Awake and Jaded - - - [Nate]

[crayola]

Scorpius laughed to himself bitterly as thoughts of the winter holidays came back to him. He had been hoping for peace, but with these rich pureblood families, peace was never something that took place. Especially with the Malfoy’s, and while most of them maintained their appearances of looking prim and proper, underneath was insanity. His mother, unaware of the consequences, was rooting for his permanent residence to be her house, and his controlling grandfather and father’s dispute would last forever and only grow larger. Not to mention Scorpius’ father, your everyday pedophile, had been getting just as close to Isabella as he had been. He had begun to think that the only rational member of his family was, despite her utter insanity, was Bellatrix. Obviously Scorpius would never call on his family for this – that would be disrespectful and Lucius would make sure this never occurred – which was why he sat upon the couch chuckling resentfully at the situation.

Scorpius had always surrounded himself with the best people. However, he could only confide in a few of them. It could have something to do with the fact that Scorpius wasn’t very social besides him interacting with women, or it could be that not many Slytherins were to be trusted. He had known Nate since childhood and it made sense that he and Scorpius were friends; everyone was aware that the two shared many of the same tactics. And, despite Scorpius not being very close with Draco, Blaise Zabini had his father had been best friends.

It was rather late, and most were in bed by now. Nevertheless, Scorpius still sat upon the common room couch staring at the dancing flames in the fireplace. He was quite bored and wanted something interesting to do besides sitting in the Slytherin common room. He could hear silent steps beginning to grow louder in the dungeon corridor and finally he could feel the presence of someone entering the common room. He raised an eyebrow and question, turning around in hope that this person could save him from this jaded phase. [/color]

[nate]

Nathaniel himself was disgusted with how he had nothing to do tonight. When he was not engaged with anything, doing nothing ate away at his nerves. He barely had nights such as these and would not accept that this may be one of them. The thought that he might find something a bit more interesting in his common room than the zilch he was doing here came to mind. Nate walked down the dungeon corridor and muttered the password – what the hell was a knargle anyway? - And made his way into the common room.

Nate was a bit surprised by what he saw. He didn’t think he’d see the day that Scorpius Malfoy was alone. The guy usually had a group of girls flinging themselves at him or a bunch of respected Slytherin males, Nate always being one of them, surrounding him. Even as children Scorp had come up with activities for them to do on boring summer days. They had been at the Malfoy manner playing a game of quidditch when Scorpius had told him about the all girls dance school down the street. Nate and Scorpius had rushed to it, watching graciously as older girls changed out of their tutus.

Scorpius looked deep in thought, and Nathaniel assumed he was thinking about his family. Scorpius had informed him on how screwed up the Malfoy’s were and Nate, more than surprised, had been sworn to concealment. “Scorpius Malfoy? Alone? ” He began, his voice a mock of disbelief. “Whatchu’ thinking about Scorp? Your screwed up family?” He asked, bantering with his friend. “Why don’t we go outside and you can let me kick your ass in some quidditch? You’ll forget all about your pedophile daddy. ” [/b] He suggested, mocking Scorpius again while smirking roguishly at his friend. [/size]

[crayola]

Scorpius had known Nate since birth – the Malfoy’s and Zabini’s were known to be close and because Scorpius had never had any siblings, he looked to Nate as his brother. Most were aware that Scorpius kept to himself and confided in only a few. However, only one person knew every detail there was about the Slytherin and that person was, not surprisingly, Nathaniel. It was nice to have a best friend like this, but it was sometimes irritating having Nate know every single thought that ran through his mind. But, Scorpius had to admit, he favoured how Nate could so quickly distract him.

A small smirk began to curve onto Scorpius’ lips at Nate’s first comment; it was strange, considering he would have usually occupied his time with a female. However, he was just as surprised that Nate wasn’t happily spending night with some girl.
“And you? I thought you’d be fucking some blonde.” He raised an eyebrow and smirked at his friend.

“And as a matter of fact, I am; mum wants me to come live with her and of course, Lucius is prepared to kill her because of that.” He replied, his tone the opposite of Nate’s as he was reminded of what he had been hoping to forget.
Scorpius laughed sarcastically, smirking mischievously.
“Nathaniel, why are you so confident that you’re going to win when you’ve lost every other game we’ve played?” He questioned jokingly, leaving the common room couch. Standing, he muttered “Accio” and moments later, his broom flew into his hands. [/color]