[A/N] This is a short chapter been busy recently. I've been accused of tormenting my characters, and i have to agree. I love it!

Sparks

Chapter 11

"Scorpius! Scorpius Malfoy"

Scorpius' head flicked up at the sound of his name, a woman, long, athletic with short dark hair was calling out at random looking around for the owner. She noticed Scorpius look up and made a line for him.

"Scorpius Malfoy?" she repeated again, "Hi, I thought instead of going around asking random men who they are I'd just call out and see who responded." She grinned and held out her hand, Scorpius shook it. "Alexis Mortimer, call me Lexi, everybody does. Looking forward to our adventure, I must say I was quite nervous about meeting you. I mean you're told you have to spend a year traveling around a foreign country with an absolute stranger…" she spoke with passion in her voice her eyes were bright and fiery. "So lets get this show on the road, our port keys in 10 minutes." She pulled Scorpius to his feet "Can I call you Scorp? Scorpius is a bit of a mouthful." and, holding his hand, lead him to the station desk.

Scorpius was taken aback with her easiness and her ability to just talk to people she'd never met before. That was a skill Scorpius had never mastered, her hand was warm and it brought some much needed life back into his soul, he followed with out question to an old copper pot.

"Five seconds; four; three seconds; two; one."

Scorpius felt a tug around his navel and vanished.


One month later Rose Weasley shook hands with Artimus Earle to seal the deal on little café. It was a wreck inside the kitchen was crawling with rats, cobwebs hung from every conceivable place. The fireplace was clogged up with years of dust and, from the smell, probably a dead bird or two. It was on a bright Sunday afternoon that she called on the whole family to help her clean it up. Her parents and brother arrived first, Hugo grumbling about losing his lye-in. Various aunts and uncles and their offspring arrived. Teddy and Victoire turned up with Dora, Isla and little Theo strapped to Teddys' chest wearing a large flopping hat. Her Grandparents arrived to join in the fun as well.

"Right! Boys sort out the garden, it needs some serious weeding and I saw a few gnomes sneaking around there earlier." Rose received a salute from Al as they obediently headed off. "Dad, can you handle that chimney?"

"I think the question is, Can that chimney handle me?" Laughed Ron as he went over to examine it with Harry. They prodded their wands curiously in the depths causing a massive cloud of dust to fall on their heads and fill the room.

"Right well I'll leave you to deal with that. Lets get started on the Dining room." Rose led the rest of them out of the clouded kitchen and into the dining room.

At lunchtime, they all settled down in the newly cleaned garden for lunch provided by Mrs Weasley.

"James said he would come along after lunch with reinforcements" Harry said over a plate of Roast Beef and Yorkshire puddings. "Ah speak of devil" James Potter stepped into garden followed by two men around the same age.

"Hope we haven't missed all the fun?" James bent down to kiss his mother on the cheek. "Fantastic place Rosie! This is Joe Jackson and you know Sonny Thomas."

"Hey, Nice to meet you! How was work?" Rosie moved over as James conjured some more chairs and sat down, Joe Jackson opposite Rose, she couldn't help but notice how handsome he was.

"Ah fine, Got some newbie healers in, so that's always fun. They are so gullible."

"James, you play pranks on them, that's cruel! Remember when you were starting at St Mungos-" scorned Ginny across the table.

"It happened to me just the same as its happening to them it all part of the initiation, isn't that right Joe." James looked at Joe who nodded in approval.

The conversation continued as it was, swapping stories, questions about work and life in general Rose was chatting to Joe and James, they were telling her the pranks they'd pulled at work that morning when Rose heard a familiar name at the end of the table.

"Have you heard from Scorpius?" Teddy asked Al, wiping gravy from Isla face.

"Yeah, had a letter from him to let me know he got there safe, and had a few since. Sounds amazing what he's doing the things he's experiencing…I'm quite jealous actually." Al had a sad smile on his face; you could tell that he was missing his friend a lot.

"I've been reading the articles in the International Review, they're brilliant, his photos are amazing. Has he mentioned that girl he's with?" Teddy nudged Al "I bet he's loving that, alone in the wilderness with a gorgeous girl."

Rose choked on a roast potato, took a huge gulp of pumpkin juice while James smacked her on the back.

"Try chewing your food next time Rosie." Mocked James.

They finished Lunch and carried on cleaning, by the end of the day it was really starting to take shape. The furniture was arriving tomorrow, the walls were ready for painting, Grandma Weasley was making the curtains it was going to be so perfect, she said goodbye to everyone as they left in drips and drabs until it was just Jas and Rosie and a bottle wine.