A/N - This could have been longer but I think I ended it at the right time. I think you'll like this chapter. Well, I hope you like this chapter.
I'm being forced to do this, (I'm joking) but check out tresorparis - Second Chances. It's a Lily Luna/Scorpius fic and she's told me her plans for that story and it is pretty epic. Check it out?
speedsONEandONLY - if you put your Californian boy toys down long enough to read this, what do you think of the development?

Disclaimer - I do not own Harry Potter.

I didn't realize that others had joined Scorpius and I as we sat under a tree in the school grounds, until Albus threw a twig at me and it hit me in the face. "What the hell?" I looked up from the book I got from the library about the war and glared at him.

"We've been trying to speak to you for the past ten minutes!" Albus smirked and laughed, I looked round to see the other sixth years, James, Selena, Amelia, Fred and Bex had joined the two of us. I wasn't surprised that Bex had joined us, over the past two months she had gradually become warmer towards members of the group, excluding Rose of course.

"Are you surprised? She's reading...yet again." James rolled his eyes, making the others laugh again. Over the past two months I'd constantly either had a book about the war in my hand or my music book with a quill. Nobody but Bex, Scorpius, me, Professor Chang and Professor McGonagall knew that I was going to play and sing at the ceremony. McGonagall had to approve the pass Chang give me to be out after curfew and miss the occassional lesson if I needed too, Bex because she found my music book and read some of the songs I wrote about the war and Scorpius, well I told him because I wanted to tell him. The others just made fun of me and my new addiction to everything war related.

"You are just jealous because I actually can read." I smirked at James, turning the laughter back on him. "What were you saying, Al?"

"I asked if you were all packed, we leave tomorrow morning." He reminded me. I sighed, tomorrow I'd be going back to Shell Cottage, where my Dad was. Where my sister visited every single day. That wasn't what I was wary about though, tomorrow Lottie was coming.

"Yeah, I'm all packed and rearing to go!" I grinned sarcastically and rolled my eyes. "Two weeks with a family who are really too involved in each others lives, a father who refuses to acknowledge my existence and a sister who hates me. Fun!" I cheered.

Fred, Rose, James and Albus didn't laugh when the others did, I was sat in Scorpius' lap leaning against his chest so I couldn't tell if he was smiling or if he had the same serious expression as my cousins did. Rose and I still weren't strictly speaking but we at least tolerated each other and stopped glaring and snapping at each other. She accepted that Chris and I are friends, and I was secretly happy the two of them were now an official couple. He was even going to be Rose's date at the Easter meal. Lucy and me had a bet on how long Uncle Ron would explode after he sees Chris's tattoo's.

"Dom, that isn't fair. You know how Gran is." James told me, the others nodded but I just scoffed.

"Still! Are you telling me that you like it when the Aunts and Uncles try and discipline you? Like at Christmas when Percy tried to lecture my Mum about my smoking?" I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "The Weasley's are too involved -"

"You are a Weasley." Amelia laughed.

"Nope! I'm more Delacour than Weasley." I shrugged. "Anyway, are you all packed?" I looked at Albus who nodded, James shook his head, Fred shrugged and Rose rolled her eyes but nodded.

"You two got dates yet?" I looked at Fred and Albus. Albus shrugged and shook his head. "Nah, too much hassle being tied down to one girl." This made everybody either laugh or snicker.

"Fred? What about you?" Scorpius asked, I smiled and snuggled closer into him, letting him wrap his arms around me.

Ever since I told him about what happened in France, Scorpius was the perfect boyfriend. He never rushed me, he never tried to pressure me, he was always there for me whenever I just wanted him to hold me, he would drop everything to talk to me if I asked him too.

He nudged my head with his own so I tilted it slightly so he could rest his head on my shoulder. We ignored the whistles and catcalls of the others and just relaxed into each other.

"Um, yeah. I got a date." Fred muttered, he looked away from everybody and started shredding the grass around him. Straight away the others attacked him, apparently Fred wasn't as open with his love life as the others were.

"Who?" Rose demanded with a teasing grin.

"What's her name?" Scorpius asked.

"Or his, whatever dude." Liam muttered, making Fred flip him off and the others to laugh lightly.

"She...well you'll have to wait until you meet her." Fred muttered, looking back at the ground. All the others, excluding James, laughed and started teasing him. When I noticed that James wasn't laughing I focused on him, he was looking at Fred with a calm, patient expression. He seemed to sense my gaze because he turned to look at me. Deliberately he turned his gaze to my left for a brief second before he looked back at Fred.

I turned to look at me left and realized straight away. Bex was sat looking at the floor, not laughing, not smiling and certainly not looking at Fred.

Fred had asked Bex to the meal? Bex? Wow, Rose is going to love that.

Like James, Bex seemed to sense me looking at her because she looked up and met my eye. "I need the bathroom." She muttered, standing up and walking away from the group. I'm certain James and Fred both saw the small glare she sent Fred's way like I did.

"What's her problem?" Rose muttered sending a glare at Bex's back.

"She's fed up of being around boyfriend stealers." I snapped at Rose, defending Bex.

"Dom!" Scorpius muttered, nudging me with his shoulder. "Be nice." I shrugged and returned to my book, ignoring Rose's glare.

I waited outside of the Slytherin common room for a Slytherin to either come out or walk down the corridor for a half hour. I had Albus check that map of his to see where Bex was and she was in her dormitory alone. I was just about to give up and just speak to her later at dinner, if she showed up, when I heard Goyle's voice.

"Vinnie wrote me this morning Mand, he said he finally got his Hogwarts letter yesterday." She laughed.

"Well it was his birthday, Lauren." I heard Avery laugh back, they both stopped when they saw me sat on the floor, leaning against the wall watching them walk down the corridor. "What do you want, Weasley?" Avery demanded when they got near enough. I sighed and stood up, wiping the dust from my robes as I did so.

"To get into your common room." I shrugged, nodding to the blank wall. When neither of them moved or said anything I rolled my eyes and sighed again. "It requires a password."

They both glared and opened their mouths to speak but Avery put a hand up and stopped the pair of them. She sent me a filthy look before she turned to the blank wall and clearly said; "Gaunt." The wall slid open and the pair of them stormed into the common room, letting me follow them. I expected them two to go straight to their dorm but they surprised me by walking over to a sofa and sitting down on them, glaring at me all the while. I ignored the pair of them and made my way up to their dormitory.

I didn't bother knocking, I just opened the door and walked in.

Bex was sat on her bed, resting her head on her knees staring at her bag, which was half-packed on her bed. "You know, sometimes people knock before entering somebody's bedroom." She muttered, not looking away from the bag.

"You know, some friends tell their friends if they start dating their cousin." I retorted, moving her bag so I could sit on the bed. "So? When did it happen?"

"Valentines day." She sighed, moving so she rested her head against her headboard. "You and Malfoy were snogging so I left you alone. I took a walk around the grounds and bumped into Fred." She shrugged.

I remembered Valentines day, the Hogsmeade trip got canceled so none of the students were happy about having to spend Valentines inside the school.

"Why did you keep it a secret?" I asked her. "I thought we were friends. I thought we were best friends." I added.

"We are Dom. I wanted to tell you, I don't care who knows." She looked at me with wide-eyes and shrugged a shoulder. "Freddie does though. He only told James because he caught us snogging in a classroom. James told Selena and she hasn't told anybody." She told me.

"So, James and Selena knew before I did? Gee, thanks a lot, Bex." I teased her. "Why do you think he didn't want people knowing?"

She scoffed and looked at me like the answer was obvious. "Because I'm Rebecca Raymont; school tramp, only Slytherin in a Gryffindor and Ravenclaw family, major disappointment to her parents, disgrace to her sisters..." She trailed off and sounded bitter.

"Hey! That is not true!" I moved so I was sat beside her and put my arm around her. "You are not a tramp! Who cares what house your in? Parents suck and sisters aren't worth it. Trust me." I didn't realize she was crying until I looked at her.

"No, Bex. Come on, don't cry." I wiped a tear away and hugged her tight. "I am going to murder that cousin of mine. Seriously, he's lucky to have you. He's probably only not wanting to tell people now because of Rose." I assured her. Fred did invite her home for Easter afterall. The time when the majority of us were bringing dates.

"It's not just that." She took a deep breath to get rid of her sobs and pulled something out of her pocket. She handed me it and told me to read it.

Rebecca,

Your mother is joining your sisters on a girls-only break to the villa in the South of France over the Easter holidays. This was organized after Christmas when you told us you were planning on staying at school for the break.

I will be here but I'll be working during the break so if you still wish to come home you will have to find your own transport to and from the station. Your brothers have gone on a holiday with some of your cousins also. It will just be the two of us.

Father.

Wow, even in the letters my mother wrote from me, the little message she made Dad write sounded warmer than this.

"See? See how cold he sounds? He doesn't even put 'love.'" Bex snorted, taking the 'letter' from me and crumpling it up. "Whatever, tell Fred that I've changed my mind. I'm not going home for two weeks to stay with my Dad when he can't even be arsed to come pick my up from the station. Would it kill him to take a half hour to apparate there? He knows I'm not seventeen until June!" She ranted. I saw the small bit of light in her eyes get brighter when she said Fred's name and I saw it disappear when she told me she was staying here.

"No. First of all, I don't play owls. Secondly, pack your bag. Come on." I stood from the bed and pulled her up. "You are leaving this dorm right now. You can bunk up with me tonight and then you can come stay with me at my house over Easter. My mother won't mind." I smiled at her.

She protested at first but after I threatened to stun her and carry her to the Gryffindor common room she finally relented and agreed to come.

"We're going to have so much fun!" I laughed as we walked out of the Slytherin common room.

"But Dom, what do I do about Fred?" Bex asked me quietly, I couldn't help but notice how none of the other Slytherin's even batted an eyelid when we walked down the dormitory stairs, Bex was carrying a large bag with enough things in there to last her two weeks and I was holding her school bag with all our assigned homework in.

"Well, speak to him alone. If the others ask, I'll just tell them I've invited you to stay at my house." I told her. "They probably will ask too." We both laughed at that.

After that the walk up to the Gryffindor tower was silent. We entered the common room to see most of our group sat in the usual place around the fire, only Liam, Benjamin, Mia and Emily had gone somewhere else. In their place, Ashley, Molly and Harrison were sat with the others. I saw Fred look straight at Bex when she followed me through the hole.

"Hey guys." I looked at my dorm-mates when I walked over and sat on the arm of Scorpius's chair. "Bex is bunking up with me tonight." I giggled when Scorpius hooked his hand around my waist to pull me into his lap.

"You don't want to share a bed with Bex." Scorpius muttered so only I could hear him. I narrowed my eyes and pulled away a little bit, if he was going to say what I thought he was going to say then I didn't want to hear it.

"She kicks. I once woke up to a bruise on my leg - what's wrong?" He asked me when I scoffed and climbed off his lap. "Babe -"

"Don't 'babe' me." I shook my head at him, ignoring the snickers that the others were giving the two of us.

"What did I do?" He demanded, looking utterly confused. I raised my eyebrows and laughed humorlessly.

"What did you do?" I repeated. "If you don't know then I'm not going to tell you. Just know this, babe, you won't wake up with a bruise from me anytime soon." I shook my head and pulled my arm away when he tried to reach out to me. I ignored the others laughing and moved to sit in between Ashley and Bex on the sofa, sending a glare in his direction.

I wasn't really angry with Scorpius, my anger disappeared after he sent me his puppy dog look, but I didn't let him know that. It was fun seeing him trying to woo me, he got pieces of parchment and folded them into butterflies and charmed them so they flew over to me. Even though it was sweet, seeing his face turn into a look of horror when I pointed my wand at the butterflies so their wings got sliced off, that was hilarious.

I walked to dinner with the girls while James had a last minute team meeting in the common room, I made sure I sat in between two people so there wasn't space for Scorpius to sit beside me. I smirked when he walked in and I saw him look at me and then at Mia and Emily on either side of me.

"You two really don't have a normal relationship, do you?" Larnie muttered, glancing over her shoulder to see what I was smirking at.

I only laughed and shook my head.

"So, what were you mad at him about?" Bex asked me, she sat on the opposite side to me, in between Larnie and Erin.

"He made a comment about when you two dated." I waved it off, Scorpius walked past us and just raised an eyebrow at me before he walked down the table to join Lily who was sat with Lysander.

"What did he say?" Erin asked.

"Oh, just how I didn't want to sleep in a bed with Bex, apparently you kick? He said he woke up with a bruise from you before." I shrugged and looked at Bex who slowly shook her head.

"Malfoy and I have never stayed in the same bed over night before. We slept together twice and both times were during the day." She told me slowly, looking confused herself. "And I don't kick."

I shrugged, feeling as confused as she looked but the others looked slightly awkward. I saw Erin glance at Rose who sat on the other side of Emily.

"Um, that was me. I kick in my sleep. He stayed the night when...when we..." She told us quietly, she barely glanced at Bex when she spoke and suddenly found her plate to be extremely interesting.

"When you slept with him behind my back?" Bex supplied bluntly. I snorted into my goblet while the other girls looked really uncomfortable. Rose didn't say anything, but I knew that she was biting the inside of her cheek so hard she was probably drawing blood.

"It's going to be fun in your house this Easter." Erin muttered, sending a smirk at me before she turned to her food.

I threw my music book at the wall in frustration. For the past three months all I'd focused on was writing a song for the memorial service, which is in two weeks, and all I could even think of writing was like something out of a children's story book.

"I can't do it." I sighed to myself, slamming the cover down on the piano. "I'll have to tell, Chang I can't do it." I ran a hand through my hair and tried to calm myself.

"Talking to yourself?" I jumped at the sound of Scorpius' voice. I hadn't heard him come in the room. Turning in my seat I saw him sat against the wall, watching me with an amused expression. "You know, you look cute when you play. You close your eyes and just lose yourself." He smirked and stood up.

"I'm sorry for what I said about Bex earlier." Scorpius told me, he sat on the bench beside me but turned his torso so he was facing me fully.

"It's fine." I smiled, remembering his mistake. "Because it wasn't Bex."

He raised an eyebrow and looked slightly confused, making me giggle a little bit. "It was Rose. Bex asked why I was annoyed at you, so I told her. She said you two have never stayed in the same bed as each other over night. Rose, give her credit, admitted a bit ashamed that it was her who kicked you in her sleep." I laughed, I couldn't help but laugh even more when I saw the fact come clear on Scorpius' face. His eyes widened and his mouth fell into a perfect 'O' shape.

"Oh yeah, so it was." He nodded and smirked. "But, you still don't want to sleep in a bed with Bex." Scorpius told me softly, I smiled and couldn't help but giggle when he put his hand on my knee and slowly trailed it up my leg.

"I don't?"

"No, if you're going to share a bed with anybody tonight..." He whispered. He moved closer to me and put a hand on the back of my neck, tickling it lightly. "You know you want to share mine."

He didn't give me a chance to respond, he just took my hands and put them on his shoulders. Before I could do anything his lips were on mine, softly and slowly at first like they always were when he initiated a kiss. I giggled into the kiss and moved my hands so they were in his hair. That was usually the sign that Scorpius understood I was alright with how things were going. With a groan he pulled me closer, so I was practically sat across him.

"Um, Miss. Weasley? Mr. Malfoy?" Professor Chang's voice from the doorway made us both jump apart.

"Professor, I...erm, it's not what it looks like -" I stammered when I stood up, smoothing my crinkled skirt and shirt down at the same time.

"I just came to see how the practice was going." Chang told me, I could tell she was trying to keep a straight face. Over the past few months, Chang had become more than a teacher and mentor to me. She didn't treat me like other students and I didn't treat her like other staff members. It was almost like a friendship rather than a student-teacher relationship.

"Oh, it's...well I suck." I sighed, I sat back on the bench, ignoring Scorpius who went to sit on a chair against the wall. "I can't write anything at all. I mean, I've wrote like five songs. All of them suck. I can't write about hate and death and war if I haven't been through it." I shrugged. I'd tried really hard to come up with a decent song to perform, but I couldn't.

"I thought you said you had written songs before?" Chang asked me as she walked into the room and sat beside Scorpius. "You told m you had a selection of them?"

"I do, I write songs all the time. The majority of them come from...personal experiences though." My eyes met Scorpius's for a second but I quickly looked away.

"I just can't write about something as...as strong as that without first hand perspective." I sighed.

"Then get some." Chang stated as if it was obvious. "Dominique, you're a Weasley. You have the best connections in our world concerning the war. Your Uncle won us the war, with the help of another Uncle and an Aunt. Your other Aunt helped lead a resistance in this very castle to help keep spirits and morale up and she also helped save quite a few of the younger students. Your Grandparents fought in both wars. Your parents fought." Chang reminded me softly.

"Look, the ceremony is the Saturday after Easter. You come back on a Sunday, that gives you five days after the holiday to be prepared." Chang smiled at me. "I believe in you, Dominique." She stood up smiled and nodded at me before she left the room.

I didn't say anything, I just watched her walk down the corridor.

She believes in me. She said she believes in me. Nobody has told me that in years. My Grandparents in France never said that, I hadn't heard my father praise me since I was about ten years old. My mother praised my grades from France, but that was her trying to make the best out of a bad situation. I didn't keep in contact with any of the aunts or uncles, besides Charlie, so I've never heard them praise me. It felt good, having somebody believe in me. It made me feel, happier and more confident than usual.

"Hey! Lovebirds!" James whistled loudly, making Scorpius and I pull apart from each other and turn to look at them. We were sat in the same armchair, or rather Scorpius was sat in it and I was sat on him with my legs hanging over the arm of the chair, in the common room. It had been about an hour since Chang left us in the piano room and once we got back to the common room, Scorpius pulled me into the arm chair we always sat in and didn't let me go. We didn't even notice anybody join us.

"What do you want, James?" Scorpius groaned, making the others laugh. I looked around to see who was actually sat with us and saw James sat on a sofa between Selena and Bex, who was sat next to Fred. Lily and Lucy were sat in an armchair together, with the ever silent Hugo sat in front of them, leaning against the chair and Louis sat on the arm of their chair. He was looking at anything other than were I was sat. Erin and Sean were sat in another armchair, much like the position Scorpius and I was sat in, except they weren't sticking their tongues down each others throats. Rose, Albus, Mia, Liam, Carl, Amelia and Ashley were all sat on the floor in front of the chairs and sofa.

"Well, Fred, Al and I didn't like the sight of you sticking your tongue down our cousins throat. Louis wanted to Avada you." James sniggered, making the others laugh lightly.

"Hey, if you don't like it don't look." I shrugged and cuddled into Scorpius, smirking at James and then at Louis. "Besides, Loverboy! You don't see me or Amelia complaining every time you and Anna kiss in the corridors!" I pointed out, making the boys wolf-whistle at Louis. Over the past few months the two of them had become an official couple. He told me their first date went really well and that my tips helped him loads. It was so sweet, he walked her to as many classes as possible and sometimes I even saw him carrying her bag.

Louis had changed over the past few months as a person too. He was clearly a lot more confident, a lot more outgoing and didn't seem so shy or ashamed. He was the boy who I spent a week with at Christmas.

"We don't sit and feel each other up in the common room!" Louis bit back.

"Really? Dude, you are doing something wrong." Scorpius told him in a fake serious voice. "If you don't start doing it soon, little Miss Avery is going to go elsewhere." He winked at Louis.

"Ignore him, kid." Amelia rolled her eyes and put Louis at ease while the others all laughed. "But, if you do start groping my sister. I'll cut your hands off." That made the others, and myself, laugh even more. Louis looked panicked before he realized Amelia was joking.

The others began joking around and making jokes at each others expense, I laughed at a few of them but just curled into Scorpius. He tightened his grip on me and began playing with the ends of my hair.

"You know, I'm getting pretty tired..." Scorpius whispered, looking at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Really? Because I'm not at all tired." I giggled again, he smirked again and took his hands out of my hair. "Ladies first." He laughed, catching the attention of the others.

"Ladies first? What?" Louis asked, his face turned white and he looked from Scorpius to me in horror when we both stood up and Scorpius picked my bag up. "Eew! No! Not while I'm downstairs!" He whined and looked like he was going to throw up.

"Bex? Don't worry, we won't be sharing." I smirked at Bex and turned on my heel to lead Scorpius up the stairs to his dorm. I heard James, Louis and Albus complain but I ignored them.

"Scorpius?" I whispered, knowing full well he was awake. By his watch is was nearly three in the morning. "Scorpius?"

"What?" He whispered back, I don't know why we were whispering. We cast Muffliato around his bed and shut the curtains so the other guys didn't hear us, not that we had had sex, we just fooled around, which meant I giggled a lot.

"Do you think I'm a tease?" I asked him quietly, I was laid with my head on his shoulder and one of my hands was in his on his stomach and the other was tracing unknown shapes on the same arm. His other arm was wrapped round me, keeping me close to him. At my question he sat up quickly, making me sit up with him.

"No. What makes you ask that?" He demanded, looking at me carefully.

"Because we always do this." I told him honestly. "We always fool around, we always both want more and I always back out at last minute." I looked away from him and pulled my knees up to my chest, wrapping both arms around them.

"I want to be able to stop freaking out, I really do." I tried to reassure him but both his arms went around me and I felt his head rest against my back. "I'm sorry. I am so sorry for all of this. I don't deserve you -"

"Will you shut up for a minute?" Scorpius sighed and turned me so I was facing him. I couldn't see his face clearly but I knew that he had a scowl on his face. "I've told you before, I don't care if you don't want to make that step yet. I am willing and wanting to wait for whenever you are ready. I'm happy waiting for you. I'm happy being with you however you want this relationship to act." He put a hand on one of my shoulders each and ducked his head so I knew he was looking me right in the eye.

"Dominique, I think, no, I know...Dominique, I love you." His words made me freeze. He loved me? Love? Scorpius loved me?

The past three months had been the happiest of my entire life, but I was only sixteen. My entire life isn't that long. We had only been official for three months, how did he know he loved me?

Did I love him?

I know I never felt about another boy the way I feel about Scorpius. I knew the last person I felt anything like this for was Peter, but Scorpius made it clear he wasn't like Peter. He wasn't selfish, cruel and I knew he wouldn't hurt me at all. I could be myself around Scorpius, I could be the mean, selfish, violent, crazy Dominique and he accepted me. The past four months while I have been in England, he's seen me at my lowest, he's seen me flip like a coin in front of my family, he's seen me attack a complete stranger twice, he knows my most shameful secret, he knows nearly everything about me. He knows I slept with Lorcan to hurt my Dad.

And he still loves me.

"I love you too, Scorpius."

So? Did you, 'aww' or did you 'What the actual f**k misspotter94? This is crap? Tell me?