Disclaimer: 99.9% of this goes to Queen JKR the one and only
Dreaming was never a preference of mine I much preferred to be reading a good book or playing Quidditch with Al and Hugo but it turns out that your subconscious isn't ruled by preference. Life would be far easier if it was though, just mentioning.
I was a little girl once again and mum was about to tell me a story to try and get me to fall asleep. She stroked my hair back in a soothing manner.
"Once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a tower decorated with gold and red. She had a beautiful, curly crimson coloured hair that reached all the way down to her tiny waist but alas this princess had terrible secret that ended up getting people murdered."
I looked up at mum to see that she had transformed into Draco Malfoy with a knife stuck in his heart. I froze, barely breathing.
In a sad voice he continued " See she was a very frighten princess and she forgot that letters are meant to be shared not kept to one's self."
I woke up screaming my head off. I quickly took a deep breath reminding myself that it was just a dream a very, very scary dream but still just my imagination working overtime.
Suddenly I noticed that I wasn't in my dorm at Hogwarts. I was in my muggle clothes and lying down on a couch. Al, Fred, Hugo and Louis were curled up on the floor and Lilly and Roxy had were asleep, upright on the couch opposite to me.
Everything came rushing back to me. Dad being attacked and ending up in a comma with too many cuts and bruises to count, the note, mum crying hysterical into aunt Ginny's arms, everyone's looks of utter despair. Tears welled up in my eyes I quickly wiped them away before trying to find my way through the labyrinth of rooms in the hospital to my Dad's.
I just stood staring through the glass window with my hand pressed against it. I didn't feel like going and dealing with the rest of the family.
Mum was sitting next to Dad looking an unhealthy shade of white except for her eyes which were rimmed with red. After a little while I could take no more. I ran blindly turning when I felt like it until I bumped into someone. The letter slipped out and fell on the ground.
"Sorry." I mumbled going to grab the letter.
"Not so fast Weasley." The person I had bumped into getting the letter before me. Their eyes widen as he saw who it was addressed to. I made a desperate sort of grab for it but they just held it higher out of my reach. I hate being short.
He opened it and his eyes went flat. The classical Malfoy I-am-angry flat; yes you guessed it Scorpios Malfoy was the person.
"Weasley you had no reason to keep this from me." He notified me in an angry superior voice.
My own anger flared "Malfoy for all I knew it could have been one of stupid pranks that I don't get." I growled back at him.
"You think I would do something like this" he emphasized as if he was wondering about my sanity while running his free hand through his disgustingly pale hair.
"Yes, Malfoy you would." I answered him honestly, wondering about his sanity.
"You are so stupid. Even I don't joke about my parent's safety after everything that's happen." He snapped.
"How was I supposed to know that?" I replied sarcastically.
"You would know if you had even the slightest bit of intelligence." That comment was just uncalled for.
A nurse slushed us as her shoes clicked down the hall. I looked pointedly at Malfoy while he returned the favour.
"Malfoy"
"Weasley"
"Jerk"
"Nun"
"Malfoy how is being a nun an insult?"
"Because it means that you won't ever get laid." He winked dirtily at me.
I stared at him gobsmacked before replying.
"You're a selfish bastard with no heart and I'm the daughter of Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley two of the golden trio, so I have many suitors waiting and who are your parents, oh I know, a chicken death eater and a sister of a girl who tried to hand Uncle Harry over to Voldemort at Hogwarts when he was surrounded by other Gryffindor's." I whispered back viciously.
His face went blank as he turned around and walked back the way he came. I shook my head wondering if my idiocy had no bounds.
When I got back to the waiting room everyone was up. Lily was curled up in Hugo's arms as he was having a serious talk with Albus, as close as I can guess from their faces anyway.
"Hey" Teddy said walking up to me, his hair blacker than midnight.
"Hey" I replied unable to come up with anything else.
"Rosie, everyone who is still in school is going back to Hogwarts, today."
"Teddy you can't expect me to just leave-"
"Rose you're going back there is no argument." His eyes were sad as he brushed past me.
I hate my family and their sad eye's; they make it so hard for me to hate them.
Half an hour later we were all back at Hogwarts looking at different stages of depression. Slowly we trudged up to our dorms and got our books before heading off to our third period classes. I thought I'd never say this but I felt like shouting at the teachers that what they were teaching didn't matter my dad was lying in a hospital bed and he'd learnt all of this crap. At the end of the day I'd bitten on my lip to stop from yelling so many times my bottom lip was swollen.
It didn't help by bad mood everyone had starting avoiding me because of me because of my bad mood. See I had taken away 30 house points from Slytherin and Gryffindor collectively, 25 from Hufflepuff and 10 from Ravenclaw (the Ravenclaw's caught on quickly). I may have also handed out 13 detentions. As you can see it was a bad day.
I decided to skip going to the great hall and just went for the kitchen. I breathed in deeply as I stepped into the crowed kitchen. I love the smell of the Hogwarts kitchen. Then I love the Hogwarts kitchen generally. Apart from being massive it had the homely feel to it yet everything was neat and polished until it shined.
"Hello Miss, want do you want today?" Dora one of my favourite house elves asked.
"Just some chicken and vegetables please Dora."
In no time flat in front of me was an amazing dinner in front of me. Did I mention how much I love the kitchen? I was half way through my dinner when Albus and Malfoy walked in.
"Rose, just the person we were looking for. Will you please referee our W.B.?" Albus asked in his most innocent voice.
"Al I'm not going to referee your wand bet. Your last bet was who could get someone apart from you two suspend first."
The both smirked in unison at me. I looked at Malfoy cocking my head to the side. Why was he acting as if nothing had happen when I know for fact that something had and how was Albus acting as one of his uncles wasn't in intensive care.
"Damn the Slytherin Smirk." I blurted out kind of randomly and quickly blushed. They smirked at me in unison, again. Sometimes I think that they like to irritate me. They ordered something to be sent up to their room.
"The bets about who can get their dream girl first and come up to our room in 30 minutes so you can do the spell to make it official." Albus called out as he and Malfoy exited the room. I sighed as I started on my now Luke warm dinner. For some reason I thought that it's a bad start to the year.
Albus Pov
It was the last period of the day and it was history. The only upside about history was that you could sleep in it.
"Mate, mooning about what going to happen in the future isn't going to change anything." Lucas Zabini murmured as he started throwing paper planes around the room in a disinterested fashion that only he and Scorp could do.
"I'm not mooning."
Scorp snorted beside me. "Al you look like you need pills and it isn't even about a girl."
"What am I supposed to do be happy while my bloody uncle is in the hospital?" I asked.
"Well his not really going to care is he." Luke said bluntly, I saw his point though.
"Scorp also you should know if it was about my dream girl I would be way past pills."
"I'm sure you would." he said coolly showing a clear interest to get off this subject.
"You would as well Scorp." Luke interrupted.
Scorp almost jumped out of his chair at this.
"I would not" He replied furiously" and besides" he added calming down a little "there isn't anybody out there that I would fall madly in love with."
Luke and I both snorted at this comment Scorp got ahead of himself sometimes.
From his relax poise he lifted an eyelid
"She would have to be intelligent, Beautiful, Non-Blonde, play chaser, go for the Holly Head Harpies, have neat scripture, less sly than me but not naïve and be able to hold herself under my glare." ticking of the things as he went on suddenly something changed and he got that faraway look on his face.
"She would also love books, cooking and be stupidly brave, protect her family with her life, hate soppy love stuff and have some freckles across her nose."
I looked at Luke and inquired with my eyebrow what the bloody hell had gotten into Scorpios.
"Scorp, you just pretty much summed up Rose Weasley." Luke pleasantly observed as Scorp starting choking on air.
I smiled at his reaction.
"It's true mate." I echoed back.
"It's not." Scorp denied.
"Wanna bet." I drawled. His eyes narrowed.
"First person to find their dream girl and makes them fall in love with them wins."
"What's the loser have to do." Scorp asked his eyes shining brightly.
"The loser has to be…. the others servant for a month."
"Al you can think of something better than that were not first years after all." he taunted.
"The loser has to to to." My eyes were drawn to a notice on the board in the back it gave me an idea.
"The loser has to be a test subject for Uncle Georges products for a day and then propose to a girl the day after and have my mum organized the wedding if the girl says yes. "
"Deal" I told Scorp as we shook hands.
"Now all we need is a referee." Scorp commented casting his eyes over to Luke.
"Don't look at me Scorp I'm far too easily bribed I mean look at the last your last wand bet."
I cast my eyes back into the past remembering all the pranks I pulled before I should have won only have Scorp come in and steal the tittle by bribing Luke and we were only innocent third years then. Well maybe not so innocent.
"Rules #1 there are no rules about the subject; you're allowed to use every dirty trick in the book to try and get her to fall in love with you.
Rule #2 you aren't allowed to sabotage the opposition." I declared daring him to disagree.
"I agree" Scorpios avowed wiping what I had previously thought out of my mind.
"But I also think that we should Rose as the referee because she's too boring to allow taking bribes on her conscious."
"I agree, but if Rose asks for different reasons." I repeated pretentiously. We shook hands one more time to be sure. Then it was on the way to being official
Rose Pov
Half an hour later when I had got up to Albus' room I was surprised. He was roaring drunk (that wasn't the surprising bit) the surprising bit was there were only Zabini, Malfoy and Al in the room. I looked around quickly wondering if the never ending stream of bimbos that were always around Al were suddenly going to pop out of the cupboard.
"Rosie, you finally made it." Al exclaimed as he tried and failed to get up.
"Al what do you want me to do." I asked sharply.
"Just do your mumbo jumbo on Scorp and Al." Luke replied.
I turned around and glared at him cutting whatever smart arse thing he was going to say next, in half.
"You know the spell Rosie. Priori Sesimorp Fidelius. Like fi diddle diddle or fo far fum. That's an angry phrase isn't it fo fa fum like gr gah gum" Al rambled.
"Al, that's from a kid's nursery rhyme." I interjected.
"Oh, I didn't know Priori Sesimorp Fidelius was from a nursery rhyme." Al marvelled.
I banged my hand on my head wondering why he had to get so pissed. Of course this sent the three of them into hysterical giggles. I thought they had turned into girls for a moment. I stared at them wide eyed wondering what they were going to do next.
"See me and Scorp hold hands like this and you recite whatever Luke wrote on the piece of paper over there while waving your wand." Al mentioned helpfully as proceeded point at a piece of paper before grabbing Malfoy's arm.
I went to where he pointed and scanned over the piece of paper.
Dear Referee
When Al grabs Malfoy's arm say this while waving your wand up and down vertically.
Priori Sesimorp Fidelius
This wand bet is the first person to find their dream girl and makes them fall in love with them it's between Albus Serves Potter *Tap Al on the arm* and Scorpios Hyperion Malfoy *Tap Scorp somewhere*
The rules are there are no rules about the subject; you're allowed to use every dirty trick in the book to try and get her to fall in love with you and you aren't allowed to sabotage the opposition.
Prior Sesimorp Fidelius Lucas Zabini is handsome.
Luke
P.S Also if nothing happens just tell them something did we'll all be so gone by then it won't matter.
"Rosie posy hurry up we want to get back to drinking" Albus whined. I decided to humour them just for the sake of it. I did what the sheet asked and when I finished the point where I had touched Malfoy and Al a word Promise appeared in gold before disappearing.
I was contemplating about what had happen and if that actually was a spell when the three gigglers managed to put together enough energy to shove me out of there room on the stair case. I slowly trudged up the staircase hurt by my cousin's total lack of consideration.
When I got to the Slytherin common room someone woke me out of my retrieve.
"I heard you've been hired to curse me." A voice acknowledged from behind me. I spun around to see Orion Greengrass.
"Why are you here?" I asked uncertain.
"Why are you here Miss Weasley the last I heard this isn't your common room." He replied smoothly.
I straightened my shoulders "I'm a prefect I have every right to be patrolling."
"Yes, I'm a co-head and a Slytherin so I have even more right to be here."
"But this isn't your common room anymore now that you've moved into the heads tower."
"It isn't yours either which brings me back to my original point; before we get into this more deeply would you like to take a seat." He motioned to a couch before sitting on the one opposite.
"I don't bite Miss Weasley." My temper rose as I stiffly sat in the couch opposite in the gloomy room.
"You can relax I'm not going to pull any con on you."
"I'm not worried about that." I answered quickly. He smiled at me as if he was reading my soul. I shifted uncomfortable.
"Sorry Miss Weasley" He apologized before going on "of course you aren't given the tittle brightest in the school for nothing."
"My co-head I believe recently asked you to curse me and I must warn you against this for I will catch you and remove you badge."
"Are you trying to insult me Mr. Greengrass?" I accused him while turning and walking towards the exit.
"I believe the biggest insult has already been given Miss Weasley." He retorted as smooth as an eel slips through water. He stopped me dead in my tracks I slowly faced him.
"You know that had nothing to do with me and everything to do with a third year's prank." I corrected him furious.
"Not the way the head mistress sees it." He finished.
I was a few steps from the exit when I heard the ever taunting "See you later Prefect Weasley."
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