Chapter 12 \\ New Year's Eve \\ WICELA
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series nor everything that comes with it. The rights go to J.K. Rowling. The only things I own are the holes in her stories that I filled with my fantasies.
Updated: May 4 (2016)


"Hey sweetie how was your day?" Kelsey asked him. Scorpius smiled and gave her a casual kiss on her lips.

"It was alright," he answered as he sat down on the couch. He rested his arm on her shoulder and she lied down against him. It went automatically. In the months they had been together, it just went smoothly. They had been together like a normal couple and their relationship wasn't bothering anyone as Rose was as safe as it could get.

"Alright? But your work is never boring!" Kelsey laughed. Scorpius buried his face in her hair and the smell of her shampoo filled his nose. He coughed. Roses. Her shampoo had the smell of roses.

"Well, the people dropped the charges against Rose, we can finally look for a way to arrest those people and Rose got a new case. So there isn't anything spectacular going on for a while now," he explained. With a wave of his wand he turned on the radio and shuffled between the stations.

"I'm glad Rose is safe now. Last time I spoke to her I could really see how much it bothered her. Now she can focus on something else! It's good for her. Maybe she finds time for a boyfriend or so, after everything ended so badly with Nick..." Kelsey wondered, but the only thing that Scorpius really heard was 'Rose' and 'boyfriend.' The rest was all rubbish. He knew Kelsey wasn't as supportive as she was acting to be. She acted all nice and lovely, but in reality she hated Rose more than anything. It was like she knew what he and Rose had done. Like she knew what kind of tension there was between them. And it was probably too like she knew what was going on in Rose's head. Something Scorpius wanted to know so badly, but at the same time didn't. No, he had to stop this. It was months ago that he'd promised himself to stop caring about every little thing she did, said or thought.

"How was your day?" Scorpius forced himself to ask her. Why was this so hard? Why was this so unnatural? Why did Kelsey have to bring up Rose - or let him bring up Rose?

"It was amazing! Helga and me saved a guy and it felt so right..." Kelsey began. She talked and talked about this amazing thing while he just nodded and smiled at the right times. He was tired and told himself that it was okay. Kelsey's story was too long to give him the energy to cook, so when she was done he asked her if she was all right with dining outdoors.

"What's the occasion?" she asked. She smiled sweetly and looked down to caught his attention.

"Just...nothing," Scorpius answered. Her smiled went bigger and she winked.

"I'm going to change then," she said. She gave him a sweet kiss, but before she had the chance to make more of it, he stepped back.

"See you in a minute then," he answered.

:: :: ::

After spending diner at the toilet, Helga decided that being pregnant wasn't all that. It wasn't everything she thought it was, but she sighted and cleaned everything up.

"Are you okay?" Frank asked her. Strangely enough, she heard herself saying that she was fine. Even stranger: she felt fine. Not completely, but it - the fetus - was worth it. It wasn't how it was written down in the books, but apparently nothing was, so she shouldn't be so disappointed.

I think S is going to propose! - K

The note woke her from her thoughts. S. K. Propose. What? Was Scorpius going to propose?

Why you think that? - H

Helga hoped that Kelsey wouldn't mind that she wasn't as enthusiastic as Kelsey obviously was.

He asked me, all over sudden, if I wanted to go out for dinner and when I searched his pockets earlier this week, I found this black box. We all know what that means... - K

Typically Kelsey. A day earlier she'd asked her if she was crazy to think Rose was a threat and now this?

Why were you even searching his pockets? - H

Of course. Helga had answered the other day that Rose was in a dark place and far from thinking about any romance at all.

Because, you know, R! I was worried, okay? Even though you said...well, I don't know! But I'm Ms. Malfoy soon! - K

This wasn't going the right way. If Scorpius would pop out the question, he would at least tell his best friends about it, wouldn't he? In the time that Scorpius had been Rose's bodyguard, Frank and he had talked to each other much more often and now, they were almost as inseparable as Scorpius and Albus.

"Frank?" Helga called. Hearing the footsteps coming slowly towards her, made Helga happy. They were living together. In the same, beautiful-but-expensive house.

"Yes?" Frank answered.

"I got this note from Kelsey. She found a black box in Scorpius's pocket and she thinks Scorpius is going to ask her to marry her. You would know it if this was true, wouldn't you?" she asked. Frank smiled, but looked down.

"Euhm, I don't think Scorpius is going to ask Kelsey to marry him and you know why," he answered smiling. This would be the best thing ever. Scorpius and Kelsey weren't getting married. However Helga knew that Kelsey was in love with Scorpius, Helga also knew her best friend Rose. Seeing from all the signs she and Scorpius had been giving each other, they were so in love.

"I thought so. Kelsey was so concerned yesterday and now this. I'm even thinking she made that ring-story up, but I'm not sure," she laughed.

"Oh, but he did had a ring," Frank said. Helga looked up and gave him a strange look. His face went red when he realized what he'd said.

"Why did he had a ring if he doesn't want to marry Kelsey?" Helga asked. Frank shuffled his feet and avoided her eyes.

"Because...because...because it wasn't his," Frank said slowly.

"But whose was it?" Helga asked. Frank was so uncomfortable that Helga wanted to laugh and kiss him at the same time. He looked kinda cute, but she didn't get it. She only got nosier the more uncomfortable Frank got. Uncomfortable changed to frustrated and that changed into surrender. Frank gave up and spilled it out.

"It was mine,"

"Yours?"

"I was planning on a huge and very romantic proposal, but I apparently can't keep a secret from you. It's a good thing, I guess. Especially if we get married. If we...do you..." Frank didn't end his sentence. He just walked away and left.

"Frank?" Helga called, but she sighted. There were tears in her eyes. Frank was planning on proposing to her. She couldn't - and didn't even want to - get it out of her head. The ring...it wasn't Scorpius's? It was Frank's! And then it kicked in.

"O...bugger."

K, you have to think small instead of big. Big thoughts can be disappointing later on... - H

:: :: ::

"Mate, I need the ring," Frank said when Scorpius opened the door.

"Of course man, but why now and not...you know...later?" Scorpius asked. Frank got inside and sighted.

"Long story short, Helga discovered the ring and I blurted out it wasn't yours but mine," Frank said. Only now he realized how stupid it sounded. It had been really stupid and it had felt very stupid, but it was starting to feel so much more than that.

"Why would she think it was mine?" Scorpius asked surprised. He gave him the small glass with firewiskey and they toasted without saying what for.

"O man, that's really your problem," Frank laughed and he explained the story.

"So...she thinks I want to marry her?" Scorpius said, his eyes wide open and at the point of almost falling out of his head.

"Yeah, I guess she's very desperate, wanting to marry you," Frank grinned, but Scorpius shook his head.

"This isn't funny, man. She hasn't even met my parents. Of course I've met hers, but I've made sure of it that won't ever happen again. I thought she knew I wanted to take things slow," Scorpius said. His glass was empty in one shot and Frank smiled at his friend.

"I think she also knows what everyone knows. She's kinda your rebound girl. We all know you're still in love with Ro..."

"SH, don't call her name! She'll freak out!"

"Point proven," Frank said. He put his empty glass on the bar.

"Here you go," Scorpius said, as he grabbed the black box out of his pocket and gave it to Frank.

"Thank you for holding on to this," Frank said.

"Thank you for pointing out what I have to do," Scorpius said. Frank walked towards the door and when he turned around, he saw that Kelsey was ready to go out. Scorpius gave her a kiss and pointed at him. Kelsey nodded and sat down on the couch.

"I guess you aren't going to do it, are you?" Frank asked. Scorpius smirked.

"Well, it depends on what you mean by that," he answered. Frank shook his head.

"I'm going mate, I have a woman at home waiting for a question," Frank laughed.

"Wait!" Scorpius said when Frank was about to apparate.

"Aren't you nervous she's going to say no?"

"Honestly? Yes. Even though she's carrying my child and we're living together."

"She won't, you know that," Scorpius smiled.

"Yeah, I know."

But still he was nervous. Still he was thinking that they were rushing everything and it wasn't right. Still he thought she wouldn't want to marry him. So when he came home and went to the room she'd asked him to come to earlier that evening, he decided not to ask the question yet. Instead, he kissed her and she kissed him back.

"Frank?" she asked.

"Yes?"

"You know that I'm still waiting, huh?" Frank laughed and took his coat off. He took the black box and sat down on one knee. All the nerves were gone the minute he opened the box.

"Helga Jordan, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

"I would love nothing more!"

:: :: ::

"You did WHAT?" Albus couldn't believe his ears when Scorpius has stormed into Rose's house to talk to him. Lucky for Scorpius he knew to murmur a muffliato charm in time for him to burst out the strange story he had to tell him.

"Look, we both knew about the ring and I thought it was the easiest for me to take it, because Helga comes and goes here, but never does that in my house. How could I know Kelsey would search my pockets?" Scorpius exclaimed. He walked from one corner to another in the small room, while he sighted frustratingly.

"Yeah, I get that, but how couldn't you just break up with the girl?" Albus asked.

"She cried, okay? She watched every move I made and the later it got, the more impatient she got. And when we got home, she said she just wanted to shower, but when she came back she smelled of I-just-cried-syndrome," Scorpius said.

"And how do you know that?"

"Because...because...okay you got me. Helga came by to visit Kelsey and told me on the way that she was very angry with me and later on Kelsey didn't even hide the fact she was crying, because she was more whining than crying and she probably recognized the ring, so it was all very dramatic and than we explained everything. She was ashamed of herself of thinking this, while she knew I wanted to take things slowly, so she apologized and now we're taking things slowly."

"Are you proud of yourself?"

"What? Why?"

"Because, according to Helga, - yes I've talked with her too - she doesn't trust Rose until she's dead. It's a bit overdone, but you get the point. I don't think you need someone who accepts it that you're not over Rose and I don't think you need someone who doesn't accept it. You need Rose or you need time. Not a distraction, Scorp," Albus said. Scorpius shook his head.

"No. No. No. No. No. I like Kelsey. She's sweet and kind and loving. She accepts me. We don't fight and it's just...it's nice. We've talked about this, Al! Just let it go, Al!" Scorpius reacted.

"Admit it to yourself!"

"You know, I thought that when I would have trouble with my relationship with Kelsey, you would support me and help me through it. I didn't think you would convince me to break up with her and would give me the I-told-you-so look. If I want to have a relationship with Kelsey, the only thing I ask of you is to support me. Rose and I aren't going to happen, Al!" Scorpius stood up and left the room. Albus sighted and thought about how he let himself go. Before Rose had told him she was in love with Scorpius, he was okay with Scorpius having a relationship with Kelsey. Scorpius needed to move on, because the Rose-thing was never going to happen. But now Rose told him, he wasn't okay anymore. It obviously killed the both of them and with Kelsey being involved, three people were going to get hurt - or hurt already.

"Scorpius!" Albus called out.

"What?!" Scorpius reacted irrated. He had his coat back on and was standing at the door.

"What you told about yesterday means that you do know what you have to do. You do know what you feel! Frank said basically the same I've been saying the whole time! Why can't you just do it?" Albus said. Using words that Rose wouldn't understand if she would overhear them.

"I'm not like Eric, Al. I don't have that much patience," Scorpius answered. Albus got that. Eric had been waiting nine years for him to tell his parents his true self. It was admirable.

"Why are you in such a hurry, Scorp? It's not like you're thirty!" Albus called out.

"Yeah, well, I'd like to see someone who has faith in me. I've waited long enough, Al, and it's clearly not going to happen."

"No, not if you think like this. Please, give it a month. A week maybe."

"No."

"Scorpius, do you imagine what she's going through? How hard this is for her?" Albus was whispering now. Scorpius rolled his eyes and sighted.

"I know and I don't know Al, because she never opened up to me. Never. Only when she was drunk or too tired and that felt like I was abusing her. I opened up, but I never got something back. Please, just stop Al," Scorpius answered. He opened the door.

"Okay, if you're sure you aren't going to regret it, please continue," Albus said.

"Bye, Albus," Scorpius reacted and he closed the door.

:: :: ::

"So, I was thinking about this whole 'who's-the-father'-thing and my conclusion was that you need to tell this mysterious person he's the father," Lily's father told her. She was sitting on the couch of her parental home and her father had just joined her a few minutes ago.

"You know who the father is, don't you?" Lily responded. Her father nodded and held his arm around her.

"We all know it's Lorcan, Lily and we all really think you should tell him," he said.

"Why?" Lily asked.

"Because he, as the father, has the right to know. Don't you think he's wondering whether he's the father or not? Of course he is, and he should be. The guy truly cares about you. He made a mistake, Lily, but it's not like you don't make any! This one is for example a big one. Thinking you can do all this all alone? I don't want to talk you down, but if we're being realistic, we both know this won't work. You've a job, but you can barely afford your apartment. Also, your social life is a mess. And on top of that, you haven't told anyone where you were and what you've done when you were away. Nobody is forcing you to tell them, but we know you've some issues to deal with. This is a whole lot you're going through, Lily, and you should admit that. We think you need to see someone. Someone you can trust and you can talk to." It was a whole lot what her father just told her, but it wasn't untrue. He was totally right, but it was hard to admit that.

"I need help?" she asked.

"Lily, when your mum was pregnant of James, I was scared. I was so scared that what happened to me would ever happen to him. I was terrified, but, as I had experienced so many deaths, I thought I could handle it, but I couldn't. I know our situations aren't exactly the same, but we can compare some things. Things like we both like to say we're strong. And we are strong, Lily, but there are times when we shouldn't be strong and accept that we aren't perfect," he explained.

"But if I tell Lorcan, will I then still need help?" Lily asked.

"I'm not saying that you need to talk to someone who's paid for doing that. I'm saying that you need to talk to someone and if that someone is Lorcan, than that's okay. It's about you getting better."

So Lily went to the hospital and asked for Healer Scamander. When she was told he would have a break within an hour, Lily waited for him to come down.

"Lily?" Lorcan asked. "What are you doing here?" He looked surprised, but still had this shimmer in his eyes what had made her falling for him in the first place.

"I-euhm...-I need to talk to you," Lily said. She pointed out the chair in front of her and he nodded. They sat down at the café of the hospital, but they both didn't care. The only thing that mattered for them was themselves. Like it always had been.

"Okay?" Lorcan said. He was a bit nervous and Lily bit her lip. When she moved her leg, she bumped into his and she blushed.

"Okay, so I-euhm...-I'm pregnant," Lily said. Stating the obvious here, she thought.

"Yes, so I've heard," Lorcan answered. He looked down too, but Lily could see his blush. Meanwhile he didn't remove his leg - Merlin he was sexy.

"It's yours," she whispered, but it was loud enough for Lorcan to look up.

"It's mine?" he asked. She nodded and his blush was changing into a more familiar color. The red color his face got when he got excited.

"I'm going to be a father?" he asked again and she nodded again.

"We're going to be parents,' she said. He froze there for a second and Lily looked away immediately.

"That is if you'll ever want to talk to me again or-or-or I don't know do something again. Or-" she didn't manage to end that sentence as Lorcan kissed her.

"I'd like to," he breathed into her hair.