They’re dangling off his tongue again, those three little words; the three most terrifying words in the entire English language. It’s getting harder and harder to hang on to them, to keep them imprisoned. (Cross posted from tumblr, and AO3. Written for lastknownwriter.)

Complete. When eleven year old Scorpius Malfoy sees a mysterious girl in a book shop, his friends convince him she is just another filthy mudblood Weasley. But when a disastrous food fight ends up with them both in detention, Scorpius is forced to talk to her and finds something surprising... friendship. He knows his friends and family won't approve. He has to keep his new friend a secret.