The day of the Gryffindor v. Ravenclaw match had arrived, and needless to say, Sydney was having a heart attack.
"What is wrong with them?" she asked Albus desperately.
"They broke up," said Albus, while silently adding duh.
"Yes, but, they need to get their act together for the game!"
"Hopefully they will."
"They'd better," said Sydney, watching as Scorpius poked moodily at his cereal at the other end of the Ravenclaw table, and Rose smeared bread across her toast, the same way she had been for the past five minutes.
"Alright guys it's 40-10 to Gryffindor" called Annabel, who was commentating.
"Rose!" called Sydney angrily. So far Rose had only managed to save one goal of the five that had been shot at her.
"Sorry!" called Rose, as an oncoming Leanne Finnegan shot towards goal. Thankfully, Rose saved it, much to the delight of the Ravenclaws. Lorcan, Lysander, and Sydney managed to score a goal a piece, making things level, and so far Rachel was well in control of the bludgers. Meanwhile, Al raced around the pitch, looking desperately for the snitch, so that the game would end before either Rose or Scorpius really screwed up.
"And it's 50-40 to Ravenclaw!" called Annabel in delight as Lorcan scored again. And then he saw it...the snitch! Albus zoomed forward after it, when several things happened at once. Hugo hit a bludger, aiming for Sydney, but missing and hitting Rose's skull. Scorpius raced to catch her, but flew straight into Albus, who hadn't seen. The last thing Rose saw was Scorpius and Albus collide, before everything went black.
When Rose awoke she was blinded by the bright light above her bed. She sat up, and realized she was in the hospital wing. Clarice, Hugo, Lily, Annabel, Scorpius, Albus, Rachel, Sydney, Lorcan, and Lysander were all there as well.
"What...what happened?" she asked groggily, trying to remember.
"Hugo hit you with a bludger, remember?" said Syndey.
"Sorry about that," said Hugo.
"It cracked your skull in four places," said Annabel, "and then when you hit the ground you broke most of your ribs."
"Ugh," muttered Rose, before remembering what she had been doing when this happened. "Who won?"
"What?" asked Albus, incredulously, "You just broke half your bones and you want to know who won?"
"Yeah! I want to know if it was worth it!" said Rose.
"We won," said Sydney, "Al and Lily both lost sight of the snitch, and without a keeper we were loosing, but Al caught the snitch, and we won 200-190."
"Excellent!" said Rose, while Lily and Hugo grumbled.
"Are you sure you're okay?" asked Scorpius, making eye contact with her for the first time.
She made sure not to look away from him as she said, "Yeah. I'm okay."
"Only 4 visitors at a time!" said Madam Pomfrey, looking annoyed at the number of people surrounding Rose's bed.
Calls of "Bye Rose!" and "Feel better!" were said as they all left. Eventually it was just Albus, Annabel, and Scorpius.
Albus was about to say something when Annabel said, "Well Albus, we'd better go."
"But--Oh, okay," said Albus, in response to Annabel's elbow t o his ribs. They both left with a wave.
There was a moment of awkward silence. They hadn't spoken since their detention, and this was the first time they'd been alone together. He sat down in the chair nearest her. Rose was carefully examining her blanket when she heard Scorpius say "I'm sorry." Her eyes flashed up to look at him, and he looked straight back as he said, "I really am. I shouldn't have said all of those things."
"It isn't your fault," said Rose, still not breaking eye contact, "I was the one who, you know, ended it. I'm sorry too."
There was another awkward pause before Scorpius said, "Remember--remember when you asked me if we could, you know, try again?" she nodded as he continued, "Well, you still up for it? I mean, only if you want to. I just--"
He didn't get to finish because Rose had kissed him. For a moment they were just enjoying the feeling of being together again, and when they broke apart they both whispered, "I love you." They looked at each other for a long moment, and leaned in to kiss again when the hospital door banged open and Fred and Roxanne came in.
"We heard you were in the hospital wing, so we thought we'd check up on--oh!" Fred fell silent when he saw Scorpius and Rose, nose to nose.
"Well," said Roxanne, "We were just going so..." she trailed off as they started backing towards the door, only to run into Albus who yelled "Finally!"
Pretty soon they were joined by Clarice, Annabel, Lorcan, Lily, and Hugo, and not even Madam Pomfrey could quiet the group when they heard that Rose and Scorpius were back together.
A/N: So drop me a review and tell me what you thought. Sorry it's a little short. I might not get to update again this week, because I've got a lot going on right now, but I'll try over the weekend. REVIEW!!!
