I OWN NOTHING! J.K. ROWLING IS QUEEN AND OWNS IT ALL! *except Cassie because I made her up lol*

It started in Kings Cross.

Scorpius Malfoy was the spitting image of his father Draco, with white blonde hair and pale skin to match. His eyes were a shocking green color that one might relate to the signature color of the Slytherin house. The boy stood amidst the crowd of families on platform 9 ¾ with a caged owl sitting atop his locked trunk.

Draco Malfoy had changed drastically since his days at Hogwarts. Though the mark of a Death Eater would never leave him, he no longer lived in the constant fear of death or the daunting shadow of his father Lucius who had died shortly after the end of the second Wizard War. Nowadays he worked as a healer at St. Mungo's and led a charitable life. The Potter-Weasley family had forgiven Draco for his part in Voldemort's attempted rise to power and now the families were on somewhat good terms, aside from Ron who held grudges for eternities.

His son had received his acceptance letter from Hogwarts about a month and a half ago, in June. Now on September first the Malfoys stood in a small bunch on the platform. Scorpius nervously checked and rechecked the locks on his trunk and his owl's cage while Draco calmly stood beside his son, holding his seven year old daughter Cassie, wishing his wife had lived long enough to see off their first born to his first year at Hogwarts.

Down the platform a little ways stood a larger clump composed of two families. The family of four was seeing off a thin girl with bulky glasses and cherry red hair. She had a smattering of freckles across her cheeks and nose and chewed her bottom lip nervously. Her eight year old brother Hugo clung to their mother's leg shyly while their parents bickered light heartedly about something.

The family of five beside them was seeing off two children. The older boy was heading back to Hogwarts for his second year while his younger brother was about to begin his first. Both brothers had unkempt black hair like their father and the older boy had inherited his mother's blue irises while his younger brother was stuck with his father's visually impaired hazel eyes. Their seven year old sister Lily Luna sat on the younger brother's trunk, poking her fingers in the cage of his snowy owl while her ginger hair fell in her face.

The Potter-Weasley family was a family of Hogwarts goers, there was no doubt about that. But when it came time to board the train, the youngest Potter boy was hesitant. James, his older brother, had been taunting him the whole trip to the station that he'd be sorted into Slytherin and turn out to be evil. As his father comforted him with some words of wisdom, his cousin was already aboard the train and searching for a compartment.

Rose Weasley was a shy girl, but nobody seemed to understand why she would be with outspoken parents like Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. All the same, it was safe to assume that aside from her brother and cousins, the child had no friends at all. She liked it that way.

As she ducked inside an empty compartment and quickly stored her trunk away, the cherry haired girl could only stare out the window. Her eyes did not strain to find her parents and little brother but instead landed on a sadder sight. A pale faced man in a black suit held a little girl about her brother's age in his arms, staring at the train with a watery smile. The little girl wore a pale green dress and played with her father's wispy blonde hair that was much like her own. Something about the man and his daughter made Rose curious. She wanted to know their story.

A knocking on the compartment door tore her attention away from the pair with a jolt. Just inside the doorway stood a boy who looked like a younger version of the man on the platform who looked at her nervously.

"Would it be alright if I sat in here?" he asks with an unsure voice. His beautiful green eyes flickered towards the narrow hall with unease. Slowly, Rose nodded her head. The boy gives her a stunning grin before stashing his luggage and sitting across from her. In an attempt to avoid socializing with the strange boy, Rose fumblingly unlatched the window and opened it before searching for her family to wave goodbye as many other people were now doing.

"Where're your parents?" the boy asks her shyly. Mutely, she points towards the cluster of gingers and their spouses who stood not ten feet away from the looking man and his daughter.

"That's my dad over there," he points out the man. "And he's holding Cassiopeia, my little sister. We call her Cassie for short."

The train lurches forward suddenly as it begins to pull out of the station. For a moment, Rose's shyness fades as she leans out of the window with the blonde haired boy to wave goodbye to her family. Sitting on their father's shoulders, Hugo waves back at her spastically. Her parents are still arguing about something and don't wave. Rose chooses to ignore the pang of hurt in her chest and continues to smile as her uncle Harry and aunt Ginny wave at her, smiling back.

When the station finally disappears from sight, the two children close the compartment's window and flop onto their seats lazily. The silence that fills the small space is comforting to Rose, seeing as how her home is always loud and chaotic. But the silence doesn't last for long.

"I'm Scorpius, by the way," the blonde boy sticks a hand out towards her. "Scorpius Malfoy."

She hesitates. Had her father not just told her that Scorpius was not to be associated with? But then again, what did her father know? He was always too busy pissing her mum off to actually pay attention to the world around him. Although he had so frequently stated his hatred towards Draco Malfoy, who she assumed to be Scorpius's father, a child was not their parent. She was proof enough of this.

"Nice to meet you, Scorpius." The cherry haired girl has a soft voice and small hands to shake. "I'm Rose Weasley.


A/N

YES I REALIZE THAT IT'S SUPER FRIGGIN SHORT SORRY BUT I WANTED TO ESTABLISH ALL THAT HULLABALOO IN ONE CHAPTER SO IT'S SHORT BOO HOO CRY ME A RIVER!

hahaha please review and tell me what you think! :)