It was a week after graduation when Scorpius appeared at Rose's house.

"Can we talk?" He asked.

"I didn't know you were coming over," Rose smiled and took a step closer to him to kiss him.

He caught her by the shoulders and gently pushed her back. "I'm sorry. I really need to talk to you."

Rose, slightly worried, nodded. "Of course."

"Do you remember those Auror training school applications I was filling out a few months ago?" He began.

Of course Rose remembered them. He had spent hours and hours pouring over the bloody things, asking Rose question after question about how he should answer each item. At the time, Rose had been ready to throw the damn things off the Astronomy Tower, but she knew how important going to a good Auror school was to him and restrained herself.

"Yeah, I remember them."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a letter. "I got this in the post today."

She grinned, grabbing it out of his hand and turning it over. Norfolk Auror Academy. She paused, her smile disappearing "Isn't this in America?"

He nodded.

Wordlessly, she took out the letter.

Dear Mr. Malfoy,

We are pleased to inform you of your acceptance into the Norfolk Auror Academy…

"You're going to America?" She asked.

"Yes."

"For how long?"

"About three years."

"There's perfectly fine Auror training schools in England, you know."

"None as good as Norfolk. I was talking to my father. He says it's the best and every Auror it produces goes on to do fantastic things. They go on to make a change. What they do matter."

She took a deep breath. She wanted to be happy for him. She was happy for him. "This is important to you," she stated.

He nodded. "Are you okay with this?" He asked as he took her hand in his.

Rose felt her chest tighten. "We'll be fine," she said, taking a deep breath. "We can apparate and we can see each other constantly."

"We'll make it work," he said.

She nodded. "We'll make it work."

[Three Years Later]

She had gotten a job, thanks to her Uncle Bill, at Gringotts in the security department in the fall after she graduated. Though it wasn't something she thought she would be doing when she was at Hogwarts, she loved her job and she was fantastic at it.

There have been no burglaries, at least successful ones, in the past two and a half years. Though Rose knew it wasn't solely because of her, she liked to think that it was.

She walked alongside Ryan, her co-worker, as they went through their morning routine of checking each vault, seeing if everything was still secure.

"Why are you skipping?" He asked suddenly.

Rose stopped. "What?"

"You have this little bounce in your step."

She blushed, realizing that she had been, in fact, skipping. "Oh, well, I guess I'm just happy."

"May I ask why?"

"Scorpius is coming home today," she smiled. She loved being able to say that.

"The boy," Ryan nodded slowly, understanding. "I see you're excited."

"Yes," she continued to walk, trying to resist the right leg's urge to do a little hop each time she stepped. "I am excited." She smiled.

Rose had rushed home from work that day (Ryan told her to leave early, he'll make sure everything was okay before he left).

Rose and Scorpius had remained in touch for the better part of the first year he was gone. However, with her new job and his intense Auror training, it became harder and harder to see each other. Eventually, they had both decided it was best for them to meet up again when he returned to England.

Astoria, Scorpius's mother, had sent her a letter a month ago stating Scorpius's arrival date and telling Rose that he would meet her at The Leaky Cauldron around 7 that day.

Now, at 7:00, Rose waited at an empty table with a butterbeer at the Leaky Cauldron. Her fingers tapped excitedly against her mug.

When he walked in, Rose's breath caught in her throat.

Standing up, she called out his name. "Scorpius!"

He turned and nodded rather stiffly toward Rose.

"Hi," Rose smiled widely as he took a seat across from her.

"My mother said you wanted to see me," he said, still serious.

Rose put her hands in her lap and squeezed her knees, a habit of hers when she was nervous.

"You're back for good?"

"Yeah."

"How was America?"

"Full of idiots."

She stared at him; his normally warm gray eyes were dark. She lifted a hand off her knee and moved it toward his hand.

He pulled his hands away and leaned back into his chair. "What do you want, Rose?"

She pulled her hand back, obviously hurt. "You."

He looked apologetic for a moment before he was serious again. "Rose," he said. "Things have changed."

"What exactly has changed?"

"Me," he said simply. "I've changed. It's not like I have time for an outside life, and if I did…" his voice trailed off.

"And if you did…" she said, urging him to finish his sentence, beginning to get mad.

"And if I did, I don't know if it would be you."

Rose was silent. When she finally spoke, she said, "Why the hell was I waiting for you then?"

"You shouldn't have."

She could feel her face getting red.

"It was your choice to wait for me," said Scorpius as stonily as ever.

"What are you saying?" She asked helplessly.

"I'm saying I don't want to be with you," said Scorpius.

Rose was silent.

"I have to go," he suddenly stood up. "Have a good life, Rose."

"And you're just going to leave like that?" She stood up and followed him, anger beginning to bubble up insider her.

He turned around halfway to the door. "Don't follow me."

"Fuck you," she said, feeling her anger burning through her. And before she knew what she was doing, she lifted her arm and punched him square in the nose, causing him to fall over. And without another word, she stepped over his writhing body and out of the Leaky Cauldron.

The cold hit her when she stepped out the door and her anger melted into something else. Her eyes burned with tears and her throat tightened. She fell to the ground, tears spilling over her cheeks as she sobbed uncontrollably. Her head fell into her palms and wondered exactly what how she went from feeling practically invincible to feeling this horrible just in one day.

[Flashback, Hogwarts.6th year]

"Sometimes I think I could love you forever," said Scorpius. They were lying on the grass in the middle of the Quidditch field on a sunny Sunday morning. Her head was rested on his chest and his arms held her in a tight embrace.

"What makes you think that?" she asked.

"The way you feel in my arms right now. The way you smell. This is a perfect moment."

Rose grinned and looked up at him. "You are truly one of the cheesiest boys I've ever met."

He grinned back at her. Then, he rolled her over on the grass, her body still pressed to his and his face centimeters away from hers. "I love you," he said again.

She rested her hand on his cheek. "I love you too."

He smiled, and leaned down to press a kiss to her lips.

Author's Note: So this little plot bunny would not leave me alone and I was inspired (with the help of the 7th movie) to start writing fanfiction again! So please, please leave a review. They brighten my day :)