Give It All for You -Scorpius x Lily pt 8

Lily's POV

Scorpius hadn't talk to me yet and it was Friday at exactly 11:32 am. I knew Albus had gone and spoken to him after I talked to him so I knew if Scorpius was going to redeem himself it would be today and fairly soon if Al had said what I knew he must have. I was right. From across the yard I felt Scorpius gain his courage and while the whole school watched, seeing us talk for the first time since our rumored fight which spread across the school in a few hours, he swaggered and leaned against the pillar I read next to. I continued reading my textbook and marking important sentences.

"So Potter, I hear you have a hot Halloween date in Hogsmead this weekend."

Halloween was this Sunday. How had I forgotten?

"That's odd, Malfoy, because I thought I was going with you..."

He smirked and rolled his head, pausing to look at the cerulean sky before smiling back at my snarky comment.

"Only if you want to. I mean, I want you to want to go with me but only if you want to."

"Lucky for you I want you to be my boyfriend and go to Hogsmead with me but only if you want to."

"Oh do I!"

With that comment I couldn't help but smile and take his hand. He sat next to me and pulled out a novel and lay his head in my lap just before becoming as absorbed in his text as I was in mine. Sure, the whispers were distracting but once again the bubbling, sunny-yellow feeling swelled in my chest. Scorpius was back. I knew he wouldn't just let me go but deep inside of me I doubted his chivalry. It didn't matter though. He was back to his normal unconcerned self and once again I had bliss in my mind instead of the puzzling tangles of thoughts that bazooka through my brain when he is gone.

"Lily, I know you can protect yourself but just in case you slip up once or something distracts you I want to be there to attempt to keep you safe too. I probably won't be very good at it but I want to give it my all."

"I knew you would talk to me. I've spied on you and I've seen the charms you keep using are protective spells paired with jinxes that harm but don't kill the assailant. You aren't practicing to keep yourself safe. Thank you though, I'd rather have you at my back than anyone else. You hungry? I could really use an ice cream sundae right now."

Ice cream sounded like the least appealing thing at that moment but I couldn't stand everyone watching us and increasing the tension that didn't exist. I wasn't panicked about our tiny spat and Scorpius looked nothing less of the third generation Marauder than he usually did.  He looked around at the people unashamedly watching us and agreed that a milkshake sounded divine. Scorpius hated milkshakes, Albus complained about this fact constantly, which meant he understood my comment perfectly. How did we become such a great pair? Are great pairs born or do they develop? Either way I was glad Scorpius was my missing piece. Who could ask for anything more?

The castle seemed quiet now that the eyes were no longer focused on us. Was it really that boring around here that people had to get into everyone else's business? In my three years here I had never once been a fraction as curious as they were to anyone else's relationships. Oh well, it couldn't be helped. I was just glad that tomorrow Scorpius and I would be going on our first off-grounds date. After quietly talking about what the future might hold for the next two hours Scorpius walked me to the Gryffindor Tower and kissed my wrist before walking away.

"Are you a vampire or something?"

"I would make an attractive vampire, but no. Is a wrist kiss not satisfactory?"

"No, it isn't. I expect a proper kiss before bed."

After remedying his failure he whistled a lullaby as he walked back to Slytherin Dungeons with his hands in his pockets. I watched him turn the corner before squealing, blushing when he responded to my noise, then racing in to tell my roommates about the day. I had won the bet that he would talk to me during lunch hour and he would be ready to continue the relationship. I had been banking on winning this bet, literally banking. I just won the five Galleons that would pay for my date tomorrow!

All my flatmates had those shiny, golden coins in hand when I came in and handed them over with outrageously huge smiles on their faces. One nice thing about gossip at Hogwarts is that no one could ever lie and get their way with bets. News circulated the school quicker than Voldemort could have summoned his Death Eaters.

"So, Lily, we have date security all planned out. If someone is tailing you, other than one of us of course, send purple sparks out of your wand and we will show up and get rid of them. If someone is trying to sabotage the date send us pink sparks and we will magically fix whatever is going wrong. If you are in trouble send white sparks and send green sparks if Scorpius is in trouble. You won't see us and we will single handedly make sure everything is awesome for you. No stupid pureblood zealot is going to mess up this relationship with us at your back. Let's go to bed, it's an early day tomorrow and we all need to look and act our best. Goodnight, Lily dear."

I was fortunate to have an amazing boyfriend and an amazing friend group.


Scorpius POV

Lily's friends nearly got in trouble for cutting in line behind us. They might have been kept from Hogsmead if Lily hadn't acted like she was saving their places the whole time. They got in the carriage behind us, leaving the four person carriage with just the two of us in it. They had winked at Lily and she had given them a thumbs up as we left.

"Your friends are being oddly cryptic today. Do they plan on playing guardian during our date? They seemed to jump or look at the slightest movement."

"You are too observant for your own good Scorpius Malfoy. They are convinced that we should be a couple forever and are determined to make sure no "Pureblood Zealot" ruins our chances, but yes, they might be invisibly tailing us. We'll see how discrete they are able to be."

Since Lily had never been here before I showed her to the prank shop which I knew she would love. Her uncle George ran a joke shop in Diagon Alley. He had more item and more unique pranks but couldn't yet afford a place here, that or he didn't want to manage it. Apparently he used to be quite the prankster and constantly cheered up everyone around him. After he lost his twin in the battle of Hogwarts he became a drunk loner. I had seen him a few times when I was shopping for pranks. He wore a dragonhide suit and swaggered around the store while his assistant helped other customers. We walked through the store while I thought all this. I looked down to realize Lily was thinking about the same thing.
"Maybe your uncle will open a shop here soon too."

"No, I don't think he has the will to leave his own shop. He rarely leaves it for more than food or family get together's. After Uncle Fred died he kind of lost the will to do anything more than survive, and only just."

We went to the post office and sent a postcard to our parents then went to the Three Broomsticks for a warm butterbeer. It was there we had our first encounter with her friends. There was one of them by the door, and one in both corners on either side of us, two more of them sat at the bar and the last, one of her cousins, sat in the balcony above. All of their noses were red, indicating that they had been outside as long as we had and only just beat us into the bar. I noticed a pin on Lily's hat, one that she had never worn before and knew it was how they knew where we would be. Another person seemed to be interested in our locations as well, staying a good distance behind but obviously following us. As we left the bar Rose Weasley paid and slowly followed us out. To test my theory I lead us to the Shrieking Shack and away from the rest of the buildings. She followed. Lily also noticed and looking nonchalantly innocent sent some purple sparkles into the air.

Moments later giggling was heard coming towards us and Lily's friends and similarly aged cousins came out of the bushes around us in pairs. They seemed to be having their own conversations but kept an oddly close eye on the distance between them and the others. Only a few yards from us they looked up and seemingly noticed Rose for the first time. It was one of Lily's cousins who addressed the spy.

"Hi Rose! Are you here for the haunted snowball fight as well? We were just meeting up with Lily and Scorpius for it. Did you want to join?"

"Oh, no thanks! I just thought it'd be spooky to see the Shrieking Shack. Apparently it's not as scary as everyone says. I've never seen it before but it just looks like a decrepit building. That's unfortunate, I was looking for a little scare. See you guys later. Enjoy the fight!"

She turned and ran, blushing furiously, and as soon as she was out of sight Lily's friends had vanished as well. Our date continued. This time it was Lily who led the way. I had thought we were going back to the shops but she took an unexpected turn and breached a garden wall behind an abandoned shop. I followed her and watched as a smile flicked across her face. She had evaded detection. A small light on her pin lit up indicating as much.

Without hesitating she pushed me against the wall and our lips made contact again. Expecting a short kiss, like the others I pulled away only to find Lily following me. She wanted a snog session, not just a sweet embrace and a few quiet moments. I had planned on waiting for a few dates first but apparently Lily had other things on her mind.  Fifteen minutes later we came over the wall again and went to the Three Broomsticks again. Another butterbeer later we were back behind the garden wall. She was a girl who knew what she wanted. Once our snog session finished she asked if I wanted to head back to the castle and go flying. When I agreed she pushed a gem on her pin and sent four colors of sparkles into the air.

"What? I have to thank them!"

Back the castle we grabbed our broomsticks and walked towards the pitch. Lily was just telling me about her favorite Quittich move, one her mother had come up with a few weeks ago, when a scream echoed out and she stopped and turned to look. A wand showed from around a corner and a streak of red hit Lily in the chest. Then she screamed and grabbed at her collarbone before collapsing into the snow. Who would curse her and for what reason? As she squirmed in the snow she told me a spell and said to make it silver. She passed out and I sent the spell up into the air. It was the spell for glitter. I picked her up and began huffing through the snow. In half a minute Lily's friends were running towards me panicked and asking what happened. They waited long enough to hear she was attacked and from where before all but her cousin rushed off towards where the wand had been.