards them. The road keeps getting longer as she speeds up. She breathes heavily as she burst out in a run. Then she hears a noise that makes her stop dead in her tracks. It's a blood chilling scream – her mother's scream to be exact. Lily stands horror-struck looking at her mother's fearful face, all she sees is red. Her feet are stuck in what feels like quicksand.
"Mum! Dad!" She screams for them as tears run down her face. Everyone around her mother and father are lying there, motionless, died. She tries to run towards them but a giant snake hisses at her. The snake jumps towards her and then…
Lily gasped as she sat up, breathing heavily and widely eyed. She wiped the sweat from her face with her red Gryffindor blanket and tried to settle herself. She always woke up at that part and she knew there was no way she would be able to get back to sleep, so she quietly slipped out of bed and puller her robes on as she crept out of the room. She read the clock in the common room, it was 5:15 in the morning, she decided she needed to take a walk and calm her nerves. Lily walked barefoot through the castle telling herself she needed to breathe.
"It's only a dream, it's only a nightmare." She mumbles to herself over and over again.
It was still dark outside as she made her way to the courtyard and sits down in one of the cut outs against its walls. She had finally calmed herself and felt like she could look out at the sunrise in peace. Let her thoughts drifts but then,
"Morning Potter!" Yelled a voice she knew so well, making her nearly jump out of her skin and inhale air.
"BLOODY HELL! YOU SNAKE!" Lily hissed at a smirking Scorpius as sat down on the other side of the cut out.
"Lovely morning isn't it?" He chuckled with a smug look plastered on his face ignoring her comment.
"What are you even doing here? It's like 5:30 in the morning!" Lily asked irritated that her morning kept getting worse and worse.
"I would ask you the same thing, but it's clear that you have been sleep-walking." He raised an eyebrow at her choice of clothing. Lily looked herself up and down realising that she was still wearing only her leggings and big white tee, and turned bright red as she covered herself with her robes.
"I asked you first." She pointed out, trying to ignore his comment.
"Quidditch." He motioned to his broom that was clearly leaning against the wall and Lily felt silly all over again.
"My brothers are pretty confident this year, you better watch yourself Malfoy." Lily smirked at him.
"I've been told but don't worry you worry you're pretty little head Potter, we have some tricks up our sleeves too. I'm not going to let a couple of Potters shake my confidence." Lily fumed as she scowled at him, thinking that he might mean something else by that. As she was about to speak, Scorpius cut her off, which annoyed her even more. "You never told me why you were up at this ungodly hour." He smiled sweetly at her as she had shock her head and sighed.
"Couldn't sleep."
"Mmm." He said simply seemingly to be lost in his thoughts.
"No insult?" She raised her eyebrow at him as he got up and walked closer to her. He was inches away from her face staring into her brown eyes. Lily's mind went blank, not knowing what to think as she held her breathe.
"Not today, Potter." He breathed and straightened up at an incredible speed that left Lily staring at him with wide eyes as he grabbed his broom and started walking towards the Quidditch Pitch. But before he was too far away, he turned around and yelled,
"Have a nice day, Princess." As he wore a huge smirk across his face and Lily resurfaced with that comment. She stood up and yelled back at him.
"Snake!" and with that comment she stormed off back to the Gryffindor Tower leaving Scorpius smiling all the way to the Quidditch Pitch. Lily's thoughts were flying around her head in every which way. Had she really been flirting with Scorpius Malfoy?
How did you like the bit of Scorpius and Lily flirting? More to come! I don't want to put them together right away since they hate each other at this point! Lots to come from them I'm thinking!
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