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Chapter 10.
~*Run like hell.*~
"Run Like Hell"
Run, run, run, run [repeat line four times]
You better make your face up in
Your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
As the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down your door
You better run. (Pink Floyd- Run Like Hell)
Scorpius kept on running down the slope, he headed up another, ever increasing speed, trying to direct his will to his feet. Succeeding at his game, feeling his leg muscles cramp up a bit, they always did that when he reached this point, but soon it would wear of again. He had no eyees for the beautiful scenery, bulbs were flowering in the woods, animals came out of hybernation, nature came back to life as Easter was nearing, today would be the last day for him here at Auror training grounds, he had to make sure he'd be kicked out today, Scorpius gritted his teeth, auror Potter would personally come and collect him, taking him to the Ministry to charge him with insubordination.
Scorpius swiped a tear from his cheek with his his lower arm, he was saying good bye to everything he held dear embarking in the unknown. He received an owl from Auror Weasley telling him he had to present himself on Easter Sunday leaving him two day to vent for himself, he couldn't go to the Manor, Rose and her oaf would be there, he was sure he couldn't hold back and punch that Ciaran git in his face. His angered flared as he ran another mile, no luckily James suggested he'd spend Easter at the Potters, Auror Potter was in on the fact that Scorpius was drafted into a covert Auror Unit. Why wouldn't he be, Auror Potter was head of Aurors and an old war hero, he and Auror Weasley were as tight knit as they came. The barracks came in sight as he rounded a large boulder, he'd miss the place, he liked the comradeship and stiff challenges. Enough a new leaf would be turned.
"Cadet Malfoy!" A stern voice called him out of his place in the platoon. "Yes, Sir?" He smiled slyly, answering his commander.
"You, deliberately went against Platoon regulations, violating curfew once more!" The man sneered angrily. "Again!"
"Yes, Sir !" Scorpius answered truthfully.
"You're slacking at everything, this was your last warning, I expect your sorry arse out of here within the hour!" Drill Sergeant Rockwell was angry and above all disappointed. He thought the young man showed promise up until two months back, his grade A student was slacking, showing no interest, sneaking off camp getting up to what he could only describe, Malfoy, womanising traits. He heard the rumours surrounding the Blond, he got up to mischief at Hogwarts, once flying through the castle, Rose Weasley in hot pursuit, it baffled him why they let the bloke in in the first place. "You no doubtebly were chasing skirts, like a true Malfoy, your father Draco_"
Thump! Scorpius decked the man, right in the nose. "Call me all you like but leave my father out of this!" Sxorpius sneered, foam in his mouth.
"Expecto Patronus!" The man conjured a Gorilla.
"What else would be new?" Scorpius snickered, really a larger than life ape? He grinned, shaking his head with disbelief.
Al loud crack filled the air, Harry Potter himself apparated in. His eyes set to thunder.
"I'm sorry Sir, you told me to call for you if the boy turned nasty, well here!" The Sergeant stood up, flood gushing from his nose, he pinched it with two fingers to stop the bleeding, whipping his wand from his back pocket. "Episky!" He conjured his nose to heal, which hurt apparently, his eyes watered involuntary.
Harry Potter stood there broad shouldered, he was an impressive figure, sure Ronald was wider in posture and taller. But this was the real deal, war hero himself, wherever he showed up, people seemed to diminish to nothing. His green eyes set stern., "Get your stuff, Malfoy!" He growled, without even giving him as much as a glance, his hands in his side.
Scorpius walked of, his shoulders a bit hunched, but not too much, he owned up to his fault, at least making appear he did. Harry and him talked this through before, the man himself would come and escort him out, leaving the cadets awestruck, well not in so many words but still.
Scorpius walked into his barracks, gathering his stuff, changing into jeans and a shirt, stuffing his locket content in his sports bag, he crumpled his bed, another thing showing his fellow cadets he snubbed the system. He glanced around, happy times, working no thinking, along his comrades, he was sure he get no invite to the alumni club, he wouldn't join them up the board of graduates. As small feeling of regret filling him, a small , almost fleeting feeling.
He walked out of the building slinging his bag over his shoulder, he had a swag to his walk, he staggered over to Harry Potter. "Sir?"
Harry Potter pulled him close to make a side along apparition, he handed it to him, he made it look believable a side along wasn't a thing adults did, unless they were couples, it was reserved for parents and their children. Scorpius was a bad child who needed punishment.
Harry and Scorpius apparated into the back garden of Harry's house in Godrics Hollow. They sort of appeared in Ginny's up and coming vegetable patch, she freshly manured the soil and ploughed it so in a few weeks time she could plant her seedlings. "Oh, bollocks! This always happens when I apparate homewards, she'll have my balls for this..." Harry sighed. Scorpius had to stop himself from laughing out loud, imposing Harry Potter afraid of his wife, hahaha, well his father wouldn't put his foot in anything Hermione planted, if she did plant anything. Women ruled the world according to Draco, men were merely innocent bystanders, making their wives lives a more difficult task.
"I wont tell her if you don't." Scorpius whispered in Harry's direction.
"Oh, really, just you try and explain your muddy and now stinking army boots. Good luck trying_" He was cut of by a very angry looking straight haired red locked mature woman. Her hands folded in front of her chest, her brow quirked.
"Harry? Don't you dare go and ruin our guests entrance." Ginny said, opening her arms as she stalked towards them. Harry smiled, welcoming in her into his arms, failing as she walked past him and embracing Scorpius in a warm hug. "Come in Scorpius, welcome to our humble home, don't forget to leave your boots outside, boys." Ginny said as she walked them to the back door.
"I think we managed a lucky escape here..." Harry whispered to Scorpius, watching his beautiful wife sway her hips as she lead the way into the house.
"I heard that, and you're so no getting away with it, Mister." Ginny laughed heartily as she asked Scorpius to join her in the kitchen. "Harry be a dear and take his coat and bag, while I make us a cup of tea!" She placed a kettle on the stove, igniting fire on an old looking burner, it stood out against the white modern kitchen.
Scorpius glanced around it was a very large kitchen, a breakfast bar attached to an cooking isle an enormous wooden table, sliding door leading to the rear garden. The vegetable patch was on the side evidently. "Nice kitchen and garden, Mrs. Potter!" Scorpius complimented her.
"Thanks, Scorpius, do call me Ginny, yours is so much bigger isn't it?" The kettle aignalled water was boiling.
"Yeah, I yes it is, but I do appreciate anything that isn't!" He said as he sat down at the table, this was a warm home he could tell, the banter between Ginny and Hparry Potter was homely and affectionate he could tell.
"Albus is picking up Lily from Kings Cross, they should be here any minute, she doesn't want mum to come and get her anymore, ah my youngest." Ginny reminisced, placing a steamy mug in feont of Scorpius. "Sugar, milk?" She absentmindedly asked.
Scorpius shook his head, he liked his tea black and strong, like he preferred his coffee. He found the bitterness of the tea soothing as well as fragrant.
"It's my own blend, mint from the vegetable patch you boys landed in and Ceylon tea leafs." She held her mug with both hands.
They sat there a few moments before the door swung open and Lily stormed in followed by her older brother Albus. "Hi, mum, Scorpius?!" She flung herself around her mothers neck.
"Yeah Scorpius is staying over a few days?" Ginny sniffed her daughters hair, revelling in her bubbly daughter.
"Oh and James?" Lily looked around.
"He's arriving a bit later I guess." Ginny answered her almost grown up daughter, three more months and her children were out of Hogwarts.
"Ow, look it's my favourite little munchkin!" Harry came back into the kitchen, he changed his working robes for jeans and a sweater, he looked all casual and at home. He hugged his daughter warmly. Winking at Ginny, he knew she didn't want her youngest to be all grown up. He held Ginny's hand, giving her a small tug as he kissed her cheek. "Is there more tea, baby?" he asked his wife.
"Here have mine." Ginny said as she kissed him back on the lips.
"Oh, ew, mum and dad, don't be all touchy feely, we have a guest mind?!" Lily squealed at her parents.
"Come Lily we'll leave Scorpius and your dad so they can talk, we'll see how many tons of dirty clothes are in your trunk." She gestured Lily to leave the kitchen with her.
"Hey, Scorp, how you're doing mate!" Albus raided the fridge looking for leftovers and pumpkin juice. Scorpius looked at his broad shouldered friend, who filled out considerably, playing quidditch as a professional, made him so much more mature than he last saw him. He found left over chicken and liver pie. "Want some?" He asked his father and Scorpius, who shook his head.
"How did I raise a second Ron Weasley, beats me!" Harry laughed watching his son. The boisterous young man shovelled food in like he hadn't eaten in days, the boy was a seeker for crying out loud, muscles weren't a primary goal, but the training regime was harsh.
"Albus, are you stuffing you're face again, every time I see you, you're either have your head in the fridge or coming out of it shoving food in it." James laughed as he walked into the kitchen, he al
ready changed out of his Auror outfit.
"Om, nommm, mumm." Albus acknowledged his brother, stalking over, embracing him in a bear hug.
"Scorpius, James, let's move to my study, Albus assist your mother with her cooking.
"Yeah, yeah but James and Scorpius get to do the dishes!" Albus shouted once he finished eating his pie.
Once seated behind his desk, Harry started to ask Scorpius questions about his impending trip abroad, he wanted to make sure they had his alibi sorted out, James would keep in touch, sorting out contacts abroad, it would have to seem he would be on a trip around the world.
They went over all details, covering all bases. Scorpius would try it out at their diner table later on.
A knock on the door disturbing their meeting, "Dad, guys, mum send me over to tell you diner is ready." Lily said behind the closed door.
"Okay Munchkin coming!" Harry answered his daughter.
"Oh I say that really smells good." Scorpius said as he walked into the kitchen, he knew Ginny inherited her mothers cooking skills. The large wooden table was set, Scorpius was seated next to Lily, she smiled happily as he sat down.
The meal was fun and bubbly, they all shared stories until it was Scorpius turn, he told them gruffly he didn't like auror training very much and wasn't ready to work, he wanted to see more of the world, his dad reluctantly agreed to fund him, but he had to promise he'd come and work at Malfoy inc, once he was finished, selling his soul to the devil he called it.
Lily tilted her head slightly as Scorpius divulged his plans, her blue eyes scrutinising Scorpius as he spoke.
Scorpius didn't dare look at the pretty red head, she was very beautiful and her eyes told him she didn't buy his story. Still he kept on telling his plans.
"Scorpius and James are going to do the dishes!" Albus grinned heartily. "No, cheating, no magic!" He cheered.
""I'll help Scorpius." Lily said quickly. "He can tell me more about his upcoming trip."
"That's a good idea Lily, come boys, Ginny lets leave it up to them." Harry said, standing up, helping clearing the table.
Ginny ran the tap preparing soapy water for them to wash the dishes.
Lily washed and Scorpius dried, placing the plates on the shelves in the cupboard next to the sink.
"So I'm not buying it!" Lily said when they were half way through.
"What?" Scorpius feigned ignorance.
"Well you not liking Auror training, you spoke so highly about it last Summer." Placing her hand on her hip, leaning against the worktop.
"Than don't!" Scorpius gruffly said. He hated that she didn't, she was his first hurdle if she didn't believe it who would?
"Yes, well I think it has to do with my cousin, why you want to leave the country!" She said trying to huff a strand of hair from her face, it had come loose from behind her ear, her hand was wet, covered in foam, she tried to tuck it back with her knuckle, failing miserably.
"Yeah, maybe you're right..." Scorpius wanted to jump, her thoughts were set on another train of thought.
"Yes, well I know you love her, hell anyone could see that last year, but they opted to ignore the clues instead, don't worry I haven't shared my thoughts with anyone by the way..." Her hair bugged her still.
Scorpius came closer, tucking the strand behind her ear, brushing her cheek as she did. Why didn't he love her, she was much more uncomplicated, bubbly... He knew why, she wasn't as feisty as Rose, but her lips looked good, she smelled nice, her eyes where so blue. He leaned in, placing a soft kiss on her mouth. Soft, very much so, it would be so easy.
Lily kissed him back, tugging him closer, ruining his shirt as her foamy hand deposited bubbles. Opening her mouth to him, letting him swirl his tongue inside her warm cavity. She moaned softly, boy he was good, she understood where Rose was coming from. Rose, her cousin Rose, Lily stepped back, carrying on with the dishes.
Scorpius ruffled his hair, his cheeks flushing brightly. Boy did he make a mistake, he shouldn't have, she wasn't Rose, he couldn't mess her about, she was too good for him. "I'm sorry, I_"
"Don't be, because I'm not." Lily clipped, cutting it short, resting both her hands on the sink. "I always wanted to do that." She sighed, looking sideways with heated eyes. "I_" She tried, being cut off by a blond who pulled her close, her head was tilted up, Scorpius peered down, his grey orbs looking sincerely down as her brought his lips closer, crashing down as he touched her.
Lily flung her arms up, kissing him feverishly, he hoisted her up against the worktop placing her so she was the same height. She scrunched his shirt in her hand, there was too much space between them.
Scorpius trailed kisses down to her jaw line, until he reached her ear, biting her lobe, placing more kisses below her ear, she arched into him, closer still.
"Scorpius... Oh and WOW!" Albus stood in the door, "Didn't see that coming!" He doubled back through the door treating it like a revolving door.
"Oh, fuck? Little Potter, that was hot!" Scorpius smiled.
"Don't call me that I hate that." She playfully smacked his arm. Resting her hands behind his neck.
"I can't make you promises, but we could do this again." Scorpius gave her a peck on her lips. "We'll have to face your family." Taking her hand in his as they made their way to the living room.
So tell me what you think, I have another chapter completed and yes I do get side tracked sometimes but I stand by my initial pairing. We do need angst don't we?