marguerite_26 | FIC: Your Legacy (Draco-centric, mention of Harry/Scorpius) PG

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FIC: Your Legacy (Draco-centric, mention of Harry/Scorpius) PG

In complete opposition to the happy fluff I posted yesterday...

nextgendarkfest reveals are up!

First – I dropped out of this fest. I'd picked a lovely, lovely Scorp/Ginny prompt but my mind would not go anywhere dark. Just would NOT. So I sent off my apologies to the mods.

Then two things happened:
1) I had a conversation with

frayach about 'realism' in Harry/Scorpius fics (and how I like to cut off all my Harry/Scorp fics before the reveal to Draco, lol).
2) A couple days later I got the flu. My fevered mind kept thinking about Harry/Scorpius and why I didn’t like Draco playing a part because it shifted the focus too far from the pairing that I like, and how a 'realistic' response from Draco would be interesting to me if it was the entire focus, a fic that is not about Harry/Scorpius, but actually about Draco dealing with the reveal. And I rolled over in bed, grabbed a paper and pen – didn't put on my glasses or turn on the light – and I scribbled this… thing. LOL.

End of unimportant backstory…

Thank you to everyone who commented and recced the product of my fevered mind. ♥ No one guessed my fic in the poll. Though I got some lovely compliments in your guesses. ty :D

Author:

marguerite_26
Title: Your Legacy
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1011
Pairing(s): Draco-centric, mention of Harry/Scorpius
Warnings: character death
Summary: He is yours and you will do anything for him, your Scorpius.
Author's Notes: This is a very little something written as a gift to the readers of the

nextgendarkfest. Thanks to the lwsa girls for the encouragement and thank you to my betas

melusinahp and

snegurochka_lee who told me this wasn't complete crap and I should not delete it, but all I needed was an extra scene. and maybe another. And another. LOL.

Your Legacy

He is your legacy, your life, this little bundle. You hold him close as he cries and shush him in soft, gentle tones. You push back his downy hair and press a kiss to his tiny forehead. He is yours and you will do anything for him, your Scorpius.

~0~0~

When he is two, you slip from your wife's sleeping arms and steal into his room to watch him sleep.

When he is three, you rock him gently and wipe away his tears as your father's drunken tirades echo through the empty halls.

When he is five and your wife leaves you, you find the strength to comfort his loss and bury your own.

When he is seven, he holds your hand at your mother's funeral. Only one other person comes to pay his respects. Scorpius looks up at you and asks, "Who was that man with the scar, Father?" And you tell him. That is your first mistake.

~0~0~

He is nine when you find a Chocolate Frog Card of him under Scorpius's pillow. Your eyes burn at the thought your son has found such a hero. You put it back, hands trembling, and buy him season tickets to the Falcons for his birthday. His hug is tight, little arms almost painful in their enthusiasm, and the churn in your gut abates.

You check a week later and the card remains hidden like a treasure for your son to finger as he sleeps.

~0~0~

You let the Hogwarts Express take your son away one sunny September first.

Potter is there with his children, laughing and smiling. You manage a nod.

Scorpius's eyes widen when he recognises the man through the crowd. He tugs your sleeve and you snap at him. The last you see of your son for months is him boarding the train, blinking back tears.

~0~0~

Hogwarts rips at your son's innocence in the same way it did yours. He comes home for the summer with questions and accusations that you cannot answer. You find him reading a re-telling of the Battle of Hogwarts one night and you find solace in the emptying of a crystal Cognac decanter.

When he is thirteen, he asks to stay at Albus Potter's house over Easter. At your hesitant nod, he smiles at you for the first time in so long you barely recognise it. After that, you deny him nothing but wonder if he understands that each holiday he spends in Godric's Hollow devours you from within.

Every time you see him, he is different – all long limbs and cocky smirks. He's not yours any longer; his eyes are sharp and his wit is cutting like he knows you better than you know yourself.

When he is seventeen, you stand silent while Potter drops him off only a day before classes recommence. Potter's hand is on your son’s shoulder, both casual and possessive. Scorpius's eyes soften as he turns from you and waves goodbye, and your soul screams.

~0~0~

When he is nineteen, you know he has found someone. There is no accounting for the hours he spends away from the Manor. He offers no justification for arriving for breakfast in the previous day's clothes.

The Manor is immense, cold and silent – more even than when he was at school. You spend your lonely evenings in his room, looking for traces of the young boy that once thought his father was a great man.

~0~0~

Scorpius tells you on his twenty-first birthday. He is in love and they are happy.

Apparently, you should be happy as well.

It is the way of things: young people fall in love and leave their fathers. But your brain cannot comprehend how misguided hero worship turned into true love.

As Harry Potter rises to take your hand as though he's never once refused it, something inside you sizzles and sparks, twisting up your spine.

You shake his strong hand and know he's touched your son with it, touched him in ways you refuse to imagine. This hand will mold your son, already has, into something you don't recognise.

~0~0~

"It is only a year," Scorpius tells you, "maybe two." Potter’s promotion to British Ambassador and the lengthy travel plans are to be celebrated as though not seeing your son for a year is something you can accept.

Scorpius turns, hand on the doorknob. His eyes are worn, tired and you wonder when he started looking at you like that. Then he whispers, "Don’t make me choose, Father. You won’t like my decision. "

There’s a sharp pain in your chest, a slice of fire between your ribs that twists and flares at the snick of the shutting door.

~0~0~

You feel nothing as you sign the contract and hand over the Galleons. The men are professionals and discreet. It will be a random shooting in Muggle London, a botched robbery with the Saviour of the Wizarding World in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It will not be traced back to you.

~0~0~

Scorpius sits on the floor of the parlour, crumpled over the Prophet like a wet rag. The front cover has Potter, arms and legs askew, eyes open and unblinking, blood pooled like black ink around him. Scorpius’s sobs are broken, breathless.

You hold him close as he cries and shush him in soft, gentle tones. You push back his downy hair and press a kiss to his forehead. He is yours and you will do anything for him, your Scorpius.

~fin~

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I thought this might be your fic ♥ ♥ ♥

hee!

THANK YOU for the rec!!! I was beaming when I saw it.

I tackled 2nd person pov! I so hoped you'd like it.

I love second person pov fic! It was a lovely surprise, Maggie ♥

Edited 2010-07-19 18:16 (UTC)

You should always be feverish, in this case. It yields such exquisite results. I just love this fic to pieces. D: *grabs it and tries to keep it all to herself*

well feverish scribbling and non-feverish editing. LOL.
My muse does love me delirious.

Thank you, doll. *gropes you*

Oooh! Really liked this. ♥

awe! Thank you! :D

Crimeny, don't tell anyone I even read this, but I really liked it. D: D: D:

OMG!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU READ THIS!!!!! AHAHHAHAH!!!!

And you LIKED IT!!! *beams*

CHERYL!!! That makes me so happy! You character death lover, you!

I DON'T KNOW WTF EVEN POSSESSED ME! O_____O

I can totally relate to Draco in this, though. You did SUCH an awesome job! LOL! I may have said, "FUCK YEAH" when he had Harry killed. *snorfles*

TAKE MY BABY AWAY, WILL YOU, BASTARD? I DON'T THINK SO.

*\o/*

*dances around the room*

Aha, see, I didn't know that backstory about "realism," but yes, that's exactly what's so cool and awesome about this. (And I never thought about you generally cutting off H/Sc fics before Draco finds out, LOL forever). But yeah, if we're going by Harry-Draco canon hatred, that has not been amended in the intervening years? Draco would go absolutely batshit at the thought of Harry with Scorpius. Absolutely. *nodnod* Love it. :)

(And I never thought about you generally cutting off H/Sc fics before Draco finds out, LOL forever)
ahahah! I know, right? It's like... hmmm... I never noticed that but I do it EVERY SINGLE TIME! d'oh!

yes. batshit. exactly. especially (I think this was how mel put it) if Draco still had a huge inferiority complex with Harry and Scorpius was his and yet, even that gets taken from him.

It is beautiful. It is so serious. I love it so much. ♥ Apparently, fever gives you knew & unexpected ideas!

But what do you mean, you couldn't tackle dark!Ginny/Scorpius? Even I did (http://chantefable.livejournal.com/20791.html)! You have to give it a try! Hmm, background pairing for Travel Fair, y/n?

Thank you, lovely. :D

I have your Ginny/Scorp bookmarked to read asap. YAY! I'm so glad you tackled it, then again I firmly believe you could tackle anything. After all the first fic of yours I read was Ginny/Giant Squid. ;)

MERLIN, THAT SQUID NEEDS MORE LOVE! When will people recognise the squishy awesomeness of the Squid, I ask you?! ;)

Thank you, dear - your praise fills me with blushing joy! (But apparently, not everything. I've spent 3,5 months writing Harry/Hermione/Ron and we're still getting nowhere. *epic headdesk*)

On a related note (i.e. tentacles), have you seen this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(octopus))? It makes my day every time I read another news story :D

That octopus is lovely. :D

Well done!

This line: ...he's touched your son with it, touched him in ways you refuse to imagine. made think, "Eww"... mainly because, as a parent, I don't want to think about someone doing that with my kids and then shaking their hand. lol.

I liked it. :)

Thanks so much! Yes, that line was meant to be Eww. Like a horrible thing for Draco to ever think of. :D

Glad you liked. :D

Ow. Ow, ow, ow.... God Maggie, this made my soul hurt, it was so real. But what happens when Scorpius DOES find out, because he will. OH, man! It made me cry.

*hugs you*
I'm sorry it hurt! But thank you for reading! I'm honoured that you trust me enough to attempt it. :D

And gah! I don't want to think about Scorpius finding out! :( There's a reason this is only 1k. That's the as long as I could handle to live in that headspace. LOL.

Loved this story!

YAY! Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed it. :D

WOW!!!! This is fantastic. My heart was in my throat the whole time I was reading, wondering where all of this was going to end, but yet, even with the wondering, I was still shocked.

This is so interesting and beautifully written. The use of the second person narrator makes it feel so personal - of course, with H/Sc, we're always focused on Harry and Scorpius; it's so interesting to watch the relationship unfold through someone else's eyes - and the fact that it's Draco? Whoa!

This hand will mold your son, already has, into something you don't recognise.

This is perhaps the most painful line in the whole story. I'm not a parent so I can only imagine what it would feel like to "lose" a son to someone else - someone he idolizes. Especially when your child's idol is someone you've never liked and who, by comparison, makes you feel worthless - on the wrong side of history. It must be terribly painful. And then the whole idea of the huge empty manor and Draco's loneliness . . . this wasn't going to turn out well, was it? A cornered Draco is a dangerous Draco. When idol becomes lover, it's like a complete and final renunciation of everything he represents. You made my heart break for Draco with the earlier scenes of Scorpius's childhood. To lose your child - heart and soul - to someone else must be hard enough, but to lose your child to someone who stands for everything you don't . . . . . I can not only understand his motive for having Harry killed, I could almost sympathize if it wasn't so completely wrong and destructive for everyone. In order to have his son back, he had to break him. It's literally a tragedy.

Hogwarts rips at your son's innocence in the same way it did yours. He comes home for the summer with questions and accusations that you cannot answer.

I love your clipped matter-of-fact sentences that contain whole backstories. Your writing is so concise and sharp and economical. It makes the whole story cut like a knife. Really lovely writing.

Thank you so much for writing and sharing this - I'm really impressed by the objectivity you achieved despite your love of H/Sc. Bravo!

oh lord, fray. I actually needed a couple days to process this comment. it's just... IDEK... it means a lot to me. I wrote this fic thinking of you and our conversations. I couldn't really find the words back then to tell you what I meant at the time, and this fic was sort of a 'this is what I meant when I said thinking about Draco distracts me from the H/Sc.' LOL.

But gah! I adore your thoughts on this. and I'm so pleased that the style really worked for you, it felt like a knife while I was writing it.

Thank you for reading and for this wonderful comment. I appreciate it more than you can imagine. ♥

Well, you know I am not a big H/Sc person, even despite the hotness you've written before, mostly because of Draco. I fixate on Draco being passed over by Harry, and it kinda makes my h/d soul weep. But here you explore another facet to that triangle, and it works. Fray was right to call your writing here economical--a lot is shown in brief snippets. The darkness didn't rip my heart out, mostly b/c the length of the fic didn't lend itself to crushing character identification, but even with 1000 words, I really felt for Draco.

Def. my fav line: This hand will mold your son, already has, into something you don't recognise.

Nice work.

well hello there... ;)
I did sort of think of this as a little note to H/Sc nay-sayers that, yes, I do get it your point. :P

The darkness didn't rip my heart out, mostly b/c the length of the fic didn't lend itself to crushing character identification
Thank you. yes, that was my intention - for both myself and my readers, just to taste of Draco's emotions but not drowned in them.

Thanks, sweet. I really appreciate your thoughts.

Heh, I commented like an hour ago to say I really enjoyed this! Since Draco is my bestest boy I always really want to see him in the very little Harry/Scorpius I read, and this was perfect. Draco wants so much to be a good father and for Scorpius to be his. :(

Since Draco is my bestest boy I always really want to see him in the very little Harry/Scorpius I read hee! YES. Exactly. :D

I'm so glad you liked. Thanks, dear.

That is just... brilliant. ;____;

*glomps you*

Thanks for reading, darling. :D

Awesome job with this. Very chilling at the end. Draco is so f***ed up that he would hurt his own son just to keep him.

Your second person POV was so well written that I didn't even register that it WAS second person. It adds a lot to the chilling effect of the piece by placing us in Draco's head. Not a good place to be!

Your second person POV was so well written that I didn't even register that it WAS second person.
YAY!!! That pleases me so much! Thanks for reading! I'm thrilled you enjoyed it.

I wonder if you would reply to my comment.

I was looking through HP fics in the middle of the night cause I couldn't sleep and I came across yours. It's really beautiful and heartfelt and I really feel for Draco. ( biasedness because he's my number one boy) And you made me really hate Scorpius, though I know it isn't your intention. I think it was with this line that made me cry.

Scorpius turns, hand on the doorknob. His eyes are worn, tired and you wonder when he started looking at you like that. Then he whispers, "Don’t make me choose, Father. You won’t like my decision. "

I really can't believe he said that after everything Draco has done as his father, never once telling him not to be with Harry, he just didn't want to be alone.

Or maybe there were other reasons that Scorpius felt the need to say that? Is it bad that I was happy Harry died?

It's still a great read and I hope you reply :) Okay I'm going to read the rest of your fics. After I finish crying, heh.

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