A/N: Just to warn everyone, my coursework deadlines have suddenly appeared around the corner, so if I don't update as fast, I'm really sorry! Hope to be able to update week at least….Keep reviewing! The more reviews this gets, the faster I'll try to update, and that is a promise! - Rxx
In the Previous Chapter…
"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.
The boys drifted to bed at about 1am. Because they were already at least 17, Scorpius, Al, James and Fred had all been able to legally have some of the firewhiskey, so were a teensy bit drunk. As they noisily entered their room, Rose woke up.
"Are you drunk?!" she asked Scorpius, her eyes shooting to the ceiling.
"We're not drunk!" Al slurred, bending down to Rose's height and smiling loopily.
"Yeah, Rosie, baby, we're just merry!" James giggled uncharacteristically.
"I'm not *hick* completely drunk *hick*" Scorpius said, hiccupping. "I've had *hick* a little bit *hick* of firewhiskey, but not *hick* loads" he frowned at himself, covering his mouth as he hiccupped again and again.
Rose giggled "You've got the hiccups!" she squealed, taking Scorpius' hand and leading him over to their sleeping bag. Scorpius sat down heavily and pulled Rose into his lap, laughing.
"Always happ-*hick*-ens when I ha-*hick*-ve a drin-*hick*-k" he chuckled, slipping into the sleeping bag and huddling into Rose. "We better get *hick* a bit of sleep *hick*, Rosie, otherwise you'll be *hick* too tired for tomorrow *hick*" he yawned, lying down. When he hiccupped again, he got back up and said "I'm going to find *hick* a hiccup potion *hick* to stop these bloody *hick* hiccups" he scowled, quietly leaving the room.
Rose sat and watched as her three drunken cousins wobbled around the room, tripping over everything and landing in a pile on the floor. They slowly made their way to bed and were snoring by the time Scorpius returned, holding five small bottles in his hand. Hugo raised his eyebrow. "Why four bottles?"
Scorpius quickly opened a small purple bottle and downed the violet liquid inside, scrunching his face at the taste. "One hiccupping potion for me to shut up my hiccups, and the other four are hangover potions for when I wake up and they're rudely awaken early in the morning" he smirked, glancing down at the three boys who had passed out onto their sleeping bags. Hugo nodded before closing his eyes again.
Scorpius climbed back into his sleeping bag with Rose, hugged her lightly before the pair fell asleep in each other's embrace, excited for what the morning would bring.
"Scorp'us! Wake up!" Rose cried, standing in front of the sleeping blonde boy. "It's Christmas, Scorp'us! Wake up!" she tried again, but to no avail. Scorpius groaned slightly in his sleep, turning over onto his side.
"MALFOY! MOVE YOUR LAZY ARSE!" Hugo screamed into his ear with a grin. Scorpius immediately leapt out of bed, dazed, rubbing his ear.
"What time is it?" he groaned as Rose laughed.
"About 5am. All the parents and intoxicated children are being woken up right now by all of us younger children" Hugo smirked. "Wake Al up, will you? Then the three of us can handle Fred and James – they're always a nightmare to get up" Hugo said, chuckling.
Scorpius shook Al awake, who seemed completely used to the early wakeup call and asked "who gets up at 5am on Christmas morning?!"
"We always do. It takes hours to open all the presents, and plus its habit from when we were younger. We've never had a Christmas where we have been woken later than about 6 o clock. That was a rare occasion when Uncle Ron spiked all the kids drinks with Uncle George's heavy sleeper potion." Al explained as they stood in front of Hugo, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes.
"We don't really get up at home until about 10ish" Scorpius said. He quickly fished out the hangover potions and tossed one at Al. "Should help with that hangover" he smirked.
"How much did I drink?"
"More than me, less than those two" Scorpius said, jabbing a finger in the direction of the snoring boys. "How do you wake them up exactly? They're still out cold."
"Watch" Louis grinned as Hugo carefully lay down a small blue disc on the floor. They all stood back and Al pointed his wand at the disc, whispering "Aguamenti".
The blue disc started to expand, sliding underneath the boys' sleeping bags and across the floor. As soon as the blue disc surrounded them, it was if a bubble popped; James and Fred, plus their sleeping bags, dropped into a swimming pool a metre deep. They stood up spluttering and quickly rescued their soggy belongings from sinking.
"You should know by now to set an alarm" Hugo grinned. James shot a silent spell at Hugo, who gasped, clutching his face.
"You smirk at me like that, and I make your face stick like that" James growled, drying himself off. Hugo's eyes looked like they were about to bulge out of their sockets as he discovered that James had indeed frozen his smirk onto his face.
"Undo the spell, James, and I'll chuck you one of these" Scorpius said, holding a hangover potion in his hand.
"Fine, but only because my head is killing" James muttered, flicking his wand at Hugo again before catching the potion. He and Fred gulped down their potions and soon enough, all of the boys and Rose headed downstairs.
The Weasley Christmas had always been a very loud, busy occasion. All of the Weasleys would either wake up or be woken at 5am, and presents would immediately be bee-lined for by the kids.
Scorpius sat in a large circle with the rest of the Weasley children, with Rose bouncing excitedly up and down in his lap. The adults waved their wands, stifling yawns, towards the large Christmas tree in the corner, and piles of gifts floated towards every child in the room.
Scorpius watched as Rose gleefully opened all of her presents, squealing at most of them before eagerly showing Scorpius and putting them aside to open the next gift. The pile in front of Rose slowly diminished, leaving behind a mound of presents (including gifts for her as a child and as a teen) and another pile of wrapping paper. Scorpius beamed as he helped Rose pull on her Weasley Christmas jumper, a dark grey with a forest green R knitted on the front.
"Oh, I almost forgot!" Hermione suddenly said, seeing that Rose had finished opening her gifts and was now trying to prize open a small muggle toy called a puzzle box that Scorpius had given her. She flicked her wand towards the tree again and another pile of gifts sailed towards Scorpius and Rose. The little girl dived forwards, but halted when Hermione called "They're not for you, Rosie. Those ones are Scorpius'"
Scorpius looked at the abundant pile of gifts in awe. He had never expected to get anything from the Weasleys. He opened the gifts slowly, marvelling at each one. He had his own Weasley jumper from Molly (Dark green with a grey S on the front), a collection of WWW products from George ("You can have a family discount too, seeming as you've been given the trademark Weasley jumper" George grinned. Molly smacked him round the back of the head. "I mean, you're welcome to a discount for looking after our darling Rosie so well"), a few rare books on transfiguration and a new wizard's chess set from Ron and Hermione and a massive collection of sweets from all of the children.
"We all pitched in to get you some stocks" Al laughed.
"Just don't let Rosie at them, or they'll be gone in minutes" Hugo laughed as Rose scooped a chocolate frog from her own pile of sweets and happily started munching on it.
After a good morning of opening gifts, playing with new belongings and a large round of thank yous, the entire Weasley family sat down to a fantastic Christmas dinner, cooked by all of the women. Scorpius friendly chattered with everyone at the table, helping Rose to cut up her food as she sat in his lap.
After their Christmas lunch, Scorpius and Rose packed up their belongings before saying a final goodbye to the Weasleys before New Year.
"We'll see everyone in a few days for a big party, hun" Scorpius soothed as Rose sat in his arms, tears slowly dribbling down her face. "You'll only be away for a few days and then they'll all see you again"
"Big party?" she asked, clashing her eyes with his.
"Yeah. There's gonna be lots of people, music, dancing, lots of food and fireworks" Scorpius grinned, grabbing their suitcase form the floor. "We better be going, otherwise we're going to be late" he said, checking his watch quickly.
"Have fun with Scorpius, Rosie" Al grinned.
"We'll meet up in a few days to go shopping" Lily smiled, waving from the doorway.
"Rose, hun, I need you to close your eyes and hold you breathe" Scorpius whispered.
"Okay, Scorp'us" she said, squeezing her eyes shut and taking a deep breath. With a final wave goodbye, Scorpius turned on the spot and apparated his and Rose to Malfoy Manor.