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Dec 20, Harry Potter, Teddy/Scorpius, Taking Your Medicine
Title: Taking Your Medicine
Author: sansa1970
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Teddy/Scorpius
Rating: PG
Words: 392
A/N: Links to previous parts: 1 ll 2 ll 3 ll 4 ll 5 ll 6 ll 7 ll 8 ll 9 ll 10 ll 11 ll 12 ll 13 ll 14 ll 15 ll 16 ll 17




The third conversation went like this:

"Al, I need to talk to you."

"No."

"You—what?"

"I need to talk to you. And you, Scorpius, are going to keep your mouth shut and listen."

On the sofa in his living room, Teddy raised an eyebrow.

"First," Al said, "hold this."

The nutcracker shot Teddy a look of alarm. "What's done is done," Teddy said, tense for an explosion, verbal or otherwise. Far be it from Al to disappoint him. A loud CRACK split the air, and the nutcracker jumped, then scurried to Teddy's side. He set it on his knee and let it hold the bottle.

"What the fuck was that for?"

"I wanted to make sure you were awake. This is going to be an important conversation. And I wanted to test Uncle George's crackers before I used them on Lily. What do you think?"

There was a pause, presumably while Scorpius considered. "You don't want to make her cry, just pee her pants at the table. Less sting, more noise," he said, and Al gave an approving grunt.

The lure of mischief was ever so hard for these two to resist. Teddy engaged the nutcracker in a brief struggle for the whisky, then gave up, sat back, and waited for Al to remember he had a point to make.

They took a breath at the same time, but it was Albus who got his mouth running first. "Scorpius, I should've told you ages ago, but—"

"Be quiet." The missive held more gentleness than bluster, but Al shockingly fell silent. "I know the truth of it now," Scorpius said. "I'm sorry for letting things get so bad between us. I know you—that you don't—"

"I do love you, Scorpius."

Teddy went still. After a moment, the nutcracker placed the bottle in his lap.

Al sighed. "Just not how you want me to. I suppose I could've said that awhile back and saved everyone some heartache."

"Yes, I suppose you could've."

Teddy held up a finger. Scorpius – 1, Albus – 0.

"Of course, I suppose you could admit that you knew that all along, decided to be a spiteful brat about it, slept around, made us all worry, and hurt Teddy in the bargain."

Scorpius didn’t answer.

"Well," Teddy said. The nutcracker raised five fingers for Al.