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Alrighty, so, the Second Year will have more interactions with other Slytherins in the same year/other years, as well as other houses. PDF link is in my bio

The way that this is titled what it is because of what I have planned for the future and you guys don't know that makes me giggle heavily.

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Love Z 3

Chapter 12. I'll Do Anything to Make You Stay

Albus stared at the robes hanging from his door. Dress robes. The epitome of wizarding formal wear. In Albus's opinion they were itchy and stuffy and never fun to wear. And he found it overly ridiculous that he had to wear them considering that Cass's family wasn't from the wizarding world and would be wearing normal muggle attire. But he guessed that he understood it. Annie had said that she was told it was so that Cass's family could see some of the wizarding world things and that he was able to change once the ceremony was over.

Although still annoyed that he had to wear them, he grabbed the robes off of the door before begrudgingly put each layer on. He wished that there was a summer version of them, perhaps then he would be able to move when in them and not feel like he was going to burn alive. Once he had all the layers on, he stared at himself in the mirror, a small look of disgust was written on his face.

He sighed deeply as he adjusted the tie part, "For Annie, I'm doing this for her."

As he heard his mum's laugh, he jumped. "Sorry, sorry. I just find it rather amusing that you're doing something like this for a friend."

Albus shrugged as he looked at her, "It's not just for her. It's also for Cass. She wanted all of us from the wizarding world to wear these robes for the ceremony. We can change afterwards so I have a set of muggle dressing clothes to change into."

She smiled, similarly to a smirk. "Well, we better get going." she grabbed his bag off of his chair and tossed it at him, "Her mother is going to drop you off in the morning, yes?" He nodded, "Alright, then let's get going, don't want you to be late." She pushed open the front door of the manor and let him out. "You must dance with her at least once."

"Mother!"

She looked upon Albus, "Don't 'mother' me, you know I despise being called that. But still, you better."

He shot her a small glare, "Fine, I will."

She smiled at him, holding her arm out for his. "Then let's go." He wrapped his arm in hers and soon felt the sickening feeling of appartating come at him. But as usually, as soon as it started, it ended and his feet were firmly on the ground. He stared as he saw a large black gate opened. His mother let go of him and he looked at her, "Remember to be respectful and behave, alright?" He nodded and she smiled before gently kissing his temple. "Now, I believe I see a girl with short dark hair running over here."

He looked over to where his mother was posting and sure enough he saw the short black-fading brown-hair in a deep purple dress running towards him. He began to wonder if there was magic thrown or something since it seemed that as soon as he saw her she appeared directly in front of him and tackled him in a hug.

"You made it on time! I never thought that would happen!"

He let out a fake offended gasp. "Just because I'm late to 90% of classes doesn't mean I can't be on time or even early to something."

She pulled away, mouth pulled into a wide smile. "I guess that's always true."

His mother let out a breath from behind him, "Well, I better be off. Lily needs new clothes, apparently James and Fred destroyed all of hers."

He looked at her and nodded, "Okay," He hugged her quickly, "I'll see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." She pulled away and tapped his shoulder, "Be safe and remember your manners."

Albus nodded, holding back an eye roll. "Okay, mum."

She made a small wave of her wand and left. He looked back at his friend and saw that her hand was out, "C'mon, let's go get your stuff put up and you can meet my family before even more people arrive and things."

He smiled and grabbed his bag that had fallen onto the ground, motioning towards the other side of the gate. "Show me the way, I guess."

The second he took her hand, she pulled him and they both started running towards what he began to see was a manor coming up. He stared at the outside, it was similar to his own home, just...newer looking. He guessed that it was possible, renovations or them getting it more recently than the Potter's had.

Before she could even put her hand to push the door open, he opened for them. He looked at her, quizzically. She smiled, "Magic. Mum put a spell on all the doors so that they will open when someone approaches...well all but the one that leads to the back where the ceremony will be. But that's really only so when Cassie comes out." She pointed to a set of stairs in the back, "C'mon, my mum is helping my younger sisters get ready in her room, we'll pass my room on the way so you can toss your bags in there."

He nodded and followed her up the stairs, tossing his bag in the room that she pointed to before continuing to follow until they made it all the way to the back. He watched as she pushed the door open before she grabbed his hand and pulled him in.

"Mum? Albus is here."

He saw her mother turn, her blonde hair was pulled up into something that resembled a ponytail but more elegant. He stared at her dress, instead of Annie's dark purple, which was close to a dark plum (or at least that was what he thought the color was as his Aunt Fleur had described it once), her mothers was a lilac, color similar to flower that grew in the gardens behind his house. She had a soft smile on her face as she looked at him.

"Albus." Her voice was gentle, "Hello dear. I see Annie told you the dresscode, hopefully you'll be better than my sons. All I have been hearing is their complaints over having to dress robes." He watched the older woman roll her eyes before turning back to focus on the young girl with black hair. "Even as I remind them that they will be allowed to change once it is time for the reception. I do wonder where they get their brains from because clearly something went wrong with them compared to their sisters." He watched as she finished putting flowers in the girl's hair and looked back at him. "What's going on with your hair?"

His eyes widened and he instinctively brought his hand up to touch it, he was about to say something when Annie spoke up. "Oh trust me, this is better than normal. You should see it most days. His mum said that I got it the flattest she had ever seen last week at the World Cup."

Her mother hummed, "Well, I suppose it will have to do." She sighed heavily, "Annie, why don't you introduce your sisters to Albus. I'm going to check on your brothers and see how they're getting on, make sure everyone is being nice to Nick." She smiled as she moved to leave the room, gently patting his shoulder on her way out.

From the corner of his eyes, he saw Annie groan and dramatically roll her eyes. "Those two right there, the blondes that look identical are Alexa and Liana. Lexa is the one with glasses." He saw the two girls give small notions to say hello. He waved back slightly as Annie continued, "Next would be Clara, that one she's playing with is Eden. the youngest sister." Neither girl looked at him, both just playing around with one another. "Elina is the one with the braids and Odette is the one with black hair. And then that is all of my sisters, you already know Genevieve."

He nodded and did a small wave to them, most just ignored him, continuing with what they were doing. Genevieve, however, smirked at him and spoke. "Surprised that you showed, Potter. Didn't think your family would let you out and about with us Slytherin families."

He felt him beginning to dig his nails into the skin of his palm at Genevieve's comment. "My mum and dad don't care. It's really just a James thing."

"Really? Heard Ronald Weasley wasn't too fond of our house either."

He looked away from her, his anger beginning to bubble up to the surface as he felt Annie grab his arm and pull him out. Deafly he heard Annie say something back to her sister before they fully exited the room. But once they were out, he heard as Annie began to angrily go on about her sister.

"-I just don't bloody understand why she is being like this. She's so annoying about how this all has become in the past several weeks since we came back and I just-ugh! I wish she could learn how to treat people like you should and not like trash then maybe she might actually have some friends and people who like her."

He simply stayed quiet as she pushed the door to her room open more. He watched her practically throw herself on her bed, a heavy sigh coming out of her mouth as she pushed herself up again. "How have things been over at the Potter house?"

He shrugged, "It's been alright. James has been out with his friends most of the time so I haven't had to deal with him much."

He kept the fact of what Teddy and Vic had said a secret, what he had thought afterwards was something he still kept to himself. He didn't want anyone to know what had happened, at least not yet. He felt like it would be a bother, him letting anyone know what he was feeling. Thought it would be better to just keep it to himself to not tell anyone a thing.

"That's good." She pushed hair from her face, "Mum said that once it hits 8, we can start to head up for bed. That's when things are supposed to start dying down." She sighed, "I dunno how true that is. If we're allowed to leave soon or later or whatever but that's currently the idea of what's gonna happen to us in the end."

He nodded and smiled to himself out of slight self amusement and also embarrassment, "You know...I've never actually been to a wedding before. I'm the second youngest grandson, fourth overall. Everyone was married by the time I was born."

"Oh!" She stared at him in surprise, "Really? No cousins or anything?"

He shook his head, leaning against her dresser. "My dads cousin got married before and my mum doesn't really have any that she would have gone to."

Annie nodded, "Well, basically, you sit through this ceremony, where they get married and say their vows and all that mushy stuff." She adjusted herself on her bed, "After they kiss and walk back up the aisle together and do...something behind closed doors, while everyone else heads to where the reception is and then we eat and I guess sort of party and celebrate."

"Really is just all that?"

"Yeah, but it still feels like ages though. It can be bloody miserable. But mum and dad put up some spells to get everyone cooled."

"So how many people are gonna be out there?"

She sighed and leaned her head back, as though trying to think before saying, "For the people that you would know it's the Malfoy's, so that's Scor, his parents, and his grandmother. Zabini's which is just Lorene and her parents. Avery's, which definitely includes Oli, Liv, Hol, and their parents. The two youngest, Amellia and Isabella may or may not, their 8 and I dunno if Aunt Stephanie wants them here. Then the Goyles, Char and the twins plus their parents, I know that Felix and Seren are being watched by Aunt Millicent's mum and dad. The Notts, so Keely, her brother Charles, and their parents. The Boles, so Lizzie, Jordan, and their parents. Then finally the Montagues, that includes all the ones you know plus their parents plus Megan and George and Oli. The youngest two are staying back with Uncle Graham's mum."

He nodded, "What about the people I don't know."

"Well, that would be my family; aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins from both sides. You'll easily be able to tell them apart, trust me. And there will be more people from my mum's side than my dads. My dad was an only child but I have Great Aunts and Uncles who have kids; hence the aunts and uncles and cousins from both sides." He nodded, picking up a small figure off of her dresser, it was covered in different colors. As if it had been painted by a child. "Then there's Cassie's family. Her mum and dad and sister plus I think maybe her grandparents or an aunt or uncle or two. This whole show for you boys to wear dress robes is mostly for her small amount of her family that are here."

He looked at her curiously, "Why is most of her family not here?"

"They either don't believe or don't agree with her being a witch. Most of them are really old thinkers. Believe it's satanic and all to be a witch."

He made a face before setting the small figure back down, "Seriously?"

"Yeah, it's bloody ridiculous if you ask me, but not much we can do about it." She pushed hair from her face again, "That was a mermaid by the way. I painted it when I was like...3 or 4. I don't really remember. But mum took all of us to go paint little figurines. Me being me, I naturally chose a mermaid."

He smiled, "It looked...interesting."

"What a nice way to say it looks horrible."

"No. No. It doesn't look horrible, just interesting." He brushed his own hair out of his face, "You can definitely tell a child painted it. Which isn't totally bad, it just is rather...interesting."

"I hate you. I want you to know that."

He smiled goofily, "No you don't. You love me."

She shook her head and rolled her eyes as someone knocked on her door. The two looked over and saw her mother standing in the doorway. "The wedding is starting soon. Annie, Aidan is about to go out and if you want to be his best person without your father's complaints, I would head down now. I can show Albus where he is meant to sit."

Annie nodded and quickly made her way out of the room while Albus slowly made his way over to her mum. For the most part, he stayed silent as he followed her down. He didn't know what to say. He wasn't sure if it was even right for him to say something to her, he had only just met her and really didn't know much about her except for what Annie had told him, and even that wouldn't help him much.

"I'm happy Annie met you, Albus."

"What?"

He heard her mum laugh before repeating herself, "I just said that I'm happy that Annie met you. She seems happier since you came into her life."

"Oh. I hadn't noticed."

"Oh, it really isn't all that noticeable, just something a mother would notice." She stopped by a row and turned to smile at him, "You're sitting here, next to Scorpius and his family. Annie demanded you to be with them."

He looked over and saw the face of his other friend looking bored as ever and hadn't even noticed him there. "Right, thank you, Mrs. Green."

"Of course, I shall see you after the ceremony."

He nodded before taking his seat next to his friend, he looked over and saw that his friend was still seemingly somewhere else. Albus faked an offended scoff, "And here I thought that I was your friend, Scorpius. But yet I sit down and I don't even get a measly hello. Maybe Annie was wrong to put me by you."

The blonde's head snapped over to him, "You're the worst, Al."

"No, that's Annie."

Scorpius laughed slightly, "Yeah, I guess so." He sighed and looked up for a moment, "I cannot believe we have to wear these stupid robes. Most of Cass's family isn't even here."

"Scorpius, you can change after the ceremony, until then, stop complaining. It could be so much worse. Her parents could have decided to not make sure it was cool in here for us." Albus looked over and saw a very pretty dark haired woman looking over at the two of them. He had seen her before, in the Prophet. It was Scor's mum.

"Yes mum."

She smiled over at Albus, holding her hand out for him to shake. "You must be Albus, I'm Astoria, Scorpius's mum."

Albus gently shook her hand, noting the way she wore two rings on her hand. "It's nice to meet you too, Mrs. Malfoy."

"Stop charming my mum, Albus."

"I am not 'charming her', I'm simply being nice. Since when was that charming?"

"Since I said so?"

He was about to argue his logic when music started and a hush fell around them. Scorpius threw Albus a smug look while Albus just tossed him a small glare. He turned his head and watched as everyone came down the aisle, standing as he heard Astoria and Draco whisper to do so as the doors opened and revealed Cass. He watched as the older girl walked down the aisle. It was odd to him, his cousin was the same age as her and yet seemingly had no interests in getting married. He wondered if Vic did, would the dress be similar? Would she also have a dress without sleeves? Would it resemble a ball gown and have lace all on it?

He wondered if this was a normal thing to do, stare at someone and think of another person that was the same age. Wonder if they would be any similar if they did the same things. It was something he did often enough so he wondered if it was normal or if it was another thing about him that was wrong.

Albus adjusted his tie as he stood by Annie and Scorpius. He knew that one of Annie's aunts had come over to talk to her but he grew distracted by someone he could only assume was her cousin. She had dark hair and a gentle smile, a smile similar to Annie's but it was much more prominent. She honestly looked like what you would think Annie would if she bore any resemblance to her mother, like her sisters did.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when he felt someone slap his arm. He began to rub the area that was hit as his head snapped over to them. "What?"

"My Aunt was just-"

"I was just trying to ask, how big is your family?" The lady had a thick Bulgarian accent and Albus barely understood the woman.

"Well..." He looked and saw the downward cast that Annie had, how she held her arms around herself. A look he began to know well as he had started to hold himself the same whenever he was alone. He cleared his throat before continuing, "My mother always taught me to not interrupt someone and you interrupted Annie so-"

"Albus it's alright, just answer her question." He saw Scorpius gently wrapping his arm around Annie and the way that her voice sounded made him want to disagree. But when he saw the look on her face, he realized that it would be better to not.

"I have 9 cousins on my mum's side that all come from her 6 brothers. And then two siblings myself."

She nodded, "And how about that rumor about that Edward and Victiore being engaged, is that true?"

He shook his head, "Vic and Teddy aren't engaged. They're not even interested in getting married at this time." He slowly began to glare at her, "And it isn't nice to speculate and listen to rumors about people. Someone of your age should know that."

He saw the anger flare on the woman's face before he heard Scorpius's dad's voice and felt his hand on his shoulder. "Natalia."

"Draco. Wonderful to see you here."

"Yes...as you know I've known Peter for years and saw Aidan grow up."

She gave him a face that was a mix of being nasty and a smirk. "Right..." She looked at Albus again before continuing, "I was mostly surprised to find a Potter here. Did not know that my sister's family had any association with them."

"Albus is Anne's friend. He was invited so that she and my son would not drive us all crazy. Now, I need to escort Anne to her mother and my son and Albus are coming with me." Albus looked up at Draco as he spoke, he noted the small look of anger on his face, a look similar to Albus's own father when he got mad at his Uncle Ron back at Christmas.

The grip on Albus's shoulder momentarily tightened before Draco began to turn him, "Come on you three."

Albus quickly felt his feet move as Draco moved them away, briefly, he looked back to see if Annie's aunt was still there and he saw her storming off in the opposite direction of them. He looked back around as they came to a halt. Albus looked at Annie and saw the look she previously had had was replaced by a look that was mixed with gratefulness and annoyance, he couldn't point out which was the main emotion there.

"Thank you, Mr. Malfoy." Her voice was soft, but also held annoyance in it.

"Of course, but I didn't completely lie to you. Your mother does need you and I got sent. She's over there by Cassie and Aidan."

Annie turned and looked to where Draco pointed before she nodded and breathed out an "Okay." And made her way over to them.

"As for you two, especially you Albus, don't cause any trouble. Dany's side of the family is not the side to anger, that's something I only know as I've seen her angry. Unless someone else starts it or fully insults you or your family, I beg that neither of you argue."

"But she interrupted-" Albus started but Draco stopped him:

"I know. I know. I don't like that either, but you need to understand this, the families here are different from the ones you grew up with. Many still practice things in the...old way, especially the Aleksandrovs. They aren't supremacists but some of the children have interesting ideals that clash with many of us that live here."

"So it's like a thing of um..." He faded off, trying to remember the word, mentally cursing as he knew Annie would know it.

"Geographical opinions. Similar to how those in lets say the Americas had no care for what was happening here with Voldemort as it didn't affect them. The Aleksandrov's, and many other families that send their children to Durmstrang, have strong beliefs about the war and the different families on different sides of it. It's always just easier to avoid the conversation altogether than to encourage it. Understand?"

Albus nodded, "Yes sir."

"No need to call me sir, I was just explaining."

Albus nodded as he saw Anne making her way back over to them. "According to my mum, dancing is starting soon and she wants to make sure everyone has a partner." She looked directly at him, a sheepish look on her face, "I might have told her that you agreed to be mine." She bit her lip and played with her nails, "I'm sorry. She just asked me and your name just slipped out of my lips before I could even think and when she asked me to confirm I just dug my hole deeper by swearing you said that you would."

He laughed slightly before shrugging, "I don't care. Just I would like to forewarn you that I'm not the best dancer."

"Neither am I, at least not with a partner. Maybe the two negatives will turn into positives?"

"Maybe?"

"Or it'll catch on fire and burn to the ground." The two of them looked at Scorpius, who just raised his hands in defense, "I'm just saying, best case scenario is that the two of you succeed in dancing while the worst case is you fail and fall down."

Both of them were about to say something when Derek ran over, "Come on you two, mum is about to murder you both since you're the only ones that haven't made your way over. So I am now here to attempt to prevent bloodshed at our dear brother's wedding."

Annie rolled her eyes and grabbed Albus's hand, pulling him along and over to where he saw the whole lot of her family was gathered. He looked at who all was standing by one another, noticing that everyone who was standing there were only those who had at least started at Hogwarts, plus her sisters Liana and Alexa. The other 5 were nowhere to be seen, Albus wondered if perhaps they had been sent up to bed or perhaps they were told they couldn't be a part of this because they were too young.

"Good, you're both here. I guess it's time to get this party started." Both Albus and Anneliese rolled their eyes as Aidan spoke. "Now, we have to dance for one song then we can go and do whatever, mum's rules. Me and Cass get the first 30 seconds or so and then mum and dad join and then you kids join in whenever you think it's right" Wrapping his arm around Cass's waist he smiled as Mrs. Green got up and started to talk.

As the music began playing, Aidan and Cass walked on and danced, his mum and dad as well as hers soon joining them. Albus stood next to Annie, her arm looped around his, as he waited for her to make the move for them to go. He felt her grip on his arm as they started to make their way over to dance. He wasn't used to this, Annie being scared. Everyone always says she gets scared easily, but he had never seen it before.

He awkwardly wrapped his arms around her, looking into her face, watching her eyes darting all around them. "You okay?" He whispered out, concern laced all in his voice.

"Yeah...there's just a lot of people watching us."

He looked around, and sure enough, there was. He looked back at her, "You're not used to that, are you?" She shook her head and he nodded, "Well...for me distraction always helps. Wanna try it?"

"Sure." She breathed out.

He smiled, "School starts in a month, are you ready for it?"

She nodded, "Yeah. After a while, it gets suffocating being around my family with no escape. At least at school I'm able to hide from them and do other things."

He nodded, "I get that. I'm hoping this year is easy, that no one causes any unnecessary drama."

"Isn't all drama unnecessary?" She looked him in the eyes, "Spin me."

He was about to comment on her first part when she made her request. He tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Why?"

"Just do it." And so he did, albeit awkwardly. And as he did, a sudden fill of relief hit him as he saw a few of the other girls getting spun.

When she came back to him, he looked at her curiously, "How did you know that was about to happen?"

"I saw my grandmother spin her finger around. At every wedding I've been to, that she has as well, whenever she does that, everyone spins the lady around. That is assuming they see the signal."

He nodded, "That actually makes a lot of sense."

"Yeah." She sighed and smiled gently, "So what else were you going to say about drama?"

"Oh. Just that you were right. Most drama is unnecessary. So I guess I'm just hoping that no drama happens, or at least not just any that has to do with me." He laughed.

She laughed along, "Let's hope not, I don't think we can handle it again."

He laughed as the song began to end and they all came to a halt in front of everyone. Once again, she looped her arm around his as they made their way over to their friends. "Thanks for coming, by the way. It means a lot."

He shrugged, "It's nothing. I had nothing to do. But you just need to agree to come to every wedding in my family."

She laughed, "Alright." She held her hand out for him to shake and he took it, "We have a deal."

"Oh Merlin, please tell me you aren't making deals again."

Albus looked at Charlotte with curiosity as Annie spoke, "Oh shut up. I have never once made a bad deal. And this one doesn't even concern you so I don't understand why you're commenting on it."

"Why is there a problem with you making a deal?"

"She used to make them all the time, always made sure that she had the good end of it while the rest of us got the bad end."

"Really?"

"Not my fault you lot suck at making deals, Holly."

"Yeah well-"

"Ladies, why don't we not start a fight now. I see Aunt Dany starting to get angry as she stares over at us. So unless you lot want to get yelled at later, I would suggest that you all shut it."

As Rohyn said that everyone turned their heads to see Mrs. Green staring at the kids, her brow raised as if to dare them to do something. After a moment, they all looked back at each other and stayed silent for several seconds. That silence was only broken by everyone saying they were going to find someone else, leaving Scor, Annie, and Albus by themselves again.

"Unfortunately, I have to make my leave too. I see my mum motioning me that it's time to go, so I will see you two later." The blonde boy hugged his two friends before he ran over to his mother, leaving the two dark haired kids by themselves.

Annie yawned before turning to Albus, "Wanna head up? It's getting late anyways." He nodded and she smiled, "Let me just go tell my mum."

Albus silently sat on the edge of Annie's bed as she changed in her bathroom. He looked around her room, looking at the different things around it. It looked like a typical 12 year olds room. Photos and clothes scattered all around. He noticed several books on the ground as well, noting that some were school books while others were personal; both from the muggle and wizarding world. He looked at the nightstand that sat by her bed, looking at the small box that sat on top of it. He picked it up, recognizing it as something for the muggle film Tangled. It was purple and had the princess Rapunzel on the sides of it. Gently, he flipped the clip up and opened it, hearing one of the songs from the film play from it.

"You like it?" He quickly closed it, looking at her, face red. She laughed, "I don't mind, nothing in there really." She smiled and sat across from him, "Have you ever seen it?"

He nodded, "Yeah. Lily was obsessed with it when it came out, but it was replaced by the next one. Whatever it was called."

"Frozen?" He nodded and she hummed, gently taking the box from him and closing it. "I was obsessed with that one too, but my mum got me this before that one came out." She placed it back where it went and leaned back against one of the poles on the side of her bed, "I did mean it. I am extremely grateful you were able to make it. It made the night more bearable."

He smiled, "It was fun. I had fun."

She smiled, "Good."

He leaned his head back against her headboard, he really did have a good day, one of the better days of the summer. It was the first day since he had come back that he hadn't had some type of fear inside of him. For the first time since he came back, that happiness that he always felt around her hit him, that feeling that had him terrified to ever lose her. And now knowing that her mum likes him as her friend, that small itch of fear hit him because what if she just changes her mind about him like James did?