And the fun continues...


His arm was wrapped securely around her waist, his breath gently blowing into her face. She smiled happily. Last night had been an adventure she would gladly repeat. Slowly she moved her arm and cupped his face in her hand, jokingly tugging at strands of his hair.

She felt a slight movement against her side, and she forced herself to suppress a laugh, although she couldn't hide the involuntary twitch that the tickling had caused.

Her gaze darted back to his face just in time to see his eyes flutter and then he was tickling her all over. She heard herself laughing and shrieking helplessly, all the while making futile attempts to get back at him.

After several seconds she was completely at his mercy, and he began administering kisses down her front. She laughed faintly at the feather light tickling sensation.

Suddenly Rose felt a wrenching in her stomach and jumped off the bed, racing towards the bathroom. She barely made it to the toilet in time. For a moment afterwards she stayed kneeling on the ground looking at the yellowish puke.

Scorpius came to her side and flushed the toilet quickly, before pulling a startled Rose to her feet and pulling her close.

"Do you want to lie down? I can get you some chicken noodle soup, or ginger ale." Scorpius was concerned. Rose was so stressed out about work these days, it as probably getting to her.

"Don't worry, Score. Really. I should probably just get started on some work." But even as she said it, she winced at the lie. She would have to tell him eventually. Soon it would start to show, and she didn't know what she would do when that happened.

Rose woke up in a cold sweat. It had been nearly a month since she had seen Scorpius outside of the restaurant, and she couldn't stop thinking about how they had come to break up. The dream came floating back to her, and she nearly began sobbing. Taking several deep, calming breaths, she got up and went towards the bathroom, trying to avoid looking at the toilet, where months before she had spent most days throwing up.

By the time she was at work, Rose looked better, but on the inside she felt as though she was falling apart. Halfway through the day she received a paper aeroplane from the main office letting her know that she was to give a tour of the building to an auror and his trainee.

At the appointed time, Rose went down to the entrance of St Mungo's to meet the auror. She was at the door to the waiting room when she stopped dead in her tracks. Sitting to one side of the room was none other than Scorpius Malfoy. Forcing her grimace into a smile she pretended she hadn't seen him and walked to the front desk.

"So who is the lucky person I get to show around?" Rose was forcing herself to be cheery, even though she new the disguise wouldn't work on her friend.

"I'm afraid it's exactly who you think it is, Rose. He told me that was why he was here, and didn't even ask who would be showing him around. Very professional." Lily Potter was only a year younger than Rose, so they were good friends.

"Thanks Lil, wish me luck though. If I get through this alive then all those hours of tutoring Al must finally be paying off." Lily grinned as Rose turned away towards the tall, blonde and all too familiar man sitting to the side of the room. "Scorpius. When did you become an auror?"

At the sound of his name, he turned around and flashed a hopeful smile at Rose. Her face remained impassive while her mind flew back to her dream and before that to seeing him outside the restaurant with Tom. He had changed since then. He was clean shaven and his hair had gotten back its usual perfect mess. The circles under his eyes were less prominent as well, although she could still tell that they were there, and he was still too thin.

In the moments it took for Rose to asses him, Scorpius had gotten the man next to him and they both stood to face her.

"You must be our lovely guide, Ms..." The other man left his sentence hanging, and Rose supplied an answer quickly.

"Weasley, Rose Weasley. And you are?"

"I'm sorry, how rude of me. My name is James Turner. I moved here from Canada not too long ago, and I have been lucky enough to find a job in the auror department. It seems that you already know my trainee: Mr. Malfoy." Rose noted that James had a pleasant tone to accompany his good looks. Thoughts of Tom barely entered her mind before Rose was smiling brilliantly back at him.

"You must tell me all about Canada at some point! I have always wanted to go–" Rose was cut of by Scorpius' short laugh.

"No you haven't, Rose. You hate the cold. You have always wished to go to Cuba for its constant heat!" Rose could hear the jealousy slipping into Scorpius' voice, so she happily persisted.

"Mr. Malfoy, I believe you are mistaken. Maybe you thought that I would like to visit Cuba, but I didn't tell you everything." Rose forced her tone to be cold and harsh, despite the blatant lie.

"You're right about that, Rose. If you had told me everything then maybe we could have sorted everything out before it fell apart, before you walked away. Now, would you care to show us around and do your job. You see, I am trying to get a job, and I need this to make sure that I can pass my final exam."

"You don't even have a job! I'm not ready for this, Score. You aren't ready for this. We aren't ready. So what the hell are we doing? I'm out, I'm sorry but I can't do this." Rose was shouting down at him as she felt tears well up in her eyes.

"I can get a job! And whatever you say, I think you're ready. You are the most caring, giving person I know! We could do this, Rose. We could. I wouldn't have proposed if I didn't think we were, if I didn't want this with my whole heart!" He was down on one knee, looking up at her, begging her to marry him. He had never thought it would turn out this way.

"Ms Weasley, are you alright? You've gotten rather pale." Rose felt a comforting arm around her waist and turned her head to see James looking down at her, concerned.

"Please, call me Rose. And yes, not to worry, I was merely lost in thought." Rose didn't even glance at Scorpius as she spoke.

After making her take several deep breaths, James seemed convinced that she would be alright, and he allowed her to lead the tour, keeping close by her side the entire time. Their flirty looks and small smiles would be enough to enrage Scorpius, but he seemed to be able to keep his mouth shut for once.

It was only when the tour ended, and James had left, giving Rose a brief hug before he went, that Scorpius spoke.

"Rose, I'm trying. Can't you see I'm trying. I write my final exam soon, they managed to put me through a fast track course because of my resume. But I did it, Rose. That was one of your reasons. Can't you see that I can do this, that we can do this?" Scorpius felt the begging creeping back into his voice and he cursed himself silently.

"Scorpius, we are over. Whatever we had is gone. I have Tom now. I have a new start." Rose tried to spell it out for him, knowing inside that she was hurting him, but needing to keep herself in line so that she didn't burst into tears.

"If you have Tom, then why were you flirting shamelessly with James. If you are over me, why were you trying to make me jealous. Tell me that Tom can make you feel how I made you feel, how I still make you feel. If you can tell me that, then we are over."

Rose stood staring at him. Tom could never make her feel how Scorpius had, how Scorpius did make her feel. It seemed that she had stood there for too long. "See, you still have feelings for me. Not only that but you will never forget why we broke up. There is no way that you can. I can't and I never even saw–"

Rose cut him off harshly, "I'm sorry, Mr Malfoy, I have to leave now, I told my boyfriend that I would meet him soon."

"Does Tom know why we broke up? Does he know the truth?"

"I have to go, Malfoy." And with that Rose turned and went back into the building, leaving Scorpius shouting in the street. Of course Tom didn't know why they had broken up. It had been hard enough to tell Scorpius, there was no way that she was telling her new boyfriend the truth about her most recent break up.


AN - Not so sure how I feel about this chapter. If anyone likes it, let me know! If you have any ideas for improvement.. let me know! Either way.. let me know :)

The next chapter should be up soon :)