Chapter Ten: Need vs Want

All characters belong to JK Rowling. I just have a hard time letting them go.

Sorry for being slack!

His heart bounced hard off of his chest when the words left her mouth.

" What?"

" You heard me. And the only reason why I haven't obliverated your memory yet is because of the possibility Samuel Grant may just be your father. In any case you would have to be enlightened on it sooner than later so..."

Scorpius shook his head, just as he tried to shake the horrible feeling snaking it's way through his stomach.

"...I guess this was as good of time as any. But you can't go running your mouth to Albus or anyone Malfoy. I'm serious. The only person in my family who even knows that I'm involved with the Ministry in this way is my Uncle Harry and he isn't even sure as to what they have me doing. All he knows is that the job that everyone thinks I'm doing with this department is just a cover..."

His hands were fisting and unfisting. There was almost a crashing sound throbbing against his eardrums.

"...I don't need my parents, well mainly my father worrying about me because of what I do..."

She was moving around before him. She was doing something with the file that she had somehow pryed away from his grip. It was like looking through a fog. A red fog.

"...and it's not even that dangerous. Of course there was that one time. Damn Avada missed me by this much...."

Scorpius blinked.

Her fingers that were describing just how close she had come to certain death were suddenly crushed by a hand that seemed just as hell bent on killing her than any spell.

" Are you out of your fucking mind Rose!?"

" What the hell are you doing!?"

He didn't let her go, even when her face showed little tolerance for his sudden burst of anger. " An Unspeakable!? A bloody Unspeakable!? Are you looking to get yourself killed?!"

" Stop yelling! And let me go!"

" No I won't stop yelling and you're wrong if you think I'm going to let you go! I should drag you to your parents house and make you tell your father just what you told me and see if he likes the idea of you working for the fucking Ministers personal band of bloody assasins!"

Rose pulled hard against his grip. Her teeth lay clentched against each other in a futile attempt to keep the mess of obscenties begging to rip from her mouth.

" Do you have any idea why every year the idiot man even recruits so many wizards and witches to work for him!? It's because they're looking for magic that's willing to protect this world and be able to have little regard for their own lives!! Not to mention the fact that they all keep on getting themselves killed in action and what do you know, they need to be replaced!"

" You have no idea what you're talking about!"

" You're a bloody idiot!"

In a final push mixed with a forceful pull Rose managed to free herself from his grip. The moment she did though, the hand that still had blood circulating through it connected with his face.

Scorpius, stunned for the smallest second, touched his cheek that was now burning under the coolness of his own hand. " You hit me!"

" You shouldn't sound so surprised seeing how you more than deserved it!"

" Deserved it?! I was trying to make you see just how stupid you're being! This job will kill you!"

" Another minute in this room with you will kill me!" Rose grabbed for her coat laying across her desk and shoved it over her heated body. " I don't know why I even told you!"

He was still stunned that she had actually served him up a fine slap to the jaw, but it didn't occur to him that the conversation between them might just be over.

" I can't let you do this...you know that."

" You can't let me do this?" She glowered toward where he stood. His cheek was red with her handprint. " Can't? I'm sorry but since when is it any of your business as to how I live my life?"

Scorpius cringed at her words, but it didn't lessen the argument he was pitching at her. " That's not the point!"

" Than what is the point!? I didn't bring you here to have you come crashing down on me because you don't agree with my choice of occupation! I brought you here to help me fill in the blanks when it comes to this man!" She shook the file at him, than thrust it into her shoulder bag. " I don't need a lecture! I don't need your bloody opinion! I'm doing this and merlin help me if you open your damn mouth Malfoy!"

The lights snapped off over his head and he watched her storm from the room.

Rose felt her blood pumping, and her skin skipping with her temper. It wasn't until she felt his fingers wrap about her arm once more did she realize how hard she was suppressing her building rage for the man not a foot behind her.

" I would say it's the other way around Weasley." He spoke with control, even though he could feel the same horrific feeling ultimately bleeding it's way through his system. Scorpius pulled lightly against the fabric of her coat, turning her to look at him under the burning lights of the hallway they stood in. " I would also say you just stepped in it."

She bit her lip when his eyes caught her own steaming gaze. They were challenging her. Rose had seen it before...she had crumbled not too long after looking into it. But this time it was different. They were both different.

She narrowed her own expression of ultimate searing anger against the haze of blue plowing into her thoughts. " And how's that?"

Scorpius smirked. Rose grimaced.

" I'll make you a deal."

She went to open her mouth and with little to no grace in order to tell him to shove it, but he was already speaking, closing the distance between them as he did.

It was than and only than that she felt herself distract from the situation at hand. It was than and only than that the sneer assaulting his mouth had her biting her bottom lip even harder.

" Obviously, it's important to you that I keep your secret. I mean, aside from your family basically blowing their tops if they found out, I'm sure the Ministry wouldn't look too kindly on you when they found out you told a meer civilian living in the muggle world that you were an Unspeakable. Isn't that grounds enough to lose your job Weasley?"

Rose tried to take a much needed step away from him, but his large hands held her in place as his words made themselves known.

" So I won't say anything. I'll keep my mouth shut."

" For what?"

Scorpius smiled. " I'm coming with you. When you go off to look for this man...I'm coming."

" You're insane."

" Your choice." He stepped away from her, releasing her arm as he did. " Either I go with you. Or I out you."

Rose growled.

" I mean your father..." Scorpius blew out a heavy breath. " He'll lose his head for sure. And your mother...well she might have the coolest tempermant around but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't like the idea of her little girl jetting around the world and throwing spells about like a seventh year in a defense of the dark arts class....not to mention Al and the rest of your family. Hell....well it would explode on your picture perfect life."

" This is blackmail."

Scorpius laughed when she spit the words at him. He wondered just how red her skin could get. He also wondered about her bottom lip and wether it was going to survive her teeth or not....

" Damn right."

She didn't agree. She didn't disagree. She screamed between clentched teeth which only made him chuckle again as he watched her throw her arms up in surrender and continue her tyrade down the hallway towards the dreaded elevator.

It wasn't until the doors slid open and she stepped inside did she turn to glower at him from where he still held vigil. " I leave after the wedding."

He grinned inwardly. " I wasn't asking for permission Weasley."

She stabbed the buttons before her sending a shooting pain up her forearm. " And I'm not giving you permission. I am however giving you warning."

" And how's that."

The elevator chimed to life around her. Her eyes stayed still and solid on his. " This is my job. This is what I do. Don't get in my way. You get in my way...I'll get in yours."

The doors slid shut.

And Scorpius decided that the woman getting in his way wasn't the worst thing that could happen.

" Stop pacing Al."

" I'm not pacing."

Scorpius blew out a heavy breath while James rolled his eyes. Albus continued to pace.

" You're making me dizzy."

" No. You're dizzy because you drank yourself into a bloody stuper last night, idiot."

James shrugged, than grinned wickedly at his brother who was at the moment pulling at his silk black tie noosed about his neck. " I actually wasn't that intoxicated kid...I was just going through the motions because of the waitress who was eyeing me all night. I think she may have saw a cause worth saving!"

Scorpius shook his head. " Must be a brave woman to take you on Potter."

" They all are Malfoy!" James laughed, motioning to his brother now fidgeting before a mirror. " But I suppose this calls for more praise when it comes to bravery. Al's the one taking the plunge, and needless to say he's willingly attached the old ball and chain all by himself!"

" Should we applaude?" Scorpius glanced at Albus who only smirked in response.

James grinned. " Nah. I'm sure Al doesn't need our congratulations. The honeymoon does start tonight remember?"

Scorpius laughed. Albus gritted his teeth but felt the corners of his mouth betray the ball of nerves twisting in his stomach. He ran a hand through his tumble of curls that his mother had helped him tame for the days event. " Have either of you seen Bree yet?"

" That's not the way these things work little brother." James yawned from the corner of the room, letting his head rest against the large wingback chair.

" If we had been aloud to bring out bloody wands we might have been able to help you out in that department." Scorpious glanced about the small room that they had been ordered to upon arrival at the church. Mrs. Potter as well as Mrs. Vindley seemed to have bonded over the last few weeks, and when it came to the wedding for their son and daughter they meant more than business. In turn, that meant that everything and anything that could possible go wrong that day was not and would not happen. He smirked towards James and wondered how bored his friend was at that moment.

" Mum has hers. And Im pretty sure I saw dad sneak his this morning before Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron picked us up."

Al snorted. " Did you really think either mum or dad where going to leave the house without their wands James? Hell, I'm sure they're both permanently paranoid for the rest of their lives after the mess they both went through when they were Hogwarts."

James shrugged, than made a frustrated sound deep inside his throat before peeling himself from his chair and making a beeline for his brother. " Seriously kid, you'd think after all the classy functions we've been dragged to over the years you would have a clue when it comes to the piece of material around your neck!"

Scorpius watched in quiet amusement as the two men struggled with the tie, batting insults back and forth at each other as they did. He relaxed back into his own chair, letting his eyes travel toward the floor length windows that were decorated with a slew of different colors that the sun was playing with as it blended with the glass. He was focused. Somewhat anyhow.

He would stand up for Al, be the best man, give the toast, watch James and make sure he did his duty as well. But his head was elsewhere. The face of the man that had stared him in the eye only days ago was doing more than haunting him. It had kept him up the past two nights, his thoughts, his questions, that face. He had come close to asking his mother, had come too close actually, but the words just didn't make sense on his tongue. And than there was his father, the man who had raised him and wanted him from the beginning. Scorpius had always known he was adopted, had always known that he wasn't a Malfoy by blood, but it had never mattered and his father...Draco....he had always made sure that Scorpius was aware of that fact. It didn't matter. It had never mattered.

Until now. It was an odd feeling that clawed at his stomach when he glanced at the man next to his mother and the boy smiling so wide from the black and white photo. He couldn't decipher it. He couldn't tell the difference between the need to know or the want to know when it came to the man who seemed to look so much like the little blonde boy clutching a tattered stuffed frog in his little hands.

Scorpius didnt noticed his mouth twitching, even when his hand brushed against his lips in an attempt to harden the grin tempting there. His mind drifted slowly. Of course he had always had an issue seperating need and want. It wasn't like he didn't know what they were. Need was something that was substantial, like food and water. It was something that you couldn't do without. His eyes narrowed on the glass when the sun shot another stream of bright white light mixed with a dripping crimson color across his gaze. But want.

Want was raw. He always thought it was stronger than any need. It was something that you could feel at the ends of your fingertips when something was just out of reach, or a pain that could slice through every nerve ending when a scent or a smile or a touch was dangerously close to pulling you under. It was the only emotion that could have you claimed temporarily insane and you would have no problem with that diagnosis as long as you got....he got what he wanted.

He noted the heat from the sun was not what suddenly had his skin searing from under his suit.

" James! Bloody hell! You're choking me!"

" Merlin Al! I was just trying to give you another way out of the long walk down the aisle!"

Scorpius blinked and was about to force himself in between his two friends when the door to the little room opened and Harry Potter, flanked by Ron Weasley as well as his own father stood in amusement before the three younger men.

" We can hear you all the way down the hall...your mother sent us to make sure you weren't killing one another." Harry was smiling brightly, and laughed when Albus sneered toward James who could only laugh in response.

" I thought you were assigned best man to keep Al here alive until he was out of the country Scorp?"

Scorpius shook his head toward his father who was matching Mr. Weasleys grin to perfection. " I didn't realize that was part of the job description."

" Well with two Potter boys in the same room for too long you should have guessed as much kid." Ron was already attacking the tie around his nephews neck with vigilance while Harry went about putting James back together from the small scuffle that had insued between his sons.

" Don't blame Malfoy." Albus chimed in, his voice deep with his nerves even when his eyes were brimming with mischievenous. " He's been somewhat distracted ever since Rose fell at his feet at the reception the other night."

Albus gagged when his uncles fingers worked a little too hard to tighten his tie.

Draco burst in laughter and patted his son on the back gently. " Well kid you never know. I told Weasley here that we might just have to get used to the idea of becoming family one day."

" Over my bloody dead body ferret!!"

Albus choked for air. Ron's face blanched red. Harry and James laughed without much regard for their own lives while they saved a strangling groom from an early death.

Scorpius assumed Al would escape certain demise and he would become victim to the massive red haired man instead.

Draco could only chuckle and sent his son a knowing look. " Weirder things have happened kid. I still can't believe I'm standing in the same room with these two..." He smirked and than braced his hands in the air toward Ron who was till fuming. " I'm just saying Weasel! I swear I can see steam coming from your ears man! Come on, leave the boys to their father and I'll try and explain to you the upside of our genes blending!"

" You're asking for it Malfoy! I swear if the bloody woman hadn't of forced me to leave my damn wand home I would...."

Their voices carried even when Draco and Ron had left the room.

The laughter resumed inside the four walls between Albus, James and their father and grew louder after Scorpius sent his best friend a scathing look and carefully followed the bellowing and chuckles out of the room.

" Idiots." He growled, shoving his hands deep inside his pockets as he stormed down the winding hall. " Leave it to Al...serving me up on a damn platter..."

" There you are!"

He almost turned and ran. He wondered if there was a fireplace within the church equipped for such an escape. He knew a great bar somewhere on the outskirts of the small town that served a great pint of beer...

But Ms. Dupree was faster than he thought. In all her glory, that was adorned with flashing gold jewlery that matched the almost neon pink satin dress she was wearing, her hands were about his arm and pulling him toward the church entrance where people were busy finding their seats and chatting amongst themselves.

" Ms. Dupree." He spoke through clenched teeth but managed a polite smile as the woman barked orders at him for the tenth time that morning.

" So the sister and brother will of course walk first, followed by you and the young girl...Rose is it? Yes that's it...than of course we have the bride with her father. You do know it's the first wedding I've done and I haven't had a little flower girl and ring bearer running about. It's quite a relief actually seeing how I really have no tolerance for the little creatures, but I suppose that comes with the job. Also, the speeches. The groom tells me that the brother will be giving the speech and you yourself will just be saying a few words in regards to the couple themselves which I think is fine, but we only have alotted amount of time so if you could keep it to the minimum that would be perfect seeing how the sister is going to make a speech as well and..."

He was listening. Or he had been. The womans words had slowly melted into one another when he saw her walking toward him.

She was dressed in red satin. It clung to curves that he was never aware of before than. Her legs were long and lean.

She turned to say hello to some random bastard who got too damn close for his liking and his breath snapped inside his lungs.

The material was non existent down her back and was cut dangerously low. So low. Too fucking low. His heart jammed against his chest and his fingers tightened like steel against his palm.

" Excuse me." He sneered toward the wedding planner still chattering on with more white noise and stormed toward Rose and her red dress that seemed to blend well with the color his rage was now producing.

Only when his fingers were around her arm, touching her bare skin and burning his fingertips did she notice him.

" I need to speak to you." He was snarling like some kind of wild animal by this time. The man that had been taking in all that skin seemed to suddenly shrink before the blond wizard. " Now."

" I'm busy." Rose hissed, trying to soften her lips on the nice man before her....who seemed to look much paler than he had moments before.

But of course her words fell on deaf ears and before she could even catch the muggles name Scorpius was pulling her away from the crowds of well wishers and toward the closest exit.

He shoved the doors open and pulled her outside, basically lifting her off of her feet in order to keep her from tripping up in the pair of heels she had been forced into again.

" What the hell Scorpius!!! Do you think you can manhandle me whenever you bloody well please!!!"

" Do you think you should be bloody well dressed in something like that!?"

Her skin was so damn soft under the hold he had on her. Her hair was coiled at the nape of her neck and her solid brush of bang was swept to the side, leaving her eyes open and vulnerable...and presently full of rage...

" I can dress however I damn well please!"

The red fog was draining around him even though his grip continued to feel like hot stone against her skin.

" Where the hell do you get off?! I swear to merlin you've bloody well lost it Scorpius Malfoy! Lost it! If you ever pull something like that ever again...!"

" Rose." He growled in warning, his jaw working hard under his freshly shaven face. His eyes flecked against her hazardous stare.

" Rose what?! What?! He was a nice man! A nice normal man!! And I doubt he had an issue with what I was wearing or how much skin I'm showing! I can do as I please! Do you hear me!"

" Rose."

"What Scorpius!? What?!"

He didn't mean to hurt her but he knew that he would. His mouth was anything but gentle when it collided with her lips again. This time he forced her against the closed door, he knew pushing hard enough to bump her head and all her hair against the metal, but he couldn't break away from her, his body wouldn't allow it....just as he was sure her body wouldn't either.

He felt her every curve press against him, into him, her heart snapping off beats against his chest that was doing the same as his. His hands were hard against every inch of skin he traced. Her head fell against his chest when he dragged his teeth against her neck and her shoulder, a gasping noise sounded from a set of lips he hated to be away from for too long.

It was only when he felt her hands drag across his chest did he feel his control, or what was left of it, dissapearing... his head was clouded, his senses were dangerously lingering over her scent, and how she tasted in his mouth...

He pressed her harder against the door, feeling every sane thought leaving him, feeling her body quake under his...he bit down hard on her lip when she lost control of the quick breath escaping her lungs...

And it was than that the opposite door swung open letting the noise and excitement of the ceremony rush around them.

" Rose!..Oh god...sorry..." Bree's sister giggled from where she stood.

Scorpius fell back, his entire being protesting the damn child that was now grinning like a manic woman before them.

Rose pulled herself from the door, her eyes anywhere but his.

" We're um...starting and...well you two are kind of a big part of the ceremony....but I can see if we can do without you if you want...."

" Do that." Scorpius growled running a hand through the mess of hair she had had a hand in.

Her legs were shaking as she walked toward Eveyln who on lifted eyebrows laughed one more time and left the open door in the hands of Rose. If she was going to say something, she changed her mind in the end.

Scorpius watched her shake her head slightly, the curls grazing her back, the golden green of her eyes watching him with a caution he was unfamiliar with.

It was only when the door closed behind her did he finally realize the difference between need and want.

Hi! I haven't left you! lol

Just been busy and I feel horrible for not writing. So after this chapter it does pick up. I feel like Ive gotten a little lost with the romance between Scorp and Rose but as it is I plan to definitley have Samuel Grant a constant bad guy character in the next few chapters. I still have the relationship between Rose and Scorp to work with, the fight that Rose (with Scorp in tow) will have on her hands when she comes face to face with the doctor and his ideals and his secrets and than we have Scorp and the doctor, his biological father...and how that whole mess will play out...I can tell you it will not be good....but I promise to make it fun along the way and all the sexual tension will definitley reach its boiling point lol!!

My friend read this and the missing pieces and said i should write for a soap lol

Anyway review! You can get mad at me for being slack! lol Breeva xxx