Hello All

This is the sequel to The Missing Pieces, my first Harry Potter Fan Fiction. Once again I would like to thank all my readers and to those of you who reviewed. It meant a lot and was very appreciated. Soo, I hope that I get good (or some) feedback for my second Fan Fiction. I would like to encourage anyone who will be reading The Ends of the Thread to read The Missing Pieces...but only for selfish reasons! (jokes) But really, I'm going to try and do my best, in hopes that the people who haven't read my first fic, will still be able to read this one without much confusion.

Anyway, Read and Review! Breeva

Prologue

All characters belong to JK Rowling. I just have a hard time letting them go.

He hadn't expected this to go well. Maybe he should have held off. He probably should have.

A pair of forest green eyes blinked at him in quiet shock. A flicker of what he knew was untamed anger almost seemed to vibrate off of her creamy skin. He was thankful for the crowds about them though. At least if his murder was attempted in the next few minutes, he could just have a small shot at survival.

Scorpius watched her hands slowly turn into fists at her sides and he took a small, careful step back from her. Maybe.

" I thought..."

" I know Rosie. But he asked again, and I don't know...it seems like the thing to do right now."

" The thing to do?"

Scorpius frowned when she did. " I have to Rose."

The damn broke like he expected it to. Tears traced the face of a person he never wanted to cause pain...but there it was, running down her cheeks, melting in a pair of emptied eyes.

" You don't have to do anything! You're choosing this!"

Her voice expressed her panic. His heart strings pulled when he went to touch her, and she pulled away from his embrace.

" Rosie."

The girl shook her head full of flaming red waves. Her skin suddenly looked pale, all the effort from the effects of the sun losing chase as the reality of his words worked it's way through her tiny frame.

" It's a good thing Rose. I won't be gone that long. "

" Four years!" She sounded exasperated and beaten all at the same time. She turned on her heel, ready to walk away, but turned again wiping away her pathetic tears as she did.

His head was bent slightly to his left, like he was studying her. His hair was long and unkept, and a darker shade of the blond he had been growing out of ever since fifth year. His eyebrows were now drawn over a pair of clear, glass blue eyes, for the first time unreadable to her. She let herself linger on the features of his face a little longer than she liked, than forced her eyes beyond where he stood.

" We were supposed to go to college in those four years. You were the one who had the idea to travel before September...merlin Scorp...you were the one booking the hostels in Thailand for us! And all of a sudden you've decided to fly off to America and settle into a job that you feel obligated to take, but you don't even want!?"

" What gave you the impression that I don't want this job?" He hated fighting with her, it really was the worst thing in his world when they did, but he could feel one buring in his chest, ready and waiting for her temper to strike the chord it always did when it came to their arguments. " I never said I didn't want this job."

" What? You do? ?!" Her eyes slammed against his. Rose was as aware of the inevitable end to this sudden heated discussion. At this point, she welcomed it. " You, Scorpius Malfoy, who I've seen literally gag at the sight of a suit and tie, would suddenly like nothing more, than to take on desk work at a cushy, money grubbing, wear that suit and tie Monday thru Friday kind of job because his grandfather, a man who barely acknowledged his existence until very recently, realized how dandy retirement looked?!"

And the burning combusted inside of him. Seconds later flames licked at his throat. " It's better than wasting away four years of my life with my nose stuck between pages of a book like you! I don't want to go to college Rose! I never did and the only reason why I even agreed to fill out those bloody applications you kept pushing on me was to shut you the hell up!!" His eyes burned even when his best friends filled up again. " I'm not like you! I don't want to keep reading and taking tests and studying and taking more tests and than studying some more! Unlike you, I'm done with this! I'm done hiding behind my books!"

Her face froze in undeniable hurt.

" I'm sorry." His hand went out to meet her own. " Rose...I'm sorry."

She shook her head, sending her tears unto the front of her graduation robes staining the red and yellow garmets that clung to her skin in the heat of the June sun. She blocked his efforts to touch her, pulling herself and her limbs inward and away from him.

Damn it he always did this, and it made him slightly nauseated to think about how good he had gotten at it. For a small moment, he wondered if Rose noticed as well. When did it become so quick and easy to dissapoint and hurt her. When did he become so skilled at making up for it. When did an apology, any apology that left his mouth suddenly seem routine, habit...unmeaningful.

" Save it Scorpius." She looked damaged for a small moment before dropping her gaze toward her feet. " Just save it."

" Rose." His voice pleaded with her to forgive him. " Please try to understand. I need to do this. I want to do this."

" Well than do it." She snapped, every muscle clenching tightly as the words left her mouth. Her head lifted in time to see her friends face empty into greived defeat. " My parents are waiting."

" So are mine..." But she was already walking away from his protest. His hand went to grab her, to stop her, but she pulled away once more and turned her back on him. " Rose!"

" You know what?!" Flames of crimson incircled her face when her body turned to meet him. " If you want to go and work for some stranger that's fine! If that's what you really want, than go! Don't apologize for it! Just go! Get on with it." Each word cut the thick air surrounding them. " Do whatever the hell you want."

" Fine!"

Scorpius said nothing as she moved away from him. He could only order his feet to stay where they were, wish his mouth to restrain his tongue, will his hands to stop yearning for something more than the air to caress the skin there. His heart battered his ribs, his frustration mounting with her...with himself, as his eyes lifted and glared after her.

" Fine!" Rose shouted over her shoulder, her eyes glistening with a fresh stream of tears that he could see. " I know I will!" Her words echoed above the crowds now swallowing his best friend of seven years whole. "And I'll do it the only way I know how! Hiding behind my books!"

Her sob broke in her throat.

Scorpius Malfoy's feet betrayed him.

Next chapter should be up shortly. I had three chapters done, but decided against them, seeing how the story was going no where I wanted it to. But anyway,I thought after that I would post the prologue, see if I managed any feedback than continue on. Okay...soo review! Also, I'm skipping ahead a few years in the next few chapters so bare with me! Review!