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Rose could hear voices through the rapidly thinning blackness, at first they were indistinct, just familiar sounds. She recognised Lilly's shrill voice and a gentler more reasoning voice that her foggy mind couldn't place to anyone she knew. Slowly an awareness of her surroundings crept upon her, she was soaking wet and being half lifted half carried by two people, one considerably stronger than the other, or maybe it was just lack of dedication on the weaker side.

"Oh my god…oh my god, what's wrong with her?" Lilly exclaimed panic ripe in her voice, the other person answered.

"Well weren't you sitting with her? Surely you should know more than anyone" the words sank into Rose's mind and took a second to associate the voice with a face, Scorpius. The two exchanged more words, but Rose had stopped listening, the pain was slowly returning, and it was not pleasant. In one final wave of pain the headache returned to full intensity, and with a gasp Rose's eyes snapped open.

She was pressed against Scorpius's side, one of his arms over her shoulders, stopping her from falling, and his other arm tightly around her waist.

"Rose!" Lilly squeaked before pulling her into a tight hug. Rose swayed a little as Lilly released her from the hug, and would have fallen over hadn't Scorpius's arms been around her waist.

"Are you okay?" Lilly demanded. Rose assured her she was fine, but she could see Lilly wasn't convinced. As much as Rose loved Lilly, when she got worried or excited she was impossible to be around, and Rose just couldn't deal with her shrill voice and fretting, she was saved the awkwardness of telling Lilly by Scorpius.

"Lilly, maybe you should go tell Al and the others that Rose is okay, then you can all come up to us in the hospital wing" his voice was soothing, and Rose saw a small mental debate in Lilly's eyes, but eventually she turned towards the Quidditch pitch, and with a fleeting glance back at the two of them, ran towards it.

Rose sighed and turned towards Scorpius, hoping that her thanks showed in her eyes, she really was glad that Lilly had left. Scorpius was staring down at her, and she realised how striking his grey eyes were against his white blond hair. His eyebrows furrowed in concern, he placed both hands on either side of her cold face checking to see if she really was okay. Rose blushed.

It was only a friendly simple gesture, but Rose still felt a slight buzz at his touch that had never been there before when they touched hands or brushed past each other. As much as she enjoyed it, it still unnerved her. Scorpius, fairly satisfied that Rose hadn't been lying, enveloped her in a tight hug.

She breathed in his sweet, slightly floral sent, and felt his soft hair tickling her cheek; she had to stop herself melting into his embrace. This is Scorpius she reminded herself sternly, Scorpius Al's best friend and your friend too. He pulled back, but still held her close to his body.

"Come on Rosie, we need to get you up to Madam Lexis before Lilly turns up with the rest of your large family" Scorpius spoke jokingly but his worry for Rose hadn't quite disappeared from his voice. Rose muttered her agreement, not able to grasp speech just yet, and let herself be led towards the staircase.

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The morning sun that was streaming through the large windows of the hospital wing was dull and depressing. Scorpius could see small birds diving and swooping through the rain over the top of the forbidden forest, but they could only hold his attention for every few minutes as his gaze kept sliding to Rose who was sitting on one of the beds while Madam Lexis checked her over for cuts and bruises and nursed better her hurts.

She looked pale still, and he saw that she winced in pain when Madam Lexis's back was turned, his mind still scolding him for accepting that she okay when she clearly wasn't. But, some part of brain reminded him, she did look so pretty, all wide eyed and her hair falling out of that sloppy bun. Plus don't try and deny what you felt like when you hugged her. Scorpius was shocked, what on earth was happening to him. He couldn't be getting feelings for Rose could he? Yes his mind answered.

Lilly and Al burst in followed by the rest of Roses many family members, and filled up the available space in the hospital wing. Scorpius new Madam Lexis would be over soon enough to tell them to leave, so he hopped down off the window sill unnoticed.

Walking down the staircase heading for his common room, Scorpius mulled over the thoughts that had so recently made an appearance. Why was he thinking like this? It was Rose for Christ's sake, every part of it seemed out of place and wrong, but yet when he imagined them together, all of that seemed to disappear.

He stopped and looked out of the window, the rain was still falling and the grass was shiny and slick. Scorpius sighed, why Rose? it would never work, I know that already he thought. Looking up he saw a cloud of condensation had formed on the window, he smiled slightly remembering the train ride and how happy Rose had looked, all bright eyed and smiles. Gently he pressed one of his long pale fingers to the glass and drew a small heart, through the centre he could just see a small fire burning through an open window in Hagrid's hut.

The fire reminded Scorpius of Rose's hair, curly and red. Soon enough he found that he was memorising little feature of her face that he linked, such as her insane amount of freckles and the way her eyes shone when she glared at him, Hell he thought after a few seconds, I like everything about her.

But does she Like you in more than a friend way? This caught Scorpius off guard, he may have thought it, but it didn't stop it surprising him none the less.

"Oh god" he muttered "I bet she has never given me a second glance, I am just Al's best friend to her, one of her many other friends, I am nothing special." Grabbing his carefully styled hair he groaned at the unfairness of it all, why couldn't he have fallen for a fake bimbo instead of perfect and pretty Rose, who would never ever feel the same way for him.

The pain of it was almost so bad that he cried out, but Scorpius bit his lip. His pining over a girl he couldn't have wouldn't help anyone, Rose couldn't know he felt like this, it might push her further away from him.

Looking back at the window, he saw the small heart had become distorted somewhat and now large wet drops of water were rolling down the clear glass. A bleeding heart he thought How Ironic.

Suppressing his feelings, he stalked down the lonely corridor, vowing that the next girl from his and Al's fan club he saw; he would ask to be his girlfriend. Maybe then he might forget all about Rose.

THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE ALONG IN A WEEK OR SO, I AM NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET MUCH ACCESS TO A COMPUTER :)