Here's chapter 3, it's just a bit short compared to the other ones, but the chapters will become long as the story progresses.

Enjoy!

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Chapter#3

The Slip Backwards

Everyone in the Burrow was now busy doing their own thing. All of them had scattered to pursue their own devices. Teddy and Victoire were curled up in an armchair next to the fire, enjoying each other's company and catching up on the last three months of the other's life.

Molly (II) and Dominique were playing exploding snap with the little ones. Roxy was in the kitchen with Molly and Arthur while Scorpius and Al had disappeared up the stairs behind Rose.

The three of them were currently in Rose's room which she shared with Roxy, Lily and Lucy while she visited the Burrow (It was Ginny's old room). Rose was sitting on her bed reading a book as Scorpius failed yet again to gain a response from her. He'd been at it for the past half hour and Albus found the whole situation highly amusing as he sat in a chair across from the bed, smirking.

"Rose c'mon now, I'm sorry and I've already said it about a thousand times. I was only joking." said a frustrated Scorpius.

"That was not a very good joke Scorpius!" exclaimed Rose angrily.

"You are the only that has got all bothered by it so much, everyone else seems to be fine." Scorpius said in a slightly raised voice.

"Oh don't you dare Scorpius Malfoy! Don't you dare raise your voice at me!" yelled Rose, "YOU made a mistake and now you have the nerve to turn it all around on me, like I'm the one to blame!"

"I am not blaming anything on you Rose. I was just trying to apologise!" hissed an agitated Scorpius. He then turned his head to the other side and muttered under his breath, "For someone so intelligent, you sure can be daft sometimes."

However Rose had heard him and her expression morphed into one of pure rage, "Did you just call me daft Scorpius?"

Suddenly all of Scorpius' frustration diminished and was replaced by a feeling of pure dread. His big bloody mouth had just made matters worse!

"Rose listen...I didn't mean it like that... it just came out...you know me and my stupid mouth..." he struggled to find the right words to explain himself.

He was lucky that Albus had finally decided to interfere and stop their pathetic fight which had escalated far too much for any of their liking.

"Rose" Albus said as he came to sit on the bed between them, "Scorpius" here he glanced at the blonde boy. Now sure that he'd gotten both of their attention, he started "Do the both of you realise, how utterly pathetic you look?" It definitely wasn't meant as a question as he didn't wait for either of them to answer and went on to speak again, "Well of course you don't. If you did you would've stopped a long time ago. You both are fighting over something so ridiculous that I've had to stop myself from laughing for the past half hour." He sighed and then continued, "Look I'm not all that good at resolving issues, especially between you two; that is usually Casey's and Anna's job but since they are not here, I'm trying to do the best I can."

"Well you do look quite pitiable doing this" Scorpius said.

"Shut up Scorp! You're making me stray from my point here." Retorted Al and then continued with his supposed-to-resolve-fight-talk, "Rose, what Scorpius did was only a joke. He meant for it to be a good laugh. You know him, he wouldn't ever want to hurt your feelings intentionally. Yes I know that he's an insensitive prat" Al ignored the protesting 'Hey' from Scorpius and kept talking to Rose, "but I don't know why you took all of this so seriously, everyone else just laughed it off."

Rose deliberated for a moment and her features began to soften as the anger from her face ebbed away. She suddenly looked a bit sheepish and colour rose to her cheeks. She had just opened her mouth to speak when Roxy's voice halted her, "Dinner's ready! Gran is calling all of you to the kitchen."

"Well, I reckon we'll have to talk about this after dinner." said Albus rising to his feet instantly.

'Typical Albus!' thought Rose amusedly.

"What are you two waiting for? Let's go, dinner's ready." Albus said once he'd reached the door.

Scorpius got to his feet, cast a final pleading glance in Rose's direction and followed Albus out of the door. Rose waited a moment, still sitting on her bed and wondered briefly what that last glace from Scorpius had meant. She gave up on it however as her stomach grumbled, she too got up shaking her head and followed her friend and cousin out of the room.

She had just set foot out of her room when she heard yelling...where was it coming from? Oh no that was definitely Victoire's voice but that couldn't mean... could it? She flew down the stairs and came to a stop in front of James, Fred and Louis' room which was...crowded? She spotted Albus and Scorpius standing in the doorway. She moved forward and asked Albus, "What's going on?"

Albus just responded by pointing to the scene in front of them. Rose turned her head to find James, Fred and Louis all standing near the study table which supported a small cauldron. Had they been brewing a potion? Yes that was it, they had done it again, the three of them were planning some kind of a prank again and this time Victoire had caught them. Merlin knows what sort of vile substance was in that cauldron and what it was going to do to the person they were going to use it on. That was unlike them though, they had never tried to pull two pranks in one day, especially when the first had gone so terribly. Well not that they cared, they always had a way of getting themselves out of the aftermath of their pranks, and so none of them looked particularly concerned as Victoire kept shouting at them. Teddy was standing just behind Victoire and was trying fruitlessly to keep her calm.

Victoire was just telling them that she'd make sure that this time they wouldn't get off without a quidditch ban when Lily and Lucy came running into the room followed by Molly (II) and Dominique, the former of whom was holding Hugo in her arms. Why was Molly (II) holding Hugo? Was he feeling alright? It must be that sudden bout of flu he gets quite often. Yes, that must be it and it was the only plausible explanation Rose could think of now, after all Hugo didn't very well liked to be carried around; he was a 'big boy' as he would often say.

"Lily, Lucy please stop. Grandma sent us up here to wash our hands not to play catch." said Dominique as she tried to catch her little cousins.

This didn't appear to have any effect on the two girls who kept running. Dominique tried to follow them but stopped suddenly. It seemed that it was only now that she had noticed something else going on in the room.

"What did the three of you do now?" Dominique asked raising an eyebrow.

"Why does everyone just assume that whatever we'll be doing wouldn't be worth appreciating." asked James in an innocent tone.

"Your track record hasn't been that entire good, plus 'worth appreciating' in your language means trouble fetching." Dominique said mimicking James' tone.

"We consider that a compliment Dom. Thank you." Said Fred

Dominique looked ready to retort when Roxanne entered the room with an irritated look on her face, "What in Godric's name are all of you doing here! Gran and gramps are waiting for all of you to come down so we can have dinner!" she shouted.

And then two things happened at once: Lily who'd been running after Lucy tripped over Roxanne's foot and stumbled into Lucy who fell on an unsuspecting Molly (II). Molly (II) lost her balance but managed to turn around quickly so that when she fell, it was on her back and not on Hugo. There was a resounding thud as Molly (II) landed on the hard wooden floor.

There must have been a stint of accidental magic from Hugo because the cauldron on the table had flown several feet into the air without anything ever really coming into contact with it. After that, everything seemed to happen in slow motion as the cauldron swivelled and spun, performing acrobatics near the roof of the room and thus emptying itself of the contents inside, in the process. Needless to say that when the cauldron finally hit the floor and landed beside the table, all the occupants of the room were sprinkled with a green potion that the cauldron had been filled with.

There was a moment of silence in which no one even dared to blink and then suddenly, the world around them began spinning. Everything started to blur away as the room around them became a mixture of colours. The ground beneath them gave away and they were left standing on nothing, but they did not fall. Rose had suddenly started to feel very nauseous and there wasn't a sound to be heard as all of them were pulled by an invisible force through a very small space and as if on cue, everything went black.

Next chapter...we're into the past!

I'll hopefully update on Friday.

Oh and I would like to thank my sole reviewer: robdog66