Love's Spell, Veela's Curse

Summary: While cleaning out old prophecies in the Hall of Uncertainties, Draco came across a prophecy marked with the Malfoy lineage. What he found changes history itself forever.

Rating: M (for sexual situations and two fabulous lemons, in addition to minor gay-bashing)

Pairings: DMHP, ASPSHP, JPLM, NMOC

Mentioned Pairings and Assumed Pairings: RWHG, SSLE, LLPOC (technically unknown, never mentioned, didn't care to give name, unless someone gives good suggestion will remain as is) and originally, HPGW, DMAG, LMNM

Genre: Romance, Supernatural

Length: 12,780 words

Status: Complete

World: Books

Characters Filed Under: Albus Severus Potter (Albus S. P.) and Scorpius Malfoy (Scorpius M.)

Dedicated To: Every lover of any of the pairings listed.

Love's Spell, Veela's Curse

Chapter 1: Pride and Promise

Scorpius Malfoy turned to look at Albus Potter, the boy he'd been crushing on since they first encountered each other on the train.

They'd been instant friends, much to their parents' initial displeasure, but had soon grown to learn that you couldn't break the friendship these two wizards had. To many onlookers, it was befitting of the sons of such childhood rivals, although many pure-bloods (mostly those who'd followed Voldemort) considered the Malfoys traitors as it was, and considered this only one more reason to prove their point.

Due to his father's mention of the fact that the sorting hat took your answer into account, Albus had been placed easily in Gryffindor, and Scorpius, although surprising to most anyone else, had not only avoided being placed in Slytherin, but had managed to find himself sitting next to Albus, or "Al" as he preferred to be called, at the Gryffindor table.

Scorpius couldn't help but remember all of this. Or the other memory that always followed when he thought about Al. The night his father had mentioned the one thing he wished he'd never been told. The time his father told him about the curse was one memory he wish he could Obliviate, but knew it would only backfire on him in the end.

The prophecy tells of an old veela curse put on the Malfoy line. Any male child born of the Malfoy name would fall in love with a man and would be unable to have him until the curse was lifted. Whether true or not, many witches and wizards debated, but no one could deny the evidence that supported the prophecy's claim.

The most recent examples were clear: Lucius Malfoy had fallen in love with James Potter, and had never been able to tell him as the lad had wedded and bedded Lily Evans, and then ended up dying killed by his own master, Lord Voldemort. And then his son, Draco Malfoy, had fallen for the Chosen One, the great Harry Potter himself, who ended up married to Ginny Weasley and had three children of his own. And last so far came Scorpius Malfoy, who hadn't yet fallen for anyone, although many were speculating that it would be none other than Harry Potter's son, Albus Potter, the very boy that Scorpius was mooning over at this very moment, because as it seemed, Malfoys always fell in love with Potters, and no matter what their love was never able to be returned.

Draco had come across the curse by accident. His father, attempting to spare him from the dreadful news, never told him. He'd been assisting the Ministry to clean out all the old prophecies when he found one that was labeled with the Malfoy lineage on it. Greedily desiring what must be some sort of guarantee of power and strength, he quickly learned about what it contained. The satisfied grin on his face became an undignified frown, and he felt an odd pull in his belly, recalling his affection for the raven-haired man that had defeated the Dark Lord so long ago.

When he told Scorpius so many years later, Scorpius proclaimed that it wasn't the fact that falling in love with a man was a curse, but rather the fact that there was no love returned. And Draco agreed, knowing that he felt as if the lack of love returned seemed to be the worst feeling in the world to him.

So now it was Scorpius' turn to try and break the curse. If he succeeded, well then maybe even Draco had a chance at love.

As Scorpius sat and wondered, irritated, why his father had decided to tell him this, he wished he had never known, that way he could avoid the curse all together as every other Malfoy had done in the past.

Which was the exact opposite of how to break the curse. You had to actually face the problem to find the solution. You had to let go of your pride, drop the walls that held you separate from everyone else, and let yourself be vulnerable in front of the man you loved.

And those three things were the reason the curse was put upon the Malfoy line to begin with. Because a Malfoy was only as good as his pride, and that was the one thing a Malfoy—even a Gryffindor Malfoy like Scorpius—couldn't—wouldn't—do.