Omen's of Darkness

Chapter 10

Be My Valentine

Vacation ended and the month of january went by quickly, with little action. Scorpius had gotten detention for letting all the snails go in Transfigiration, and Albus as well for laughing at the whole thing. Rose had reprimanded them loudly and had like wise earned a detention, but she got out of it. Rose had noticed that Scorpius and Dom had started a friendship, which was getting annoying, meanwhile Albus was still trying to find out what was up with Scorpius' secret letters. It wasn't long before the most annoying of all holidays had come, Valentines day. Albus was oblivious to this, but instead was focusing on infiltrating the owlry. Rose was ignoring the day all together, and Scorpius in all honesty, hadn't remembered.

"It's valentines?" asked Scorpius, opening up a box from home that held some candy.

"Yeah," said Albus and Rose.

"I'm not celebrating the stupid thing," said Rose, "I mean, who wants to hand out valentines anyways."

"Happy Valentines!" came a rather cheerful voice of one Mai Corner.

"... hi..." Scorpius smiled.

"Happy Valentines," smiled Albus, as he motioned that the spot next to Scorpius was empty.

"Hello friends, Happy Day of St. Valentines," smiled Seri, sitting across the table.

She seemed to have decided to dress the part. None had really thought about this, after all she dressed for every other holiday. Her earrings we're large gold hearts, and she was wearing a red dress under her Ravenclaw robes, clashing horribly. Her normal boots where roman gold sandals, and her hair was braided back with gold threads. She was carrying a very vibrant pink back that had floating hearts on it, that moved around.

"What's with the greek touch?" asked Scorpius.

"Well in the heart of St. Valentines, I thought I'd dress for both versions. In the original story of St. Valentines. In ancient rome, an emperor banned marriage and union because he wanted all the ladies to himself. Well St. Valentine married people in secret anyway, and he was caught doing so. He was imprisoned to die, and during the month before his death he had fallen in love with the emperor's daughter. Secretly they wrote love letters to one another, and on the day of his death, she asked him to be her valentine. That's how valentines started, and to be someone's valentine means that you love them; either as friend or other reasons." said Seri, in a very upbeat manor.

"Well... that's rather depressing," said Hugo, in mid bite of a sandwich a little ways down.

"Yeah, but its true." said Alison, who looked as her normal self unlike her sister, except for the cupid clips in her hair.

"Can you have more then one valentine?" asked Albus.

"I don't see why not, but your not really supposed too..." said Seri, looking indecisive.

"Scorpius, do you want to be my valentine?" asked Mai, giggling as he brushed.

"Uh... ohm... sure I guess," his face had turned an odd shade of dark pink.

"Anyone want to go to the library?" asked Rose, though she gave a distinct feeling that she'd punch them if they'd said yes.

"Hey Seri, do you wanna be mine?" asked Albus with a shrug.

"I'd love too," smiled Seri.

"Now what?" asked Albus after a minute of silence.

"I don't know.... I suppose we could go visit the green houses," she shrugged.

"Cool, Scorp, you coming?" asked Albus as he got up.

"Ohm.... Mai do you..." Scorpius looked at Mai.

"Ohm... why not," she said standing up and following the group out.

"Would you like some candy?" asked Scorpius nervously.

"Sure," she giggled, Albus was getting slightly annoyed by the giggling that wouldn't stop the whole trip outside.

It was lightly snowing on the nearly melted ground, but the green house looked warm. As they walked, Albus caught sight of James and snickered. James was talking to Lynn, who looked like she was nearly sitting on his lap, but James was completely oblivious as he was speaking in an animated way about something that had happened earlier. At one point, he nearly hit Lynn in the eye.

"What are they doing?" asked Albus.

"The girl looks like she's trying to flirt or keep warm, who can tell." said Mai, with a small smile, "He doesn't seem to notice either way."

"Now I see," snickered Seri.

"See what, why couldn't you see before?" asked Albus, stepping back in case her vision was obscured.

"No... just nevermind." she giggled as they continued walking.

"I thought they we're dating?" asked Scorpius.

"They where, I don't know what happened though," shrugged Albus.

Meanwhile James was talking about quidditch, something Lynn usually participated in, constantly arguing with him about who was better. He found it odd that she kept agreeing with him. Her snuggling made him think she was flirting, but her blew it off as her just being cold. After a few minutes of this he told her if she was cold they could go inside.

"Uhg, let's just go." she jumped up and went to stomp across the grounds.

"Hey Lynn," James started.

"By the way.... that team sucks," she grumbled as he matched her pace.

"Well fine then miss mood swing," he retorted.

"I am not in the mood," she looked as if she was going to rip his eyes out.

"Hey Jimmy! Lynn!" Fred was happily running across the lawn from the owlry.

"WHAT!?" Both yelled, Fred stopped running and his expression looked slightly on edge now.

"I wanted to show you guys my nifty secert admierer card," smiled Fred, proudly.

"...." they both stared in waiting.

"..." he opened the card and a few doves flew up and circled as the letter read itself.

"Facinating," grumped James, as he starked off.

"That was really nice," smiled Lynn, watching the doves fly off as he closed the card.

"What's up with James?" asked Fred.

"I don't know, he's your cousin. I suppose he's got male PMS," she grumbled and stormed off.

"I hope they never get together again, that would annoy the hell out of me," said Fred as he headed off towards his other friends.

Meanwhile Rose had ditched the library and instead headed towards the room of memorial. She had a question for Dumbledore about History of Magic, that she really didn't want to talk about Professor Bins with. She opened the door and was glad to see know one there. Nearly all the portraits we're asleep, and Professor Dumbledore had left his frame. Snape was reading a book that had been painted with him and hadn't heard the door. She shrugged, at least he might know.

"Professor Snape?" asked Rose as she walked towards the portrait.

"Yes," he groaned, after a minute of pretending to have fallen asleep.

"Do you know anything about a History of Magic?" asked Rose, sitting down on the floor and looking at the portrait.

"It wasn't my strong point, why don't you ask Bins?" asked Snape.

"He rants," sighed Rose, picking up her book.

"Well... are you going to stay in here?" asked Snape, "Got to the library."

"There's too many people paired off. The only ones I have to talk to are first years and none seem to like studying."

"Pairs.... oh its that time of year again," Snape winced.

"I refuse to partake in it, and unfortunately I lost Scorpius and Albus this morning." sighed Rose as she opened her text book and learned against the wall.

"Really?" asked Snape, cursing himself after the word left his lips.

"Yeah, Albus is with Seri, though I'm pretty sure he has no idea that she actually likes him. Then Scorpius is with Mai." Rose responded, not looking up from her book.

"Someone's bitter," shrugged Snape as he picked up his book.

"I am not!" yelled Rose, glaring up at the portrait.

"...." Snape rolled his eyes in mockery.

"I'm leaving!" Rose stood and stormed out of the room.

"Touchy," muttered Snape as the door slammed.

Lunch time came and Rose headed towards the great hall. She spotted Scorpius and Albus at the Gryffindor table, minus Seri and Mai, who where no where to be seen. She sat in front of them, Albus waved slightly as he bit into his sandwich. Scorpius smiled and went back to reading and snaking on some sort of pudding. Rose opened her books and grabbed a couple of sandwiches. It was silent for a few seconds, but Albus could no longer allow this.

"Who are your letters from and why won't you tell me about vacation?" asked Albus, his normal care free expression looked tense.

"Where we having a conversation I wasn't aware of?" asked Scorpius, taken a back.

"Do you have a new best friend, are they smarter than me?" asked Albus, though a dash of humor was behind his voice, yet a seriousness.

"Ohm. No." said Scorpius, eyes wide and looking slightly uneasy.

"Did you meet up with them on vacation?" asked Albus.

"Dear Dumbledore... No, I did not meet with anyone other than my family. Also my vacation was.... ohm.... unsettling." said Scorpius, grabbing some chips.

"How so?" asked Rose.

"I found out that my mom's family has a secret. My Uncle thinks he's dying, and that's about it," said Scorpius, going back to reading.

"What's the secret?" asked Albus.

"I-I can't say," Scorpius looked as if he was in a mental debate about it.

"But I'm your best mate, so's Rose I guess," shrugged Albus.

"Hey..." Rose looked miffed for a moment.

"We need to go somewhere private first," said Scorpius, looking around.

"Moaning Myrtle's?" suggested Rose.

"Why not, its the only thing we have." shrugged Scorpius, and the three headed swiftly too the bathroom, unaware of the figure following them.

TBC

OMG! I'm paranoid. Everytime the phone rings with someone who normally doesn't call me, I start thinking, "OMG, why are they calling, did someone die. Who do we have in common, please don't let it be...." And then I run to facebook if I miss the call.