So this chapter is considerably shorter than some of my previous chapters, but I was typing it up and realized that with everything I had wanted to include, it would be so long that even I wouldn't want to sit and read it lol. So I decided to cut it at what I think was a good spot and a spot I'm pretty sure everyone will be happy with. Also, I have decided to use the lines supplied by to mark the breaks between character shift things, since many people had previously told me it was hard to follow and too jumpy at some points.
WARNING: This chapter is the reason the story is rated M. Lemon-ish-ness ahead, so be warned. Also, please see the A/N at the end of the chapter. Thank you, and enjoy :)
Rose began to regret not telling Scorpius she liked him as she witnessed girls constantly throwing themselves at him over the next few weeks. News of his and Caroline's temporary split had spread through the school ridiculously fast, and half the female population was hoping to make it permanent.
Not that Scorpius even noticed. Ever since actually coming out and saying it to Albus – that he was falling for his best friend – he had barely been able to keep his eyes from her.
The three of them still studied together every night, or nearly every night. More often than not Albus found a reason to leave early, giving his friends some time alone together.
After two weeks of this, and nothing happening, Al finally began to get frustrated.
"Why haven't you done anything?" Al exclaimed to Scorpius one night when Rose left to get snacks. "I've given you so many opportunities, you should have kissed her or asked her to Hogsmeade by now!"
"Well I'm sorry I don't have the blood of legendary Gryffindors running in my veins," Scorpius retorted. "I'm a Ravenclaw and my family was Slytherins – we're chickens!"
"That's never stopped you before," Al snorted. Scorpius blushed.
"I really like her," he replied quietly, "and I'm nervous. What if she says no?"
"Don't gotta worry about that," Al muttered to himself.
"Hmm?" Scorpius looked over at his friend from where he was sitting by the fire. "What was that?"
"Nothing," Albus replied quickly. Scorpius eyed him suspiciously, but before he could say anything Rose returned and his attention was diverted.
"You came," a surprised voice said from behind her. Caroline didn't even turn around – she kept staring out over the grounds.
"Don't really know why," she replied flatly. Lorcan didn't respond; instead he joined her at the balcony, resting his arms on the railing.
"Why are you so interested in me?" she asked suddenly. "I'm hardly your type, and I'm not exactly nice to you. So why me?"
"That's a damn good question," he replied softly, "and I really don't know the answer. I just know I think about you all the time." He turned to face her, leaning on his right arm, waiting for some kind of response.
Caroline got a weird feeling in her stomach at his words, almost like…butterflies? It didn't bear thinking about, so she changed the subject.
"Do you know why I go after Scorpius so hard?" she asked, glancing over at him. His expression said he couldn't care less, but he nodded for her to go on. "My father has never cared about anything I've done. I could have gotten straight O's on my OWLs, and he wouldn't have noticed. The only thing he's ever really told me to do is make a good pureblood marriage. 'We have to keep our line pure, so stay away from half-bloods and Mudbloods' he would tell me. Who better to make a pureblood marriage with that Daddy will approve of than Scorpius Malfoy, right? Not only that, he's smart, rich, handsome-"
Lorcan turned her and pressed his lips to hers, effectively silencing her. He could feel her tense like she was preparing to push him away. He threaded his fingers through her hair, trying to get her to relax.
It began to work, and she started kissing him back.
Lorcan pulled away for just a moment. "I didn't ask you here to talk about Scorpius Malfoy," he whispered breathlessly.
"Okay," Caroline replied, and he was pleased to hear that she was as breathless as him.
"Okay," he repeated, before she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled his lips back to hers.
Scorpius sat on the floor in the Heads Common Room, his back against the couch. He took another swig of Firewhiskey, polishing off his second bottle. He was reaching for the third as he heard the statue sliding aside.
Rose came into his peripheral vision. He turned his head and stared at her, unabashed.
He had been going to ask her on a date today, a real date, for the Hogsmeade weekend in two weeks. He had worked up some measure of courage and had just told himself to imagine her saying yes.
And then another owl from his mother. He turned and looked at the fire again – he could just make out the remains of it burning.
"Scorpius," Rose asked cautiously, looking around her at the empty and yet-to-be-drunk Firewhiskey bottles on the floor and table. His head swiveled back to look at her. "You alright?"
"I've been better," he replied. Despite the amount of Firewhiskey in his system, his words didn't slur at all.
"Is it your father?" she asked anxiously. Scorpius took a drink of the Firewhiskey while pulling himself up onto the couch. Slowly, Rose seated herself next to him, still waiting for an answer.
"He's in a coma," Scorpius replied flatly, downing more of the bottle. A little over half of it remained.
They sat in silence for a moment while Rose tried to process what Scorpius had just said. Draco Malfoy, stern, seemingly indifferent, yet always there when Scorpius needed him…in a coma. A coma that Rose realized he might never come out of.
"I don't even know what to do anymore Rose," he said helplessly, looking up to meet her gaze. Her heart broke a little in her chest at the agony on his face. She had no idea how he felt, having never experienced something like this herself. She knew it would destroy her if she were to lose one of her parents, or to know that they wouldn't live much longer and that they were suffering.
Rose opened her arms to him and he fell into them, much as he had a lot recently. "I'm here, okay?" she whispered. "No matter what happens, I'll be here for you, I'll take care of you." He nodded, his face buried in the crook of her neck. Scorpius felt his heart warm at his best friend's words, knowing she meant every single one.
He pulled away and gave her a half-hearted smile. "Thank you Rosie."
She smiled back at him. "Anytime." They sat like that for a moment before she turned her gaze to the fire.
His smile grew slightly at her response, and he leaned forward to give her a kiss on the cheek. Seeing his movement out of the corner of her eye, Rose started to turn her gaze back towards him. His lips, aiming for her cheek, landed on the corner of her mouth.
Startled, he pulled away slightly and met her wide gaze.
They froze like that for a moment, both of their hearts pounding in their chests as they wondered what to do, how to keep the moment from turning awkward.
Rose could feel months and years of frustration, love, hurt, anger, and other emotions she never tried to name, building up inside her. She decided that for once, she was going to listen to her heart instead of her head and did the last thing Scorpius expected.
Placing her right hand on the back of his neck, she pulled his head down and kissed him hard.
After the second of shock wore off, Scorpius's eyes fluttered shut and his arms wound themselves around her waist, pulling her closer. He knew there should be doubts in his mind, reasons he should stop doing this, but they were all shut off by the feeling of Rose's lips on his and her body pressed against him.
Deciding she wasn't close enough, Rose shifted so that his back was pressed against the back of the couch. Without breaking the kiss or allowing Scorpius even one moment to stop her, she swung her left leg to the other side of him so she was straddling his lap.
Scorpius didn't know what was possessing either of them to do this other than slightly too much Firewhiskey on his end, but he knew he needed to stop before it ruined their friendship. He placed his hands on her hips as a precursor to getting her off him, but she took it as a signal to continue and pressed her chest even harder against his. He moaned softly into her mouth as her hips began to move in small circles on his lap, his pants becoming uncomfortably tight. He could feel her smiling as she placed soft kisses down his neck and all thoughts of stopping were erased from his mind.
Scorpius caught her face between his hands and kissed her hard, his tongue delving into her mouth. He barely even noticed that she had removed his tie and was working on hers.
His hands began sliding up her legs, under her skirt to her hips, and Rose pressed herself closer against him, her fingers already working at the buttons on his shirt.
With a noise of impatience, Scorpius's hands left her hips and moved under her shirt, up to her breasts. One hand began massaging them while the other quickly unsnapped the clasp at the back. Both of his hands moved underneath her bra and began playing with her breasts, rolling her nipples and kneading them hungrily, causing Rose to gasp several times. Inwardly she prayed that he didn't come to his senses and try to stop.
Fed up with her still having a shirt on, Scorpius pulled his hands out from underneath it and helped her pull it over her head, flinging it to the floor and tossing her bra with it for good measure. Without giving Rose enough time to be self-conscious or stop him, he lowered his lips to her chest, ghosting them lightly over her breastbone and in between her breasts, his hands sliding up her legs to cup her bottom. She bit her lip when he took one of her nipples into his mouth, her head falling back.
Scorpius lifted his head from her chest, and pulled her lips down to his, kissing her hungrily, feeling intoxicated not just from the Firewhiskey but from Rose as well.
"Your room," he muttered hoarsely, not wanting to think too much. Too many people knew the password to the Heads Common Room, and he wanted privacy with Rose.
Rose shook her head and pressed her lips back to his, afraid that giving him the chance to get up and move to her room would be giving him the chance to think that maybe they should stop. And she really, really, really didn't want to stop.
With a small noise of frustration, Scorpius put his Quidditch muscles to use and stood, holding Rose tightly to him as he began to walk towards her room. She lifted her legs and wrapped them around his waist, her lips never leaving his.
He wasn't quite sure how he got the door open or navigated them to the bed. All he was really aware of was the feeling of Rose's chest against his and her legs wrapped around him. At some point on the way, his shirt had ended up on the ground. It didn't take long for the rest of their clothes to join them.
Rose's thoughts were everywhere – Scorpius was doing amazing things with his hands and his mouth and before she had time to change her mind, or for him to change his, she grabbed her wand and cast a Contraceptive Charm on herself, then tossed her wand over the edge of the bed. She could feel Scorpius's smirk against her stomach as he moved lower.
Scorpius enjoyed feeling Rose squirm beneath him, the Firewhiskey he had practically chugged earlier completely killing any inhibitions he had left.
"Scorpius," Rose moaned from the head of the bed. His smirk growing, he crawled up so he was lying completely on top of her. Without another moment's hesitation, he entered her.
Rose's mind went blissfully blank at the feeling of Scorpius moving inside her. Her toes were curling, and she ran her feet along his calves, dragging her nails down his back.
Then she lost herself.
Scorpius watched Rose's eyes fall shut and she began biting her lower lip; he could feel her pulsing around him and her fingernails dug harder into his back.
Damn he was good.
Leaning down, he pressed a kiss to her lips and trailed his mouth down her neck to her collarbone, kissing and sucking gently, leaving small pink marks. He became aware of Rose nipping at his earlobe, and soon she was pressing her lips back to his, biting gently at his bottom lip.
He pressed harder into her, moving his hips rhythmically into hers, her legs still wrapped around him. Burying his face in her neck, he fell off the edge.
Slowly, they came back to earth, their breathing labored. Scorpius couldn't help but think, as Rose lazily ran her fingers over his back, that he hadn't felt so relaxed in quite some time.
Rose pressed a kiss to his neck, completely stunned about what had just happened between them. One minute she was helping her slightly intoxicated best friend cope with yet another problem with his father's health, the next they were going at it like bunnies.
And it had never felt like that, with Nikolas or with Lorcan, nothing close.
Lifting his head, Scorpius looked down at Rose – with her hair mussed and her face red and glowing, she had never looked more stunning to him.
I'm in love with her, he realized, the thought hitting him like a cauldron. I'm completely head over heels in love with her.
"Scorpius?" Rose asked worriedly. Her thoughts began spinning, and she could only pray he wasn't already regretting it.
Smiling, he dipped his head and pressed a firm kiss to her lips. Relaxing, she wrapped her arms around his neck and wound her fingers through his hair.
Gently, he slipped out of her and rolled over so he was laying next to her. She turned on to her side and backed up so her bottom was tucked snugly into his lap. Scorpius looped an arm around her waist and pressed a kiss to her shoulder, then the back of her neck.
"Goodnight," he whispered, burying his nose in her hair.
Rose didn't answer. Peering over her shoulder, Scorpius saw that her eyes were already closed, her breathing already evening out. Smiling, he closed his eyes as well and within moments, was asleep.
A review for this chapter would really really mean a lot to me because I have never written something like the scene you just read and I want to know what you thought - hot? awkward? good but could have been better? sucked? Let me know please!
IMPORTANT: I am considering eventually doing a Missing Moments series from this story, after it's completed of course :) but if you have any ideas for Missing Moments you would like to see, please leave them in a review. I can't do all of them obviously, but I can do as many as possible. Thank you!