Chapter 23
no risk,
no story
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The students' families were already waiting outside the Hogwarts Express. The Weasley-Potter family was among them.
"I can't believe what you want from us!" Annoyed, Ron rolled his eyes, Hermione remained silent. Ginny shrugged her shoulders. "It was my idea and I'm going to go through with it. No matter what you all think."
"They're Slytherins! This can't end well!" Molly said a little more gently. "Albus is also a Slytherin," Ginny countered. Molly nodded and sighed. "But they come from Death Eater families."
"But their relatives aren't here," Ginny replied, turning to her family and folding her arms. "This is going to happen."
Harry groaned in annoyance. "You told me last night! It would have been even better if you had told me a little earlier." Harry tried to keep his voice normal with his wife and not raise his voice. He didn't want that.
He loved her. Everything.
He couldn't imagine what it would be like if he wasn't in love with her. He believed that being in love and loving a person were the strongest feelings.
Then the Hogwarts Express stopped.
"Maybe it won't be so bad," Hermione murmured, but Ron hadn't heard.
The students got off the Hogwarts Express. But the teenagers from the Weasley-Potter family were waiting for the Slytherins and Faye so they could go with them.
They had all only found out about Ginny's plan last night.
Molly and Lucy immediately ran to their mother, Rose pulled Hugo by the arm, who for some reason would have preferred to stay at Hogwarts. Hermione immediately opened her arms and pulled her children into a hug. Lily was closest to Molly and Arthur, which is why she was the first to be pulled into a hug.
After everyone was greeted, they all apparated together to their respective houses. The rest of the family would only show up at the Potters' and hang out there a few days later.
Harry opened the front door and let everyone in. Then he took off his cloak, hung it up and disappeared into the kitchen. Ginny took Lily and Faye's jackets before smiling at the seven teenagers and following Harry.
"I'm bored already," said James and jokingly nudged Lily, who immediately slapped him on the shoulder and nudged him into the living room. "You're always bored. That's why you always come up with stupid ideas!"
"I won't do anything stupid, witch!" James called from the living room and Lily immediately called back. "You always say that, idiot!"
Albus wanted to slap his forehead. Typical James and Lily. Either the two were making a perfect mistake or they were just arguing. Nothing in between.
"Um, yes. This will be fun." Jareth scratched the back of his head a little nervously. Alaric laughed at him for his nervousness.
Albus and Scorpius exchanged a look. Lily immediately showed Faye her room and didn't let her contradict at all.
Alaric and Jareth were - to everyone's surprise - invited by James to chill with him in the living room.
Albus pointed with his head towards the stairs and Scorpius followed his gaze before nodding. Albus went ahead and after a short while they entered Albus' room together.
Albus quietly closed the door.
"I can't believe it took almost 6 years for me to finally see your room for the first time," Scorpius explained and Albus crept up to Scorpius before wrapping his arms around Scorpius' waist from behind. He rested his chin on his shoulder.
Butterflies in their stomachs overcame both of them.
"I can't believe you're at home with me," Albus smiled and Scorpius put his hands on Albus' hands, where he began to stroke them gently with his thumbs.
"Mhm." was all that came out of Scorpius' mouth before he took a deep breath as Albus began to place gentle kisses on his neck. From there, the kisses moved to Scorpius' throat.
Scorpius tightened his grip on Albus' hands. Albus then had to suppress his grin and continued kissing his neck.
"You like that, don't you?" Albus whispered in Scorpius' ear and Scorpius took a sharp breath. "Fuck, Albus....You know we have to go back down, right?"
Albus nodded in response, but he couldn't really think about it. He was too distracted by Scorpius' reaction to his actions. He liked that he could throw him off track like that.
Scorpius turned around in Albus' arms, a smile playing around his lips. "You know how much I'm in love with you?" whispered Scorpius and Albus thought his heart had stopped beating.
Albus leaned his nose against Scorpius and inhaled his scent.
He smelled so good.
"I'm so in love with you," Albus gasped out of breath, then pressed his lips longingly to Scorpius', who immediately returned the kiss and sighed into it.
But Albus quickly broke the kiss again. "We really should go back downstairs, shouldn't we?" Scorpius nodded and kissed him quickly on the lips again before he completely broke away from Albus and walked to the door.
Albus followed him. He felt completely drunk, though.
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"Maybe your dad will listen to you. Not me at the moment, anyway," explained Ginny, who was braiding Lily's hair.
"Because?" asked Albus, James' gaze remained fixed on Harry. Lily had to look at the floor the whole time, otherwise she would just stare at Faye. And that was a bit embarrassing for her in front of her parents.
If only Albus, Scorpius, Alaric and Jareth had been there at that moment, she wouldn't have cared.
"Harry has been working more overtime as an Auror in the last few weeks than is actually good for him. And he doesn't listen to my objections." You could tell from her voice that she was annoyed.
"Change of subject!" Harry interjected and Ginny sighed loudly. "Alice is coming to visit us this holiday too."
James then choked on his own spit, Lily winced before she started laughing at him and Albus looked down at the floor - trying to hold back his laughter as best he could.
Alaric put his hand over his mouth so that his smile was not visible. This time he was even able to hold back his laughter relatively well. Jareth did the same.
Scorpius looked at Albus, which was a great way for him to distract himself.
Ginny watched the whole scenario and began to smile.
In the last few hours - since they had arrived home - she had already started to develop a motherly instinct towards Scorpius, Alaric, Jareth and Faye.
Harry noticed her smile, of course, and frowned.
"Are you serious?" James grinned and shook his head at the thought that he was actually being laughed at his sister and Albus' group of friends.
Lily jumped up from the sofa and threw herself at James, causing him to scream briefly. "Focus on Faye and not on me!"
After that sentence, James screamed again, as he had been hit by Lily for it.
James then somehow managed to free himself, got up as quickly as possible, moved to Albus and hid behind him.
Lily tilted her head. "Do you seriously think that will stop me?" "Well done, James," Albus added.
But it didn't bother him.
Until suddenly a fire broke out.
Albus felt a painful stab, but he didn't let it show. Even though it hurt like hell.
Albus and Scorpius both knew immediately that the fire was from Albus again. Why else would a fire break out just like that?
Albus immediately disappeared from the living room, Scorpius followed him.
After a brief moment of shock, Harry pulled out his wand and made the fire disappear. Alaric and Jareth shared a look - Faye had taken Lily's hand in shock.
"Shit..." Albus muttered, standing in front of his dad's office. Scorpius reached Albus at that very moment.
"What are you planning?"
"I have to finally find out what's wrong with me! Dad usually hides old books in his office that he doesn't really want to make public," Albus explained more quietly, as the living room was still very close.
After a moment of consideration, Scorpius nodded. "Okay. How are you going to open the office? Magic outside of Hogwarts is forbidden."
"True, unless we try my magic. Maybe the Ministry of Magic can't track it. Worth a try?" Albus tilted his head and looked deep into his boyfriend's eyes, who was slowly losing concentration and getting other ideas.
Scorpius' eyes wandered back and forth between Albus' eyes and lips.
Albus reached out and let his hand fall gently on Scorpius' hip and slowly moved backwards towards the door.
Scorpius followed him. They both stared into each other's eyes while Albus' right hand wandered back towards the door and he concentrated on the Alohomora charm. At least he tried.
But with Scorpius in front of him - so close - and those damn beautiful eyes, he couldn't concentrate so well.
But then the door opened and Albus turned towards the room.
Now Albus was pressed against Scorpius' body with his back. "Oh, sorry." Albus moved forward a little and Scorpius raised his eyebrows. "Did you really just apologize for your body coming into contact with mine?" Scorpius followed Albus into the room, somewhat amused.
Albus scratched the back of his head as he scanned the room with his eyes. "Um, that was stupid, wasn't it? Probably a matter of habit." His heart was racing and his lungs began to fill with to much air.
Scorpius closed the door. "I would believe you if you had apologized to me for physical contact before - but you never have. So it's not a matter of habit." Then he turned back to Albus and moved towards him.
Albus became more nervous when he felt Scorpius' presence behind him.
"Maybe I was a little nervous..." Albus muttered the words quickly one after the other before he looked at the desk in front of him, where he hadn't found anything useful on it, and then turned around.
His heart literally jumped out of his chest, as he hadn't expected Scorpius to be standing so close to him.
Now Albus was pressed against the desk.
If only he had left before he turned around.
"A little nervous?" There was a flirtatious undertone in Scorpius' voice and the only thing he could think of at that moment was Albus.
Otherwise his entire mind was empty at the moment. Completely empty.
Except for Albus.
Albus took a breath before he reached out and slowly placed his hand on Scorpius' hand, arm and finally on his hip.
He pulled him closer to him and Scorpius moved voluntarily.
Scorpius' hands were placed on the desk on either side of Albus' body. He leaned closer to Albus and their noses were already touching as they both closed their eyes for a moment.
"We can always look later, right?" Albus whispered, Scorpius nodded. Then Scorpius lifted Albus up so Albus could sit on the table.
Both hearts were racing so much and the butterflies became even more.
Albus spread his legs, then Scorpius stood between his legs.
Scorpius' arms wrapped around Albus' body before he gently placed his lips on Albus'. Albus ran his hands through Scorpius' hair, Scorpius deepened the kiss and wrapped Albus' legs around his body.
This brought their bodies even closer together and no distance could be seen.
Both began to grin, Scorpius tightened his grip and Albus tightened his grip as a wave of heat shot through both bodies.
But shit, they couldn't seriously do it in Albus' dad's office?
And the other thing: were they even ready for it yet?
Both knew deep down that they should have a serious conversation about the topic first before doing anything sexual. Especially with each other.
Sleeping together or doing something to your own body alone was a very big difference.
They separated their lips but kept their faces close. Both were breathing heavily. Heavier than usual.
"We should stop now, shouldn't we?" whispered Scorpius and Albus nodded after a slightly longer moment, as his mind was so foggy.
Then Albus felt a wave of goosebumps as Scorpius gently placed his lips on Albus' neck. He distributed kisses there.
Albus wrapped his legs even more tightly around Scorpius.
"Didn't you say we should stop?" breathed Albus and his breathing became heavier again as he couldn't get used to the feeling on his neck, as it just felt too good.
"Weren't you the one who did the same thing today?" Scorpius' breath hit Albus' neck. Albus swallowed as his heart began to race even faster.
"Mhm..."
He could feel Scorpius' grin on his neck. And then Albus thought he was going to lose his mind when he felt his tongue stick to it.
But then footsteps sounded outside and they both separated faster than ever.
Have they been caught?