A/N: I wrote this from Albus' point of view but it is a Rose/Scorpius story. This is his point of view on their relationship as Scorpius is about to get married to Lily even though Rose is in love with him.
Disclaimer: I really wish Scorpius was mine but I don't own him or any other characters in this story.
I've never seen my cousin's eyes look as dead as when Scorpius told her he was getting married to my sister. She smiled and told him congratulations but her smile never quite reached her eyes. The fire that was usually there was gone. And when Lily asked her to be the maid of honor I knew she would have refused if it had been anyone else. But she went through with it to keep up the pretense that she was happy for them.
Now I stand here next to Scorpius and I'm watching my sister come down the aisle towards us. She looks absolutely beautiful. Everyone is watching her, except Rose. She is looking at Scorpius with pain in her eyes as he looks wonderingly at Lily. I remember a time when he looked at Rose like that.
"Scorp, stop staring at my cousin. It's freaking me out," I elbowed him hard in the ribs.
"Oh, sorry," he blushed and looked quickly down to his breakfast. For a Slytherin he wasn't very sneaky.
I looked across the Great Hall to see where Rose was sitting with her latest boyfriend at the Ravenclaw table. It seemed like this was the fourth boyfriend she'd had this year and it wasn't even Christmas. She wasn't a slut (she'd never slept with any of them), just a flirt.
The three of us were best friends, that was Scorpius' problem. Rose thought of him as nothing more than a friend so he was forced to listen to her talking about all these guys she went out with always wishing to be one of them but never getting the chance.
Now the roles are reversed. Scorpius is about to be married and Rose wishes it were her wearing that white gown. Lily was good for Scorpius but it had really shocked me when Scorpius went out with her. I had always thought Rose would eventually wisen up and realize what was right in front of her, then she and Scorp would live happily ever after. And I wasn't the only one.
"I can't believe that he's with Lily. I always expected those two to end up together," Victoire remarked to me as we watched Rose and Scorpius argue at the Burrow over Christmas holidays during our seventh really saw how much they loved each other when they argued. It was odd, but true. I could imagine them, married, years from now and still arguing with each other.
"I know," I said under my breath as Victoire walked away. "We all did."
Rose finally did see what she had been missing but it was too late. Scorpius had already proposed to Lily by the time she realized how perfect Scorpius really was for her.
"Rose, what's wrong?" I knew she had left the Burrow pretty upset today and I needed to know what was going on.
"Oh, Al I was so stupid! How could I not see what was so obvious?" she sobbed. "Scorpius is amazing and I never realized it before. I am such an idiot. And now, seeing him with Lily, so happy...it hurts so much"
I folded my arms around her and let her cry on my shoulder, at a loss to what I could say to her to make it better. I was not about to tell her that Scorpius had been in love with her before, that would just make it worse.
You can imagine how shocked I was when I found Rose and Scorpius in bed together when I went to wake up Rose at the Burrow early one morning a few months later. I knew they had gotten a little drunk on firewhiskey last night when we went to celebrate Rose's new job as a Healer but I never expected this.
"Good morning, Albus,"Rose said to me as I stood next to her bed. She went to get up and then realized why she couldn't, Scorpius' arm was around her waist."Shit, what happened last night?"
"I don't know, you tell me," I said to her as Scorpius started to wake up. As soon as he was fully awake, he panicked.
"We shouldn't have done this. This is bad. I love Lily. This never should have happened," he started mumbling as he quickly got dressed. With every word I saw Rose's heart break more and more.
Once again, I let Rose cry on my shoulder.
I know Scorpius never told Lily about his and Rose's night together because they are still getting married. And even though I'm her brother it still wasn't my place to tell her either.
I continue to watch Rose as the speaker starts the ceremony. By the end of the ceremony all the pain has left Rose's eyes. In fact, any emotion at all has left her eyes. Two hearts had come together today but one had broken apart permanently.
Hmmm...I'm not sure I want to end it like this. Let me know what you think in a review and I might be persuaded to write a second part to this otherwise completed story where Rose gets a happier ending.