Author's Note: Ok, I'm not really happy with the title for this fiction so if you have any suggestions please do let me know.

A big thank you to petitesorciere who has kindly given me permission to use an idea that she originally had in her fic Rifts and Romance. Check out her stories, they are great.

Oh and I know only Albus has the green eyes in the epilogue but I've decided to give them to Lily as well.

Disclaimer: I'm not and never will be JK Rowling

Chapter 1

Lily found herself down Knockturn Alley, not a good place for a Potter to be especially the youngest and light of her father's eye. Stupid Rose and Hugo. Her cousins appeared to channel the spirits of their twin uncles Fred and George more and more each year. Indeed, Hogwarts hadn't seen two such pranksters since. The Weasley siblings certainly had a knack for trouble. Such trouble now found Lily down the dodgiest road in wizarding London. She looked too much like her father for this to go unnoticed, her emerald green eyes and black hair too remarkable and could already feel the eyes burning a hole in the back of head. Lily knew the worst thing she could do would be to show the fear that was currently coursing through her body. Keeping a nonchalant expression on her face, Lily fought to keep her shoulders from tightening up and giving her away. She looked around surreptitiously hoping to find a landmark she recognised which was stupid really as she had never ventured down here before.

Heading in what she hoped was the right direction; Lily rounded the corner only to bump into a brick wall. A warm, breathing brick wall. Hands shot out to grab and steady her before she could fall backwards onto the floor and she found herself breathing in a musky cologne mixed with the scent of warm male. "Well, well Princess, this is a little far from your domain," drawled a voice she knew all too well.

Lily looked up into the grey eyes of Scorpius Malfoy. The boy had fascinated Lily for years. Mainly, she surmised, because he was forbidden fruit. She had been warned to stay well away from him by her dad, her uncle Ron, Rose and her brothers James and Albus. She knew that there was bad blood between the Potters and the Malfoys but it hadn't stopped her gaze from resting on him in the Great Hall. The oldest Malfoy had a charisma that was matched by no other boy at Hogwarts. His supreme confidence bordered on the arrogant and he ruled Slytherin House with an iron fist. This was the first time Scorpius had ever spoken to her and she found herself blushing under his silver gaze.

"So what's Potter's precious little girl doing in such salubrious surroundings?" Malfoy asked.

Lily cleared her throat and tried to answer this time. Staring at him like a vacuous ninny was not good for her reputation as an intelligent witch. "Rose and Hugo sent me on a wild goose chase. I can only imagine they thought it would be amusing for me to end up down here."

Before Scorpius could answer, a voice so similar to his own called out. "Scorpius? Where have you got to? We've got to meet your mother in five minutes." Lily's eyes widened as Scorpius' father, Draco Malfoy, rounded the same corner and smirked as he took in the scene before him. "Ah Miss Potter, what are you doing here?"

Lily felt her cheeks blush even harder. Being the centre of attention for the two tall blond Malfoy men was more than a little overwhelming especially as her dad had nothing good to say about Mr Malfoy. Indeed she'd overheard some bitter conversations between her dad and Uncle Ron about Mr Malfoy and his wife.

"She appears to be lost, father," Scorpius answered for her. Great, she was coming across as a complete airhead unable to answer a simple question.

"Well we'd hate for anything to happen to Miss Potter so I think we'd better restore her to father's loving embrace," Mr Malfoy drawled sarcastically. "Miss Potter, if you could take Scorpius' arm please and we'll escort you back to Diagon Alley before your father has the ministry out looking for you." Lily grasped Scorpius' out stretched arm and followed Mr Malfoy back down Knockturn Alley.

Within minutes, Lily found herself back in the hustle and bustle of Diagon Alley. "Do you know where your father is?" Mr Malfoy turned and asked her.

Lily shook her head, "I was meant to meet him half an hour ago in Flourish and Blotts."

"Well we're heading that way to meet my wife. I'm sure your father will still be around looking for you."

Lily was even more curious now. She had seen Mrs Malfoy plenty of times on Platform nine and three quarters sending and greeting her children off the Hogwarts Express. She was the polar opposite to the Malfoy brood with thick curly brown hair, a pair of warm laughing eyes and about a foot shorter. She had always thought that there was some mystery that surrounded her from the times she'd heard her dad and Uncle Ron speak about her, the awed looks she received from other parents and the way that dad and uncle studiously ignored her every time they came across her. They never even looked her way. Lily was pleased that at last she would be meeting her.

As they entered Flourish and Blotts, Lily was amazed to see the tenderest smile cross Draco Malfoy's face as he spied his wife browsing the bookshelves. Who would have thought that such a cool, arrogant man could look such a way? "Found something we don't yet own in the library, my little bookworm," Mr Malfoy teased

Lily's fascinated gaze took in the brunette's cheeky smile as she swatted her immaculate husband around the head. "No, thanks to me, the library in Malfoy Manor is the best stocked in the land. Minerva told me the other day that it put Hogwarts to shame," and she stuck her tongue out at him. Her gaze moved past her handsome husband and landed on Lily, whose arm was still laced through Scorpius'. "Draco, are you looking for Harry to kill you?" Why do you have his daughter in tow?"

"Scorpius found her wandering around Knockturn Alley. We thought it would be a good idea to bring her back to Diagon Alley before something bad could happen to her." He answered.

Lily found herself being distangled from Scorpius and pulled into a warm, friendly hug. "Oh dear, what trouble you could have gotten into. What on earth were you thinking to go down there on your own and as a Potter?"

Lily found herself hanging her head slightly in shame as she would with her own mother. "I was following Rose and Hugo Weasley, Mrs Malfoy."

Her answer was met with a tinkling laugh. "Those two, I hear, could rival Fred and George Weasley as trouble makers. Please call me Hermione. Mrs Malfoy always makes me feel a hundred years old. Besides, as my dear mother in law always tells me, I don't have enough dignity to be a Mrs Malfoy."

Lily felt Mr Malfoy and Scorpius both bristle at that. The two Malfoy men seemed very protective when it came to Hermione Malfoy. Hermione ignored this, her attention continuing to remain on Lily. "Now, I think we'd better find Harry and restore you to him before he completely loses his mind and does something typically rash. I'm sure I saw him around here earlier."

Before they had looked too far, Lily heard the frantic tones of her dad, "Lily, there you are. Where have you been? I've been worried sick and searching up and down Diagon Alley for you." Before Lily could answer his question, her dad spotted Hermione with Scorpius and Draco Malfoy behind her. He stiffened and Lily could see him grasping for his wand.

"Dad, it's ok. I got lost down Knockturn Alley and Scorpius and Mr Malfoy rescued me and brought me back to Flourish and Blotts."

"Knockturn Alley! What the bloody hell were you doing down there?" Lily spun to face her Uncle Ron and saw the pleading faces of her cousins Rose and Hugo behind him. There was no way she was going to dob them in as both her dad and uncle would kill them.

"I was curious," Lily mumbled ignoring the unimpressed expression on Scorpius Malfoy's face. So she struggled to lie and wasn't Slytherin enough to think of something on the spot. At least her dad would believe her as she never lied to him.

Harry looked exasperated but not surprised afterall with him and Ginny Weasley as parents, it was expected that their children would inherit their curious nature and inability not to do rash things. "I won't say that I'm not disappointed in you because you know how dangerous Knockturn Alley is especially for you but I guess as you are ok and if you promise never to be so foolish again, I won't punish you. I hope you've at least learnt your lesson."

Lily blushed once more at being treated like a little kid in front of Scorpius. She was 15 years old but the way her dad had just spoken to her you'd think she was 6. He turned towards the Malfoys, "I guess thank you is in order."

Lily saw both Draco and Scorpius Malfoy raise identical eyebrows in scorn at the less than graceful thank you. Lily squirmed in embarrassment. Only Hermione appeared unaffected, "It was our pleasure Harry. We would hate for something to happen to Lily." She said with a charm that put Harry to shame.

"Well I suppose I'll see you at Kings Cross next week. Until then Mr and Mrs Malfoy," Harry said with a brief nod before dragging Lily away behind the large Weasley brood.

Lily was mortified at dad's behaviour and the fact that he hadn't even let her say goodbye let alone thank you to her rescuers. She turned around and saw the pain and hurt in Hermione Malfoy's eyes and the anger that suffused her husband's face. She caught eyes with Scorpius and gave him a shy smile and a small wave. His enigmatic facial expression didn't change accept for the quirking of his right eyebrow.

AN: Please review and let me know what you think of the first chapter.