Possessed by Love

Flirting in Hospital

Scorpius POV

Albus and Dad appeared in the doorway together, both holding a white plastic cup. I smirked at Albus as he roamed over to my bed.

"Heyy." I propped myself up to properly meet his grass green eyes. We gazed at each other for a minute, our smiles growing by the second.

Our faces slowly crept closer and closer until there was only a few inches between us. He came up to my ear and whispered, "I love you Scorp. If I could kiss you right now, I would."

I put a hand on his face; he was either really cold or I was really warm. "Screw it. Dad's gonna find out eventually, right?"

I leaned in and kissed him; again, a fragile kiss because I had no energy whatsoever.

He broke away; he seemed to understand I had minimum energy in my body right now, and he respected that. Oh God I love him so much.

"Hey boys." Two male voices spoke in unison with monotone sounds. I think we both knew who it was.

Albus POV

"Dad! Hi!" I said hurriedly as I ran up to him and grabbed his hands, "What- what are you doing here?" Anxiety pulsed through me; what was he going to do?

"Hi Al." A grin grew over his face, "You really thought we didn't know?" Huh?

"What do you mean? Knew what?" I covered up. They clearly knew, I don't know why I was trying not to let them know.

"Al, I hate to break it to you but your mother and I always knew you liked Scorpius." Dad out an arm on my shoulder. Huh- Wait- What?

"I... uhm... wha... huh?" I kinda malfunctioned.

"Come on Al, the way you would talk about him when you came home for the breaks." Dad heightened his voice, "Oh Dad, Scorpius is so amazing. Oh Mum, Scorpius is the best. Oh my God I love him so much!"

A giggle escaped Scorpius' mouth as he heard the stories of what his new boyfriend had said about him; even before they were boyfriends!

"Scorpius, you're just as bad." Draco walked over to his bed and patted his light blond hair.

Scorpius went bright red, "What? No I'm not! I've never talked to you about Al!" Draco raised his eyebrows with a smirk, "I know. I read that little book you keep under your pillow."

"YOU READ MY DIARY?" Scorpius had a diary? "Uhm... I mean journal of very manly things. Not diary." his eyes flitted over to me and we exchanged a glance.

"Yes Scorpius. I read your 'journal of very manly things'. It was a real insight on your very manly views on Albus' abs." Abs? My abs are non existent.

"I'm not a mirror Scorp." Did I say that out loud? "Did I hear that right?" a smile crept across Scorpius' face, "If you think I have abs you must be delusional."

Everything felt so intense; I forgot anyone else was in the room, "Why don't you prove me wrong?"

One side of his rosy lips curved up, "Alright mister 'I'm-always-right." and with that, he grabbed the collar of his shirt and ripped it down the middle, the white buttons popping off one by one.

He shrugged the shirt off, and as he did, I caught a glimpse of 3 red lines laid horizontally across his forearm.

"Oh stop flirting you two, it's weird." Dad strutted over to Scorpius and cocked his head to try and see the very distinct abs across his stomach. "Scorpius, this might be a bit weird to say but I agree with Albus here."

He looked down at his stomach and back up at Dad, "Alright, yeah, I can see where you're coming from." he admitted.

"You okay Al?" Scorpius furrowed his brows. I nodded to his arm and his eyes immediately darted to the spot where mine were set. "It worked." he muttered.

"What? What worked?" I said louder than I'm guessing he would've hoped. His eyes widened as everyone else focused their eyes on him.

Scorpius POV

I felt a wave of sickness wash over me as the entire room stopped to stare at me. Oh no. It was happening again. She was resurfacing. And there was nothing I could do about it. No one I could talk to.

I screamed the first thing which came to my slowly-being-overtaken mind, "GET DELPHI! QUICK!" The air was escaping my lungs rapidly; I could keep this up for much longer.

Dad dashed to collect Delphi and reentered a couple seconds later. "Is she back?" she snatched my hands from the duvet they were resting on.

I nodded my head vigorously, trying to get my point across as swiftly as possible. My throat burned, like my voice was being sucked out of it. Then I realised; it was.