Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer

Do you know you're unlike any other?

You'll always be my thunder, and I said,

Your eyes are the brightest of all the colours

I don't wanna ever love another

You'll always be my thunder

So bring on the rain

And bring on the thunder

-Thunder; Boys Like Girls

CHAPTER 17

DOMINIQUE WEASLEY

God, a few months away from Rose and I miss practically everything…

I think Scorpius and I were on almost good terms now. Since we both sort of apologised. And I was almost glad about it, which was a bit weird. I'd never considered being… friends with Scorpius before – not with Albus' pure contempt for him. It was unthinkable. And then Rose goes and fucking falls in love with him. Jeez, gotta love this family.

You could see it in his eyes that he loved her. I kicked myself for not realising it before. He looked at her, and he was gone for her. The hard shell that was always up came crumbling down whenever she was around. You could see how much he loved her without even needing to be with them for more than ten seconds. His eyes sparkled when she smiled at him, and you know in that instant that he would go to the ends of the earth to make her happy.

Fucking sappy twat.

It'd been two weeks since Rose didn't say it back, and Scorpius was more of a mess than before. His eyes were constantly bloodshot, with deep purple circles surrounding them. He never bothered with his hair anymore so it stuck up wildly. And not even in a good way. He'd got skinnier from lack of eating practically anything. He only ate when he did because he was forced to by Albus – yes, Albus. That was the weirdest part of this whole thing.

They'd become… friends.

Adrian and Albus had sort of banded together to try and get Scorpius, well, better. And Scorpius didn't even seem to care. Albus sat at the Slytherin table now mostly, laughing with Adrian and shoving food down Scorpius throat so he didn't starve. Everytime I saw them together I had to blink several times and rub my eyes just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Scorpius and Albus. Malfoy and Potter. It was downright the creepiest thing I'd ever seen, and I've seen Victoire and Teddy… together. Ugh. No one seemed to notice, except me, that it wasn't just Scorpius that Albus was getting along with; it was Adrian. Adrian the guy who was dating Albus' baby sister – and everyone knew how overprotective Albus was of Lily. But they seemed to have an agreement to get along for Scorpius' sake. Or Lily's sake. I wasn't really sure which.

I recalled the memory of Teddy and Victoire on one of the midnight strolls Rose doesn't know I take and shuddered violently. I swear I was going to need fucking therapy and she was going to pay fo–

"Damn it, Albus! You don't understand!"

"Yeah, obviously!"

"Don't you get it? I love her! I. Love. Her!"

I heard voices around the corner, and I knew it was Albus and Scorpius. I poked my head around slowly, praying they wouldn't see me. Scorpius was on the floor with his back against the wall and his knees up, while Albus stood over him. Albus looked frustrated, his brow furrowed, and his hair being messed up by his hands. Scorpius, on the other hand… well, Scorpius looked… dejected. There was no other word for it. He was so hopelessly in love with Rose and she rejected him, pretty much. And now he was lost without her. It made me feel for the guy.

"Yeah, and she loves you so what's the problem?" Albus practically yelled, exasperated.

"That's the fucking problem! She doesn't love me, Al!" Scorpius yelled back, while I was trying to process that Scorpius called Albus 'Al'. Oh, the weirdness would not end.

"Yes she do–!"

"If she loved me, she would've said by now." Scorpius said, cutting him off. "It's been two weeks, Albus. It's been three since I told her! If she loved me, she would've said it. If she loved me, she wouldn't be putting me through this. If she loved me, it would be her here right now, and not you." There was such a sad tone to his voice I almost felt my own heart break along with Scorpius'.

"Mate," Albus began, and again it took me a while to process it. Mate? "You have to trust me on this one. She loves you. She really does. She's just not ready to say it to you yet."

"I can't wait forever, Al."

"No, I agree." And for a moment, confusion flickered across his face, and I knew he'd just realised how weird the situation was. "Which is why I'm going to help you. But only on one condition… well, two, actually."

"Which are?"

"One, that you have to eat something and fucking sort yourself out. You look fucking homeless." He grinned, "And two, you make sure you treat her right. Because if you ever hurt her I will–"

"I would never hurt her. You know I wouldn't."

"Yeah, I guess you're right on that one. So do we have an agreement?" Scorpius didn't bother to respond, and just stood up, indicating to Albus that his answer was yes. "Good. Now go back to your common room, get some sleep and try and do something with your hair…" Albus shook his head jokingly, and, for the first time in two weeks, Scorpius grinned. His smile lit up his eyes and I knew right then that these two weren't just friends. They were brothers. And they would be like that forever.

God this family is messed up.

XXXXX

ALBUS POTTER (Third Person Perspective)

Albus made it back to the Gryffindor common room without being spotted by Filch and immediately sunk into the armchair by the fire.

Thank Merlin for house-elves, he thought, embracing the warmth of the fire. In the past two weeks, Albus' life had pretty much turned upside down. Rose was hardly speaking, and he was friends – yes, friends – with Scorpius Malfoy, the boy he'd counted as his enemy for the best part of six years. Scorpius was doing worse than Rose, though, and that was saying something. Rose barely ate, didn't concentrate in lessons, and hardly spoke at all anymore. And those things were the three things Rose was known for. Scorpius… Scorpius was just a mess, emotionally and physically. Albus could swear he was one sleepless night away from a breakdown.

Albus closed his eyes, seeing the flicker of the firelight through his eyelids. He shifted his body into a more comfortable position and began to try and sleep. And then someone stood in front of him, blocking the warmth of the fire from getting to his face. His eyes flickered open to see the slim form of Dominique Weasley looming over him. Immediately he shut his eyes again.

"Dom, can't this wait till morning? I'm trying to fucking sleep!"

"Yeah I know, I gathered that from your eyes being closed and you curled up here like a little girl. Who knew Albus Potter was so adorable when he slept?" She sniggered, driving Albus to sigh and force his eyes open once more.

"Make it quick."

"Oh, Al, what are we going to do?" Dominique's shoulders slumped as she dropped all pretences of having things figured out and sat on the floor beside Albus.

"Whaddya mean?" Albus replied, stifling a yawn.

"Rose and Scorpius! I mean, you're taking care of Scorpius and that's fine, but I'm here trying to get through to Rose and it's just not working! She's just so cut off from everything. When she looks at me, it's like she's not really there. She thinks he hates her." She added in a small voice.

"That's fucking retarded. Right, I'm gonna go and set her fucking straight before she has a fucking meltdown…" Albus tried to lift himself out of the armchair and immediately slumped back down. "Tomorrow. I'll set her straight tomorrow." He decided, closing his eyes once more. Dominique sighed, realising she wasn't going to get any more conversation out of him tonight. She picked herself up from where she'd been sitting and headed upstairs to the dorm. When she got there, she was disappointed to find Rose awake, as she had been many nights before when Dominique came up.

Back downstairs, Albus was trying fervently to get to sleep.

Why is this family so fucking complicated? He thought, realising how tired he was going to be when he woke up. And why am I always dragged into it?

He sighed to himself, expelling all thoughts of his cousin and his friend from his mind and slowly drifting to sleep.

He'd barely been asleep for two minutes when he heard several loud thuds coming from behind him on the stairs, like someone was falling. Then, one louder, more sickly thud as whomever it was reached the bottom. Instantly, he leapt up from the armchair, practically sprinting over to the stairs, knowing who had fallen.

Flaming red hair spilled on the floor as the girl lay on her front. Albus was frantic; desperately wishing it wasn't who he knew it was. He rolled the girl over, her face confirming Albus' fears. A small puddle of blood oozed from her head where she had hit the wall on the way down.

Rose lay with her lip cut and a bruise on her temple, unconscious in Albus' arms.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Okay, that didn't turn out nearly as well as I'd pictured, and this was one of the first chapters I'd planned. Damn. Well, the Albus bit was, anyway, and I planned on bringing in Albus and Scorpius' friendship in there somewhere, and then I got a review about maybe putting in Dominique's point of view and then the idea hit me, so thankyou to #owlgirlie387!
But yea, I'm sorry for how this chapter turned out, it was meant to be so much better! Grrrrrrr...

Anyway, I know this chapter was pretty short and I'm really sorry about that too, it was meant to be so much longer-.-! I just needed to get to the point of the whole thing which was Rose's fall, and I couldn't think of anything else to write anyway. I had major writer's block, you don't know how long I've been sitting at my laptop screen mentally killing myself for not being able to think of anything.

Well, unfortunately for me, my half term is nearly over. I go back on tuesday and it's friday. Well actually, it's saturday, seeing as it is 3am... God why is it always at 3 that I post these-.-? But me going back to school will probably mean less frequent updates, but then it's almost over at the moment anyway. Only a few more chapters left. I am planning a sequel to this story, however, so when this is finished and when I post it, please read.

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