Albus Potter welcomed October warmly, he and Scorpius Malfoy were almost friends again something he'd thought that would have a mermaids chance on shore of happening. October was to be quite the eventful month, of course there was the small problem that he would have to spend his first hogsmeade trip of the year which was to take place on the second week of this month escorting Pandora Longbottom around and providing entertainment, honestly he thought Pandora was a lovely girl he always had thought this, but something about going on a date with her made him feel as though the food he had consumed was going to make a reappearance. He could not allow himself to dwell on hogsmeade just yet something more important was happening, the first weekend of October brought on the first Qudditch match of the season and it just so happened it was Gryffindor vs Slytherin! The team was doing exceptional in practice; Scorpius was fierce leader gaining the Qudditch cup this year should be an easy task Al thought to himself. His mother and father would be attending this match along with his uncle George, he was excited to get to see them but he wondered how they would feel watching their old house get stuffed by the snakes. Albus and Scorpius seemed to be engaging in intense discussing about Quidditch nearly very afternoon in the common room, and giving generous compliments about each others broom work, Lysander Longbottom groaned "honestly Potter is it my sister your dating or Scorpius?" he asked sticking his two fingers into his mouth and pulling a rather unpleasant face, Lysander has made it more than obvious these last couple of weeks that he detested the fact that he and Scorpius were rekindling their old friendship bond, "shove off Longbottom," Al snapped whilst Scorpius pushed Lysander off the edge of the green sofa causing him to fall and yell, Albus and Scorpius could not repress the sniggers they tried so desperately to hold back.
Lysander stood and brushed himself off giving out an obvious huff of annoyance before walking off to the stairs of the dormitories, as soon as he had gone Al and Scorpius let out their laughter on a louder scale, causing them to bend over their knees and finding it hard to breathe "He – Took – That- One- Bad" Al said in between breathes while leaning over his knees "He is a soft boy really" Scorpius said calming himself and sitting back as coolly as he had been before. Albus glanced at him and felt a warm feeling in his stomach before joining him in a relaxed sitting position "So the Quidditch match is this Saturday, when are we having the extra practices? " Al asked Scorpius meeting his eyes and smiling "I'm think tomorrow after dinner we'll have one and then Thursday morning before Breakfast" Scorpius answered, his voice low and deep while he looked away from Al and to the fireplace, that was housing a peculiarly massive green fire, this only seemed to highlight Scorpius features Albus found himself thinking. "That would be great, we are more than prepared, it's just good to get a few extra rounds in" Albus replied. The boys had definitely come far from not speaking to speaking all the time and Scorpius smiled when he thought about it "Well Al, it seemed we have come full circle don't you think" Al looked at him confused "We never knew each other, became friends, stopped talking, bickered and not here we are talking all the time as if we had been life buddies" Scorpius continued after seeing the look on Al's face, Al smiled and nodded "It seems we have Scor", Scorpius seemed shocked that Al had called him by the nickname they had used when they were in their younger years, but it made him feel at little more at ease and he smiled "Been a long time since you've called me that" he laughed and patted his friend on the shoulder "Do you remember how you gave me that name?" he asked removing his hand, much to Al's disappointment "Yeah because I was to lazy to call you by your full name all the time" Al laughed and looked out the window, Scorpius only nodded with a small smirk on his face "To lazy" he muttered "Anyway I'm going to shower Albus, what about you?" Albus face went red and he met Scorpius eyes and he stood above him "I am we-" Realizing how stupid he must have sounded he regained him self and noticed he had taken the sentence out of context "I'm just going to get one in the morning, I'm wreaked" he smiled, standing to meet Scorpius, but still being smaller than him. The two boys walked towards the stands and ascended them together making small talk on what they planned to do at Hogsmeade, neither of them mentioning the girls that they would be accompanying. Finally when in the dormitory they parted ways, Scorpius to the shower run and Al to his bed.
Once he had settled in and heard the water running in the bathroom, all the other boys asleep and snoring loudly, he slapped his hands over his face "How stupid, how could I even have thought he meant for me to shower with him?" he groaned to himself as he rolled over "Of course he was just asking if I was having a shower, alone" he closed his eyes and drifted in to a dream involving Scorpius, that made sure to make his blood flow quicken.
The days seemed to disappear quicker than ever before the night becoming quite the nuisance in Al's opinion, however Scorpius insisted it was an allie. With the days running into each other the fact that today was Saturday had escaped his mind, he rolled over trying to get another few hours doze as he noticed the light had only barley begin to fight its way threw the darkness of the sky, this was swiftly interrupted by Lysander shaking him violently, "What the blood hell!" Al exclaimed disorientated, "I do apologize for having him shake you but I do think it is quite appropriate to have our seeker present for today, in order to win that little match," Scorpius smirked as he caught sight of Al's green eyes staring up at him, they did compliment his face very well, "you know that match we've been working ourselves to the bone for? Now if you two will stop making googley eyes, I'm going to head down get a half hours practice before breakfast, seeing as I thought that's what you had instructed us to do captain," Lysander spat the last word out with venom
Scorpius and Al exchanged looks of confusion with each other, "ill leave you to get dressed then, I trust you can do that yourself," Scorpius said in a hushed tone before running after his friend.
The crisps air breezed over the skin of the two teams that hovered above the pitch Professor Wood, the head of Qudditch stood very still below them his whistle in hand, he then commanded the two team captain's, James Potter and Scorpius Malfoy to approach each other on broom and shake hands. "Welcome to the first Qudditch Match of the season! SLYTHERIN VS GRYFFINDOR!" bellowed the commentator Liam Jordan's who's father was a close family friend of the Weasley/Potter clan, whom Al enjoyed hearing stories that involved him and his uncles. Wood blew his whistle and released the balls causing the two teams to go into the motion chasing whichever ball fitted with their position, "Lewis Weasley, takes possession of the chaser, woah that's bloody good broom work, his new broom is excellent isn't it!" Liam started interrupted by McGonagall telling him off for being biased, "well it is a great broom, that's hardly biased but whatever oh he approaches the goals AND oooh a quick block from Malfoy, someone's been practicing," The students wearing green let out cheers while the one sin crimson booed hatefully, "ooh nice dodging skills from our own Freddie Weasley dodging Longbottom's pathetic attempt to swing a bludger at him, which has now been knocked back by Roxanne, way to go Roxxie!" McGonagall glared and him and he gulped. The Match was 10-40 in Slytherin's favor before Jordan announced that James and Albus Potter had made a severe dive for the snitch, tensions were running high and Harry Potter was gripping the barrier firmly leaning over slightly to see which one of his sons would catch it, "Another block from Malfoy," Jordan informed everyone in a defeated tone, Al chanced a glance in Scorpius's direction to give him a thumbs up, Noticing that he had pulled his sleeves up due to the heat causing from the match. He noticed the veins protruding through his translucent skin due to his grip on the handle of his broom, his hair sticking to his face with sweat. Scorpius noticed Al's grin and replied to with a quick wink. Al felt a tingle surfacing on his loins and he looked away quickly to hide his face which was being overcome by redness, his brother James was an inch in front of him, Al gathered speed in matter of moments his hand was nearly clasping the snitch he heard Scorpius shout, "CLOSE YOUR HAND! YOU'VE DONE YOU BRILLIANT," he did not get to finish he sentence as the next moment a bludger slammed against Al's face breaking his nose he heard the bones crack and fell to the ground feet below landing on his back, the crowd gave out a large gasp as it was his own teammate Lysander who delivered the bludger to him, "ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS LONGBOTTOM YOUR OWN HOUSE! YOUR OFF THE TEAM," Scorpius bellowed with a murderous rage on his face, James barley had time to process what happened, thinking he got in front of his brother as he closed his hand around the snitch he heard Malfoy's screams, looking down seeing his little brother in a puddle of blood. Wood commanded everyone to get down from the air at once. "Longbottom you prat!" Liam said so calmly it was almost frightening McGonagall had fled from her seat accompanied by Ginny, Harry and George had ran in front of them to restrain their sons who had attacked Lysander as soon as their feet touched the ground. Albus was choking on his own blood and his head ached horribly, "Al? Are you ok?" Scorpius said weakly, "yeah I'm fine, spectacular in fact just bleeding to death that's all," Albus said dramatically, Scorpius chuckled lightly and wiped away some of the blood, "hang on aren't you supposed to be offering me bits of I duno tissue or bits of clothing to hold to my nose to stop this waterfall of blood?" Al said half laughing, not noticing McGonagall and Ginny approaching Scorpius simply retorted with, "My dearest Al, if you wanted me to tear my clothes off you should of just asked," Al's eyed grew larger than usual as seen the looks on the headmistress and his mothers face, "that's quite enough Mr. Malfoy, now if you please, help Ginevra escort her son to the hospital wing," she said giving the look of upmost disapproval, he done as she asked as Albus put one arm around his mother who petted his face and the other around a very embarrassed Scorpius, "you git," Al whispered affectionately.