After finishing his breakfast Scorpius walked back to his dormitory to collect his bag and books for the coming day. He considered the new ideas he had to woo the lovely, sweet, kind and modest Rose Weasley. He knew he didn't deserve her when he reflected on his past behaviour!
He arrived early at their joint Ravenclaw/Slytherin double period History of Magic class just in case she decided to sneak in early. She arrived late but he had planned for that and Scorpius had made sure the only seat available was next to him nearer to the back of the class.
Scorpius couldn't help it he just had to pat the chair and beckon her over as she turned to see the only chair was next to him and then smirk at his excellent manipulation skills to get her right beside him!
Unfortunately for him Rose saw that smirk she detested so much and promptly fixed him with her death-glare and surreptitiously mimed out her quill going into his eye. He sobered somewhat and fixed his eyes on the parchment in front of him deciding he had better watch himself.
He tried to get her attention several times "Rose…. Rose, please just a minute of your time after class…" but she stayed firmly fixed on Professor Hulberts droning voice, ignoring him.
Ordinarily he would make some sarcastic comments or make her quills float out of her reach or, the best one ever, was to make the buttons on her blouse fly across to him. Who would have thought a simple "Accio Rose Weasley blouse buttons" would have such a wonderful result… all that creamy soft skin and a pale pink lacy bra. Scorpius shifted uncomfortably in his chair as he felt the effects that memory was having on his body.
He decided it was time to carry out Phase Two of "Woo Rose Weasley". Scorpius took his time to write his apologies down on the parchment in front of him. Asking for her forgiveness and would she consider a proper apology over a Butterbeer at the next Hogsmeade trip… his treat! Once finished he flicked his wand and the parchment floated gracefully over to the desk of Rose Weasley promptly dropping itself right over the top of her own parchment.
She huffed in annoyance and picked the parchment up to throw it back at him, but as she turned to Scorpius, Professor Hulbert appeared beside her and deftly plucked the parchment out of her hands. Rose and Scorpius's eyes locked on each other for a brief moment as Professor Hulbert read out some of the contents of that very private letter to the entire class.
Laughter erupted from both sides. Scorpius decided that everyone was going to know soon enough so he just shrugged and grinned but Rose – Rose was mortified! She hated being the centre of attention and she could feel the heat rising up her body and into her face as the sheer embarrassment of the situation hit her. Malfoy just loved being the centre of attention and he seemed hell bent on dragging her into it.
Professor Hulbert held up his hands to quiet the now rowdy students "Silence class!" He turned to address Scorpius. "Now Mr Malfoy this class is History of Magic and as such is not a place to pen down love letters to some poor unfortunate recipient." Rose had to snigger at that one and Scorpius at least had the decency to look a little shamefaced.
The Professor continued "Detention for you Mr Malfoy, here, after dinner and perhaps you will be able to focus on History for the remaining time?" Scorpius grumbled a little but nodded his head and fixed his eyes on the upside down text book in front of him not really looking at it.
Professor Hulbert then turned to Rose and as he handed her the parchment he said quietly "It seems you have quite an admirer?" Rose made a small noise a bit like a croak, took the parchment and stuffed it in her bag, still red in the cheeks from that little episode.
As the Professor passed back past Scorpius's desk he turned the upside down text book the right way up and said "It helps if the book is up the right way Mr Malfoy." Scorpius grimaced and Rose couldn't help but laugh a little at his expression. It was at that moment that he turned to look at her, a smile on his own face. She too was smiling her blue eyes twinkling in amusement, her mouth turned up in a small smile and her cheeks still flushed. When she looked like that and at him – he felt his heart thump in his chest and his body surge… he so desperately wanted all of it… all of her! Then it was gone as she turned away and refocused on her text book.
He sighed in disappointment as the moment was all too brief but it gave him some small amount of hope.
After class he tried to catch her but she very quickly disappeared in the sea of red and occasional black head of her cousins.
All the rest of his classes dragged on and couldn't finish soon enough. He wondered if Rose would read his letter and what her reaction might be. During the next period he planned Phase Three of "Woo Rose Weasley" and ditched the last class to sneak out on his broom to make a couple of special purchases.
He managed to get back into Hogwarts undetected through the secret passages his father had told him about and get to dinner in reasonable time. Rose wasn't there again and he was quite concerned about her absences from mealtimes. Unfortunately he had to go to detention straight after dinner and that meant he couldn't see if she was in the Library or not. Probably not though, he thought, given the "avoid Malfoy at all costs" tactic she had adopted recently. After detention he raced back to his dorm to the privacy of his bedroom so that he could send his gift to her.
Rose wasn't in the Library, she was sitting on her bed re-reading his letter for the millionth time, trying to process it and wondering if it was some spiteful Malfoy trick. She had asked one of the girls to bring some food up for her because she just wanted some quiet time to think.
The letter certainly seemed sincere and his actions over these several weeks had been quite different from what normally occurred. He hadn't teased or harassed her, he called her Rose (not Weasley, Weasel, Red, Bookworm, Library-dork… and so on) and he had said sorry! Several times in fact... it was all so strange. What did he want? There was no way that he could fancy her… could he? The thought made her stomach turn flips and not in an unpleasant way.
Yes, she grudgingly admitted, he was very attractive with his tall toned Quidditch body, platinum blonde hair that fell sexily over his grey eyes and he certainly didn't want for admirers. Lots of girls flirted in front of him but she thought of those times and he pretty much ignored them and seemed only interested in seeking her out to tease and taunt. Rose rubbed her temples – her head was beginning to thump with the start of a headache. What in Godric's name did it all mean!
An early night was what she needed so she headed to the bathroom to have a shower, brush her teeth and head back to her room to change into her pale pink baby doll nighty with matching underwear. Rose loved everything feminine especially lingerie and nighties – she supposes it was because someone thought she was a boy once when she was eleven.
As she turned back the covers on her bed she heard a tapping at the window. She smiled it was probably her Dads owl – he always sent letters at all sorts of odd times because of the strange hours he worked as an Auror. Without hesitation she flung open the windows to find Scorpius Malfoy hovering on his broom in front of her.
He stared and looked her up and down – his eyes raking over her body. His breath came out in a whoosh and he nearly tipped himself off his broom "Fuck Rose… I mean… just… wow!"
She was frozen, rooted to the spot then her limbs jerked into action as she made a strangled noise and dived head first under her covers yanking the blankets up to her chin. This unfortunate action gave Scorpius the perfect view of her arse which nearly tipped him off his broom again and he clutched desperately at the window sill, hoisting himself in through the window landing deftly on the floor in her room.
"Malfoy! What the hell… girls dorm… aahh!" Rose was speechless and couldn't make a coherent thought.
"Sorry Rose! I didn't think… I mean I did… I mean I have fantasized about this, sure… but I didn't… sorry…" he trailed off and gave her an apologetic look raking his hand through his hair messing it up and effectively making himself look very sexy at that moment. Especially as he had on a dark blue polo shirt which meant she could clearly see his muscular arms and the outline of his toned chest and a pair of blue jeans that of course highlighted his backside so that it looked so fine.
Rose mentally slapped herself for those thoughts and continued to glare at him. "Why in Merlin's name are you here?" She demanded feeling the heat flush up in her cheeks and her body go really, really warm when she suddenly realized that he had let it slip that she had been the subject of one of his fantasies.
Malfoy shook himself out of the fantasy that suddenly popped into his head of pulling the blankets off her, pinning her to the bed and kissing her senseless. He was glad he was wearing jeans as his traitorous body started to react to those thoughts.
"Look Rose, I just wanted to give you something and then I'll leave ok?" He rushed out. She nodded skeptically and gave him a wary look.
Charmed to his broom was a large sized package which he removed and moved closer to the bed to hand it to her. She took it cautiously not sure if it was going to explode goo all over her or something but deciding to give him the benefit of the doubt.
"I'll go now." He said moving towards the window. "No!" Rose said. She flushed and said more quietly "Stay until I've opened it." She patted the bed beside her - if was indeed a trick he would not want to stay and certainly not want to come closer and then she would know it.
To her surprise he said "Oh…all right then." And he sat on her bed with really not too much distance between them – or so she thought having never really been in this situation before.
Having him so near, in her bedroom, in her nighty, at night, sitting on her bed, looking so sexy made Rose feel like the room was just a tad too small for both him and her.
With nervous hands she opened the package and as the lid fell open a beautiful white rabbit poked his head out from the box and sniffed the air. "Ohhh…!" she was speechless. She loved rabbits! She had always desperately wanted one even as a child but was never allowed one – how did he know?
He relaxed somewhat when he saw her reaction as she scooped up the rabbit and cuddled and petted him, crooning soft words to him. He smiled at her response and could imagine her with their babies crooning and cuddling them. He felt pretty confident that together they would have lots of babies, what with those Weasley rabbit genes! He smiled even broader at the analogy in front of him.
The Malfoy gene pool needed a good dose of Weasley to ensure the name lived on. Having only one child was not ideal if you wanted to continue your family name – what if they didn't have children, then the line would die out, forever.
He spoke first "Yeah I overheard you talking to Albus once back in third year, I think, sometime after Christmas. You were really upset because you really wanted a rabbit for Christmas and had been asking for one for years and you didn't get one."
He smiled at her – a real genuine open I really think you are special smile. "I hope you don't mind – he's house trained so you don't need to worry. He doesn't have a name – that's up to you to choose."
She cuddle the rabbit once more then placed him gently back in the box and moved him to the side. She turned to Scorpius and gave him a soft, shy look that sent his heart into overdrive. "Scorpius, I don't know what to say…thank you… he really is a lovely gift, he's gorgeous." She paused and looked directly into his eyes "Why Scorpius? What are you trying to say to me?" She whispered.
He looked down at her hands that he wanted to desperately hold, then back into her beautiful eyes and knew this was the moment that he put everything on the line for.
"Rose… did you read my letter?" He asked her. She nodded and he continued "I am truly being sincere when I say I am sorry for the way I have acted over the years – I have been the biggest idiot in Hogwarts. The reason I'm asking for your forgiveness is because… well err... because well ahh… I love you Rose Weasley."
He paused for a brief moment taking in her expression which was pure shock and he could see her brain was thinking a million thoughts a second. He decided he had started now so there was no holding back and he continued on letting her know his jealousy of other boys interested in her, that he had loved her since third year and he hoped she would give him a chance.
"I'm truly sorry – I was an immature git just trying to get your attention, and…mmm." He was cut off by Rose Weasley throwing herself into his arms and fully kissing him on his lips. The feelings, the emotions, the fire that burned through his body were like all his fantasies had come at once! He responded immediately and promptly pinned her small body to the bed underneath his and kissed her senseless.
All his senses were dizzy with the feel, sound, smell and sight of her flushed and trembling in his arms, moaning softly as he licked and sucked on her neck and ran his hands through her hair and over her soft body. Merlin's balls he was such an idiot all the years wasted and he could have had this!
She pulled away first whispering huskily that if they were caught in this very compromising position they would be in serious trouble.
Scorpius groaned and mumbled "Who gives a stuff, I'd gladly serve detentions for the rest of my life – I don't wanna go." And he kissed her again. After some time and some persuading from Rose that, yes, they would be able to do this again he relented and push himself up off the bed and off her to stand up and pick up his broom. But when he looked down at a fully aroused Rose in her pale pink nighty all messy hair, swollen lips, flushed and sexy lying on her bed, he threw his broom down, pinned her back down onto the bed, again, and attacked her lips with fervor, again.
Eventually, she managed to convince him, again, that he needed to go but this time she wrapped the blankets around her so he wouldn't weaken.
He sighed, gave her a long kiss goodnight at the window and flew in a delirious haze to his dorm room tumbling into his bed and into a delicious dreamland, secure in the knowledge that the lovely Rose Weasley was all his.
The next morning he bolted up from bed threw his clothes on, making sure his hair was done this time – although he loved the idea of Rose, ahem, messing it up soon and he headed off to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Sure enough she was there and conveniently she was sitting with Albus at the Slytherin table – which in itself gained a few suspicious stares and whispers as she had not sat there for years. He smirked as he thought about the reactions that were about to break out when he kissed his girlfriend. He knew she hated to be the centre of attention but, hey, he wanted the whole bloody world to know they were together, what better way than a morning kiss!
He strode up to Rose, briefly acknowledging Albus, and the whole hall held it's breath as Rose Weasley stood up to face Scorpius Malfoy. "Morning Scorpius" she smiled "Morning Rose" he smiled and to his surprise she said "Where's my morning kiss then hmm?" That was all he needed as he grabbed her, sealed her to his chest and kissed her soundly on the mouth.
Albus ignored them as he calmly continued to eat his porridge but the rest of the hall was in absolute pandemonium. Cheers, shouts, whistles, clapping and gossiping chatter erupted in the normally uneventful Hall.
Just as Scorpius broke away from the kiss a loud explosive bang was heard above the students and every eye looked up to see what appeared to be a large fireworks explosion. Sparkles and glitter fluttered around and shimmering words appeared above the students and professors heads "Scorpius Malfoy loves Rose Weasley". Rose turned to Scorpius – he looked down at her, shrugged his shoulders and said "That was Phase Four of "Woo Rose Weasley"". She smiled and they walked out of the Great Hall together, hands linked together.
As they were leaving Rose turned to him and said "I've thought of a name for my Rabbit." "Yeah – what is it?" he asked pulling her along to an empty classroom he knew about. She gave him a knowing smile "Yeah – very cute name - more of a bear name but I like it… Mr Tibbs… what do you think?" He gave her a sideways look and quirked his eyebrow "You are so going to pay for that Miss Weasley." He laughed then he bent down picked her up over his shoulder as she squeaked in surprise and he ran to the empty classroom.