Today was the day we were going back to school. In a slightly bad way, I couldn't be more thrilled.

For one reason, I could escape the awkwardness that had become my home life. Normally I couldn't wait to get there, and complained for hours before the Hogwarts express left the station. But since September, we'd had more arguments than normal, and Mum couldn't really figure out what was wrong.

Another reason I was aching to go back to Hogwarts was for the simple reason of being able to see James more frequently. For a regular couple, it was hard to see each other during one of the holidays. Throw in the fact that it was a secret relationship, and we hadn't been speaking for the first couple of weeks, we'd been able to meet up a grand total of two times.

The final reason being that Mum was working more and more hours, the longer we stayed at home. Seeing as we spent the majority of the year in school, she had grown used to only feeding one mouth and had needed to do more hours to provide for the children. I'd be happy now I knew she didn't have to work so hard.

"Get up Aiden."

"Leave me alone." Pointing my wand at his bed, I said "Aguamenti"

"What the hell Amy!"

Payback's a bitch isn't it?

Giggling to myself, I yelled from the door "Better get up, we'll be late for the train." I dodged a pillow thrown in my direction, and skipped down the stairs.

"Someone's happy today." Mum smiled, watching me twirl around the kitchen while I was preparing my breakfast.

"It's a great day." I said. I should be in a musical. This would be the part where I sing an amazing show stopping number whilst performing a tap dance. The part where they sing about how life is good. Shame I can't carry a tune to save my life.

I'll just have to stick to smiling instead.

"I've already made your coffee." she said, pointing in the direction of a steaming mug, placed right by my usual seat. Eyeing the cup, I said as nonchalantly as I could, "That's alright. I'm not in the mood for it today."

This time it was mum's turn to eye my bowl. "You haven't drunk coffee since you got home, and you've been eating Muesli."

I really thought I'd been found out. That Mum had finally put two and two together to make four.

Until she grinned and said "You are my daughter aren't you? Someone hasn't kidnapped her and put you in her place? Someone hasn't spiked your drink and made you feel unwell at all?"

"Who is this someone?" I smirked back. "They seem to be doing a lot of bad things." Mum laughed out loud, a sound I hadn't heard in a while.

Followed by Aiden traipsing in, covering the floor with water and glaring right at me. It was a sight that made me chuckle. This was turning out to be a good morning.

"Thanks for the wake up call." He said to me sarcastically.

"Anytime." I grinned.

Mum looked like a gaping goldfish. "Aiden! What on earth happened to you? And why are you so wet?" This caused Aiden to openly glare at me once more.

"Someone thought it would be a great idea to pour water on me to wake me up." I tried to put the most innocent look I could on my face.

I turned in the direction of mum. "See! This someone has done it again." She just shot me a bemused look, before replying "Maybe they should be reported to the Ministry of Magic."

Aiden did not seem to find the situation as hilarious as either of us, and proceeded to stamp out of the room. How childish.

Running through the Barrier into Platform nine and three quarters, Aiden immediately turned to Mum and gave her a hug goodbye, before telling us that he'd seen his friends and had gone to meet up with them.

"I don't know what is up with him lately." Mum said, looking worried. "He's been moody all break."

Jack shrugged his shoulders, even though he thought it was to do with me arguing about 'dating rights'. I was more than happy for him to keep thinking this was the case, and wasn't about to correct him.

I could always tell him in a couple of months. After the baby has been born. And I've successfully emigrated to Australia.

"Mrs S!" The ball of energy that is Holly came running out of nowhere to hug my mum. The action made her smile.

"Hey Holly, How are you? Where's your mother?" Sometimes, I think she loves Holly more than me.

She smiled widely. "She's just outside the barrier. I saw you all come through, so thought I'd come over."

"That's very nice of you." Mum said. "I'll just go talk to your mother now." She then proceeded to walk in the direction of the barrier. Turning in Holly's direction, I just raised my eyebrows in disbelief.

When she finally noticed the face I was giving her, she looked confused. "What?"

"Is your weirdness selective?" I asked. "You seemed almost normal around Mum."

All Holly did in response was smirk. Jack was just stood to the side watching in amusement. "I'm going to go look for my mates."

After he walked off, we headed in the direction of the train when the whistle blew. Before climbing on, we both hugged Mum, who had come back through when the time got closer to eleven. Both Holly and I waved with all the other students as the train started to move.

"Time to find a carriage eh?" I said. But before I was able to start moving, Holly decided to scream as she ran down the corridor, making everyone else move to the side in shock.

I never know whether I love or hate that woman for causing drama.

That left me to follow her down the corridor whispering apologies, and not looking them in the eye. Ah well, I should really be used to it by now.

Once I'd caught up with her, I said "Did you really have to do that? You could have simply just asked people to move politely. It wouldn't have taken you much longer."

"I'm not a very patient person." She shrugged, before pulling out her copy of the Quibbler. What with her being muggleborn, she'd never read many before. However Jack though it would be hilarious to show them to her, after she'd initially been compared to Luna Lovegood. And we've been getting a lot more strange stares since. Thanks Jack, I owe you for that one.

JAMES POV

Anyone walking past our compartment would've thought that we were just four best friends sitting around, playing Exploding snap and having a laugh.

They obviously couldn't see the tension I was feeling.

It was non existent to everyone other than myself. After all, No one in this compartment knew that I was seeing my best friend's sister behind their back. Or that I'd already planned a future for us.

"Earth to James."

Snapping out of my thoughts, I noticed everyone was laughing at me. Chuckling along with them so as to avoid anyone noticing something wrong with me, I remembered what Lily had said to me during the Christmas break.

"Hey Jack." I said, making him turn towards me in curiosity. "Maybe you should loosen the grip you have over your sister's dating life."

Jack seemed to look at me in suspicion. "Why are you so concerned?" Fred and Sean weren't concentrating on their game anymore, but were trying and failing to listen in sneakily.

"I'm not." That you know of. "It's just Lily came up to me at Christmas and told me that she'd found her on the train home crying." I could see the slight softening in his eyes, even though his face didn't change. "Lily said it had something to do with how overprotective you are and asked if I could talk to you about it."

Fred and Sean had abandoned the 'Listen in without getting caught' plan, and were full out staring at us as we had the conversation.

Jack sighed. "Do you think I don't know how annoyed she gets after every guy I run off? I see the anger and betrayal in her eyes when she confronts me, and it hurts to know that its upsetting her."

I didn't reply, not knowing what to say. The silence in between what Jack had just said and his next sentence was uncomfortable.

"I see all the girls at Hogwarts who start dating, their world starts to resolve around some guy. And when that guy breaks up with them, it breaks their hearts. I don't want that for Amy." He took a deep breath before saying "I will make sure she doesn't get her heart broken. If it means she hates me in the process, then so be it. I'd rather me be hurt by her hating me, than some random guy hurting her in any way."

Jack focused the next line directly at me. "If it was Lily, would you stand around waiting for the guy to hurt her?"

We all fell into silence once more. I could see it from both sides. Being the brother to Lily and the boyfriend to Amy.

"You're just delaying the inevitable." We all turned to Sean, the normally quiet one of the group. Although a Quidditch player, he wasn't loud and raucous off pitch. He was a great listener, and gave good advice. And a great friend.

We all gave him the same confused look until he explained. "How long are you going to watch over her? Until she's left school? Until she's old enough? It'll all be the same if she's an adult and she gets her heart broken for the first time. It'll hurt just as much." He turned away from us and back to his chocolate frog. "Who's to say that every guy who she dates will break up with her anyway?"

I promised myself that I would do everything in my power to make sure she never got hurt.

AMY POV

"Let me get this straight." I said to Rose at six o'clock in the morning, an hour before I had to start getting ready for the first day back at Hogwarts. "You and Scorpius are an item now?"

Rose nodded whilst bouncing. Quite the comical sight when you're sleep deprived and it's Rose. She began to describe about how it started.

"So I found him on the train home, he was in a compartment with one of his mates. Pierre Zabini I think it was. Anyway so we found an empty compartment, and I said that if he still wanted to, I'd love to go on a date with him." She seemed to be able to talk without breathing apparently. "We met up a few times during Christmas, when I could sneak out unnoticed. Which you can imagine with parents like mine, is not that often."

"That's amazing." I said in monotone, rubbing at my eyes in exhaustion.

"Are you…..are you not listening?" Rose sounded disappointed.

"NO!" I exclaimed. We were sat in the Common Room, so the shout wasn't likely to wake anyone else up. "I mean, of course I'm listening. I'm just a bit tired."

She looked quite guilty. "Sorry." she said honestly. "I know it's early, but I really needed to talk to somebody about it. It's not often I have gossip that I want to share."

"It's fine." I said. "And it's not how early it is. For me it's just really late."

I expected the look of confusion that formed on her face. Seeing as she had only gotten up about half an hour ago, and came down to find me sitting staring at the fireplace. I hadn't had any sleep, as Rose wasn't the only one who had stayed up to talk to me tonight.

I had decided previously that I would go to bed at midnight at the latest. That meant I would have at least seven hours sleep before I had to wake up in the morning. However my plan didn't quite work out.

At half past eleven, Dom had come to sit next to me, with the intention of talking the hind leg off a donkey. I was not kidding. She spent four hours talking about relationships. FOUR HOURS. She gossiped about all the people who were dating at Hogwarts, who had gotten with who, all past, present and future boyfriends.

Yes. She was talking about who she would go out with next week, even though she already had a boyfriend. In her defence, she was getting signals from him that he was about to dump her. Why anyone would dump Dom though was beyond me.

Finally, around about three thirty, I casually put into the conversation that we both needed sleep. She only replied with the fact she was part veela, and therefore didn't need much beauty sleep, before prancing of to the dormitory.

I'd like to say I hadn't been watching the clock, but sadly I had been. No offence to Dom, but every minute had been torture.

When I thought I could finally go to bed however, Holly came down.

Now if I had thought the conversation about relationships had been boring, I obviously hadn't bet on Holly wanted to talk.

Two bloody hours talking about cats.

The different colours of cats. Speedy. How some looked cute, and others looked downright freaky. Speedy. How they don't like water. Speedy.

Throughout the whole time, there was only one thought going through my mind.

Is it possible for someone to 'Avada Kedavra' themselves wandlessly and non verbally?

Once she'd managed to get 'Do you think Speedy loves me?' off her chest, she finally went to bed at half past five. Only for Rose to come down with her 'Scorpius' news.

"Late?" she asked. "What do you mean late?"

I sighed. "It doesn't matter. Why don't we carry on this conversation tomorrow?" Rose nodded before hugging me goodnight and leaving for her bed.

Already hearing the movement of some of the early birds waking upstairs, I whispered to myself "There's no way I'm going to be able to sleep through this." I began walking up the staircase, in order to start getting ready for school.

"MISS SWAN!"

Bolting up from where my head was resting on the desk next to my cauldron, I grimaced at the stern look on Professor Grayson's face, and smirking faces of Veronica and Nicole in front.

"Are we interrupting your sleep?" He said firmly.

Dropping my eyes away from his in guilt, I replied with "No sir."

"Good. In that case you can turn to page 56 like all the others already have." He said smoothly. "And then you can join me here tonight at eight o'clock for detention."

Walking out of class at the end of the lesson, I was trailing along behind the others, when I was once again pulled out of sight, this time into the space behind a portrait.

Turning to see who had 'kidnapped' me, I rolled my eyes.

"Seriously, you've got to stop doing that." James just smirked.

"Doing what?"

I laughed. "Pulling me into empty spaces when I'm with my friends, one of which is your brother. Soon enough they're going to realise that I go missing whenever I walk down a corridor."

He gave me a quick peck on the lips before saying "Would you like to go on a date with me this evening?"

"A date you say." I teased. "And what would be happening on this date?"

James put on a faux thinking face, before explaining. "A meal in the Room of Requirement. Maybe kissing." I snorted. "Fine then, a lot of kissing."

I smiled before remembering my detention. "Oh I forgot." The smile fell off my face. "I have detention this evening at eight."

"And there was me thinking I could sweep you off your feet with my good looks and charm." He said, making me giggle. "Who put you in detention?"

"Professor Grayson."

"Ah." He nodded. "From what I hear about the Potions Professor my parents had, it's must be in the job description. 'Wanted. Potions Master. Must be an asshole.'"

I smirked. "Sounds like it. Rain check?"

"Sure. I'll sweep you off your feet another night."

Walking back after hours was not fun. In fact it was slightly creepy.

All the shadows seemed to be intimidating, hiding parts of the corridor from view. Noises that were not normally heard during the day echoed around the halls.

Why did he have to keep me in detention so late? I mean two hours I can understand. But four hours? Really? It wasn't like I hadn't finished cleaning the cauldrons or sorting the dead flobberworms. He just kept looking for more things to do.

Note to self, don't fall asleep in Professor Grayson's class in the near future.

I was so deep in my own thoughts, that I didn't notice the arm go around my body, and the hand cover my mouth, before dragging me backwards into one of the empty, disused rooms on the corridor.

When the door had been closed behind us, the hand had fallen away from my mouth.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" I yelled, only for the hand to be replaced before I could say anymore.

Once I'd been pushed to the far wall, I was turned around, and able to see the face of my abductor.

"Jason? What is wrong with you?"

"You're ignoring me." He stated. "You're avoiding me. I want to know why."

"And kidnapping is the way to do that." I stated bluntly. He didn't even crack a smile at my sarcasm, and I don't think I'd ever seen him this serious.

"I said I wasn't going to give in easily. We're meant to be together. So I freaked out at the beginning, I'm here now and that's what matters." He had a look of sheer determination in his eyes, along with something else that I couldn't recognise.

His hand tightened on my wrist, and I felt claustrophobic due to being backed up against a wall.

"Jason, you're hurting me." But my words did nothing to relieve the pain he was inflicting on my arm. If anything, his the grip worsened.

"Is it another guy? I'm not going to let you go, You're too important to me."

And for the first time, I realised that when I told James that I might have been pregnant, and when I wondered how I would tell my family, it wasn't real fear.

Because as the darkness heightened my senses, I felt afraid of Jason.

A/N: So did anyone expect this ending? Does anyone know how it'll play out? I'd love to hear your opinions.

Here's your sneak peek.

"You told him?" I said accusingly.

"It's not like I couldn't." James said. "Don't you think it would look a little weird if Jack found out from him? Not that he'd have the guts to tell him anyway. Without it going very painful, very quickly."

"He's overreacting." I said. "Jack likes to overreact, and now he's going crazy over it."

Through the silence, I was able to hear James mumble "It's not like he doesn't deserve it."

Before I could reply however, He added in a louder voice "Look, let's just agree to disagree." Although I was dying to argue my point more, I nodded my head. I wasn't going to change his mind.

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