A Vacation to Remember

Chapter Two

Their first stop was Reykjavik. Malfoy had programmed the car to go invisible and fly at top speed to Iceland. They conversed on their trip while flying, munching on food items that Scorpius had packed for the trips between. Right now they were both had bag of crisps with some sandwiches.

"So," Scorpius started after swallowing a mouthful of meat, cheese and bread. He took a quick sip of his butterbeer.

"Are you excited at all?"

Rose nodded, smiling. Once she had left the house behind and hadn't seen any fireworks or explosions go off after them, she had stopped worrying.

"Yes," she replied. He was staring at her, his eyes warm and open, a tiny half smirk on his face.

"Good."

And then he leaned across the space and gave her a kiss. It surprised Rose momentarily. They really rarely ever did kiss outside of the bedroom. Most of her children hadn't technically been born out of making love. More like desperate and horny sex.

Rose kissed him back, but before they could get carried away Scorpius was gone. Rose re-opened her eyes to see him staring out his window, eating his sandwich slowly. Rose just cocked her head, confused before mentally shrugging.

While he was her husband, Malfoy was still a curious creature that Rose had yet to understand, even after nearly eight years of marriage.

They arrived in Reykjavik a half hour after their meal. It was still light out-they had only left around three hours ago. Then, it was about 11:30am. It was almost 3:00pm now.

Scorpius had landed the car as gently as he could, and parked it before turning the invisibility off. Rose looked interestedly at the hotel they had arrived at.

"It's the Borg Hotel," Scorpius stated, noting her interest.

"It's had great reviews. Plus it's not too far away from the hot spas. You'll see. I know you'll like it."

Rose smiled, excitement roiling in her stomach. She stepped out of her car-it was cool, but not cold out. Perfect weather in her opinion.

Scorpius asked the car to pop the trunk. Christine responded promptly, and Scorpius proceeded to shrink all but a few bags. He put the shrunken ones in his pocket, closed the trunk and the car lock itself.

As he was doing this, Rose studied the grounds. It was really quite breathtaking. The borders of the hotel grounds had flowers planted along it. The stark whiteness of the hotel itself was amazing. It looked very old and sophisticated.

She turned to Scorpius to tell him how beautiful it all was, but couldnt find her voice. He looked up and saw her staring. He smiled and handed her a couple bags, and anything Rose was going to say disappeared from her mind.

He probably wouldn't want her gushing about the beauty of a place like this. That just wasn't her style.

Rose returned his smile, and took the bags handed to her before following him into the hotel.

If Rose had thought the outside was beautiful, she was certainly not ready for the beauty of the lobby, let alone the room itself.

It was huge. That was all she could say. It was swathed in black, white and silver-the floor of the living area was marbled in black, with white swirls throughout it. The couch was a stark white, contrasting heavily with the floor. There was a tv mounted on the wall, with a coffee table. The kitchen was small, but very manageable for two people.

Large bay windows overlooked a wonderful view of the back area of the hotel, showing a large green grass square. It was so quiet, Rose could hear the blood rushing in her own ears.

The bed was large, bigger than even their own bed. It was long and wide and took up near half a wall. The bedsheets were white and the comforter was fluffy and black with silver checkered pattern stitched into it.

A room led off to the side that held an office like area with a computer and desk.

"Merlin's pants!" she heard Scorpius exclaim and looked over to see his eyes wide and mouth open in awe. Rose let out a laugh and rushed into the room, dropping the bags on the floor.

"Scorpius! This is amazing!" she exclaimed, grabbing the bottle of wine that was chilling next to the bed.

"How did you even get something this magnificent?"

Scorpius shook his head before replying "I kinda had help from mum. She set this whole thing up for us...she must've paid for all the lodging too. The best, it seems. Merlin!"

Rose grinned and flopped back on the bed, wine bottle in hand. Then she looked up and whistled, causing her husband to look over at her.

"Want some?" she asked, waving the bottle.

Scorpius grinned and made a running jump onto the bed next to her. Rose giggled loudly, feeling like she was back in school.

Scorpius popped the bottles cork and conjured two glasses and promptly poured them each drinks.

"Does this remind you of anything?" he asked with a smirk, causing Rose to glare half-heartedly.

They each took drinks of the sweet slightly bitter wine before Rose spoke up.

"So. What's on the agenda? Do you have anything specific in mind? Or should we just...explore?"

"Nope. I kinda figured you wouldn't want anything planned out. The only thing I do have planned are dinner reservations for the time we're here. Mum said they have amazing hot springs. Could help you relax. And then there's museums for art, history...you know. We could go on a hike...whatever you want."

Rose stared into his eyes and knew what she wanted. She hadn't felt this riled up and relaxed in a while.

Instead of crossing over and snogging him senseless, though, she instead took another moutful of wine, swirling it about before swallowing it.

"What time is dinner?" she asked.

"5:00," he replied. Rose threw back the rest of her wine then checked the time on the clock radio. It read 3:55.

"Perfect!" she said before standing up quickly.

"I'm going to get ready for dinner-"

"It's only 3:56, Rose!"

"-because I want you to only stare at me tonight," she finished before flashing him a smile.

Malfoy mumbled something that she didn't quite catch before going about the unshrinking of the bags.

Rose herself rushed off to the bathroom.

Dinner was not only delicious, but the setting was gorgeous. They had a table all to themselves. Rose ordered a lamb dish while Scorpius ordered a gorgeous fish dinner.

Rose stared at her husband over her glass of wine. It was now near the end of dinner and Rose was feeling pleasantly full and a little tipsy. Scorpius was just finishing off his last bite of food before he sighed and leaned back.

Rose couldn't help staring at the pale line of his throat.

"See something you like?"

Scorpius' voice shook Rose from her thoughts, and she brought her eyes up to meet his. He was still leaning back in his chair, tie loosened and silver blue eyes shining. His hair nearly eclipsed them, yet they were so bright that they broke through.

Rose felt her face heat up and laughed nervously.

Scorpius let a slow grin spread across his face before leaning forward.

"Dinner's over now. I'm going to pay and then I have someplace I want you to see."

Rose just nodded, heart racing for a reason that she couldn't quite place.

"Hurry back," she replied and watched as he left the table, hands in his pockets.

He was quite dashing when he wanted to be, you know.

Rose honestly thought that the next place Scorpius would be taking her was to the bedroom for some manhandling. But he didn't.

Instead, he apparated them to a spot far from any city lights. What greeted her took her breath away.

They were standing in what seemed like an endless amount of hills and tiny ponds. The sun was just setting, casting a warm golden glow across Malfoy's face. The ponds looked like molten gold. The air was cool, crisp and clean. It blew across her face gently, as if inviting her to come down the hills and never leave.

"Scorpius," she said breathlessly. She turned to look at him, and saw him standing there, smiling at her gently.

He took her hand.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" he asked quietly, loosely holding her hand in his. Rose couldn't do anything but nod.

"Where are we?" she asked in a curious tone. A flock of birds flew across the sky overhead, and Rose watched as what seemed like a million tiny bodies of water replicated the flock. Even though there was a slight breeze, the water seemed to remain untouched. It reflected everything.

"Not quite sure how to pronounce this, but I do believe it's called the Landmanalager? Landmannalaugararararar...I dunno, really. Father knows the proper pronunciation."

Rose giggled at his butchering of the name, but the giggles died down as she stared across the landscape.

She tightened her grip on his hand, and leaned her head upon his arm.

"Absolutely beautiful," she murmured.

Scorpius nodded, staring at her red and gold locks. He wasn't speaking of the view when he replied, "Yeah...beautiful."

Chapter two finally complete. This story is very hard. I've had to do research for every single thing so far-and it's only the second chapter! The Borg Hotel is a real place in Iceland, where Reykjavik is located. The place where Scorpius takes Rose is also real-the Landmannalaugar. It's quite beautiful, really. Look it up, and you'll most likely see the image I described!

As always, let me know what you think. Chapter three will prolly be just as slow, honestly. This story is very dificult, like I said!

:)