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Scorpius couldn't believe his eyes. Finnigan? Rose was with Finnigan?!

Finnigan seemed to have noticed who the man was, and upon realizing it was Scorpius, stood up straighter, but kept his arms around Rose's stomach. "Malfoy," he acknowledged with a curt nod of his head. "Sorry, mate," he said smiling sheepishly. "You know how it is with the birds." He smirked.

The bloody arse smirked! "There's no sorry about it," Scorpius muttered just as his fist connected with Finnigan's face, a broken nose for sure. Finnigan released Rose and stumbled backwards, blood dripping onto the carpet as he made no move to clean his nose. He was going to hit Scorpius back.

Rose was in shock. She had gasped when Scorpius hit Finnigan, but couldn't help the bit of smugness that crept into her system. Scorpius was fighting for her. Not that she wanted him, or anything.

Rose was snapped back to reality when she saw a fist come flying from Finnigan, aimed at Scorpius. Time seemed to slow down here. Rose had a very important decision. Let Finnigan, her 'boyfriend' punch Scorpius back or stop this fight, send Finnigan home, and yell at Scorpius for ruining everything.

"Stop!" She ordered, throwing herself in the middle of the men, arms extended towards their chests.

Rose forgot one thing.

Finnigan was punching.

She remembered when she felt her lip bust and her cheek throbbing with pain as the force of the punch knocked her to the ground.

Scorpius was like a firecracker that had just been lit. He went to hit Finnigan again, but Fin had ducked to check on Rose.

"I'm sorry, baby. Oh, Merlin, I'm so sorry," Finnigan said, frantically pulling Rose to her feet.

"Get away from her!" Scorpius bellowed, stepping closer to the pair.

Rose reached out, and Scorpius thought she was reaching for him. But she wasn't. Soon her hand whipped across his face, a red hand print adorning his pale cheek. "Get the hell out of my house," Rose hissed, wiping the blood off her stinging busted lip.

Scorpius seemed to fail when Rose was so angry that she wanted him gone. "Rosie, I'm sorry."

"You always say that," she said glaring at him.

"Please, Rose. I didn't mean for this to happen-"

Finnigan snorted. "The chick said to leave," he told Scorpius, smirking as he rested his hands on Rose's hips.

She pulled away and slapped Finnigan across the cheek, although not as hard as she had for Scorpius. "Get out. Both of you," Rose ordered pointing to the door. She picked up the clothes that had been discarded in the living room and threw them at Fin. "I never want to see you two again. You're bloody arses! And I am not a 'chick' or a 'bird'!" She hissed at Finnigan as he sullenly left her apartment.

Scorpius pulled out his wand and muttered a healing charm on Rose's lip and cheek, but it didn't seem to help much. "I hate you, Scorpius Malfoy! You've ruined my life!" Rose yelled, tears streaming down her cheeks. She took one last glance at Scorpius before running back to her bedroom and slamming the door behind her. She couldn't find many words to be angry at Scorpius about.

Hands down, Finnigan was a mistake. And Rose was thankful for Scorpius' little interruption because, thinking back to half an hour ago, Rose did not want to give herself to Finnigan. And Scorpius was fighting for her. How could she have not seen it before?

Scorpius opened her bedroom door to find her sobbing on her bed. He sighed. "Rose," he began softly, moving to the bed. "You make me crazy," he admitted, thankful she wasn't looking to see the slight blush on his cheeks. He sat on the edge of the bed, relieved when she didn't pull away as he began stroking her hair.

Her silence told him to continue. "I hate Finnigan. I watched him prattle around Hogwarts like he was a hot shot. I watched him stare at you. I heard him talking about what he wanted to do with you." He sighed and rubbed his stinging cheek. "I don't know what you see him."

Rose sighed and rolled over. "What do I see in you, then? You're a bloody overprotective, possessive prat."

Scorpius smirked. "I really am sorry."

"I know," Rose sighed sitting up. "And…thanks," she mumbled, blushing. "I don't know why I ran back to him. I didn't want to shag him in school and I don't want to shag him now." Rose bit her lip, contemplating something in her mind. With much hesitation, she wrapped her arms around Scorpius' torso and hugged him, burying her head in his chest.

Scorpius smiled and ran one hand through her hair, the other stroking her side. "I'm sorry," he heard her say, her voice muffled by his chest. He couldn't possibly fathom what she was sorry about, but he went with it. "It's okay, Rosie," he whispered, kissing the top of her head lightly.

Scorpius released Rose and stood up. "I should go now," he told her, looking to the door.

Confusion flashed across her face. "Why?" Rose asked, standing up in front of him. "I-I want you to stay with me."

Scorpius arched his eyebrows. "Okay," he agreed, smirking. "Why?"

Rose smiled and wrapped her arms back around Scorpius. "You were gone for four years, you some back, we fight, we have sex, we fight, two weeks later we fight again. I've missed you," she admitted, tightening her arms around his waist.

Scorpius sighed and gently pushed Rose away, her eyes large with questions. "I've missed you too, Rose, but I don't think we can go back to being just friends. Too much has happened."

"What?" Rose felt a tear slide down her face. Scorpius kept telling himself that this was what Rose wanted. To be away from him. "Are you…breaking up with me?" she croaked out, her voice thick with tears. She knew they weren't dating, but it was the only way she could describe the tearing she felt in her heart.

"Yes," was his reply.

Rose choked out a sob before brushing past Scorpius and running into her bathroom.

He didn't hold her hair for her while she emptied the contents of her stomach into the toilet.

He left.

a/n: dun, dun, dun! What's going to happen now? Gasp! You have to wait to see! But heads up: next chapter there is going to be a HUGE time skip.