Characters; Lily Potter and Scorpius Malfoy to begin with; eventually James Potter. Where; Empty Classroom Date & Time; Halloween, late evening Rating; PG-13 for snoggings Summary; Everyone is busy dancing around wearing masks, so no one will notice if Lil and Scor happen to be missing from the throng. Which makes it the perfect opportunity to sneak off to an empty room and be hormone-addled teenagers. NOTHING COULD GO WRONG WITH THIS PLAN.
Scorpius had mentioned wanting to stay for the end of the ball and the subsequent unmasking in order to witness all the fallout thereof, and Lily utterly approved this plan. Some people, after all, had to be dim enough to be unable to tell who they were dancing with, and the revelation was sure to be pretty amusing, something to tease people about for the next two months at least.
Which was why she would be sure to keep track of time and head them back to the Great Hall before midnight. Yes. They had plenty of time, after all; and really, if Scorpius hadn't wanted her to half-suggest, half-insist that they 'take a walk' after dancing, he shouldn't have been so good at it, or given her all those compliments, or kept smiling in that completely adorable, completely enticing way of his. He only had himself to blame, really.
Getting out of the Great Hall unnoticed certainly hadn't been too hard- everyone was too wrapped up in their own affairs to care about anyone else's shenanigans, so Lily hadn't even had to make the prefect-business excuse she'd had prepared in case anyone asked where they were going (and it was so handy, wasn't it, this prefect thing!) And she'd been able to spot James any time he got near to them all evening- no hard task, given James's incurable tendency to make a lot of noise no matter what he was doing- so they were totally home-free.
Once they'd rounded the corner and the sounds of the ball were beginning to fade behind them, Lily spun around to walk backward down the corridor, grabbing one of Scorpius's hands in both of hers and tugging him on, smiling and laughing and maybe blushing a little as they came up on a classroom door and she paused. "Wanna...be good prefects and make sure nobody's in here where they shouldn't be?" Yeah, that was her goal. Good prefectship. Totally.