A/N: Normally I apologize for short chapters, but this one is so full of fun things for you all that I don't think you'll be disappointed despite the fact that it's about 1,000 or so words shorter than I like my chapters to be.

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine.

WARNING: Language in this chapter.

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The receptionist behind the desk looked up to see the face of Scorpius Malfoy staring back at her, holding two squirming children, and an unconscious Rose Weasley. The receptionist had seen both of their faces in the papers for years.

"My wife is pregnant," he said in a clipped tone. "She was Stunned and won't wake."

"I'll get a Healer," she said.

"If you tell anyone, anyone that you saw us here today, I promise to make your life a living hell. I know that there are laws about patient confidentiality but I also know a lot of big-mouthed gossips."

"I-I understand, Mr. Malfoy."

….

Molly Weasley was leaning against the wall while looking over a few medical charts. It looked like Mrs. Jones could be released today. However, whatever bit Mr. Vane must have been venomous.

"Healer Weasley!" she looked up to see her superior walking toward her briskly. She straightened up and gazed at him expectantly. "A woman was just admitted to your ward, room 414. She was stupefied and she's pregnant."

"Oh, Merlin," Molly groaned, "I'm on my way!" and she began to run. It wasn't, technically, very dangerous for a pregnant woman to be Stupefied depending on many factors. How far along she was, if she hit anything when she fell, how long she'd been unconscious. But it was still risky.

When she reached room 414 she noted briefly that whoever it was must be very rich. Patients were hardly ever admitted to room 414 as it was an extravagant private room.

The first thing she saw upon entering was fiery red hair and her heart dropped to her stomach. Several of her family members had red hair; Lily, Roxy, Dom, Lucy…but none of them were pregnant that she knew of.

Then her eyes rested on the woman's face. Rose. All of the breath left her lungs as she stood frozen at the foot of the hospital bed. "Molly," a voice spoke from the other side of the room and she spun around to face it.

Scorpius Malfoy sat in a chair with two children asleep on his lap, leaning against his chest. "Please," he said, nodding his head toward Rose.

As Molly worked, whispering spells over Rose's body, monitoring her vitals, she fired questions at Scorpius. "How long has she been unconscious?"

"About an hour, I think."

"How far along is she in her pregnancy?"

"Around fifteen weeks."

"Do you know if she hit her head or abdomen when she fell?"

"I'm not sure. I don't think so."

"Did any other spells hit her before or after she was Stupefied?"

"Not that I know of."

She worked silently after that. Her mind racing with all of this information. For the past five bloody years she had hated Scorpius Malfoy. She knew nothing of his secret relationship with Rose until after they'd run away together.

And they had been best friends! Rose and Molly were as close as it was possible for two friends to be and yet Rose had left without ever telling her best friend the truth.

Now Malfoy sat just behind her, the arrogant wanker, begging her to save his – his what? His wife? His girlfriend? And his unborn child.

"She's going to be alright," said Molly at last with a sigh of relief. "She's stable and everything looks good, but I don't think she'll be waking up any time soon. It might be as long as a couple of days before she's conscious."

"Days?" Scorpius asked, sounding strained.

"It's her body's natural way of defending itself and healing. Until then she needs to stay here so we can monitor everything and make sure she's healing normally."

"And the baby?"

"Just fine. There was no permanent damage to the mother or the child."

"Thank God," he whispered not to Molly, but to himself. She watched as he pressed a kiss to the foreheads of each of the sleeping children.

"I'm…I'm sorry, Scorpius, but I'm going to need to ask you some routine questions. This is grounds for an inspection into spousal abuse."

He glared at her, "I would never hurt her."

"Then what happened?" Molly pulled a notebook and quill from her Healer robes and the quill began scribbling notes down as Scorpius spoke.

"I'm not even entirely sure. I was at work when her Patronus came soaring in. All it said was 'help!' I went home to find my father trying to break down my son's bedroom door. I stunned him and entered the room myself to find my son and daughter, but Rose wasn't there. I restrained my father, woke him up, and he told me that he had stupefied Rose. I rushed to the sitting room and found her body there. I immediately Apparated us here."

"I believe you," said Molly, and she did. "But if what you're saying is true then we need to alert the Aurors. They need to go to your house, retrieve Mr. Malfoy, and bring him in for questioning."

"No," Scorpius growled. "I forbid you from contacting the Aurors!"

"But….why? Surely you don't want him to get away with this?"

"Of course I don't," he sighed and leaned his head back, resting it against the wall behind him. "I don't have any other choice. Harry fucking Potter is the Head of the Auror Office and he's Rose's uncle. Several of her other family members work there as well. We've been trying so fucking hard to stay hidden these past five years. I can't let them find us now."

"Scorpius, I'm Rose's cousin, you know," she stated unnecessarily. Of course Scorpius knew this. Aside from the fact that they had gone to school together, and she was Rose's best friend, she was also the cousin who most resembled Rose. They had both inherited the Weasley blue eyes and even though most of their cousins had red hair, only Molly's was as curly as Rose's.

"But you can't say a damn thing," he said this tiredly. "If you do, I can and will press charges against the hospital. I will get you fired before you can say, 'Quidditch.'"

"Scorpius Malfoy! Rose's family – her parents, her brother, her grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, we've all been worried sick about her for five bloody years! Now she shows up, at the hospital, stupefied, pregnant, and you are just going to crawl back into whatever hole you crawled out of without so much as an explanation to the people that love her?"

"Love her?" he snarled, "Don't you dare speak to me as if any of you love her! When she tried to talk to her parents about me, about dating me, they threatened to fucking Oblivitate her if she didn't stay away from me."

"I didn't know that."

"No, you don't, so shut the fuck up about things that you have no fucking idea about."

"Your daughter…how old is she?"

"Her name is Adara, and she's turning five in a few weeks."

"So when you left, Rose was…" Molly trailed off, her cheeks blushing red at what she was implying.

"Yes, Rose was pregnant when we ran away. But don't ask me anymore questions about it, Weasley, if you're so bloody curious about our life then you can ask Rose when she wakes up."

They sat in silence for a few minutes before Molly asked, "You said that Draco couldn't get into the bedroom where your children were hiding. Did you have wards on it?"

"No, at the time I assumed Rose was in the room with the children and had set up the wards herself."

"But if Rose was stupefied, who set up the wards?"

"I have a guess," Scorpius gently nudged his daughter and Adara blinked up at him. "Sweetheart, why couldn't Draco get into Pollux's bedroom when you were hiding in there?"

"I didn't want him to," she whispered, not having even noticed that Molly was in the room. "I didn't want him to get in, so the door wouldn't let him in."

"That's extraordinary magic for a five year old child," Molly whispered.

"She's Rose's daughter," Scorpius said with a smile, "What did you expect?"

"Your arms must be tired, would you like me to take them to the hospital day care room?" Molly asked as she watched the little girl fall quickly back asleep.

"Absolutely not. I will not let these children out of my sight. Ever again."

"I promise they'll be safe. If you'd like, I'll even stay and watch over them myself. I am off of work now, actually, so it wouldn't be a problem."

"No," he said again, firmer this time. "But I am sure they're both hungry. Would it be at all possible to have some food brought up for them? Lux is only a year old, so he still eats mostly baby food, but he can have some solid things as he has plenty of teeth."

"Why don't you just take them to the cafeteria? You look like you could use some food yourself."

"I just told you, Weasley, I'm not letting my family out of my sight. I am staying with Rose until she's awake and Addie and Lux are staying with me."

"Then I'll bring you all some food."

….

Molly stayed at the hospital long enough to watch Scorpius feed Pollux while Adara ate a good sized meal. The little girl was very talkative and told Molly all about her favorite toys, things she liked to eat, how she loved magic couldn't wait to go to Hogwarts like her mum and dad promised she could when she was older.

Then she watched as Scorpius sung quiet lullabies to Pollux, lulling him back to sleep, and putting him in the crib the hospital had provided for the room.

After that she made her exit. When she arrived at her flat she was unsurprised to hear music playing and find candles lit throughout the small place. It seemed Lorcan hadn't forgotten their anniversary after all.

They had been dating now for four and a half years and had been engaged for six months. The wedding was now only four months away and Molly's only wish had been that Rose could be there to be her maid of honor. Would it be unreasonable to hope that maybe, just maybe, that dream could still come true?

"Hullo, Darling," Lorcan gave her a chaste kiss on the lips before helping her out of her cloak and ushering her to the kitchen where he'd made dinner. "How was your day?"

"Don't ask," she grumbled.

"That bad?" he frowned in sympathy. "You need to just tell them that you feel overworked lately. Fletcher will understand. I know the hospital is a little short staffed, but they can't keep working you like this-"

"It's not about my job, Lorcan. It's about one of my patients. I am bound by contract to not reveal the identity of any of my patients, but a part of me feels like I need to. I just don't know what to do."

"Talk to me, Mols," he said as he poured her a glass of wine. "What's going on with this patient?"

Knowing that she could trust Lorcan with everything, she told him, "It's Rose. My patient is Rose. She showed up at the hospital today, injured, and I was assigned to her. I'm the only Healer with access to her so nobody knows she's there except the receptionist and myself. Even now, Scorpius has paid for such privacy that no Healer is allowed into their room unless it's me."

"She's still with Scorpius then?"

"You sound shockingly calm about this, Lor."

"Well, I'm not that surprised to be honest. Rose and Scorpius ran away together. That wasn't even a shock to me as I'd seen for years the way they were looking at each other. If they didn't want to be found, then they wouldn't be. I knew they'd have to resurface eventually, of course. One cannot be a witch or wizard and live exclusively in the muggle world. They would, at some point, require wizard medical assistance, or certain potions, a new wand…if they ever had children they would have to attend Hogwarts."

"So what you're saying is that you knew, these past five years, that at some point we would inevitably find Rose and you never told me?"

"I thought you knew. I thought it was obvious. They might have been able to escape the wizard world, they might have been able to escape their families, but they can't escape who and what they are, Molly."

"That's true. But I still don't know what I'm meant to do, Lorcan! Do I let her disappear again or do I tell the family that I finally found her?"

"What will happen if you tell them?"

"Scorpius said he would sue the hospital," she gazed down at her plate of untouched food as she spoke. "He said that he would make sure I was fired and he would take Mungo's for every cent they had."

"He wouldn't," Lorcan said firmly. "You forget, Mols, I was a Slytherin. Scorpius and I shared a dormitory for seven years. Another reason I was unsurprised when he and Rose ran away. He was one of my best friends and I knew he didn't harbor the same views and prejudices as his family. He's a good guy and he's way more bark than bite."

"You didn't see him today. He looked like he'd happily kill anyone who threatened to hurt Rose, whether it was emotionally or physically. And if I tell my family, then I will be emotionally hurting my best friend."

"It's your decision, dear, but what I think it really boils down to is, where do your loyalties lie? With St. Mungo's, or with your family?"

"Job or family, is that what you're saying? When you put it like that it's so obvious. I'm not going to make the same mistake that my father made. I will never choose work over the people who love and care about me. I'm going to tell my family, will you come with me?"

"I wouldn't miss this for the world!" Excitedly, Lorcan extinguished all of the candles with a single jab or his wand and the next moment they were at the Burrow. Everyone in the family was gathered there. The entire family had dinner at the Burrow every Saturday night. The only reason Molly and Lorcan hadn't been there was because they planned on privately celebrating their anniversary.

"Molly! Lorcan! We didn't expect to see either of you until tomorrow!" James clapped them both on the back as they approached the tables that had been set up outside where everyone was eating.

"We don't plan on staying to eat," said Molly.

"Is everything okay, Mols? You sound upset," James asked with sincere concern as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"No, no everything is not okay. I need to talk to everyone."

A few people heard her, but she had said this quietly, only to James. He nodded in understanding and yelled. "Oi! You lot! Listen up! Molly has something important to say!"

Every head turned to stare at Molly and the words caught in her throat. All of the people she loved and trusted were giving her their undivided attention and she felt deep down like perhaps she was betraying Rose.

But it was too late to turn back now. "I have something to say. But nobody is allowed to leave until I finish my story. When I tell you what happened to me today, most of you are going to want to get up and leave, but if you do, I will lose my job. You cannot fathom the possible repercussions of what I'm doing. So please, for my sake, if you love me at all, let me say everything before you rush into action."

All around there were nods and words of consent. Her parents, Percy and Audrey, were looking at her with worry so evident in their features that Molly rushed ahead with her story to keep them from becoming too panicked.

"I was at work today when I was informed that I had a new patient admitted to my ward. I was surprised because the patient was in a room that's rarely occupied. It's the most expensive and exclusive room in the entire hospital. I rushed to help the patient, because her situation was rather serious. You can imagine my shock when I opened the door to find that it was Rose lying in the hospital bed."

There was an immediate uproar. Her uncle Ron was on his feet, her aunt Hermione was trying to tug him back down into his chair, everyone was murmuring and people were shouting questions at her. She held up her hand for them to be quiet. Once there was silence, she continued.

"As many of you asked, yes, Scorpius Malfoy was with her. It seems that Draco Malfoy somehow found where his son and Rose were hiding. He arrived at their place of residence while Scorpius was at work and Rose was at home. He stunned her and when Scorpius found her, she wouldn't wake so he rushed her to the hospital."

This time, there was only one question, and it was repeated by several people, "Why wouldn't she wake up?"

"Rose is…she's pregnant. You know the complications with performing spells on pregnant women. She's fine! Don't worry, I triple-checked everything before I left Mungo's, and I promise that Rose is just fine." Molly was yelling overtop of her family's talk.

As soon as they heard that she was pregnant, there weren't quiet whispers or murmurs, but loud and outraged cries. "Please!" she screamed, "Calm down! I'm not finished speaking yet!"

"QUIET!" It was her Grandma Molly who was standing and glaring at everyone to shut up. At her command, everyone else closed their mouths and Molly had their attention again.

"Scorpius wasn't alone when he brought Rose to the hospital. With him he had two children. His and Rose's children. Adara Jean Malfoy and Pollux Ronald Malfoy. The baby that Rose is pregnant with will be their third child. They have a life together. They have a family. You didn't see what I saw! None of you did! Scorpius was beside himself with worry! He refused to leave Rose's side and wouldn't let Adara or Pollux out of his sight. You lot can think whatever you want. You can be as biased and as unreasonable as it's possible to be, but you weren't there and you have no idea how much Scorpius Malfoy obviously loves his wife!"

"And," Lorcan prodded gently. "Molly is bound by law and contract to not speak of her patients. She is breaking the law and her contract to St. Mungo's by telling you all this. Scorpius made it very clear that if she told you anything he would sue the hospital and make sure she was fired."

"But then, what are we supposed to do?" it was Hermione who asked this, worry mixed with relief mixed with uninhibited joy was etched on her features. She and Ron hadn't told anyone about finding Rose. They talked about their visit to the Malfoy home only with Albus and Lily, keeping it a secret between the four of them.

"I have an idea. It might not work, but it's all I can think of. Rose will be in the hospital for a few more days. When she wakes up, I can talk with her, reason with her. I can convince her that Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione aren't going to try to separate her from Scorpius and maybe she'll come home of her own accord."

"What if she won't?" it wasn't until he spoke that everyone realized Ron was crying. "What if I've been so horrible to her that she will refuse forever to see us again? What if I never get the chance to tell her I'm sorry?"

"If she refuses to come home even after I talk with her, then I'll make her. Don't worry, Uncle Ron, I won't let her leave our lives again."

Right at that moment, an owl came swooping down and landed on Lorcan's shoulder. The big barn owl gave a low hoot before extending his leg. "Clever bird," Lorcan cooed as he took the letter. "How did you know I was here?"

As soon as the bird had been relieved of his delivery, he took off back into the sky. Lorcan read the letter through twice before looking up at Molly and saying quietly, "It appears that we are needed at St. Mungo's."

…..

As Scorpius Malfoy watched over his family he knew that he had to do something. It had been three hours since he left his father bound from head to foot suspended magically in his sitting room.

He would have to handle this situation without involving the Aurors while also keeping his family safely out of the way. To do that he would have to leave his family here, at the hospital. But he didn't trust anyone to watch them in his stead. He also really could use some help dealing with his father, but again, he couldn't think of anyone to ask.

Lorcan. Lorcan Scamander was his best mate. Even though it had been five years since they'd last spoken he knew that he could trust Lorcan. The only reason that Rose and Scorpius had cut ties with everyone in the wizard world is because they weren't sure how well people could keep secrets. For instance, if Rose had kept in contact with her brother, Hugo, how long would he be able to sit back and watch his parents search for her before he broke down and told them where she was? No, it was best that they made a clean break.

Thinking again about Lorcan, he knew that he missed his best friend very much. Now the question was, did he ask Lorcan to stay and watch over his family or accompany him in dealing with his father? He would need another person to help. Rose's best friend had been her cousin Molly. For years Rose had battled over the issue of telling Molly about Scorpius or not. Not to mention Molly already knew that Rose was here and it was best to keep as few people involved as possible.

Yes, as much as he despised leaving his family even for such a short period of time, he had to take care of his father right away.

Lorcan,

I know it has been a long time and you might hate me for what I've done. Please know that I never wanted to keep secrets from you, but it was necessary at the time. I can only hope that this letter reaches you in good health and that you are willing and able to help me, because I need your help, mate. I am at St. Mungo's, but don't worry, I'm fine. I need your assistance in dealing with a very private and important matter. If you are willing to help, please get here as soon as you can. Also, track down Molly Weasley and see if you can please somehow convince her to come with you as well.

Scorpius Malfoy

He nodded in approval at his hastily penned letter and sent it off with the owl that the room came with. Now he had nothing to do except wait and hope that his friendship with Lorcan was as strong as he always believed it to be.