Albus felt his heart rise up into his throat as the train came to a halt, he was nervous for Scorpius who looked over at him and smirked keeping his cool, the compartment doors slid open and James stood outside with Freddie and Roxanne on either side, "come on ickle Alby time to go introduce your boyfriend to the family," Freddie said with a wink, Albus swallowed whatever salvia had built up in his mouth,
"not properly until Christmas eve though, besides they've already met him" Albus said nervously, images of this swirling around his mind
"what is the matter, you couldn't possibly be embarrassed of me, and as you said I have already met them so I already know how cripplingly embarrassing they are so worry not little one," Scorpius said with a chuckle messing up his boyfriends already messy hair, "also the comb thing is still on offer ill even speak to old Harry about it right now,"
"Well nothing could be more 'cripplingly' embarrassing than your family's clearly bleached hair and horrible reputation for the dark arts, you know your granddad dick sucking old Voldemort," Freddie said heatedly
Scorpius took a step forward in order to walk passed the three but before leaving he turned to Freddie and said "Nice to know what lovely thoughts are living in your head, and for the record I'm a natural blonde," he winked before leaving the train Albus and Rose trailing behind him.
Scorpius strolled forward his infamous smirk sat perfectly on his face, Albus caught up with him and elbowed him lightly in the ribs,
"You're never able to just hold your tongue are you?" he laughed light looking back at his family members that trailed behind him his father Harry and aunt Hermione swallowed in a sea of ginger hair, Scorpius just looked at him side ways and smiled slightly,
"I could have been a lot nastier, but I didn't want my future in laws to hate me straight away now did?" Al's cheeks blushed slightly at the mention of his family becoming in laws to Scorpius. Freddie jogged up beside them,
"Dad said the port key is in the alley beside the station, you would probably be better waiting for everyone rather than walking on Malfoy" he said throwing Scorpius a small smile,
"And be caught in public with the ginger's on parade, what would people think of me?" he replied in a mock tone, Al laughed softly and grabbed his boyfriend by the arm causing him to stop and lift his eyebrow, "Fine, but if people start thinking that I am your master that is not my fault" Freddie opened his mouth but Al shot him a look to tell him not to retaliate and he closed his mouth quickly, followed by a forced smile and a mumble under his voice that Scorpius and Al was unable to make out.
Once at the portkey everyone gathered around and reached there hand out to place on the black binbag filled with cardboard, Harry looked at Scorpius and smiled slightly,
"Ok everyone there has been a change of plan, we are going straight to the burrow instead, all us adults talked it over and believed it would be better than everyone going different directions" Al eyes shot open and he felt his heart speed up, all of a sudden it became over-whelming the idea that Scorpius would be at the Weasleys, everyone there at once without time to prepare and his mouth opened slightly, everyone touched the portkey and Scorpius was heard to say,
"I do hope they have dusted this time, my robes were filthy last time and mother was not impressed at all" Al rolled his eyes as he felt the familiar pull behind his navel that jerked him backwards, and his breathe was taken from his lungs, he struggled slightly to get air into his chest as he looked at the large morphing imagine of Ginger that swirled in front of him, the tiny hints of blonde, black and brown that signaled the only ones that were not Weasley's. He had just began to get his breathing under control when he felt the hard thud of his feet hitting the floor of the burrow and the loud warming voice of his grandmother shouting,
"They are here, Arthur they are here get in here!" she began to run towards the crowd of people before her with open arms while Arthur walked with great speed behind her wearing a massive grin, Molly Weasley grabbed Harry first and pulled him into her arms, "it's great to see you Harry dear," she said smiling and laughing cupping his cheeks in her now frail hands
"You too Mrs. Weasley, always a pleasure," Harry said beaming at the woman who had been like a mother growing up to him, although he never did break the habit of calling her Mrs. Weasley it would be weird for him to call her Molly almost as weird as it would be if he was to call Professor Mcgonagall Minevera.
"Oh Albus Severus, you've grown since the summer!" She said glowing hugging her grandson tightly, "and you Scorpius you've grown into such a handsome young man, its been so long since I last saw you," she said petting his cheek
"I know I have Molly, you're not so bad looking yourself," Scorpius replied to her she smiled again making her way through all her relatives hugging and gushing at them, Christmas was by far her favorite time of year.
Arthur found his way to Harry and Ron pulling them both into a big hug, "honestly dad you seen me last week," Ron said his ears glowing red,
"I know son but its Christmas!" Arthur said cheerfully, "How have you been anyway Harry, how's the ministry?" he asked running his hands through his white hair
"Not the same without you Mr. Weasley" Harry said fixing his glasses and smiling at his old friend,
"Come on everyone let us get out of the snow," George Weasley announced shivering, linking on to his daughter Roxanne and making his way towards the burrow,
"I've made a large pot of soup for everyone!" Molly said rubbing Lily's arms to heat her up.
Once everyone had crowed inside Scorpius took a swift scan of the kitchen, that he hadn't seen in 3 years which to his silent relieve was exactly the same as then, his family was forever changing the house that he lived in and it never seemed to be "homey" for long, He leaned over to Albus,
"I'm glad Molly has decided to do a spot of cleaning," Al again rolled his eyes and laughed,
"Yes Scorpius, she knew you were coming," he laughed as everyone made their way to the long wooden table that was laid with bread and butter, and the perfectly set 27 bowls and spoons, that glittered under the light above them. Scorpius had only set on his chair as a loud pop coming from the next room, this was the fire place telling everyone that someone had arrived by the floo network, Molly used her head to signal Arthur to go into the living room and retrieve the person who had arrived,
"I must say all the fumes have gone to her head though as it's quite a squished in here," Scorpius said sitting between Al and Rose, whose elbows meeting theirs, "I have no idea how we'll get Hagrid in here, he is after all 27 people all on his own," he continued laughing light and receiving a painful nudge as, Teddy Lupin entered the room behind, Arthur. There was a course of hellos from everyone and a strong hug from Molly who almost dropped the giant pot of soup by dipping her wand to hug him.
Teddy approached the table and wiped himself off a large smile plastered on his face, which was shaped by his electric blue hair, which seemed to match perfectly with his deep brown eyes, that he got from his father Remus Lupin. His eyes feel on Scorpius, who was looking over his shoulder as if search for something,
"You must be Scorpius," he held out his hand and Scorpius continued to move his eyes from counter to counter,
"Yes I'm sure it's a pleasure for you to meet me," Scorpius answered not meeting his eyes, Teddy lifted his eyebrow and squeezed in between Harry and Ron, placing his hand on the table and looking at Al who just shrugged his shoulders, "More importantly Molly dear where is the rum? It seems my cup has been left empty" Scorpius said his voice slightly raised, Molly placed the soup on the table and looked shocked at Scorpius's request,
"Well Scorpius we keep that for Christmas day but what about a hot chocolate?" She looked at Arthur, who moved to grab a cup,
"Now dear don't be silly I need a nice hard rum with my soup, that's how I get it at home," he continued lifting his glass and pointing at it, Hermione rolled her eyes and looked at Ron,
"Our children would never demand such a thing" Ron shook his head in agreement, Al overheard them and looked away as Scorpius continued to point at his glass with a big smiled plastered on his face,
"Molly, the glass appears to be still empty, in fact just pass me the bottle that should do me," he looked around as no one moved and smirked, "If you would rather I would get up and get it myself just say," he stood and Molly shook her head,
"No, no dear sit Arthur will get it, but only the one glass as we must keep it for Christmas, Ron pass out the soup would you dear?" Ron sighed and made his way to the soup pot, and began to walk around the table filling everyone's bowls. Al laughed nervously and laughed as everyone stared at them,
"It's just his nerves," he shrugged lightly and everyone lifted their spoons and began eating, Arthur filled Scorpius glass, and turn to leave with the bottle, Scorpius lifted it from him,
"Leave it good sir, I'll have my father send you a whole crateful" Arthur looked at Molly who's eyes grew wide and she forced a smile at Scorpius who sipped at his glass followed by a large gulp of his soup,
"Molly dear this soup is impeccable, tell the house elf well done," Molly giggled at the compliment,
"We don't have a house elf Scorpius, I made it myself from scratch," Scorpius dropped his spoon into his bowl and his eyes grew wide,
"NO HOUSE ELF?," He looked at everyone round the table as they nodded and smiled at molly, "Well that's just unheard of," he finished swallowing down his full glass of rum almost clearly on the verge of a nervous breakdown, again Al's smiled and shrugged his shoulders at the family around the table.
Hermione cleared her throat, "actually its not unheard of at all Scorpius, the era of house elf enslavement has ended, I work to help them you see, of course some house elfs still serve but a lot now work in restaurants and places at Hogwarts and are entitled to small wedges and short holidays which most do no accept but a lot are starting to come round and know that they actually have rights,"
Scorpius turned his head to meet Hermione's gaze and sighed,
"Clearly you have not grown up with the luxury of a house elf or you would have a very different point of view, but I understand of course I give my house elf gifts, I'm not inhumane, one time I allowed him to sleep in my own bed," he replied with a smirk and mouth full of rum.
Hermione's face grew flustered, "well of course I didn't not grow up with a house elf, I'm muggle born," she said pulling her jumper down to completely hide the scar on her forearm that read 'mudblood' a scar given to her by Scorpius great aunt Bellatrix "anyway enough of house elf talk, how is everyone's studies going?" Hermione's daughter Rose immediately engaged in conversation with her mother boasting about how well she thinks she done on her Christmas exams and how frightfully nervous she was about one or two questions.
Scorpius lifted his eyebrows and leaned closely to his boyfriend and whispering,
"Well that was a touchy subject, someone must he having the monthly," Al face when pale as Scorpius poured himself another rum and took a large gulp, interjecting into the schoolwork conversation.