James and watches - Rose's POV

I sat in my armchair in the corner of the Gryffindor common room and tried to read my Defence Against the Dark Arts book. Al was sitting next to me playing wizard chess with his friend, Sam, thankfully they were quiet. That cannot be said for the rest of my family.

Lilly and Hugo were sending random spells at each other and building a fortress out of pillows. James and a couple of his friends were supposed to be doing their OWL revision but were mainly trying to teach Lilly and Hugo OWL spells, that they were surprisingly good at, and playing exploding snap by the window, which they insisted on leaving open even though it was snowing outside, so that the sounds of people from other houses could be heard. My guess is that they were having a snowball fight; I guessed this because there was a lot of screeching, shrieking, shouting and screaming. Eventually I gave up on by book, which was not a good sign because I had planned my Christmas holiday down to the last second to do lots of revision for end of year exams.

"You've still got ten minutes." Al told me without even looking up from his complicated chess move, well it looked complicated to me, but I didn't get chess.

"I just can't concentrate properly." I said. That caused both Al and Sam to look at me. "What?"

"Nothing." They both said and went back to their game; I watched them for a second longer before getting up and walking to the portrait hole. Nobody even acknowledged that I had moved until I was halfway through and James yelled after me.

"Enjoy your date!"

"Enjoy your death!" I yelled back and marched off down the corridor so that he couldn't call anything else after me. Five minutes later I arrived outside the room of requirement. I was early but five minutes alone or extra with my awesome boyfriend was a lot better than James. Once inside I sat down in the small room that had been created. Whenever me and my boyfriend met up here it showed us this room, it was red and green with gold clouds and silver linings and comfortable squishy armchairs. There was also a small bookshelf and I pulled off the book I was reading at the moment to find that it was marked at exactly the correct page, even though the real book was on by bed stand in my dormitory. Minutes later somebody cover my eyes so that I couldn't read the book and whispered in my ear.

"Who am I?" I tried not to laugh as I answered him.

"Are you the reincarnation of Voldemort?"

"No."

"What about Dumbledore?"

"No."

"Ghandi?"

"No."

"Are you my really annoying cousin James?"

"I'm just offended now."

"What about Dorothy?"

"Who?"

"From the wizard of Oz, she's the girl with the red shoes."

"Oh, no I'm not her."

"Then I have no idea who you could possibly be."

"I'm your awesome boyfriend." He said removing his hands from my eyes and walking around so I can see him properly. Blond hair swept to the side, startling grey eyes and the body of a god. He was wearing his Slytherin jumper to show his house pride.

"Oh yeah." I said. "Hello Scorpius Malfoy."

"Hello Rose Weasley." He replied. "What are you reading?"

"The fault in our stars. Don't ask."

"Right. If you could follow me." He grabbed my hand and pulled me into a room to the side of the one I was in and I gasped. We were in a winter wonderland; there were ice sculptors and falling snow and everything. In the centre of the room, which was about the size of a ballroom, was a small table set for two and lit by candles. I looked at Scorpius.

"The room can't do food."

"Yeah but a house elf can." He grinned at me. "As you know Christmas is family time so I thought that Christmas Eve should be Rose and Scorpius time." I laughed.

"You're terrible."

"But you love me."

"Okay." I said leaning up and kissing him.

I love having the dormitory to myself. It means that when I get in at one in the morning nobody questions me, and nobody wakes me up the next day. So when I came down at quarter to twelve, to see that everybody was already in their Weasley jumpers, I knew that they had already opened their presents and that I was the last one up.

"Here comes sleeping beauty." Said James as I collapsed on a chair and grabbed the first present I could find. It wasn't until after lunch when I had opened all my presents, got dressed and was sitting waiting for Scorpius did the trouble begin. James had (for once) exhausted himself and was now lying doing nothing. His friends had gone to the hospital wing after they had taken a joke sweet and couldn't find the remedy and Sam had gone to visit his sister in Ravenclaw. So it was just me and Al, Lilly, Hugo and sadly James in the common room when an owl started to tap against the window.

"Al get it." James moaned and Al rolled his eyes but opened the window and took the parcel off of the owls' leg. He opened the packet and something gold fell out. On top of my head.

"OW!" I complained rubbing my bruised cranium with one hand and picking up the gold thing with the other. It was a watch. A very heavy watch.

"It's from Dad. Say's Merry Christmas, try not to get into trouble and let the watch do its thing." Al read. We all stared at him. "That's what it says." He said handing the note to Lilly. I shrugged and held the watch to my ear, where I could hear it faintly ticking. I handed it to Al and he listened to it too and then tried to open it, but he couldn't. We then passed it round the room and all tried to get the watch open but it was like it had been welded shut. I had just got it back and was pointing my wand at it when somebody knocked at the door.

I dropped the watch and ran to open the portrait hole where Scorpius was stood waiting. He grinned at me and held up his gift in his hands.

"Hey." He greeted, and we kissed. "Do you want you present?" He asked and I laughed.

"Come in, I'll go get yours." He stepped inside and I ran up the stairs to the girls dormitories. When I came down Scorpius had sat down in a chair by the fire and was watching James unsuccessfully try to open the watch.

"Couldn't you be doing revision or something?" I asked and he put down the watch. It was ticking louder now so that with the room quiet I could hear it.

"I got board of it." He said and I shrugged, handing my small green and silver wrapped present to Scorpius, who handed me a red and gold wrapped present. Inside was an ornate jewellery set, two gold owl earrings; one official Gryffindor necklace, which had red and gold links and a lion; a few silver bracelets and a small bottle of sparkle cleaner to clean it all.

"It's beautiful." I whispered, and kissed Scorpius on the check.

"You haven't even seen what's underneath it." he replied pulling on my Slytherin Quidditch collection I had brought him and stuffing a chocolate frog in his mouth. I gingerly lifted the jewellery up and screamed. Everybody jumped to their feet wands out pointing either at the box in my hand or Scorpius.

"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." I yelled pulling my boyfriend in to a hug and kissing him on the lips. I pulled out the huge bar of chocolate that was obscuring most of what was underneath and tucked it under my arm, and then I pulled out the piece of parchment to read that I had front row seats and backstage pass to see my favourite band ever play in Paris. Everybody calmed down and I carefully put the jewellery and ticket down and shoved the chocolate in my pocket, before pulling Scorpius in a hug, then allowed him to put on the necklace on, and watched as I put the earrings on. I glanced over at James to see that he was pointing his wand at the watch and muttering spells under his breath. I rolled my eyes and picked up my new bag in which I had put all my new clothes and I think Al had too.

"Is it just me or is that watch glowing?" said Hugo suddenly, we all looked at the watch.

"Yes it is." Said Lilly.

"Glowing or just me?" Hugo asked confused.

"It's glowing." I frowned at the watch and realised that its ticking was suddenly very loud, I picked up my wand from the table where I had left it and pointed it at the watch, Scorpius did the same.

"When was the last time anybody touched that?" Al asked.

"Me when Rose went upstairs and then I put it down when she came down." James said.

"I don't think we should touch it." Said Scorpius suddenly. "I've seen stuff like that at my grandparent's old house; it's full of dark stuff they've forgotten about."

"But we won't know until we touch it." Said James, Al stared at him and Lilly picked up a quill and scribbled something down. James looked around.

"Don't." I said. "Don't you dare." James looked at me and then pointing his wand at the watch bent down.

"NO!" We all screamed pointing our wands at him and then when he touched the watch for a second nothing happened then it clicked open.

Stopped glowing.

Stopped ticking.

Then the world around me exploded into darkness and my body felt like it was on fire before I was hurtling away was Hogwarts maybe even away from Scotland and Britain altogether. I couldn't really tell.

All I could tell was fire, travel and pain.

Lots of pain.