"Harry have you seen Rose?" Cedric asked, approaching Harry and Neville Longbottom right before the 2nd task was supposed to start.
"No," Harry replied. "I haven't seen her since last night." Cedric sighed. "Ok, thanks anyway and...good luck today."
Harry nodded. "You too."
Cedric didn't know where Rose was but he was getting worried. He boarded the boat and it took him to a large platform standing over the water.
Dumbledore was saying something about the task, but Cedric wasn't paying attention, he was worrying about Rose. And then, it clicked: they've taken Rose.
"Placed at the bottom of the lake are 4 people, the most treasured by each of the champions, it will be their task to retrieve said person within the hour, on the sound of the cannon, go!" Dumbledore exclaimed, a cannon quickly going off afterwards.
Cedric quickly applied the bubblehead charm then dived into the lake. It was icy cold at first, but he didn't have time to worry about the coldness. He had to find Rose.
Meanwhile Harry struggled underwater as the gills painfully were cut into his neck. When finally he was fully transformed he did a jump outside of the water to prove he was alright before quickly swimming down, the only direction he could think of going.
He glimpsed Fleur getting attacked by Grindylows before swimming even farther down...and then he saw them: Rose, Cho, Hermione and a small girl from Beauxbatons, all bound to a huge statue.
His first instinct was to swim to Cho, but then he saw Rose, floating there deathly still and he tried to go over to cut her loose.
Suddenly, Cedric came out of nowhere and pushed Harry out of the way. "Save Cho!" he mouthed. "Rose is MINE."
"How do you know? She's my friend too!" Harry exclaimed, swimming over to Cedric and shoving him out of the way. This would be the perfect time to prove that he was better than Cedric to Rose.
Cedric pushed him out of the way again. "BACK OFF!" he shouted, cutting Rose loose before Harry could try again.
He swam up to the top, Rose clutched tightly in his arms. Harry was shortly behind him, carrying both the Beauxbatons girl and Cho.
When they reached the surface, Rose gasped for air. Cedric quickly pulled her over to the dock and someone threw them a towel once they were up there. "Rose…oh, god, are you ok?" he asked frantically.
"Y...yeah...just c…cold," she said, shivering and pulling the towel around herself tightly to keep in the warmth.
"Somebody get me another towel!" Cedric shouted. Someone immediately threw one at him and he caught it, wrapping it around Rose.
"N-no, Cedric," she chattered, taking the towel off. "Y-you n-need it."
"I'm fine love, trust me," Cedric persisted, taking out his wand and drying her hair for her with it so that it wouldn't be dripping it everywhere.
He wrapped his arms around her. "I'm so thankful you're all right," he whispered in her ear. "I nearly went crazy looking for you. I don't know what would've happened if…if something happened to you"
"I'm fine Ced…I'm fine, Dumbledore took us last night," she said, pulling the towel tight around herself, "Where's Harry?"
Cedric's eyes darkened at his name and Rose pulled him closer, forcing him to look her in the eyes. "Cedric, where's Harry?"
"I don't know...in the lake still I suppose," Cedric replied, placing his hand on her cheek after he finished talking to her.
Rose nodded. "Ok...I'm just worried," she said quietly. "You know...the song said an hour...I wonder what happens if you go past an hour."
"Well he used Gillyweed, that only lasts an hour anyways," Cedric mused, shivering a little bit as the wind blew their way.
Her eyes grew wide and she ran to the edge of the dock, Cedric following her. "Don't worry, love," he said, holding her close. "I'm sure he'll be fine."
As if on cue, all of a sudden two heads emerged from the water, but they weren't Harry. They were the Beauxbatons girl and Cho Chang.
"Oh my god," Rose whispered. "Where is he?" Then, Harry's head popped up out of the water and she sighed, running over to greet him while Cedric looked on, jealousy stabbing at his insides.
"Oh my god Harry are you alright? What took you so long?" Rose exclaimed, taking the towels off from around her and putting them over Harry, along with the one they threw over.
"I'm fine, Cherry, don't worry about it," he mumbled as Cedric walked over.
"See, Rose, I told you he'd be fine," he said, staring darkly at Harry.
Rose didn't catch this and she sighed, hugging Harry tightly, "I'm so glad you are all right, I don't know what I would've done if I lost you Harry," she said, making Harry's spirits soar extremely high.
She got up and walked away with Cedric as Hermione came rushing over. Looking over at Cedric, she saw him glaring back at Harry. "Cedric," she said, putting her arm around his waist. "What's wrong?"
"I'll tell you later, right now I'm just glad nothing happened to you," Cedric said, pulling her close and kissing her passionately until Dumbledore's voice rang through the air.
"First of all I would like to congratulate all the Champions of their fine effort! Well done!" he shouted and everyone erupted into applause. "Now," he continued. "For this task, first place will be awarded to...Cedric Diggory!"
A large smile broke out on Cedric's face and he scooped Rose up in his arms, spinning her around. She laughed as he set her back down and they waited for Dumbledore continued.
"Yes, well done, Mr. Diggory! He freed his hostage with merely minutes to spare and showed excellent use of the bubblehead charm!" Dumbledore exclaimed. "And now, second place will be awarded to Harry Potter! Not only did he save his own hostage, but Miss Delacour's as well, showing excellent moral fiber!"
"Moral fiber my ass," Cedric mumbled quietly, but not quietly enough so that Rose didn't hear it. "What is your problem Ced?" she demanded.
"Nothing it's just...I don't know...while we were down in the lake Harry tried to stop me from saving you," he said quickly.
"What do you mean? Why would he do that?" Rose asked, dragging Cedric over to one of the boats as Dumbledore dismissed everybody.
"I dunno...but don't worry about it, Rose...I just braved mermaids, grindylows and a crazed fourth year for you...don't I get something in return?" he asked, kissing her intensely.
"Hey, do you have something against 4th years?" Rose asked, cocking her eyebrow at him in question.
"Well," he began, wrapping his arms around her waist. "There's this one fourth year, her name is...Rose I think...she kinda get on my nerves."
"Ohhh I see, well why does she happen to get on your nerves?" Rose asked, getting out of the boat as it docked.
"She's always flirting with me when she knows I already have a girlfriend," he said, sighing. "I just don't know what to do about her."
"Well I might have to talk to her about that you know, tell her to stop flirting with you," Rose said from her spot on the dock, since he was still in the boat.
Cedric laughed as she pulled him out. He then spun her around again as he kissed her passionately. "What do you say we get away from everyone?" he whispered in her ear.
"I say you must be able to read minds," Rose replied, looking up at Cedric through her pale eyelashes, their wet bodies pressed tightly against each other.
"Hey, you too, get a room!" shouted one of Cedric's friends.
"Gladly," he whispered as they walked back to Hogwarts.
"Where do you want to go?" Cedric asked her as they trudged through the brush on their way back.
Rose thought for a minute. "You think the elves will bring food up to the room of requirement? I just wanna get away from everybody," she said.
"I'm sure they would. How about we go to our dorms and change, and I'll meet you back there in 10 minutes?" Cedric said once they reached the castle.
"Sure," she said, kissing him again before heading to the Gryffindor Tower to change.
Once inside her dorm room Rose opened her wardrobe and looked inside until she found her favorite dress. She quickly pulled off her wet clothes and slipped it on, next curling her hair and applying some makeup. On her way out she glanced at her reflection in the mirror and smiled as she twirled around in the dress.
From the doorway, someone whistled at her and she turned around, seeing Angel. "Got a hot date, Rosie?"
"Maybe," Rose replied, smiling before slipping her feet into a pair of pink kitten heeled sandals. The dress was gorgeous, pale pink spaghetti strapped with flower decorations near the chest, where it hugged her every curve down until her waist, where it flared out until her knee, a sheer pink material covering the bottom part.
Angel giggled. "Don't do anything I would do!" she exclaimed, giggling as Rose left the tower.
Rose walked up towards the Room of Requirement taking the long way, and loving the way her dress swished with her every move. She passed a boy in the hallway and he whistled, reaching out and grabbing her butt.
She turned and recognized him as one of the boys from her first day on the train. "You..." she whispered, trailing off. He chuckled.
"Did you miss me?" he asked, advancing on her.
"Oh my God you're Roger Davies...you took Fleur Delacour to the ball didn't you?" she asked, trying not to back herself into a corner, or show that she was afraid.
"Yeah," he said, walking closer to her still. "But let's just forget about her." Now, he put a hand on her waist seeing as Rose was backed into a tight corner which she tried desperately to avoid.
"Get away from me; I want nothing to do with you!" Rose exclaimed, pulling his hand off of her waist and trying to get past him.
He grabbed her again and she started to scream. He almost had his hand down her dress when someone came running down the hall shouting, "GET OFF OF HER!"
Rose's eyes were closed tight as she felt Roger's body move away from hers quickly as he ran away. It wasn't until a moment after that that she opened them to see Harry looking at her.
"Harry," she whispered before throwing her arms around him. "Oh, thank goodness you came...I didn't know what to do."
"It seems like I've been given your official title of body guard or something. Was that the same guy?" Harry asked, glowing on the inside.
Rose nodded, her eyes closed tightly. "Yeah," she mumbled. "I was walking to meet Cedric when all of a sudden he grabbed me and I panicked."
"It's ok Rose, you're alright, do you want to walk for a few, to calm down?" Harry asked, sort of bitter inside when he heard that she was going to meet Cedric.
She nodded. "Yeah, sure...can you walk me up to the room of requirement?" she asked.
"Let me just fix my makeup first," Rose continued, adjusting her eyeliner where it had smudged from when she was crying.
"Ok," he replied, putting his arm around her.
"Ok, I'm ready...thanks again, Harry," Rose replied
"No problem...what are best friends for?" Harry said as they walked up the stairs to the room of requirement.
"Harry...Cedric told me something, about while you two were underwater..." Rose started.
Harry groaned. He didn't want her to know about that, now she probably hated him. "Yeah, about that..." he began, trailing off.
"Harry I just want to know what happened, I don't even know really the details, all I know is you tried to save me," Rose said.
"Yeah, I did," he replied. "But it was only because I didn't know where he was and I was worried about you."
"Well...I think Cedric is taking it a little differently than I am...he thinks there was more to it than just that, at least that's what I got from his reaction," Rose said, sighing as they approached the picture of the trolls.
Harry nodded. "Well, here we are," he said.
She hugged him one last time and said, "Thank you again, Harry...you don't know how grateful I am."
Just at that second a door opened and Cedric appeared on the other side of it in some jeans and a t-shirt, "What's going on here?" he asked, seeing the two of them in their embrace.
"Oh, Cedric," she said, pulling away from Harry. "Umm...I was walking down the hallways and Roger Davies grabbed me and...well...Harry saved me and he was just walking me here to meet you."
Cedric furrowed his eyebrows and nodded before turning around and going back into the room without another word. He didn't want to be jealous, and he knew he probably had no reason for it, but he still did.
Rose turned to Harry. "I'm sorry...he isn't usually like this," she apologized.
"Don't worry about it," Harry said. "I guess I should get going...see you later, Cherry."
Harry reached out and hugged Rose one more time, maybe holding on a bit longer than he should've to prove a point to Cedric, who he could see watching them from inside.
"Bye, Harry," she said before going into the room to face an angry Cedric.
He was staring into the fire when she came in and she just took a seat in the comfortable looking red velvet loveseat that was in front of the fire, pulling her knees up to her chin.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly.
He looked over at her. "You don't have to be sorry...Roger Davies is a pig."
"No, I'm sorry about the whole Harry thing," she said, leaning her head on the back of the chair as the fire warmed her body.
He walked over to the couch and sat down next to her. She snuggled up closer to him and he stroked her hair.
"Forget about it, I don't want us to fight," Cedric said sighing and brushing a piece of her pale blonde hair out of her eyes as they sat in front of the fire.
They sat in silence for a few moments until Rose looked up at him and whispered, "I love you."
"I love you too," Cedric whispered, kissing the top of her head lovingly. Rose smiled and leaned up, pressing her lips softly on his.
The kiss grew more passionate as Cedric's hands explored her body. Rose leaned on top of him, raising his shirt over his head.
A small whimper escaped from Rose's mouth as she felt his hardness press against her through her thin dress and his jeans.
He quickly removed her dress then picked her up and carried her over to the bed. She pulled him on top of her, kissing him fiercely.
Her long legs wrapped themselves around his back and her hands tangled themselves in his hair as he kissed his way down her throat, going steadily lower. "I...believe...you're overdressed," she moaned out as he unlatched her bra.
"We'll have to fix that now won't we?" he panted as she leaned up and unzipped his jeans, removing them then moving to his boxers.
She slid them down over his hips and soon her panties followed his on the floor. Both of them on their knees, they gazed at each other, Rose trying to not get distracted by the pressure that was on her thigh at the moment.
He smiled at her and cupped her cheek as he kissed her intensely, Rose's moans following soon after as he fulfilled her every desire.