(HP) When Time Isn't Enough

Chapter 13

Eris, Greek Goddess of Strife and Discord

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Going to a Muggle public school was a nightmare. Unlike Rose and Hugo, I was homeschooled until I was eight. I had no friends other than those two and I didn't know how to act in public. When I was thrown head first into that life, all I could think about was going home and crawling into bed.

It never once occurred to me that people could be so prejudiced against homosexuals. Although Papa told me to keep him and Daddy a secret from everyone, the moment I made a friend, I talked about it. I told them that I had a daddy and a papa, who were very much in love, but my dad wasn't there anymore. He thought it was so strange. His father met Papa at the school gate the next morning and started a fight with him. He said he didn't want his children around something so disgusting.

I wasn't allowed to talk to that boy anymore, and no one else wanted to be friends with a little freak like me.

The parent-teacher meetings were always horrible. Papa would never show up and they would ask every year. I told them that since my mother died, my father spent all his time working to support me and to keep his mind off everything. That just made it worse. They worried that he was neglecting me and demanded that if he didn't show up one year, they'd call the police on him.

He behaved, attending like every other father.

The students were scared to say things around me. Mothers were never mentioned, and no one ever said the 'g' word. It seemed like the whole year level had been banned from using the word 'gay'. Whenever it came up, especially as an insult, they'd all look at me.

I never wanted to go to school. I would complain to Papa about how useless it was. Why'd I have to learn all this stuff if I was going to Hogwarts?

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It wasn't very often that Theodore Nott roamed the passageways without Draco Malfoy by his side. The two were near inseparable and had been for a while now.

A fortnight had passed since Draco had had that heated moment with Potter in the Room of Requirement. They were roughly a week away from Christmas and Scorpius loved it.

But as Theo moved on his own, he ran into something he dreaded.

Pansy Parkinson was quickly becoming the bane of everyone at Hogwarts. She was always there, with Crabbe and Goyle by her side, barking out the orders like the little pug bitch she was. The brainless twits who had once dedicated their lives to serving Draco would act out each and every order that came yapping out of her mouth.

Theo and Draco had suffered from her abuse that week. Although all she could do was taunt and tease Theo, she had ordered Draco's physical suffering. She made sure Draco couldn't walk away by the time those two had finished with him, leaving Theo to carry him away. The Room of Requirement was quickly turning into an operating room for whenever Draco was a victim.

The taller of the two wasn't to be touched. He hadn't turned his back on the Death Eater completely just yet and his father had fallen as a successful Death Eater. Draco, however, was open game.

And, oh, did they love to play.

They'd give him enough time to be healed (without Madam Pomfrey, of course) before they'd return again and beat him just as hard as before.

Scorpius wasn't allowed to travel with them. They knew he'd get too angry and would try to step in. He knew about it, and was overly angry that he wasn't allowed to go with them to stop them, but expressing his anger was all he was allowed to do. Both his parents had expressed that he wasn't allowed to go anywhere near Pansy.