Hogwarts' Sleeping Beauty

Chapter 21

Solving Riddles and Sealed with a Kiss

Harry was poring over Rose's diary again. He sat in the chair next to her bed, just reading. He had gone to the library and brought back some books, but he never left Rose's side for long. It was almost midnight. Harry had spent the entire day reading and thinking.

Rose muttered something in her sleep. She was calling his name quietly, almost in a whisper.

"Harry," she said in her dream.

Harry took her hand. "I'm here, Rose. I'm here."

"…Never dying…but just…sleeping…" she mumbled. Harry grasped her hand tighter.

"…I wait…for his…return…"

"But I'm here!" Harry said softly in desperation. Tears stung his eyes.

"…to cease my…crying…and his…weeping…" a small tear slid down her cheek.

"I wait…for our love…to once…to once again burn." Harry recognized the poem from her diary.

"How?" Harry asked himself and partly Rose. A tear fell from his cheek and landed on her lower lip. Harry reached to brush it away. And then, on a whim, he bent down and kissed her.

Liz, Hermione, James, and Ron came in just as Harry kissed her, but he didn't even notice.

"I'm so sorry, Rose, this is all my fault," he cried. Rose's eyes fluttered open.

"What?" Rose asked quietly, smiling as she looked up at Harry. Then she saw his tears and frowned. "Harry, love, why are you crying?" she reached up and brushed a tear off his cheek.

Harry opened his eyes. "Rose!" he exclaimed as he swept her up into a huge hug. He lifted her of the bed and swung her around before setting her on her feet and kissing her again.

Harry didn't look up until he heard Liz and Hermione shriek, "Rose!" but he was too late. The two girls tackled Rose, and Harry too, mercilessly.

"Why is everyone so happy to see me?" Rose asked, bewildered.

"Rose, you fell asleep," James answered from behind her.

"So?"

"So," Hermione said, "So! So you were asleep and no one could wake you up!"

Liz turned to Harry, "How did you wake her up?"

"I'm not sure, I kissed her and apologized, and she woke up," he shrugged.

"Ha! You really are like Sleeping Beauty!" Liz shouted at Rose.

"What? Wait a minute! How did I fall asleep? What do you mean wouldn't I wake up? How long have I been asleep? How am I Sleeping Beauty?" Rose inquired before turning back to Harry, "And why were you crying? And what did you mean 'this was all your fault'?"

"Okay," Hermione started as they all sat down in the common, "The Sleeping Beauty story was actually a prophecy about you. You pricked your finger on your spindle and fell asleep. It was an enchanted sleep so we couldn't wake you up. You've been asleep for about a day, yesterday was the ball, today is September 14th," she said very quickly.

"And if we hadn't been fighting, then you wouldn't have gotten upset and run off and pricked your finger," Harry said taking her hands in his. "I'm sorry I got mad at you, I know that you wouldn't enchant me or anything. I just don't like unknown spells, ever since Voldemort. I just don't want to lose you, but I guess that happened anyway."

"Don't think on it, love. Don't think on it," Rose replied, looking into his emerald eyes. A smile graced her lips, making her look more beautiful in Harry's eyes than ever before. He grinned back at her before pulling her into one of his infamous hugs.

"Actually," Liz interrupted, "She probably would have pricked her finger anyway; it was a prophecy."

"Grr," Harry and Rose replied, before everyone burst out laughing.

After Rose had eaten and showered and changed, she walked out to the lake to meet Harry.

She was nearing the edge of the water when she saw him.

"What did you want to talk about, Harry?" she inquired.

"Well, for starters," Harry turned away from the lake to look into Rose's smoky green, sunflower-like eyes, "I wanted to say how much I missed you."

"I was only asleep for one day, and Liz said that even then you hardly ever left." Rose replied, smiling up at him.

"No, before that, when we were fighting, I missed seeing you around. Even though we hadn't been together that long, I needed you there, without you, I always felt something missing. Something that I hadn't even noticed was empty before," Harry continued.

"I guess what I really want to say is," he took her hand in his, "from the moment I met you, I should have told you, because I've felt this way for what feels like so long. Rose…I love you."

Rose's heart skipped a beat. Her slight grin turned into a radiant smile.

"Well, I've got news for you, Mr. Potter," she said.

Harry started to grin too. "And what would that be, Miss Thorn?" he inquired.

She threw her arms around Harry and kissed him passionately. When she pulled back, both of them smiling, she whispered, "I love you too."

And they all lived…

Happily Ever After

...for a while at least.

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