Discalimer: I'm me and not you nor them. I own nothing but the plot.
WARNING! Long chapter ahead! Sorry, I just didn't know where to split it!
"A-Albus" Rose stammered, taken aback at her cousins demeanour.
"I knew this would happen. All night, I stayed up waiting for you, knowing you just couldn't do what you're told" Albus sighed wearily.
"Albus, let me go." Rose murmured, her voice barely audible.
"No. Not un-" Albus was cut off by a dark shape emerging from behind a couch and tackling him to the floor. There he was pinned, and his every attempt to get away stopped quickly.
"James, let me go." Albus mumured, his voice barely audible.
"Nope" James said triumphantly
"Rose! Tell him to get off me!" Albus whined.
"Do you really think I would go into the snake pit in the middle of the night without back up?" Rose laughed. Albus gaped, looking from one relative to the other. Rose turned to James and frowned.
"What took you so long?" she demanded
"I wanted to see how far he'd go." James replied, grinning cheekily. Rose rolled her eyes.
"Okay, you can get off him now." Rose told him, "We need to get Scorpius too, remember?" James rolled his eyes.
"Fine." James sulked, rolling off his brother and getting up. He quickly grabbed his arm and, upon Albus' questioning look, stated "Just in case"
With that, the three of them marched up the stairs, Albus leading the way.
They walked down a dim hallway with doors on either side, and stopped in front of the third door on the left. Slowly, Albus pushed open the door and stuck his head inside. James resisted the urge to close the door. After a quick scan off the room, Albus noted that everyone was asleep and opened the door wider to let the other two in after him.
The room was decked in furniture in many shades of green and silver, though they couldn't see them as clearly as they would have with a torch. They could see six beds with the outlines of sleeping fifth years in five of them. There was a door on the left and a small dresser next to each bed, as well as a trunk at the end of them. There were a few chairs scattered about the room. James fell into one of them and Rose followed his lead, though sitting more gently.
Rose and James sat and watched as Albus put up silencing charms around his bed and nudged a gently snoring Scorpius on the shoulder.
"Hahwha huh huh" Scorpius grumbled incoherently as he groggily rubbed his eyes in the dark. Rose watched as his eyes skimmed over her blearily, then did a double take a he recognised her.
"Wait, what?" Scorpius yelled in a panic, "What are they doing here?"
"They decided that it would be a good idea to sneak in with a time turner in the middle of the night" Albus explained, obviously exasperated at them.
"We can hear you, you know" James laughed lazily. Scorpius looked back and forth between the two. He was not a morning person and could not, for the life of him, figure out what was going on. Albus, on the other hand, hadn't slept all night waiting for Rose to sneak in and had no patience to wait for Scorpius to wake up.
"Rose told James about the time turner and they came here because they want us to teach them how to use it. Right?" Albus asked.
"Bingo! I have such a smart little brother!" James jeered. Said brother glared at him. That said, it was quiet for a while, until Rose could bare it no more.
"Well? How did you do it?" she snapped.
"Umm... we just tu-" Scorpius' explanation was cut off
"NO! Don't tell them you idiot!" Albus yelled, appaled
"What?" Scorpius asked, still not fully awake
"Do you even remember what happened last time?" Albus snapped
"Right." Scorpius stated, finally catching on
Silence
"So what now?" Scorpius asked no one in particular
"You'll tell us how to use the time turner." James stated matter-of-factly
"No we won't. You can't make us." Albus cried indignantly
"Yes you will" Rose murmured, staring straight at Scorpius, who gulped in response.
"Wh-What?" Scorpius stuttered nervously, his mind still foggy from sleeping. Rose stood up and walked towards his bed and sat down. She leaned close and whispered in his ear,
"Because if you don't..." she murmured, pausing to look at Scorpius' face which told her he was positively alarmed, "then I will never even look at you again."
Scorpius felt his throat go dry. He gulped and turned to look at her and found her face to be dead serious. Albus had been watching him closely and when he saw his reaction, he realized what had just happened.
"No Scorpius! Don't d-" Albus was cut off by his brother shooting a stunner at him. Scorpius watched with wide eyes as Albus fell to the floor.
"Now," Rose murmured, reverting his attention back to her, "tell me"
A/N: This was an awesome chapter and I'm sorry I had to cut it off there. I am also extremely happy about my reviews. Really, you have no idea. This whole week I'd just think about the reviews and randomly start smiling. Please review and leave me some tips on how I could improve! :D
