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She was in a room somewhere. She tried to move her hands, but they were tied. It was dark and cramped; a little beam of light shone dimly in the distance. Where was she? This didn't feel like Hogwarts. She tried yelling but she couldn't; her mouth was sealed with tape. Now it was starting to scare her, where was she? It was then that she realized her clothes were ripped; there were bruises on her legs and scratches near her hips. Tears flowed down her face. She needed to get out of here. Wherever it was.
In the distance, she saw someone approaching. She remained still, debating whether the person was going to help or not. The person came closer and closer.
"Rose?" the person whispered, "Are you alright, baby?"
Rose could only nod in response; so far this person is helping. Their fingers worked quickly, untying her hands and ripping the tape off her lips. She still couldn't see the person, but she could smell him. Yes, it was definitely a him... and he smelled good.
"What did they do to you?" the person said as his smooth hands found her face.
He put his head against her forehead, taking this moment in. It was very intimate being this close to the person. He parted for just a second, taking off his jacket to cover her shoulders.
Finally, Rose found her voice, "Who are you?"
"Your boyfriend," he says, concerned, "Are you sure you're alright?"
"My what?" she says, taken aback, "What's your name?"
"Scorpius Malfoy," he says, taking her arm, "Jeez Rose, tell me you're playing."
Rose woke up screaming.
"What the FUCK!" she yells, popping up from her bed, I'm going to kill him.
Penny rushes over, tripping on the corner of Rose's bed, "What happened?"
Her whole room is awake now except for Casey, who was a deep sleeper.
"What's going on Rose? Did you have a bad dream?" Naomi asks.
"Tell us what happened!" Andriya gasps excitedly.
Rose looks at them wearily, "I'm going to take a shower so I can clean my brain."
She gets up groggily, holding onto her friends for support.
Penny looks at the rest of the girls as Rose leaves, "I am beyond curious."
At lunch, Rose was buzzing with energy. It wasn't exactly the right type, however. She was confused and frustrated, yelling at everyone and aggressively slamming into things (or slamming other people into things). It was very confusing to everyone but the Weasley-Potters. Hiding emotions was perhaps the hardest thing to hide as a Weasley-Potter. Albus heard things like "Rose has finally lost it" "Her Weasley temper is really showing" and "I wonder what happened". He was curious too. Rose was very calm for the most part, except when she ranted about Scorpius and his studying habits (or anything Scorpius related in general), but she never did that in public. In fact, Albus was almost always the only one around when she did. To outsiders, it may look like Rose could care less about Scorpius and how good he was with girls but Albus always thought it was worse for a person to feel nothing about a person. Hate is still a feeling, right?
"Okay Rose," Albus says when he finally corners her, "What is up?"
Rose sighs, "I'm just so confused."
"What is up with showing your dragon Rose?" Albus asks. He nicknamed Rose's bad temper when they were little, and the name has stuck ever since.
Rose smiles weakly, "I haven't heard you bring it up in years."
Albus smiles back, "I haven't had to."
"I had a dream Al," she starts, "I had a dream that Scorpius Malfoy was my boyfriend and I was abducted at some place and he saved my life! I apparently forgot that he was my boyfriend, and he was very concerned. It all seemed so real!"
Albus tries hard not to laugh, "Did something happen recently? And are you ever going to tell me about the sweater, I've been dying to ask about it."
Rose stares him down, but continues, "No. And I'm just so angry with myself, this is not how things are supposed to be!"
Albus sighs, "Rose, what do you know about how things are supposed to be? You don't! You can't predict the future and you can't keep controlling and stopping the events that happen in your life. Let go a little bit, go with the flow. Maybe you'll discover something new."
"I'm beyond scared Al," she says.
"I'm sure it can't be that bad," he says, "Are you really that afraid to try new things? Rose Weasley, you are confident, brave, beautiful, and stubborn. Don't be afraid."
"Okay," she nods, more to herself than anything, "There's something I have to do."
"Well get on with it then," Albus says, chuckling, "You don't need my permission to do it, do you?"
Rose thinks for a moment, "It's funny you should say that."
Albus cocks an eyebrow.
"I'm going to talk to Scorpius."
Rose didn't know where Scorpius was but something inside her told her she'd find him soon. They were bound to run into each other anyway. They always do.
Scorpius was dazed. He didn't think that girls screaming and shouting in rage could be as sexy as Rose Weasley made them out to be. He's never seen a girl lose her temper as passionately as she did. Wow, he thought to himself, I wonder what made her do that.
The hallways were long and empty after classes. Rose sped around the corner, hoping to find him there.
She was beginning to lose hope again, but Albus kept popping up in her brain as a conscience. Don't you dare chicken out Rose Weasley.
She rounded another corner and bumped right into someone, almost falling. With her eyes still squeezed shut, she felt the same smooth hand wrapped around her arm. That's him, grass, coffee, apples and all.
"How many times have you fallen for me now, Rose Weasley?" he says to her.
She opens her eyes and he grins slightly at her. Last time they were this close to each other felt like a lifetime ago. She felt her breath leaving her again, as it always does when she's near him.
He drops her arm and she clears her throat, "W-We need to talk."
"Sure," he says, putting his hands in his pockets.
They walk side by side for a while. Rose wrings her hands. Her brain was busy planning what she was going to say to him. Should she say it was an accident? That it should have never happened? What if she said that she really enjoyed it? Would he kiss her again?
There was something about making out with someone you barely knew that…
"Hey," he says, breaking her train of thought, "What's your favourite flavour of Bernie Bott's Every Flavour Beans?"
"What?" she asks, confused, "Did you just..."
"Yes," he says, suddenly confused as well, "That's what I said, right?"
She giggles,
"What's your problem?" he asks, "I was just asking..."
She smiles at him, a genuine smile, "I know."
"So what did you want to talk about?" he asks, hoping it wasn't too awkward. He didn't know exactly what she wanted to talk about, but he had a feeling that this whole thing wasn't a dream.
"That night at the library," she states, calmly, "I'm sorry."
"Don't be," he says quietly. What did she mean by that?
"But," she says, looking up, "It was a nice kiss."
He looks at her, in all her beauty. He knew he wanted to kiss her again.
She turns to look at him, grinning again. Her cheeks had started aching. It seemed she hadn't stopped smiling since they started talking.
"Do you always smile so much?" he asks her. He knew she didn't smile often, but she definitely should.
"Nope," she answers truthfully, "There usually isn't much to smile about."
"That's too bad," he says, running a hand through his hair, "You're god damn gorgeous."
Now you blew it Scorpius. Couldn't you have chosen a better word? She's gonna stare at you and hit you for hitting on her. She probably only wanted to talk to you tonight to tell you that she hated you.
As if on cue, her hand floats up and touches his face softly. She looks at him in wonder and then narrows her eyes.
SLAP
"I knew it," she says, stepping back as she stares him down, "Still a player. A girl can't just talk to a guy normally can she?"
"What else do you know about me Rose?" Scorpius says, containing the embarrassment from the womanizer comment from going into his cheeks.
Rose's face reddens, "Nothing."
"Sure," he says, smirking, "Do you wanna find out?"
Rose's eyes squeeze shut as her hands make fists, "Malfoy..."
It suddenly hits Scorpius. She's about to lose her temper, because of me.
Rose's eyes open again. Scorpius has a look of satisfaction on his face.
"Gosh you're so annoying Malfoy," she says, turning away.
"Now we're on a last name basis again?" he says, acting hurt.
"Stop teasing me," she says, crossing her arms, "We're not friends."
Scorpius smirks, "Whatever."
Rose's eyes widen. Are we...flirting?
"Oh Merlin," Rose says, walking faster.
Scorpius catches up to her in a few steps, "Where are you zooming away so quickly to?"
"Bye Malfoy," she says, running now, "See you never."
It was at that moment that Scorpius Malfoy went out of his way to piss off Rose Weasley whenever he could. He just couldn't help it; it was too much fun. Sure, he loved it when she smiled (he'd never tell her that) but pissing her off? That was a whole other deal.
Rose was on her way to Transfiguration when Scorpius appeared beside her. It was actually insane how people reacted to seeing them together. This one girl from the other side of the hall fell right down the stairs when she saw them walking towards her together. Professor Trelawney tried to give them a combined fortune, to which they both politely declined. Another boy, who was very superstitious, took the two of them together as a bad omen and always muttered random words to counteract it when they were around. In fact, the students made sure to give them distance in the hallways. It was mostly because by now the entire school knows about Rose's dragon, even if they didn't know what it was called. Everyone knew that Rose ignored Scorpius and Scorpius ignored Rose. It was an unsaid rule. Whenever they walked in the hallways, Rose always walked the furthest physically possible from him. The students gradually caught on and filled up the space in between them. It was actually kind of weird how the two of them ran the school in some way. Everyone knew.
The Weasley-Potters were confused, but none of them bothered to ask Rose. They just made assumptions and asked each other.
"So, who took Rose, ran away with her, and replaced her with that?" Fred said.
"I think Rose might have hit her head or something that day she raged at everything," Hugo said, before taking it back, "No one tell her I said that."
"Rose is going to fall in love with Scorpius," Lucy said as she nodded her head towards Roxanne.
"It always happens like that," Roxanne said, agreeing with Lucy.
"Guys, guys," Albus said, "She probably has a perfectly good explanation as to why she's talking to Scorpy all of a sudden. Just chill."
"They didn't even talk to each other before this year! Someone probably made them a love potion or something," Lily Luna added.
"Or maybe they liked each other all along and started dating in private," James shrugged, "It's not impossible is it?"
Candace nodded in agreement.
"Especially if it's Malfoy, I'd keep that a secret," Elaine said.
"Hey there's nothing wrong with Malfoy," Albus said.
So, when the two of them walked the hallway together, bickering about who knows what, everyone was confused. It was like no one knew what to do. Where do they walk? Where do they sit during class? Should you even talk to Rose and Scorpius anymore if they're talking to each other? It was as if they were in their own little world.
"Malfoy would you leave me alone please?" Rose asks, "People are staring."
"Let them," he says as she skips two steps on the stairs.
"What do you want?" she asks him as he skips three. Always overachieving, that wanker.
She would have skipped more steps if she wasn't wearing a skirt. Scorpius turned around to look at her walking up one step at a time and winked.
"We aren't friends," she tells him.
"I know," he says, "I..."
He was interrupted by two girls in fifth year asking for directions to Ancient Runes.
Rose's face flushed. Who knew asking Malfoy for directions required flicking your hair and touching his arm?
"Don't follow me," she adds, before walking away.
"Where are you going?" he says as she storms past him. Turning towards the girls, he continues, "Oh never mind, the Ancient Runes classroom is this way. I'll take you there myself."
"You were doing just fine," Rose says to Scorpius in Transfiguration, "You know exactly where all the classrooms are, even Ancient Runes. Why would I stay and watch those girls attempt to get into your pants? It's not like you forgot where the Transfiguration classroom was."
Scorpius slides into the empty seat next to her, "Walking to class alone is never as fun as walking to class with someone else."
"Why are you sitting so close?" She says, breathing deeply. He had no need to be this close to her. She needed her oxygen to concentrate on the task at hand.
"Questions questions," he says, unfocused.
"Say Malfoy," Rose asks, "Mr. Emotionless."
"Mhmm," he says tiredly.
"How can you be absolutely disinterested in everything but have every female at Hogwarts' interest in you?"
"Every female?" he asks, almost slyly.
She backs off of him immediately. There was no need to drive the conversation in that direction.
Hey friends, I just wanted to update as soon as possible and these were the ideas that popped up in my head. Let me know what you think! Is the pacing awkward or is it just me... please review and tell me if you think they're developing too fast or too slow. I just felt the need to put some of that trademark Weasley temper into the story haha. I hope this chapter wasn't too bad, although it is a little bit choppy.
