I'm so sorry for not updating in forever! I've had internet problems and my computer was acting funky. I'll try to update again throughout the week. I'm sorry if this chapter is a little drug out and if the first task was kind of lame I couldn't really think of anything to do. So let me know how I did, thanks for the previous reviews and favorites they make my day sometimes! So enjoy and review and I'll update again soon! The next chapter will probably jump to the Yule Ball...so that should bring some cuteness!~ RawR :D

It was completely normal for the Champions to get tons of attention after the articles about them came out, but for Rose to get attention as well, began to puzzle her. She wasn't a Champion, Quidditch was cancelled for that season, and no one really cared about the Head Girl. She sat down and looked at her friends and brother who happened to be staring at her.

"What are all of you looking at honestly?" Rose asked already irritated with the stares that she was getting.

"You're all over the prophet. Rita Skeeter decided to print a surprise article." James said passing her a copy of the Prophet.

Rose read through the article and slammed it onto the table, "What the bloody hell is this?!"

"Apparently you and Scorpius are the new it couple." Fred replied as he played around with something from his father's joke shop.

"Scorpius and I are not a couple!" Rose groaned and buried her head in arms. She needed to get out of the Great Hall considering that she could feel the stares of her peers.

"This is rubbish anyway." Patrick said reaching out and touching Rose's arm reassuringly.

Rose didn't say anything and just kept her face buried. She and Scorpius most definitely weren't a couple and there was noway that her parents hadn't seen this so she was expecting a Howler at some point from her father who so opposed to the Malfoys it was ridiculous.

Scorpius walked in just as Rose was storming out of the Great Hall, he could hear snickers and jeers towards her from the Slytherin table. Scorpius tried to stop her to ask her what was going on but she just tore away from his grip and continued to walk. It was the day of the first task and he still had no clue what they were doing in the first place.

Scorpius turned and ran after her finally catching up to her around the third floor. He grabbed her hand and forced her to stop, "Rose what's going on?"

"Rita Skeeter decided to print an article." Rose replied.

"She did?" Scorpius asked curiously.

"She did and it was solely about the fact that we're Hogwarts's new it couple." Rose said.

"We're not even an item." Scorpius said cringing when he said it.

"Well, it's in the Prophet and there's no way our parents haven't seen that yet. So I'll be receiving a Howler soon." Rose muttered.

Scorpius looked at her, "Look, I figured out what we're doing for the first task and I really need your help."

Rose looked at him and smiled slightly, "What are you doing?"

"Well there's something about Boggarts and spiders." Scorpius replied.

"Spiders?" she asked.

Scorpius nodded, "Hagrid showed them to me, they're huge!"

Rose shuddered, "Spiders are terrifying."

"I think there was something about fear as well, and how we handle it." Scorpius explained.

Rose sighed, "You're only allowed your wand correct?"

He nodded, "I'm only allowed the wand into the arena but I can always conjure things."

"Well, do you know if there'll be Dementors?" she asked.

"There might be." Scorpius shrugged.

"Well considering that we have four hours until the event, do you know how to produce a patronus?" she asked him curiously.

Scorpius shook his head, "I've never been taught how to produce one."

Rose grabbed his hand and pulled him to the seventh floor to the Room of Requirement, "Well then I'll teach you how to."

"Ok to produce a patronus, you need to focus on a happy thought. Make sure to keep that happy thought no matter how terrified you are and then to actually produce the patronus, say Expecto Patronum, you should get one, the happier the memory or thought, the stronger the charm." Rose explained.

Scorpius looked at her, "Could you demonstrate?"

Rose nodded and started to think of something happy, "Expecto Patronum!"

A silver vapor burst out of the end of Rose's wand and took the form of a Phoenix. Scorpius watched the charm in awe as Rose led it around the room before finally making it disappear, "Now it's your turn."

Scorpius began to rake through his brain for a happy thought finally settling on his trip to Hogsmede with Rose, "Expecto Patronum!"

A silver vapor burst from the end of his wand taking the form of a griffin. Rose smiled as Scorpius managed to lead it around the room and the fact that his patronus was a griffen made her giggle considering that he was a Slyterin.

After practicing the charm a few more times they went through a few more charms and jinxes and what not before they realized that it was about time for them to start heading out there. Just as they exited the room Rose threw her arms around Scorpius and hugged him fiercely, "Please be careful."

Scorpius hugged her back and buried his face in her lavender scented hair, "I promise you nothing will happen to me."

Rose looked up at him, "I'll have that sign for you."

Scorpius chuckled, "I'll be looking for it."

Rose released him and walked out of the room first and Scorpius followed. By the time he reached the main floor Scorpius was rounded up by McGonagall with the rest of the Champions and led to out to a dark, cavernous arena.

He was handed a set of tournament robe that had his name on the back of them and then Krum started to explain the task, "Each of you will face a series of different creatures that are designed to bring forth terror. We're testing your ability to handle the fear and stay cool under the pressure. Now the order in which you'll compete is completely random and your name will be drawn out of a hat. The crowd will be watching as well to add to the stress of the the fear that's being brought upon you. I myself am a judge, the Head of International Cooperation Hermione Granger will be another judge, and the Minister of Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt will be judging you. During this task you'll will receive a clue to your next task, once you reach the end of the arena there will be your clue sitting there waiting. Best of luck to you, listen for your names."

Scorpius waited for names to be called and when both Jospeh and Vivian were called before him, he knew that he was going last. He didn't like the fact that he was the last to go. So when his name was called he entered the arena that was a long dark hallway. He couldn't see much but he could hear the crowd in the stands. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the sparking sign that Rose had promised. He took a deep breath and started to jog through the long corridor.

The first thing he came across was a Boggart that jumped out at him. It took the form of something unexpected, an lifeless Rose Weasley, he hoped that the crowd couldn't see that the Boggart took form of a lifeless Rose. Scorpius took a deep breath and got rid of the Boggart with the simple spell he had learned his third year.

The next thing he came across was the spiders which were simple to take care of. Then came the Dementors. The one thing Scorpius had worried about. He felt the happiness drain out of his body and he could see his breath in front of them. The ghastly creatures were surrounding him, there were at least twenty. He hand't screamed once unlike the other Champions.

The Dementors began to close in on him and he readied his wand. He began to think about something that made him happy and Rose's face filled his mind. He took a deep breath and focused on the happy thought, "Expecto Patronum!"

The silver vapor burst into the form of a griffin and he could hear the crowd cheering as the Demntors slunk back into the darkness and he ran alongside his patronus to reach the end where there was a small door. Sitting there was his father, with steely eyes and a scowl. One Scorpius was all to familiar with.

His father doesn't say anything, he just glares at Scorpius. Scorpius then suddenly realizes that this wasn't his father but a Boggart taking form of his father who was rather cross. Scorpius had always been resentful of his father's temper. Scorpius uttered the incantation that would rid him of the Boggart and discovered the clue that then took the place of the creature. He grabbed onto it and held the glowing egg in his hand. The room dissolved and he was standing in the middle of an arena full of cheering.

Scorpius scanned the crowd before he was ushered back to the Champion's tent. He looked at his opponents; Joseph had a rather nasty bite on his leg from the spiders and Vivian looked rather pale and sickly. Scorpius looked at himself and then he was embraced tightly.

He looked down to find none other than Rose Weasley, "You did it!"

Scorpius smiled and held out the egg, "I did."

Rose took the egg in her hands and studied it, "You're going to have to set to work right away so you're prepared this time rather than last minute."

She hugged him again and then there was the flash of a camera and the irritating laugh of the awful hag Rita Skeeter, "Young love. I hope you got that picture Bob."

The cameraman nodded and then Rita started to swarm around the other two champions. Rose smiled at Scorpius and handed him back the egg. Scorpius looked at her, "How did I do?"

"Considering that you've come out unscratched, Joseph barely made it past the spiders and Vivian passed out at the Dementors." Rose relayed the information for Scorpius.

Scorpius nodded, "So I'm in the lead so far?"

She nodded, "Most likely, it'll all come down to how you executed everything. Your patronus charm was perfect."

Scorpius smiled, "I had an extremely happy memory."

At that point the scores were announced and Scorpius's friends flooded in and Rose disappeared somewhere. There was a huge party held in his honor in the Slytherin Common Room. So far Scorpius was in the lead with twenty five points. He ducked out while all of his friends were beginning to get drunk on smuggled Fire Whiskey and Mead. He went to go find Rose and he found her wandering the Clock Tower Bridge.

"Hey you." he greeted her.

She turned to look at him and smiled, "Hey, so how's all the celebrating?"

"A little much for me." Scorpius shrugged.

"My house is even celebrating." Rose replied and continued to walk down the bridge.

"So did you manage to finish Longbottom's essay?" he asked her.

She looked at him and nodded, "I did. So have you even started looking at your clue?"

"I couldn't really do much considering that everyone was surrounding me." Scorpius shrugged.

"Do you have it with you?" Rose asked.

Scorpius pulled the egg out of his robes and handed it to Rose who studied it, "Have you taken Ancient Runes?"

"No, why?" Scorpius asked her.

"Well this is covered in them. I think you're supposed to decode them to figure out the clue." Rose muttered.

Scorpius took the egg and slipped it back into his pocket, "Well then I guess I'll be studying Ancient Runes then."

Rose smiled, "I could always help you out."

"I'd like that." he smiled and then decided that they should make their way back to their Common Rooms. Scorpius walked up to the Fat Lady and pressed her hand to his lips gently much like he had been doing for the past two and a half months.

"Goodnight Rose." he smiled.

Rose nodded and yawned, "Goodnight Scorpius."

He watched as she disappeared through the portal hole and then headed back to the Slytherin Common Room where the party had died down and a few of his friends were passed out drunk on the leather couches. He set the egg on his nightstand and fell asleep as soon a his face hit the pillow.