Rose woke up in Scorpius's arms. They hadn't let go of each other all night. All night.
"Scorpius! Wake up!" She cried, shooting up to sit. "Scorpius!" She lightly thwacked him on the shoulder.
"Huh, what?" His eyes opened, that mercurial silver slow in them. "What's up?" He let go of her waist to rub his eyes.
"We fell asleep. We slept all night. No dreams. None. Did you have any?" She whispered excitedly.
He thought on it for a moment, "No…"
She smiled the brightest smile he'd seen on her face in the history of his time at Hogwarts, not even in second year when a toad jumped into Miss Bertrude's morning pumpkin juice.
"What does this mean?"
"I don't know. We should tell my mum!" She bounced off the bed and ran to leave but he caught her hand. "What?"
"Hi Mum, I didn't dream last night. I slept perfectly with a boy. In his bed!" Scorpius mimicked her voice the best he could. She would have laughed if it weren't for what he'd said.
"Shit!" She covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing. "You're right. What are we going to do?"
"She's going to figure it out anyway. There'd be no data from your bed last night." Scorpius, ever the Ravenclaw stated.
"Double shit." She laughed.
"That sounds hot!" Daphne practically screamed.
"Shut up!" Rose tried to hush her friends up.
Alexandria who wasn't often prone to squealing and screaming joined in. "Oh Merlin's beard, did you make out. Did you do anything else? What does he look like without a shirt on, everyone's dying to know?! Spill! Spill!" She cried.
"Alex. Shush! All that happened was sleeping, but it was wonderful sleeping. No nightmares, no murder. The first honest to god good sleep I've had since this all started!"
Daphne stared at her with disgust. "You're telling me, you had bad boy hot pants in your bed, his bed whatever and you did nothing?"
"Um, yes. That's exactly what I'm saying…" Rose replied with caution.
Daphne just waved her off and started talking to someone else.
"Did you guys spoon at least?" Alexandria asked, a little calmer now she'd been let down.
"No, we hugged?" Rose knew it sounded lame and now in the light of day felt like an idiot. "I don't know, should we have done something? Who says I want to do something?"
"I'd be more concerned by why he didn't try something," Alexandria whispered into her cup.
Rose paled. "What."
"He's a guy right? Why didn't he try get into your pants or something?" Alexandria was trying to torment her, she knew by the tone of her voice but a silly girly part of her felt more annoyed by the truth of it.
"Well, maybe he's a gentleman, maybe I would have refused him if he had tried something!" She snapped a little too childishly and ran out and up to wait for her next class.
"So, you two. Explain yourselves."
They were seated on their respective beds, they glanced at each other in unison but Scorpius spoke before Rose could find the words.
"We didn't dream the nightmares last night and we didn't dream walk either. We just slept through," He explained. "It was wonderfully refreshing."
Mrs. Weasley stared them down. Scorpius fidgeted in his spot but it was Rose who found her voice first this time.
"We fell asleep… together." Rose said bravely.
"Together?" Rose's mother eyed them both.
"Mum. Scorpius was helping me through it and we kind of just fell asleep, together. On the one bed." Rose explained hesitantly. Scorpius braced himself for onslaught.
Mrs. Weasley just raised a brow, giving away no other indication of feeling or mood.
"In each other's arms." Rose mumbled at last.
Mrs. Weasley rose up abruptly, "Oh my god!" She ran out of the room leaving them alone to fret.
"Well she totally doesn't believe us!" Scorpius exclaimed.
"Oh my god. My dad is going to kill me, I'm going to be grounded into infinity!" Rose got up and started pacing.
"Oh right, of course!" He sneered.
"What?" She cried.
"Nothing!" He flopped back onto his bed.
"What was that supposed to mean?" She questioned, hovering by his side.
"Oh you know, just your dad thinking I've tainted you with my dirty death eater p-" He sneered.
"It's not that!" Rose cried. "You don't understand, the last time I had a boyfriend was-"
"Third year I know, Jonathan Vayne." Scorpius rolled his eyes, he could feel his mood crashing. His stomach churned he'd missed lunch for this.
"My dad went ballistic when he found out. If he think that we've slept together. Oh man!" Rose wouldn't stop pacing and it was beginning to get on his nerves.
"Rose. We didn't. If he doesn't believe you, I'm sure he and his Auror buddies can acquire some Veritaserum or something. I'll testify for you, happy?" Scorpius sighed.
He was so happy when he woke up this morning, it was exactly what he wanted. A nights worth of rest. A night next to her was better, waking up with her…
He got up to leave. He'd find the kitchens maybe.
"Why do you always jump to the conclusion that people are out for you because of who you are?" Rose asked as calmly as she could muster. He ignored her at first and stepped through the door out of the room of requirement. "Well?" She yelled this time.
It provoked him like she knew it would, "Because they always have. Ever since I was a kid it's how it's always been. I've been apologizing for my existence since I was born!"
"Have you ever stopped to think maybe you didn't have to?" She yelled at his back, following his angry strut.
"First visit to Diagon Alley I nearly didn't get my wand. They nearly didn't sell me a wand because of my father." He stopped and spoke in earnest.
"Well. You have a wand!" was all Rose could think to say. He rolled his eyes at her and ran off down the halls again.
"Fuck." She whispered to herself chasing after him.
He found himself out on the school grounds, close to where Hagrid's used to live before he went backpacking around the world with his girlfriend. The shack was empty now.
"Stop running you ass!" Rose breathed, catching up to him.
"Stop following me!" He retorted. "Why does it feel like this isn't about our families, or how much trouble you're going to be in? This is about us, our bond or whatever"
He wanted to hold her again, like he did that day he found her after their very first dream walk together. He did want to kiss her, he cursed that he didn't get a chance to last night. It felt so right to hold her there in her arms. What would she say if he did now?
"Scorpius. I think you're right, it's about us. Why are we fighting, why are we here? Why are we next to the Forbidden Forest? Scorpius I think we should-"
A spell hit him in the back and he blacked out.
