Rose stands outside the Ravenclaw common room, locked in a tight embrace with Scorpius, with her hand in his almost white hair.
"Evening Rose!" yells Peeves, breaking their hug. Rose, trying to make words together, "Yes… good evening, Peevey" she replies.
Scorpius kisses Rose on the forehead lightly, "Night love."
"Thanks for walking me up from dinner" she adds as she smiles and ruffles his hair.
"Anything for my favorite fourth year." He begins to walk down the long spiraling staircase.
Rose walks up towards the door with an eagle knocker on it and then she notices she is carrying something that she meant to give back to Scorpius. She runs to the beginning of the staircase and calls after him.
"Scorp! You forgot your robes!" It was mid-December and it had been chilly walking through the castle that late at night, so he took off his robes and wrapped them around her.
He dashes up the staircase and misses the second to last step, which results in him cursing loudly. Rose hands him his Gryffindor robes politely while trying to hold back her laughter.
Scorpius stands at the top of the stairs staring at the floor and then suddenly stares straight into Rose's eyes.
Clearing his throat, "Rose, you are the smartest girl I have ever met," he grabs her hand, "and I've been waiting to do this ever since you got higher marks then me on the final exams our first year."
He took his free hand and pulled her head closer to his. In the same moment, Victoire, Rose's oldest cousin and head girl, paces up the stairwell towards them.
"Excuse me, but zis is vay past time to be out of…"
Noticing that she interrupted, embarrassed, she apologizes and gracefully descends the stairs, skipping every other step.
Rose glances at the step Scorpius is standing on, "I think you've been waiting too long", as she said that, she stepped down one step and kissed Scorpius full on. His robes dropped out of his hands.
They didn't stop snogging until they heard a voice coming behind Rose.
"Who is that rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under it's roof?"
Scorpius leapt back a step, thinking it was a person.
"Oy, you prat, it's just the door knocker! And, it's obviously a turtle."
The door opened, then she faced Scorpius, blushing as red as her hair, and kissed him on the cheek.
She turned back to the door and walked in, leaving Scorpius standing at the top of the stairs, speechless.
The bronze eagle hanging up on the door interrupted his daydreaming by asking him another riddle.
Ignoring the riddle, he grabs his robes and swaggered down the staircase, whispering to himself "Yes, father will hear of this."
