In the Previous Chapter…
"Rose, are you sure you're ready to tell people?" he asked.
"Yes. You are my boyfriend and I want them all to be jealous of my fabulous man" she smirked before pulling him close and giving him a passionate kiss in the middle of the corridor. "Oh, and because I agreed to come this morning, you'll be sitting with me today" she smiled, an evil glint in her eye.
"You cheeky little slytherin!" he exclaimed. "You want me to sit with your family" he gulped, "as your *gulp* boyfriend." He gulped again, paling slightly.
"They are not about to murder you, hun, and they can't lay a finger on you whilst I'm sat beside you" Rose laughed. And with that, she dragged a slightly lagging Scorpius into the Great Hall.
Rose confidently dragged Scorpius through the Hall over to where her friends and family were sat. They were greeted by all of them by pleads for forgiveness.
"We never really believed him Rosie"
"You know you love us, Rose"
"We're sorry" said Al. Rose smiled, happy that her family had found faith in her.
"It's fine. But because of your behaviour, you'll have to let my boyfriend sit with us" she smirked.
"McLaggen? How are you still with him?" came Hugo's immediate screech.
"I've got a new boyfriend. His surname also begins with M now I think of it" Rose said mysteriously before turning to Scorpius and smirking his way.
"NO WAY!" cried Hugo, Al, and every other male family member.
"Hi Scorp" greeted Jack "I have to admit I was wondering how long it'd take for you two to get together, you've gotten really close these last few days" he said before gesturing for Scorpius and Rose to take a seat between him and Al.
"What curse have you put her under?" threatened Al, pointing his wand at Scorpius' face.
"He hasn't put me under a spell, you idiot, now point your wand away from my boyfriend's face before I snap it in front of your face" snarled Rose, grabbing Scorpius' arm to stop him from trying to escape. "Either accept that Scorpius asked me out or shift it!" she said.
Scorpius put his hand on Rose's thigh under the table and started drumming his fingers across her lap. Rose lifted her eyebrows at the sudden contact and when his drumming began to tickle her, she slapped his hand as a warning before grabbing it with her own.
Rose hadn't realised that her whole family had been watching the exchange between the couple. They were greeted by several open mouths from her family, a small smile from Beth, an d Jack was sat there with an ear-to-ear smirk on his face.
"What do you find so funny, Jack?" glared Rose.
"Oh nothing, just the fact that you are so obviously the man in this relationship" he sniggered. Scorpius joined in the laughter.
"Yeah, because she's obviously a man" laughed Scorpius, "Well, I hope she's not, otherwise Rose, you have quite a lot of explaining to do" he joked.
"Well, if I was a guy, I'd be slightly worried too" smirked Rose. She began to creep her hand up Scorpius' leg under the table. Scorpius' face morphed as he tried to conceal his hidden laughter, but couldn't hold it in.
"Stop tickling me!" he loudly cried. A few people watched as the Head Boy and Girl playfully started a tickle fight, which ended up in them both laughing in stitches, until they saw McGonagall walking briskly towards them.
"As much as I am delighted to see that you two are…getting along…there is something I must talk to you about immediately in my office. Follow me" she said with a frown.
Rose and Scorpius exchanged a worried glance before standing to follow the headmistress through the Hall. Once they were inside, McGonagall said the one thing that the couple did not want to hear.
"Mr McLaggen has gone missing." Scorpius turned to his shocked girlfriend, who had gone incredibly pale.
"How?" Rose whispered.
"We don't know, but the charms that kept him in isolation were reversed early this morning. Madam Patil was asleep, so has no idea how the wards were countered, but we are now fearing that McLaggen will become a danger to the Hogwarts population" McGonagall said gravely. "I have teachers patrolling the floors whilst the rest of the school is at breakfast. I would like you two to patrol the 4th floor" she said.
Rose and Scorpius nodded before standing to leave.
"Also," called Professor McGonagall, "I would make sure that you watch your backs. McLaggen may be seeking to hurt Rose, so keep her safe, Scorpius" McGonagall said, although she could see that Scorpius would never leave Rose unsafe.
Scorpius nodded before taking Rose's hand and leading out of McGonagall's office gently. As the door closed, the headmistress smiled to herself. She knew that if she put the two alone they would finally sort out their emotions and get together. With a small smile on her face, she headed back to the Great Hall to control the students.
"He escaped, and now he's out here looking for me" mourned Rose. "He's going to hurt me" she choked.
"I won't let him get you, Rose. I promised you that, and I always try to keep my promises" Scorpius said before pulling his girlfriend in for a kiss. They were waiting by the top of the stairs on the 5th floor, waiting for the rotating staircase to come back to their corridor. Whilst they stood there hand in hand, neither of them heard the person creeping up behind them.
Scorpius felt a stunning spell hit his back. As he fell backwards onto the floor, he watched as McLaggen forcefully pushed a surprised over the edge. Scorpius watched in horror as his girlfriend fell as McLaggen laughed evilly from the side lines. Scorpius luckily knew how to do wandless and wordless magic, so freed himself from the stunning spell before stunning McLaggen. As McLaggen froze, Scorpius ran to the side to see where Rose had fallen. He saw her body lying lifeless on a staircase two floors down. He rushed down those two flights of stairs to reach Rose, who was lying unconscious at an unnatural angle on the ground. He cast a hurried Patronus and sent it to find McGonagall before levitating Rose and hurrying her to the hospital wing.
The whole student body listened in horror as they heard the Head Boy's distraught voice echo around the room from the patronus in front of the head techer.
"Proffesor" the patronus said shakily, "McLaggen found us before we could find him. He pushed Rose off of a stair case. She's really hurt. Please, please come help. I'll take her to the hospital wing. Please don't let my Rosie die" the voice choked. As soon as the broadcast ended, all of the staff stood from their seats and sprinted to the hospital wing, the Weasley family in tow.
When they got there, they found Scorpius levitating Rose's limp body a few centimetres off of a bed, sobbing endlessly into his hand. He looked up as the small crowd rushed in. McGonagall took one look at Rose's body before muttering a few spells.
"I've removed the apparation wards from this room. Scorpius and I will apparate Miss Weasley to St Mungos. You are welcome to wait here for my return, but please do not follow us" she stated. She them walked over to Rose and took her hand. Scorpius took Rose's other hand and McGonagall apparated them to the St Mungo's Hogwarts ward.