Harry Potter's world belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Scorpius was sitting alone in compartment. For him that was perfect. He didn't feel lonely. Young Malfoy thought it was good that no one consider talking to him. He will have 7 years to make friends and class- and roommates. There will be someone who will see him, not his father past. He didn't know details about Death Eaters and war but he wasn't so sure if he wants to know. Some terrible things happened. He didn't care. It had been long before he was even born. If they want to judge him because of that it's their problem.
He was waiting for Hogwarts Express to reach its destination and to be sorted into Slytherin or wherever.
"Anything sweet for you, dear?" asked trolley lady.
"Frogs, please" He said in the same time as girl, who had come to trolley few second before.
"Oh, look at you, great minds are said to think the same way" she laughed, gave them sweets and walked away.
He looked at her and recognized her frizzy, bright red hair and freckles on nose.
"Rose Weasley" He said out loud automatically.
"Yes and you are Scorpius Malfoy. But we have never met before." She added while looking straight into his grey eyes. She was observing him like she was solving problem. He spotted that she was in two minds about what to do. Rose obviously didn't want to make mistake.
She started but hesitated "We have 2 options" he looked and tried to read those big brown eyes.
"First one: We become enemies. With our background it would be simple. Second: We are going to be friends. It's like a coin" she showed him gallon as an example.
"Flip it. Heads for friends, tails for enemies." He suggested and she nodded for agreement. She threw it in the air. They bent down to see the result.
What they saw astound them both. The coin was on its edge.
"We need third option" Rose stated while taking her money back.
"Maybe we will avoid each other? I heard that castle is huge" he proposed.
"Yes, it is. Let's make a deal. We won't talk to each other and nothing will happen. You will treat me like I don't exist and I will do the same. We won't make our lives miserable in any way. Hopefully we would never have to choose neither being friend nor enemies. Are you ok with that?"
"Perfectly" He answered with smirk on his face. "Truce?" He asked while reaching his hand out.
"Truce" she shook his hand cheerfully. She smiled and happily walked back to her huge family.
Scorpius felt some kind of relieve. This was settled. She wasn't going to be pain in the ass and he was grateful for it. When he was on platform, his father said, after spotting bunch of redheads, that he and Weasley/Potter clan had complicated past. It means one thing for him- big trouble.
He stared at one of his galleons and thought that coin never last long on it edge. He only hoped that in his case it will.
"Oh, seriously" was all he said after opening his frog and finding that he got Ronald Weasley card.
Several hours later, all of first years were waiting to be sorted. Rose wasn't paying too much attention where others were sorted, till Professor Longbottom tried to read one of the names.
"I'm terribly sorry, but I have no idea how to pronounce this" he said with confused face.
"G… Gee… G…chi…" he tried and students started laughing. "Oh, please stop torturing me, come here."
"My name is Grzegorz Grzetrzewiński" said boy whose face was red of holding amusement. "Sorry, it's Polish" he added.
"How are we supposed to call you?" asked Neville with raised eyebrow.
"Gregory. It is English equivalent of Grzegorz" he said when professor Longbottom was putting Sorting Hat on his head.
"Slytherin!" the Hat shouted and smiling Gregory was heading towards his new house.
Several minutes later it was Malfoy turn. "What we have here" Scorpius heard in his mind "You are full of creativity and individuality. Ravenclow would suit you. On the other hand you are ambitious to prove what you are made of. And, of course a great amount of resourcefulness."
Scorpius knew it. He sat in front of Gregory. "I though Scorpius Hyperion was something but dude, you name rules" he admitted and reach his hand out which smiling Gregory shook.
"My father is from Poland but my mum is English. It was her great idea to give me polish name, which is hard to pronounce. She said it would be fun" he stated.
"She was wright. The look on Professor Longbottom face was priceless" Scorpius smiled.
Meanwhile Rose was trying to make Al calm down. "It's gonna be fine. Easy"
Finally when the Hat reached his head it shouted "Gryffindor". When he looked at her, he saw her famous I-knew-it face.
As being Weasley, Rose has to wait almost to the end of alphabet order. "Another…"the Hat started but Rose cut in "Don't you dare say another Weasley" The Hat laughed "I sense strong mind and great hunger for knowledge. You would be good Rawenclow, but you just proved where you belong". All Weasleys stopped cheering only when Rose took empty space next to Albus.
"Cool school is Hogwarts. I've never knew that there is a place where they teach you how to do magic" said Gregory between bites of his chicken.
"You are muggle born? How, in the name of Merlin pants, you ended in Slytherin?" asked shocked Scorpius.
"Is it wrong?" asked Gregory with innocence. "Well, several years ago it would be absolute drama. You see Slytherin has long, prejudice history of hating muggle born. Frankly speaking, I don't care. You could be rainbow-pony born for me and I wouldn't give a shit, but let's face the truth. If I were you I would keep that to myself, but don't lie, it will be pain to deal with too"
"If you say it's better. So my new friend, you are going to tell me everything you know about magic world. I'm clueless. I can only levitate objects with will and pick out some eyes with wand"
"Okay, but stay away from my eyes, I kind of like them" Scorpius joked.
"I think I can handle this" Gregory agrees.
Years passed and truce between Malfoy and Weasley magically never broke.
She was proving that she is Hermione Granger daughter, having perfect grades and answering every question while asked. She spent all of her free time with her family and, of course, in library. She was loved by everybody when they met her. Behind her, everybody hated her for being so perfect. For the annoyance of girl population, she grew up to be attractive. She usually kept her long red hair in braid at the back, put on no make-up, wore only comfortable over-sized clothes and carried surprisingly tiny bag always filled with books. Even without her trying, boys fell for her in great number. She dated, but more for her family sake. This way, boys could prove that they are protective and girls have something to gossip. Each time after month of dating, she broke up with her boyfriends in the same way, telling them that she would be better friend than girlfriend.
Scorpius turned out to be ice-cold prince of Hogwarts. He was above all. He was above all of torment. He didn't care if people harass him. He always kept indifferent face expression, it didn't matter what others were doing. He held his head high. Many hated him for his surname and his family past. Scorpius had been right in one thing, he found good friend. He spent almost all the time with half-Polish. They both practiced Quidditch like mental. Scorpius had been Chaser and Gregory was Seeker both since 3th year. They had won 2 times in a row and were expecting a third one. For Scorpius everything was peacefully in order. He truly enjoyed his time in Hogwarts.
This beautiful bubble of serenity had to blow up eventually. It was right before Christmas in their fifth year.
Scorpius was having a terrible day. It was so awful that he couldn't understand how it was even possible. He overslept, spilled at himself pumpkin juice, lost homework, fucked up potion and slipped on mud, while going to quidditch pitch for practice.
"Dude, what's wrong with you today" asked concerned Gregory and took his wand out to clean his friend's robes.
"I've got no bloody idea. I hope the rest of the day would be more peaceful" he begged.
For Rose it was also not so lucky day. She had the most painful period since she could remember. She wanted to faint. On shaky legs she tried to reach hospital wing. Her vison blur, so she had to stop and concentrate.
Scorpius got hit with Bludgers unbelievable amount of times and with the last one he fell from broomstick. "I have enough of beating for today. I'm going to Hospital Wing. I probably have broken my ribs" he shouted to his teammates and headed to castle.
Rose didn't know what was going on around her, until she bumped into something. She heard as that person groaned with pain.
"Watch when you walk, idiot!" Scorpius said angrily curling up in pain. She hit him exactly where it hurt him most.
"Fuck off, you have two eyes too, or maybe world spins around you so you don't have to use them" Rose snapped back.
"Is this coming from our little princess, who has it all? Miss Perfect forgets how to walk properly?" Scorpius poked fun of her. In normal situation she would say something back. Instead she just took out her wand and he stunned him across the hall. She didn't have time to smile because she finally fainted.
"Can you explain me what have happened?" asked Madam Pomfrey, when both of them woke up. "Why am I having two such great students unconscious right next to my door?
"We are so sorry, Madam. I've been feeling sick and I must have faint before I got here" Rose looked at nurse with innocence. "And you, boy?" she turned to Malfoy. "I lost count of how many times I was hit by Bludgers" he explained.
"Ah, that's why you've broken ribs" she spelled some healing charm.
"No, I broke them when I hit the ground" Scorpius admitted.
"Quidditch" Madam Pomfrey sighed with disapproval. "Rest, both of you" and she went to her office.
Scorpius faced Rose and said "And now you should say 'thank you'"
"Why?" Rose responded with perfected innocence in her eyes.
"Oh, stop this crap. I won't fall for this 'I'm perfect'. You know what I mean. You stunned me and get no detention. You should be at least thankful"
She started laughing "I never get detention, I'm just too good"
"Right, last time I checked after hexing someone you don't faint. Are you sure you do it wright?"
"Last time I checked while playing quidditch you avoid bludgers and falling. You forget?"
"And it comes from someone how don't play at all. Can you even fly?"
Rose rolled her eyes "Augh. You are pissing me off. I don't need to listen to your mumbling it's pointless anyway. Who cares about you?"
"Seriously, THIS comes from someone who talks only with family"
Both of them heard door opening. "How are you feeling?" asked Gregory standing next to Scorpius bed. "It could be better" his friend responded.
Rose looked at Malfoy with disgust and turned her back to him.
Apparently being on edge of coin won't last forever. Rose thought and fell asleep.
It's my first fanfic. Please have mercy on me.
I made up this surname, I hope you enjoy trying to say that out loud:)