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A/n: Another Rose/Scorpius multi chapter but I still cannot claim credit to the idea. It was from the Prince Charming challenge, hope you all like it!

Chapter 1: The beginning

Aquila Walters closed the book she had been reading, her childhood copy of Muggle fairytales that had been her most prized possession back then, infact, it still was. She sighed contently, a stupid smile gracing her pretty face. Reading fictions, especially fairytales made her euphoric. It was nice to lose herself in the land of princes and princesses and happily ever afters, if only for a little while. Her sense of peace and quiet was disturbed by the entrance of an irate Rose Weasley, who kept muttering under her breath as she went about rattling her trunk for no apparent reason. She was seemingly seething, swearing colorfully under her breath while she upset the order Aquila had painstakingly restored to the room just that morning. Her normally wavy auburn brown hair was starting to fizz, clearly indicating that she was pissed off.

"Again?" Aquila asked resignedly, and Rose nodded hurriedly before she hid herself in the trunk. Five minutes and lots of loud swears and thrown objects later, Rose swished her wand to make the objects return to their original places, or in the case of the broken ones, to their original state. She plopped down on Aquila's bed complacently, her face apologetic and ashamed. Since this was the routine with her best friend, Aquila didn't mind, and simply stared intently at Rose. Rose let out a sigh and relented, explaining.

"It was nothing really,…" she played around with a loose thread from the mattress, so as not to look into her eyes which told Aquila clearly that she had something to hide.

"Almost all your spats seem to start that way" Aquila replied smiling, remembering the numerous fights that her friend and her almost cousin had had over the past years; right from their first day at school, if she remembered right.

"Not funny, Ila! I swear, it was so totally his fault this time" Aquila actually chuckled this time; she couldn't help it. This was the standard statement Rose made right after sparring with Scorpius. And her cousin would just as passionately declare on the contrary. Stuck between them, Aquila would have suffered if it hadn't been for Albus, who was in the same dilemma, what with Rose being his cousin and Scorpius, his best mate.

"Laugh all you want! I'll get even with him one day, just you wait"

"I think the score is already a million to a million, Rose. Enough rounds to make anybody's eyes cross, if you ask me"

"You're just too gentle to stand up to gits like him, Ila. Don't worry, I have it all mapped out" she let out an evil laugh, that did not befit her thin form at all. But Aquila knew better than to think her friend fragile, far from it.

"You aren't going to knock him out with the quaffle again, are you?" The said incident had happened in the thick of one of their frequent long lasting wars, when Rose had chucked the Quaffle straight at Scorpius' head. Rose played chaser on the team and Scorpius played keeper, and it had only been practice, but Al still hadn't forgiven his cousin for it.

"That was fun but no. It has to be something different, something new. Something that would likely teach him not to mess with me, preferably ever again" she rubbed her hands together, thinking. Aquila knew Rose didn't mean it, atleast the last part. Without Scorpius, Rose's life would be bland and boring. The same was true for Scorpius also, but of course both of them would deny it vehemently. If staying away from each other was what they wanted, why did they constantly seek each other out? Neither had an answer, and would immediately change the topic if asked.

"Just make sure you don't completely screw your chances of getting together"

"I don't want to date that arsehole! What ever gave you that idea?" Noticing the worn out book nearby, Rose groaned.

"Now I know. How many times will you read this Ila? Don't you have it memorized already?"

"The book is really nice, Rose. If only you'd give it a read…"

"I don't need to read books that make the girl seem like a helpless glass doll; damsel in distress? No thanks" Rose shook her head in disbelief, but Aquila smiled.

"But you do admit it would be good to have a Prince Charming that would love you?"

"Funny, Ila, quite funny. Why would I need someone who would forever act mushy and gush about my beautiful eyes and charming manners?" Aquila laughed out loud; trust Rose to picture the crudest version of a prince not to mention her lack of charming manners.

"Those are not the sole requisites to be a Prince, you know?"

"What more would you need to be sappy and all around disgusting?"

"There are several things. There's a whole list of them" Aquila replied secretively, trying to pique Rose's curiosity.

"Enlighten me, oh wise one and we will see how many of the sods in this school are Prince Charming material. I dare say it would give me something to spend all the extra time on my hands on." Rose mocked, acting humble.

"Well, the easiest would be the physical appearances, so…"

A/n: I know it was a crappy beginning, but please do stay with me. I swear it will get better!