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The Extra Ones.

Blurb …

It may have taken Rose and Scorpius ages to get anything right, but there are unfinished stories to attend to … :ScorpiusRose companion piece to 'Getting it Right' you do need to have read that first postDH NextGen:

Note: This moment takes place during the events of 'The Bickering One'. It is from Lily's POV!

CHAPTER SIX: You Bloody Well Smile, Rosie.

How long have I been waiting for this day? This day, today - the day Hogwarts complains and swears, as they are forced to hand over the money they never thought they'd have to pay?

It must've been since Second Year at the least!

"Lily Potter, I refuse to pay you," Georgie Benjy said, folding her arms stubbornly as I rolled my eyes. "There's no possible way. At all."

"And yet, my wonderful and amazing cousin is in fact going out with Scorpius Malfoy." I said, grinning.

Most of the names written down in what Kitty liked to call my 'Bet Book' hadn't taken the recent news of Rosie and Malfoy very well. Considering that all now owed me money that was to be expected - no one likes to lose a bet. No, what actually shocked me was how determined they were to convince themselves that I was making it up to get my winnings! I wouldn't be that cruel …

Well true I was willing to give Rosie a subtle poke in the right direction, or even a good hard shove, but Merlin knows she needed it.

"Lily, you must be mistaken somehow," Georgie insisted, now rather desperately. She owed me 21 Galleons and 12 Sickles and I was pretty sure she didn't have that many coins in her pockets. "I mean, for Merlin's sake, Rose Weasley hates Malfoy!"

"Oh Georgie, Georgie, Georgie," I said, placing an arm around my rather unfortunate friend. "She never hated him. Trust me, he is irritating, conceited, way too bloody full of himself and Merlin knows what she sees in him, but the fact remains that my cousin is in love with Malfoy, which means you have to pay up!"

Grumbling and groaning, Georgie starting rooting in her pockets for coins.

Rosie and Malfoy had given the performance of the century yesterday in the Entrance Hall. It was so bloody amazing, it was probably enough to rival Shakeswotzit himself. Today was only the first official day of them going out, yet the whole castle seemed to already know about them and of all the money I was now owed.

I was going to be as rich as hell!

"Lily Potter!" A loud voice rang through the corridor only a few minutes after Georgie left. I didn't even need to turn to know who it was- I had recognised my eldest brothers' yell years ago and it was starting to become a tradition of hearing it recently. My full name was making a comeback as well.

"Yes, oh dear brother?" I asked politely, spinning around to face a rather angry James.

"Lily, you've got to be kidding me!" He yelled, shoving my shoulder. "Rosie and Malfoy? She's in on this, isn't she? They can't possibly be together?"

"They are, James," I said, shrugging. He'll get over his bruised ego eventually. "And if you watch them for just a few seconds, you'll see that they really do love each other. You saw their epic performance yesterday."

"I like to think of it more as a Confrontation," James seethed. "It was obviously stage or something - it must've been!"

"It 'mustn't' have been anything," I said seriously. "I saw them coming, and you didn't. Simply, really. You're the one making a big deal out of this."

James only scoffed at me. "But hell Lily, this is a big deal!" He yelled, causing a few people to stare. "D'you realise Uncle Ron is going to go completely off his nut? Probably Auntie Hermione too! Crap, Rosie's going to be murdered when this gets around …"

"Funny, just a few seconds ago you were saying this was all set up."

It's sometimes funny to be the one person who can make James Potter falter. This is brilliant! "I wasn't - ugh! I hate having you as my sister sometimes …"

"Because I'm so perceptive, and you know it." I said, grinning. James only rolled his eyes.

"Honestly LL, how the hell did you see this one?" He asked, still grumpy at being on the wrong side of a bet. "Rosie and Scorpius Malfoy … there's never been a weirder match, other than that ex-boyfriend of hers and that Harley girl from Slytherin …"

"I dunno," I answered truthfully. "To be honest, I think it was just the way they acted towards each other."

"But they scream at each other, LL …"

I sighed. "Not as in the things they would say, James," I told him. "But how they would say them … the way they acted, the way they touched or worked together, practically everything." I never bothered to explain all this normally, because no one cared to know how I saw it. Out of all the Potter's, I'd always been the one to notice things. My Mum seems to think I get it off her side of the family, but I like to think I got it from Dad - as Head Auror at the Ministry, he's constantly looking for clues in cases and stuff of the like.

"Merlin, LL," my brother said, shaking his head. "I don't believe this - I don't owe you that much, right? Only about … ten Galleons, right?"

I only smirked at him and showed him my Bet Book. "I believe that's your name and the number thirty six Galleons and 15 Sickles next to it, dear brother!"

James groaned. "For Merlin's sake, d'you know how long it's going to take me to rustle up that muc-? Holy crap!" He broke off in a gasp, staring behind me down the bustling corridor. "Look at them!"

I spun around to see the couple in question wandering against the tide of students. It was lunch time and most of the students were making their way towards the Great Hall and food. Rosie and Malfoy, however were simply walking and holding hands, laughing and talking. I beamed every time I saw them, but I immediately knew why James gasped.

It was Rosie's smile - it was so bloody different to how she had smiled in the past. Rosie's always been pretty, even if she doesn't think so herself and her smile's had always made the people around her smile. But the grin on her face now was so absolute, you could practically feel the corridor light up. She was a completely different person - she looked so much happier and I knew it was because she'd finally gotten it right.

"She looks like someone's forced her head into a whole lot of happy," James said, still slightly shocked at his cousins' face. "Either that, or she got in the way of a very strong cheering charm."

"Trust me," I said. "She's just really happy."

You bloody well smile, Rosie. You deserve it.

We watched as she laughed, her face stretching wide. Malfoy raised their joined hands to wrap his arm around her and Rosie automatically leaned into him. They were practically made for each other - and I had helped her get that.

I was so bloody proud of her.

"So does anyone want to bet against me now?" I asked at large, laughing to myself - bring on the cash!

A/N: I had to wake up at eight o'clock on a Saturday morning in order to update this on time. I had to clean my bedroom, get dressed and fed, feed my rabbit, read to my sister and update this story all before ten am! At ten, i have a school meeting until five, which i have to leave early in order to make it to a choir concert which'll go to about seven ... and i have to go shopping for clothes, because God knows i need some.

So you're lucky you get an update.

But either way, i have to admit i really love this chapter. I never realised how much fun Lily is to write in 1st person! She's such a happy person, and i may have to write about her more often.

I hope you all liked this one - thank you so much for all your amazing reviews! Keep them coming!

Until next time-

-Moon. : D