The days rolled into weeks and the weeks rolled into a months and pretty soon Scorp found himself at the end of March. He spent most of his afternoons with Zane now. He took Al's and Rose's shifts and came down wit Evanna during hers. He was desperate the gain control.

Zane was a very good teacher, for a person who looked about five and was actually only a year old.

Somehow that didn't make sense but Scorp discarded it because of how powerful a Seer Zane was. Like all Seers if he was meant to See something, he would without being able to control it, but unlike most Seers if he knew what he was looking for Zane could See on command, back and forward. But only if he really knew what he was looking for. Zane was trying to teach this to Evanna, even though she had not been born with the ability. She struggled but had started to get the hang of it.

Rose was still ignoring Scorp. He felt very alone, even when Al was right there beside him. The only thing that comforted him was his growing ability, with which he could tell what she was doing, or if she would be in any trouble in the future. He did admit it was slightly stalkery but it was killing him not to know. Not that he knew why it was killing him. He still didn't understand why the stupid red haired girl meant so much to him.

So he tried to cover up his panic by studying endlessly for the end of June exams, even though they were two months away. He even let Al drag him to a few Quidditch matches. Nothing helped. Until three people walked through the door Entrance hall on April 1st.

Sirius and James waltzed through the doors grinning widely and rubbing their hands together gleefully. Remus trailed behind looking pained.

"Good citizens of Hogwarts Castle" boomed Sirius, "Fear not! Your favourite substitute teachers have arrived."

Peeves zoomed down towards them, halted and saluted, very sincerely.

James grinned, "Ah Master Peeves. How are you on this fine April's Fools?"

Peeves responded by blowing a rathe large raspberry at James and spending away cackling.

Students had begun to peer at the trio. Scorp could hear people whispering.

"Isn't that Sirius Black?"

"Remus Lupin?"

"James Potter?"

"What?"
Scorp smothered a giggle at the last comment, which came from James Potter Jnr.

Sirius spotted Scorp and Al in the crowd, "Aha! Our first victims. Please step forward Ferret face and Mop head!"

Scorp laughed and pulled Al forward, "Hey Sirius. What are you doing here?"

"Glad you asked Ferret face! Lee Jordan is off helping George in his latest disaster err I mean product. So Lady Gremlin asked us to fill in for a week or two. Depending on how long Lee is in hospital. Now I do believe you two are in our first class so… Levicorpus!" Scorp and Al we flipped upside down and were held by their ankles up in the air. Offering no help their classmates moved aside laughing as Sirius navigated the boys to the DADA classroom.

"Liberacorpus!" said Sirius and Al and Scorp fell to the ground.

Sirius grinned and sat down, looking around the room, "Ah, this I great. Being back here again. I remember meeting James for the first time on the train. Damn near took my eye found, waving his wand around."

Remus smiled, "Yes, and if I remember correctly I met you two for the first time properly when you woke up on the first night at 3 am. Just to get me to open the door and have a Bogart pop out at me."

James flung an arm around his friend, "We were very curious to know why you were afraid of balloons. And you fed us the story of your Uncle Franks…"

"Exploding balloon factory!" roared Sirius.

The men started laughing insanely at the memory.

Scorp sat down in his usual space and Al joined him, looking evidentially troubled.

"What's wrong?" asked Scorp.

Al blinked, "Huh? Oh, it's just I can't get over the fact that my Grandad is younger than my Dad."

Scorp grinned, "I can see how that's confusing. Don't worry about it, you'll get-" but he never finished because right outside, something exploded.

They all rushed outside to find Rose looking like her hair blew up. She was holding a firecracker in her hand. Scorp recognised it too well.

He pulled it from her hands and threw it as far as he could, where it exploded again into a shower of green sparkles.

He turned back too her, "Hey, you ok?"

She nodded silently, before bursting into tears.

Scorp said, "Shh, shhh. It's not that bad. Come on, what happened?"

"P-peeves flew p-past and shoved it into my hands," she blubbered. She held up her badly burnt hands, blistered and red.

"Ok. Ok. Let's go to the hospital wing and get some help."

He wrapped his hand around her shoulders and gently guided her to the Hospital Wing.

Madam Bartel stood up from her desk, "What's wrong dearies?" Madam Bartel was sixty nine years old and called everyone dearie, child or angel.

"Rose burnt her hands ma'am."

Madam Bartel rushed forward and pulled Rose toward a sink. She turned on the tap and place Rose's hands under the water.

Scorp waited as Madam Bartel wrapped Rose's hands in bandages.

Rose walked over to Scorp and gave him a smile. She held up her hands. They looked like bulky white stumps.

Scorp laughed, "No quill work for you today!"

She giggled, and then sighed, "I don't want to go back to class."

"Your wish is my command."

They slipped out of the hospital wing and down the stairs. Scorp pulled out his wand, tapped himself and Rose on the head and quickly mumbled a Disillusionment Charm. Shuddering slightly from the feeling of something cold and wet sliding down their backs they walked seemingly unseen down the grounds.

"Zane is helping Hagrid with a class today, so we can go to the glade." Whispered Scorp.

Suddenly they felt the cold and wet slide back up their backs. It was a sure sigh that the Disillusionment Charm was fading

They bolted quickly across the grounds, through the concealed path and collapsed just as the spell rose fully.

They lay there giggling a catching their breath.

Through the trees Scorp could see a red bird flying overhead, ducking in and out of sight behind the clouds. He rolled over, coming face to face with Rose.

He froze, he could feel her breath on his face.

Quickly recovering Rose scooted backwards.

Scorp hid his disappointment and asked the question that had been gnawing at him all term.

"Rose, why have you been avoiding me?"

Rose flushed and looked away, "I haven't," she mumbled.

"Yes you have! You've barely said five words to me this term! Come on Rose, be honest with me."

Rose sat up quickly, her eye watering, "Honest? You want me to honest? You mean you really don't know?"

Scorp shook his head, completely bewildered.

A tear dripped down her face, "If that's it then, I don't know. Honestly I don't know."

Scorp sat up, "You know. I know that you know! Tell me Rose."

She shook her head, more tears rolling down her face, "No. If you don't know then I'm not telling you." He opened his mouth to speak but she held up her bandaged stump.

"Don't push me Scorp. If you do I won't speak to you ever again. I swear that I won't"

Scorp smiled and brushed away her tears, "I won't ask then. I'm sorry."

He lay down again and pointed at the sky, "See that cloud? It looks like Al."

Rose laughed and lay down beside him, "Looks more like a clown to me."

Scorp looked at her and said, completely innocently, "What's the difference?"

She laughed, and pointed out another cloud and the game went on.

They continued until school was over.

Sighing Rose stood up, "Let's go." She reached down and pulled Scorp up.

Something fell out of pocket. He reached down and picked it up.

It was his chocolate frog, from his first time on the Hogwarts express.

He smiled, "Want the frog?"

Rose nodded, and he opened it, quickly getting a hold on the frog before it ran away.

Rose took it and Scorp look at the card and laughed, "I got Sirius!"

Rose laughed, "Read it out then."

"Sirius Black, 1958-1996," Scorp grinned, "Or so it would seem! Sirius Black was born to Orion Black and Walburga Black. Black met James Potter in Diagonal Alley two weeks before their first year. The two immediately hit it off and became best friends, also with Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. Black became an illegal animagi along with his friends. Black is best known for his mistaken imprisonment for the murder of twelve muggles and the assisting of the murder of James and Lily Potter. After twelve year Black became the first person to break out of Azkaban, returning to Hogwarts to protect his godson Harry Potter from Peter Pettigrew. Two years later Black was killed by his cousin Bellatrix Lestrange. Shortly after his death Black was proven innocent and hailed as a here. That's odd…"

"What?" asked Rose.

"It says that Sirius and James met at Diagonal Alley, but Sirius said that they met on the train."

Rose scoffed, "It's just a miss print. Come on! We're already in heaps of trouble."
"You go. I need to talk to Zane about something."

"Whatever." Said Rose as she ran off towards to castle.

Scorp sat down staring at the card. He got the feeling something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong.

A/N: DUN DUN DUN! Sorry about the sort of cliffhanger. Ok that was hard to write, but I had to do it. Look readers I have a bit of bad news. Tomorrow I'm going to Rottenest Island (for those who are unfamiliar it's a holiday island off the coast of WA) with a friend. I'll be gone until Thursday. Now here's the really bad news. On Feb 5 school starts and I'm in year nine now so I have to concentrate, especially since I'm not a good student and I need to work really hard to just be average. Well this year it will change! Ok I'm rambling, but this means I'll have less time to write. But I will try and until the 5th I'll try and write as many chapters as I can. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and to the people who haven't… well thankyou anyway for just reading! Also I don't have time to double check grammar today because it's 11 pm and I have to go pack, so sorry for my horrible grammar. It will be better in future.