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Scorpius Knight

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Scorpius had walked past the entrance to St. Mungo's several times this morning, unable to bring himself to enter the hospital. He didn't know what had possessed him to Apparate here of all places. Well, he knew what had drawn him here, but he didn't know why now. It wasn't like he had anything to say, which was the reason for his inability to enter the building.

Finally, after an older Healer had shooed him away angrily, Scorpius had no choice but to retreat to a nearby restaurant. The former Ravenclaw ordered a butterbeer for himself and threw himself in a booth dejectedly. He ran his hand through his midnight black hair, feeling frustrated with himself over the fact that he had come here and didn't have the balls to enter the stupid building next door.

The newly-turned nineteen year old took a swig of the butterbeer, opting for a cold bottle than the warm version and twirled his elder wand uselessly in his hand as he tried gathering his courage to enter St. Mungo's after he finished this butterbeer.
 
It had been a long day at St. Mungo's. There had been an emergency with one of her patients and staff was short in her department due to vacation hours that some of the healers had been given so Panda thought she deserved a refreshment when she had clocked out. So she changed out of her scrubs and into the clothes she had brought in a black, leather bag enchanted to have more space than it appeared. It was possibly the handiest enchantment she had ever used because most of the time she really did have everything and the kitchen sink swung over her shoulder. And it was a lot nicer looking than a back pack that she would have had to carry on her back each morning to work. So when Pandora was changed into her skinny jeans and blue tank top, she walked out of the building, waving to the people who had become her friends after becoming her co-workers. She kissed their cheeks goodbye until tomorrow and walked to the restaurant next door.

The restaurant was a favourite of any worker at St. Mungo's and Panda was no exception but she would soon wish she was. She waved to a few of the regulars she recognized, who called 'Panda' in recognition. She took a seat at a table by the window and waited for someone to serve her as she took out a book from her bag. It wasn't anything special, just something she had picked up in her home to read during lunch breaks as she had when she was a student and continued to do so until even now.​
 
The lone Ravenclaw sat slumped in his booth, ignoring the constant chatter all around him as he downed his butterbeer. Soon his bottle had emptied and he lazily waved his wand, wishing the bottle would just refill itself on its own, but he knew the laws of magic were restricted to food so he had no choice but to flag down another waitress for a second drink. Feeling defeated by his cowardice earlier in the day, Scorpius ordered a firewhiskey instead, to fuel him with the courage he needed to enter St. Mungo's and ask for Panda.

Just as her named crossed his mind, he could've sworn he accidentally said it aloud, since he'd heard it so clearly verbally, it wasn't just in his head. Scorpius' brows furrowed together, almost sure he hadn't said her name aloud, but again he heard it in the restaurant. He relaxed slightly, since now he knew he hadn't foolishly revealed his wishful thinking out loud. Then he tensed as fear replaced his relief. For one wild second, Scorpius feared someone had read his mind and was attempting to recite his thoughts to tease him or mock him, but as his grey eyes scanned the room he realized they were just saying her name in greeting.

He should've been tipped off by the various other restaurant-goers in St. Mungo's scrubs; since the restaurant was right next door plenty of employees were bound to grab a bite after their shift. He hadn't thought she'd be out now though, so seeing Pandora walk through the restaurant greeting the others as she made her way to a seat threw him completely off balance. Literally.

In one second Scorpius sat up straight to get a better look at her, then his cowardice took over and he quickly tried to slump back down into his booth again to avoid her. With his wand still in hand, the shock of seeing Pandora and his sudden movements caused a huge silver sparks to fly out of his wand tip and straight towards the windows in front of him, causing the glass to shatter and fly everywhere. A few shards of glass landed deeply in his arm though he hadn't noticed, as he was too busy trying to see if Pandora had been okay, yet trying to hide from her all the same.
 
Just as Pandora had cracked open her book she heard a bang on the ground and smiled inwardly in amusement but didn't look back for fear they would think she was rude. It was not the case because she was usually the one falling for grace was one thing that she had not been blessed with. In fact for an entire year she had been convinced she had dyspraxia because she fell so often of course it had not been true but she understood the embarrassment this person must have had so she decided to not bring it further by looking back. All other eyes in the room would be on them anyway, why give another that could be engrossed in The History of Love by Nicole Krauss? Just as this thought passed through her mind, the brunette had to throw her arms up over her face when glass shattered everywhere. There were gasps but instantly all the healers that were there seemed to look around and take in their surroundings to see if anyone was dreadfully hurt. As Pandora was doing this, her gaze landed in the direction from which she believed the glass to have been broken in the first place.

With only a few pieces of broken glass on and in her arms, Pandora found it truly did not matter so she grabbed her bag and her wine red wand and walked over to this stranger. It took her a moment to take in what she saw, shock was playing a strong role and then there was disbelief and then anger. Scorpius Knight had hurt her and now he wanted to make his presence known by possibly hurting her and others physically. Perhaps she should thank him for cutting all their ties because this was not the person that Panda would ever want to be with. "Scorpius, if you don't like me you don't have to try to injure me with glass," she said, glancing around momentarily before tapping her wand on her arm to free herself of the glass and the slight cuts she had. Then there was a moment of silence between them and as observant as she normally was, Panda had not noticed that the window was being fixed and all was well in a matter of moments... Well everything but her heart that stupidly ached.

Pandora and Scorpius they were never even a 'they'. Hardly even friends... pen pals at the most but something in the healer told her that there was something special about the Quidditch player. Her heart would flutter everytime she got a letter from him, even if the words were ludicrous. She had passed up several opportunities because it would not have felt right spending time with someone when she wanted Scorpius Knight to be with her but it was like a school-girl crush and she had to boil it down to that otherwise her feelings might genuinely get hurt.​
 
Scorpius cringed as he realized the blast from his wand had blown off more than one window and was leaving glass shattered everywhere. He heard angry calls from the owner and the restaurant's employees and some surprised cries of the restaurant-goers, though Scorpius was glad that there were many Healers present to instantly help any innocent, injured bystanders.

The only Healer he noticed however, was Pandora. He bit his scarred lip, anxious that she had gotten hurt over his clumsiness, but barely had time to take a step forwards to her before she was rounding on him. Her reaction was not at all what he had expected. He didn't really know what he had expected of their reunion. Surely he didn't expect her to be thrilled at the sight of him, but he never thought she'd be so angry at him as to think he'd actually try to physically hurt her. The nineteen year old opened his mouth in disbelief at her words, only managing to utter out, "Panda! - I - wait - what?!" Why would she think he disliked her? And especially to the point of harm. He had never hurt her ever, or so he thought.

It was clear Pandora had realized the blast had come from him, but he wasn't sure whether anyone else had registered its origin, and he preferred not being kicked out, so he hastily tried shoving his wand back into his pocket, unknowingly causing the shards of glass to embed themselves deeper into his arm. Scorpius winced audibly as he finally realized the large pieces of glass sticking out of his right arm but didn't care as he looked back up at the Healer who had saved his career, and his life.

"Panda, I -" he began again, stopping as he realized he used her nickname, one he was personally fond of, though knew was reserved for only those closest to her. "I swear I didn't do that on purpose," he finally managed to say.
 
Pandora winced involuntarily when Scorpius called her by her nickname. She had a right mind to correct him but she let him speak and when he protested she opened her mouth to write him off completely but she saw glass protruding from his arm and as a healer and a decent person she had to do something about it first. A long sigh fell from her lightly glossed lips and she sat down opposite him, looking into his eyes as she put her hands on the table, palm upwards and her small hands awaiting his arms to cradle so she could fix him up and promptly, and possibly rudely, tell him to leave. She would have preferred to leave Scorpius to deal with the other healers but there was some niggling feeling that told her she should stay. Panda knew, even as she was doing this, that Freud would say this was her super-ego making her stay and fix Scorpius even if her anger and hurt told her to run from him and fix her pride that was still aching.

"Well come on," the healer said impatiently, tapping her canvas shoes on the floor in a mixture of frustration and anxiety. Hopefully Scorpius would just sit in silence just as she wanted to but looking into his eyes she already knew he would try to explain himself further. But what he did not realize is that Pandora Cohen had already decided what kind of person he was from the day he started to ignore her and now broke the windows in this cafe to be hurtful. The only thing she did not know was his reasoning and truth-be-told Panda was not interested in it. She wanted to be angry at him, it would be easier for her to move on from... easier than it had been the first time she had tried.

The nineteen year old stared down at the lines on her hands and remembered how she had used a mixture of ice cream, firewhiskey and friends calling him various untrue names to get over the sting of being ignored and onto the anger that was still there in her coffee coloured eyes when she looked at Scorpius Knight.​
 
Scorpius had not missed Pandora's wince as he said her nickname, the tell tale sign that he had messed up badly. It was not the first time he had messed things up in a relationship. in fact every single relationship he'd had always ended badly. Scorpius used to think he just had unfortunate luck when it came to girls but now he realized he had always been the one to mess things up. He should've known better by now, learned his lesson, but well, as the old saying went, old habits die hard. Scorpius felt that if he had kept in contact with his friends after graduation they would've been able to help him with his situation with Panda, but he figured if he had made a better effort to keep in contact overall he wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.

Scorpius sighed and tentatively took a seat with Pandora, knowing she was angry at him but laid out his arm for her to take. He figured she was only helping him because she felt an obligation as a Healer, not because it was him. He couldn't help but notice how close they were to each other and could easily remember the first time he ever saw her as if it were yesterday. One minute he had been up in the air on his broomstick, Beater's bat in hand, protecting his teammates - the next thing he knew, he was on the ground in immense pain and the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was Pandora hunched over him, muttering what he could only guess were Healing charms. He hadn't stayed conscious for long though, just long enough to see the beautiful girl who'd saved his life, before his eyelids had shut closed again.

Scorpius couldn't help but smile at the memory, remembering also when he'd woken up at St. Mungo's to the same sight. Now however, as his silver eyes locked into Panda's brown eyes, he could see pain; she had been hurt. He winced slightly, ashamed at himself, especially because the Healer before him was expecting a good reason for blowing her off but Scorpius had nothing to offer but a poor excuse. "I, uh-" he said without really thinking, before closing his mouth and looking away from her in defeat. What was he possibly going to tell her that was okay?

He couldn't help but look up at her, in this close proximity he was able to take in more details of her face. He could see the the golden hues of her eyes shining, the way her lashes seemed to curl up to perfection naturally, the way she seemed to have laugh lines as if she smiled frequently. Maybe she was better off this way, without him? Maybe he was no good for her? After all, it had always been him to mess up his relationships in the past. He didn't want to hurt her further by dragging this on and then hurting her in the end. Still though, as his silver eyes scanned her face, taking in the exact shape of her lips, Scorpius couldn't help himself. Maybe he could make this work? He was older now, maybe now was the time to start learning from his mistakes? If he was going to try and make this work he owed her an explanation.

The first words that came out of his mouth next surprised him, but he had known it was what she deserved to hear most of all. "I'm sorry Pandora." He took a deep breath, not sure what he was going to say next but he continued nonetheless. "I'm sorry for..blowing you off and not keeping in contact. School got really busy and as soon as I graduated, the doctor had given me the okay to play Quidditch again so I went back into training nonstop," he said truthfully. Still though, he knew if he really cared he would've found some time to reply to her owls. Not knowing what else to say, he tore his eyes away from her and looked down at his arm, and just to keep his hands busy, pulled out a piece of glass from his arm, causing lots of blood to trickle out of the wound quickly.
 
As Pandora worked away on Scorpius' arm she couldn't help but be frustrated that every time they met she had been crouched over him muttering spells instead of what she thought they both wanted from each other when they spent time together. As much as she loved her career Panda would not have minded not using her healing talents and just be with Scorpius which was now out of the proverbial window. She had to discard any thoughts of what might have been because it just was not in their stars, it seemed. Although she knew, or thought she knew, that she should not be insecure she was. Panda did not know why Scorpius had decided to stop contacting her and was now worried that it had been something she had done or maybe it was how she looked? It wasn't as if she didn't have self-confidence, she was chalked full of it but now her hands trembled as they held Scorpius' forearm in them and swiped over top to clear his arm of the smaller shards. They gathered into the palm of her hand in a small pile before she flattened it out and blew on it like a child would with a dandelion and the glass floated to the ground in a similar fashion and just as she was about to work on the larger pieces of glass that stuck in his arm like shrapnel, their gazes met.

The wince told Pandora everything she needed to know, it was the way she looked. It had to be, otherwise why would he have reacted that way to looking at her? The sad thing was that she could not look away from him, as if she was silently begging him to wrap her in his arms and ask her to be his which only caused her to sigh in annoyance at just how pathetic she was now when she should have just been strong and gotten over it. Sure they had been in contact for months and had talked about spending time together once he got out but it had never been said if it was to be a date or not. Perhaps her mind had tricked her into seeing all of the little things Scorpius did or wrote was affection instead of friendliness and now she was just embarrassing herself. Panda looked back down at Scorpius' arm and gently tapped the area around the largest piece of glass with the pads of her index and ring fingers to try to estimate how far it was into his arm. When Panda was certain of the distance she reached for her wand. It had never failed her before, even in situations when there was more danger so even if she lacked all of her self-confidence she had faith in the wand and what it could do to help her and Scorpius. She pointed the tip at the glass and just as she was about to speak the incantation Scorpius began speaking.

Hearing an apology was nice but Pandora knew that Scorpius did not owe her anything, not an explanation, not a thank you for any of the times she had healed him and not a letter back. It had been unprofessional of her to contact him once she knew that he was well but she did not interrupt him to tell him this, instead she looked into his silver eyes trying to judge if this was the truth or not. It was said a woman could always tell when a man was lying, right? Well that might be wrong but a healer could, it was part of the training to be able to deduce for yourself when the patient was being completely unhelpful because it did happen from time-to-time. Each of the healers had taken a very slight amount of psychology to get their jobs, Panda just took more of a liking to it than her colleagues so she read more about it. It was her interest that helped her tell that Scorpius was being honest with her and just as she opened her mouth to respond to him she felt blood trickle down into the palm of her hand and she looked at his other hand and she smacked it as a warning. "Stop it," she said with a warning tone to her voice because these things had to be dealt with delicately or he just might find himself unable to play as beater because of the loss of feeling in his arm. Magic could do a lot of things but that was not one of them.

Pandora looked into Scorpius' silver eyes and spoke, "You don't owe me an apology or an explanation. We were pen pals at the most. My feelings are not your fault, I let them run away from me." She sighed before she continued on with her work, ignoring the blood that was now cradled in it with his arm. A translucent wisp left the tip of her wand and circled around his arm before all the pieces of left over glass were gone leaving only open wounds that she would need to inspect anyway.​
 
Scorpius studied her intently as she worked away on his arm, wondering, wishing she could know what was going through her mind. Even after he'd apologized he couldn't read her. Was she relieved to get an apology so she could have closure and move on from them? What were they even? They had never officially gone out anyway, due to his stupid schooling. He scoffed at himself internally as the thought came to mind that she was never even interested in him. He felt childish, having still been in school as he attempted to flirt by pen with her. Why would she have wanted someone in school still?

He felt a smack on the hand he'd used to pull out the glass as she scolded him. Despite himself he chuckled, finding her extremely cute but tried to conceal it because now was not the time to be more attracted to her when she so clearly wanted nothing to do with him. And if he was unsure of that, Pandora made it clear by just stating they were just pen pals. Scorpius nodded in acceptance, still feeling guilty not having been able to at least keep up that type of relationship with her. But then she said something else that made Scorpius wonder. "You had feelings for me?" he asked, his surprise overshadowing his hope. It was something he had began doubting because of the way she was looking at him now. "So...those letters 'checking up on me' were not standard procedure, were they?" he asked, trying hard to conceal his hope.
 
Panda arched an eyebrow as Scorpius laughed after she had smacked his hand away but did not look up at him, instead she continued and only looked into his eyes when he asked if she did have feelings at him. Normally she would have blushed or been embarrassed to admit it but it truly did not matter how she felt so she nodded her head curtly and leaned over his arm before pushing her hair behind her ears and looking into his wounds and audibly sighed in relief when she saw that aside from his skin being torn open there was nothing wrong with him so she tapped her wand by each of the points where he had larger pieces of glass before looking up at Scorpius. She felt like a fool but he was right, they weren't. One letter should have been enough but it continued on from there and into a place where she had eventually gotten her feelings hurt.

"The first one was... it just escalated," Pandora said as she slid her hand from under Scorpius' arm and on the table before her, ignoring the blood that was on her hand and looking into his eyes. "I guess I just thought..." she said trailing off from embarrassment and because she was sure Scorpius would have been able to understand what she meant. She looked down onto her lap and sighed, disappointed in herself for both having feelings for someone who did not return them and for breaking what should have been the walls between healer and patient. "But now I know you were just being friendly," She muttered quietly, shrugging her shoulders that were shrinking with each word from a mix of shame and embarrassment.​
 
Scorpius' stomach had done a funny kind of flip thing making his insides tickle when she had nodded yes, saying that she had feelings for him. But the small feeling of elation he'd had diminished quickly as she seemed to make it clear that her feelings were all in the past. She had had feelings for him, not not anymore. But why did she think he did not have the same feelings? Oh right, because he stopped writing. Still though, they had both known that keeping up a pen pal with your patient, or in his case, Healer, was not really normal, didn't that give the tiniest hint that he wanted to get to know her? "No, I wanted to be more than friends," he blurted out, continuing his thoughts out loud before he could stop himself.

He looked up at her now that he had confessed to her his original intentions, waiting for a sign, some reaction. He continued, "I know it doesn't seem like it now, since I stopped writing, but I did have intentions to get to know you, as more than a friend. That way when we finally saw each other in person, I could ask you out properly," he said truthfully. His silver eyes were locked on her coffee brown ones, searching for a sign of hope that he hadn't permanently screwed things up with her but he could still see that bit of pain in them. He sighed as he broke his gaze from her to look down at his arm, free of glass and cuts. "But I can see now that it's too late and I blew it," he said. Then his eyes caught sight of her hands, messy with his blood. He pulled out his wand again and pointed at her hands, muttering "Scourgify" so that her hands were clean again. Without thinking he reached over and held them in his.
 
Pandora's eyes shot up at Scorpius when he said that he wanted more than friendship from their relationship. She searched his eyes, with hope in her own, for some sort of sign that he might still want that from whatever they were because Panda certainly did. Her feelings had never really left, she only wanted them gone so she could move on but maybe she didn't have to. Maybe, just maybe, she could have things go her way in her life and be happy with Scorpius. It seemed that this was all a wonderful dream because before she could really register his words or even the tense in which he had spoken, he continued saying things that she wanted to hear. She had a right mind to kiss him then and there but Panda knew remembered all that had happened when she had been put to the curb like a no one. If he had felt this way why would he have stopped writing her?

Pandora looked down to her blood stained hands, ignoring it as she always did because truth-be-told blood was the least of her worries at this point. She narrowed her eyes on them once they were clean again thanks to Scorpius, not realizing that his own were reaching over to hers until their hands and fingers were laced together. She looked up to his face with a nervous smile on her pink lips. "Scorpius," she began, glancing around them for only a second and then looking back into his silver eyes, "Not to be 'Captain Obvious' but... we are seeing each other in person now." Her cheeks flushed and she looked onto their hands as her stomach flipped anxiously as she waited for his response, hoping that he would catch on to what she was suggesting he do because even if it was later than they had thought it to begin, it really wasn't out of the question. Not when just a look from the silver-eyed Scorpius could make her want to wrap her arms around him.​
 
Scorpius didn't know if he was imagining a glimmer of hope in Pandora's eyes just because it was what he wanted to see. But when he held her hands she had definitely not pulled away, so now he was sure he hadn't imagined this. Feeling happy he couldn't help but smile for the first time since he'd seen her today and his smile only intensified as she said his name, this time no remorse in her tone, and noticing there seemed to be a smile on her face too, finally. After seeing her with a serious, concentrated look on her most of the time because she was somehow always fixing him up, he realized how much prettier she was when she smiled and he vowed to always try to put a smile on her face. The Ravenclaw was tempted to lean in closer and press his scarred lips against hers, but she spoke again distracting him, and pointed out that they were in fact in person now. His immediate response to that was, "Thank god," because his memories of the short time he spent at St. Mungo's with her hadn't done her justice; it was like comparing a fuzzy still Muggle photo to a high definition wizarding photo, he liked staring into Pandora's eyes here, in person, this close.

Again his eyes scanned her face in this close proximity, admiring the pink flush in her cheeks before his eyes traveled to her lips again. Control yourself Scorpius! he had to yell at himself mentally. Once he had refocused on what she'd said he realized what she meant and said, "Oh! Miss Pandora Cohen, Doctor Panda," he teased, "will you do me the honor of going on a date with me?" he said mock formally, though his intentions were still true. He smiled somewhat nervously, almost sure she'd say yes but still expecting the worst. For all he knew this was just some cruel joke she was playing on him to get his hopes up and stamp on them, but for Panda he was willing to take his chances. For a split second he worried he was doing the wrong thing, what if he screwed things up again? Maybe he should let her go to spare her? But one look from Panda, and he couldn't tear his eyes away from her if he could help it.
 
Pandora chewed on her bottom lip to keep her silly grin from widening when Scorpius' had but her cheeks were beginning to hurt from hiding it so she lots her inhibitions and beamed at him. Only for a moment did it falter and that was when she looked at him with brief confusion and chuckled in amusement. She could not be sure what was going on in his mind but it certainly was amusing to her. She breathed a sigh of contentment, not noticing that Scorpius' gaze had left her's for a moment because Panda was taking in his other features just as he was and once her coffee coloured gaze wandered back to his she let a playful brow arch when Scorpius said 'Oh!' She would have said something to match her look but he continued to speak, thankfully catching onto what she had hinted to.

The young healer's cheeks burned like they would if she had a fever but as Peggy Lee had pointed out years ago this was a different kind of fever. "Mister Knight," she said in equally as formal a tone of voice and playing up her British accent to sound more like a wealthy socialite instead of the simple girl that she was, "That sounds quite lovely." She squeezed Scorpius' hands in her own before she added in a teasing voice but her words were serious, "But can you please try to not get injured?" Panda cared for him and it took a toll on a person, especially for a person like her who gets completely in tune with the person's emotions and easily builds relationships between the patients and herself. Her concern was natural and even if she had to hide it when she was working it was there and ten fold for any person she actually knew. Although she and Scorpius did not know each other very well there was something in Pandora that made her feel like she did so his penchant for injury was not easy for her but when her gaze quickly flicked from his eyes and down to his scarred lips she knew she would have trouble believing that he would be able to avoid it. With his career and his own recklessness it would be virtually impossible so she would just have to with her wand at all times.

But truthfully the prospect of any injury didn't seem to worry her because each time she had been around him he had recovered perfectly. Scorpius seemed to be somewhat indestructible so she would let herself be relaxed around him. Even now she practically melted in his touch and paid little attention to anything that was going on around her which was rare for Pandora Cohen, especially after people had been injured.​
 
Scorpius' stomach felt as if he was riding a roller coaster with how happy he was feeling now, coupled with an affectionate squeeze of his hands by Panda. He tried concealing his elation with a casual smile because he didn't want to seem like some kid with a school boy crush; even though he hadn't known Pandora for long, there was something in him that knew there was something more between them.

He laughed when Pandora asked for him to try not to get injured on their date. He didn't know what it was about him, he didn't exactly consider himself clumsy, though maybe he was in denial? He thought back to his days at Hogwarts and how he had been a reckless student, having paint fights in the corridors, even fighting with Slytherin boys in empty classrooms, entering the Borely Mansion with a group of friends, and wandering into the Forbidden Forest in search of centaurs that had been more than unenthusiastic to see him and Thomas Smith. That trip to the Forbidden Forest had been the cause of the scar running across his lips now. He licked his lips to feel the faint scar, it looked a lot worse than it actually felt. Scorpius had the immense urge to show Pandora this by kissing her right now, but he had to contain himself. He supposed his penchant for reckless danger had been the reason why he had been drawn the to Beater position in Quidditch. Now the only injuries he achieved were for a better reason than being a hoodlum. Still, despite all the messes he got himself into, even now, he thought as he looked down at his healed arm, he always came out fine. For being as fragile as he seemed, he could take on a lot more than usual. "I can't make any promises, but I'll try," he told Pandora with a chuckle.

Scorpius took a moment to look around at the restaurant for the first time since his blast and was happy to see that all had been restored to its unbroken state and cleaned up. Anyone with injuries seemed to be fine and in no emergency medical condition thanks to the various other Healers that were there. Scorpius breathed a sigh of relief at that, because being here with Pandora had made him block out everything but her and he was sure even if there had been a more serious accident, he'd still have eyes only for her. Though it probably wouldn't have been the same the other way around because she was a Healer. "I guess it's lucky that I'm dating a Healer," he smirked before realizing his statement might've been jumping the gun too soon. Was it okay for him to say that he was dating her?

"So uh, how's Saturday sound?" he quickly asked her to avert her attention from the statement.
 
Panda could hardly believe that this was happening, it almost felt like it was going at an extreme pace but when she thought of those months apart it seemed like the hare and the tortoise. Looking into Scorpius' eyes made her feel relieved that they were going at a slower pace in general because the quality of their relationship because of the separation due to his schooling would hardly have been something that either would have been able to deal with, even now she wanted to be closer to him. She had to hold herself back, however. Panda was usually very over-eager and excited but maybe they should hold off from that for now especially since a few of her superiors were in the room so she chewed down on her bottom lip to control herself. Her stomach twisted making it seem like her anxiety was stronger but still pushing her forward, in fact she leaned in closer to Scorpius as he laughed at her request but stopped when she saw him licking his lips.

She blinked and cleared her mind before looking back into Scorpius' eyes that seemed to put Pandora in a trance. He must be a Veela, she mused, scoffing at her own thoughts because she knew that he was not. Panda remembered looking down at his charts when he was in the hospital and she was put to look after him because her trainer had been impressed that she had managed to be so quick in an emergency circumstance and saw all of his information and knew that there was not a trace of anything but complete human blood. Of course that did not make it any easier but no one else needed to know that. She heard Scorpius speak and for a brief second she didn't register what he was saying but when her brain actually started to function Panda retorted, "Well try hard," because she really did not want him hurt again. People could say it was just her nature to want people to be healthy but the truth is she didn't mind healing others, in fact she really liked it, but the prospect of seeing Scorpius in a vegetative state, as he had been for a little while in Saint Mungo's, was more than just a little worrisome for the brunette.

Pandora had always been the little girl fixing everyone's problems and when they got sick she would tend over them making her mother and father amused but also somewhat annoyed because at five what did one really know? When she had been told that her cousin, Dominic, was sick she vaguely remembered sending him some cough drops through owl and writing him an eligible letter with backwards 'e's and all. So it had always been known that she would be a healer but even now there was so much she knew and could do. She focused in Potion and Plant poisoning and Spell Damage but she could tell that not everything Scorpius did would fall under those two categories so if he could just be a little safer with himself everything would be fine... "I guess it's lucky that I'm dating a Healer," Panda heard him say and just as she opened her mouth to correct him she realized that he had said dating as well. She could hear her pulse drum in her ears and her palms, like her cheeks, got warmer. She was sure if she had tried to respond to that she would stammer like an idiot so she just closed her lips firmly and grinned.

"Saturday sounds perfect," Panda hummed, looking around them before pressing her eyebrows together and looking back at Scorpius. "Do you want to get out of here? I'm suddenly aware that people will try to figure out what exactly happened." She playfully arched a brow at her silver-eyed date even if she didn't really know what he had done to actually make the glass break or how that accident had occurred but it would not have looked good if they were kicked out.​
 
Scorpius grinned, both for the fact that Pandora did not seem bothered by his 'dating' comment, and for the fact that she agreed to their date on Saturday. "Great," he said a little too enthusiastically, hoping she hadn't noticed. Now all Scorpius had to do was think of what their date was going to consist of. He knew what he wanted to do, that was for sure, as his eyes threatened to travel down to her lips again against his will, but he forced himself to look into Panda's eyes, which was just as great a sight anyway. But what would they do on a date? He had never really been good at this stuff. Sure he could be embarrassingly cheesy when it came to his feelings for girls, but as far as romantic gestures went, he and his best friend Sam had always needed each others help figuring out what the hell to do or what to get girls for anniversaries or birthdays. Again Scorpius found himself wishing he'd kept in contact, but since he had missed an entire year of training and playing to finish his school, he had to give it his all during this training to make up for his previous absence.

He was brought back to the present when Pandora asked if he wanted to get out of the restaurant for fear of being caught and he chuckled as he agreed to leave. No doubt it wouldn't look good for Pandora if she was caught by her colleagues hand in hand with the guy who'd blown off the windows of the restaurant. He didn't know if he should tell Panda that she was the reason for his recklessness, that just the sight of her had caught him off guard. He stood up and held out his hand for her to help her up. "You know I was really surprised to see you here," he said chuckling. He had opted for the almost truth; no lies, just withholding a few details. "I'd never been in that restaurant but the only reason I was in there was because I had chickened out of going into St. Mungo's to ask for you," he revealed with a lighthearted chuckle. He wanted her to know that their meeting at the restaurant hadn't been by chance, he didn't want there to be any doubt in her mind, he didn't want her to wonder 'what if they hadn't run into each other that day' - he meant to meet her that day.
 
Panda reached back for her bag and swung it over her shoulder before she looked back into Scorpius' silver eyes as she took his hand and stood beside him, unsure of what they were going to do but not caring all the same. It really didn't matter where they were in Pandora's corny mind she would have just liked to be with him so as she stood before him she smiled because it looked like that was exactly what they were doing. She arched a brow as he told her that he had meant to see her today and smiled in amusement before she gently put one of her delicate hands on his jawline and said cheekily, "Thank God you are cowardly, then." Panda added softly as she looked into Scorpius' silver eyes, "I wouldn't have come." The thought of missing what they might become because of a misunderstanding and hurt pride was enough to make Pandora both embarrassed and relieved that he had not come to St. Mungo's in the end. For a moment she looked into his eyes completely entranced by him before she suddenly became aware of just how close they were. Her cheeks and ears started to burn in complete embarrassment as her light brown eyes broke his gaze and looked straight in front of her, which happened to be his chest. She scolded herself silently for being so forward and telling the truth that he would not have wanted to hear, even if she had meant Scorpius to see that she thought it would be better this way. Panda swallowed her anxiety and took her hand from his cheek to push her long brown hair behind her ear but did not move away from him.

There was a long silence between Pandora Cohen and Scorpius Knight where they just looked into each other's eyes before she became anxious and stepped to the side, looking away for a moment to see her friends and colleagues resuming their position although a lot more hesitant and tense, just as the small healer was. Her shoulders stiffened and her stomach twisted when she actually thought of leaning over and kissing him but not because she didn't want to... The thought of kissing him just made her nervous but happy and a few other emotions that were only just lingering on the surface so she could not interpret them. So for now, Panda just glanced back at Scorpius with a meek smile and asked softly, "Where to?"​
 
Scorpius' heart involuntarily skipped a beat as Pandora laid her soft hand on his cheek. He chuckled at her statement that came out harsher than it was intended, though he had understood what she meant. To his disappointment however she had removed her hand from his cheek almost as instantly as she had placed it. Note to self: make sure to shave often, he thought to himself, figuring his five o'clock shadow had not been pleasant on her soft hands. "C'mon I wouldn't have given up that easily," he said to her cheekily. "I would've returned every day until you were so sick of people telling you that this weird guy was asking for you that you'd have to come out and shoo me away yourself eventually," he teased before trailing off once he realized how close they were.

This was much closer than they had been earlier when she was fixing his arm, much, much closer. He could smell the perfume on her, intoxicating him pleasantly. Her perfume, coupled with her intense gaze was enough to entrance him, how was it possible that Pandora had such an effect on the nineteen year old? He'd had many girlfriends or flings in the past, but none had made his blood boil and rush as much as Pandora did. He feared that standing this close to the Healer would enable her to hear just how embarrassingly fast his heart was beating, but still he did not retreat. When she asked where to Scorpius shrugged his shoulders truthfully. He had no idea where they were headed, but all he knew was that he had to get out of the restaurant, away from her coworkers.

The Quidditch player casually laced his fingers with her smaller hand as he led her outside the restaurant, in the opposite direction of St. Mungo's; his only destination was 'away from her colleagues' since he was certain she didn't want her personal life on display for them. Once he felt they were far enough away from the hospital and the restaurant he stopped abruptly and turned to look at her. "You know Panda I may have chickened out from actually going into St. Mungo's to ask for you," he began, feeling his heart in his throat and his stomach doing somersaults, but he continued anyway. "But I don't think I'd ever forgive myself if I didn't have the guts to do this," he said briefly before cupping her face with his free hand, the other still interlaced with hers, and leaning down to press his scarred lips upon her soft, glossy ones.
 
Pandora giggled at the thought of Scorpius pestering her at work and what might have happened from there but like his words, her laughter trailed off and smiled softly. She was glad to know that he cared about her not to just give up on what could have been because as much as she did feel something for him her self-depreciating habits had overcome any faith in him. But it was a geniune case of 'it's not you, it's me'. But instead of doting on what could have or should have been if all had gone as planned, Panda just sighed contently as she looked into the unique eyes of Scorpius Knight.

As moments passed by Panda was very aware at just how close they were and how much closer she wouldn't have minded being. It brought healthy red hue to her olive skin and made her throat dry in anxiety with the only thing to do to distract Scorpius from possibly noticing these things as well as just how fast paced her heart was and with them being so close sh was almost sure he would feel it radiating off of her or how unsteady her small hands were even when held in his larger, rougher ones. Panda was thankful that he had taken her distraction from all these factors and walked with her out of the Healer-infested restaurant but not before they had laced their fingers together. It felt right to hold his hand and to finally be open with herself and him about what she felt. They walked aimlessly together, each anxious and each completely in awe of what the other could make them feel until Scorpiius stopped and turned infront of her. Panda's mind was zooming so quickly and her heart was thudding so loudly in her ears that she had a hard time understanding what Scorpius was saying but caught on when he cupped her cheek with his hand and looked into her eyes as he spoke before their gaze had broken and 'let their lips do what hands do' in a kiss that left her wanting more.

Pandora's free hand rested on Scorpius' chest as they pressed their lips together before, all too quickly, they were apart. All the butterflies in her stomach seemed to have disappeared now that they had kissed and bliss had washed over her like the water of a hot spring. Slowly her eyes opened and caught Scorpius' gaze and accidentally voiced her thoughts, "Wow." This could have been some strange dream because even as she looked into his silver eyes it all seemed so surreal to her that she would go from being angry at him to wanting to be kiss him more so even the worst abuser of 'PDA's' would be put to shame because she didn't even care and just wanted to press her lips to his again. After another peck on his scarred lips, Panda rested her head on his muscular chest and slid the arm that had been resting their on his shoulder blad into a light hug.​
 
Scorpius felt like he had just risked it all by letting go of all his inhibitions, his fear that Pandora would pull away and think he was too forward thus not wanting anything to do with him. But he knew he couldn't be imagining the longing in Pandora's light coffee colored eyes or the magnetic attraction the two definitely felt for each other. No, Scorpius hadn't interpreted the signals incorrectly, he knew by the placement of Pandora's hand on his chest that she too had wanted this. He felt the blood in his body coursing through his veins as if on fire with adrenaline, fueled by the meeting of his lips on hers and the Quidditch player never wanted it to end.

Unfortunately for him the kiss was over too soon for Scorpius' liking but it hadn't stopped him from enjoying it for as long as he could. Scorpius' silver eyes looked down at Pandora as she'd said 'Wow' and pecked him lightly. The Quidditch player tried concealing his boyishly wide grin that made it seem as if this had been his first kiss ever, in her loose hair as she wrapped her arms around him. He gently released her hand from his in order to wrap both his arms around her petite waist and lustfully brought her a lot closer to him than he normally would've, he couldn't help it. Admittedly being greedy, he stole another kiss from Pandora, this time keeping his rampant hormones in check with a modest kiss, and allowed her head to return to laying against his chest, hoping she would somehow not be able to hear his beating heart. He buried his face in her brunette locks and whispered, "Totally worth the wait." Although it had only been the first time they'd seen each other in months and their reunion had not seemed like it was going to have a positive outcome at first, to Scorpius it wasn't too soon to want to kiss her. He recalled that during his stay at St. Mungo's he had constantly found himself wishing to be able to kiss Pandora, though there had been many factors against him then. He had been her patient, which was extemely wrong and hazardous for her career, and they had only just met. But now Scorpius felt he had waited long enough to feel the pleasure of Pandora's lips against his.
 
Pandora closed her eyes for just a moment, just long enough to let herself forget the world around her and just be with Scorpius and smiled as he pulled her closer to him. It made her feel so calm and safe, even in his clumsy hold. She had not once felt like this after a first kiss or after a second or a third. Although there seemed to be a less desperate need for their lips to touch these sweet, simple kisses were more intimate and comforting. Everything fell silent to Panda's ears and she listened to the steady hum of his breathing, felt the rise and fall of his chest and the completely accurate words he whispered to her. To show her agreement she kissed his shoulder before finding her spot once more, loving that their bodies semed to fit like the perfect puzzle pieces but hating that they could not stay like this forever. Th only preservation for Panda and Scorpius was that they could have more moments like this one in the future because after that first kiss, she knew he was going to be in her life for a long time. Now they just had to go through their first date, what that would entail Panda wasn't certain but she was nervous for it already. Even with the knowledge that they were starting one what could be the third or fourth date with just how much they knew of each other and what they already felt towards each other but it had started over a year ago. When they had spoken in the hospital, rarely about anything but the aches of his body, there was some small spark there and the letters just enhanced the flirting that had begun when her gentle hand would touch his arm after taking off the blood pressure moniter and various other checks she had to do during his stay. This only furthered through letter and now it seemed that all of the time they missed was what brought Panda steal another kiss from Scorpius.

Panda's slender fingers combed through the dark brown hair on the back of Scorpius' head as her palm rested on the nape of his neck as she tenderly brushed her lips on his being every bit as affectionate with him as he was with her when he held her taunt body close to his before their lips slowly parted and she became aware of her surroundings. A beet red blush found it's way onto her cheeks as she glanced around momentarily although still held comfortably close to Scorpius.​
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Scorpius reveled in being this close to Pandora, both physically but mostly emotionally. He felt strangely connected to her and it wasn't because she had saved his life two years ago. He remembered having once confessed to his younger brother Orion, who was now thirteen and swore he knew everything there was to know about girls, that he constantly thought of Pandora and wished for there to be something more between them but his brother had immediately shot him down, saying that Scorpius only thought he liked her just because she saved his life. But Scorpius knew it wasn't like that, and once his brother had actually seen Panda, his opinion changed right away and had joked that if Scorpius didn't go for her, he would. The nineteen year old almost chuckled out loud at this memory but was instantly distracted by kisses from Panda. Yes he could definitely get used to this.

Then Panda looked up at him with her cheeks flushed red in embarrassment once she realized they seemed to be practicing PDA a little too comfortably out here. He placed a hand on her cheek and rubbed his thumb across her cheeks affectionately, enjoying the red hue. "Let's get out of here," he chuckled, figuring they'd been here long enough and he'd definitely gotten what he wanted out of this visit to New Zealand. Scorpius asked her where she lived and held her hand as he walked her home, feeling like it was the most normal thing in the world for him. He kissed her goodbye quite a few times, wishing he wouldn't have to leave and reminded her about their date on Saturday. Now all he had to do was thinking of what their date was going to be. He figured he'd ask some people on his team what he should do, guys would help him figure this date stuff out while the girls on his team would help him decipher what girls wanted.
 
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