WHOOPSIE: OK, I made a BIG mistake. Thankyou to ProperT for pointing it out to me. I hope you all know that you can point out my mistakes, actually I really appreciate it. OK well. I wasn't paying attention and being the zoned out Aussi girl that I am, I forgot Hogwarts is on the English system and I put Easter holidays before Christmas holidays. Because I can't figure out how to go back and fix that we'll be having another Easter in a few chapters. I hope this doesn't confuse you. Well onto the chapter!
"Al seriously! Think before you through that much powder in" Scorp half coughed, half yelled at green-stained Al, as they stepped out of George's fireplace.
Al glared at him, "Well sorry! If you weren't so impatient to get back to school, I wouldn't have grabbed too much. Really it's your fault!"
The boys kept bickering until Rose stumbled out of the fireplace, followed by Roxanne. Rose tripped and fell onto Scorp. He pushed her away quickly blushing.
"Whose coming through with who?" he asked.
Rose flicked her hair forward to hide the red creeping up into her ears, " Victoire and Fred. Molly and Lucy. James followed by George and Angelina."
Al grinned, "Cool that means we don't have to wait! Come on Scorp, we can get a early carriage." Al grabbed Scorp's arms and pulled him away.
Scorp through a pained expression at Rose, meaning it to be a joke. She simply turned away and inspected the fireplace.
He sighed. Things had been weird between them after they'd come back. Rose has avoided him and he hadn't had a chance to asked her about it because Sirius and James had spent the rest of the holidays gruelling him over Draco.
Although on the plus side his nightmares had disappeared, but on the down side they had been replaced with something much more confusing.
Lost in his thoughts Scorp didn't notice Al stopping and he crashed into him, trunk, owl and all.
Groaning he lifted himself up and dusted off. He had way too much to think about. He just wanted to get to Hogwarts and cross off crisis number two by talking to Zane.
Crisis number one was Rose. But he hoped that one would just fix itself.
But for once luck was on his side, a carriage lead by invisible horses came up to them. They were stunned to see Evanna sitting there.
"Hey Evanna," said Scorp, "Good holidays?"
She smiled airily, "Oh yes! Mother took me to the mountains to research the governmental structure of trolls for the next issue. It's about how King Biolipyn is selling the troll children to passing strangers for muggle cooking magazines."
Scorp smiled back, "Interesting." He hauled his trunk in and helped Al do the same.
Soon enough they were trotting steadily towards Hogwarts castle.
Scorp was very pleased to see that they had fixed the Entrance Corridor, but as he passed the Hall he noticed that it was not set up for the usual welcome back feast.
He asked Evanna about this.
"Oh yes. They decided not to have one the term. No one wants to feast while remembering the people you died."
She said it bluntly but Scorp still shivered. He had seen every single body. It was not something he wanted to relive either.
"So do they know who did it? And why?" Evanna asked.
Al shook his head, "They know it was goblins, but the actual attackers are dead and they can't find anyone alive to link it to. They also have no idea why they did it or why they used muggle explosives. I mean goblins have their own magic right? Even without wands I'm sure they could make an explosion."
Scorp shook his head, "No. Goblins can't do that kind of magic. Their skills lie in making magical items. I'm sure they could make an exploding item but it would be detectable."
They broke from the conversation and walked back to Griffindor Tower in silence.
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The Next Day"What do we have next?" asked Al at lunch, his mouth still full of food.
"Double Defence Against the Dark Arts with the Ravenclaws" replied Scorp.
Al grinned, "Awesome. There's this really cute Ravenclaw in our year! Maybe I can get partnered up with her!"
Scorp nodded mutely, gazing around for Rose. Al noticed his friend's lack of enthusiasm. "What's wrong mate?"
"Looking for Rose. It's her turn to go down and see Zane. I was hoping to switch with her."
Al looked surprised, "Really? I thought you hated Zane!"
Scorp smiled glumly, "I need to ask him about something."
"Alright if you say so. Come on. I don't want to be last to class again."
The boys got up and headed towards to DADA classroom. Inside Professor Jordan was already setting up the day's lesson.
He smiled as the boys walked in, "Well if it isn't Mr Potty and Mr Ferret. What brings you to class so early?"
They boys shrugged and Professor Jordan grinned, "Just wanted to see your favourite mad professor? Alright then you can help me with this." He turned to reveal a cage containing two Garden Pixies. Unlike the more common Cornish Pixies, Garden Pixies are not the blue colour and did not have the horns. In fact they very much resembled the image muggles used for fairies, but somewhat larger. A tiny human with wings the size of a kitten. They weren't very intelligent and they were very petty.
The pixies in question were actually having a mid air fight over 'invaded space'.
Professor Jordan grimaced, "Please entertain them for awhile. They got bored of my ink." He gestured to the puddle of ink at the bottom of the cage.
Al took the cage and looked at Scorp, "What do we do?"
Scorp shrugged and felt around in his pockets for something useful.
An elastic band? No. Some lint? No. A Super-Bounce Ball? No, too dangerous. The mirror he had transfigurated that morning from a piece of paper?
He pulled out the mirror and placed it in front of the pixies.
They stopped fighting and stared at the mirror.
The first pixie went up to it and placed his hand on it. He smiled and giggled. He poked out his tongue and laughed as his reflection did the same.
The second pixie was not as smart. She flew straight at the mirror and knocked her self out. Scorp quickly pushed his hand through the bars and caught her. He gently placed her on the ground and permanently hitched the mirror the side so as the keep the first pixie entertained.
Professor Jordan came back, books in hand. He grinned at the sight of one knocked out pixie and another so fascinated with it's own reflexion that it couldn't move.
"Wicked! Cool idea Mr Ferret! Five points to Gryffindor."
Students began to trickle into the room and Scorp and Al placed themselves at the back of the classroom. Things in Professor Jordan's classroom had a tendency to explode, only the latecomers sat at the back. Rose and Evanna came in quickly when there were still spaces at the back, but Rose took one glance at Scorp and quickly sat down in the front. Evanna shot Scorp an apologetic look and sat down next to Rose.
Scorp slumped his head on the desk. He just couldn't understand what was wrong!
He quickly scrawled on a piece of parchment, scrunched it up and, while Professor Jordan's back was turn, through it at Rose. It landed on her desk and she quickly read it.
Rose,
Can I swap Zane shifts with you? I need to talk to him about you-know-what.
From Scorp
PS Are you mad at me?
She quickly through back her reply.
No that's fine. I have to go to the library anyway. No I'm not mad at you! Why would you think that! I've just been really busy.
Scorp sighed and was about to send his reply when Professor Jordan turned around and started the lesson.
"Hello Students! Welcome back. I hope that you all had a mischievous holiday. Today you will be learning about Ortus Mediocris. More commonly called Garden Pixies. Muggles call them Fairies. Now, Mr Ferret has kindly occupied them will a mirror. Can anyone tell me why this would work?"
A Ravenclaw girl call Alicia Larose raised her hand.
"Yes Miss Bird's Nest?"
Alicia laughed and self-consciously smoothed down her tangled hair, "Garden Pixies aren't very smart. They often get distracted very easily by new or shiny things."
"Good! Ten points to Ravenclaw. Now! Please divide into two groups, and if I find that it's Ravenclaws and Gryffindors I will very disappointed. Mingle people! Mingle!"
They separated, Al's face lighting up when he saw the very cute Ravenclaw girl he had mentioned before. She introduced herself as Rebecca 'Bec' Moorington and Scorp introduced himself and Al, as Al was frozen incapable of saying anything.
While they waited for the other students to chose a group Scorp engaged in conversation with Bec.
"Do you have any siblings here?" he asked her.
She smiled, "Yes! My sister Issy is Head Girl, but she's in Gryffindor."
"Wow! Head Girl! I never knew that." Really Scorp was only half listening. He was watching Rose over in the other team. She had her back towards him. What Scorp didn't notice was that every time he turned back to Bec Rose would glare at them both.
Finally everything settled and Professor Jordan spoke again.
"Alright Kiddies! You will be given one Pixie each team, your goal is to find something that will make your pixie go," he shot stars into the cage and the Pixie exploded into a cloud of blue dust.
The class gasped and some of the girls screamed in horror. But as the dust cleared it revealed a pixie perfectly safe and quietly asleep.
Professor Jordan grinned, "When a pixie is happiest it will do that. And no group you may not use that trick!" Now that both of the original Pixies were asleep and unconscious Professor Jordan pulled out another two smaller cages containing one pixie and handed it to each team.
By the end of the lesson both Pixies had exploded. Scorp's one because of a clicky pen, which a muggle-born provided, and Rose's because of Kayla Merino's earrings.
Professor Jordan set them all homework of two pages on why they think Pixies do this.
Scorp quickly gathered up his books and ran after Rose who had already left.
"Rose!" he yelled, "Rose! Come Back! Rose!" he yelled until he could no longer see her red hair over the see of heads. Al came up behind him, "Bummer mate. Oh well. She'll come around. But right now you need to get to Zane."
Scorp groaned, but still ran off towards to glade.
He found Zane talking to Evanna, who had obviously beaten him there.
Zane smiled as Scorp arrived there panting, "Hello Scorpius. It is nice to see you again."
Evanna smiled as well, "Hi Scorp! Great lesson wasn't it."
"Umm Yeah. Hey Evanna, I know it's your lesson but could I talk to Zane privately?"
Evanna looked confused, but she stood up anyway, "Of course. See you tomorrow Zane."
Scorp waited until he was sure she was gone until he spoke again.
He breathed deeply, "Look. I'm sorry for yelling at you. I know you were only trying help and I freaked out, but I hope you can forgive me."
Zane nodded and Scorp continued, "So, I've noticed that lately my Gazing is you know, stronger than it was a few years ago, and well I can't control it. So I was wondering… I was if you could help me."
Zane smiled again, "Of course Scorpius. Sit down"
Scorp down and Zane held out his hands. Scorp drew back, "Umm can I Gaze at someone else. No offence. I just don't want to see that again."
Scorp knew that Zane knew what he was talking about.
"Don't focus on the future. Try focus on the present."
Scorp looked at him weirdly, "But I know the present. I'm here!"
Zane smiled at him like he was a child, "You know your present. You do not however know mine."
Scorp continued to stare and him. Zane just sighed, "Just do it."
Scorp closed his eyes and placed his hands on Zane's. Immediately Zane gripped his hands tightly.
Scorp gasp and was plunged into Zane's consciousness.
This is was like nothing he had ever felt before. He could feel his own hands. He could hear what Zane was thinking. He got everything Zane felt, smelt and heard.
At last he got one quick thought, 'understand now?' Before Zane let go of his hands.
Scorp smiled, still gasping for air.
"Yes. Yes I understand now."
A/N: Well that was interesting. Poor Scorp. He's devastated that Rose is ignoring him and he doesn't even know why. Same with Rose. Those two are very dense.
I don't know what the next chapter will be so until next time!