"I love you, Cedric," Rose whispered, kissing his lips softly. "I really do...and I would never do anything to hurt you."
Cedric smiled and kissed her again. "I know...and I love you too...and about earlier...I overreacted..."
Rose placed a finger on his lips. "Don't worry about it."
"Thank you for being so understanding," she sighed, rolling on top of him, tangling the sheets around them even more as she did so.
"So," he said as she leaned her head on his chest. "Do you want me to get some food from the kitchen?"
"I don't want you to get up, but if you want to I'll be waiting here for you when you get back," Rose whispered, placing a kiss on his chest.
"Unless you wanna come with me?" Cedric asked.
"Sure," she said, getting up and finding her clothes on the floor. "I've never been to the kitchens before," she continued, searching for her bra.
"I didn't know where they were until last year," Cedric said, pulling on his boxers and then the rest of his clothes, "I look like a mess."
After finding the rest of her clothes, Rose walked over and ruffled his hair. "I think you look cute," she said and kissed his lips softly.
He grinned and took her hand in his before going out of the room. They walked down to the 3rd floor and up to a large portrait of a bowl of fruit. "Just tickle the pear," he told her.
She reached up and scratched the fruit lightly and a knob formed on the door. She opened it up and walked inside, her eyes growing wide as the large kitchen came into focus
"Master Diggory! What would you like today!" a small house elf said, walking up to Cedric and Rose.
"Ginger, could you bring up a few trays of various chocolate deserts, and a large pizza please? Bring it to the Room of Requirement," Cedric said to the house elf.
"How many house elves are there here?" Rose whispered.
"Over a hundred, Miss," said one of the house elves.
"Oh, ok," Rose replied, pulling a piece of hair out of her eyes as Cedric lead her over to a door that took them immediately back to the Room of Requirement.
About an hour later, a house elf arrived with the pizza and desserts. Cedric attempted to pay him but he hurried away, not accepting the money. "They never let me pay them," he sighed, sitting down and taking a piece of pizza.
"I guess he believes it's his job, so he doesn't feel he should take the money," Rose said, taking a piece of pizza and scarfing it down in nearly 2 seconds, she was HUNGRY. She was after all, in the water for over 10 hours.
"Wow, you sure are hungry," Cedric said, laughing a little after Rose finished her fifth piece. "Yeah, well, you would be too if you spent over ten hours underwater tied to a statue!"
"You have a point there," Cedric said, taking a chocolate truffle out of a basket and feeding it to her a moment later.
She licked her lips and smiled. "Well, don't I get any?" he asked.
She grinned and took another chocolate, placing it in her mouth and chewing, and then leaned forward and kissed him, Cedric snaking his tongue quickly inside her mouth.
When they parted several moments later, Cedric licked his lips. "Mmmm...so sweet," he murmured. "You should eat more chocolate."
Rose giggled. "And get fat? Uh uh, Ced, I don't think so!" she exclaimed.
"I don't care if you get fat," he said seriously. "I'd still love you."
"Well I'd care if I got fat," Rose replied, giggling as he kissed her neck. After another half an hour of munching on the food and talking they both returned to the bed, making love once more before falling asleep in each others arms.
4 months later
Rose slowly made her way through the crowd as she went to get her seat for the 3rd task.
"Rosie!" she heard someone call. She turned to see Angel in the front row.
"Wow! You got great seats!" she exclaimed, sitting down next to her friend.
"I made some first year get up, telling him I'd kiss him if he didn't...you know how little kids are about girls kissing them," Angel said, giggling.
Rose laughed until Dumbledore started talking and the stadium fell silent.
As he finished talking he told them that Harry and Cedric would be entering first. Several tears fell from Rose's eyes against her will as she thought of what could happen to Cedric in there. They had spent the entire night loving each other, and this morning she had cried in his arms until it was time for them to go. She looked out and caught his eye as he stood in front of his entrance.
"I love you," he mouthed. She blew him a kiss and mouthed, "I love you too."
He saw her distraught face and his face grew concerned. Rose wished she could go up and actually wish him good luck, but she had to stay in the crowd.
The cannon sounded and Cedric entered the maze, waving one last time to Rose who could barely see because of the tears blurring her eyes. She turned to Angel and mumbled, "I hope he gets out ok."
Rose was talking to Angel when suddenly a light erupted from the sky as red sparks came up. Rose held her breath as the maze suddenly started doing something, bringing back Fleur from it a minute later.
She blew her breath out and turned back to Angel. "I'm so glad that wasn't him," she whispered, tears filling up her eyes again. About ten minutes later, more sparks flew and Viktor Krum was brought back from the maze.
"Oh my god...that leaves Cedric and Harry," Rose whispered, clutching onto Angel's hand even harder as they waited, the minutes passing by excruciatingly slow.
About a half hour later, more sparks were shot up into the air and Cedric was brought out. Rose jumped up from her seat and ran down into the stadium. Some teachers tried to hold her back but she just kept screaming so they let her through.
She fell to her knees next to Cedric's unconscious body at the same his father did. "Oh my god Cedric!" she cried, cupping his face and kissing his cheeks, "Wake up!"
When he didn't respond she started to cry over his body. After a few moments, she felt him stir. "Cedric! Oh my god, Cedric, can you hear me?"
"Cedric my boy thank god you are safe! My boy!" His father cried, hugging his son as he opened his eyes. Cedric groaned, and reached for his side, obviously he had broken some ribs.
Once his father let go, Rose gently hugged him and started crying again.
"Oh, god, Cedric, I was so worried!" she cried.
"Rose," he whispered. "The cup...it was a portkey...Harry touched it and disappeared."
At this Dumbledore immediately came over and pushed Rose out of the way, "Go back to your seat Ms. Beaumont," he said urgently, having a few teachers take her back unwillingly.
When she got back to her seat, she filled Angel in on what Cedric had told her. "...and now he's gone! Angel, HE'S GONE!" she exclaimed, beginning to sob again.
"Oh Rosie!" Angel exclaimed, hugging her and letting her cry until finally no more tears came.
"Ang...it's been an hour since Cedric came back!" Rose exclaimed, distraught.
As if on cue, Harry emerged from the maze, the cup in his hands. Everyone started cheering until they realized that Harry was crying and shouting something. "What's he saying?" Angel asked Rose. Rose shook her head trying to listen.
Unfortunately she never got to hear what he said for at that second the teachers all surrounded him and then they ushered all the champions out, probably to take them to the hospital wing.
They were all ordered to go back to their dorms by Dumbledore before he left with the champions. Rose and Angel went back up to their dorm and sat talking for an hour until Hermione came in. "Rose," she said. "Cedric's outside the portrait. He said he wants to see you."
Rose didn't even think to thank Hermione until after she had already gone down the stairs. She groaned before rushing back up, "Thank you, by the way," Rose told her, before running all the way back down the stairs, through the common room, out of the portrait hole, and straight into Cedric's arms.
She started crying as he held her and stroked her hair. "Shhhh," he whispered soothingly, rocking her back and forth as she cried. "Listen, love...Harry's been saying that You-Know-Who is back."
"Oh my god is that...is that why Harry took so long to get back?" Rose asked. "Yeah," Cedric said.
"You...you don't believe him do you?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows.
He sighed. "I...I don't know, Rosie, it's just...well I haven't trusted him since the second task," he explained.
"Cedric...he was there he saw it happen and you don't believe him? What if it had been you and not him?" Rose asked.
Cedric sighed and lead her over to a bench in the hallway, "I don't know how to answer that question truthfully," he sighed.
Rose couldn't believe what she was hearing. "What happened in there, Cedric?" she asked. "Why was it him and not you?"
"We met up after Viktor Krum tried to curse me...and well we raced for the cup once we saw it. The bushes well, they ended up getting me, and well I called out for Harry to get me, they were pulling me under...but he wouldn't. He sent up the sparks and just continued," Cedric explained.
"Viktor tried to curse you?" Rose practically shouted, but Cedric hushed her. "I'm sorry it's just...I can't believe it."
"Dumbledore warned us that the maze changed people...obviously that was true," Cedric said, leaning his head against the wall. He looked better than he had when he returned, but he looked different...wiser even.
She stared at him for a minute then kissed his cheek and rested her head on his shoulder. "I'm so thankful you're ok...you have no idea how afraid I was that you...that you weren't..." but she couldn't finish her sentence. She lifted up her head as tears sprang to her eyes. "I just love you so much."
"I love you too Rosie, more than you could imagine," Cedric sighed, resting his cheek on her head, "I had better get going, my father wants to see me before he leaves...have you heard about the end of year ball they are planning? Sort of a thing to signify that the Triwizard Tournament is over...except not as formal as the Yule Ball, this time all of Hogwarts will be attending."
"No," she chocked out, wiping her tears. "We're going together, right?" He looked up, smiled and kissed her lips softly.
"Of course," he said. "Unless of course you found some man that's studlier than I am," Cedric joked, smiling.
"That isn't possible," she told him, smiling. They kissed intensely for several moments until Cedric really had to leave. They said goodbye and went their separate ways.