She sits in her room reflecting on the last few hours she spent with her dad and his family. She hates spending time with her dad's family, her dad by himself isn't so bad but she cant stand his wife or their spawn. Lavender just has this ridiculously annoying habit of trying to mother her so Rose reasons that it isn't her fault she was upset about it, she already had a perfectly good mother and she didn't appreciate Lavender presuming to take the position. So when Lavender introduced Rose to someone as her daughter, Rose responded in the negative and now Rose had to wait in her room waiting for her mum to come and collect her. From her room she can hear the pop, no wait a double pop, her step dad came too that means they are going to talk about her again, she situates herself on the floor by the door with an extendable ear to listen.

"Hermione, we need to do something with Rosie she is so disrespectful when she is here," she heard her dad say

"Why don't you tell me what happened Ronald," Her mum responded

"She made a terribly rude comment to Lav when was introducing her to some friends from work, it was very vulgar Hermione -,"

"So you're sending her home," She heard her step dad interrupt, he is always firmly on her side "because she upset your wife?"

"It isn't like that Draco! For the thousandth time, she has no respect for this house or the people in it," Her dad said starting to get angry

" Well lets get her down here so we can get to the bottom of this," Hermione said "Rose, I know your listening come on down here honey,"

As Rose step out of her room she sees her little brother Hugo, he drags his fist with his thumb sticking out across his neck indicating she is going to get it for this one, she sticks her tongue out at him and continues down the stairs. Trying her hardest to look innocent she walks into the sitting room where everyone, she is surprised to see Lavender there, she usually hides upstairs when they have these talks.

"Mum, Draco, good evening," She says with a smile, Draco winks at her to tell it will be okay and because her dad cant see him and she has to stifle a giggle.

"Rose want to tell me what happened, at the party?" Her mum fixes her The Look

"Well mum see I went to that party where I didn't know anybody, and I was kind of mad at dad because its like we rarely see him and when we do he drags us to some party to ignore us all night. So then after Lavender criticizes my dress choice, we go and the first thing she does is introduces me to one of her awful friends as her daughter. It made me mad because she has no right to say stuff like that. So I might have said that just because she is shagging my dad it doesn't make her my mum," Rose finished looking at her feet in a well practiced way of looking ashamed.

"See, I told you it was disrespectful and vulgar," Ron said

"But it equally disrespectful for Lavender to introduce Rose as her daughter, Rosie was just defending her mother, weren't you Rosie," Draco stated smiling at Rose warmly, she could always rely on Draco to take up her side in front of her father

"Rosie, honey," Her mum started "I appreciate the sentiment but you should respect your dad's wife, even if she doesn't reciprocate. We should be getting home, Draco Side-Along with Rosie okay, I just need to get home'" And she left without another word

Draco looked up at his step daughter, "Come on sugar, lets go home Emmy and Ephraim were excited when we told them we were picking you up early," then he looked at Ron, "Weasly, I assume your son is still welcome to stay or do you wish me to collect him as well?" Draco was very upset, he didn't take kindly to people disrespecting his family, he was proud of Rose for defending her mum like that.

"Hugo is staying until the start of term as planned, we will take him to get his things for school," Ron said his arm around his wife as watched his little girl walk over to the worlds slimiest git and left without saying good-bye.

When they arrived at the manor Draco looked at Rose and smiled at her.

"Go on princess, Scorp and twins are in the play room if you want to see them, I am going to talk to your mum," with that he went up to his room and saw his wife glaring into the fireplace.

"Is it bad that I'm happy Rose said that to her? They are my children and she has no right to say those things," Hermione said as he walked through the door.

"Sweetheart, as happy as I am that she did it, that woman destroyed your marriage and now she has the audacity to refer to herself as the mother of YOUR children? I am angry on your behalf and very proud of Rose for reminding Lavender that she has a mother, however we both know she didn't have to use vulgarities to do so," Draco said "as funny as it was,"

"I am happy they did too, everyday I look back at everything that happened to bring us together and I laugh. You and the kids are the best things in my life, but its times like this that I get angrier at Ron for Rose's sake, would it kill him to take up for her just once with That Woman? Your very lucky that Astoria and Tracy are both so wonderful," Hermione stated looking at her husband.

"Yes few men are lucky enough to have an arranged marriage with a friend who happens to be a lesbian, sire an heir, then divorce once her retched mother dies so she can be happy with her long time lover," Draco said in a flat tone

"But they both love Scorp with all their hearts and adore the other children, aside from being great women. I however get an Ex-husband who married his pregnant mistress, contained to procreate and disregards his firstborn daughter in favor of his whore of a wife," Hermione added glaring slightly at nothing in particular when she added the last part

"Come love, Scorp and Rosie have charge of the twins for the night and I do believe I here a bottle of Ogden's Finest calling us," Draco said pulling wife up from the floor and guiding her over the their wet bar.

Scorp watched Rose come in with that sad look she gets her in eyes when her dad so blatantly chose his wife over her and gets himself ready to make her laugh as he always does for his sister.

"This has to be some kind of record it usually takes you at least two days to tire them enough to floo begging to come home where you belong, but you have been gone what eighteen hours?" he asks knowing full and well this is not what happened. At hearing their older brother talking the twins turned and launched themselves at Rose with cries of "Rosie you're home" and oh I missed you so much"

"Hey guys," she says scooping Emberlyn off the floor and hugging Ephraim to her legs "and Scorp I always tire of them this fast, I usually just wait so you can be rid of me longer,"

Scorp just smiles at her knowing this is exactly what she needs.