In the Previous Chapter…
Rose started to sob as Daniel forced her legs apart and hungrily looked down at her opening. Rose screamed as he forced his way into her, roughly entering her. She cried to herself as she watched Daniel thrust into her over and over again, screaming from pain every time he pushed into her. Rose clamped her eyes shut, not wanting to witness it anymore.
Rose screamed as she opened her eyes and found strong arms wrapped around her waist. She blindly turned around and punched the sleeping figure next to her square in the nose before leaping out of the bed and grabbing her wand, pointing it at the wizard's face. She was partially blinded by her tears, so hastily wiped them away, and gasped in shock.
Scorpius was now sat bolt upright on her bed, muttering a string of swear words under his breath as he clutched a bleeding, slightly misshapen nose.
"Fuck fuck fuck! I'm so so sorry, Scorp" she cried, running over to her boyfriend and grabbing tissues from inside her beside table, gently dabbing his nose.
"You can punch" he smiled weakly, "But what the hell happened? We were just sleeping and you suddenly woke up screaming and punched me in the face!" he said, questioning her.
"It was a nightmare" Rose said weakly to herself, although Scorpius heard it, before bashing her head with balled up fists. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"
Scorpius grabbed Rose's hands with his own slightly bloody hands and gazed into her eyes.
"You are with me. You are safe. Do you completely understand me, love?" he said, immediately understanding what nightmare she had just had. "He is never going to get to you again. He will never hurt you like that again" he promised.
"I'm really sorry Scorp" Rose sobbed, "It was worse than before – I watched through it all again. When I woke up with a guy's arm draped over me, I freaked and lashed out. I was terrified! I couldn't see where I was so immediately panicked." She said, a tear dribbling down her cheek. "And now I've broken your nose" she said, frowning.
"It's alright, hun, it's fine. But I need to get my nose fixed up and I can't exactly tell them that my girlfriend and fellow head student punched me in my sleep without them asking questions as to why, can I?"
Rose's eyes showed fear as it dawned on her what he was saying. "I can't tell McGonagall he raped me, I can't do it" she said, dreading Scorpius' response.
"You have to, hun. Look, I'll come with you if you want. If you really can't force yourself to tell her, can you at least come with me so I can tell her?"
Rose didn't like it, but she knew that what Scorpius was saying was right. "None of the staff will be awake, Scorp. I've got a pain numbing potion somewhere, so I can give you something to get rid of the pain, but we'll have to wait until morning to get your nose fixed up and tell McGonagall."
Scorpius nodded, understandingly, but inwardly groaned at his predicament. His girlfriend had just broken his nose. And he couldn't even do anything about it until the morning after breakfast when Madam Patil opened the Hospital Wing. Rose handed him the pain potion, which he gratefully downed before standing up.
"Where're you going?" Rose asked as Scorpius headed into the bathroom.
"I need to see exactly how well you can punch" he grinned before turning on the light to the bathroom. He walked across to the mirror and flinched at the sight in front of him. His face, neck, chest and hands were covered in blood and his nose was definitely broken. "You can definitely punch" he said, shaking his head.
"Let me clean you up" Rose gently said, grabbing a flannel from the basin. She ran it under warn water and gently started to dab at her boyfriend's face. She could only clean up certain parts though, as she didn't want to go anywhere near his shattered nose in case she did further damage to it. She washed away all of the rest of the blood, though, and slowly her boyfriend's upper body was removed of blood stains.
"Let's try get some sleep, hun" Scorpius muttered, holding a tissue to his still bleeding nose. "We've had an eventful night and we have to go to lessons tomorrow." He led Rose back into her bedroom and with a quick glance at the bloodied sheets, turned her around and led her to his room.
Scorpius woke up the following morning and groaned loudly. The pain potion had worn off and he was now remembering that his nose had been smashed. "Rose, do you have another pain potion?"
"Yeah, I have loads" Rose muttered, sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "I'll run and get you one." Scorpius hastily drunk the potion and immediately felt his pain vanish. He sighed with relief. "That better?" smirked Rose before rooting through his wardrobe, throwing his school uniform at him. "Get up, Scorp. We'll go have breakfast before we find Madam Patil. She doesn't let people into the hospital wing before 9am." She planted a kiss delicately on his cheek, careful not to go anywhere near his nose, and then left to get dressed herself.
"Breakfast was a very bad idea" Scorpius muttered as he walked along the corridor with Rose, clutching a tissue to his nose with one hand whilst holding Rose's hand with his other.
"You're gonna have to lump it for half an hour, Scorp. By the way, we're gonna sit at the Slytherin table today. I can't have my family take the piss out of me the entire morning for breaking your nose" she smirked as they neared the Hall.
As they walked along to Scorpius' friends in the middle of the Slytherin table, people began to stare and whisper.
"What the hell happened to your face, mate?" Lorcan screamed at him as Scorpius sat down with Rose at his side.
"Rose, do you want to tell them?" Scorpius grinned.
"I had a nightmare last night which I've had multiple times and I always wake up screaming and crying" Rose gritted her teeth, "and I guess I got alarmed when I found an arm slung over my waist so turned around and punched my poor unsuspecting boyfriend in the face" she smirked.
Lorcan and Lysander stared dumbstruck at the pair before simultaneously bursting out laughing.
"That is hilarious! I think I'm gonna piss myself laughing!" Lysander howled, gripping onto Lorcan's shoulder.
"What the hell was your nightmare about for you to turn around and deck Scorp?!" Lorcan laughed.
Rose's face turned to set stone. "That's none of your business" Scorpius glowered.
Lorcan and Lysander stopped laughing and frowned. Rose turned around and saw that most of the Hall were now staring at her and Scorpius. As Rose was momentarily distracted, Scorpius mouthed to his friends "Later." They both nodded their heads as Rose grumpily turned around, muttering to herself.
"Rose, what's got you in a tizz?" Scorpius asked.
"I can't stand the staring."
"Then tell them all to fuck off" Scorpius smiled before taking a bite of his toast. He was shocked when Rose stood up and walked over to the Ravenclaw table where a big group of girls were staring their way.
"Do you mind staring at us the whole time we're eating breakfast?" she growled, glaring at each of the Ravenclaws. They all promptly turned around and stopped staring. She turned to go back to Scorpius when her brother grabbed her arm.
"Rosie, is it true you socked Malfoy in the face?" he grinned.
"It was an accicent" she murmured, staring at her shoes.
"You did!" he cried, grinning even more. He ran back over to the rest of the Weasleys who all gawped in Rose's direction. She stalked over to Scorpius, yanked him out of his chair and dragged him over to the staff table.
"Professor McGonagall, something happened last night that we need to talk to you about" she said, looking up the Headmistress.
"Does it have anything to do with Mr Malfoy's broken nose?" she said, raising an eyebrow.
"It has everything to do with his bloody nose" Rose muttered before asking McGonagall to come to the Hospital Wing so that she could explain and Scorpius' nose could be fixed.
As the three left, the whispers went up in the hall.
"Did Rose really punch him?"
"If she did, she has a cracking punch!"
"I wonder if they had a fight?"
"Great, now the rumours have started again" Rose said grumpily to Scorpius. Scorpius chuckled to himself but fell silent the second he met his girlfriend's eyes.
"So, Miss Weasley, would you care to explain why we are here?" McGonagall asked.
"I had a nightmare last night, which was actually more a memory, but I woke up screaming and terrified and ended up punching Scorp" Rose explained.
"Could we have a bit more detail, please? That is not much information to go on as to why my Head Girl broke the head boy's nose" McGonagall said.
"I have nightmares every night, Professor. I only have a peaceful night's sleep if I share a bed with someone" Rose admitted sheepishly. "Scorpius and I have been sleeping under the same covers since the beginning of the year, but nothing more, and so that explains as to why he was next to me.
"For some reason, I had the nightmare last night, even with Scorpius beside me."
"What is the nightmare?"
Rose turned to Scorpius and pleaded for him to answer for her.
"Daniel McLaggen raped her over the summer" he said, gritting his teeth. McGonagall gasped and her hand shot to her mouth. "Rose relives the encounter every time she closes her eyes unless she's got company" he said, wrapping his arm around Rose. "Rose had the same nightmare last night, and so she woke up completely terrified of him. Because it was dark, she had no idea where she was and she felt my arm around her and panicked. She was momentarily terrified that I was McLaggen so turned around and punched me in the face" Scorpius finished.
"Well, that explains a lot" McGonagall said, releasing a breath that she hadn't realised that she had been holding. "I will get Madam Patil to fix your nose and you may go to your first lesson" she said.
"What will be done about all this?" Rose asked, worried. "I mean, is Scorp in trouble for sleeping by my side to save me from nightmares, and am I in trouble for breaking his nose" she murmured, frowning at Scorpius.
"You are not in trouble, my dear. Although that other people would disagree with you two sharing a bed when you are… umm…"
"Likely to shag all night" Scorpius helpfully added.
"That's one way of putting it" McGonagall grimaced, "I can tell that Miss Weasley has been awfully spooked by the events of the summer so I don't think it is likely that this is happening. Also, you punched your boyfriend in self defense, Miss Weasley, so as long as he forgives you for it, you won't be punished."
"Thank you, Professor" Rose smiled. "We'll go and get Scorp's nose fixed now then."
Rose watched as Madam Patil quickly fixed Scorpius' nose with a spell. He cried out in pain as his nose clunked back into place, but was otherwise fine after it had been repaired.
"People think we've had a fight, you know" Rose said to Scorpius as they walked to Potions.
"Well, I think we should give the gossiping school a taste of their own medicine" Scorpius grinned. He leant down and whispered his plan into Rose's ear. She smirked as he finished before staring up at him.
"Let's do it" she grinned.
A/N: Woah! I have no idea where that idea came from! But it sure was entertaining writing it! Hehehe... the next chapter was even more fun to write! But...dun dun dun! You'll only find out what happens if you review! - R xx *sneaky grin*