[LOG] A long, awkward journey
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ass_teaWhere: The Hogwarts Express
When: September 1, 2021 (fifth year)
"Bye Dad, bye Mum!" Scorpius hugged both his parents quickly, trying his best not to pull away too soon as his mother kissed him on both cheeks.
"Remember what we talked about, all right?"
"I know, Mum," Scorpius said, pulling out of his mother's embrace and poking his head over the crowd to see if he could spot the cluster of Weasleys and Potters that usually came to send off their children.
Scorpius had been distracted all summer, sleep coming rather uneasily to him despite the late hours. He'd finished all his summer reading and all his essays the first week he'd been home, which meant that he'd run out of excuses to avoid martial arts lessons from his father by the end his third week, which was only relieved once Delphina had come home, fresh from graduating from the Mount Emei Girls Academy. She had been at the top of her class and awarded honors in almost every field she'd studied, which made their parents proud to no end and finally let Scorpius have some time to himself as she continually pestered their father to teach her more techniques and spells.
There was a part of Scorpius that itched to go back to Hogwarts, and a part that also dreaded it. He'd been thinking about Alby all summer and had been trying to construct something akin to the casual correspondence they usually kept up all during the holidays, but failed miserably to write anything that didn't, upon a second inspection, look terribly childish, boring, or lovelorn, or all three. His mother had advised him to tell Albus about his feelings, to which his immediate gut reaction was to recoil in horror. He was not particularly good at telling anyone his feelings, and had absolutely no experience in the type of confessions that his mother had suggested. Moping about the house for the last week, Scorpius had reluctantly decided he was going to pretend that everything was normal, that Alby didn't mean anything special to him, and that the preservation of their friendship was the most important thing.
Scorpius spotted a cluster of red-heads of all ages, possibly even the dark hair of Harry Potter himself, and decided that rather than face all the Potters and Weasleys, he'd better make a run for the train and save a compartment. He knew there was no way that he was going to be able to greet Alby's siblings without looking guilty about something, and the last thing he wanted was for Alby's overbearing older brother, James, to think that something was up.
He grabbed his trunked waved a hasty goodbye to his parents and pushed the crowd aside, heading for the doors of the train. Most of the compartments were already taken by the time he was onboard and looking around. Suddenly thinking that perhaps it would be a better idea for him to sit with some familiar faces from his house (the thought of being left alone with Alby for the entirety of the ride filled him with fear), by a stroke of luck a compartment door opened, and an arm grabbed his sleeve.
"Hey mate," said Alex with a grin, "we saved you and Alby a seat."
When: September 1, 2021 (fifth year)
"Bye Dad, bye Mum!" Scorpius hugged both his parents quickly, trying his best not to pull away too soon as his mother kissed him on both cheeks.
"Remember what we talked about, all right?"
"I know, Mum," Scorpius said, pulling out of his mother's embrace and poking his head over the crowd to see if he could spot the cluster of Weasleys and Potters that usually came to send off their children.
Scorpius had been distracted all summer, sleep coming rather uneasily to him despite the late hours. He'd finished all his summer reading and all his essays the first week he'd been home, which meant that he'd run out of excuses to avoid martial arts lessons from his father by the end his third week, which was only relieved once Delphina had come home, fresh from graduating from the Mount Emei Girls Academy. She had been at the top of her class and awarded honors in almost every field she'd studied, which made their parents proud to no end and finally let Scorpius have some time to himself as she continually pestered their father to teach her more techniques and spells.
There was a part of Scorpius that itched to go back to Hogwarts, and a part that also dreaded it. He'd been thinking about Alby all summer and had been trying to construct something akin to the casual correspondence they usually kept up all during the holidays, but failed miserably to write anything that didn't, upon a second inspection, look terribly childish, boring, or lovelorn, or all three. His mother had advised him to tell Albus about his feelings, to which his immediate gut reaction was to recoil in horror. He was not particularly good at telling anyone his feelings, and had absolutely no experience in the type of confessions that his mother had suggested. Moping about the house for the last week, Scorpius had reluctantly decided he was going to pretend that everything was normal, that Alby didn't mean anything special to him, and that the preservation of their friendship was the most important thing.
Scorpius spotted a cluster of red-heads of all ages, possibly even the dark hair of Harry Potter himself, and decided that rather than face all the Potters and Weasleys, he'd better make a run for the train and save a compartment. He knew there was no way that he was going to be able to greet Alby's siblings without looking guilty about something, and the last thing he wanted was for Alby's overbearing older brother, James, to think that something was up.
He grabbed his trunked waved a hasty goodbye to his parents and pushed the crowd aside, heading for the doors of the train. Most of the compartments were already taken by the time he was onboard and looking around. Suddenly thinking that perhaps it would be a better idea for him to sit with some familiar faces from his house (the thought of being left alone with Alby for the entirety of the ride filled him with fear), by a stroke of luck a compartment door opened, and an arm grabbed his sleeve.
"Hey mate," said Alex with a grin, "we saved you and Alby a seat."
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Date: 2007-10-12 07:54 pm (UTC)He was beginning to wish he could take out that bottle of Stout - he was also beginning to wish that Alex had brought more than two bottles, because one wouldn't have been enough anyway. Scorp may not care about Alby's newest girlfriend prospects, but Alby knew him well enough to see that he was acting rather annoyed - he was mad about something, and Alby was sure that whatever it was, it was his fault. A lot of things felt like his fault right now, especially with the way Alex was frowning and casting glances at him and Scorp every once in a while.
The rest of the ride passed slowly; Alby talked to Alex a bit, discussing their summers (or, at least, the fictional summer Alby managed to make up, in which he hadn't been miserable for days on end or had to change his bedsheets once a week), the upcoming Quidditch season, and the pros and cons of firewhiskey. Joe occasionally threw in his own commentary, especialy when it came to Quidditch, and Alby tried to - wanted to - include Scorp, but he could barely turn and look at the other, let alone address him, so it was... tense. Horribly tense. When the train finally began to slow, Alby felt a surge of relief as he pulled his trunk down and dug through it for his school robes and tie, pulling them on and concentrating quite hard on his tie, all the better to look around at his dormmates less. They filed off the train with the rest of the student body, Alex and Joe rushing ahead a bit, as though they wanted to get as far away from the tense atmosphere of their compartment as quickly as possible. Alby couldn't blame them, shoving his hands into his pockets and walking alongside Scorp towards the carraiges, feeling very far away from a person that he was walking right next to. He didn't like that feeling at all.
"Glad you had a good summer," he finally managed, quietly (lamely, he berated himself, staring at his feet but determined to make up his shortcomings to Scorp, because his best friend didn't deserve to suffer for Alby's cowardice, or his unnatural urges), as they waited for a carraige to pull up.
[OOC: Awwww~ At least the note was in Chinese? XD And yeah, I think we can just skip through some stuff, to highlight how awkward they are, and hopefully they'll settle into a pattern of mostly-normalcy, probably punctuated by small periods of Alby almost saying something and then getting weird for a couple hours before he manages to recover?
Hm... I don't think I had anything in mind for before that, really - we should definitely do something with Hawk, but that can go whenever, I think.
The next question is how Alby gets to *deal* with his middle-of-the-night hard-on. XD Because, you know, he can always jerk off in the shower if he doesn't realize Scorp is watching. >D;; Though that's not the only way to deal with that, just the really evil way out. There are a number of ways that log can go, I think.]no subject
Date: 2007-10-12 10:01 pm (UTC)Finally the Hogwarts Express slowed to a stop, and Joe returned. He glanced at his best friend Alex, who was giving him a look of pure hatred for leaving him alone in a compartment with Albus and Scorpius, who were still not talking to each other much.
"Uh, let's go help some of the first years find their way to Hagrid, and maybe I'll forget about that beer you've got in your bag," said Joe. Alex all but scrambled to comply.
That left Scorpius and Albus by themselves to find a carriage. Scorpius put away Joe's magazine and shouldered his bag.
"Yeah," Scorpius said as they walked together through the crowd of students, trying to sit with their friends on the ride back to Hogwarts. Scorpius was glad for other people crowding around them, because it gave him an excuse to stand close to Alby and bump gently into him on occasion. "Sounds like you had a fun summer too," Scorpius said a bit enviously, his summer had been all but miserable except for the few moments when he'd gone on short, day trips with his family to the mountains.
Still thinking of the outdoors, Scorpius valiantly pushed away his feelings for Alby. They'd never gotten in the way before, why should they now? A carriage pulled up in front of them, pulled by what Scorpius knew was a thestral that he could not see. He and Alby climbed in and sat silently for the ride.
Their trunks had arrived in their rooms by the time they'd gotten back to the castle. It suddenly seemed rather odd for Scorpius to be stripping in front of his dormmates as they scrambled to find their robes and put them on in time for the Sorting. Joe and Alex didn't seem to mind as they dropped their pants, running about in their boxers trying to dig up their uniforms. A bit self-consciously Scorpius put on his robes before changing his pants. He did his best not to look in Alby's direction as he saw his friend bend over and dig in his trunk.
They managed to make it to the Great Hall, just as students were beginning to filter down from the other Houses, and the first years began filing in.
"Wait," Scorpius said just as Alby was about to take a seat at the Slytherin table. He did this every year, almost every day. Why did it feel so awkward now? Scorpius pushed thoughts of that aside, and put his hands on Alby's tie, adjusting the knot, which was turned to the side and looked terrible.
"There," said Scorpius when he was done, shooting his friend a smile and letting his hand linger a bit too long on Alby's shoulder.
"Come on," Scorpius said, looking away quickly and finding himself and Alby a pair of open seats on the bench, feeling the beginnings of a blush begin to crawl across his cheeks, "I'm starving."
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Date: 2007-10-12 10:39 pm (UTC)We should do something with Hawk, but I think Scorp would try that a little later in the year. I was thinking around November-ish, when he just wouldn't be able to take it anymore. Did you have an idea when Alby and Scorp would get together? Pre- or post-Christmas? XD
And yes, Alby should totally take a shower in the middle of night to resolve his uh...problem... and Scorp will be lurking around the bathroom, to see if Alby was okay after running out of the room like that. XD
EDIT: Oh, and this is probably super dorky, but I was thinking of compiling an AS/S fanmix, cause there are a couple songs on my playlist that really remind me of them. XD I can probably send you the songs from my end if you don't have them already.]
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Date: 2007-10-12 11:08 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think it would definitely take a while for Scorp to get to the point that he would seek out Hawk to talk to him. My first gut reaction is to say they should get together before Christmas, but I wouldn't really have a problem with after. (Ahaha, though it would be funny if they both said they couldn't come home for the holidays because they had to study and ended up with the dorm to themselves all holiday. XD I don't know if they'd do that, though - or if their families would let them...) But if they did get together, and then visited each other over the Christmas holiday, that'd be cute too~
XD All righty then, he'll totally do that. Because I can just kind of see him fed up and so turned on that the cold shower isn't helping and he'd try to get rid of the problem as quickly as possible, all without realizing Scorp was in there too. :D;;;
Ahaha, OMG, yes~ I actually have a song or two I could contribute. :D; But yes, I'd love to see what you put together!]
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Date: 2007-10-12 11:03 pm (UTC)There were going to be a lot of late-night showers, he vowed - he'd start waiting until after everyone else had gone to bed, because he didn't think he could deal with being naked in the same bathroom as Scorp ever again, and that somehow guilt-tripped him into feeling like he should be fair and stay away from all his dormmates. If they found out that he suddenly fancied boys and had continued to shower in the same room with them, Alby was pretty sure he'd be chased out of the dorm and forced to sleep in the Chamber of -
His stomach turned to lead before that thought even finished, and he hurriedly pulled off his old pants and his new ones on while it seemed Scorp's back was turned.
Alex and Joe running ahead of them again, Alby and Scorp made their way to the Great Hall just as the first years were about to come filing in to be Sorted. When Scorp stopped to straighten his tie, Alby tilted his head down, watching the pale fingers fix the lopsided knot. He bit his lip to keep from blushing and nodded - why was this so weird? Scorp had fixed his tie nearly every single day that Alby had attended Hogwarts. Tonight was no different, and that was that.
"Thanks," he said, following quickly after the other as they sat on the bench; being fifth years, they had migrated more to the middle of the table than the ends, and Alby was nearly pressed up against Scorp's side, and couldn't help but take a sliver of guilty pleasure at their proximity. It's as close as you're ever going to get, you bloody pervert, he told himself, slumping a little but nodding at Scorp's statement.
"Yeah, starving too," he murmured, striving once again to return normalcy to what had been a thus far horribly uncomfortable day.
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Date: 2007-10-13 12:30 am (UTC)"You know," Joe said, giving the first years a good look over on the other side of the table, "this must be the smallest class of first years we've ever had."
"They look more and more like vermin every year," said Alex with a laugh, who was sitting roughly across from Scorpius. Scorpius kicked him in the shins beneath the table. "Ow! I was just kidding, Scorp! Come on, you were thinking it too. We were never that short."
Scorpius put an experimental arm around Alby's shoulders, trying to conjure the usual friendly way he touched his friend. "Maybe just Alby," Scorpius said with a small grin, testing the waters of the atmosphere to see if the usual jocular nature of the four dormmates had returned yet.
The feast began in earnest after the Sorting, the food appearing on the tables seemed to outdo itself from what Scorpius remembered from last year. The Great Hall broke out all at once into a loud rustle, the scraping of silverware against plates, the sounds of students serving themselves and their friends, and wishing each other a good year. The Slytherin table started its annual toast, the newly-appointed Head Boy, Rogir Kerrigor, beginning with a short speech before passing the cheer down the table. Scorpius raised his mug of hot cider and clinked glasses with Alby's butterbeer. The toast each year remembered him of their first year, when Alby had been first sorted into Slytherin and Scorpius had made him a promise to take care of him.
"Cheers, Alby," Scorpius said, finishing off his drink. He smiled at his best friend, and silently pledged that he'd always be there to take care of Albus Potter, no matter what might happen between them in the near or far future. "To our fifth year."
[OOC: Did you want to finish it off? :D I think we can about wrap it up here.
I like the idea of them getting together just a couple of weeks before Christmas. Hahaha, if Scorpius insisted on spending the Christmas holidays at Hogwarts, I think Draco would Apparate into Hogsmeade and forcibly march his way into the Slytherin boys dormitory and drag his son home for the rest of the break. XD I think it would be absolutely cute for them to visit each other over Christmas holidays. Scorpius's family always congregates at Malfoy Manor for Christmas, so he'll be in the area. X3 They should hang out and visit each other (on a near-daily basis)!
and I have four song ideas for the fanmix posted here (http://of-gunmetalgrey.livejournal.com/1743.html). It's terrible, because I have so many songs running around in my head. XD Including a whole hell of a lot for Draco and Ora too. XD *NERD ALERT*]
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Date: 2007-10-13 02:49 am (UTC)... Besides he was being made fun of! "I'm going to get my growth spurt!" he insisted - and in doing so, suddenly felt marginally better, nudging Scorp's shoulder with his own in a not-quite-shove, as food suddenly appeared on the table and all around it students took up their mugs, Rogir Kerrigor starting a toast from the other end. Alby watched as glasses clinked in succession, thinking that things didn't have to be weird. He might have to work a bit at it, but he was going to have to face the reality that his best friend had probably never (and would probably never) consider him in the fashion in which Alby suddenly wanted to be considered. And he could either stumble and mumble his way uncomfortably through the next three years, or he could get his bloody act together and stop whatever he was doing, and be Scorp's friend.
The latter option seemed harder, but ultimately more rewarding. He'd just have to try, as hard as he could. Alby raised his glass and clinked it with Scorpius, a small, though genuine, smile on his lips as he nodded. "To fifth year," he agreed. Hopefully I'll survive it.
[OOC: Sure, ending here sound good?
Yeah, I think they'll probably hit a breaking point before Christmas, so there's no need to drag it out more than that. Ahaha, Draco, I totally could see him doing that. XD I guess they'll just have to settle for hanging out as often as they can, then. XD I'm sure it can be arranged~
Ooh, I'll have to check it out! I totally understand, though. XD I have songs that remind me of Snogs stuff, though for no really good reason, they just do. And the two Scorp/Alby songs floating around my head are so... lame, but they still remind me of them. :D;; Ah well~
I guess I'll be up next to start the next log, when we get to it. Do we want to do the shower one? I think I might already have a start around here, that I wrote while it was fresh in my head. XD But we can wait a couple days to start it or whatever, doesn't matter to me~]
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Date: 2007-10-13 04:58 am (UTC)Oh yeah, I should totally link to those songs now that I'm home. XD *gets on that* And I want to know what your Alby/Scorp songs are! D: I don't care if they're dorky, cause we're both pretty big dorks. :3
Let's do the shower one next!]
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Date: 2007-10-13 05:03 am (UTC)Hee. I'll upload them in a bit, then~ Working on some LJ code for Jennie, but I can upload in a bit and give you the links. :D I'll make a journal entry for Alby or something. XD
Mwahaha, okay~ Do you want me to post up what I have?]
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Date: 2007-10-13 05:40 am (UTC)XD sure, start posting up what you have. I'm gonna head off to the midnight movie soon, so I probably won't be able to post a proper response until tomorrow. :D]
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Date: 2007-10-13 05:51 am (UTC)And possibly enlist Lily to help~Heh, okay, I'll throw it up there in a sec~ No worries, I shouldn't stay up *all* night, since I got up early today. :D;]
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Date: 2007-10-13 06:12 am (UTC)Oh, I updated the fanmix page! (http://of-gunmetalgrey.livejournal.com/1743.html) It's friends locked now, cause I'm paranoid. D:
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Date: 2007-10-13 06:16 am (UTC)Ooh, yay! Actually, that's a good idea, I usually flock music anyway, myself.
Aaand a log is up~ Though obviously take your time and stuff~ And have fun at the movie! I WANT TO GOOOOO. D:]