* - - you're so supersonic (scorpius)

[AUBREY LYNN MCNEAL]

The first Hogsmeade trip of the year and Aubrey was excited to spend it with Scorpius Malfoy. She still couldn’t believe that she was actually dating Scorpius and sometimes she felt like she was in some sort of a dream when she was with him. She was glad that he had agreed to meet her in Hogsmeade for the two of them to go on a date to the place of her choosing.

Aubrey was standing in front of the mirror in the dormitory for the sixth year Gryffindor girls, making sure that she looked perfect for her date. She had half of her hair up in a ponytail and she had used her magic to make sure it was nice and straight. She had chosen to wear a pink plaid tank top that had a pink ribbon around the middle and a white skirt with her white flip flops. When she felt that she looked perfect she grabbed her bag and headed on out of the Gryffindor common room and towards the great hall.

Once she was at the doors to the Great Hall, she waited as Professor Longbottom made sure she was on the list of students that were allowed to go to Hogsmeade and she headed on out walking along the path that lead to the wonderful wizarding village. She remembered the first time she had step foot into Hogsmeade during her third year and she had fallen in love with the place. She had decided that once she had grown up and gotten a job that she would move into a wizarding town just like Hogsmeade.

Soon she had reached the streets of the busy little village and stood just by the gates as she waited for Scorpius to show up. She knew that he wouldn’t take too long as Scorpius rarely ever made her wait for him. She waved to other people that she knew as they walked on by, keeping an eye out for the blonde Slytherin boy.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

Scorpius ran a hand through his hair, making it even more messier than what it was. He sighed, before finally grabbing a shirt and pulling it over his head. It wasnt anything special, although he did want to look at least decent for Aubrey. It was her turn to choose where they go for their date. He sighed once more grabbing his wand and heading out of the dorms and towards the great hall. All he wanted was his coffee and within a few minutes he had a steaming cup in his hands, savouring the bitter taste of the brown liquid. Where had Aubrey chosen for today, he wondered as he tried looking around for her, only to be told by someone that she had already been and left. Great, he thought, it was just like him to be late. He blamed it on having to get up early. Draining his cup, he got up and hurried out of the great hall, waiting impatiently in a long line of students getting their names checked. Why was waiting in lines so agonising, he wondered as he slowly moved up to Professor Longbottom, who checked his name.

Finally, Scorpius thought as he walked towards Hogsmeade, his eyes scanning everywhere to find her. She hadnt exactly told him where in Hogsmeade to meet her, but he had no reason to worry for he found her waiting at the gates of the village dressed in...pink. Why did girls tend to wear such a colour as pink, he would never know.
"Aubrey," he weaved around a couple of hufflepuffs before walking up to Aubrey, planting a kiss on her forehead.
"Been waiting long?" he asked.

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Aubrey hadn’t been waiting very long when she finally spotted Scorpius walking towards her. The young blond couldn’t help but smile when she saw him as her heart skipped a beat. It was always like this when she saw Scorpius, there was just something about him that she couldn’t quite put her finger on, but she knew that she liked it. Well she more than liked it, she loved it and she especially loved it when he planted a kiss upon her forehead. “No I haven’t been waiting here for long,” she blushed lightly as she took a hold of his hand.

She really hoped that he wouldn’t mind about the fact that she wanted to go to Madam Puddifoot’s that day. She had never been there before and many of the other girl’s had talked about how it was their favorite place to go on a date. So she figured that she better check it out for once and she wasn’t going to go to a shop like that alone, especially when everyone else showed up as a couple. “I thought that we could go and see what Madam Puddifoot’s is like today,” she said lightly, hoping that he wouldn’t get mad about it. She had heard that some guys don’t like the idea of the place, but perhaps Scorpius would be different.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

He let out a sigh of relief, he hadn’t kept her waiting long. He didn’t like making people wait and he didn’t like waiting himself. Feeling Aubrey take his hand, he entwined his fingers with hers, giving her hand a gentle squeeze as he smiled at her. So where were they going today, he wondered. Hopefully honeydukes where he could shower Aubrey with her favourite candy and then buy her lunch and a butterbeer at the three broomsticks.

What did she say, she couldn’t have possibly said that she wanted to go to Madam Puddifoot's tea shop. He had heard horrible things about that place, from guys that had gone there before with their girlfriends. Pink, was what they said, it looked to be just about all pink. Well Aubrey would certainly fit in into the place. Some had even gone as far as saying it was too cheesy for their liking.
"Madam Puddifoot's..." he started, "but isn’t Honeydukes more fun?" He didn’t want to hurt her feelings but he also didn’t want to go to that tea shop.
"We can get tea or even a butterbeer at the three broomsticks after Honeydukes," he suggested, anything to avoid going into that shop. He'd be happy to go anywhere but into the tea shop.
"Do we really have to go in there, we wouldn’t be missing out on much, the other guys have said it wasn’t that great," well actually they had described it as horrid. Of course there were the few guys that seemed to enjoy it, what was wrong with them. Scorpius just hoped she would listen to him.

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Aubrey couldn’t help but blush, she knew that Scorpius wouldn’t have liked the idea, why she even thought of suggesting it was beyond her. She had begun to twiddle her thumbs as she rocked back and forth on the heels of her feet. “Well… I just wanted to try the place out one time…” she said softly as she looked down at the ground. Was it really that bad of a place? Perhaps it had to be since Scorpius really looked like he didn’t want to go there in the first place. Maybe there was a way to make a compromise with him, though she was sure in the end they would end up going.

“What if we go to Honeydukes afterwords? We can also leave early if we don’t like it,” she said as she looked up at him, trying to give him the best puppy dog face she could. She never really got to work on that face a lot so she wasn’t sure how effective it would be against Scorpius. But she hoped that at least this time it would be. And she really would hold true to her word and still save time to go to Honeydukes as well.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

He saw the blush and wondered if she was blushing to make him feel guilty, like hell it was going to work on him. He was being a baby, and he damn well knew it. Maybe he should throw something, make a scene of it; then he could call it a childish tantrum, something he was all too familiar with as a child, cause was all this seemed to be missing. She spoke up and it was a relief she had tried to compromise with him. She wanted to try it out just this once, couldn’t she had gone with friends instead; did it really have to be him that got dragged into that shop. He made a mental note to kill the next girl who dared ask him to go into the shop. Once was too much in his opinion.

He looked down at Aubrey, stuffing his hands in his pockets. He curled his fingers, letting the nails dig into the palms of his hand. There was that compromise he was hoping she wouldn’t use. Go to Honeydukes after, why couldn’t they go now. He averted his eyes from her puppy dog face, man why was it so hard to resist Aubrey, he wondered. Well he could always step into the store take one glance before leaving right, what harm would 2 seconds of being in that shop do, besides destroy any dignity he had. His mouth twitched as he looked around
"I'm simply stating that I don’t like the idea and that you owe me big time," he replied forcing his jaw to move, not wanting to talk through clenched teeth. It was his way of saying that they could go; no matter how much he hated the idea of it.

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Aubrey waited patiently as the two of them stood there. She knew that he was taking his time to think and she hoped that he would say yes. She rocked back and forth on her feet as she watched him carefully. It was always hard to figure out what Scorpius was thinking, but she figured it was something along the lines of the fact that he probably wished he didn’t have to make this decision. But finally he told her that he would go, and of course that she owed him big time now.

Aubrey couldn’t help but show Scorpius how glad she was that he agreed to going to Madame Puddifoot’s tea shop by jumping and then wrapping her arms around him in a big hug before kissing him on the cheek. “Thank you Scorpius! I promise we won’t stay long,” she said with a big smiled before letting go of him. Blushing she took a hold of his hand before tugging at him to have him follow her. She was sure that if she didn’t then he may just stay put in that spot instead of going with her.

“Come on Scorp, the sooner we get there, the sooner we can head to Honeydukes,” she encouraged him before heading off for the tea shop that was on top of the hill. Sure, she had a feeling that this wasn’t going to exactly be a dream date for the two of them. But there was still the fact that Aubrey wanted to try out the place at least once.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

Oh Merlin, what had he just agreed to? Going into Madam Puddifoot's tea shop, could someone kill him now? He gulped as he heard her after she kissed his cheek before feeling her grab his hand. Well he certainly couldn’t run away now. He had his chance and now freedom was gone. And then he felt the tug on his arm and realised he was still standing in the same spot. He sighed, taking a small tentative step towards her. Each step seemed to be more painful than the last as he walked besides her.

"What the rush, we have all day here at Hogsmeade," he pointed out, hoping that she would do something else first and forget about the place. But it didn’t seem to work, she was intent on going into that shop. She was right though, the quicker they got there, the quicker they could leave. Maybe no one would see the two of them go in there, although he figured with the pinkness of Aubrey's outfit, that was certain to draw attention to them. Why oh why did she have to wear such a bright unnatural colour.
"This is the first and last time," he spoke to her, referring to the shop, it was his first time like hers going in there and it would be his last, no matter what. He added that to the top of his list of things in potential girlfriends in the future if anything happened to him and Bree. If they liked the tea shop, he'd walk away from them then and there.

[AUBREY LYNN MCNEAL]

It didn’t take her long to pretty much drag Scorpius to Madam Puddiffoots and entering the tea shop. The tea shop was decorated in pink, but not as bad as it would be on Valentine’s Day, from what she had heard from her friends. She knew that Valentine’s day would’ve been the worse day to try and get Scorpius to go. “See it isn’t that bad,” she said as she headed into the tea shop and waited to be seated by one of the waitresses. She was looking around and thought that the place looked pretty cute, sure it wasn’t exactly on the top of her list of places to choose for dates, but she felt that she should try everything at least once, and that includes going to Madam Puddifoots.

“I wonder what kind of food they sell her,” she thought out loud just as a waitress came to seat them, she had asked if they rather sit at a table for in a booth and Aubrey turned to look at Scorp. “Which one do you prefer Scorp?” she asked lightly. In hopes that he would choose to sit at one, rather than just leave the spot. She wanted to at least try and like the place, not have a horrible time of course, but she knew that Scoprius wouldn’t do that to her.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

It was like all his worst nightmares had come true. All he could see was pink, pink and more pink. He had heard it was worse on Valentine's Day but how could to get worse than this. He gulped, his feet itching to get him out of there quickly. He turned slightly and stopped when a waitress came to seat them. Oh Merlin he was never going to live this one down. He had ignored Aubrey's words; the blood pounding in his ears was too loud to hear anything else. All this pink was going to give him a heart attack.

He glanced at Aubrey and found her looking up at him. What had she asked him, he couldn’t recall. The waitress seemed a little impatient and after quickly scanning the room, he figured she had asked where he wanted to sit.
"Booth," he replied, at least he could duck out of view and hide in a booth, where there was nowhere to hide with a table.
"Uh one that's not near a window, preferably in a dark uh romantic corner" he added quickly to the waitress, knowing it was too late to back out of things, he just hoped no one saw him in there. What he would have loved to do was burn the place down, he figured he would be doing most guys a favour if he did, but he also didn’t want to get caught doing it. He sighed, wondering if Aubrey objected to a dark windowless corner booth.

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Aubrey followed along behind the waitress as she led them to the booth in the corner. For a moment she thought she saw the waitress roll her eyes, but she figured she was seeing things. Why would a waitress roll her eyes at the two of them?

Soon the two of them were in the booth with menus in their hands and Aubrey began to read hers. “See it’s not so bad here. Though I’d never come here on Valentine’s Day, I heard there’s confetti everywhere, I wouldn’t want that,” she said lightly before peering over her menu at Scorpius. She smiled at him; she was so happy that she was his girlfriend. “So what do you plan on ordering?” she asked curiously before going back to look at her menu.

She noticed that there weren’t that many choices on the menu and was starting to think that perhaps they should’ve gone somewhere else. However, she wasn’t going to let Scorp know that as she planned on still trying the place out. For all she knew all of the food could be truly wonderful and a strawberry tart was starting to sound pretty good. She figured she first see what Scorpius wanted to get before she decided what she wanted.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

He caught the look from the waitress, the rolling of her eyes and glared at her. If she thought she was going to get a tip off him later, then she was sorely mistaken. Did she not know who he was; he could have her fired from her job if he wished. Pathetic, he thought as he sat down and almost snatched the menu from the waitress's hands. If she wanted to play games with him, then so could he. So what if it was childish.

He buried his face behind the menu, making it look as if he were reading it, in fact he just didn’t want to be seen. Peering over the edge of the menu, he looked at Aubrey. Not so bad, she had to be joking right; the place was a disaster waiting to happen. Oh she had the one correct, there was no way he was going to let anyone drag him in on that day, it was bad enough on a 'normal' day, he could just imagine what it was like then. It sent a shiver down his spine as he decided not to reply to her; perhaps she'd get the message and hopefully decide to leave.

So what did he plan on ordering, he heard his girlfriend ask. How about a pile of wood, some flint and a lighter...to go? Would she get upset if he said that, or would she take it as a joke, although he himself wouldn’t be joking. He realised he hadn’t answered her and so he quickly glanced down, whatever his eyes landed on was what he was having.
"Chicken salad," he replied, trying to keep the disgust for this place out of his voice.
"What about you?" he asked, turning the question back onto her.

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It seemed to take a while for Scorpius to answer, perhaps he was off in his own little world at the time. Not that Aubrey couldn’t blame him; she had pretty much brought him there against his will. But finally he replied to what he had planned on ordering and Aubrey looked down at the menu once more as he asked what she planned on ordering. “I think I’m going to get a BLT sandwich and some hot chocolate,” she said lightly as she sat her menu down. She glanced around a bit and noticed that there weren’t that many students there that day, which she had a feeling was a good idea. She knew that Scorpius really didn’t want to be seeing in there.

Soon the waitress had came back to their table to see what they planned on ordering. “I’ll take the BLT Sandwich and a hot chocolate,” Aubrey said lightly before handing her menu to the waitress. She would’ve told her Scorpius’s order as well, but she felt that Scorpius should just in case he changed his mind on what he wanted. She figured that the two of them probably shouldn’t stay there too long. Maybe just quickly eat and get out before Scorpius lost his sanity, she knew it was the best thing to do after all.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

This was torture, pure horrific torture. How could anyone stand...well sit in a room like this. It was pink, frilly and dare say cute, ugh. Aubrey told him what she was having right before a waitress approached them for their orders. He waited til Aubrey ordered hers first before looking up at the woman.
"Chicken Salad, hot chocolate," he spoke before handing her the menu hesitantly. It would mean he had nothing to hide behind and god forbid should anyone see him. He was acting like such a big baby.

Scorpius hoped the food came out quickly so that he could inhale it and get the hell out of the place. What did Aubrey think of the place in honesty? She had mentioned before that it 'wasnt too bad' but had she only said that to make him less uncomfortable about this place. He took a quick glance around, there weren’t many people there...yet. Well he guessed that was good in a way.

The Slytherin took a deep breath, forcing his hands to remain on the table instead of trying to pull his hair out. Oh Aubrey so owed him one and he wouldn’t let her forget it either until she re payed him for it. But what could he make her do that would embarrass her and satisfy him? He couldn’t think of anything at the moment.

The food appeared not too long after they ordered. Looking down at the plate, he picked up a fork and without a word said, he began to eat, all the time thinking of the moment he'd be out of that place and cling to whatever dignity he had left.

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“Chicken Salad, hot chocolate” Aubrey watched as Scorpius handed the waitress his menu and then Aubrey did the same thing before the waitress disappeared. Then the table was filled with silence. Aubrey was looking at Scorpius unsure of what to say as she was the one to drag him to the place in the first place. She really should’ve thought about this more before suggesting to Scorpius that they go to Madam Puddifoots. She just hoped that Scorpius wouldn’t hate her after this.

“Umm… So how’s Quidditch practice going?” she asked him lightly in hopes to making some sort of a conversation. Maybe getting his mind on Quidditch would help him forget about the fact that he was at Madam Puddifoots. She knew how much he liked Quidditch, probably just as much as her if not more. Except Aubrey didn’t play Quidditch, she just watched it and commented on it as she was of course, afraid of flying. But she was glad that her friends had accepted her fear and never pushed her to get back on a broom. Perhaps that was why she finally got on a broom again this year with Rose. “Oh did I tell you that Rose is going to try and teach me to fly?” she asked lightly. She was pretty sure she hadn’t told him that just yet.

And then the food was there and Aubrey picked up her BLT sandwich after nodding her thanks to the waitress and began to eat as she waited for Scoprius to say something.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

Quidditch, was that what she really wanted to talk about even though she didn't fly, she didn't play the game. Perhaps she was trying to distract him and though he had to give her credit for trying, it didn't distract him. Maybe she was just making light conversation and maybe he was reading too much into it.
"Quidditch us going good, with all the training that Al's put together for the year, Slytherin's got a very good chance of winning," he replied.

He reckoned they would be absolutely hard to beat, they could perhaps be unbeatable, but he didn't know what training the other teams had done and had planned to do. Well no matter, he thought to himself, Slytherin was going to win, he just knew.

Aubrey's next words made him freeze and just blink at her. Did he hear right, Rose was going to teach her to fly. Why didn't she go to him, after all he was her boyfriend. Oh so was that how it was, did she think that Rose was a much better flier just because she was a quidditch captain. He knew he shouldn't really care about that and to just be happy that Aubrey was going to learn to fly; but it hurt. It was like she chose her friend over her boyfriend. He said nothing as he stuffed chicken into his mouth and chewed, wanting to get out of this place more then ever.

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“Quidditch us going good, with all the training that Al's put together for the year, Slytherin's got a very good chance of winning,” Aubrey was chewing her bite of her BLT as Scorpius told her about how Quidditch was going. She nodded in agreement and then quickly blushed as she glanced around to make sure there wasn’t any Gryffindors around. Yes she did secretly feel that she wanted Slytherin to win this year, but at the same time she knew that if her housemates knew of this, they would be seriously pissed at her. She was honestly surprised not many of them attacked her for even dating a Slytherin Quidditch player in the first place.

She took another bite of her sandwhich as she waited for Scorpius’s reaction on her taking lessons with Rose to try and fly again. But it seemed that he kept still and didn’t even say a word about it. Was he mad? Perhaps he felt that she shouldn’t try to fly, she knew he was there for her flying incident in their first year. After all, they had the class with Slytherin. What should she say? Maybe she shouldn’t be trying to fly again. “Are you mad that I am? I mean I can stop trying to learn to fly if you want,” she said lightly as a light frown formed across her lips. Of course if he did tell her that he would prefer her not to learn to fly, she would stop. She knew how protective he was of her after all.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

So she picked up on his anger. Oh well he thought as he stabbed at some lettuce. He hoped that she'd stop talking about flying with Rose and either go onto another subject or even silence would be good. But no she had to press on with it, she just had to find out why he was angry. Could she work it out herself, after all she had brought the topic up herself. 

Scorpius sighed heavily as he swallowed his mouthful and reached for his drink. Should he even entertain that question? It seemed like she didn't get why and so he had no choice but to spell it out for her.
"Yes and no," he replied before taking a few deep calming breaths.
"I'm mad that you chose to learn from Rose instead of coming to me," he added once he had calmed down a little, "You do realize that is a little insulting, it's like you're telling me that Rose is a better flier. Now hopefully she understood perfectly well his anger.

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“Yes and no” Aubrey tilted her head as she watched him stab at his lettuce. She couldn’t think of the last time he had been a bit angry with her. “I'm mad that you chose to learn from Rose instead of coming to me. You do realize that is a little insulting, it's like you're telling me that Rose is a better flier” And cue the stab through Aubrey’s heart. Why hadn’t she thought of this before? Why didn’t she think to ask her boyfriend to help her out? Perhaps because it never occurred to her that he would want to help her with this and that he would be angry to find that she was doing this with her best friend instead.

But now Aubrey felt stuck. Of course she didn’t think that Rose was a better flier, she thought that they were both amazing fliers, but what could she say to make him feel better? She didn’t want him to stay Angry after all. “Of course I don’t think Rose is a better flier than you. I think you’re both amazing fliers!” she pouted lightly feeling even worse as she begun to apologize to him. “It’s just that I guess I didn’t know for sure if you would want to,” she said as she sat her sandwhich down. Was she really beginning to lose her appetite already. Then again whenever she became sadden she wouldn’t feel like eating. “I’m sorry Scorp, I should’ve came to you, but I guess I had a really blonde moment of thinking you might be too busy… And I kind of wanted to surprise you, but I couldn’t wait to tell you anymore…” she said lightly. It was true, one of the reasons she wanted to learn flying was to surprise Scorpius so that the two of them could perhaps go out and fly together without fear of her running into something.

[SCORPIUS HYPERION MALFOY]

Wouldn't want to. Wouldn't want to, what was wrong with her. Of course he would have helped her after all they were going out, what more did she need to tell her that he'd help her. And she blamed it all on the colour of her hair. Just because someone had blonde hair didn't mean they were stupid or could blame everything on it. After all he himself was blonde and not had one of these 'blonde moments'. What was with muggles and their ridiculous sayings?

He rubbed the bridge of his nose in an irritated way. To him it seemed like she was digging herself deeper into the hole she created. Too busy to teach her?
"When exactly have I been too busy for you?" he asked. Never, he thought. There hadn't been a time where he had been too busy for Aubrey, in fact he thought he himself had been a loyal and doting boyfriend, obviously it wasn't enough for her. And the fact she wanted to surprise him, well he wasn't big on the whole 'let's surprise Scorpius' thing, that didn't mean to say he didn't like it, most of the time he was the one doing the surprising.
"Fine, do whatever you want, you always seem to anyways," he mumbled almost sounding like he was having a go at her. Who was he to stop her from flying and if she wanted Rose to teach her, well then fine, he knew when he wasn't wanted.