DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN JK ROWLING'S CHARACTERS. JUST MY OWN.
You have got to be kidding me!
Rose Weasley's body clock woke her before that actual one. She was in an unfamiliar bed, with arms wrapped around her. For a moment, she stiffened, wondering who would have their arms around her, and for a better reason, why.
She tried moving but the arms, tightened around her. Panicking she struggled to move. To no avail. She was about to let out a scream, when a voice whispered in her ear. "Relax, Rose! It's me, Albus!"
Rose widened her eyes slightly, and was finally able to turn around, as Albus released the death grip around her torso.
"Albus?" she questioned, and then really took in her surroundings. Everywhere there was green and silver. She must be in the Slytherin Dorm room. Her eyes focused slowly on the bed next to Albus'. Scorpius. She shivered inwardly, remembering the night before, and how she had ran out on Scorpius, and the look on his face when she had denied him. She tore her gaze away, wondering how she got there.
"Why am I here, Albus?" She asked him curiously, she was in the boys' dorms, after all.
Albus hesitated for a minute, and Rose's suspicions immediately aroused.
"What happened, Albus, tell me!"
"Well…"Albus hesitated again. "What do you remember?"
Rose blushed scarlet and turned away from her cousin.
"I er…may have perhaps made out with my ex best friend?" She mumbled it, as if a question. But her flushed cheeks told Albus the truth he already knew.
"I see" Albus dead-panned.
Rose nodded reluctantly.
"And what, may I ask, happened after you made out with your erm, ex best friend" he responded his eye brows raised skeptically.
Rose was whispering now. "I came to my senses and ran the hell out of there?"
Albus sighed, he was right in the middle of this, he hated when that happened. But this was his best friend, and cousin…helping her figure herself out was definitely important.
"Why did you run out on him Rosie?" Albus asked her tentatively.
"I-because I have a boyfriend!" She responded brusquely. But the uncertainty in her voice was obvious.
"You're not sure, Rosie?" Albus inquired curiously. Maybe Malfoy had a chance, after all.
Rose shook her head, "I'm not sure of anything, anymore"
"Ah," Was all Albus said.
Rose looked at him beseechingly. "What am I supposed to do? When I kissed Scorpius…it felt right! And that terrifies me more than a failing grade!"
Albus gasped dramatically. "Really now"
Rose nodded again, her lips in a tight line.
"Maybe I should talk to Callum?" Rose asked Albus her voice shaky.
"Do you love him Rose?" Albus queried, watching Rose's response carefully.
"Scorpius?" her voice squeaked, her cheeks blushing red like the tips of her hair, and her breath hitched.
Albus could barely contain a smile, "No, Rosie, Callum, do you love Callum."
Rose didn't answer for a long time. She stared into the distance contemplating Albus' question. In all honesty, she didn't know. Yes, they shared sweet kisses, and spoke sometimes, giving and receiving romantic comments… but was that love? She remembered clearly the first time she told Callum she loved him. Right after her fall out with Scorpius. Scorpius had hurt her so bad then. She remembered the look in his eyes, hatred, loss, and sadness. Why would he be sad?
Then she remembered their truth or dare game. Scorpius was in love with her, Scorpius needed her, Scorpius had kissed her. Scorpius had practically begged her not to leave him there…and yet, she had. She left him there, and then cried and cried.
Her eyes watered now, as she remembered the look in Scorpius' eyes. She had hurt him, and bad.
"Albus?" Rose mumbled softly. "I don't know what to do….I can't love Scorpius! It's just wrong! I don't know why…we were best friends for years, and I miss him so much…but….I….Callum and I are dating now, I can't just dump him and try to be with Scorpius, besides, I can't be with Scorpius!"
Albus watched his cousin as she mumbled and tortured herself over what he considered obvious. Apparently, his two best friends had fallen for each other… Scorpius knew this already, but Rose…? Rose would take awhile to put two and two together.
Scorpius lay awake silently, keeping his eyes closed. His heart however, pounded beneath his ribs. Rose was talking to Albus, and the strain in her voice made his heart ache. He loved her so much, but she seemed adamant on not being with him.
He regretted his promise to Albus the night before, that he would stay away from bothering Rose any further, but maybe just friends? His heart shattered further at the thought. It wasn't even about getting a lay. He wanted to be with her, spend the rest of his life with her…he was still young, but he couldn't see himself falling in love with anyone else.
Rose left the dorm room not long after that, with a promise to talk to Callum. He hoped he dumped her, he wished that Finnigan would find someone else he found more attractive than Rose, but Scorpius highly doubted it. Rose was, after all, the hottest, most beautiful girl in all of Hogwarts.
He stirred uncomfortably in his sheets, and sat up in his bed, drawing the curtains away. The first thing he noticed was Albus, sitting on his bed, with a contemplating look on his face.
He stood up, and walked over. Albus looked up at his approach, a small smile on his face.
"Did you hear Rose and I talking?" he asked the Malfoy heir. Not bothering to lie, Malfoy nodded.
"Yes, I heard" he bore no expression on his face, just looked empty, cold.
"I'm sorry Rose doesn't see what we do, it's going to take her a lot longer to realize that she is in fact, in love with you."
Scorpius said nothing.
After about five minutes of silence, Albus finally spoke. "Let's go down for breakfast"
Scorpius nodded in agreement, and the two of them headed out of the Slytherin dorms.
Rose lost her nerve once she entered the Great Hall, and glanced over to see Callum smiling. He was talking amongst his friends and they were all tapping him on the back. He must have done something special.
She turned away, and sat down at the Ravenclaw table, taking some pancakes and syrup from the center of the big spread.
She was about to put the delicious piece of food in her mouth when arms wrapped around her from behind. She stiffened for a split second, and then realized it was her boyfriend.
Oh.
She relaxed into his arms, and was about to say hey, but was interrupted by Callum dramatically sitting down at the table, and pulling her into his lap. She was about to protest, and then his lips were on hers.
She tried being enthusiastic, she really did, but all she could think of was Scorpius. Scorpius, and his beauty, and how much better he had kissed her the night before.
Regardless of what she thought, she kissed him back, albeit not with much encouragement on her part. Callum didn't seem to care. He deepened the kiss and rubbed his arms all over her body, extracting hooting holler's from the tables nearby.
When he grabbed her breast, she had enough; she pushed him away, gently, even though she wanted to get away from him very badly. She didn't know what was happening, or why she didn't want Callum touching her, but something about his demeanor made her have a sixth sense about his intentions.
"Enough, Callum" she told him seriously.
He didn't look to happy. But Rose didn't care. "I don't like such deep shows of affection in the Great Hall, so please stop now." Callum stared at Rose in shock, and then muttered something that sounded like "You're mine, I can do as I please" but she couldn't be sure, his lips were on hers again, and this time she didn't fight it, he would stop eventually. She felt like crying though. Something was wrong with Callum.
A cough caused Callum to extract himself from Rose. She let out a sigh of relief, and noticed her cousin and Scorpius standing there. She jumped up and ran into Scorpius' arms surprising herself.
Determinedly she whispered softly in his ear "Play along." Imperceptibly he nodded.
"Oh, Scorpius, I'm so glad to see your okay! I was so worried about you, when I heard you hit your head.." she tsked for emphasis, and saw Scorpius smirk, but she was certain only she noticed it.
"Yes, Rose, I do feel a little bit better now, but, Albus and I need to discuss something with you, why don't you accompany us back to the Entrance Hall, yeah?"
Rose, delighted at Scorpius for catching on, jumped up from the bench, her food forgotten suddenly. Callum had a very ugly look on his face, and Rose shuddered, quickly turning away from him and following Scorpius and Albus out of the Great Hall.
Once away from Callum she sighed such a heavy sigh of relief, that both boys knitted their eyebrows with worry.
"What happened!" Scorpius exclaimed wildly. "Did he hurt you? If he hurt you I'll kill him!" Rose felt a swell of pride fly through her chest; her Scorpius was back to normal.
"Well," Rose started, her eyes miles away, thinking thoughtfully.
"Yes?" Albus interjected sounding like a big brother. "What has he done, Rose?"
She sighed, but was determined to explain to them what she felt.
"Something has changed in Callum." She told them quickly, as they walked further away from the Great Hall. "He's been acting different, since yesterday, or the day before," She clarified, "And it's just that, I'm beginning to worry, and wonder what his true intentions are."
Rose trailed off again, as they had stopped near the library. She didn't realize they had walked so far.
The trio entered the library together and sat down at a table towards the back.
"I want to make a plan, I want to see if he's cheating on me, or maybe just has a strange agenda or something."
Albus nodded thoughtfully. "I can accomplish that; I have the map, and the cloak. We can scout him out after dinner, James can give us the password to Gryffindor tower, and well, we can spy on him if you like?"
Rose bobbed her head excitedly. "Yes, that should work…"
"Alright, it's a deal then, we'll meet here after dinner."
Rose nodded her head, smiling.
"That's settled then." Rose said, while twirling a lock of her around her finger, and smiling evilly.
The rest of the day passed extremely slowly for the three Hogwarts students. If you looked carefully, you would be able to see the nervous twitches they made with their body, or how they constantly looked at their watches.
Callum, who was too busy feeling pleased with himself, didn't notice this, if he had, he probably would have been a lot more careful that night. Instead, he continued doing what he did best, showing off to his friends, and boasting on how he had Rose Weasley for a girlfriend. And his friends, acting very un Gryffindor like, went along with it, and continued clapping him in the back and shouting their approval.
His head was in the sky, full of dirty intentions. He would get into Rose's pants soon; he would just need to woo her for a bit more. Then he would have her; and that Malfoy bloke will never have her. He laughed loudly and went back to what he was doing. Tonight he would go to plan B.
Albus, Scorpius, and Rose met at the library at exactly 7:30 P.M. Rose had dressed up for the occasion, wearing a chocolate brown dress. It reached a little bit above her knees, and had a flirty twirl about it.
Albus had the invisibility cloak, and had the map open in front of him.
"Finnigan is in the men's bathroom now…" he mumbled staring avidly at the map.
Rose and Scorpius leaned over his shoulder, following the movements of Callum.
"Ah, he's heading towards Gryffindor tower now, might as well head out." Scorpius suggested.
The other two nodded and quietly they left the library, waving to Madam Pince, who didn't seem to notice either way.
Once out of the library, the three donned the cloak and stepped closer together, walking carefully and avoiding each other's toes.
After an agonizing twenty minutes of walking slowly, they finally reached the Gryffindor tower.
"James said the password is Harry Potter." Albus told the others, grimacing slightly at the cliché.
Scorpius chuckled and Rose scoffed. "Let's go already!" She complained. "I need to know what the hell is wrong with him!"
The other two nodded their heads in agreement, and very quietly whispered the password to The Fat Lady's portrait.
"Who's there?" The Fat Lady asked suspiciously.
The three rolled their eyes in annoyance.
"Does it matter? We gave you the fucking password! Just open the damn portrait hole!" Scorpius said indignantly and had somewhat angrily. The Fat Lady finally indulged them though. So Scorpius had helped them, now all they needed to do was find Callum. The portrait hole swung open and the three of them stepped inside, dodging someone who had just been leaving.
The Gryffindor Common Room was packed with people. Albus, Scorpius and Rose looked around for the offender. Scorpius spotted him first. "He's there." He said venom and malice dripping from his voice.
"We don't know he did anything wrong, yet, Scorpius. Calm down!" Rose scolded.
They inched closer to where Callum was sitting reading. Scorpius raised his eyebrow. "The bloke reads? Shocker…"
Rose smacked his arm, almost revealing them. "Shut up Malfoy…"
They sat down in a secluded area waiting for something to happen. An hour passed, still nothing. The Gryffindor Common room slowly cleared out, and only a couple of Gryffindor's remained, Callum included.
Rose was getting more and more nervous as the one hour turned into two, and then three.
Finally, at 10:30, when it was past curfew, another three boys came in through the portrait hole, along with another girl. They all looked furtively around, and then went into a quieter area of the Common Room. The trio followed silently.
"Did you find her?" Callum asked the other boy.
"I did not" the boy replied, looking afraid.
Callum's eyes narrowed angrily. "Very well," he said, glaring at the boy. The others cowered behind him.
"You!" he pointed at the girl. She shrunk behind the other taller boy, fear evident in her eyes. Albus made to get up, but Scorpius and Rose both shoved him down. He would totally be an Auror that one, Scorpius mused.
The girl remained motionless, and Callum strode towards her, looking angrier than before. Albus had now drawn his wand. Scorpius did the same. Rose didn't move. She just stared at her boyfriend in shock.
Callum drew the girl forcefully towards him and then planted a bruising kiss on the girls' lips. The girl struggled fruitlessly. Rose gasped. Callum took no notice. He pushed her away when he finished, and then looked towards the other two boys. "If Rose isn't found by midnight, I will do a lot worse than just kiss that piece of shit of a girl that you brought to me."
Rose gasped again she hadn't expected this. Callum was so sweet to her, how could he have such different sides…Well, he was sweet to her until the day before.
The two young looking boys trembled in fear as Callum advanced on them. "I will have Rose for myself, tonight, do you boys understand?" he asked them menacingly. They nodded helplessly, backing away as Callum advanced. "Everyone in the Wizarding World will know, that I am dating Harry Potter's niece. That girl will be my slave, she will do everything I tell her, I will fuck her as often as I please, and she will give me my every need, do you understand me, you useless pieces of trash?"
Scorpius made to get up this time, and it was all Albus could do to keep him down. Rose gasped, and let out a small squeal of terror. Anger momentarily forgotten, Scorpius wrapped his arms securely around Rose. She leaned into him, whimpering quietly.
Unfortunately, this time, Callum had heard the noise too.
"Who's there?" he said his voice harsh.
The two Slytherin's looked over at the Ravenclaw protectively, and huddled closer together not making a sound.
Eventually Callum gave up the search, haven't not seen anyone in their little corner. He turned back to the three younger students making eye contact with each of them slowly. "Do not forget what I said." He forcefully spit at them. "Or else…"
Callum finally walked away from them, glancing back toward the group, eyes ablaze with power. Rose shuddered just looking at it.
Quietly the three of them got up simultaneously. Callum had moved towards the portrait hole. They glanced at each other curiously.
"Where do you think he's going?" Albus mumbled to the other two.
They shrugged.
"Let's follow him." Rose suggested, her voice strong, and filled with anger.
"I second that." Scorpius agreed.
Quickly, but quietly, they sped up and followed Callum right out of the Common Room, slipping out just before the portrait hole door slammed shut.
Callum looked stealthily around, not seeing anyone; he snuck swiftly away from the Gryffindor Tower.
Once they reached the second floor, Rose suddenly had a feeling she knew where he was going. "He's going to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom." She whispered her voice filled with disgust.
The others grimaced but followed Callum to the bathroom. Rose had been right.
Getting as close to Callum as possible without actually touching him, Rose, Scorpius, and Albus followed him into Moaning Mytrle's lair waiting to see what he would do.
Expecting something evil, they were shocked to see when he pulled out something from his pocket. It was a picture. But not just any picture. A moving picture, of Callum and Rose, doing…things.
Scorpius stiffened slightly as he watched the moving picture.
"You gave him a fucking blowjob?" he hissed angrily.
Rose didn't answer, she had tears silently dripping down her cheeks, she had never felt so humiliated in her life. She didn't know someone had snapped a picture of her dirty deed.
"I'm sorry." She whispered, pain evident in her voice.
There were moans coming from the picture, and that was when it happened. Callum whipped off his belt, and dropped his pants right where he was standing, his boxers next. Both boys immediately looked away, but Rose couldn't take her eyes away from the horrible sight.
"Oh, ye, Rose!" he moaned at the picture. "Suck me harder, ye Rose!" he had grabbed his penis, and rubbed it fiercely, wanking it hard, up and down. This lasted for about ten minutes, and then Callum came, squirting all over the floor, just as the Callum came in the picture, right into Rose's mouth.
"Oh." Rose groaned, not making a sound. The tears intensified and she backed away, bumping into the boys. She motioned they leave, and they didn't argue.
Once they were on the fifth floor, Rose stopped moving. Albus and Scorpius waited for her to say something.
"You alright Rosie?" Scorpius asked softly, caressing her cheek tenderly.
"Not quite." She replied, her voice trembling. "Oh, Merlin! I don't know what to do! I can't bear to be in his presence ever again! But that girl! Oh, he made it sound like he would rape her or something!"
Rose couldn't go on, she began hyperventilating, and angry and terrified tears continued to leak down her already wet cheeks.
"I think we tell Professor McGonagall about this." Albus suggested, acting the Auror again.
"I think he's right." Scorpius agreed.
Rose looked up at her two best friends. "You don't think he'll realize it was us?" She asked uncertainly.
Albus shook his head thoughtfully, "honestly? I don't think McGonagall will let him off with just a detention. We have six witnesses you know..If we really need to we can tell her what happened, how you noticed him acting strangely, and decided to act o it, I don't think she'd punish us for it, besides, if nothing happens to Callum I think we best we deal with that, when we cross that particular bridge."
Rose nodded. "Alright then, see where McGonagall is."
Albus complied "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." A map of Hogwarts appeared like he knew it would and he quickly sought out McGonagall. "She's in her office… Mischief Managed."
Albus secured the cloak and once again they were off. Not really caring if anyone saw their feet sticking out, they made it to Professor McGonagall's office a lot quicker than they had when being cautious.
They reached the Gargoyle in front of the office and stopped, suddenly wondering how they would reach her.
"Damn!" Scorpius muttered, not having foreseen this.
"Can we get up there?" Albus asked stepping out from the protectiveness of the cloak.
"Do you know the password?" The gargoyle replied haughtily.
"No, but.."
"No password, no entry." The gargoyle responded stiffly, and ignored Albus as the latter started sputtering.
"Didn't Uncle Harry teach you how to make a talking Patronus?" Rose asked her voice coming out in a soft hush.
"Oh, Merlin! You're right! How could I have forgotten?" Albus shut his eyes, concentrating thoroughly; he waved his wand, and then muttered into his forming Patronus. "We are Albus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, and Rose Weasley, we are downstairs by your gargoyle, and we have to see you about an urgent matter, regarding the safety of a particular student, if you please let us in?" he cast the charm and his phoenix Patronus flew towards McGongall's office.
"That was brilliant, mate!" Scorpius told him, managing a smile.
Albus nodded, looking intensely at the door, awaiting entry. Two agonizingly long minutes later, the gargoyle suddenly said "You may enter now," the spiraling moving staircase appeared, and they swiftly made their way up to the headmistress' office.
The door opened automatically once they reached the top of the staircase.
"I won't mention the fact that it is nearly three hours after curfew." McGonagall began, "But if you were serious and said a student is in danger?"
Albus and Scorpius immediately began talking at once, and Rose just stared embarrassedly at the floor.
"One at a time!" McGonagall interrupted them.
Albus opened his mouth to speak, but Rose spoke before he could get a word out.
"This has to do with me." She butt in. "Callum Finnigan has been my boyfriend for a bit, and just recently he had been acting…not himself. I don't know if he was possessed or anything…but we decided to check it out tonight," And she methodically relayed the events of the past night. McGongall had turned white.
"Do you know which student he has threatened?" She spoke swiftly, grabbing her evening gown and put it over her shoulders. "No, Professor," Rose responded feeling horrible. "All he said was that he would do unimaginable things to her, if the two boys he was bossing around wouldn't find me by midnight."
"Oh, dear." McGonagall said, clutching at her heart. "Where is Finnigan now? How are we supposed to find him? Potter!" she said coming to an abrupt halt. And before McGonagall could say anything, he pulled out the Marauder's Map and muttered once more, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." The map appeared once more, and he looked it over swiftly. His breath hitched in surprise. "He's at the astronomy tower." He whispered, trying to keep his voice from shaking. "and he has a girl with him."
"Oh, dear." Professor McGonagall said again, "he didn't waste any time, now did he?" The student's shook their heads in response, and followed McGonagall as she took some effective shortcuts that had them at the entrance of the Astronomy tower. "And I suppose, if I ask you to stay behind, you'll refuse?"
"I think we might be able to offer backup, Professor, just in case" Scorpius responded smoothly.
McGonagall didn't bother responding. She went up swiftly to the Astronomy tower her wand out. Before anything, she disarmed Callum. Then stupefied him. The girl he had already been naked. Her hands and legs had been tied her hands above her head, and her legs to either side, so Callum would have had perfect entry, had he managed to perform his task. The girl was trembling and had tears falling down her cheeks.
Hastily, McGonagall waved her wand again, and the ropes disappeared. The girl immediately curled up into a fetal position. Once more, McGonagall waved her wand, and a set of robes appeared. She handed them to the girl, and she gratefully took them.
McGonagall turned back to her informants. "You can go now," she informed them firmly, but gently. "Finnigan shouldn't be a problem anymore" she shooed them away, and they hastily retreated.
Once out of earshot, Rose finally spoke up. "Thanks guys…I..I don't know what to say." Her voice was quiet and shy.
"Do you want to sleep in our dorms, again Rose?" Albus asked her worriedly.
"Do you think that will be okay? I just need to tell Nona, and Alice so they won't come looking for me again..But, ye, I'd like to."
The Slytherin's nodded, and escorted Rose to the Ravenclaw tower, waiting at the bottom of the stairs for her.
She came back fairly quickly, with a pair of pajamas in hand.
"Let's go." She told them.
They made their way to the Slytherin Common Room. Rose gave Albus a pleading look, and taking the message, he moved ahead a little bit.
Rose took Scorpius' hand. "Scorpius?" she asked, looking into his eyes worriedly.
"Yes, Rosie?"
"I.." she flushed a looked away. Scorpius took her chin between his fingers.
"What is it, Rosie?"
"Will you hold me tonight?" She blurted finally.
If Scorpius was surprised, he hid it well. "Of course, Rosie, I'll protect you."
Rose smiled at him, thankfully she responded. "I appreciate that, Scorp."
The heroes and heroine of the night went to bed that night with a feeling of victory and thankfulness. The only thing they wondered as the trio drifted off to sleep, was what would happen in the morning. How would Callum get punished?
A/N:
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