Finally, finally I was abled to finish this. I rewrote this three times before I was absolutely positive this is how I wanted it. Enjoy and Review. Thank you for all the amazing reviews, I really do appreciate them so much and I take in to consideration what you all say.
Chapter 16 – The Fall
Lily was the first person up in her room and most of the house, like always; she creped out of the room and down to the kitchen where her Grandmum was cooking with one hand and whizzing her wand around in the other.
"Good morning Grandmum," Lily yawned as she sat down at the small kitchen table.
"Morning Lily, eager to go back I see." She placed a bran muffin down in front of her.
"Very," She grinned, meaning it and ripped a small piece off from her muffin.
"Good Morning Mum, Lily." Ginny came walking into the kitchen, greeting both of them and kissed Lily on the head.
"Morning Mum," Lily said with muffin in her mouth.
"Have a muffin, Ginny. Lily chew then speak dear." Her Grandmum told her sternly.
"Are you packed Lils?" Her mother asked her making a point of not having muffin in her mouth. Her Grandmum eyed both of them.
"Almost, just a few books from Aunty Hermione that I have to pack." Hermione had gotten everyone several muggle and wizard books for Christmas and Lily had been reading some of them at night before going to bed if she wasn't too tired.
"The cars will be here at 8 sharp your father said." Ginny told them.
"Everyone must be getting up soon then, Lily will you go wake up the boys, they need a bit more time to, wake up." Her Grandmum chuckled.
After everyone had been waken up, there were a few accidents while everyone was running up and down the rickety stairs. Lucy had almost flown down the stairs twice trying to carry bags, thankfully after everyone was packed and fed, there had been only minor hits on the head and stumbled toes. At nine o'clock sharp two black serious looking cars were lined up outside the Burrow; it had become increasing difficult to get everyone to Kings Cross Station over the years and Harry had said he had a solution for this year. Everyone kissed and hugged Arthur and Molly for the last time as well as Teddy and Victoire who had to go back to work later that day, Dominique, and Molly who didn't want to take up room.
"Dad, how are we fitting into just two cars?" Hugo asked Ron, who shuffled his belt and looked at Harry.
"They're special cars," Harry answered, "Go on then, Hugo, you first."
Hugo hopped into the car and pointed his head out a second later. "Wow, these are bloody brilliant."
"It's because I'm so important," Ron said in an important matter, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny burst out in laughter. Lily, Rose, Albus, and James all pilled into the shiny black car after Hugo, the interior was a lot bigger then they expected. There were two long couches on both sides and Lily noticed that she could not only stay up straight but so could Hugo who was rather tall and lanky. Harry and Ron were laughing as they walked into the car. They car ride was pretty loud as nine people were trying to talk over one another but they finally arrived at Kings Cross Station 15 minutes to 11 o'clock. Lily and her brothers' said their last goodbyes quickly. Harry hugged Lily extra tight.
"Be great my Flower, " he gave her a small smile and she noticed the twinkle in his green eyes was back. Ginny rushed her off with Hugo before they missed the train.
"Ready?" Hugo asked her.
"I think so,"
"There's still time to become runaways," Hugo joked, and Lily rolled her eyes at him dragging him along.
"Don't be ridiculous, we wouldn't make it two days." She laughed, and borrows the platform for a blonde figure. She was fairly sure what she wanted, two weeks was far too long to think something over like that. Her father had been the deciding factor in the end; they would always love her no matter what. The thought made her smile though she couldn't spot his blonde hair in the crowd anywhere.
"Have some faith, I give us a week." He grinned at her and she punched hum lightly in the shoulder.
"Lils, Hugo." Kenda smiled as they walked into the compartment that was occupied by Owen, Albus, Roxanne, and Chase. Albus looked practically sour; thought he hadn't been in a great mood all break. Lily's eyes flicker between everyone, Rose was trying to look as thought she was happy. Lily new otherwise, Chase had glued himself to her and Rose wasn't practically fond of public displays. Owen and Kenda were cuddling and talking amongst themselves now, Lily felt like gagging. Roxanne was whispering something in Albus' ear that made him look even more upset. Then Lucy, Katie, James, Fred, and Louis all stepped into the compartment making it very hard to move around in.
"I think we've been out voted." Hugo whispered to her, Lily nodded agreeing.
"I think so. Kends, er – " Owen was rubbing his nose with hers, Lily felt rather uncomfortable she was sure many others were feeling the same way. "Where's Ivy and Raven, Kends." She cleared her throat impatiently.
"Oh they mumbled something about being crowded and went to find a different compartment." She said casually.
"Yeah, right, we're going to go find them." Lily mumbled and pulled Hugo out of the compartment.
"Sickening isn't it?" Hugo asked her.
"I'm happy for her," Lily said sarcastically and Hugo chuckled.
"Right. That's the word." Hugo rolled his eyes. Luckily they found Ivy and Raven sitting pretty near with Bryant and Rob.
"Hey!" Ivy greeted them both. "Did you see Kends?"
"Oh yeah, saw all that." Lily made a fake gaging noise, Ivy and Raven chuckled.
"At least she's happy." Rob told them, Lily, Ivy, and Raven all shot him looks.
"We're happy she's happy, but if she could be happy somewhere else or without needing to be two feet from Owen at all times then we would be much happier." Raven scowled.
"I mean at least she found – " Lily began but was interrupted when the compartment door opened and she saw him, "Scorpius," she breathed, feeling as though all of the air from her lungs had escaped.
"What?" Ivy started wiping her head around.
"Hi," he said softly, giving Lily a goofy grin as if no one else was around.
"You," Ivy's eyes narrowed.
"Always such a pleasure Finnigan," he chucked uncomfortably.
"It's not," she gave him an extremely fake smile, "but by all means come in."
"Ivy could you not." Lily hissed at her friend.
"I can learn to ignore, if you must be friends with him." She whispered coldly to her friend. Hugo looked like he was about to burst out in laughter but Lily gave him a sharp look and Hugo cleared his throat.
"Well don't hover, if you're going to come in, come in and sit." Ivy told him impatiently.
"I – " Scorpius started, seeming to give up what he was going to say and took a sit beside Lily. Lily shot Ivy a look and she just shrugged it off. Lily caught Scorpius staring at her and she blushed a scarlet colour.
"Sorry about – " Lily whispered,
"It's ok really, how was –" Scorpius whispered back.
"How was everyone's break?" Bryant asked, trying to change the topic and interrupting him.
"Oh yeah, how was the Catholic Church, Raven?" Ivy chuckled and Raven moaned as everyone burst out in laughter.
"Catholic Church?" Scorpius asked curiously, the whole thing seemed strange to Lily. Him, being here with her and her friends, asking about muggle things, it was surreal really. Not in a million years would she have ever thought that Scorpius Malfoy would be sitting next to her on the train ride to Hogwarts fingers barely inches from hers and wanting so desperately to entwine hers with his.
Raven went into painful detail about Catholic Church while Scorpius and Rob seemed extremely absorbed in her story, Bryant, Ivy, Hugo, and Lily had heard it quite a few times were talking amongst themselves. Ivy frostily ignored Scorpius, as Lily was painfully hyperaware of the handsome blond sitting next to her that she had a hard time keeping up. She could feel the electricity running through her veins and it seemed unfair that he was completely unaffected by it.
"I heard your Uncle Charlie came in." Bryant mentioned to Lily and Hugo.
"Oh yeah, everyone was real excited you know, haven't seen him in two years. Dragons keep him very business,"
"I except it's the whole fire breathing, being scary thing that makes it difficult to communicate with them." Bryant joked, he had meet him quite a few times and thought he was extremely cool, in his words.
"He had a nice new burn along his arm," Hugo mentioned and Lily glanced over at Scorpius who was listening intently to Raven speak. It was becoming an increasing bad habit for her to glace over at him, admire the lines of his face or how his mouth would twitch with amusement when someone would say something interesting to him. She was also becoming one of the worst conservationists on the train at the moment; people had to constantly repeat themselves to her as she would get lost staring at the way Scorpius' eyes' lit up or when his fingers mistakenly brushed hers. How was it possible for him to be this smooth? Was she the only one that was this distracted by him, did she not hold his attention like this? It was almost painful they way she longed to touch his fingers or his lips.
Once off the train, they both slowed so they were behind the group as they walked up to the castle. Again Lily felt insanely aware of how close he was to her, their fingers brushing lightly against each other's as they walked, nether reached out for the others hand.
"I meant to thank you, back on the train for, uh, the Christmas present you sent me." Lily said nervously, wanting to break the silence. When had she become this nervous around him she thought.
"You liked it then?" He gave her a soft grin; his grey eyes sparkled a bit.
"I loved it, it was beautiful."
"I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for the book, I didn't know if you were trying to tell me something." He smirked at bit, not arrogance but amusement.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked confused.
"You do know the story, right?" Scorpius asked her lightly, Lily had skimmed over the book lightly but never had she read it to its full potential.
"I know the story," She finally decided to say.
"It's about class, reputation." He said it seemed to hold this deeper meaning to him.
"They marry in the end," She said without thinking, and she blushed deep red.
"They do," He answered airily, his mind seeming to be on something else. They didn't speak for the rest of the walk up to the castle.
Once they made it to the Great Hall, they stood awkwardly in front of each other. Lily was as bright as a tomato and Scorpius remained his cool, collected self – it seemed hardly fair.
"Uh, I'm – thank you for sitting with my friends and well me, I – uh," It was like her sentences wouldn't form; she had never been this awkward with someone before.
"They're very interesting, I like watching you all interaction with each other." He chuckled, and Lily didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.
"I'll see you later then," She fidgeted not knowing if she should kiss him, or hug him, but what she actually did almost mortified her. She stunk out her hand for him to shake. He chuckled slightly and shook her hand.
"I'll see you later Lily," and walked off to the Slytherin table. When she sat down at the Gryffindor table, Hugo leaned over and whispered,
"Did you just shake his hand?"
"Shut up – shut up Hugo, before I die of embarrassment." She hissed through her teeth. Luckily Hugo couldn't laugh for too long, because Professor McGonagall was up speaking about how lovely it was for everyone to be back at Hogwarts after such a lovely break.
"You know if you keep going around shaking people's hands, everyone is going to think you like them." Hugo teased her as they walked up the stairs to the common room.
"Make one more joke Hugo, I dare you." She warned her face had faded to a flushed pink shade as Hugo had continued to tease her about it under his breath.
"Lils, I only tease," He gave her a goofy grin, of course she wasn't mad at him, it was just easier to be mad at him then herself for being stupid.
"Whatever Hugo," she mumbled as they walked into the common room.
"Was being crammed into the Burrow not enough for everyone?" Hugo asked chuckled, eyeing his family that was huddled tightly around the fireplace in varies chairs and couches.
"Ah come here, my good sir." Fred beckoned for him to come sit beside him on the couch. "You too my good lady." He motioned to Lily and she rolled her eyes. Her family spent entirely too much time together for it to be healthy.
"I can't believe Teddy and Vicky are getting married, it's all so exciting." Rose gushed,
"Yeah, pretty soon it will be James and Katie," Louis joked and both of them turned a bright shade of red.
"Oh for the love of Merlin, Louis." Roxanne rolled her eyes, while people chuckled. Lily decided to go up to bed when Ivy, Raven, and Kenda went not shortly after they had sat down. They were all sitting around chatting in their beds about what whether or not they thought Professor Turpin, the Transfiguration teacher had a boyfriend or not.
"Lils, you and Malfoy then?" Ivy asked her, not coldly as she would have thought but more curious. Lily had been trying to take her mind off of it for a while; the whole situation was confusing when it should have been rather simple.
"Er, What do you mean?" Lily tried to pay it off as if she had no idea what Ivy was talking about.
"What do you mean?" Kenda asked excited, "What did I miss?"
"Well, for starts, he sat with us on the train." Ivy told her,
"Yes, well, we're friends now and while – he kind of, sort of, maybe just a bit, kiss me before we left before holidays." Lily felt her face go red again.
"He what?" Ivy all but screamed, but controlled herself. Lily heard Kenda squeak with excitement.
"He kissed me." She repeated nervously staring up at her bedframe.
"I don't go around kissing you guys, you're more then just friends." Raven noted with humor in her voice.
"Yeah, don't start." Ivy told her sarcastically. "Lils, you don't realize who he is right?"
"I know who he is Ivy," She told her bitterly. "I'm not an idiot."
"You're acting like it right now," She retorted.
"What? So now that you're happy with Rob, I can't be happy? That's kind of hypocritical Ivy." She said with acid in her voice. Raven and Kenda were now quiet as mice, Lily and Ivy hardly ever fought.
"Do you even remember what he's done to you? Four months ago I had to hold you back from hexing him into the hospital wing and now you tell me you're what? In love with him now?" Ivy shouted at her.
"I never said I was in love with him!" Lily shoot up to sit up, "A lot happened in those four months if you don't remember?"
"Yeah, sometimes I can hardly keep up, sorry next time we're supposed to stop hating someone that you've hate for five years I might add, send me a f-ing owl." Ivy told her harshly.
"You hardly know him," Lily started,
"Do you even know him? Do you think I'm an idiot? You don't think I saw the way you were ogling him on the train like he was the greatest thing that ever walked this planet – news flash Lily, he's not. You talk about Kends being sicken with Owen." Ivy hissed,
"Hey!" Kenda protested,
"Sorry Kends," they both said at the same time.
"And I was not ogling him!" Lily snapped back,
"I wasn't the only one who saw it, Bryant was commenting – "
"Since when are you such great friends with Bryant anyways? You're b-f-f's now?" She said her voice drenched in sarcasm, she didn't mean to be unkind about Bryant but she was instantly hurt that he was saying something mean about her. "He was my friend first, and he would never say anything like that."
"You two are acting like children right now," Raven commented to the both of them. Lily frowned looking up at her bedframe.
"Whatever," Ivy snarled, "Do what you want, you always do anyways, just don't except me to be there when you're crying because he broke your heart." and with that Ivy drew her curtains.
"Fine." Lily shouted and drew her curtains as well. She was so angry with Ivy, her best friend couldn't even be happy for her, of course she wasn't happy for her. She didn't know Scorpius the way she did, she only knew him from before when they used to tease and hex each other. She thought of the saying, it really was a thin line between love and hate. Ivy didn't know how sweet he could be, or thoughtful. Lily fell asleep crying into her pillow; she hated fighting with her friend.
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The next morning you could have cut through the tension with a butter knife, neither girl would look or talk to one another. Which made it extremely awkward for Raven and Kenda, of course they hadn't excepted them to take sides but Lily had excepted them to come to her defense just a bit. Hugo who hadn't been oblivious to what had happen felt even more out of the loop when he came down for breakfast and no one was speaking. Classes where Ivy sat next to her were tense as Hugo had silently volunteered to sit by Lily all day so she wouldn't have sit with Ivy, and Lily felt more miserable by lunch when she sat down beside Hugo, Ivy making sure she sat as far away as possible.
Rose came storming into the Great Hall looking angrier then Lily and Ivy put together slamming her books down beside Lily.
"You ok Rosie?" Lily asked looking up from her carrots that she had mashed into no return out of frustration as Rose sat down with a huff.
"Your complete git of a brother ditched me today in Transfiguration to sit with Malfoy!" She said shrilly. It wasn't unknown that Rose and Scorpius were always competing for the highest marks and they were pretty even topped too.
"He did what!" Lily turned white, feeling ill.
"Oh, it gets better, Rosie said her voice dripping in distant, "Because your brother is my partner, Professor Turpin assigned me a new partner, which would have been quite fine if Maive wasn't the only one without a partner because your brother took her partner!" She looked positively livid. Lily turned her whole body to see Maive snickering their way and Lily glared back at her. She also noticed at neither Scorpius or her brother was anywhere in sight.
"What were they talking about?" Lily asked quickly,
"How should I know, I was too busy trying not to get hit by Maive trying to stun me." She shrugged biting into an apple with extreme hostility Lily thought the apple might run away. Lily heard Ivy hiss something under her breath that made Raven shot her an angry look. Lily just ignored her trying to get something out of Rose that would be useful. "Not only did I spend my entire class blocking Maive's spells, your brother looked like he was having a merry ol' time with his new buddy."
What did Albus want with Scorpius, they had never been friends, not exactly enemies but not friendly either.
"You know Lils, they were probably talking about you," Hugo whispered in her ear and Lily felt the colour drain out of her face again. Her brother, and whatever Scorpius was to her, speaking about her; that could never be good.