Unexpected Things

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Obviously, I was feeling uncreative chapter title-wise xD Sorry for the long wait, y'all. Writer's block, mood swings, got sick... bleh... well anyway... here's the chapter. Hope it's alright.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

In the Train, Out of the Train

Rose went straight to Ria when the announcement that the train would be stopping soon was made, leaving Demelza laughing and singing drunkenly to Katy and Raph. Raph certainly was entertained, so she wouldn't have to worry about him getting bored. She found the Albus-like Gryffindor girl coming out of a compartment.

"Rose! Did Demelza go to you?"

Rose nodded. "Yes. What happened to her? She was acting crazier than usual, and… come to think of it… that was the first time I heard her swearing…"

"What did she do?" Ria's eyes widened, a look of worry etched on her face. "She didn't curse anyone in that compartment did she?"

"NO! Nothing like that." Rose reassured her. Demelza wasn't insane enough to do that. At least maybe not yet... Rose decided not to think about what Dem may be capable of. She was a fairly sweet girl- fun and friendly. The phase would pass. "It's just that she was talking nonsense and inserted a few swear words."

"Ah…" Ria frowned and looked thoughtful. "I'll talk to her. Oh, and I think you should get your stuff already. That train will be stopping anytime soon."

Rose nodded in agreement before heading back to her compartment for her trunk.

On the way, she nearly tripped over something.

Regaining her balance, she frowned and turned around to see what she'd tripped over.

The train had already stopped. She ignored people who were starting to come out of the compartments with their things, crowding around the hall.

There, on the floor, someone had left their trunk lying around.

Disapproving of the way someone could be so inconsiderate, she looked around, trying to find the owner, ready to give him or her a lecture.

The first year twins Lorcan and Lysander Scamander were nearby, watching her. "Does this belong to one of you?" She asked them, frowning.

"Don't touch it!" Lorcan -or maybe Lysander- waved his arms wildly. Rose couldn't tell the difference between them. How Lily and Hugo could was beyond her. "There's an invisible Bottlenosed Garneck in there!"

"Lysander, when will you learn? Bottlenosed Garnecks don't exist!"

"How do you know, Lorcan?"

"I just know! It's not a Bottlenosed Garneck in your trunk, it's a Humpbacked Drobin!"

"A… what?" Rose raised an eyebrow and stared at the two in confusion.

People continued walking past her with their things, some of them bumping into her.

"You don't know what those are?" They both looked like they were in total disbelief.

"Rose Weasley! Your dear brother and cousin know so much more than their older relative!" One of them shook his head side to side, looking disappointed in her while the other frowned, putting on a disapproving face.

Rose still didn't understand them. Were they pulling some kind of prank and purposely making her look and feel like a complete idiot?

Besides, they weren't supposed to be disappoving of her. It was supposed to be the other way around!

She thought she heard a thud, and the next thing she knew, some heavy thing crashed into her, knocking her off her feet. She felt the twisting feeling in her stomach when she fell and the pain in her back when she hit the floor.

Her head also hurt after someone's foot bumped into it as they walked.

"What the heck?" she shrieked, become aware of the fact that it was some kind of guy on top of her.

"Ow! Your voice! Urgh, that hurt my ears."

She felt him cringe.

Then she realized who it was as he tried to brush his blond her out of his eyes with his hand. "ROSE?"

A hot wave of mixed emotions ran through her, all of which she couldn't understand. Heck, she couldn't even give names to those emotions. The feelings twirled in her stomach and twisted in her chest.

Rose definitely still hadn't gotten the hang of this whole… emotion thing. But what confused her most was the fact that not all the emotions were specifically negative. Some of her weird, unidentifiable emotions were actually… positive ones.

"Wh-I-er… sorry…"

She was… oddly aware of how close his lips were. Her eyes went over their form, the shape, the color, how smooth they looked... What would it feel like to-

WHAT THE HECK WAS WRONG WITH HER?

"Oi! Malfoy, get off!"

Scorpius was yanked off her.

Still confused thanks to her messed up emotions, Rose stood up and saw Scorpius and Raph glaring at each other.

"What d'ye think yer doin', Malfoy? Pinnin' Rose down like that?"

"Is that what you thought I was doing, you brainless oaf?"

"Raphael! Scorpius! Stop it!" Whatever she felt earlier, she would worry about later. Right now, the dominant feeling was irritation. Why did those two always get into one fight or another? "Will you two ever stop being so immature?"

"But he-"

"I tripped! Some idiot left their trunk lying on the floor!"

"See, Raph?" Rose hated having to side with one over the other, but in this case, Raph's aggression was misplaced and he should know that. "It was an accident. I tripped over that trunk earlier too. It could have happened to anyone!"

Raph was still frowning as he glanced from her to Scorpius.

"What's going on?"

Al arrived.

"Scorpius and Raphael are fighting." Rose answered. "Again."

"I'm going to get my things." Scorpius went back into the compartment.

"C'mon, Rosie. I'll help you with your trunk. I already brought mine out." Raph pointed his thumb over his shoulder, in the direction of their compartment.

Meeting Al's confused look, she mouthed 'I'll explain later.'

Al wasn't sure if he really ought to know what the latest fight between Raph and Scor was. But it did get him curious.

Oh well, Rose would tell him later anyway.

Dragging his trunk along, Al got out of the train, deciding against asking Scorpius what happened since by the look on his face, he was in too irritable a mood to talk.

The twins, seeing the storm coming, made hasty goodbyes and rushed off, promising to send their presents over on Christmas..

"Arrogant, empty-headed, self-centered, Rose-crazed, filthy cur!" Al listened to Scorpius's muttered string of insults as he walked next to Al, trunk handle in one hand, Winter's basket under the other arm. "Stubborn, idiotic bastard!"

Hearing Scorpius's irritated voice, little Winter poked his head out of the basket and twitched his nose while looking at Scorpius with what looked like curiosity and confusion.

"Scorpius!" Al recognized Draco Malfoy's voice and looked in the direction it came from.

Mr. Malfoy walked over to them with his wife.

"Hello-" Scorpius stopped when Mr. Malfoy froze. His eyes had grown incredibly wide as he stared in horror. Al followed his gaze and couldn't understand why Winter seemed to bother him.

In fact, bother wasn't the right term to use for it.

Ragged breaths came in and out of as Mr. Malfoy started hyperventilating. His already pale skin had become even paler. "That... that... ferret?"

"Draco? Draco, what's wrong?" Mrs. Malfoy patted her husband's shoulder, concerned.

"Ferret!"

Winter made a small, scared sound and hid under the blanket in the basket while Scorpius looked from his father to his ferret and back.

The least thing Al expected was Mr Malfoy's grey eyes rolling to the back of his skull before his lids closed over them and he tipped over, unconscious on the train station's floor.

"What's going on? What happened?" Al's dad came over, accompanied by mom, Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, Lily, James, Hugo and Rose.

"Al, what's wrong with Mr. Malfoy?"

"He looks whiter than usual..."

"RON!"

"But 'Mione, it's true! He does look-"

"Ron, Hermione, not now!" Al's dad rolled his eyes at Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron. "You two can argue later." Then he focused on Al and the Malfoys. "So what happened?

Scorpius was staring in silent shock, Mrs. Malfoy didn't look ready to speak, and Winter couldn't speak, so Al took it upon himself to do so."I don't know, dad. He just… fainted. Suddenly." Al couldn't understand it. What happened to Scorpius's dad was just so random and sudden. He looked at his father, hoping for an explanation.

"What? Why?" Harry knelt down next to Mr. Malfoy.

"I don't know. He was just saying hi to Scorpius… and then suddenly… he just…"

"Let me see him!" Aunt Hermione pushed Al's dad and Scorpius's mother out of her way and inspected him. "He's just unconscious. He still has a pulse, and he's still breathing.

"Hermione… you're not going to do that recilination thing, are you? Like what those muggles do to unconscious muggles…"

Aunt Hermione rolled her eyes before answering Uncle Ron. "He's breathing, Ronald. I don't need to perform mouth to mouth resuscitation on him."

Are the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation jokes old yet? xD