Taming

“Rosie!” Scorpius shouted, rushing into the Ravenclaw common room. “Rosie! Where are you, Princess?”

Rose appeared from behind a bookcase and ran towards him. He caught her under the arms and bent to scoop under the backs of her knees. Lifting her like a bride over the threshold, he spun her around and around until she finally screamed for him to put her down.

He set her on her feet, but they were both dizzy and they collapsed on the couch, giggling. “I take it you have good news?” she teased.

“He kissed me! I mean, I initiated, but he kissed me back!”

She squealed. “So are you guys back…”

“No, no. Not yet. But I think I really got through to him this time.”

“Oh, Sweetheart, that’s wonderful!”

“I know! I could kiss you! But…”

“But you have Albus taste in your mouth and you don’t want to taint it with girl germs?” she teased.

“Exactly. You really do know me better than anyone.”

She hit him for that one. “Except Albus.”

“Nope. Better than him. You wouldn’t believe some random person over me.”

“Well, I’m a genius, remember?” she joked.

“You can give him some lessons once we get back together.”

“Oh, I’m sure that would go over really well.”

He laughed, and she grinned at him. “It’s good to see you do that. Laugh. It’s been a while.”

“It feels good to do,” he said with a matching grin.

“Now let’s go have supper. Maybe he’ll be there and be ready to apologize.”

“That’s the best plan I’ve heard all day.” He grabbed her hand and they giggled all the way down to the Great Hall.

Albus wasn’t around, and he never did show up to supper, but Scorpius didn’t even mind. He told Lily, Hugo, and Kate about his confrontation with Albus, and they all agreed that it seemed like a reconciliation was imminent. For once, everyone felt like their old selves, and it was a good feeling. Hugo and Kate smiled more and held each others’ hands on top of the table instead of hiding underneath it.

Rose cracked jokes and teased Scorpius mercilessly. And Lily offered to play Albus if Scorpius wanted to reenact their hot kiss, purely for demonstration purposes. Everyone was in high spirits. When they left the Great Hall, Lily begged to come back with Rose and Scorpius for a sleepover, which after holding a parent-style eye-contact conversation, they agreed to.

They piled onto Rose’s bed and Rose and Lily made him relay the whole conversation again.

“I still say you demonstrate the kiss,” Lily teased.

“On Rose?” he joked.

“I’m okay with it,” Rose said.

“No me! It was my idea!” Lily complained.

“Tell you what. I’ll show both of you, if you kiss each other first. For a full thirty seconds. With tongue.”

The two girls looked at each other for a few seconds before they both wrinkled their noses and started to laugh. Scorpius laughed harder than either of them. “You were considering it!” he crowed. “I can’t believe you thought about it for that long! For two virgins, you ‘innocent’ girls are as dirty as they come!”

That’s how they ended up having another pillow fight.

Exhausted, they all collapsed on the bed, and Rose and Scorpius laughed as Lily pulled a feather out of her mouth. She grinned. “This is too fun. I can’t wait for Alby to join us again.”

“You can’t wait? I’m stuck with nothing but girls over here.” They both hit him simultaneously. “Ow! Down, brats,” he complained.

“You like girls,” Rose pointed out.

“I certainly do. I seem to remember something about two girls kissing, too. When’s that going to happen?”

They hit him again. “I didn’t mean you like girls like that,” Rose said, rolling her eyes.

“Just because monogamy agrees with me, it doesn’t mean that I don’t still appreciate female beauty. Until Albus removes his head from his arse, I’m a single man. And if I want to watch girls kissing…”

“Oh, stop it before you convince Lily,” Rose chided.

Scorpius laughed. “Why don’t you two skanky little virgins get dressed for bed. I’ll wait in here.”

They dutifully climbed out, but he laughed when he heard Lily whisper, “What does ‘skanky’ mean?”

“You don’t want to know, Lil,” he called to her. While the girls were out of the bed, he stripped off his own clothes, down to his shorts.

His eyes widened a little when the girls climbed into the bed. Rose had been wearing t-shirts of his to bed each night, which were more like nightshirts, even on her tall frame. However, tonight, both girls were wearing regular t-shirts, like they’d wear with jeans, and panties.

“Are you two planning on seducing me?” he asked, slightly worried now.

“Says the man in his underwear,” Rose said, rolling her eyes.

“Oh, yeah. Forgot about that,” he teased, lifting his arms up over his head, ostensibly stretching, but in reality, flexing.

“Cut it out, you peacock,” Rose snorted.

“So who’s sleeping in the middle?” he asked.

“You,” both girls said at the same time.

He laughed and laid down, holding his arms out for them. They both eagerly cuddled onto him, their heads on his shoulders, his arms around their waists. “Where are my goodnight kisses? Rose always gives me a goodnight kiss.”

“Can I move in here permanently?” Lily asked.

“No,” Rose said, bending down and pecking Scorpius on the lips. Then Lily repeated the gesture.

“Now you two,” he suggested.

They shrugged and kissed each other over his chest and he chucked. He’d certainly had his share of threesomes, and plenty of them involved him getting to watch girl-on-girl action of a far more exciting nature. But they were so cute.

He squeezed both of them. His girls. He reflected on his earlier meeting with Mirabella. How lucky he was that Albus had come complete with built-in friends and family. What would he have done when Albus broke up with him with only shallow, disinterested acquaintances like Mirabella around him? He would have fallen completely apart.

He thought how funny it was how quickly he could go from not knowing these people to not knowing how he ever lived without them. He realized how lonely he had been before Albus.

Albus. His heart soared just thinking about him. It had been so obvious that Albus still wanted him. Still loved him, in fact. Of course. They were meant to be together. He’d really gotten through to Albus this afternoon, he was sure of it. It was only a matter of time now.

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When Scorpius began to wake up, he at first thought that he was having a particularly erotic dream. Then he realized that he was in bed with Rose and Lily and he felt like an enormous pervert.

He was curled around Rose, his crotch pressing into her bum, and Lily had spooned around him, her breasts pressing into his back and her hand on his chest. His own hand was on Rose’s hip. Guiltily, he slid it quickly upwards to her waist.

Shaking his head at what a bloody choirboy he’d become in recent months, he extricated himself as carefully as he could. He climbed over Rose’s legs and headed into the loo. Albus had truly ruined him for other people, just as he’d predicted.

Just thinking about that kiss yesterday was more erotic than waking up between two gorgeous girls. Of course, if anything had actually happened, it would have been unpleasantly incestuous, but since when had taboos ever stopped him before? He’d meant what he’d said to the girls last night.

He was still attracted to girls, at least in theory. But now he had only two categories of girls in his life. Those who were like his sisters (or close enough that he didn’t really want to shag them- just joke about it with them), and those he didn’t care at all about any longer.

And he definitely hadn’t been attracted to another male in months. Sure, there were guys at Hogwarts who were definitely hot, but whenever he compared them to Albus, they fell short every time.

Wandering back into the bedroom, he parted the curtains on Rose’s bed and found both girls sitting up, waiting for him.

“We missed you,” Lily pouted.

He grinned and climbed back over Rose, snuggling back down in between them. “You’re cuddly this morning,” Rose said with a smile.

“I was just thinking about how adorable Albus is and it made me happy.”

“Awwwww!” Lily squealed.

“Even though he’s being a total prat?” Rose teased.

“Doesn’t stop him from being adorable.”

“You are so far gone, you don’t even know. You’re about five seconds away from rhapsodizing about his eyelashes, aren’t you?”
Rose teased him.

“Well, they’re so long and pretty and… you can just cut my bollocks off now. I obviously don’t need them.”

They laughed at him. “Didn’t you once call Albus ‘obnoxiously girly?’” Lily teased.

“Obviously he infected me.”

“What a turn of events,” Rose joked. “You’re being obnoxiously girly and Albus is being a callous arse. It’s a total role reversal.”

“Hey! Once I met him, I turned in my callous arse card for good.”

“And traded it for a vagina,” quipped Rose, which sent Lily into peals of laughter.

He started to get up. “Fine, I’m leaving then. Hopefully to find some male friends.”

“No!” they both shouted, pinning him down. “We’re sorry!” Lily exclaimed.

“Yes, terribly!” Rose rejoined, giggling.

He crossed his arms over his chest. “I don’t accept your apology. You have to grovel.”

Lily hit him with a pillow again. And they ended up waking the entire dormitory with the ensuing hilarity.