A/N: I firstly apologise sincerely for the really late update, I never dreamed I'd update this late. I've just been busy with exams and other stuff. From now on, I plan to update every week hopefully. I'm a real procrastinator though, and I'm known for starting something and then not finishing it. So a bit of encouragement and a few words if I'm getting lazy would be good.

This chapter was a bit hard for me to write, I just didn't have many ideas at all. And then, I finally got an idea at midnight and I just had to write it. So, this chapter's been written in the dark of the night but I think it's not bad, considering I'm half dazed and the only thing keeping me awake is the fact that I finally have something decent to post. Plus, it's much longer than the usual chapters, so I must be feeling bad for not updating in so long.

Anyways, I'm rambling as usual so I'll let you carry on reading. Before I do, though, just a little disclaimer- I don't own anything but May, Will, and Holly Bertrand, who are all figments of my imagination.

Oh, and a warning: this chapter contains swearing. That is all. On with the story!

Rose Weasley wasn't all that accustomed to taking revenge on people. In fact, she hardly managed to get into the type of situation where people would be angry with her. It wasn't that she wasn't capable of looking after herself in a fight (though that notion was somewhat challenged by her physical appearance), she just didn't really make an enemy out of anyone. If anything, she preferred to keep the peace between people, and though she had her impulsive outbursts of anger, she had gotten quite good at keeping her temper at bay since the incident with Scorpius in the holidays. That all changed, however, when she met Holly Bertrand. Or rather, when Holly Bertrand met her and decided to belittle and undermine Rose as much as possible.

The decision to take revenge on Holly was a big thing for Rose. She didn't like making people feel bad, because she believed firmly that what went around came back around. It was after a number of events that everyone else had to tell Rose that she needed to let Holly know what she was dealing with.

Rose had initially intended to take Holly down. When she thought about it, however, she didn't know what to do to make Holly feel bad. She could try to beat her in class; though that was something she tried naturally to do- to be the best. She thought of hurting her emotionally, but that was a bit too much for a petty competition. Rose then decided that she would leave it. A bit of healthy competition never did anyone any harm. And she didn't want to waste time being angry at Holly Bertrand. Being angry at Scorpius like she had been in the summer was okay because she cared about him. Holly Bertrand wasn't even someone Rose cared about.

The number of events that had gradually led Rose to take Holly down was quite large. At first, Rose couldn't even see that Holly was doing such things, and it took May, Albus, and Scorpius to make her see sense. Rose wondered why the whole clan had gotten involved and it was only after the fifth incident that she rethought the whole situation and reflected on the things Holly had done and how stupid she had been.

Firstly, there was the time when Rose's entire six foot long written, timed and illustrated essay was ruined by Rachel Biscoe. Rachel had spilled an entire bottle of ink on Rose's work and afterwards said that Holly had accidentally nudged her elbow, which Rose found perfectly plausible until May pointed out that Holly and Rachel were bosom friends and an 'accident' was highly unlikely.

The second time in the eventful list was when Rose found her shoelaces tied together after walking into the Great Hall for supper after Potions, and tripped over the bench as she sat down at the Gryffindor table, causing everyone on the Slytherin table to laugh at her. Rose blamed this on herself and her muddled state in the afternoon after she had fallen asleep in the library during lunch. It was Albus who had pointed out that the only reason she was in the library was because she had to rewrite her essay. And Holly had been at the table behind her, giving her ample time to tie Rose's shoelaces together.

The third time was when Rose woke up to find her hair dyed neon orange, a far cry from the auburn hair she was normally found sporting. She had no explanation for this, but after initially freaking out, she shrugged it off and did a simple spell to change her hair colour back before anyone else woke up. Even if Holly had intended to embarrass her, it hadn't worked.

The fourth happening was when Professor Vespifor, the Astronomy teacher and Ravenclaw Head of House sentenced her to a week in detention for taking Holly's notes which were found in Rose's Potions book that she had forgotten to take after the previous lesson. A hint of doubt had crept into Rose's mind at this incident, and she got quite angry, but she brushed it off as an unfortunate series of events. The last episode, nevertheless, was the one that killed Rose's resolve to stay out of conflict.

It had been one day when the Gryffindor team were getting changed after a particularly wet and muddy Quidditch session in preparation for their mach against Ravenclaw, and Rose was sitting in the common room reading a book. She was with Albus, who was missing practise because of injuries sustained from undiluted Bubotuber pus, and who kept moaning about how Ancient Runes wasn't reading for pleasure and that the adventures of the mad muggle that her father used to read were much better.

Everything seemed perfectly fine, with Rose and Albus good naturedly bickering over reading preferences, when May and Scorpius walked into the common room, muttering about something underneath their breaths and shaking their heads in what could only be interpreted as worry and sympathy.

"What's the matter?" asked Albus in a low tone, who had put down his comic the minute Scorpius and May had entered the room.

"It was really bad, seriously." muttered Scorpius.

"I can't believe she did that." whispered May.

"What? What did who do?" asked Albus, a little worriedly this time, though he was careful to say it in the same low tone.

May and Scorpius looked at each other uncertainly. Scorpius motioned with his eyebrows at Rose and May shook her head. Rose, who had her head buried in Ancient Runes was paying no attention and had only registered Scorpius and May's presence with a 'hello' and a smile, not knowing that something contrary to the ordinary had happened.

May and Scorpius moved closer to Albus and began narrating in hushed tones.

"Basically, it was before practise and we were on our way down. And the Slytherins had been practising too, because obviously, now that the pitch is bigger, two teams can practise at once. Why they had practise, I don't know- it should have been Ravenclaw's time. But we were so far away we couldn't see their tactics and they couldn't see ours. But as we went down to the pitch, we saw Holly with a few of the Slytherins and they didn't look as though they were up to any good." said Scorpius. He looked at May and she continued.

"Right, but when we were on our way down, all us Gryffindors, we saw Will, who was on one of his sleepwalk missions again. He must have fallen asleep at the library because it's almost curfew time now, and we saw him about an hour and a half ago. Anyway, we sort of guided him towards the portrait hole and carried on downstairs."

"Because it's not good to wake a sleeping person or something?" asked Albus.

"Yeah, we thought that we'd get him towards the common room and that someone would see him and take him to his dorm or something. Plus, he's generally harmless when sleepwalking anyway." explained May. "And then-"

She cut off quickly, because Rose had just put her Ancient Runes book down and was yawning slightly. The common room was emptying slowly and Albus took the opportunity to get Rose away.

"Rosie, why don't you head to bed?" asked Albus.

"Yeah, you seem pretty tired, Rose." echoed Scorpius, catching on quickly.

"Okay. Are you not tired, May?"

"Oh, I sort of am, but I still have my Care of Magical Creatures work to do, so I'll be up in a bit." said May.

Rose nodded and said goodnight to everyone, yawning again as she trudged up the stairs along with the rest of the people who had been in the room. The three of them listened for their retreating footsteps and only when they were sure that she had gone did May continue.

"Right, so where was I? Oh yeah, basically we left Will and when we were on our way back up, we saw Holly and the Slytherins laughing about something. And they weren't even being quiet about it, they were laughing so much."

"Evil bastards." muttered Scorpius.

"So we were thinking, what's going on here, and Holly just burst out laughing and she said that Will was 'in a bit of a predicament'. So at that point we were a bit puzzled and she literally just started cackling even more and we were getting really freaked out. And then they didn't say anything else and just walked away, and as we were coming up the corridor to the common room, we heard this wheezing. So we all ran to where the noise was coming from and we saw Will, curled up on the floor. He was having an a-amstha?"

"Asthma." corrected Scorpius.

"Yeah, an asthma attack, and then, he- well he- oh, I can't go on, you say it Scorp."

"So basically, he was just there wheezing and coughing and he looked so helpless. And then we didn't know what to do, because it's a muggle illness and any spells that we did didn't work. And we couldn't move him to take him to Madam Demurest either."

Albus's eyes were wide. "And then?" he asked frantically.

"Well, then May did Anapneo to clear his airway and that helped a little but not a lot. And then thankfully, Jenny Watkins, that fourth year, she knew what to do, because she's muggle born and her sister has asthma, and she Accio-d his inhaler, which is this muggle thing they use for asthma attacks-"

"Thank god Jenny was there." muttered May in appreciation.

"So then, we gave it to him and he took it and it was all okay. He's just in the Hospital Wing now, resting." finished Scorpius.

Albus exhaled a sigh of relief.

"It frightened the crap out of me, though." said May.

"Thank god you guys were there. And Jenny. But what does Holly have to do with all of this?" Albus asked, puzzled.

"I'm getting to that. Will told us that he was having his attack, right, the beginning part of it, and that Holly was there with her Slytherin bunch- why she hangs around with them I don't know, I thought Ravenclaws were meant to be good- and they all saw Will and they didn't do anything to help him. In fact, Holly pulled out some deodorant and sprayed it right in his face, and that just worsened the attack. By the time we got to him, literally, he had like minutes to live because his airways were that void of oxygen. They just left him." said Scorpius.

"You mean- he could- he could have died?" asked Albus, horrified.

"Yeah. If we hadn't gotten to him in time, he could have been dead."

May was shaking her head as though trying to dispel the event from her mind. Albus extended a comforting arm around her. She shivered a little at his touch, but was grateful. Scorpius rolled his eyes and smiled at Albus knowingly, something that May didn't see.

"But wait, why didn't you want Rose to know all of this? Surely Holly would have helped Will cause they're partners in Potions? She goes on about how Holly upstages her all the time and how Will is just, well, there."

"Did Rose tell you about how Professor Ankra made us switch back to our original partners?" asked Scorpius. "No, she wouldn't have, we only had Potions yesterday and it wasn't exactly a pressing matter." he concluded, answering his own question.

"I take it Rose has something to do with this?" asked Albus anxiously.

"Well, Holly seems to have gotten it into her head that Rose was the one who told Professor Ankra that you swapped partners and that's why Will isn't working with her anymore." said May.

"How do you know?" asked Scorpius.

"Rose told me that Holly seemed to have extra pissed-off-ness sprinkled on her oatmeal this morning, and that it was probably because of Potions."

"But why does not being partners with Will matter that much to Holly anyway? Surely if she wanted to be his partner that much she would have helped him." wondered Albus.

"I don't know. Maybe she was just looking for an excuse to blame something else on Rose."

"That bitch. I don't understand why she had to do something like that, I mean walking away from someone in need!" exclaimed Albus.

Scorpius sighed in disgust. "It's just cruel. And I come from a family of Slytherins, that's saying something."

"Will's not angry at Rose though is he?"

"No, of course not, he knows its Holly being a bitch."

"We just thought it best not to tell Rose , because she has a habit of getting really guilty about things and this would just drive her to the edge." explained May.

"Hmm. I agree with you there. Rose is quite sensitive about things that way. She gets angry easily, but damn does she regret it afterwards." agreed Albus.

"Exactly. Like in the holidays with-" started May, who abruptly closed her mouth.

"Like what in the holidays? With who?" asked Scorpius.

"Oh, nothing. Never mind, it's not important. It's the tiredness talking, don't worry."

"O…kay." Scorpius said uncertainly.

"Bloody hell though, that's a lot that's happened. Poor Will. Poor Rose." said Albus.

"We need to make sure she doesn't hear about this. For her own peace of mind." said May

"Agreed."

"Too late." said a quiet voice. Albus, May and Scorpius whipped their heads round to see Rose standing at the foot of the stairs, an angry glint in her eye with a shadow of guilt etched underneath it.

"I'm taking Holly Bertrand down. And this time, I mean it."