The wind blew wildly over the couple and whipped against the blades of grass at their feet, making it rub against their ankles. The field was a dangerous place to be at night, but perhaps that's why they chose it.
The tears flowed freely down Rose's cheeks as she clutched Scorpius's arm, staring into his angry grey eyes, like a storm over a raging sea.
"Please, Score, please!" she sobbed.
Scorpius snarled, "You don't love me anyway, so what's the point? You won't even acknowledge our relationship to the public, so we can't just marry, out of the blue."
Rose choked on her tears. "I love you, I do! But my father would never agree to me marrying a Malfoy. If we just get married privately, then he won't be able to disagree, and we'll be able to stay together, like we both know we're meant to be! Don't leave me, Scorpius, please, oh please!"
Scorpius was getting angrier and angrier by the minute. "You are a selfish little minx, Weasley. After all I've done for you, hiding our relationship, lying to my parents, losing my best friend… you want to rob me of the only things I have left? You want to force me into the dark, with only you for company, shrinking down into cold seclusion? I'm not going to do that, Rose. If this is what it takes you have you, it's not worth it."
"Scorpius!" Rose wept.
Smiling coldly, Scorpius hissed, "So this is the end, huh?"
"It doesn't have to be!" Rose held tighter into his arm, rubbing her cheek against it to comfort her crumbling heart. "I just want to marry you! I want us to live together and have children and live a long and happy life together. Just you and me."
"But who else, Rosie?" Scorpius shouted, his eyes glistening on the verge of crying. "Who else?"
"We don't n-n-n-need anyone else!" Rose insisted.
"What about Hugo, and Albus, and Lily, and your parents?"
"I love you more."
Scorpius yanked his arm away. "Stop being so selfish! What about my parents? What about my best friends, Aeron and Caligo and Hydrus? What about me, Rose? What about what I want?"
He started to walk away, but Rose yelled after him, "Why did you love me in the first place, then?"
Scorpius turned around. "You were so innocent. Pristine, even. Don't cast that quality aside like it's nothing. Wait for the one."
"But you are the one!"
"I don't think so, Rose."
"Why? Why are you leaving me?" she cried.
Scorpius looked straight into her eyes, his gaze arrows following the passage her eye led into her soul, and almost destroying it just with that one gaze. "I don't love you anymore. I don't want you anymore."
Rose gagged on the salty tears clogging up in her throat. "I thought you loved me, Scorpius! I thought you wanted me!"
Scorpius shook his head and smiled with irony. "So did I, Rose. So did I."
As he walked away, Rose let out a hoarse sob and her knees buckled. As she tumbled into the grass to wallow in her loss, she watched as Scorpius disappeared into the shadows of the trees, his figure slowly fading into nothing…