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Chapter 10

The Carnival (Sugar Rush)

Scorpius awoke the next morning to Lily running in and tossing pillows at them. Scorpius shot up and tossed the pillow back at her. She decided to hit Albus with it again. Albus didn't shoot up however, in fact, he snored. Scorpius wondered how long Albus had continued talking after he fell asleep. Scorpius thought about helping Lily, but decided that his pillow looked more interesting. A short while later and he felt someone hovering over him, he ignored it and brushed it off as Albus, then he heard a snore.

"Wake up Scorpius." Scorpius shot up as Dominique's voice carried in the room.

"Dom, can you knock." growled Albus, tossing a pillow at her, then he froze, "Why do I have almost all the pillows in the house?"

"Come on you two, the carnival awaits." said Dominique, leaving the room.

"What did she do, did I miss something?" asked Rose, running in as she saw Dominique enter.

"No." said Albus and Scorpius at the same time.

"Oh, okay. I'll be downstairs." said Rose and she left the room, then came back and shut the door a second later.

"..." Scorpius looked at Albus.

"I didn't know she was coming." said Albus, Scorpius just stared blankly at him, Albus sighed. "I'll protect your from Dom."

"... and?"

"Rose?" said Albus, eyebrow raised.

"Don't get me wrong. Rose is my best friend, but I fear what a challenge does to her." said Scorpius.

"She becomes evil." said Albus, eyes wide and staring off into space.

An hour later Scorpius, Albus, Lily, Rose, Hugo, Dominique, Roxanne, James, Fred, Lynn, and Mayella headed to the carnival. As Mayella and Fred where the oldest, they where left in charge. Mayella was in a very bossy mood at this moment, she had apparently been up late dealing with her little brother, Collum, running around. (A/N: If you don't know who Mayella is, go read the Christmas section of Mysteries of Hogwarts).

Scorpius just stared at the entrance to the park in amazement. He'd seen places like this a few times, but his father had always called them something that seemed unimportant right now. He was staring at booths that allowed you to win prizes and a large spinning wheel with people in it.

"This is going to be great. Scorpius, do you like cotton candy?" asked Albus

"What?" asked Scorpius breaking his trance, "I don't eat much candy or sugars. I mean those caffeine drinks you gave me was the most concentrated sweet I've ever had."

"Oh, you love cotton candy." said Albus, pulling Scorpius and Rose's arm.

"Oh no! We stay together." said James, grabbing the back of Albus' shirt.

"James." whined Lily, from his other hand where her, Roxi, and Hugo had been in mid-run.

"Oh, just let them go... together." said Fred, "You all have to stay together, got it."

"Got it," said Dom, deciding to join the group.

"No competition." growled Albus as he glared at his cousins.

"Meet back here in two hours." said Mayella, looking at her watch.

Two hours, several rides, a Tilt-O-World marathon, and several cotton candies later... Scorpius was finishing off a soda and looked rather demented. Albus had thought the sugar thing was funny, but he hadn't thought about the reaction Scorpius' body would have. Hugo burst into laughter as Scorpius found the dunk tank.

"Hey, do you think we could be the dunkee?!" said Scorpius, eyes wide and grinning.

"Scorpius, maybe we should back away from the games for a while." said Albus.

"Let him be." snapped Lily, "He's winning us prizes."

"Dominique, would you like one?" asked Scorpius looking from one to the other.

"Oh, you need not bother." said Dominique with a small giggle, "I mean the offers enough."

"It's no problem." and Scorpius yanked Albus to another booth.

"It's so cute when guys offer to get things for you, right Rose?" asked Dom, smirking at her cousin.

"For your information..." Rose was cut off.

"Didn't he get you that dog plushie AND that goldfish." said Lily, who had apparently chosen to be on Rose's side.

"A fish that will be dead by tomorrow and a mutant dog thing. How... How charming." said Dom with a grimace as she swung around to look at where Scorpius and Albus where.

"This little competition is stupid in my opinion." said Hugo, the girls glared at him, "What? I'm just saying someone going to get hurt."

"Hey voice of reason?" asked Dom, looking at Hugo.

"What?"

"Shut up." said Dom and then put a flirty smile back on her face as Scorpius approached.

"Here you go Domin..."

"Dom, you can call me Dom." she said happily as she took a plush monkey.

"Oh, well, okay." said Scorpius as they went to go get more cotton candy.

"You don't need any more." said Albus, quickly grabbing Scorpius by the arm.

"But why?" whined Scorpius.

"Your already hyper and the sugar hasn't even fully kicked in yet. Personally, we're frightened." said Hugo.

"Yeah and some of the COMPETITIONS I'm seeing are getting VERY annoying." said Albus looking at Rose and Dom.

"You shut up too." said Rose, with a frown.

The sugar fully kicked in when they got home a short while later. The whole time they'd walked, James kept flicking Albus for not being in charge as the oldest, other then Dom. Hugo, Fred, Roxi, and Rose where staying over tonight. Harry had the late shift tonight and their mother had gone to Sweden for game. This left Teddy in charge because he'd decided to stay until three in the morning when Harry would be back. James had gotten rather bitter after hearing this, he didn't like not having trust. But, after all, he'd been the one to try and feed Albus to a tiger at the zoo a few summers back. He'd also once taken his dad's 'other' wand and had tried magic when they hadn't been home before. Which had cause the backyard to burst into flame. So this distrust was understandable.

"So when I was seven I decided I wanted a sibling. So I ranted to my parents about it until I was nine, when they finally told me no. I never really understood why, but I know it had something to do with my mother getting sick when she had me. I also wanted a puppy, but my parents said it be to messy. You know what, I want a pet. I mean I DID have a ferret once, against my dad's wishes... But yeah, I want a pet." said Scorpius very, very quickly.

To the others not on sugar, what Scorpius said was more a mess of words. Every other two or three words could be understood completely, so at one point the sentence had been, "My parents, messy pet Ferret wishes..." This was odd, but they didn't question the blonde lunatic. Teddy on the other hand, had apparently gotten all of what he said, because he joined in. This allowed them to try and figure out what actually had been said.

"Ask to get a new pet, don't label the type and see what they say. I mean you have to reason, after all you go to school. They'd have to take care of it while you'd be gone. Don't you live on a mansion estate?" asked Teddy.

"Yeah."

"If they say yes, aim for something big and work your way down. Be like, "I want a Hippogriff." After they panic, work your way down, say you want a Niffler or something. That's sure to make them panic, I mean it'd destroy your house."

"That's genius, thanks Teddy." said Scorpius, who then went into a silent deep thought.

"Great, you broke him." said Lily, "We where trying to guess what he was trying to say."

"You where going to be the answer key." said Roxi.

"I don't think Scorpius is going to get much sleep tonight." said James as Scorpius was now muttering about animals.

"Sooo... Should I go get the games?" asked Rose, smiling at the door.

TBC