Allies in Mischief
AN: I'm almost embarrassed with how long it took for me to write this chapter, but I have been crazy busy. Anyway, here it is and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Disclaimer: Everything that belongs to J.K. Rowling belongs to her and not me.
Chapter Two: Quidditch and Chaos
Rose groaned in pain and rubbed her lower back. After having had detentions for six days in a row, she was starting to become very weary. The first day had actually been really pleasant; probably because she got to spend it with Hagrid. He was getting old, so they had passed the time walking around in the Forbidden Forest, talking about animals, the good old days, how Malfoy's were the source to all evil in the world and fun things like that.
But the rest of the detentions hadn't been nearly as pleasant. In the week that had passed she had not only scrubbed countless ornate candelabras but also greenhouse two and three, all of it had been done without any magic whatsoever. Rose had walked to uncle Neville's detention with a stiff neck and arms, comforting her with that he would be nice and have her do something easy, only to be greeted by the worst detention in the history of Hogwarts. Apparently her mother had interfered to make sure Rose didn't get away too easy and she had even seemed pleased when Rose had written to her and complained about how she never would be able to use her back ever again. Rose had also filled seven parchment rolls with the sentence I shall not throw food at other people.
On top of that she stayed up long after midnight every night as an attempt to catch up with all of the homework she had. But the pile only seemed to grow higher and not the other way around no matter how hard she worked. Rose seriously suspected that all the teachers had had a secret meeting when they decided to give them more homework than usual just this week only to make her life hell. It seemed very likely.
During some of her weaker moments, Rose wondered if the foodfight had been worth it. But she never had to doubt for long, Rose only needed to think of Malfoy's face and hair when it was completely soaked with pumpkin juice and the pleasure when she had hit him with a muffin on the nose. Besides, it was all Malfoy's fault she thought, he was the one that had started it. And she couldn't just have let him win.
But Rose was angrier with the Professor; the punishment had been unnecessarily severe. Although Rose somewhere deep inside knew that it was probably because he no longer had any patience with them since they more or less caused mayhem on three different occasions during his classes last year. Very deep down.
While she rubbed her back as an attempt to ease her pain, she tried to focus on the positive things, like the fact that this was her last detention or that if she finished whatever they would be doing quickly she would be able to attend the Halloween feast.
When Rose arrived outside Professor Bordeneux's office Scorpius was standing there waiting. Apparently, they would do this one together. It surprised her a bit since the last time they had a detention together, it had ended in a far worse situation than the one that got them there in the first place. He only greeted her with a small nod before he returned to starring into thin air with a bored expression. He seemed to be looking everywhere else but in her direction. So Rose took the opportunity to look at Scorpius instead. He almost looked as tired as she felt. Except that he didn't have bags under his eyes like she did.
After have been standing there for a couple of minutes in awkward silence, the door to the office finally opened and Professor Bordeneux stepped out in the hallway.
"Mister Malfoy and Miss Weasley, I hope you both have learned your lesson this week" The Professor said and eyed them with a stern look upon his face. Both of them nodded, Rose a bit more enthusiastic than the other since she was motivated by food.
"Follow me" Professor Bordeneux instructed them shortly.
Rose and Scorpius followed quietly behind him as he steered though the halls that was filled with other students making their way to the feast. Rose did her best to ignore all the people starring at her. The Professor didn't stop until he was outside an abandoned classroom far down in the dungeons.
"You said you had learned but now is your time to prove it." He opened the door and Rose and Scorpius stepped inside. The dark classroom smelled of old dust and like it hadn't been used for a very long time, the room was really filthy. "You are allowed to use your wands and I want the room to be clean and both of you still alive without any injuries". He slammed the door close behind them.
Two seconds later the Professor opened the door again and peeked inside to inform them that he would be back in fifteen minutes before he once again loudly slammed the door close.
"Let's get to work then" Her hands were resting on his hips he looked around in the close to pitch black room. Scorpius shrugged and walked up to the fireplace, not whether Rose was faking her enthusiasm or not.
"Great initiative, Malfoy" she said encouraging, after he had started the small fire. Now when the room as properly lit, you were able to see just how filthy the room was. But not even that managed to lower Rose's sudden energy. Scorpius watched as she rolled up his shirt sleeves and started to use various cleaning charms.
Scorpius considered whether or not he should join her intense cleaning process, but decided against it. It was far more amusing to watch Weasley struggle as she tried to clean the room.
Rose could feel Malfoy's eyes on her the entire time and she got more and more annoyed that he refused to help her. She had grown up her entire life around people who assumed that women (for reasons unknown) were somehow more responsible for keeping things clean, she was not going to take that shit from Malfoy as well. She spun around and shot a water ray in his general direction. It hit him in the chest, making his white shirt completely soaked.
Scorpius remained completely unfazed by this and stood there like nothing had happened. For some reason this made Rose even more annoyed with him.
"Tell me something, Malfoy" Rose said fiercely "Are you refusing to help me because you are an incompetent idiot who don't know how to clean or are you simply a spoiled brat who thinks you don't have to do anything when you have a girl in the room who can do all the work for you?"
Finally he moved. No matter how many times Rose Weasley had been mad at him, he never seemed to get used to it. She had always managed to scare him a little. Now, she also made him feel like he had something to prove.
"Step aside lady, I'll show you how a real wizard work his magic"
"With that wand? I doubt it."
Scorpius only rolled his eyes before he started working and Rose was taken aback with the efficiency he did it with. When he was done he leaned against the, now very clean, fireplace, with a smug expression upon his face, Scorpius eyed her challenging. Once again, Rose found herself in a starring contest with Scorpius Malfoy. And this time, she was not determent not to lose.
After almost a full minute, Scorpius shrugged. "Normally, I'd make every inch of you soaking wet as payback. But that includes your hair and believe me, it needs all the help it could get, without me making it look even more – whatever that is" he made a vague gesture towards her hair. "Besides, at this moment I only care about getting in time to the feast" Scorpius confessed with a small smile.
Rose grinned back "I feel you; there is no bigger motivator than food, I've been thinking about that pumpkin pie for almost a week now"
Scorpius was amused with how dreamingly she starred into thin air, assumingly thinking about that pie so much she forgot about his remark on her hair. He wasn't sure he met anyone so passionate about food. Weasley always seemed to take eating so seriously, not that he had been watching her – don't be ridiculous! At least, not on purpose, it was just that his eyes just seemed to be drawn towards that red hair every time they were in the Great Hall.
Their continued staring contest was abruptly interrupted by Professor Bordeneux who flung up the door and rushed inside. However, that wasn't necessary when he (much to his own surprise) found the students in the same condition as he had left them. Although one of them was slightly wetter than he remembered. "Very good then" the Professor cleared his throat. "What happened there, Mr Malfoy?"
"An honest mistake, Professor" Rose said sweetly, which overlapped wit Scorpius saying "I was just showing Miss Weasley how good I was with my wand".
The Professor decided to drop the subject and told them instead that they were free to go as soon as they had shook hands.
Scorpius shook her hand firmly and then walked out and steered his steps towards the Great Hall, pushing the memories of how she had hugged him when they had slept in the same bed out of his head and burying them deep down again. Scorpius increased his walking phase, partly because he didn't want to walk all the way there with Weasley, but mostly because his stomach ached with hunger for the food that was currently in the Great Hall, waiting to be eaten.
Anthony was still there when Scorpius arrived. He sat down next to him and after having explained why his shirt was soaking he started to load his plate with lots of food.
"So, how was detention?" Anthony asked Scorpius when he had slowed down his eating phase as much as required for being able to have a conversation.
Scorpius only shrugged in response. There weren't really that much to be said.
"I did some thinking" Anthony announced with a proud voice "after some serious consideration, I believe that this is the evening we take advantage of the offer Rose presented to you".
When Scorpius first had gotten to know Anthony Zabini, he had been immensely annoyed with how he talked. Now he had just accepted it and it would probably feel weird if Anthony suddenly had begun talking like a normal human being. They talked about everything with each other, so Scorpius had of course told him about everything that had happened with Rose Weasley. (He might just have conveniently forgotten to tell him about the fact that he would have to give their password as well.)
"If you'd said it earlier mate, I could have asked her about the password in detention, now it might be hard to get" Scorpius informed him.
"Nonsense" Anthony made a gesture as to wave it away "I am certain that you will figure something out. I leave the password details in your competent hands. As to the rest" He leaned in closer "we also need a strategy".
"I think I've got an idea for that too. Someone gave me an idea during detention".
Their eyes were drawn to something red in the entrance. Rose Weasley had entered the Great Hall.
Rose left the Great Hall only ten minutes after Lily and Roxanne, with which she had spent – according to her – one of the best Halloween feast yet until Albus had come to announce that there was a compulsory strategically meeting for the entire Quidditch team.
Without any warning or premonition, when Rose was alone in one of the corridors on her way back to the common room, a door flung open right in front of her and she found herself dragged inside a broom closet. She was just about to tell Hugo to open the door and leave her alone, when she realised that this wasn't Hugo.
"Hello Rose" a voice said in the dark. Now she realised why she had recognised the scent - Malfoy.
"You make me embarrassed, Malfoy"
"Why? You get flustered by being this close to me?" he said mockingly and leaned in closer, Rose guessed in a pathetic attempt to be flirtatious.
Rose rolled her eyes at his ridiculous snickering "Says the guy who dragged me into a broom closet. A broom closet, seriously? It's the most cliché and obvious hiding place in the world".
"Someone is being picky, I should try and find a fancier place next time -" Scorpius muttered sarcastically.
"I should hope so"
"- like a smelly bathroom or something"
"Moving on, I'm here because you promised me a password" Smiling at Rose disgusted sound.
Rose had put a hand on his stomach as so stop him to move in any closer. Now she noticed that it was soaking wet. "Merlin, Malfoy, you haven't – you know – considered changing shirt?"
"I'll do it after you give me the – "
"Seriously, how can it still be so wet? Did you take a swim in the lake after dinner, with your shirt on?" Rose poked him on the stomach. "You're very fit by the way" she added appreciably.
"If you can just give me –"
"Aren't you cold? I would be freezing if I walked around in a wet shirt."
"WEASLEY PASSWORD" Scorpius did not have patient for this right now.
"Bloody hell Malfoy, there's no need to shout. You're really doing this tonight?"
"Don't sound so sceptical, even you have to admit, it's a great plan" Scorpius said, not without pride.
Rose was trying to concentrate but apparently it was really distracting to have your body pressed against Malfoy's, especially when you were in a room as tiny as this. Suddenly, Rose felt like preforming a scientific research.
Scorpius waited eagerly for Weasley to give him the password so he could get the hell out of here and start terrorising everyone in the Gryffindor common room. Was that too much to ask? Without and explanation he felt Rose's body adjust so she suddenly were closer to him, which is saying something since they were seriously cramped together. Scorpius was so busy trying to breath normal that he didn't notice the fingers she slowly was trailing up his body until they were under his shirt slowly creasing his stomach.
"I know my body can be distracting but can you please focus on giving me the password?"
Rose snorted and mumbled something about multitasking before she reached up and whispered the password into his ear. She hadn't more than finished the word before she found herself pinned against the wall by Scorpius Malfoy, who had decided that he shouldn't let her have all the fun for herself.
His lips just almost touched her neck when he murmured "Thank you" before he left and hurried away.
Rose stepped out of the broom cupboard just moments after Malfoy did, relieved to find the hall empty. She had no idea what she would have done of anyone had seen her step out of her together with Malfoy, (bedsides changing name and move to another country and never return nor speak to her family again – luckily there were no reason for such dramatic actions).
But if the Slytherins would strike tonight, Rose and Roxy needed to do some planning of their own. Rose wanted to find Roxanne but decided against looking in the common room, she had feeling she didn't want to be anywhere near that place right at this moment, so she started looking everywhere else.
Rose asked Hugo if he had seen her when she met him in the hall. He had only responded with a vague gesture to further down the hall and made gave her the cryptic instructions to "follow the water".
When Rose finally found her she understood what her brother had been saying; Roxanne was soaking and almost shaking with anger. Rox hadn't been standing still for long but there was a pool of water starting to take shape at her feet.
"Merlin's beard, what happened to you, Rox?" Rose asked carefully, doing so she interrupted the stream of curses and threats Roxanne swore.
"I'll tell you what happened. The bloody Slytherins did somehow manage to get into our common room and drenched everything and everyone with water. And those shitheads left this little note" Roxy held up a paper that had been scrambled in her furious fist and gave it to Rose.
She unfurled it and read: Rose Weasley, this is for making my favourite shirt wet. Thank you /Scorpius Malfoy
"Isn't that just funny" Roxanne spat out and took one aggressive step towards Rose. "How you come up to me and say you have a way to get into Slytherin's common room – Merlin knows how - and then this happens." For the second time that evening Rose found herself pinned against a wall – however, this time it wasn't nearly as pleasant and even more water was involved.
"Anything you would like to share with me?" Roxy asked dangerously.
"Not – not that I can think of, no. I heard what they had done I thought I'd find you so we can makes some plans on how to transform their dungeon to a living hell."
Roxanne stepped away from Rose, leaving a wet mark on her clothes. For being so tiny, Rose realised that her cousin was seriously strong.
"How are your chances for winning the next Quidditch match?" Rose leaned casually against the wall.
"Small. We're going to have to live with their smug faces for weeks" Roxy sighed. "What has that got to do with anything?"
"I was just thinking, wouldn't it be terrible for them if they won for once and had their party afterwards crashed and completely demolished"
Roxanne understood where she was heading and grinned. "It'd be horrible".
Rose didn't realise just how much damage they had caused in the common room until she saw it with her own eyes. Everything was soaking wet and the ceiling were filled with clouds that were pouring, even in their dormitories. It took a half an hour before it stopped and Rose didn't have any dry clothes. The students were up half the night trying to save their books and parchment rolls.
Scorpius and his friend ran smiling all the way down to the dungeons, filled with the feeling of victory. The common room were almost empty when they stepped inside, the only people there were Anthony's boyfriend and his friends, which were all in sixth grade. Everyone congratulated each other on the great success, Anthony walked over to his boyfriend and the rest of them headed towards their dorms. Scorpius still thought about how Weasley had complemented him on his fitness. He hadn't been able to get it out of his head all night.
The next morning, Scorpius got up extra early so he had time work out before he went for breakfast. When Anthony wondered what the hell he was doing, Scorpius explained that he needed to be in shape for the game, he almost managed to convince himself that this was the reason too. Almost.
The Great Hall was filled with excited and cheerful chatter on the big day; everyone was looking forward to the match. It was also filled with the delicious smell of fired sausage and pancakes – which Rose paid a lot more attention too than socialising with her friends. The ones that didn't participate in the chatter however was the Quidditch team. Even Albus was too nervous to speak, even though he was generally ignored by his team mates he always dedicated this time to do some pre-pep talk (before the real passionate pep talk in the changing rooms later). And Rose realised that she missed it, this breakfast wasn't the same without it.
However, if Albus felt nervous – Scorpius felt truly horrible. Since he became seeker he had caught the snitch first at every single match. Except from when he played against Albus bloody Potter. He had been so, so close the last year but he had screwed it up and he wasn't sure he would ever be able to forgive himself for that disastrous blunder.
"You really should try to eat something" Anthony told him "this is your last time to win over Potter and you won't be able to do it on an empty stomach"
Scorpius cringed inside when Anthony reminded him of the pressure and felt even more nauseas. "Thanks, mate" he said as he watched his friend drench his pancakes even more syrup.
By half passed ten the whole school seemed to make their way down to the pitch, including Scorpius. He didn't walk down with the rest of the team since he used this walk as a moment to focus.
"Weasley" Scorpius sighed as a greeting when Rose walked up beside him. "Inexplicable timing as always"
"I'm pleased to see you too" Rose said, cheerfully. "I need you to give me the password to your common room now" she continued firmly. When Malfoy didn't respond immediately she threatened him with the she would not leave him alone until he gave it to her.
He still didn't answer but continued walking.
"Gimmethepasswordgimmethepasswordgimmethepassword" she said and poked him on the cheek repeatedly until he cracked.
"FINE" he blurted out "Merlin you're annoying".
Rose gave him her most dashing smile, like he just had given her the compliment of the year – Scorpius ignored it. He stopped and grabbed her arm and jerked her towards him. "It's basilisk tail" Scorpius was almost ashamed to admit it.
Rose snorted. "Every single prejudice I had about Slytherin just proved to be true". Scorpius found that smug voice immensely annoying. "You are aware of that a basilisk practically only is a tail, right?" she asked.
"And you are aware of that you promised to leave, right?"
"That is true" Rose turned so she was facing the castle "Good luck" she said before she smacked him loudly on the butt. Both of them froze since none of them had seen that one coming. It was possible the Rose was more surprised than Scorpius was since she didn't understand why she just done that. Without another word they walked quickly in opposite directions.
"That was really awkward, even for you Rosie" Roxy snickered when Rose walked over to her, she had been standing close and seen it all happen.
"Not. A. Word." Rose threatened, angry at herself for blushing.
"No need to be embarrassed, he has a fine butt. Who wouldn't do what you just did to people they don't know? I'm so glad I have such a normal family."
"Enough with the sarcasm, didn't I tell you not to say anything?" They started to walk back to the castle and Roxanne had way too much fun at this for Rose's liking.
Luckily for Rose, Scorpius didn't hear any of that. As soon as Weasley had left, he started focusing on the match again. And by the time he was in the changing room, he had completely forgotten that he had given her the password.
When Scorpius stepped out on that pitch, all his previous nervousness vanished. The green robe did once again manage to boost his confidence, so did the loud roars of the cheering students. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and the sky was blue for the first time in a week. When he kicked himself off the ground he felt nothing but confidence. After he had circled around the pitch a couple of times, without any sight of the snitch – both he and Potter silently positioned themselves close to each other with their backs against the sun. He could feel its warmth under the robe. He knew he would be a better chaser than a seeker, he always found it hard not to be distracted by the rest of the match – but he was the best seeker in Slytherin and he knew it. They stayed in their position for a long time, only moving slightly once when a Bludger came pelting their way.
The sun was getting warmer and the game more intense but there was still no sign off the snitch. "Gryffindor: 100 and Slytherin: 80" he heard the commentator announce. Scorpius had for once completely lost track of the rest of the match. And then two seconds after Lily Potter scored he saw with a rush of excitement the snitch for the first time. Both he and Albus had seen it and the pitch went quiet as they dived. Scorpius were so focused on the snitch he didn't see the Bludger until it was too late.
It hit him in the side and he was almost certain he had broken a couple of ribs and the impact forced him to focus on staying on his broom. It was more than enough to give Albus the advantage. Scorpius was furiously chasing Potter now, not more than two meters above the ground. Just as Albus was about to grab the snitch Scorpius kicked his broom and crashed into him which made them both fall heavily to the ground. It felt like his ribcage was on fire as he lay on the grass. Half of the stadium was booing and half of it was cheering so loud he could barely hear all the angry curses from Potter. When they got up, there was no sign of the snitch. He ignored his pain and flew high into the air once again.
"After that desperate and foul move by Malfoy, the seekers continue their search for the snitch" the commentator said bitterly after she had stopped yelling. (Needless to say, she was a fifth grade Gryffindor). "Weasley's got the Quaffle – passes to Weasley – back to Weasley – sends it to Potter – no, she is stopped by a Bludger, that must've hurt – Bletchley got the Quaffle now – dives under Weasley – passes to Puacy who speeds towards the goal post and – GODDAMNIT he bloody scores –"
That was all Scorpius heard before he saw the snitch again, it was just beneath the stands precisely between him and Albus Potter. He flew as fast as he could towards it and it became obvious that Albus had not yet seen it, however he soon did and they both approached it faster and faster. Just as Scorpius was about to grab it, it did a quick turn to the left and Scorpius and Albus was chasing it side by side. But Scorpius was faster, he leaned forwards – his length was clearly an advantage - and snatched it only a couple of centimetres in front of Albus's fingertips.
A roar filled the pitch and this time, it wasn't hard at all to hear Albus fury as he bellowed vulgar curses. The commentator was also cursing loudly until someone dragged her away. Scorpius was so ecstatic he almost forgot about the pain. But after the game the matron confirmed his suspicion, he had broken a couple of ribs and had to stay in the hospital wing during dinner.
The mood around the Gryffindor table during that evening was, to put it very mildly, not well. And the fact that you could hear the Slytherins cheering across the entire Great Hall did nothing to improve it. It was just their first game and they had plenty of opportunities to win but that didn't change the fact that Albus had been too upset to come down to eat dinner (although Rose strongly suspected that he was now sitting on the kitchen eating a lot of food with a lot of house-elves comforting him).
Lily attacked her dessert viciously with her fork.
"Are you not going to have any more cream?" Rose asked her.
"No, I'm punishing myself for loosing" Lily answered before she considered it "but you're right, this ridiculously little" and then loaded a lot more cream on her plate.
"I'm just so mad" Rose blurted out later, when they were walking towards the common room. "Look at them, it's pathetic" she gestured towards the bunch of crying girls that were being shoved away from the Hospital Wing.
"Oh, I thought you were talking about the game first" Dominique said, somewhat confused.
Rose didn't listen nor did she look at her, she didn't like seeing Dom together with Gavin – since she really didn't like him. "When I get injured, people laugh and call me clumsy but when he is dumb enough to get himself injured he gets a bloody fan club" she said fiercely, glaring at the girls as if she wanted to beat them all with a bat (which to be honest, was exactly what she wanted to do).
They had the terrible timing to walk passed just as Scorpius walked out of the Hospital Wing. And the high-pitched screams echoed loudly in the hall before they were hushed by angry Professors. Scorpius almost looked pleased until he met the eyes of a pissed Rose Weasley who was currently being yelled at by a third year Rawenclaw who had heard what Rose had said and tried to convince her that Scorpius was a hero and then the Rawenclaw turned to the approaching Malfoy and looked like she was about to throw himself at him. It was somewhere about then Rose snapped and shoved the girl into the wall (gently).
"Thank you, Rose. I should hire you as my body guard" Rose only growled in response. "But I'm flattered that you came here to make sure I was alright, I had no idea you cared about me so much" he continued.
"Shut up, you still have a lot of bones you haven't broke today" Rose heard how pathetic it sounded; Scorpius snorted and when he walked away she could feel Dom's examining look on her.
The greeting Scorpius had got when he had left the hospital with was nothing compared to the receiving he got when he entered the common room. As the door swung open it was like meeting a wall of sounds, everyone was cheering (which only proved how much they hadn't expected to win not expected that he would catch the snitch so Scorpius was a little uncertain on whether to feel insulted or not – but he decided to join the party) and two of the guys he was charring dormitory with lifted him up on their shoulders and carried him inside.
In a completely different part of the castle, two girls (spoiler – one of them had large curly red hair and the other one had a twin named Fred) were concentrating on a small wrist watch, counting down the minutes.
The party was at full swing in the unsuspecting Slytherin's common room, the room was filled with the sound of everyone chanting Malfoy's name and to Scorpius it felt like his heart would burst out of happiness and pride. Every time someone said 'Slytherin' or 'Malfoy' a frog popped out frog popped out, seemingly from the floor. Everyone was so busy screaming and celebrating that they didn't notice anything until they were falling down from the ceiling. The chanting turned into disgusted screams as frogs came raining down on the students. Soon the room was filled with frogs - they were inside people's clothes, on their heads and climbing on their faces. When a frog was stepped on, it turned into black smoke instead. Soon, someone was heard shouting "STEP ON THEM, STEP ON THEM", having a hard time to get his voice heard over all the frog croaks. Everyone was frenetically stepping on them – so desperate to get rid of the slimy things that they didn't stop until the room once again was quiet and pitch black due to all the smoke. The room now smelled of dead beaver (if you – unlikely - ever have smelled dead beaver, you know how suffocating horrible that smell is, if not – you just have to take my word for it).
Scorpius looked around in the room trying to see something while more and more students started coughing. Then a loud rumbling filled the room. He thought that it reminded him of the sound of a lightning storm just before every single hair on his body stood up. Then flashes of gold and red light were everywhere and the coughing now turned into panicked screams. Where the lightning stroke, students threw themselves out of the way in panic, smashing furniture in their attempts to flee. Then one last red flash of light stroke and all the black smoke disappeared and the room turned light and calm again.
All the students looked chocked around in their common room - everything was as it had been before except from one thing. The entire room, walls, furniture, their clothes and even carpets were now gold and red. The ceiling was a large picture of the Gryffindor Lion that started chanting "Gryffindor, Gryffindor, Gryffindor". Even the students themselves were red and gold. It looked like everyone had painted their faces, except that the paint didn't wash away no matter how hard they tried to scrub it away and how much water they used.
It took the teachers two days to get everything back in order. During those days, no matter where they went, the Slytherin students had the word Gryffindor ringing in their heads. Everything slowly turned back to normal. Except for the face paint – for the rest of the schools cheer joy and amusement - it stayed there for almost an entire week.
When Scorpius met Rose in an empty hallway the morning after the ruined party – his mind went blank.
When Rose saw Scorpius face she realised that this must be an angry face that has been passed on in generations, from father to son since the cavemen. If Rose would picture an angry caveman, that still was grunting and not speaking, this was the look he would have upon his face. But the caveman probably didn't have the left side of his face red and the right side gold with a lion painted on his forehead. Scorpius was marching fast and purposeful towards her and Rose wasn't sure she had seen anyone so angry – which is saying something because she was there last year when aunt Ginny found out that James had a tattoo and lied to her about where he had spent the night.
He was shaking with fury and Rose unconsciously backed away from him until she stood pressed against the wall. Scorpius mind was still blank out of fury when he quickly lifted his hand and aimed for her face. But Rose was even faster and she ducked so it missed her with a couple of centimetres and hit the stone wall behind her instead. Rose wasn't sure she would ever forget the sound of every bone in Malfoy's hand breaking.
That's when Scorpius stopped being angry and looked panicked at what he had done. "Shit Rose I'm sorry" he said before the pain kicked in and left him unable to speak for a couple of moments.
Rose could not keep herself from bursting out in a full body laugh "I'm so sorry I can't take you serious when your face looks like that" she when she had calm herself down enough to be able to breath and speak.
Scorpius realised how ridiculous he must be looking started laughing too – even if came out like whimpers due to the pain in his right hand.
Rose dried her tears and put an almost protective arm around his shoulders. "Come on, I'll walk you to the Hospital Wing".
As they walked they kept on laughing and Scorpius kept on apologising. It wasn't something he normally did, but he felt really grateful that Weasley had ducked. Sure they had had their fight but he had never actually hit her and he would like it to stay that way.
Rose waved it away, it wasn't that big of a deal, really "I …" Rose cleared her throat "might have gotten a little carried away when I planned that" she said, referring to the party crashing. Even Scorpius had to admit that was one hell of a good prank, even if he never would do it out loud.
When they passed students they realised that Rose walking him to the Hospital Wing might not have been such a good idea after all. She still walked him there but she quickly withdrew her arm she had put around him, which left them with an awkward atmosphere.
"Did you tell anyone else about our…" Rose struggled to find the right word "agreement".
"Nope, and you?"
Rose shook her head. "We could continue do this you know, working together. I'd defintely make things more interesting".
Scorpius looked at her curiously but didn't feel like he even needed to think about it. He reached out his hand "Don't tell a soul"
"Promise" Rose smiled "you are also not allowed to tell a soul, or you Slytherin friends" she added before she grabbed his hand, which was a dumb thing to do since Scorpius had reached out his broken hand.
The matron came out when she heard Scorpius scream, she seemed more annoyed to see him here with broken bones again than she was concerned about his health.
"That was stupid even for you Malfoy" Rose snickered as he walked inside the Hospital Wing. And she was almost certain she saw him smile upon his face, or it could just have been the pain.