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Chapter 9 - Halloween
October flew by and before they knew it, it was October 31st. The buzz around the castle was contagious and everyone was in high spirits. Lily and Zenith's relationship had continued as it had except Lily had not been invited back to another Quidditch practice and there was a noticeable tension between them now. Raven had gone back to avoiding the girls when she could and Lily hadn't seen Scorpius without Maive glued to his face.
Lily and Ivy were sitting on the floor of their room dabbing different potions and make up on their faces the night of Halloween.
"Lily I'm forbidding you to go." Rose said as she sat on the end of Lily's bed.
"Rosie, you can't forbid me." Lily laughed at her as she pulled the mascara wand through her lashes as she wasn't blessed with dark eyelashes like Rose had.
"I can so forbid you." Rose said stubbornly as Lily rolled her eyes.
"I don't see why you aren't going; all the other prefects are going." Lily pointed out.
"I'm making a point. This should not be allowed the Professors have no idea what is going on, this is completely against several school rules. I don't see how the other prefects don't see that!" She huffed.
"It's a tradition. Besides, this is the first year I can go and I'm very disappointed that you two aren't going as well." She turned to look at her two best friends with annoyance.
"I'm sorry Lils, it's just… I'm so tired." Kenda tried to ask invisible under her covers.
"It's not my thing; I'm just going to stay here with Rose and Kends." Raven said quietly.
"Don't worry Lils, we'll have fun." Ivy piped in as she was placing a really tall pointed hat on her head and Lily giggled.
"What are you suppose to be?" She looked her up and down. She was wearing a little black long sleeved dress, little black heels and that tall pointed hat.
"What am I supposed to be? What are you supposed to be?" Ivy laughed looking at Lily's costume. Lily had pulled on her mother's old Holyhead Harpies jersey and black tights. Lily was now trying to tie her hair with a bow but struggling to get it the way she wanted.
"Here Liles, let me help." Rose sighed and help Lily put the bow in her hair.
"I'm a quidditch player." Lily giggled. "Thanks." She was grateful to her cousin for not scolding her again.
"You wouldn't see me caught dead wearing something like that to a Quidditch match." She laughed at her friend. "Oh, and I'm a witch." Ivy laughed at her cleverness, "You know, how muggles think we dress." She had been in high spirits today, thankfully. The last month for her had been pretty bad; Ed and her had continuously been fighting at Quidditch practices, making James want to kill both of them. He had stocked into the common room one day, furious at both of them and told Lily to control her friend. She deserved something to cheer her up.
"That's cleaver." Kenda chuckled.
"I thought so!" Ivy smoothed out her dress. "Ok ready to go?"
"Yeah let's go!" Lily smiled with her now red lips. "Last chance?" She looked hopefully at Raven, Kenda and Rose.
"Go." Rose made a shooing motion with her hands and laughed.
"Bye ladies, have fun." She gave them a little girly wave as they walked into the common room.
"So where are we meeting Zenith?" Ivy asked her as they stood in the common room.
"Um he said by the stairs but to be quiet..." she trailed off, not really sure how they were going to do it.
"Hey Lily, Ivy, do I look… ok?" It was Katie, she was dressed in a light pink baby doll dress and black flats with her blonde hair braided around the crown of her head and the rest was lightly curled as it flowed down.
"You look adorable!" They both said together and a big bright smile came across her face as her light eyes sparkled, it was obviously that she was extremely nervous.
"Thanks, do you think he'll like it?" She asked timidly.
"Don't worry; my dimwitted brother has liked you for over a year now, he's crazy about you." Lily assured her. James had finally mustarded up the courage to ask Katie in Rose's opinion the stupidest date ever.
"Ok, do you mind if I walk with you? I'm supposed to meet him there." She gave them a weak smile.
"Of course." Ivy smiled back at her. "We just have to make a stop first…" She looked at Lily and giggled.
"Oh shut up." She rolled her eyes as they wanted for someone to come into the common room before sneaking out. They walked carefully so the Fat Lady couldn't see them and when finally they were sure she could see them, they slowed down making their way to where Zenith said he was going to be.
"Hey," he whispered and gave Lily a light kiss on the lips before taking her hand and they all continued to make their way down to the Slytherin Common Room in the dungeons. They didn't make a sound as they carefully walked, hoping not to run into any teachers or old Mr. Filch. Lily was shocked that he still managed to hobble around the school in his old age or how even that cat did it either. As soon as they were standing in front of the Slytherin Common Room entry it dawned on Lily that she had no idea how to get in.
"Zenith, how do we get in?" Lily whispered nervously, and Zenith gave her a small smile.
"Turpis," he whispered and the door opened. Lil looked proudly up at her boyfriend and gave him a sweet kiss on the cheek.
"Brilliant." Ivy whispered.
"Shall we Ladies?" He motioned to the three girls as they nodded. Lily exhaled as she took in the common room. It was a dark room with stone floors filled with black leather furniture and dark woods. It had green and silver accents everywhere and Lily thought it gave off an elegance that the Gryffindor common room could never achieve. The music was loud and electric but although you couldn't hear it anywhere else in the caste.
"I'll see you three later." Katie smiled sweetly as she spotted James, Louis and Fred who appeared to be dressed up as the Three Musketeer's Lily noticed. James who had spotted Katie had a huge goofy grin plastered across his face.
"He really likes her hey?" Ivy giggled to Lily.
"I'd say so." Lily giggled back. You really could see it as he took her hand and kissed it. "Ivy, those boys over there are waving at you." Lily whispered with a smirk across her face and Ivy turned bright red.
"I'll catch up with you later." Ivy waved at her friend and walked off.
"Yup." She called and waved goodbye. "And then there were two." She grinned up at Zenith and he smiled.
"I'll be right back, I'm just going to talk to Rob for a second Sweetheart." He kissed her cheek and walked off to find him.
"I guess there was just one." Lily shrugged deciding it was about time to join the party. It was extremely crowded in the common around as she pushed through people to get herself something to drink. She grabbed a bottle of what she thought was butter beer but surprisingly burned her throat as she swallowed. 'Fire Whiskey' she read the label. "Oh."
She continued to drink it slowly, each sip lessening the burn.
"Evening Potter." Lily looked up to see Scorpius dressed in all black smiling, his cheeks slightly flushed.
"Malfoy." Lily nodded and downed the rest of her drink. Scorpius raised an eyebrow at her. "What are you supposed to be anyways? You do realize that this is a costume party."
"I'm me, in all black." He said as he took a swig of his drink.
"That's hardly creative." Lily frowned at him eyeing him.
"You're a Quidditch player than I presume." He looked her up and down; ignoring Lily's comment.
"You guessed correctly Malfoy." She grinned widely.
"Enjoying yourself, Potter?" He asked casually.
"Of course." Lily giggled as she took another drink and began sipping.
"Where's the boyfriend tonight? Lose him already?" He chuckled at her.
"What Maive too busy to suck your lip right now?" She snarled at him. "And for your information, not that it's any of your business really, I might add," She downed the rest of her drink again and continued, "he'll be back any moment. He's talking to uh… Rob, yes, he was talking to Rob."
"Last time I saw him, he was talking to Rae." He raised an eyebrow at her as she took another drink. "Maive is er… mingling."
"He probably got side tracked is all." She nodded to herself.
"You might want to slow down there Potter." He said as she started giggling at him.
"Since when do you tell me what to do Malfoy?" She growled at him taking another sip of her drink.
"How about we try this then if you're such a champ." He took the bottle of fire whiskey from her hands placing it back on the table and handing her a tiny shot glass with gold liquid in it. Lily eyed it curiously, the alcohol started to take effect. Scorpius held up his glass and Lily raised her eyebrow at him.
"What are we cheering to?" She asked as she placed her hand on her hip.
"How about…" He thought for a moment. "Desires." He finished in a husky voice staring right into her eyes.
"Desires." She clinked her cup staring at him the entire time, shot the gold liquid back. It burned more than the fire whiskey had if that was possible.
"Bloody hell, what was that." Lily made a face as she put the shot glass back on the table.
"Pure gold." He said as he placed his glass beside hers. "It's stronger than fire whiskey." He told her as he took a swig of it.
An upbeat pop song by a popular wizard band the Forbiddens came blaring across the room. "I love this song!" Lily shouted and giggled.
"Care to dance Potter?" He chuckled as he watched her wiggle her hips a bit.
"Loved too!" She giggled and took his out stretched hand. She wasn't sure if it was the drinks or the fact that Zenith had abandoned her that lead her to agree but she was almost glad that Scorpius was there. Scorpius led Lily to where everyone else was dancing as she spun her around and pulled her close to him. Lily let out a giggle as she put her arms around his neck.
"That was cheesy." Lily giggled some more.
"Hardly. Just because I can dance." He chuckled at her. "How do you dance than." He raised an eyebrow challenging her. Lily smirked at him and wiggled up and down his body in an alluring matter, not breaking eye contact. She let go of his neck and rolled her hips as she danced slowly back. Scorpius smirked as he's eyes were glued to Lily and he grabbed her hip and the small of her back and starting moving with her. They were inches away from each other's faces and then the song ended. Scorpius coughed and took a step back from Lily was slightly pouted. Lily walked slowly to a black leather couch and leaned against it motioning for Scorpius to follow her. He obeyed with a smirk as she hopped over the back and sat against the arm of the couch.
"What was that for?" Scorpius asked her as he joined her sitting against the opposite side of the couch.
"My feet are tired." Lily whined and giggled. "You know Scorpius." It was odd, Lily never used his first name – she must be drunk.
"What Lily?" He asked her with a chuckle. She thought her name sounded so beautiful when he said it.
"We're kind of friends right?" She giggled some more and Lily began to think everything was rather funny.
"We could be friends." He chuckled.
"Alright. Friends then?" She stuck out her hand for him to shake with a giggle. He shook her hand and stared into her eyes.
"HEY!" Ivy ran up to them with a huge smile. Lily and Scorpius quickly pulled their hands apart.
"Finnigan, always a pleasure." Scorpius nodded at her.
"I'd like to say the same, but I can't." She smiled sweetly at him and he grinned back at her. Lily started giggling at the twos interaction.
"Don't worry Ivy, we're friends now!" She grinned widely and Ivy gave Scorpius a questioning look.
"It's true." He chuckled at Ivy's expression. "She's also a lot drunk. I hardly think she'll remember in the morning."
"So not true!" She scolded him and turned to Ivy. "I'm so not drunk, you believe me right?" Lily asked her in a whisper with a giggle, her words starting to slur together.
"Whatever you say Lils." Ivy chuckled. "So are you going to make your friend stand around all night or are you going to come and dance with her?"
"Oh! Let's dance!" Lily shouted. "Come with us!" She hopped up and tried to pull him up with her. She pouted and he chuckled as he stood up. A wide smile can across Lily's face as the two girls ran off to the dance floor. They spent the rest of the night on the dance floor, laughing and acting silly as they danced. It was getting late and a lot of the people had started to head off to bed.
"I guess we should get back to our dorm." Lily sighed.
"Probably a good idea. Except how?" Ivy looked to her friend.
"Oh well. Uh. I don't actual know. Zenith got us here and I have no idea where he is." Lily shrugged.
"I'll take you." Scorpius volunteered.
"Really?" Both the girls cheered together.
"Really really. Come on." The two girls followed Scorpius out of the common room and into the tunnels. "Ok you have to be very quiet." He whispered to them and they giggled quietly.
They finally made it to the Gryffindor Common Room as Ivy whispered the password and the Fat Lady painting swung open.
"Thank you Scorpius!" Ivy giggled running into the common room.
"Yes, thank you. You're actually not half bad Malfoy." Lily kissed his cheek and ran into the common room after Ivy.
"Did you kiss his cheek?" Ivy giggled at her friend.
"Shh. Time for bed." Lily giggled and they ran up to their dorms. They both passed out on their beds not even bothering to change out of their costumes.
Lily woke up the next morning and felt like her head was about to explode. She groaned and placed her head in her hands.
"Here, try this." Rose who was sitting on the end of her bed with a huge smirk across her face handed her a cup with a greenish mixture in it.
"You want me to drink this?" Lily eyed her and the drink skeptically.
"Trust me. It will make you feel better." Rose chuckled as she walked headed for the door. "Maybe next time you'll listen to me," And closed the door after her. Lily put the cup to her nose and sniffed it. It smelled like rotting pumpkin and she gaged. She placed the liquid to her lips and tasted it slightly; funny enough it tasted nothing like rotting pumpkin it had a sweet ginger taste to it. Lily downed the rest down the rest of it. She instantly felt better, her head was no longer pounding and she felt like she had slept a whole 8 hours.
Lily showered and dressed while the other girls were waking up. She remembered the last night maybe not as clear as some would hope but she remembered Zenith leaving her and befriending Scorpius Malfoy of all people.
Lily, Hugo and the girls made their way down to Herbology as Ivy would wasn't the cheerful this morning complained about crawling back into bed.
"It's really your own fault. You two didn't get back to the common room till nearly 3." Kenda pointed out as she and Raven had lovely sleeps the night before. They had apparently had played wizard chess the entire night.
"It was fun though." Hugo chuckled. Lily hadn't seen him the entire night and she didn't know where he had been.
"You were there?" Lily and Ivy both said shocked.
"Course I was." He chuckled slightly as they sat down in the Greenhouses.
"Good morning everyone!" Neville's voice boomed over the Greenhouses. "I assume everyone had a lovely night last night." He chuckled slightly looking over the fifth year Gryffindor and Hufflepuff's that were all looking extremely tired this morning. Half the class moaned in grievance. Neville carried on talking about the dangers of a Fanged Geranium.
"Where were you last night?" Lily whispered to Hugo.
"I was at the party Lils, just like you. Maybe not just like you." Hugo implied.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Lily whispered back harshly.
"Just meaning you were spending an awful lot of time with a certain Malfoy when you have a boyfriend." He raised an eyebrow at her.
"We're friends." She stared a Hugo with wide eyes. "And I thought you didn't really like Zenith all too much."
"Nobody likes Zenith all too much except you Lils." Hugo whispered back.
"What?" Lily stammered back.
"Well last night Rae McLaggen was hanging off of him for most of the night and he didn't seem to mind the company too much. Al was getting pretty upset by his behaviour. I was watching Al the entire night making sure he was going to hex Zenith into tomorrow. Your welcome." Hugo snorted at her. Lily looked up at him with apologetic eyes. "Don't look at me like that. You know I can't. OK, ok, I forgive you." Hugo put his arm around Lily and gave her shoulder a quick squeeze.
By second period Lily was grateful to have her break. She was making her way to the Library when someone came running up behind her.
"Hey there Potter." Scorpius smiled down at her.
"Hey there yourself." Lily chuckled at him as he tried to catch his breath. "Running a marathon are we?
"Hey now, I thought we were supposed to be friends." He grinned widely at her.
"I guess we are friends then, if you say so." She laughed at him.
"Lily!" Zenith yelled down the hallway as he walked steadily towards her.
"This is where I leave." Lily nodded nervously not really wanting Scorpius to leave as she hugged her books close to her.
"Why are you talking to Malfoy?" He asked her harshly.
"We're friends." Lily stated, eyeing a very angry Zenith.
"Since when?"
"Since whenever I want to be friends with people; that's hardly the point." Lily replied angrily.
"Where were you last night?" He asked her again in the same harsh voice.
"I was at the party, where you left me?" She stared at him with rage. How dare he ask me where I was, where the hell was he? She thought.
"You left and I couldn't find you." He replied looking over Lily's shoulder angrily.
"I left because it was late. Where were you the entire night?" Lily hugged her books tighter to her body feeling slightly uncomfortable with how close Zenith was now standing to her.
"I was looking for you!" He yelled at her.
"Hardly! My brother saw you with Rae last night. At least if you're going to lie, lie well Zenith." He yelled at back him suddenly extremely irritated.
"You were with Malfoy all night I presume?" He growled at her looking over her shoulder again. What the hell did he keep looking at Lily thought but didn't want to break eye contact with him.
"That's none of your damn business who I was with! I wasn't the one who left his girlfriend all by herself!" She yelled at him.
"You arrogant little bitch!" Zenith shouted at her and Lily took a quick step back staring at him with wide eyes. He was shaking and Lily had ever seen him like this. "You think because you're Harry Potter's daughter I'm going to put up with you're stupid shit? You think you're entitled to special treatment?" He yelled at her, his arms were raising and Lily knew what was going to come next as she shut her eyes quickly. But she felt nothing as she heard someone make impact with Zenith face. Lily gasped when she saw Scorpius standing there shaking his fist that had just collided with Zenith's cheek that he was holding now as he lay on the ground.
"Are you ok?" Lily whispered to Scorpius.
"Am I ok?" He chuckled, "I'm fine. Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." She was shaking and her heart was racing but she was fine. "Yeah, we're friends." She managed a shaky chuckle.
"Good to hear." He laughed back and turned back to Zenith who was trying to stand up with his hand to his cheek.
"What the fuck with that Malfoy?" Zenith growled at Scorpius as Zenith tried to stabilize himself. Scorpius stood in front of Lily protectively.
"Try picking on someone your own size once in a while." He stared darkly at Zenith and his face was beet red.
"I wouldn't try that Osterly." Lily turned her head to see James walking up. He pushed Zenith against the wall throwing his arm against his throat.
"Don't ever think of touching my sister again – actually don't even look at her, I don't care who you think you are but next time you'll be answering to our entire family. Do you hear me?" He snarled at him and Zenith just nodded. "Get out of here before I get you into more trouble." James pushed him away as he stocked off angrily. Lily just stared wide eyed at her now ex-boyfriend.
"Lils, are you ok?" James came and pulled his sister into a huge hug.
"I'm seriously ok Jamie. I could have handled it myself." She mumbled into James shoulder.
"You were going to let him punch you Lily, if I hadn't stepped in." Scorpius let a shiver rank through him.
"Thank you." James turned to Scorpius and shook his hand. "If you hadn't – I probably would have killed that guy. I would have if he had touched her – thank you."
Scorpius just smiled, "It's really no problem."
"Jamie, stop shaking his hand, he hurt it." Lily said concerned as it looked like James was about to take off Scorpius' hand.
"It's fine." Scorpius chuckled removing his hand from James rubbing it slightly.
"It's not. Come on let's take you to Madam Pomfrey." Lily said concerned looking at Scorpius hand that was now red.
"Lily its fine." Scorpius tried to reason with her.
"You want to be my friend, this is what friends do, you idiot." Lily said firmly.
"She's a Potter. No arguing with her." James mumbled as Lily shot him a look.
"Fine fine." Scorpius finally agreed.
"Keep an eye on her." James yelled as they started walking away.
"Keep an eye on yourself!" Lily shouted back with a laugh.
"Your brother seems like a good guy." Scorpius stated as he rubbed his hand.
"Stop touching it." Lily shooed his other hand away, "He's the best. Thought my entire family hated you. Nope, just me. Ok, not just me but not everyone and I guess not anymore." She giggled.
"I didn't think they hated me but I didn't think they were all that fond of me either." He chuckled.
"Oh don't flatter yourself Malfoy." Lily grinned at him and he grinned back with a charming smile. They walked in silence to the hospital wing until something dawned on Lily. "Where's Maive?" She suddenly asked him and he was a bit taking back. He knew that she loathed Maive with pretty much everything she had.
"Well, well you see." He began as they walked into the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey came rushing over, even in her old age; she was tough as nails. Lily had once come into the hospital wing in her first year after she had tripped and fell down the stairs as they were moving and Madam Pomfrey had told her. 'I lived through two wars my dear; a little old age isn't going to kill me."
"What happened my dear?" She was used to them coming in from each other's various jinxes but never together. "Did you do this?" She looked at Lily with shocked in her old eyes.
"Oh no, oh no. It wasn't me this time." She chuckled at her reaction. "This was his own doing."
"It's really nothing I swear – " Scorpius tried to convince her.
"Well yes, compared to the things I've seen dear, it's relatively nothing. Sit down boy." She snapped at him and Scorpius obeyed quickly while Lily chuckled under her breath. She examined Scorpius inflamed hand and shook her head. She waved her wand and a bottle, and a glass came flying out of nowhere. "Ok dear, drink this." She handed him some of the liquid in the glass. "It looks like you've bruised the bone a bit. This will repair it but I'll wrap your hand just so it heals properly. And next time you punch someone dear; make sure you punch with your knuckles." She gave them a small smile as she wrapped Scorpius had. After they had walked out of the hospital wing they both burst out in hysteria of laughter.
"As if she gave me fighting advice, the old bat." Scorpius held his side from laughter.
"You know she has been through two wars, you might learn a thing or two from her." Lily gasped for air.
"Lily, Lily, Lily!" Raven came running towards them with a worried look on her face.
"What is it? Is Ivy ok?" Lily asked worried as Raven looked between her and Scorpius.
"Ivy is fine. I just heard! Are you ok?" Raven looked at her friend with concern.
"You heard?" Lily asked shocked.
"Good news travels fast." Scorpius chuckled.
"Apparently." Lily laughed back.
"You're fine?" Raven asked shaken.
"Yeah, thanks to this idiot over here." Lily laughed pointing at Scorpius bandaged hand.
"Lily, I have to tell you." Raven looked extremely upset.
"Tell me what Raven?" Again she looked at her friend concerned.
"I have to tell you my story." She sighed as she looked to Scorpius and he nodded. Lily looked up at Scorpius with a curious glace. What had her friend not been telling her all these years?