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ROSE
The smell of paint was so strong that Rose felt like she couldn't breathe. The girl tried to open her mouth to suck in a breath of fresh air just to discover that she was gagged. What was happening?
The memories then rushed to her mind: the laughter of those men on the street, a fist hitting her jaw and she being dragged into a minivan. Terror seized Rose as she opened her eyes and saw that she was in a nearly dark room, completely tied up.
"Finally she wakes up," laughed one of her captors
Rose turned to the voice at the same time someone else turned on a powerful light in the room. The place was a large, cold, dusty room that seemed abandoned… and it probably was. And she was there alone with those men.
"We were starting to get bored," continued the man who she recognized as the one who had made her fall in the street
Instinctively she kept fighting to get free but it was useless, they had tied her very well. The man laughed at her desperate attempts and began to circle her, approaching where she was sit on the floor.
"If you promise to be quiet I'll take the gag off," he said, "So what you say?"
Rose nodded and he did his part by removing the dirty rag he had used to silence her. Knowing that there was no point in shouting for no one would listen to her, she preferred to show the anger she was feeling by spitting to his face.
"Bitch," he blurted out before crossing her face with a slap that made her stagger, "This is what I get for trying to be nice?!"
"Nice?" The redhead hissed. "You have me here against my will! You better let me go or ...!"
"Or what?" A third man, tall and with cold black eyes entered the room, "No one will come here to rescue you so you better behave and try not to end my patience. I wouldn't like to have to force you," he reached over and took her face tightly in his hands, "I like it better when girls cooperate."
Panic flooded to her brain at hearing those words. She was lost, alone in there and they could do whatever they wanted with her. Tears began to roll down her cheeks at the realization of this.
The man with the black eyes painfully grabbed her hair while his other hand tightened her waist, pulling her close to him. Rose screamed and tried to kick him but it was useless.
"Easy there little bitch," he whispered bringing his nose to the girl's neck and inhaling her scent. The closeness of him disgusted Rose, "Relax and I'm sure you'll also enjoy this"
"Not in your best dreams," she replied scathingly.
And abandoning all precautions Rose bit his ear with all her strength when the man caressed her again. The guy screamed but she didn't let go, however his friends intervened and managed to separate them, subjugating her again.
"Let me go! Leave me alone!" She yelled hoarsely
But they were angry now, so they began to hit and kick her making her cry in pain. They were going to kill her, she realized, but she preferred that a thousand times before feeling his hands over her again. Rose gave a little cry of pain and suddenly the blows stopped.
She opened her eyes, scared, hoping to find something that would surely mean bad news for her; but she instead observed the expression of fear of the men. One of them suddenly ran to the door and leaned out to see what was happening.
"Shit! Scorpius is here!"
Rose's heart skipped a beat when she heard his name. She knew that if he was here she didn't have to worry; despite the fight they had had a few hours ago she was sure that he wouldn't let anything bad happen to her.
The men began to curse and two of them managed to escape through a door that Rose hadn't noticed, but the other two weren't so lucky and were still in the room as Scorpius and Theo violently entered and hold them without too much trouble.
Scorpius took a fleeting glance in her direction before throwing the guy to the ground.
"Theo take care of this one," he ordered
Theo landed an accurate blow to the face of the man he was holding and managed to knock him out and then grabbed the other one. Scorpius instead leaned closer to Rose and cradled her face gently in his warm hands.
"Everything will be fine Rosie, I'm here now"
She nodded at his words and let him hold her against his chest. As she breathed in the familiar scent of the blond, she felt completely safe and for some reason tears began to fall again. Tears of fear and shame. Why did this have to happen to her?
Scorpius untied her carefully and rubbed the bruises the ropes had left on her wrists and ankles before helping her to her feet. Theo, who had already subdued the two men, watched his friend from across the room without saying anything
"Were there others?" Scorpius asked her
"Two more," she replied. Her voice sounded hoarse from crying so she cleared her throat, "Scorpius, Theo… thanks for…"
Her voice cracked and she cocked her face. She didn't want them to see her cry. Scorpius, however, cradled her in his arms and once again she allowed him to do so. The boy made her feel safe and that was something she really needed right now. She wanted to forget the events of the last moments forever.
"We should take her to see a doctor," said Theo, "She has some pretty ugly bruises and she is bleeding"
Scorpius cursed and began to examine her better, pulling her out of the embrace and watching her from head to toe. With some reluctance he ran his thumb over the corner of her lip and she noticed the trail of blood she left on his finger. The touch also sent a twinge of pain that she couldn't hide.
"One of them slapped me very hard," she explained at his inquisitive look
"Bastards"
Scorpius pulled away and kicked one of her captors in the stomach causing the man woke up and howled in pain.
"Who the hell ordered you to do this?" Scorpius demanded to know
She had never seen him this angry and it wasn't a nice scene, not after everything that had happened tonight.
"Speak!" He continued
"Scorpius, that's enough!" Theo walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder before pointing in Rose's direction, "We'll fix this later. Take Rose to some place safe and let her cousin know that you've found her or we will soon have a war with the Gryffindors."
"Albus!" She gasped suddenly, "He must be so worried! And my sister too! Oh no…"
"Hey easy, easy, it's ok," Scorpius returned to where she was, "It will be fine. I swear."
She nodded, wanting someone to magically fix this whole situation even though she knew it wouldn't happen.
"I'll tell Cassandra to meet us with Potter at home. Mom and Dad won't be back until tomorrow afternoon so you can heal Rose's wounds in there. I'll stay with this couple of idiots until they decide to talk."
"Theo…"
"Don't worry brother, I won't hurt them too much," he smiled sideways, "I'll wait for you. But right now you must be with Rose. She needs you."
Scorpius nodded and grabbed her hand. Theo tied up the men, who were still unconscious, and made a couple of calls before Rose and Scorpius left the place.
The blonde guided her to Theo's car and helped her up. Her abdomen was aching a lot and she winced in pain.
"Tell me exactly what happened, Rose, please"
"Scorpius I don't want to talk about it"
"Please Rosie. I need to know everything they did to you," he started driving. She noticed that his knuckles were white from the anger with which he clung to the wheel. "They… did they touch you in any way?"
He couldn't elaborate but there was no need to do so because she knew exactly what he meant. Rose blushed and shame washed over her as she remembered that man's hands tracing her body, "No, they didn't do the things you were thinking about," Rose answered. Scorpius blew out a huge gulp of air that he was probably holding back, "You guys get there in time to stop it from happening."
His words seemed to stir something in him because he carelessly parked the car and turned to Rose, facing her. There were tears in his gray eyes, and when he hugged her, Rose felt that she was the one comforting him instead of being the other way around.
"Forgive me Rose, please forgive me," he whispered against her hair. "This is all my fault... those sons of bitches ..."
"What are you talking about? None of this happened because of you Scorpius," she replied
"The hell it is my fault! This was a way of threatening me!" He pulled away from the hug and hit the wheel of the car, "They don't understand ... Rose I told you we couldn't be together. And I really wanted to get away from you but it's useless. Being without you makes no sense. You have no idea ... the simple thought of something happening to you, the despair I felt ... the terror of this last hour is more than I can bear. I don't want to keep pushing you away Rose. I need you by my side."
She instinctively hugged him, moved by his words and the emotions he didn't seem to be able to contain. It was a side of him that she hadn't seen until now, Scorpius seemed so vulnerable and sincere. He cradled her, stroking her hair and burying his face in it.
"I swear I'm going to fix everything," he gently took her face and placed his gray eyes on her chocolate ones, "I'm going to fix it. I will do it for you. I will do everything right for you."
She nodded, not quite understanding what he was referring to, and she didn't have time to say anything else because he settled into his seat and started the car.
They reached Cassie's house in just a few minutes. Her best friend and her cousin were standing leaning against the wall of the building, they both rushed over to her when Scorpius helped her out of the car.
"Rose!" Cass wrapped her arms around her and the redhead couldn't help but complain of pain, "Oh my God ... I'm sorry Rose"
Her cousin claimed her attention at that moment. He gasped as he examined her face, and although she hadn't seen her reflection yet, she knew it shouldn't look good at all.
"We better take her inside the house," said Cassie
Albus seemed to come out of the shock he was in and asked Cass to show him where her house was as he lifted Rose in his arms, pushing aside Scorpius who had also approached to help her. For once the blonde didn't protest.
Once inside the Nott apartment, Albus placed her on a plush sofa.
"Who was it? Were they yours?" But the questions were directed towards Scorpius and not towards Rose
"Yes," Scorpius's short reply fell like a heavy load
"I'm going to kill them," Albus hissed. "This won't stay like this Malfoy, I won't allow ... I won't forgive them for touching my cousin."
"I'm not going to dissuade you from anything you want to do," Scorpius replied. "Because I'm going to take care of them too, this will not be forgotten."
"Guys please, this is not the time to talk about these things," Cassandra added
Scorpius and Albus spoke at the same time and Rose was unable to hold back her anger, "I was the one who was kidnapped and it was me who was beaten!" She blurted out, "And I'm not looking for revenge. I don't want any more violence, I want justice."
"Well, this is the justice we have," cut Albus
"This is insane!" She looked at her cousin with tears in her eyes, "Violence and more violence! Don't you listen to yourselves? You're talking about killing people for God's sake!"
"People? Animals would be a better word, look what they did to you," her cousin pointed desperately at her, "I can't allow ..."
"It's not that you allow anything Albus Potter," she cut him off, "If you do something to them then they will respond and who's next? Hope? Hugo?" She turned to Scorpius, "And if you and Theo continue with this, have you thought that something could happen to Cassandra?"
The two of them exchanged a look that Rose didn't understand.
"I want you to stop. I want all this to end here," she continued, "I want to heal and forget that this ever happened, can you at least understand that?"
Neither of them answered her, but from what she could read on their expressions, she knew that her words had not had the slightest effect.
A/N: Next chapter coming really soon~