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CHAPTER 11 - Plotting and Planning

Previously in Chapter 10:

"And one other thing, we must all swear to secrecy not to tell anyone especially the WBBC, is that clear," Dom asked with a tone of finality to it. It is very clear who the leader of this secret operation is.

"All clear," Luc replied and the rest of us agreed.

- The Next Day -

Rose's POV:

I was rudely awoken by a chill as my bed covers were reefed of me.

"Come 'n Rosie, up!" Fie ordered.

"Is the castle on fire?" I mumbled sleepily.

"No," Mya replied still a bit sleepy herself.

"Then why must I be up at such ungodly hour?" I asked with conviction.

"It's Wednesday and we have classes," Fie calmly stated.

"Well send an owl to this Wednesday person and classes, and tell them to go jump in a lake," I protested trying to go back to sleep.

"Rose Weasly," Fie said sternly – great, it's her command voice – its suicide to challenge Fie if she uses the command voice. It usually means that she will not hesitate to use a few spells to get what she wants. I slid out of bed muttering about my unhappiness and got dressed.

Scorpius' POV:

That damn James had all of us looking around the castle for Dominique nearly all night. As a result I wasn't up as early as I usually am. I always tried to get to the Great Hall before the rest of Hogwarts woke up – or at least most of it anyway.

However this morning I was woken up by voices. I was about to get up when I heard…

"Hey Randle, don't you think Rose Weasly is quite fit?" Blaze asked. I froze: torn between wanting to be in denial and ignore the conversation, and wanting to listen intently. I ended up deciding to listen.

"Actually she is, remember how hot she looked in October at the ball. I mean damn she can clean up good," Randle agreed.

I suddenly felt a protective-possessive twinge come over me.

It's great that she's not hated and all but they can just go around talking about my Rose that way.

Wait, since when was she my Rose? Stupid brain.

Great, taking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.

I'm doomed.

Shut up brain!

There I go again.

I sighed and got up to go eat breakfast.

Rose's POV:

That morning after breakfast walking out of the Great Hall we – Fie, Mya and I – bumped into Al and Scorpius.

"You guys look exhausted, what did you do? Stay up all night?" Mya observed.

"Pretty much," Al answered with a little less energy than he usually has.

"Anyway Scorp and I were wondering whether you guys were alright," Al said looking a bit concerned, "because Dom wanted to talk to you yesterday."

I tensed up slightly. Great what are we supposed to say!

"Yeah, we're all fine," Fie answered before I could say anything.

"Yep and we are just about to go to Transfiguration," Mya said hinting to Fie and I to leave before they start asking for details.

"Right well, we'll be off see you later sometime," I said starting to walk off.

Al and Scorpius looked thoroughly confused as we left. That came too close to a conversation I didn't want to have.

Albus' POV:

"They're hiding something," I stated as I watched Rosie, Mya and Fie leave.

Scorp nodded and said, "they were all nervous and on edge."

"And we didn't even get to ask them about Dom," I said in a disappointed tone.

"It's not like they would have told us anyway," Scorp replied with matter-of-factly tone.

"True but that's where we could have hoped one of them slipped up and would reveal even a little information," I countered.

We then started making our way to Charms.

- A few hours later at around lunch time -

Lily's POV:

I had a free session at the moment and considering I didn't want to go to the usually juicy gossip spots such as the Great Hall – or other places that I probably shouldn't mention; after all a good "researcher" never reveals her sources.

I decided to find something to pass the time in the common room. Maybe a game of Exploding Snap? Just as I passed through the entrance to the common room, James was there.

"Sup baby sis, how's it going?" He asked.

"Quite good actually," I replied matter-of-factly.

I started heading towards the girl's dorms when James blocked my path.

"What are you doing James?" I asked while I gave him an I-know-that-you-want-something-so-spill look.

"Were you with Dom yesterday afternoon?" He asked with an investigative expression.

Great it's an integration.

"Yes, why?" I asked calmly.

"Really? What exactly were you discussing?" He probed.

"Why would I tell you that?" I said with a small chuckle.

"Because I'm your brother and I'll get mad if you don't," He said a little to quickly. He was obviously not going to be very angry and besides I am not scared of James being angry; it's Dom who you've got to watch out for.

"Sorry James, Dom mad is way scarier than you mad," I countered with a triumphant grin.

He knew I was right and struggled to find a good argument against it. After a minute I pushed past him to get to the stairs to the dorms: I didn't want to waste this free time. So I sat on my bed and read through one of my magazines and the Daily Prophet.

- Just after dinner -

Scorpius' POV:

Al and I were walking back to the common room after dinner when we heard James shout our names from down the corridor.

He ran up and asked, "Hey, so did you two have any luck finding out from Rosie, Mya or Fie?"

"Unfortunately no," Al answered.

"The WBBC are having a meeting now in the Room of Requirement," He said and then ran off.

Great I guess I'm looking at yet another late night. Or I could just sleep during the meeting.

"This is really starting to paranoid James, isn't it?" Al stated.

"Yeah but I really wish that he wouldn't waste our time with his paranoia that way I might actually be able to finish my Astronomy essay," I complained.

"Well no one is stopping you but I personally would like to know what got my cousins to start conspiring," Al chuckled.

"Why do you thing Rose, Jemima and Freya agreed to whatever it is?" I asked.

"Firstly, I didn't say those girls specifically so what made you name them in particular?" Al questioned with a raised eye brow and a knowing look. I turned away trying to act like I didn't care but it really was to hide the slight blush that was creeping onto my cheeks. Luckily he let the topic go and said, "I guess we'd better get to the Room of Requirement they'll be waiting for us."

"Let's go then," I replied.

- In the Room of Requirement -

Albus' POV:

James was absently taping his forehead against a desk.

"You know James, unless you're a desk whisperer the taping isn't going to help," I commented and looked up and gave me an I-know-I'm-not-stupid look which I ignored with a smirk.

"I don't get it, when I tried to talk to Lucy, she just ran away saying that she had to water the mandrakes or something," stated Hugo.

"Looks like they are going to try the up most to keep it a secret," Louis commented thoughtfully.

"Then we'll have to come up with a different plan," James declared.

Here we go again.

- In the Gryffindor common room -

Roxanne's POV:

Dom had seated us around the fire place on the couches. This was one of our meetings about how we would carry out the Revenge Plan as Dom called it.

But my heart wasn't in the conversation. My mind had unfortunately wondered back to Dante and how he broke my heart.

How could he? He played with my emotions and once he got bored he found someone new. What was I to him? A doll?

I had to take a deep breath to hold back the tears that might come.

Ok that's enough moping around. I need to get a grip.

I thought with forced bravado.

"Roxy, you alright?" Lucy whispered kindly.

"Yep," was all I managed to get out.

Rose's POV:

"Dom, I think we may have a problem," Lil informed.

"And what would that be?" Dom asked calmly.

"Well today James tried asking about why we are meeting, I didn't tell him anything though," Lil continued.

"Yeah, today Hugo tried to ask me today too," Luc said.

"What did you do?" Mya asked.

"I ran away," Luc replied with a beaming smile.

After a second we all burst into laughter.

"That's the way," Mya cackled.

"Great job Lucy," Lil encouraged with a smirk, "though I do feel a bit sorry for Hugo but I would have loved to see it."

Once the laughter calmed down Dom continued, "Has everyone been approached by the WBBC today?"

We all nodded.

With a cunning grin Dom said, "I guess I'll just have to set their worries to rest, stay I'll be back soon no need to worry," and with that Dom exited the common room.

Good luck to them, they'll need it once she gets there.

My thoughts were interrupted by Lucy stating, "Hey Rosie, I curious, why is Scorpius the only guy you fight with, excluding Al, James, Hugo, Louis and Fred of course."

I was totally not prepared for a loaded question like that. My heart beat stopped for a second before continuing ten times faster. I felt my cheeks heat up. I the remembered how Scorpius had caught me before I fell on the ice that day when we went ice skating and how my senses tingled having him so close. I was probably blushing as red as the Gryffindor house colour. All of my cousins and Mya and Fie were looking at me waiting for my response.

I took a deep breathe trying but failing to slow my heart beat down.

"Well, that's a very loaded question Luc and I guess the short answer is I'm not really sure," I replied as calmly as possible.

"Ok then," Luc said. Few, she accepted that as an answer. Now that she mentions it I would what he's doing right now?

Scorpius' POV:

I was in that zone where you aren't asleep just yet but you're not full awake either. However that peaceful moment was interrupted when the door to the Room of Requirement opened to reveal Dominique.

I dragged myself awake again as James greeted, "Hey Dom, is there something wrong?"

"Well, yes actually James," she said while walking slowly forward and continued in a stern tone, "I would like the WBBC to keep its nose out of my business."

"What makes you think we'd be interesting in your business?" James half challenged but you could hear the tremor in his voice.

"Don't test me James Sirius Potter, or I could clearly try to remember what you did to the Charms classrooms only a few days ago," Dominique retort, "and possible other incidents that you can also be punished for like the time you set loose Pixies in the castle or the time where you nearly set the Slytherin common room on fire."

"They deserved it though," James quickly commented.

Dominique sent major foul look his way and that stopped James in his tracks. He had gone to say something but alas nothing came. He then turn to look at us for support but the rest of us were too busy pretending to be busy to notice. He scowled at us and turned back to Dominique.

"Fine," He answered with a tone of disappointment.

"Good," Dominique replied and then left the room.

"What was that guys? Why the lack of support?" James wined.

"Because no one but you has the guts to challenge her," Fred commented.

Nearly all of us agreed.

"Tomorrow we spy on them!" James announced. We all groaned.

One day James will annoy someone too much and end up in serious trouble and I can't wait to watch.

Lily's POV:

I saw Rosie blush when Luc asked her about her feelings towards Scorpius. I'll admit I have never seen anyone more stubborn than those too. The sexual tension between them only gets stronger the longer they deny their feelings. It's like in one of those muggle movies where you scream 'GET TOGETHER ALREADY!' at the television device.

However my thoughts were interrupted when Dom arrived back.

"Where did you go Dom?" Lucy inquired.

"I had a nice chat with the dim-wit James and the rest of the boys, they were being nosey and no doubt they will try and spy on us tomorrow," Dom replied, "but I have a plan."

We gather around in a circle – trademark plotting and planning – I might have laughed at my thought had Dom not looked so serious.

"Ok now, Lily did your friend get the information we needed?" Dom asked.

"Yep, the info. Is reliable too," I answered. My group of friends loves to gossip and to be able to gossip they have to have stuff to gossip about. In this particular situation I asked a friend in Slytherin for a favor.

"Good, then we'll divide into teams. Team A: Rose, Mya, Fie; Team B: Lily, Molly; Team C: Roxy, Lucy. I will oversee it all making sure everything goes to plan," Dom explained, "Team A your on revenge weapon, Team B you're on look out and Team C you're decoys. That's the arrangement for Stage 1 of the plan and depending on what happens Teams B and C may switch jobs."

There was a chores of agreement before Dom then said, "Who are we?"

"Weasly-Potter Girls!" we all say enthusiastically at the same time.

"Ok girls, let's go!" Dom stated authoritatively.