Chapter 7 – Technically not a lie
Saturday, 10:45 AM, August 31st, 2023 – The Drawing room, Malfoy Manor.
Breakfast actually went a lot smoother than anyone had anticipated. As Draco and Hermione had finished clearing away the dishes they joined Scorpius and Rose in the drawing room.
"I'm going to pop home for a bit to pick up some things. Are you planning on staying here the whole weekend, love?" Hermione asked her daughter.
Rose gave her mother a suspicious look.
"I'm only asking so I can bring you some stuff as well if you need." Hermione added with a kind smile.
"Some new clothes would be nice, thanks mum." Rose answered and hugged her mother.
"Consider it done." Hermione smiled.
"Well then, love. The fireplace is all yours." Draco said and kissed Hermione on the cheek.
"I'll be back in a jiffy." she smiled and made her way out of the room.
"Don't take too long!" Draco called after her.
When he turned back to Scorpius and Rose he found them looking at him in bewilderment.
"What? I happen to like having Hermione here." Draco said as if it was self-explanatory.
"How long have you too been seeing each other any way? Mum never told me she was seeing anyone." Rose said and sat down on the sofa.
"Well, Rose. I don't really think it's my place to tell you. But seeing as your mother isn't here I might as well tell you that we've been seeing each other since about 6.30 last night." Draco chuckled nervously.
"Hang on." Scorpius snapped. "6.30? That was about when I was home… Talking to you… Dad, pleas tell me this is not how I fear it is!" Scorpius said, feeling himself panicking slightly.
Draco gave him a face that said "sorry, son" and Rose just looked utterly confused.
"By Merlin's beard! Dad! She was in the shower with you, wasn't she?" Scorpius shouted.
"Oh my!" Rose exclaimed and her hand flew to her mouth in surprise; not expecting to learn this particular piece of information.
"Well, technically yes, she was. But it wasn't like that." Draco tried to explain, giving Rose an apologetic look.
"She was helping me sort out the pixie problem in the attic and one of the pixies dropped some tar-smelling goo all over her. She was washing up and I was bringing her some new clothes when you came home. I didn't know how to tell you why the Minister of Magic was in my shower. So when you came into the bathroom I panicked and jumped in behind the shower curtain." Listening his own explanation Draco realised just how stupid it sounded.
"You could've just told me the truth! Bollocks! Dad! I can't believe you! She heard everything I said, for Merlin's sake!" Scorpius covered his face with his hands and wanted nothing more than to sink through the floor and disappear.
"I really am sorry about that son. But look at it from the bright side; at least now she knows how sweet you are to her daughter." Draco said and tried to smile.
"You were talking about me? What were you saying?" Rose asked in surprise.
"Well, remember last night when I told you I asked my dad for advice regarding women? Well, technically I might have been telling him I was interested in a particular woman and sort of hoped to… well… proceed the stage of snogging, so to speak." Scorpius blushed.
"And mum heard that? What did she say?" it was now Rose's turn to blush and cover her face with her hands.
"She didn't know we were talking about you. Neither did I for that matter. But she later told me she though I was excellent at parenting." Draco smirked, remembering the event that had followed Scorpius' departure.
"Right now I wouldn't agree with her." Scorpius muttered.
"Oi, Scorp. It's embarrassing; I get it. I don't think anyone out of the four of us particularly fancy being in this situation. But you didn't say anything wrong. You were a perfect gentleman, very thoughtful and respectful." Draco smiled.
"Bloody hell, she knows it was my first time. She knows her daughter de-flowered me." Scorpius said, probably not intentionally out loud.
Draco gave him a wondering look.
"De-flower? Really? Scorpius, who says that?" Rose chuckled.
"My question exactly." Draco said.
"So what if my mum knows? Does it change the way you feel about me? Because I can tell you it does not the change the way I feel about you." Rose smiled and got up and placed her arms on Scorpius' shoulders.
"Of course it doesn't change anything." Scorpius said.
Rose gave him a peck on the lips.
"Good. I didn't think so. Now stop freaking out about it." she said and gave him a smile.
Scorpius smiled back. How did the witch in front of him always seem to make every situation so much better?
"You're right. You're always right." he smiled at her.
"You know I am. Now that that's sorted; I believe you promised me a grand tour of the Manor." she smiled.
Saturday, 12:05 AM, August 31st, 2023 – The Drawing room, Malfoy Manor.
Draco was sitting comfortably on the sofa in the drawing room with his feet resting on the coffee table in front of him reading Fantastic Beasts and where to find them and Scorpius was showing Rose the library when Hermione entered through the Floo.
"ROSE GRANGER-WEASLEY! What exactly did you tell your father?" Hermione yelled as she stepped out of the fireplace at Malfoy Manor.
Draco sighed and closed his book. Hermione stormed into the drawing room looking furiously around her.
"You're behind this, aren't you?" she hissed at Draco who put on his best impression of I-have-no-idea-what-you're-talking-about-please-stopp-yelling-at-me-puppy-dog-eyes.
"Of course you are. It's so Slytherin!" Hermione huffed.
A moment later Rose and Scorpius entered the room.
"I told him I was spending the weekend with you, which is not technically a lie, now is it?" Rose answered and gave her mum an innocent look.
"Don't give me that! I know you didn't tell him you were staying here. How do I know? Because he Flooed me while I was home and asked me if you were upset with him and then started accusing me of talking smack about him behind his back!" Hermione yelled in fury.
"Now, if I may..." Draco cut in.
Hermione, Rose and Scorpius all turned to look at him in surprise.
"To be honest I don't think it was such a bad idea what Rose told Weasley." Draco continued.
When Hermione gave him a venomous look he quickly elaborated,
"Well, let's be honest. If Weasley found out my son was shagging his daughter do you really think he would give it a second thought before he rushed over here to try to rip Scorp's head off? And when he gets here; he'd find you here as well. And when he finds out I'm shagging his ex-wife… I don't even want to think about what he would try to do to me." he said and a shiver ran down his spine.
Rose nodded in agreement. Scorpius looked like he was going to be sick.
"Draco is not wrong, mum. Dad would flip if he found out. And I don't think you want him knowing about you and Draco anymore that I want him knowing about Scorpius and me. Not yet, at lest. And tomorrow morning we'll go back to Hogwarts and then I'll owl him from the train so Scorpius will be out of reach. That way he'll have until we come home for Christmas to calm down." Rose said.
The look on Hermione's face was far from happy, but she sighed in resignation.
"You lot are such cowards." she mumbled.
"I wouldn't say cowards, I would say calculating and working with the odds. I have no desire to get my head ripped off just yet." Scorpius said and nodded.
"Alright then, I see your point." Hermione sighed.
"Very well. Now, lets not let your ex-husband get in the way of a lovely weekend. I distinctly remember me promising you a tour of the hedge maze, my love." Draco said to Hermione.
She smiled brightly at him and hooked her arm in his.
"And you still haven't seen the second story of the library yet." Scorpius said to Rose.
"There is a second story? Why didn't you show me?" Hermione cried and looked heatedly at Draco.
"Forgive me for finding drinking wine with you more thrilling than looking at books." he smirked. "But fear not, the second story of the library is next to the master bedroom. There is a secret door that leads into it behind the full length mirror with the golden frame from my room." he then added in a whisper and Hermione gave him a sly smile.
"Sounds like we've all got exciting plans for the day. What do you say we do dinner together in the dining room, 7 o'clock? Rose and I will make it." Scorpius said.
Saturday, 5:00 PM, August 31st, 2023 – The Rose Garden, Malfoy Manor.
After having shown Rose the second story of the library Scorpius took her to the card room where Draco held his monthly poker games with Blaise Zabini, Pansy Zabini (nee Parkinson), Theodore Nott and Daphne Greengrass and sometimes Harry and Ginny would join in. Poker night was held when their children were all away at Hogwarts so Scorpius couldn't tell Rose too much about poker night. After that they played a game of wizard's chess, which Rose lost, on the (in Rose's opinion) ridiculously large board, which the players had to stand on a large plateau to get a view of the whole board, by the terrace garden. Once Rose had lost the game they made their way to the Rose Garden where short, well trimmed hedges lead up to a pergola covered in climbing roses. Inside there was a fireplace and a creamy white Victorian sofa.
"Oh my!" Rose whispered in awe at the view.
"It's even more beautiful at twilight just as the sun sets behind the lake." Scorpius said as he walked up behind Rose and kissed her neck.
"Mmmhm." was all she could bare herself so say.
Scorpius continued trailing kisses down her neck and gently caressed her breasts.
"Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?" Scorpius hummed in her ear.
"Why don't' you show me?" Rose suggested and turned around to face him.
"What? Here? What if my dad and your mum comes by?" he asked.
"Makes it more exciting, don't you think?" she smirked.
"I don't know if I would call it exciting, terrifying is more like it." Scorpius confessed.
"Well, we better make it quick then." Rose said and pulled her shirt over her head.
Scorpius, being a hormonal teenager, instantly forgot why he'd been hesitant in the first place and the rest of Rose's clothes quickly joined her shirt on the floor. His own clothes followed next. As they snogged Scorpius walked Rose towards the sofa where she lay down on her back and Scorpius positioned himself between her legs. All thought of foreplay went out the window as Scorpius felt Rose's soft skin underneath his hands. Evidently Rose was of the same opinion and she positioned his erection at the tip of her entrance. With one swift motion he was inside her and they both let out moans. Rose wrapped her legs around his waist and pulled him closer. Thrusting at a gently pace, Scorpius begun to move his hips slowly.
"You don't have to scared of breaking me." Rose whispered and lightly dragged her nails over his back.
This was all the encourage Scorpius needed and he quickened his pace. Rose moaned and her eyes rolled back into her head. At the back of his mind Scorpius wondered how he could have ever lived without this. Shagging Rose was his new absolute favourite thing to do. If it were up to him; he'd not be doing anything else ever again. He buried his face in her neck and kissed her. He savoured the feeling of being inside her, the way her hair smelled, the feel of her nails digging into his back as he felt her walls tighten around him and his own climax nearing. A few more thrusts and they both came undone and Scorpius collapsed on top of Rose. Scorpius rested his chin on her chest and she stroke the silver locks out of his face.
"I don't ever want to stop doing this." she whispered and kissed the top of his head.
"Me neither." he answered and hugged her.
They stayed like that for a while as they savoured the moment. Suddenly Rose sat up.
"What time is it?" she asked in horror.
"6.30, why?" Scorpius answered.
"Bugger! We forgot about dinner!" she said and they both got in a hurry to get dressed.