Rose and Scorpius sat at opposing ends of the hospital wing, staring determinedly at each other. Last night, after Mr Weasley caught Scorpius there, he demanded that the Malfoy's come to Hogwarts so they could "address the issue" and now both families sat around Hugo's bed, debating the rights of their children's relationship while their children sat silently. So far, the Malfoy's had copped most of the insults because Ron talked too fast and loud to allow for interruption.

"My daughter deserves better than a family of criminals!", Ron spat.

"It's not against the law to have a dickhead for a grandfather! My son certainly didn't choose to be born into this family and he's done well steering clear of his ancestors ideals", Draco defended.

At this, the room fell silent. Draco was standing over Ron now, Astoria tugged at his jacket from behind him, urging him to sit back down so they could talk rationally.

"Why don't we let the children talk dear?", she said quietly, her eyes flickering to Scorpius.

"Right", he said sitting back down.

Rose and Scorpius still hadn't broken eye contact, even when Scorpius started to talk, they didn't dare look away.

"First of all, it wasn't me who stunned Hugo", he stated.

"Then who?", asked Hermione.

"Me", Rose confessed.

"That's ridiculous, why would Rose do that to her own brother?", asked Ron.

"Because he was going to send you a letter about Scorpius and me"

"That doesn't justify you stunning him over a railing to what could potentially have been his untimely death", said Hermione pointedly.

"I know, I acted rashly and I regret it but it would never of happened if I thought you wouldn't reject Scorpius because of the irrational grudges you have against him just because of his family history", Rose said.

"They are not irrational grudges, his family are perfect examples of Slytherin at it's very worst", Ron stated.

"Even if that's true, Scorpius is Slytherin at it's very best", Rose countered, making Scorpius blush.

Everyone was silent again, their eyes burning holes straight through Rose, struck with the realisation that she actually cared for him and he for her. Suddenly, their attention was on Hugo, his hand was lifted and his eyes straining against his will to be open.

"I would like to revoke my previous judgement of Scorpius", he croaked.

Rose laughed and put her hand on Hugo's.

"I'm so sorry I hurt you", she said sincerely.

"All good, I deserved it", he shrugged.

Ron cleared his throat and avoided Rose's gaze, trying desperately to avoid admitting defeat.

"We best be off", he said.

"Us too", said Draco.

"We'll be back in three weeks to see your muggle studies performances", Astoria assured her son.

"Oh yeah, forgot about that", Rose muttered.

Hermione and Ron left first, hugging Rose tightly and kissing Hugo's forehead, promising to be back soon. Astoria followed their example, she hugged her son, smiled at Rose and wished Hugo well. Draco nodded at nobody in particular and followed his wife out of the room.

When it was just the kids in the room, Rose slumped to the floor against Hugo's hospital bed.

"That could have gone better", said Hugo.

"Agreed", Scorpius and Rose chorused.


The next morning, Rose and Scorpius were first to class, both eager to start practicing properly seeing as though their parents would be watching them perform. They talked rapidly, discussing cues and body movement in their scene while the rest of the class filtered in.

When Miss Parkinson finally arrived she was flustered and carrying half her body weight in papers as usual, she told them to go over their lines while she went to find a quill (code for black coffee).

"Let's go from start to finish, I have a feeling she wont be back in a hurry", Scorpius said.

"Sure, you start", Rose agreed.

Scorpius cleared his throat and shuffled through his parchment to find the right page, when he found it he waited for the class noise level to rise a few decibels and muffle out his own voice before starting to recite the opening lines.

"My love, my life, it is time I join you in all eternity

Juliet, why are you still so fair?

Death that has sucked the hung of your breath has had no power yet to spoil your beauty"...

At this point, Rose was blushing furiously behind her own script and the whole class had been shushed in order to listen to Scorpius recite his lines. Scorpius continued on, oblivious to his extensive audience.

"And your lips, the doors of breath will forever be sealed with a righteous kiss"

"Woah, you're such a good actor Scorpius!", a big-eyed slytherin girl sang out from the crowd.

He nodded at her gratefully and coughed loudly to snap the rest of the class out of their trance.

Rose laughed nervously at Scorpius, how was she supposed to follow up a performance like that?


"Al", Lily began.

"What?", Albus asked boredly.

"Is it true that Rose is dating Scorpius?"

"Yes Lily, still just as true as it was when you asked me yesterday", he droned.

"Ok, just wondering, it seems so unlikely because you know, they used to fight all the time"

"Uh huh"

"What did they even fight about? I bet it was dumb, just typical Slytherin and Gryffindor rivalry if you ask me, not to mention their heritage, what with the Malfoy's and-

"Lily, Shut up"

Albus got up and left the room, leaving Lily to her spot on the couch in the joint common room to ponder on the happenings of her cousins' love life alone.


I'm really sorry, I don't think the Shakespeare is right and i skipped a chunk in the middle but you get the point. I really want to make this more interesting but I don't know how to ease into it.. Hopefully I'll be posting more frequently in the next couple of weeks because I'm about to go on school holidays. Also, I'm thinking about working a song into one of the next chapters, if you have a suggestion leave it in your review! (Please review it makes my day every time)- Arwen