A/N:
Okay, so I had this one very brave reviewer who said I should take my p3do shit back to AO3 (I already deleted the comment), the thing is that this is a translation that was originally posted here in Spanish and never had a problem in Spanish community but I do write in other fandoms in English and I know that in the English community takes things way more seriously, I think it's kinda funny because they are protecting the innocence of a character that even when it's canon we have never met or seen her talk since there is nothing written about her, we just know she "exists", but just for your information, I'm actually posting it in AO3 too since before this person told me what to do with my story, but since I saw this very brave review which was anonymous I started rethinking things and while I'm going to keep publishing the story here, I checked the rules and there is nothing related to age-gap relationships but there is one about mature content, so, this story has an actual mature scene but I will post that one scene just in AO3 because I'm respectful and I know not everybody likes it, I also added a TW in the description and I will put TW at the beginning of the chapters if needed because I'm going to touch some delicate themes like murder, r4pe, ed, hom0ph0bia, unforgivable curses, and a whole lot of things that have nothing to do with the age-gap of this couple.
The fun thing is that they (the characters) talk about it in this chapter. But just, so you know. This story is not just about that, there is actually more gay content than anything else. Having said that, let's read this chapter, okay?
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Draco almost wished nothing had happened. But there he was, feeling guilty. Trying not to feel guilty, while he looked at his son out of the corner of his eye.
They had barely spoken on the way to school and while he was worried about everything his son was flirting-not-flirting with Albus. He almost went into cardiac arrest, when on the way to the place where the apparition was allowed in Hogsmeade she rested her head on his arm, an arm that instead of taking as any lady should take the arm of a gentleman she had decided to embrace like the arm of a lover.
Is she crazy? He thought, standing tall like a stick. His son was there, her brother was there. They were in Hogsmeade, anyone could see them and gossip to her father.
He just breathed easy until they got to Hogwarts, the boys went to put away their outfits in their room, and Lily did the same. Leaving him with his stomach eating itself.
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Already in her tower, more precisely in her bed, Lily was peeling the skin off her face. She had her nerves destroyed but with a feeling of overwhelming happiness. She had finally told him, and he felt the same way, maybe it was very reckless of her, but she could no longer avoid what she felt, the only thing that made her a little sad was that she would have to break up with Thomas, she wasn't going to sleep with two men at the same time, Thomas was always honest and didn't deserve it in the slightest, but in reality, she knew he would understand her, Thomas was a very practical man, his mother's Ravenclaw upbringing prevented him from being too dramatic. Truly there was no better Hufflepuff in the world, she wished she had fallen in love with him. She really would have wanted to.
She was surprised at herself to think like that, she wasn't one of those who fell in love but she had been battling her feelings for enough time to deny it at this point. She was in love with Draco Malfoy, and since she was being honest, she had never identified so much with that Slytherin part that the hat had told her about when it selected her for Gryffindor, she didn't care about Albus, or Scorpius, or what they could say anymore. On another hand, her father was dangerous to Draco, so they would have to be very smart not to be discovered.
"You are just like your father," The hat told her at her selection ceremony "I'll tell you something Potter girl, there's nothing more Slytherin than choosing your house just to make people think well of you, not even your brother thinks like that ."
She sighed. She no longer cared about anything. She lay down and looked up at the ceiling. She just wanted to kiss him again.
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Draco went to his room as well. It was a hidden room with an illusion on a wall next to a corridor where no one ever passed, it was like an edge of the castle. You walked up to the wall and there was a small landing and a door, you turned the handle and the first thing you saw was a sturdy medieval-style wooden desk and a huge bookcase behind it. The place where he slept was covered by purple and green curtains with gold trim. He had chosen to decorate his room in the Hindu style. His bed was extremely comfortable, huge, and full of cushions.
He flung herself on the bed.
He didn't care about the norms or his last name, he just wanted to throw a tantrum, but he realized that his soul had aged a lot because he didn't even throw a tantrum, he just stayed there feeling desolated.
What was he going to do now?
He was an adult, yeah. Astoria would forgive him, he had already been in mourning for quite some time, and that was not a problem. He knew that he had to move on and that she would love that for him, that he had fallen in love did not mean that his feelings for Astoria had changed, only that now he could love someone else, time had passed and his soul was not carrying the same sadness and despair than years ago. The sun was shining again. The problem was that the sun was 15 years old. He snorted, he wanted to sleep with the sun, and doing so would land him a good time in Azkaban unless she was legally his wife and that wasn't going to happen.
For her it was surely an adventure, something forbidden, she couldn't really be in love with an old man the age of her father, could she? He turned around.
- She is not like that.
She's not like that and that's the only reason everything could go to hell, because she wasn't like that and she didn't want an adventure, she wanted a romance of flowers and hearts no matter how much she tried to pretend otherwise, and the worst thing is that he was anxious to give them. He wanted to give Lily flowers and hearts. He covered his face with both hands.
"I'm so screwed." He said.
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Lily behaved normally during the class, she didn't look at him too much or talk to him too much and Draco was grateful for that, he wouldn't know how to act otherwise but when he left she looked at him with a certain sparkle in her eyes that didn't sit well.
Merlin, any more looks like that and he'd melt or do something stupid.
At service time she arrived at the usual time. With her pretty uniform and without her glasses, she sometimes wore them, sometimes she didn't, she said that she got tired of having to use sight spells but that day, apparently, she didn't want to wear them. He went to the laboratory table with some leaves, it was a potion made from albino Albanian salamanders, it sounded funny, they were albino and from Albania...Well, he was losing his mind but for him that was funny, sometimes he hated when his nerdy side showed more than necessary. He had struggled with it strongly during his college years. He didn't want to be compared to the book-eater Granger.
Lily waited for him to move a high chair so that she could sit, as always, and when they were both sitting in front of the work table without any ingredients on it, they knew that in this class they weren't going to do anything else but talk about their situation, he would have to save the hallucinogenic potion for another day of service.
They looked at each other and then she smiled.
"How was the rest of your weekend?"
" Well, tragically calm, there was nothing to distract me from your highly obscene proposition."
She smiled, she loved it when he spoke in those stiff old words, she felt like he was a Jane Austen character or something.
"Thinking of my highly obscene proposition? I would love to know how it was. What exactly were you thinking about?"
" I was thinking about how much time they would give me in Azkaban for groping an underage student who happens to be the daughter of the head of the magical law enforcement department."
She laughed again and then bit her lip.
" Well yes, that's something screwed up but I already put all my cards on the table, I won't let you get away, I've warned you."
"I doubt very much that you can force me."
" Force you?" she asked incredulously. "No, not at all." She leaned into him. "Here nobody tries to force anyone." Lily was so fucking Slytherin that Draco couldn't resist leaning in to kiss her.
And kiss her.
And kiss her.
Everything they had advanced to the program for months went to hell because they spent the rest of the week like this, kissing after school without doing anything else.
