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Chapter Nine

Let's not discuss all the things we can't undo, we always hurt and challenge the one's we're closest to

I'm at loss for words.

Yes, I, Rose Genevra Jean Weasley, am at loss for words.

There are a few things I'd like to be cleared up. First being; why is my brother home?

Second being; why did he have muscles? Why were his arms so big?

And third being; why was he having a full on conversation with my son?

Hugo reaches up from his seat at the dining table to the window above him and grabs a letter from an anonymous owl, yes, I was stalking out my brother from behind a door but I wanted to see where this apparently "Very important issue" was leading. Especially since my son seems to be the one giving advice.

"Look Buddy, it's from her!" Hugo says and then he frowns at the letter, "Do you think I should open it?"

Cae gurgles and attacks the spoon that he's holding onto while eating in his high chair, his eyes widen as Hue waves the letter in his face.

Hue sighs. "Yeah, you're right. I will open it."

Hue slowly opens it and stops half way. "I'm getting pretty nervous, what if she doesn't want to go steady?" he asks my son.

Cae looks at him with concentration. "Steee," he tries.

Hue laughs and nods. "You're right, I'm being ridiculous," and he opens it up and starts to read.

This wasn't right.

Hugo-plus-girl-plus-bulkyarms-plus-steady-equalled-girlfriend.

Oh no he didn't!

I step out from my hiding spot and immediately leap onto my brother, trying to snatch that letter out of his hands, but something doesn't add up again.

He's stronger than me?

Somewhere between a loud crack and a hard thump, both Hue and I end up on the ground, but he's straddling me and I'm trapped under his body. "GET. OFF. ME. YOU. GIT!" I snap at him while trying to breathe, Cae starts giggling and I know it's not good when your two year old son is laughing at you.

Hugo shoves his letter deep into the pocket of his jeans and smirks. "That's not how you should greet your brother on his return!" he says as he gets off me.

I hear a cough in the background as I struggle to get up, shoving my brother's hand out of my face. I'd have to resort to sneaking into his room tonight and finding that letter, Hugo Fred Weasley didn't outsmart me!

As Hugo runs a hand through his short spikey hair he turns and sees Scorpius. "Malfoy," he says.

Scorp smirks and pulls off the hood of his jersey, "Weasley."

I roll my eyes, they did this every time; it was getting old. I pout my lips and put my hands on my hips as I look at my brother. "You have a lot of explaining to do Hugo!" I say to him.

He laughs, "Shoot ahead, Hermione."

I scowl at him and even Scorp laughs as he takes Cae from his high chair. "What are you doing here?"

"Molly's got her fittings tomorrow so Lily had to come home, McGonagall said that Louis and I should come too," His grin widens, "Mother," he adds.

I shudder as I hear the mention of Molly and her wedding, I had totally forgotten about the fittings and I sure as hell didn't want to go. Taffeta scared me.

Both Hugo and Scorpius notice that I must have been mentally killing myself and they wear matching smirks. "Ok, and why are you all muscular and whatnot?"

I watch Scorp give Hugo a sly once over and he raises his eyebrows, yes, he noticed it too.

Not gay at all.

He shrugs. "Umm, Gryffindor beater for the last three years woman, deal with it."

Woman?

Woman?

I knit my eyebrows together, obviously missing something here because my brother just called me woman and then continued to tell me to "Deal with it."

"What? All of a sudden you're cool now?" I say. He puts on this crazy smile, a smirk of sorts but I guess it had swagger. Scorpius seems more than amused at this thing unravelling before him as he takes a seat and lets Cae chew on the strings of his hoodie. "And why are you smiling like that!"

Hugo shrugs, "Like what?"

I roll my eyes, trying to keep my irritation at bay. What was wrong with my baby brother? "Like that!" I say and I point at his face, I look over at Scorp to see him giggling like a girl, "You see it don't you?" I ask.

Cae starts clapping. "You! You! See it you!" he cries excitedly.

Scorp kisses Cae on the head and Cae kisses him back on the chin, I see Cae's dribble all over Scorp's face and immediately my worries of Hugo are gone. "Yeah, I see it."

Hugo knits his eyebrows and looks at Scorp, "I still don't know what you two are on about."

Scorp looks at Hugo out of the side of his eyes. "I know that look, shit, I know it well."

"Shit! I noooo," Cae tries to copy.

Hugo's eyes widen. "What is it then?"

"You won't want me to say it in front of your sister…" he teases and he knows he just set me off.

Hugo turns red—tell-tale sign that Scorp is right—and I just need to know what they're talking about, I jerk forward in my seat. "WHAT?" I shout.

Scorp chuckles and I see Hugo jerk his head as if trying to tell Scorpius not to say anything. "That's enough now," says Hugo, "And I doubt you know that look."

Scorp raises an eyebrow. "Oh really? I know it better than you do."

I watch Hugo's face contort. "What? By the sounds of things I'm more man than you!"

I raise my eyebrows, I feel my obsessive need to know everything boiling inside of me and watching them dart insults at each other without actually knowing what they're talking about is annoying me. "Can somebody just tell me what you're talking about!"

Scorp smirks. "Your brother here looks like he's just been fucked."

I choke.

Hugo chokes.

Caelum laughs and I choke again.

"MALFOY!" Hugo shouts.

"HUGO!" I shout.

And then it goes silent.

I look at Hugo, once just a little red ball of fluff and mum's matching track suits.

Now a corrupt teenager with an obsession for sex.

Hugo sits there glaring at Scorp and Scorp just pulls Cae closer. I think it's because he knows Hugo won't lay a hand on Cae.

"Why?" I whisper.

Hugo sighs and rolls his eyes. "Oh come the fuck off it Rose, I'm seventeen! Who gives a fuck!"

I glare at my brother. "I do! Do you know what happens when you have sex bar all the creepy diseases?" I snap.

He "hummpfs" and slumps back into his seat, "I don't need a sex talk Bud; I've been there and done that."

Scorp snorts. "With more than one girl?"

"Oh shut up teen dad, just because you only did it once and managed to knock up my sister with your super death-eater sperm!"

I couldn't believe this, where was my little brother? My baby brother who was too scared to even say death-eater?

Scorp tenses and I can tell he wants to give my brother one to the cheek but he holds it in, "Just because I only slept with one girl didn't mean I hadn't done anything with anyone else!" Scorp spits.

I close my eyes and hold up my hand. "Seriously Scorpius, think that through!"

Scorp lowers his eyes. "Sorry."

"Yeah, and how was Ashley Parkinson-Krum's mouth for love making?" Hugo mutters.

I reach out and slap his leg hard before giving him a twack over the head. "OUCH!" he yells.

I take a deep breath, "Hugo, what's got into you?"

"Or what did you put in someone else?" Scorp mumbles.

"STOP IT!"

They both shut up and look at me. Scorpius looking extremely entertained. "I'm sick of everyone thinking that Louis, Lily and I are just little kids, we're growing up. And believe it not Bud, I have a girlfriend and I think she's the one."

Scorp and I both look at each other, trying so hard not to laugh. The one? Someone save the boy.

I raise an eyebrow. "Oh? And who's that?"

"Olivia Wood, she's the one." And his eyes actually light up.

I shake my head. Another Wood in the mix, I already had to deal with her brother, and now it seems like the sister is going to pop up anytime soon.

"I can't believe you Hue, having sex at your age?" I say feeling more than creeped out and a lot disturbed.

He snorts. "You were a mum at my age," he says.

I nod, "Exactly! You don't want to end up like me!"

"Well it's not like I can take it back, I can't undo this Bud, shit. I'm not a fucking kid and I'm not stupid!"

I stand up now; he was fighting me, as if I didn't know what I was talking about. "You're immature Hugo, immature and naïve! You're being stupid and you're not thinking things through! Dumb, Hugo, that's what this is!" my arms were flinging all over the place and in his face.

Hugo's face crumbles as he watches me yell at him and he stands from his chair. "Fuck Rose. Out of all the people I would have expected to be angry at me, you were the last. And out of all the people I thought would think me dumb, you were the last. And to think I always thought I could tell you everything."

He walks away, dragging his feet and slumping up the stairs. I took a deep breath and looked at Scorpius.

He shook his head, "Rose, he's of age."

I shrug and lift my hands, "What? We were of age Scorp, that didn't change anything!"

"I don't think you handled that well."

I roll my eyes, "He had to hear it; he's being dumb!"

Scorp sighs and lets Caelum go on to the floor. "Huggie?" he says as he walks in Hugo's direction.

"He's your brother, Rose. You're not supposed to dictate what he does, just give him advice."

I fold my arms over my chest and stare. "What do you think I was doing? I was giving him advice, he's just overreacting."

Scorp shakes his head. "No, you were overreacting, you called him dumb. He's seventeen, Rose. And you two are close. If he can't tell you anything, he's got no one."

"Oh? And you're so experienced in this aren't you?" I snap.

He nods. "Yeah, because I have a sister and she's always helped me out, he's going to get pissed off and do something just out of spite. I can feel it."

And don't I feel fucking bad. The sharp slam of Hugo's door hitting the frame rings through the house and my son starts crying.

I don't think he likes confrontation.

Nanna smiles at me while she stirs a pot and tries to shake off Caelum who is stuck pretty damn good to her leg. "I don't mind looking after him for the day. We don't mind do we dear?" and she looks at Grandad.

Grandad grunts, "I can stay home if you don't want to look after him," I say, I was almost begging. I wanted to stay home, I didn't want to go. I didn't want to be drowned in lord knows what Molly is planning on using for her bridesmaids dresses.

Nanna laughs, "Oh no, we don't mind do we Arthur. Arthur? ARTHUR!" she shouts at him.

Grandad slowly lifts his head from the Prophet and shakes his head. "Of course we don't… what don't we mind doing?"

Nanna shakes her head. "Oh seriously Arthur, pay more attention will you!" she snaps.

He winks at me and gets back to reading. My poor grandfather.

I give Nanna a weak smile and bend down to kiss Caelum on the cheek who keeps darting behind Nanna's skirt. "Be good Cae," I say and I manage to pull him in to kiss him.

"No ma! No!" he says and he tries to wiggle out of my grasp, maybe he didn't like me.

I snort at myself, what a stupid thing to think. It's not like he had a choice, he had to like me.

I sigh and Nanna watches me, "You don't want to go do you?" she says.

How the hell she did that, I didn't know but she always seemed to be able to tell what everyone was thinking. "No," I mumble.

She laughs, "It might be good to have someone level headed there, with the kids back from Hogwarts and Dominique still going on about losing Moll, I'm sure they'll appreciate having you there."

I roll my eyes. "Sure. No, all they'll do is pick on me for saying that everything looks nice and then attack me when they eventually look in the mirror and see they truly look ghastly!" I tell her.

"Well go to at least keep poor Lily company, she still believes she's too old to be a flower girl."

I gawk at Nanna, Lily is too old to be a flower girl; she's sixteen for Merlin's sake.

"I think she's too old to be a flower girl," I mutter.

Nanna gives me a swift whack on the hand. "She'll make a beautiful flower girl thank you."

I nod. "Sure, sure."

"Ah, Ro-Zee, why are you not at zee store wiv zee rest ov zee girlz? Zey must already be zere!" says Aunt Fleur.

I sigh, not appreciating Aunt Fleur arriving and reinforcing the fact that I have to go to that blasted store to try on many and various tutu's. "I was just leaving," I mumble.

She smiles and nods. "Vell, that iz good." She says and she hurries off somewhere outside.

I see the fireplace light up and out steps mum and Aunt Ginny. I look over at Grandad who sighs and falls even deeper into his paper. I get his attention, "What is this? Women United day?" I whisper and he chuckles before stopping due to Nanna's glare.

"Oh Bud, thank goodness you're here," mum says.

"Why?"

"You have to go and find Dominique, she's in hiding."

I roll my eyes, "Seriously, if Dom has a p—" I'm cut off by Aunt Ginny's wand in my face.

"Shush!" she says while placing her finger to her lips. "If Fleur finds out that Dom isn't cooperating that'll be the end!"

I keep myself from yelling in frustration and I just nod, "Fine, I'll go and find her."

Mum comes over and kisses my cheek, "Thank you Bud, you know you're the only one that can talk sense into any of them; seriously, I don't know what gets into everyone these days."

And my thoughts drift back to my brother and how he's still not talking to me, "I don't know either."

I stand outside Dom and Molly's house staring at the door and hoping that maybe, some magical telepathic connection I have with my cousin will kick in and I won't have to haul her arse from the house. I don't bother knocking; I just walk on in to their crappy flat that reeks of Firewhiskey and potato chips and walk down the hall.

I get into the lounge to find a very buff and very tan, dark haired guy lying on the couch who I recognize from school. If my memory serves me right he was in sixth year when I was in my first and he is in fact Molly's fiancé, Kevin McLaggen, not to mention I've seen him play a few times for Ireland.

He bolts up from the couch and shoves his wand in my face, holy shit. Is that how you're supposed to great your fiancé's family? "Who are you?" he asks.

I widen my eyes and point to my head. "Rose Weasley?" I say.

He lowers his wand and starts laughing, well it was more like a bark but it wasn't funny. Having a wand in your face is not funny and it's happened to me twice in one day. "Well come in then, take a seat, what are you doing here?" he says as he slaps my back.

I gawk at the crazy guy and I shake my head. I didn't want to sit with him. "No, I'll be right. I'm just going to find Dom," I say.

He nods and points in the direction of her room. "Just down the hall on the right, yeah, go ahead."

I scowl because A: I know where her room is. And B: he's trying to make it seem like I wasn't welcome in this house and now thanks to him I am.

I don't even knock on the door when I hear Dom's voice. "Keep out unless you come bearing alcohol!" she yells through the door.

Typical Dominique.

I decide to lie. "I do, I have firewhiskey!" I shout.

I hear her jump off the bed and onto the floor, her body slams against the door. "Swish it around so I can hear it," she says.

She must have her ear to the door and I sigh. "Ok, I'm lying. Let me in."

She sighs in defeat and opens it slowly, peeping around the corner of the door. "Hurry and fucking come in."

I step into the pitch black room and she flicks her wand to light one of the lamps. It was like a dungeon in here and it smelt strange. Clothes were scattered all over the floor and I was practically swimming in dirty plates. "Why are you living like this Dom?"

She sniffs and falls dramatically back onto her bed. "Because I'm losing my best friend." Another sniff.

I roll my eyes, "She wants you to be her maid of honour and you're not even going!" I say as I throw my hands up in the air.

She flicks her long blonde hair and wipes away a fake tear from the corner of her steely blue eyes, light brown eye shadow and pink lips tell me that she wasn't planning on being couped up in here all day. Maybe she was going to the fittings all along. "Yeah, well, maybe I wasn't going for other reasons…" she mumbles.

I knit my eyebrows and place my hands on my hips. "Why?" I ask.

She coughs nervously and runs a hand through her hair. "Roxie's not too happy with me."

Now I was totally confused. "Why?" I ask again.

"Well, you know how Tori—Scorpius' cousin—and I are kind of a thing? Well she told Roxie that me and her brother Liam had a thing back at school…"

Well, she didn't have to tell me that Tori is Scorp's cousin. She didn't have to tell me that Tori's brother and her had a thing. I already knew both of these things. "Yeah? So what?"

"Roxie had a crush on Liam. I kind of really big one. Some may relate it to love."

I shake my head and laugh; there was no way that this was true. "No way! Roxie and Liam?"

She nods, "Yeah, she loved him… and I kind of knew that so it just kind of slipped in," she says bluntly while pointing at her bits.

I cringe. "How could you do that?" I say in shock.

She shakes her head. "No, Roxie didn't know I had done it until just yesterday when Tori brought it up!"

I sigh and hold out my hand waiting for her to take it, "Hurry, this isn't about you or Roxie, it's about Molly."

Dom sighs. "Can't you just bring me back a dress?" she says while she takes my hand.

We all had three shots of firewhiskey, even Lily did but it wasn't enough to get us through the silence. It was like the more we drank the more aware we were of the awkward silence and the more we had to drink. Another two shots and one person decided they'd say something.

Roxie is the first to speak and break through the silence.

It had been quiet in the dressmakers. Only a few whispered words were spread through, I'd given Lily a hug and made a comment on how much her hair had grown and she'd told me about how much she couldn't wait to come over tonight and see Cae.

Juniper Longbottom simply waved and went back to whispering to Mia Jordan about the beneficial properties of a new species of Mandrake she'd been studying and Dom stood in the corner of the room, leaning on a pole waiting for Molly to come out.

She'd come out looking more than beautiful and we'd been stuck out here looking like oversized and over ripened oranges. There was no way in hell that I'd be caught dead in the dress Juniper had chosen. And if there was anything I knew about her it was how much she loved oranges.

We all smiled at Molly and took more shots of the Firewhiskey; I'd taken a liking to the drink because I wanted to possibly drink my way into liking these dresses Juniper had chosen.

I had a feeling that both Roxie and Dom were drinking away the awkwardness between each other and Lily just wanted to drink because she could and her parents weren't there.

I hadn't realized how much we had all drank until the bottle was empty and we were standing in a room alone with Juniper, Mia and Moll all outside waiting for Freddie to turn up with some colour charts for Molly.

Dom, Roxie, Lily and I stood in an awkward huddle inside the shop, I stared at the three girls outside and my balance was off but I was happy.

I was happy that I had a short break from all the tulle and screaming.

Dom coughed and loosened the straps of her dress, "How do I tell her that the dress is horrible when she likes it so fucking much?" she says with a grin.

I laugh. "I don't think it's Moll you have to worry about upsetting, it's Juniper. She chose the bloody thing."

"It's not like Dominique has a problem about hurting other people's feelings. Especially if it's her own family."

Both Dom and I turn to look at Roxie but Lily just shrugs and raises her glass to her lips. "I guess it's the same as you Rose," she mumbles. I'm not totally convinced that she knows we heard but her eyes shoot to look at me.

"EXCUSE ME?" Dom yells at Roxie.

"You heard me!" Roxie snaps back.

I tear my eyes away from Lily to step between Roxie and Dom when Dom threatens to shove Roxie in the chest. "Stop!" I say, my firewhiskey making my mind hazy.

Lily snorts when I try and keep the fighters away from each other, "Always acting so good when you're not aye Rose?" she says.

I roll my eyes. "Stop it Lily, I don't know what's gotten into you but I think you better stop drinking," I say calmly. Lily was a light weight, that's what I put it down to.

"You! You ALWAYS ruin everything for everyone else! You knew I loved him, I always did! I had a crush on him since I was only a kid! But now you have him all to yourself!" Lily spat at me.

Well I didn't know about that, but before I could say anything Roxie spins to look at Dominique. "You slept with Liam Buchanan on purpose! You knew how much I liked him and you fucked him, and now you're on to his sister!"

Dominique smirks. "Well, lookey here, everyone's feeling brave because they've got fancy dresses on and a bit of firewhiskey in them. I'll have you know not only did I fuck both the Buchanan's but I got to their cousins too. Yes, I snogged both Lesath and Scorpius. Aren't I great?"

And now I was totally in shock. But was quickly snapped out of it when I saw taffeta flying all over the place.

Lily's tiny hands were trying to get to Dominique's face. "YOU'RE LYING, TELL ME YOU'RE LYING!" She screams.

Roxie stands and stares at me as I too stand there in shock, my hands limp at my sides and my eyes wide with wonder as this little girl attacks Dom who shoves her of herself and stands up as she won the battle. "Wait. So Lily loves Scorpius?"

Lily stands up trying to straighten out her hair but her eyes are slits, "You always got him, trapped him under you so he couldn't leave, you got pregnant! That was the end; you ruined it for him too!"

But as she's verbally attacking me, being held back by Juniper and Mia who just happen to appear out of nowhere—which by the way would usually confuse me, but it's not at the moment due to the amount of random things that have just happened—I look at Dom, "Did you really snog him?" I hiss.

She shakes her head and laughs. "Hell no, I wouldn't do that to you."

Roxie snorts and shoves her finger at Dom's chest. "As fucking if, you did that to me!"

Dom rolls her eyes, "Get. The. Fuck. Over. It!"

"I WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM!" Roxie shrieks.

I watch Lily collapse in a heap of taffeta on the ground. "I should have told him I had a crush on him! Now he has a kid!"

I look at Dom and shake my head. I had to leave.

I take my last look of Lily, "Lily. I was pushing shit uphill as it was. Now I'm pushing shit uphill with a pram. The last thing I want to worry about is you!" I snap.

I step through the door of my house and I step on the train of the dress I was wearing, maybe that was a good thing, maybe I'd damaged it so bad that Molly would be forced to change the dresses. That's if she still wanted us all as her bridesmaids.

I stumble into the lounge while kicking off my shoes and trying to unzip myself from the restraints of this frock when I meet mum and dad in the lounge.

They were curled up together on the couch, dad's hands slowly running up mum's sides, just like they always did when he managed to get mum alone.

In a way I envied their relationship, there wasn't anything that could pry them apart. Not a Dark Lord, not mum's failed attempts at Nanna's famous chocolate log, not dad's putting off doing housework. Not anyone and not anything.

And even now, years and years after meeting, they still love each other just the same.

Their troubles seemed like giants compared to the ones that I face but why do mine always feel so big?

I stand in front of the TV and hold my arms out, waiting for them to comment on the marshmallow I was wearing. "So?" I ask.

Mum's face lightens, obviously amused and dad holds back a laugh. "You look like a cake!" he says as he lightly pushes mum from against him and sits up straight.

Mum does the same and flattens her hair then pats the couch, telling me to sit in between them. "I know," I mumble.

Dad laughs and ruffles my hair. "I feel like I never see you Bud."

I look at dad and he pats my right hand resting on my knee. "I work at the same place as you," I tell him.

"Yeah, but we barely have shifts together."

"That's because you work one day a week and you work on a Saturday afternoon so I can have it off."

I look over at mum and she rolls her eyes. "You've been quiet for the past month or so," she says and she looks me dead in the eye. "Does it have anything to do with Scorpius leaving?"

Honestly? Yes. I haven't been myself and it's got a hell of a lot to do with Scorp leaving. I nod at her and she sighs, "Yeah, I'm kind of… I don't know…" I mumble.

I'd always avoided it, I never wanted to talk about it, hell, I didn't even press Scorpius to tell me how his day was in case the topic was brought up.

Australia.

Dad coughs nervously, "Think of it this way Bud," he starts and I know whatever he says isn't going to fare well with me. "When he gets back, you'll never need medical insurance. And not only that, but he'll be rich and it won't be dirty old money from his grandfather!"

"Seriously Ronald, that's terrible!"

I groan and sink further into the couch. "Don't Dad."

Mum sighs and pats my other hand. "Don't worry Bud, before you know it he'll be back and you two will be happy together."

I shake my head. "I don't know mum," I whisper. "What if he doesn't want to be with me when he gets back?" I voice my nightmare, I admit my fear.

And I feel dad tense next to me. "If he does that Bud, he's missed out on something great. And I doubt he won't want to come back to you. The boy knows how great you are, I know he does."

I give my dad a weak smile. "How did you two do it?" without crashing and burning after all you've been through.

Mum chuckles, "Well, it wasn't without any hardships. That's for sure. I guess it's trust."

"And being too damn scared of her to leave." Dad says and he winks at me.

Mum scowls at dad over top of me. "Oh and who flooed all the way back to The Burrow when I'd forgotten to owl back to you one day?"

"I needed an excuse to pick up some of those treacle tarts mum makes," dad shrugs.

"You've always been a terrible liar."

Dad squeezes my hand. "Do you trust Scorpius?"

I nod. "Sure I do, it's just…" it's just what? I didn't even know what it was, I just didn't want him to leave us, not when Cae was so young, not when I relied on my family so much and not when said family would push me over board and drive me totally fucking insane.

"You'll miss him won't you?" mum says.

"Of course," I mutter.

Dad clears his throat. "Well Bud, at the end of the day, it's your decision."

Mum's eyes falter when I look at her and I'm not so sure that I understand what he's talking about. "What is?"

He gulps. "Moving with Scorp to Australia."

My heart starts beating triple time, Australia? Surely not. I couldn't go with him… I didn't want to go and I didn't want him to go. But he had to go which meant that I wanted to go and be with him.

I was confused.

"I could? But what about you guys? My job? Cae? What about Cae? You are all I have and he's all you have… I couldn't handle him on my own and Scorp will always be working," I start shaking with the reality of how hard it would be. "Who would help me look after him? What about—" I was cut off by mum.

"That's the thing Bud, if you were to go; we'd keep him here, with us. You'll be back permanently in two years, it wouldn't be too long," she says giving me a squeeze.

I almost faint. Two years without my son?

Would I not leave for Australia because of him?

Definitely.

But then it's still two years without Scorpius.

I needed time.

I look from mum to dad and both of their faces were serious. "Why?" I whisper.

Dad sighs. "Because he'd be safer here with all of us, he'd be properly looked after and he'd be with all of his family, you and Scorp are still young. We want you to get out there and live, not be stuck here in this house with us Bud, we want more for you."

I nod, understanding more and more with each word but still not fully convinced. "We love you Rose, we want you to be happy."

Happiness was different and varied in many ways in my head.

"How was your day?"

Terrible? Horrible? Unexpected? Lily-fied? "Shitty," I say. "Like a really shitty cake, and my family? They were the icing. But not that delicious icing where you'd gladly lick it off. Oh fuck no! they were shitty also. Shitty icing!" I say dramatically.

Scorp snorts. "Whatever."

I lie on the bed with Cae sitting on my stomach and playing with my necklace and Scorp lying to my right playing with my hair. "I don't need my family," I say.

Scorp leans in and kisses my cheek. "Whatever. Spend a week without them and you'd be begging for them to let you move back in."

I shake my head making Cae frown. "Still!" he says clearly.

"Seriously, these last couple of days have made me wish I was adopted."

"Don't say that."

My eyes widen. "it's true!"

"It's alright, we have our own family," Scorp says while twisting my hair in his fingers, "Technically we don't need any fuckers at all."

"Yeah but no one knows we're actually a family—CAELUM!" I say when he tries to put my necklace in his mouth.

He drops it on me and giggles as he scurries off me and off the bed to his favourite toys. "The kid should really be asleep," says Scorp.

I sigh and roll onto my side so I'm face-to-face with him. "Our wedding was great you know, I loved it," I say against his lips.

He smirks. "And it took you until now to figure that out?"

"Seeing Molly and all of her plans made me see the light and God damn it it was bright, if I have to see another shade of orange I'll kill myself!"

Scorp laughs and shakes his head. "That bad was it?"

Bad was a fucking understatement. Downright shocking was about right. "Even you got pulled into the drama!"

He cocks an eyebrow? "How?"

"Dom said she snogged you but then said she was lying just to see what everyone would say."

Scorp smiles. "You know, it wouldn't have been so bad if it was true, when I was younger I wanted to snog her."

I hit him playfully. "You're fucking shocking you know."

"But really, a bit of a cat fight between cousins isn't enough for you to say you wish you were adopted is it?" he asks.

Sometimes my family were just too much trouble and there was just too many of them. I wanted it to be just Cae, Scorp and I. "I need a break from them."

He lifts his eyes. "Like a holiday?"

I shrugged. "Maybe something more permanent."

"You can come to Australia. Since you're legally my wife you're able to come on my internship."

I smile. "Something to consider isn't it?"

I didn't want to tell him that not long before he arrived home I had spoken to my parents' about it, I didn't want to let him know that I had their approval.

I did this out of selfish reasons only; I didn't want him to use it against me as a way to force me to go. But at the moment, I doubt there'd be any forcing.

Not when my heart is almost set. There was the set back of the whole Caelum thing. The thing keeping me from going to Australia tonight.

Cae crawls up onto the bed again and snuggles into my chest. "Sleepy now," he murmurs.

And it's ironic how happy we are together.

"Don't you bail on me Weasley, don't get me all worked up just for you to go and say you won't come."

I shake my head. "It's eight months away and I'm telling you, with every month that goes by I'll just want to come even more."

Scorp smiles and he reaches to switch off his life. "Imagine leaving Britain, it'll be fucking hectic."

"Imagine leaving my family," I mumble.

He laughs. "By the way, we have dinner with my whole family next week, you have to come or my mum and sister will never forgive you."

I gulp. "Does that include your grandfather?"

"Yes it does."

Crazy Lucius may be harmless but he still creeped me out.

And while I think about his family, I think about mine. How I had many relationships to mend and how I could very well be extending my own…

I'd been delaying that test as if maybe it would disappear if I just didn't think about it.

"Does it feel different? You know, being married to me?" I ask him.

It didn't feel much different to me. Just a bit dodgy like I didn't know when someone would spring the whole "Malfoy" thing on me. What would I do? What would I say?

How would anyone know? Because I hadn't told anyone.

I think I had a bad case of paranoia.

Scorp absentmindedly patted Cae on the head. "I wouldn't say different. I'd say right," and he winked at me to top it off.

Oh yes, he was a sweet talker. "You're a git."

He laughed. "Think about it, in Australia no one would know us as anything but a married couple. Then we could come back and have this big fake wedding and everyone would be so proud and not know a fucking thing about anything!"

I nod and laugh at his logic because it wasn't a half bad idea. "No wonder you were in Slytherin, best plan I've heard in a while."

"So my words are winning you over? I'm clever you know, second only to you."

Yeah but who used to do all his homework? "You are clever."

"I am, because I got a girl whose down for anything in bed," he mumbles.

I slap him on the head, reaching over our son and trying to avoid his sleeping form. "Not in front of Cae!"

"He's asleep though," he laughs.

I roll my eyes. "Maybe you should be too."

"Maybe we could go into the lounge? Are you down for anything in there?" another slap. "Ok, ok, we'll go to sleep."

I smile to myself. I loved that idiot. "I love you."

"I love you too," there was a brief pause. "And I thank Merlin for you every day. I give a few thanks to your dad a majority of them to your mum as well."

I laugh again, happy that I'm stuck with this guy. "You're crazy Scorpius Malfoy."

"Not as crazy as you."

(A/N) Hah, they're cute.

So... I hoped you like it, here's the preview for next chapter.

Al's eyes grow wider. "Why do I always end up here with you?" he moans. "It's like every time you have a kid I'm the one that has to help you out."

My glare changes from the tesst to my cousin and back, slightly pissed off that all he can think about right now is himself. "Well i'm sorry that you feel so damn uncomfortable but excuse me for a bit while i think about myself!"

*Gasp!* what's the result?

Ok, so I'm sorry that it's taking me so long to update. I've got exams coming up at Uni and my kid inside me is playing up not to mention my son is not adjusting to the thought of having to share me with a sibling. Lol.

Update will be on the 9th of September 2011. If I get to 135 reviews.

I'll be updating my Dom/Tori story on the 5th of September 2011 so stay tuned!

ENJOY! PLEASE ENJOY! AND REVIEW!

As for me, it's the first day of Spring here so I'm enjoying the weather :)