"We can't just stand here we have to be model students and help," she argued as he shoved her behind the sofa. Her brown eyes looking up at him not only with anger but fear as well.
"Yeah we're students, he's not. He's angry at my parents, well my mother , for not letting me visit him in Azkaban. Not that I'd want to," Scorpius shrugged. "No matter what you hear stay back there and keep quiet Rose please," Scorpius seemed desperate now, more for Roses safety than his own. Within seconds the door was shoved open and in walked Lucius Malfoy.
"Scorpius why are you hiding?" Lucius hissed and moved closer to Scorpius who took a deep breath and spoke.
"Not hiding grandfather I'm Head boy and this is my compartment," Scorpius nodded. It was half true, although he wasn't really the one hiding right now.
"Scorpius your god awful mother kept you from your only grandfather, doesn't that anger you?" Lucius spoke in that harsh vile voice of his.
"She's not awful grandfather I love my mother deeply," Scorpius growled getting angry at his grandfathers notions towards his beloved mother. It was Scorpius' mother who taught him how to love, and that he needs to show his emotions.
"When we rise again there won't be much of her to love!" Lucius let out a sinister laugh making Scorpius even more mad. It was one thing to threaten him but when you threaten the ones he loves then they've gone too far.
"Don't you dare touch my mother!" Scorpius pulled his wand out on Lucius without thinking what he was up against. Especially this being his own grandfather, his flesh and blood.
"You dare pull your wand out on me boy! You're either with me or you're against me and you're obviously not with me!" He snapped. His wand was out in mere seconds pointing directly at Scorpius. Rose had heard enough, she could not just sit here and let Scorpius die at the mercy of his grandfather if she could do anything about it.
"Don't touch him! Expelliarmus!" Rose shouted, while jumping out from behind the couch. Lucius' wand shot out of his hand and across the room. He glared manically at Rose and spat at her.
"I recognized the spawn of a Weasley anywhere!"
"Rose what are you doing!" Scorpius ran to her and shoved her behind him. Staring straight into the eyes of his grandfather.
"You think Expelliarmus will stop me?" Lucius yelled out bitterly. "Accio wands!" He glared as his own wand flew into his hand along with Rose's and Scorpius' as well. Rose cursed herself for not thinking of that, it was way too late to 'accio' her own wand back.
"Grandfather if I go with you will you promise not to hurt her," Scorpius trembled and felt Rose latch onto his arm.
"Scorpius don't do this," she pleaded. This was all too real to Rose she knew this had to be a dream…Scorpius would not be protecting her especially from his grandfather. Scorpius' voice was then heard in her head.
"Rose, Rose are you okay?" She managed to shove open her eyes and come face to face with Scorpius who was grinning.
"What'd you do Malfoy!" She snapped.
"When you fell you hit your head on the floor pretty hard. Don't worry I was a perfect gentleman, I'm not that big of a pervert," he shook his head and helped her up.
"Your grandfather is he here?" Rose looked around with fear and confusion. Scorpius slowly raised an eyebrow.
"Um…Rose you and I both know my grandfathers in Azkaban, are you feeling alright?"
"I just had a weird dream that your grandfather was coming for you," she shrugged and rubbed her now bruising head. Scorpius' grin quickly faded and he looked white as ice.
"What did you say?" he spoke with a slight tremor in his voice.
"Your grandfather apparently escaped from Azkaban and came for you, said something about your mother and how she would pay for not letting him see you or something," she answered while shrugging her shoulders. He was now beginning to tremble more and while slipping on his school robe he made his way out the compartment without another word towards Rose.
"What'd I say?" Rose sighed and stumbled out the compartment and ran into Albus.
"Rose! Rose! There you are. The train conductor was found dead, McGonagal is asking all students to exit the train," Albus spoke half out of breath.
"Do they know how he died? Who did it?" Rose contemplated the different options in her head but her mind kept pointing back to the same answer. Lucius Malfoy.
"All we know is he died by the killing curse," Albus shook a bit with his wand in his hand.
"It'll be alright Albus, I need to go assist the students on exiting the train come on," Rose shook her head abruptly and ran down the train aisle.
"Oi…Rose I don't have my trainers on stop running so fast," Albus whined.
"Stop having kittens Albus," Rose grumbled while yelling aloud. "Alright students everyone in an orderly fashion exit the train."
"Weasley everyone' off already," Scorpius snapped. "McGonagal wants me, you, and Potter here to take the thestrials to Hogwarts," He spoke while grabbing hold of Rose's arm.
"What about the other students," Rose argued while trying to pull away.
"My grandfather has broken out of Azkaban Rose, he's not after these students he wants me. We need to get out of here. McGonagals orders," Scorpius hissed. He looked so sincere so scared yet sure at the same time.
"I'm not leaving the students…"before she could finish her sentence Scorpius picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, Scorpius scooting in beside her and Albus beside him. In a matter of seconds the carriage jolted to a start. Rose's sour face slowly faded and she sighed knowing there was no way she was getting out of the carriage as long as Scorpius was alive.
"They are beautiful creatures too bad not everyone can see them," Rose sighed while glancing at the quickly passing scenery.
"I agree," Scorpius added.
"You can see them? Who did you see die?" Rose questioned surprised.
"Did you know I had a little brother?"
"No…you did?" Rose shook her head and her eyes widened. A younger Malfoy? This was news to her ears.
"Yeah, he was three years younger than I am, I was 9. We went to visit our Nana Malfoy, Leo and I went up into the attic to play. .Leo found our Grandfathers old wand and he tried one of the spells in one of my fathers old school books that our Nana kept. Leo was only 6 he didn't fully understand magic and everything. He with ease pulled off the killing curse, bad thing was he was playing in front of a mirror," Scorpius trailed off and seemed to be trying to fight back tears.
"Six years old?" Roses jaw dropped.
"Yeah he has a wooden leg too and we called him Tiny Tim," Scorpius smirked receiving a smack across the face from Rose, whose eyes showed pure hatred at this moment.
"What I was kidding Weasley !" Scorpius snapped while covering his now blood red cheek. Rose had tears drenching her face now and she was standing and glaring at Scorpius now.
"Hey Albus you want to see the thestrials I can make it happen," she growled while pointing her wand at Scorpius.
"Rose stop this won't solve anything," Albus shrugged and watched Scorpius' now frightened face.
"Rose I'm sorry. I just don't want to tell you who I've seen die," Scorpius gulped. Rose calmed down a bit and felt something hard slam her in the back. She fell into Albus' lap while the carriage came to an abrupt stop/
"What was that?" Rose slid back into her seat while holding her back a bit. "Ow…that hurt."
"Are you okay?" Albus question then noticed the now stopped thestrials. "Why did the thestrials stop?" He shook his head with fear as his wand, in seconds, was held out in his hand.
"Malfoy what are they doing?" Rose shivered a bit. It was getting darker and the wind was blowing harder through the trees.
"They seem passive, like they don't know what's going on," Scorpius shrugged and glanced around the area. The wind was still for a minute and then arrived in full force. Rose's bushy auburn hair flew in circles everywhere, pieces began to cling ot her face.
"Prepare yourself Weasley, Potter," Scorpius gripped his wand and watched all directions around the three. He quickly made it to his feet when ruffling was heard behind them. A figure leisurely moved closer to them, and when there was no more than two feet between them Scorpius shot a spell out of his wand.
"Petrificus Totalus!" The forms body fell limp and collapsed on the ground. Scorpius hopped out of the carriage and ambled over to the figure, and when he came within inches from the body he noticed who it was.
Roses P.O.V
"Shit Weasley get over here," I heard Scorpius' voice call my name, well sort of. On any given day I'd melt at the sound of his voice but right now I was scared out of my mind. Albus and I glanced at one another and then jumped out of the carriage towards Scorpius.
"Gabriella! How'd she get here?" I gasped. Poor girl was laying on the ground her hands clenched against her sides looking scared as hell. I ran to her side and felt her ice cold face. "Malfoy we need to get her in the carriage and back to the castle," I glanced around the area for danger.
"Weasley the thestrials are spooked or something they're not going to budge!" Scorpius shook his head abruptly.
'You get her in I'll work on the thestrials," I snapped and raised my wand towards the beautiful creatures that were pulling the carriage. I noticed Scorpius and Albus gently setting Gabriella in the carriage and then I heard a creaking in the bushes behind me. I turned around and cam face to face with Lucius Malfoy. I knew that devilish face from my vision earlier.
"Serpensortia!" A large snake flew out of my wand and startled the thestrials. They became startled at once and were ready to flee.
"Weasley get in!" Scorpius called to me while noticing his grandfather standing no more than 5 feet away from me. "Rose hurry!"
"Scorpius he's going to keep coming for, I'll hold him off," I sighed and pointed my wand towards the carriage and shouted.
"Depulso!" The carriage was shoved forward and the thestrials took off in a dash.
"Rose, no!" I heard my cousin yell as they drifted out of sight.
"Young Weasley very noble of you, though that's not going to save you," Lucius grinned towards me. That devilish face that's enough to haunt my nightmares.
"I'm not afraid of you," I gulped with my wand facing my enemy.
"Oh but you should be," he hissed and raised his wand to me. "Stupefy!" he snapped. I quickly dodged his attack by exclaiming protego. "Weasley you can't protect yourself forever," he leered at me.
"Yeah well I can try," I was deathly afraid right now and it made me wonder how I was ever put in Gryffindor, though I clearly don't know which house I should have been put in after this charade. I was neither brave, nor smart, or nice right now, heck I wasn't even being conniving and slick.
"Sometimes trying doesn't work," he grinned at me. What was he planning? "Crucio!" He shouted at me, and I did not have enough time to protect myself. I felt my entire body receive a surge of insufferable pain as I toppled over onto the ground. I hit a few roots and rocks, but that pain was no where compared to the pain that was being sent through my body right now. I did the only thing I could think of doing, I screamed out in pain. He then laughed at me, a laugh I now grew to hate.
"Crucio," he yelled again. I wouldn't have thought I could feel much more pain but I did. I somehow managed to conjured another scream. "You Ms. Weasley are no match for me," he whispered menace. Wheels, I heard wheels coming straight towards me, was it my imagination.
"Stupefy!" I heard Al and Scorpius yell simultaneously.
"Deprimo!" Lucius yelled. The carriage blew up into pieces as the two quickly jumped out. They landed on their backs and quickly stood up staring straight into Lucius' eyes.
"At last young Scorpius we meet, you are either with me or against me son!"
"He's against you now back off," Al exclaimed. My cousin was made for Gryffindor, a natural born leader.
"Potter? Scorpius I thought you made better friends than that," Lucius laughed. "Reducto!" He snapped as I weakly watched Albus slam against a tree. Scorpius' face looked deathly afraid right now. I've never seen anyone as scared as I see him right now.
"Scorpius you were a great grandson, but since you're against me goodbye," he sighed and raised his wand to face towards Scorpius. I couldn't let this happen, not to Scorpius. I hated him for so long, yet a part of me still loved him. I watched as he raised his wand to Scorpius.
"Avada Kedavra!" I screamed. It hit Lucius straight in the back. He stood there for a second then his body fell limp to the ground. What have I done? I killed someone! I cried to myself. Tears were forming in my eyes and Scorpius' jaw dropped. He glanced between his grandfather and me.
"Rose," he managed to speak towards me.
"Scorpius I'm sorry I didn't mean to kill him, he was going to kill you," I cried and felt Scorpius' hand on my shoulder. I had not even realized he was walking towards me.
"Rose, shh… you saved me, thank you," then he hugged me. The next thing I remember Scorpius was helping Albus and I onto one of the thestrials backs. I was with Al considering he could not see the creature he was riding on. We arrived at a hollowed out tree as Scorpius jumped off his thestrials.
"We dropped Gabriella off here so she'd be safe," Scorpius entered the tree and seconds later returned with a shivering Gabriella. We were off again to Hogwarts. I felt guilty the whole way, and my eyes couldn't seem to stop watering. I took a mans life away, not just any man but the boy I lo… used to care abouts grandfather. No sooner than I fell into thought did we arrive at Hogwarts.
"Goodness gracious students. Rose…Albus…are you four okay?" McGonagal exclaimed examining all four of us as we eased our way off the thestrials.
"We ran into my grandfather," Scorpius' face blushed red.
"Malfoy I told you not to go off alone!" McGonagal told us to go.
"I didn't, Rose and Albus came with me," Scorpius bit his lip as McGonagal looked ready to scream. I felt my entire body freeze in place. Were they going to send me to Azkaban because I killed someone? My body began to shake and I felt hands move over my body. They were trying to steady my body.
"Mr. Malfoy what happened out there?" I heard McGonagal exclaimed as my body calm down.
"She took on Lucius by herself, and he used the cruciatus curse on her . I'm not sure how long but Albus and I came back to save her and he held his wand to kill us…she used…" Scorpius froze.
"Mr. Malfoy what did she use?" McGonagal backed up a bit as if she already knew what Scorpius was about to tell her. I felt so ashamed of myself, what other person can say they killed someone at my age. Then I remembered, stories my parents have told me.
"I would like to speak to my Uncle Harry please," I shook with fear and watch the headmistress' jaw drop.