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In the Previous Chapter…

"Ron, I think Rosie is craving some Prince Charming of her own who will sweep her off of her feet and fight off the bad guys for her" she almost whispered, "and I think that Scorpius Malfoy may be her Prince Charming."

Scorpius lay Rose down on his bed gently, before standing and looking down on her. He softly tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear before leaving the room, only half closing the door behind him. With one last look at Rose's sleeping form, he headed back downstairs to find Al. The two had become quite close friends after Al had returned to school, despite the accident. At first, they had gotten along just to please Rose, but now the pair were quite close as friends.

As Scorpius came down the last flight of stairs, he felt as if everyone was watching him carefully, as if they were judging his every move. "If you hear Rose getting up, can you tell me please?" he asked quietly, twiddling his thumbs nervously, eyes glue to the floor between his shoes, "It's just she'll probably wake up crying and screaming" he said before walking over to Al who was sat on the sofa playing chess against Hugo.

"Knight to E4" Hugo said, a smug smirk forming on his face. Scorpius watched amused as Al's face crumpled as Hugo's knight smashed his bishop to pieces, leaving him in checkmate. Al turned to look at Scorpius, who quickly dropped his smile. Hugo, always the gracious winner, leapt up from his seat, scattering the pieces everywhere, and exclaimed loudly "that's 9 games to 2, Ally boy!" he said, whooping and jumping around like a monkey.

Al glared at Hugo before turning to Scorpius. "What's up? You look slightly worried" he frowned.

"It's probably nothing, just felt as if everyone was judging me when I came downstairs….It's probably just me, don't worry" Scorpius said, looking anywhere but his friend's face. If he had looked, he would have seen Al's eyes flash with concern that Scorpius had heard what Hermione had said.

"Scorp, what are you doing for the rest of the Christmas holdiays? I know you're going home with Rose after lunch on Christmas Day, but if you've got a day free do you want to go into Diagon Alley with me and Hugo? Rosie can come too, obviously" Al said.

"Yeah, that'd be cool. We probably won't do loads while we're at the Manor. We'll go and see my gran on boxing day, but other than that I'm free until New Years Eve" Scorpius smiled. He suddenly thought of something. "Al, we have this New Years Eve Ball thing every year at the manor in the garden. Obviously Rose will be coming along this year, so would you and the rest of your family like to come?"

"That's cool. I'm taking that it's a dress-up-formally occasion" Al said, "So we will have to go to Diagon Alley before that then"

"Why?"

"Well, I need new dress robes, but also, Rosie will need something pretty to wear, won't she?"

"Oh yeah. I guess we will have to meet up then, Potter" Scorpius smiled, nudging Al in the side.

"Yeah, I guess, Malfoy" Al smirked.

The next two days passed by quite quickly. They spent most mornings ice skating on the pond or having snowball fights. In the afternoons, all of the children would either play games or bake food in the large Weasley kitchen. Rose seemed to thoroughly enjoy cooking, and so they ended up making enough brownies, cookies and cupcakes to feed an army. All too soon, it was Christmas Eve, and everyone was getting tired of waiting, especially Rose.

"Can't I open my present now?" She begged for what felt like the fiftieth time.

"Not yet. You just have to wait until tomorrow morning" Scorpius said in a slightly bored tone, not even looking up from his chess game against Hugo. The children had held a massive chess tournament the day before and today was the final round; Hugo vs. Scorpius, Weasley vs. Malfoy. Although Hugo was good, he hadn't anticipated that Scorpius was actually better than him. Rose ran off to play with Lily, who was playing exploding snap in the other corner with the girls.

Scorpius smirked as he moved his bishop into place, putting Hugo into checkmate. "Good game, but you can't beat me" he grinned, offering his hand to Hugo, before pulling it back and wiggling his fingers in front of his nose, sticking his tongue out.

Al, who was watching, laughed and said "I think you're the only person apart from Ron and Rose to beat him at chess, ever" he said, giving Scorpius a hi-five.

"Was she really that good?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if she could beat Uncle Ron fair and square. He always cheats when he plays Rosie, and everyone knows it" Al smirked. "You'll have to play her when she's back to normal." Scorpius nodded and was just about to set up another game of chess with Al when Hermione came over.

"Are you packed for tomorrow afternoon?" she asked.

"Yeah, we're all ready to leave. The only things we'll need to add will be Rose's Christmas presents" Scorpius nodded. Hermione sniffed slightly. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's just that this will be the last time I see Rosie again before she's aged again" Hermione said, wiping her eyes.

"Well, Scorpius has invited us all to his ball" Al said, "so you'll see them again before we go back to school."

Hermione lifted an eyebrow and asked "This wouldn't happen to be the Malfoy New Years Eve Ball, would it?"

"The very same."

"And who exactly do you mean by 'us all'?"

"I mean everyone" Scorpius smiled. "Everyone's been really nice to me while I've been here plus I think Rose will enjoy it more of she has some of her family there."

"I'll talk to the adults about it, they might be busy. We have a lot of office parties this time of year" Hermione explained. "Are you sure your dad won't mind?"

"He won't mind. He's been wanting to invited you for years but never knew how to" Scorpius said. "He always wanted to make it up to the Weasleys after the war but never got the opportunity. Plus grandfather laughed it off, saying dad was stupid for even considering it" he smiled.

"Well, anything to annoy that old git, I say!" Ron yelled from across the room.

Hermione shook her head then whispered "He's already had quite a bit of firewhiskey, sorry he's starting to insult you"

"It's alright, I never really liked him" Scorpius smirked. His smirk was slightly disrupted when Rose came over from playing exploding snap, yawning.

"I'm really tired, Scorp'us" she said, yawning in the middle of it, "Can I go to bed yet?"

"Hermione?" Scorpius asked.

"There's nothing much more going on. It is quite late to be honest. Take her up, but if you want to come back down for another hour, just leave the door propped open" Hermione smiled. Scorpius picked up the tired little girl and carried her upstairs.

"It's nearly Christmas, Rosie" he whispered.

"I know, Scorp'us" she giggled, "we get presents tomorrow!"

"Yeah, we do, but tomorrow won't come unless you go to sleep" he said, putting Rose into bed. She snuggled into his pillow and was soon snoring softly. "Night Night, Rosie" Scorpius smiled, leaning down and placing a small kiss on the little girl's forehead before heading back downstairs to laugh with Al at the adults, who were getting steadily more drunk as the evening progressed.