Kyux | The Prince | Mae

[Mae]

The Prince
~I have died everyday, waiting for you~

The Malfoy manner was filled with commotion on the morning of September 1st. It had so happened that this day was a Sunday, normally the Malfoy's were in work all day, and young Scorpius Malfoy would have been at his grand parents house. But since it was a Sunday he wasn't. Instead he was sitting in the kitchen surrounded by maids, butlers, cooks, and house elves storming around trying to sort everything out for this morning.

This was because this Sunday was no ordinary Sunday. It was the first day of the school term, and the first day of school for eleven year old Scorpius. He was going to Hogwarts for the first time, and being completely honest with himself, Scorpius wasn't very excited. In fact he was in a pretty crappy mood; which was rather rare.

His mother, Astoria Malfoy, had woken him at five o'clock in the morning. Scorpius wasn't very pleased at all. What was the point of getting up so early when there was plenty time? But before he could protest, his mother had started to dress him into the brand new school uniform.

"Mother! I can dress myself! I'm not a baby anymore!" he protested when Astoria started pulling his shirt off. But in reply to her son's feeble words she just scoffed.

When she finished Scorpius ran down the stairs blushing furiously. Thank god he was going to be alone for almost a whole year. Tough change his parents would let him stay for the Christmas holidays though. Now Scorpus was sitiing in the large kitchen staring intently at a piece of toast in front of him. He bit onto the soft bread but the food refused to go down his throat. After a while of struggling, he swallowed the toast feeling like a rock was scraping against his throat and threw the rest of it in the bin. The cook threw young Malfoy a nasty look, but he smirked in return and walked out looking for his father.

"Father!" he shouted up the great staircase. His voice hit the walls and bounced off creating an echo that repeated his words a dozen times. Just as the voices hushed a blond man, looking extremely similar to his son, walked down the stairs.

"What's up, little man?" he asked his son smiling. Unlike Scorpius and Astoria, Draco was a lot more modern in a way.

"Nothing father, I was just wondering, when are we leaving?" Scorpius raised his eyebrow. He couldn't wait to leave his overprotective parents, sorry mother, for the first time.

"We still have two hours kid, don't worry, time will fly by. I remember my first day." Just as Scorpius turned on his heel and was about to walk away Draco added: "And remember Scorpius, don't mess up on the first day. I made a lot of mistakes that I regret right now...Scorpius promise me you'll take a chance on the Weasley's and Potter's?"

Scorpius nearly tripped over his own foot.

"What! Those blood traitors? For my whole life you and mother have told me to stay away as far as possible from them and now you suddenly change your mind. Besides, it's my life. I decide who I want to be friends with. Thanks for the advice anyway. Father."

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Platform 9 and 3/4 was a total mess. There were large families and children running about. The platform was practically overflowing. Ron Weasley was pretty sure that every year it had never been this packed. Maybe it was true that the world was getting ovefilled. He came back to earth amd looked at his children. Rosie was consoling Hugo, who desperately wanted to go too. Ron couldn't help but remember the way his little sister Ginny was when he was about to go.

"Don't worry Hugo. Soon you'll be going too. Time flies." Hermione smiled at her husband. It was true. He had changed.

Ever since she had married Ron he had changed for the better. Hermione was happy that he finally had the perfect family. It was all he ever wanted. It was all he ever wanted, to settle down and live a happy life. She sighed to herself with a small smile.

"Daddy's right Hugo, don't worry"

Rose hugged Hugo and smiled at her parents.

"Look Hugo! There's Albus, James and Lily!" Rose shouted and ran toward the smallest child. The brunette girl, name Lily Luna, nearly fell as the older girl hug-tackled her cousin.

Harry, Ron, Ginny and Hermione sighed in unison. Their kids saw each other everyday, yet every time they saw each other they acted like it was the first time in years.

"Kids, it's time to go!" Harry nodded toward the green and red train. The man standing near the closest door to them had started calling out to the parents to gather their children. The train was leaving.

They hurriedly kissed each oyher goodbye and said their last fairwells. The older children jumped nto the train.

***

Just as the train started to move and the group had settled down, something distracted Rose.

"Hey, who's that?" she questioned loudly, making everyone in the compartment look around. Most of them shrugged, but it was Albus who answered.

"That's little Scorpius Malfoy. Well, well, isn't this a lovely coincidence?" he smirked. "I don't know who the other kid is though. Never seen him before...I guess we'll have to find out!". He opened the door and tapped the boy on the shoulder.

[Kyux]

"From this day on, you belong to me."

The blue eyed kid got up from his own screaming. His forhead was dripping with water as he flung open his eyes breathing havily. Luckily, he was alone in the bedroom. The other beds were empty. Empty. That only meant that the other kids were adopted and he wasn't. He was left alone, the only eleven year old kid in the whole orphan house that didn't have a family.
Sighing he ran a hand through his jet air that were now glued to his scalp because of his own sweat. He frowned and wrapped his arms around his knees pulling them closer. He was excited, tommorow, or today in a few hours,would be his first day in Hogwarts.

Soon, the sun came up and Caius rubbed his sleepy eyes figuring that he didn't sleep because of the excitment. He dressed up quickly, before the nanny came inside and then glanced up at her as she greeted him a good morning and took his hand. "Comon' little Cai, lets go, we don't want to be late for the train, right?" The old woman was the only person who treated him good. All the rest, even the kids, shunned him for some reason. Most said it's because he had a bad aura.. Something, evil inside of him. But he couldn't understand it, how can an eleven year old be evil?
After she helped him with everything they bought, she placed his wand in his hand and smiled softly.

"Martisha, I'm going to the train station--"

"No. He is a big kid, he can go there by himself, now come here Ester, I need you around." The strict woman replied to the nany with slight venom in her tone. She hated that kid, really. And if it wasn't her friend who gave him in, she would never take him to her orphanage.
Caius frowned, how was he supposed to carry all these suitcases by himself?They were bigger than him.. And his rat.. Really. He sighed and nodded to the old nanny, smiling softly."It's okay Mrs. Ester, I'll make it by myself." He said and with that he left the house.

As he walked through the streets he misherd a family speaking about Hogwarts and he saw a couple of kids following them, so he simply tagged along, behind them, scurrying with the havy logage. After around an hour, he finally got there, and entered to Platform 9 3\4. Looking around he saw a lot of big family's , not even one kid that went there without a sibling or another family member. He frowned a bit and shook his thoughts away, getting up to the train.

The thing was, that Caius didn't even know who his parents was. Well, he knew his mother died giving birth to him, though he couldn't figure why, things were so advanced these days.. It was just wierd. Though, he didn't know anything about his father.

The kid was sitting in the train, leaning against the windowsill in his empty booth, fiddeling with his Pet Rat- Blackie. Not original, and the rat wasn't even black, but he liked it.
Slowly, he drifted to sleep as he felt the background noises of the train filling in.

"I don't know who the other kid is though. Never seen him before...I guess we'll have to find out!".


Caius opened one eye as the kids spoke and smiled just a little as he felt the pat against his shoulder."Hii." He said quietly, Caius was rather shy."I'm Caius." He said and smiled softly, reaching a hand to shake.

[Mae]

"Hi, I'm Caius" the boy spoke rather shyly. Albus smiled at the kid and was just about to pull out his hand to the peer when James pushed him away.

"Haha, there's no way you're shaking his hand. He looks like some scrawny kid from Slytherin!" James laughed, and Rose punched him in the stomach.

"Shut up, there's nothing wrong with Slytherin!" she blushed slightly, looking toward Scorpius who had just turned around.

Till that moment Scorpius had been busy talking to a girl he had met on the station. Molly Weasley. Dad told me to make friends, so there. But when he heard mention about Slytherin, his ears pricked up, and he turned around to the compartment cramped with children his age.

"What was that about Slytherin?" he asked scoffing slightly as he spoke. He glared at James. Even though James was a second year, and Scorpius was a year younger the latter was a head taller, and stood a lot more bravely.

If Scorpius' father had been there watching, he could have easily compared this to the time he met Harry Potter on the train. He himself had been smart and talked about Durmstrang, obviously this didn't go along with the taste of the boy who lived.

"My whole family is from Slytherin. Not one of us was ever different from that. But I suppose you bl--" he stopped and remembered his fathers words.

...Scorpius promise me you'll take a chance on the Weasley's and Potter's...?

The blonde sighed. "Never mind. But I don't see what os wrong with Slytherin. I don't talk about Gryffindor, or whatever house you like, that way." he sniffled and looked up rather dramatically.

"He's right James. There's nothing wrong with Slytherin, what if I got sorted into Slytherin? What would you do then?" James stuttered.

"I-I-I don't know. Dad always sai--"

"-said that you shouldn't be a player and I swear I heard you telling Dominique something earlier on..."

"Shut up Rosie!"

"Whatever."

Scorpius looked at this scene rather curiously. He didn't have siblings and he didn't know whether this was normal. Were they fighting for serious? And what was that rosy tinge on Rose's cheeks when she spoke to him? Could it be....no..

"Don't argue. Would you mind if me and Caius joined you? He looks a bit lonely in that compartment over there..." he nodded to Caius who was standing in the middle of the two compartments holding his rat...looking rather pathetic. Scorpius felt pity toward the kid, and for the sake of him, he didn't want to argue with the Weasley's and Potter's.

[Kyux]

Caius fuzzeled back a bit when the older kid pushed the other kid who seemed to be his brother. He frowned when they mentioned he was probablly a Slytherin. He thought so too actually, it was rather odd but something about him just yelled "Slytherin". Though, when the other girl noted that there was nothing wrong with Slytherin he smiled a bit and glanced at the following conversation between them all. He figured they were siblings, when they started speaking about their father, and he stayed silent.

Though, when the blonde guy, apperently named Scorpius, appeared he turned to him and raised his eyebrows in surprise when he asked if him and Caius could join them. He was never invited to sit with someone. So, that made him rather jolly. He glanced at Scorpius and then at the other kids."I'm glad to meet you all.. Really. This is Blackie." He smiled a bit trying to be friendly as he held up his brown rat.

He looked at the blonde. He was cute.. Caius thought, will probablly grow up to be a ladies man, he noticed how the girl named Rosie blushed from him and it made him smile a bit. Oh well, he didn't go to Hogwarts to go after girls anyway, he wanted to become a great wizard, even if he was pretty clumsy with the little amout of spells he already knew. Ester made sure he would know the basics, she even got him a wand when he was only nine, so she could train him, that blue eyed kid always had a soft spot in her heart.

"So, what pets you guys have?"

[Mae]

"I'm glad to meet you all.. Really. This is Blackie." Caius spoke once again.

Albus and Rose nodded in unison. They didn't mind the company of their new 'friend'. James however huffed and turned to the window deciding to ignore everything that happened from then on.

"So, what pets you guys have?" he asked curiously, obviously noicing that none of the children had pets with them.

Rose sniffed. "I don't even have my own pet! But mom let me have crookshanks!" She nodded enthusiastically, her ginger mane bouncing around her face. Her blue eyes glistened. "Maybe if I do well in tests I could get my cat or something.."

"Auntie Hermione's crazy for letting you have that cat! He's a ball fo fur and crazy" Albus joked with Rose. "Don't worry Rosie-Posie, I'm sure you'll get your own pet one day." he smiled, giving Rose a small hug and sincere smile. The two cousins were best friends for life. They had been for as long as anyone could remember. No one could come between the two. That was why James often argued with Albus. It wasn't because he was older, but James was jealous. Jealous that Rose could spend more time with his younger brother in one day than she would with James in a whole week.

"I don't have a pet. James has an owl. He got it for his 12th birthday! Dad say's I can get one too on mine!" he smiled at his new friend.

This was going to be an interesting year.

[Kyux]

Caius smiled, these guys seemed to be nice, nicer than the kids in the orphanage, much nicer that is. They didn't tease him because he was short, nor did they thought he had a "bad aura". Well , most of them, the older one seemed to dislike him, but he didn't mind really, since, he at least managed to get along with all of the others.
As the train kept running it finally reached to their shared destination-

"Hogwarts- School of Wizardy and Witch Craft."

As traditional, the first day started with the grand meals that Hogwarts had to offer. Long tables with wonderful, differents orts of food all across the tables. Each house had four tables, and there was one, singled out table that belonged to the newbies, thats where Caius, Scorpius, Albus, and Rose were sitting, waiting for the dark magic hat to tell them to which house they belong.
And, as expected, when the moment came, all the siblings were sent to Grifindor, with the mention of who was their father. Harry Potter. Caius have herd of him. The boy who lived. The boy who beated Voldemort. He was well known, and frankly, Caius adored him a lot, so it was exciting for him to find out he befriended the mans children.

Then, when it was Scorpius' turn, he was immidetly sent to Slytherin. Also, with the mention of his fathers name. Draco Malfoy. Again, coming from a well known, rich family... Caius started to feel a bit sick when he was called to the stage. He smiled slightly to the hat and then sat down. Though, when the hat was placed on his head it went silent.

"You have no parents kid... Well, your energy deffinetly suits for Slytherin. Go ahead." The hat spoke, silently, without it's usual joking and teasing tone. Like he was frightened, did he know something that Caius didnt? He bit down on his lowerlip and nodded. Just like the older Potter said. He belonged to Slytherin. Well, it wasn't all that bad.. Right?

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Four years have passed since the kids started going to Hogwarts. Four years in which the friendship between them grew even stronger. Though, James still didn't like Scorpius and Caius, but all the rest were just fine. Hanging out and seeing eachother pretty much everyday, even after school and on vacations, though, the person with whom Caius got along the most was Scorpius. It was strange though, he felt a very great affection towards the man, he was almost embarassed about that, though, he figured out why.

After Caius visited Albus a few times, Harry couldn't understand why he was feeling so connected to this kid, and then, after a very long discussion, Harry decided he would adopt himand take him inside of his house. James obviously wasn't all to happy about it but they managed to get along somehow.

At the age of fifteen, Caius stood to a height of 5'8 feet tall. He had a slightly slim figure with soft hints of muscles. He grew his hair out, letting it drop against his shoulders. What did change lately were his dreams. In the last half a year, Caius dreamt of someone calling him, some kind of an unknown language, making him wake up in the nights screaming, gasping and panting, yearning for water. He didn't know what it was, and he didn't tell anyone about it.

[Mae]

The four years had flew past and Scorpius was excited that for the first time his parents had actually let him stay at Hogwarts for Christmas. It had taken a lot of begging and pleading, but it had worked! He had been allowed to stay. The Potters on the other hand...that was a different matter.

Till then Scorpius was pretty sure convincing his family was hard. It took weeks before they agreed. Then Scorpius tackled the Weasley family, after all, how would he survive a whole two weeks without Rosie? The Weasley family was a lot easier to convince than both the Potters and Malfoys. Rose's and Hugo's father, Ron, was a lot more lenient since himself he would stay at Hogwarts during Christmas along with Hermione, his wife.

All three of the families were going to be together for the first time at Christmas!

A week before Christmas Scorpius could hardly concentrate. He would fidget and be fussy in lessons, his homework was lower quality, and he was full of energy, which caused some of his potions to explode in potions. Every time something wrong happened Rosie would laugh at him. Scorpius, Albus, Caius, and Rosie had become best friends throughout the four years. Unlike any other Weasley's and Potters, Rosie and Albus were outcasts. Both of them were the first in line to be sorted into Slytherin. It came as a shock to everybody. Hell, Rosie even cried when the tiara shouted out 'SLYTHERIN' as soon as it touched her ginger mane. She ran off to Scorpius, burying her face in his chest, crying her heart out. At least they were going to be together.

The relationship between Cai and Scorpius was still hanging strong, they would always be seen together, no matter what the other wouldn't leave the first's side.

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First Day of Christmas Break

Scorpius, Cai, Rose, and Albus ran out at the same times of their dorms. Still in their night clothes they all jumped onto the long, green velvet sofa together. It was early in the morning and it seemed like they were the only ones awake. It was too early for breakfast, so they decided to lounge in front of the fire for a while, and soak in the new freedom that they had received. Scorpius looked at Rose. She was staring intently at Cai. When she looked at Scorpius both of them thought of the same thing.

Scorpius being the bravest spoke. "Cai, have you ever wanted to find your real parents? I mean, I would be so curious."

He spoke softly toward the boy who was looking into the fire.

"Sorry if you don't want to talk about it, I was just thinking that maybe one day we could all look for them together!"

Even for a fifteen year old that sounded pretty ambitious. Scorpius knew that there was hardly anything they could do about Cai's parents, but it was worth a try. What an adventure it would be!

Rose nodded at Cai and rested her hand on his shoulder.

"Scorpius is right Cai, maybe we could look for them, after all we have the perfect chance! Two weeks, no parents. It's a perfect opportunity, don't you think?"

[Kyux]

Cai hated the fact that Rosie had conqured Scorpius' heart. He liked him, a lot. Yes, it may seem strange to some people but he really did prefer boys over girls, but no one from his friends knew that, he kept it to himself, being afraid that they would shun him if they found out. The only person who knew was Albus, his adoptive sibling.
And when Caius finally had the gut to tell Scorpius he liked him, the blonde confessed to him that he would like to be with Rosie, very much, and that broke his heart. He didn't hate her, he simply envy'd her.

So, when the three were sitting by the fire place, and the blonde and little Ms Weasly suggested him to find his parents Caius glanced at them and shrugged a bit."I don't know.. It's a little scary to be honest.. Since, when I was still at the orphanage the kids always backed away from me, saying Iv'e got a bad aura.. I never manage to do good spells right, and I can speak to snakes. Besides, when the tiara was rested on my head it was rather conffuzled.. And why Slytherin was such a good choice for me? Not that I have anything against it but everybody know that Slytherin has a lot of bad history. Hell, even Voldemort was once here... " He said and pouted a bit.

Then he glanced at them"And to be honest, Ever since Mr. Potter adopted me Iv'e been having a tough time to sleep, and Iv'e been always dreaming about people who lived once.. Who died and.. Just odd dreams, and some voice that told me to get closer.. That I'm his.. That I need to .. " He then stopped when he felt his head burst in pain again."Damn it--" He gasped and ran a hand through his hair."That I need to be the new Dark Lord.. Thats just scary.. What if I find out that my parents were death eaters? Or something even more horrible?" He asked and slid down in his chair.

[Mae]

Rosie moved next to Cai and gave him a consoling hug.

"Don't worry! I bet they're not! The chances of that are so rare. Besides, Death eaters are such bad people. I'm sure they wouldn't have the time to have children" Rosie assured Cai. She was completely oblivious to the fact that Cai was jealous of her. She in fact did not even know that Scorpius had a thing for her. How was she supposed to know?

Scorpius cleared his throat. "Actually, my grand father was a death eather..." he trailed off.

Rosie blushed. "I'm so sorry Scorpius I- I didn't mean...--"

"--It's okay Rosie," he threw her a loving smile, which she translated as friendly, "besides, even if they were Cai, I'm sure they loved you so much. Didn't you say your mother did not make it? I'm pretty sure your father just couldn't have handled the pressure of handling a little boy on his own. I'm sure I would struggle if that was me." Scorpius tried re-assuring Cai too.

Ever since Cai had told Scorpius about his...feelings...and Scorpius had rejected the poor boy, he tried his best to make Cai feel good most of the time. It was the least he could do to make up to the boy.

[Kyux]

Caius felt slightly uncofortable when Rosie hugged him. Sure, they were friends, but he still felt a bit wierd to hug the girl who was part of their ridiculous love triangle. He hugged her back though, leaning back against the chair as he glanced at Scorpius when he spoke about him doing just the same."Well. I'm pretty sure that if my father would care he wouldn't dtich me." He said and sighed a bit glancing at him."Well, we could try and figure this out.. Maybe then I can find the man and give him a piece of my mind. "He said calmly and snickered.

"I wonder what it would feel to find out you have a fifteen year old boy who sucks at potions class and is amazing in Dark Magic and Forbiden spells. Hah. " He said and then felt a bit uncomfortable. He had learned these forbidden spells by himself and kept it as a secret."So, do you have any ideas on how to find out who was he? I mean, All I have left from my mother is this" He said and took out a small emblem with a drawing similar to the Death Eaters symbol, only just a bit different.

"So, maybe... Scorpius... Maybe we can speak to your father? I mean, he knows who the deatheaters exactly were..Right?"