I felt myself slipping in and out of conscienceless. I felt that being carried in someone's arms. I could hear a girl sobbing, but just barely. I could also hear someone else saying over and over very faintly. "Hang in there Rose, I've got you. We're almost there just hang in there." My mind went blank again.

I woke up in the hospital wing. Dom was sitting beside my bed, teary eyed. Sarah, Al, James, Fred, Roxy, and Lily were all gathered around my bed too.

"Well hello Rosie, enjoy your nap?" joked Fred.

"How long have I been out?" I asked.

"About 45 minutes," replied Lily.

I sat up groggily. "Where-Ow-why does my head hurt?"

"Oh Rosie I'm so sorry!" cried Dom as she threw her arms around me.

"You don't remember?" asked Al, "You gave Dom's ex-boyfriend a piece of your mind and he attacked you!"

"Oh yeah," I said weakly, "now I'm starting to remember...wait. Ex-boyfriend?"

"You don't honestly think I'd stay with that monster after he hurt you do you? Plus he jinxed me!" Dom exclaimed.

Madam Patil came over from another sick bed. "Oh good, you're up! I hope you're feeling better, you have quite the concussion. You better make sure to thank that Scorpius Malfoy for carrying you all the way here, or else it might of been much worse. He's much more of a gentleman than his father was in school..."

"Wait," I said, "Scorpius carried me here?"

"Yep," said Dom, "He came and stupefied Blaine when he was trying to choke you, remember? Then he un-jinxed me and carried you here."

Madam Patil came and gave me a glass of water and some giant pills.

"Here, take these. Your headache should go away instantly, but I still don't want you walking around yet. We'll see how you're feeling tomorrow morning." I swallowed the pills with some difficulty, and Madam Patil, satisfied, left to check on another patient.

"So what happened to Blaine?" I inquired.

James and Fred started laughing.

"It was really unnecessary for you to do it boys," Lily said, "Malfoy had already stupefied him."

Dom suppressed a giggle. "I don't know, I think it was necessary." Sarah and Roxy both agreed.

I looked at my cousins faces. They were obviously proud of whatever they had done. "What is it? What did you do?"

"Well," spoke Fred, "James and I happened to come upon Scorpius carrying you up to the hospital wing. He quickly told us what happened, he was in a hurry and it must of been difficult since you're not the lightest person in the world..." I smacked him on the arm for that comment. "Only joking, Rose jeez!"

"Anyways," said James, "We figured you were in good hands, so we went to find the creep that did that to you and Dom! Because no one messes with our cousins and gets away with it."

"Of course, I'm not entirely satisfied," chimed in Fred, "We are devising a number of pranks that the smuck could accidently fall upon..."

"Will you get on with it?!" I shouted getting a strange look from Madam Patil across the room.

"Fine," continued James, "We found him laying on the floor, still stunned, so Freddy and I left a few presents for him. And as presents we mean we tied him up with a rope, put a dung-bomb in his bag, and possibly gave him a black eye..."

"You forgot you also jinxed his "precious hair"," added Dom.

"Oh yeah," said Fred, "We thought he would look better bald".

I stared at my two conniving cousins and burst out laughing. "That's great! I wish I could of seen him!"

"Well he's right over there a few beds down trying to get his hair to grow back if you want to get a good look at his baldness," said Roxy.

I bent over as far as I could to try to see Blaine. Madam Patil had the curtains mostly drawn, but I could barely see the Slytherin boy snapping at Madam Patil to hurry up. Of course, Madam Patil took none of that. She was a tough lady; my dad apparently took her to the Yule Ball once and she took none of his crap. I laughed as Madam Patil barked at him to stop complaining, or he would just have to grow back his hair on his own.

"I love you guys, so much!" That group stayed for ten more minutes chatting, until the next group came. Only six visitors were allowed at a time, except in dire situations. Next Lucy, Jack, Perry, Louis and Hugo. Hu had apparently came right after the accident, and only left briefly a few minutes before I woke up. The younger cousins didn't stay long; they all had some work to do before bed. Nicola swung by very quickly to see how I was fairing. Madam Patil said I should of felt very lucky, having so many visitors that cared about me when I was only staying overnight, and I couldn't agree more. I had the best friends and family in the world. My last visitor of the night was the biggest surprise. Scorpius Malfoy came just before I was going to get ready for bed.

He walked in, and my breath hitched a bit. I tried to tame the giant mushroom cloud of hair with my fingers, but to no avail. I didn't understand why he was here to visit me, but then again I didn't understand why he carried me all the way here when I was unconscious.

"Rose Weasley," he said, standing beside my bed, "I hope you are feeling better?"

"Much, since Madam Patil gave me some drugs." Scorpius smiled at that and then we both sat there awkwardly in a silence. "I suppose I better thank you for coming to my rescue and taking me to the hospital wing..."

"It was no problem," he replied, "I couldn't just stand there and watch another person beat up on you. That's my job."

I couldn't help but grin at his remark. I rolled my eyes, "My hero."

"I know I am. Now if you excuse me, malady, I just stopped to make sure you weren't dead." and he turned and left the hospital wing as quickly as he came.

Madam Patil let me out in the morning. And I didn't talk to Scorpius all day. I barely saw him all week. And in the evening he didn't come to the library like he usually did. Normally I would have been overjoyed to not see him, but I have to admit I was a little disappointed we weren't having our usual arguments. In fact I kind of missed them. Things seemed to have changed since he had saved me.

I kept busy though; without a boyfriend Dom spent every waking minute with Sarah and I. Considering we shared a room, every sleeping moment too. Sometimes we didn't mind, but when she tried to search for a boyfriend for Sarah and I we got a little annoyed.

"I think that you'd look good with Bentley Nott Sarah," Dom said one evening at dinner.

Sarah choked on her pork. "That sixth year in Ravenclaw?"

Dom looked at her unfazed. "Yeah, he is like the right height for you. And he is pretty cute, with those brown curls."

"I don't think he is my type..."

"Whose not your type?" Al had suddenly appeared and sat down by Dom across from Sarah and me.

"Bentley Nott from Ravenclaw," replied Dom, "I think him and Sarah would make a perfect couple."

Sarah's face turned bright red. I came to her rescue, "I think Sarah can choose her own boyfriend, thank you very much Dom," I quickly changed the subject. "What graces us with your presence today Al?"

"Scorp has detention, and Missy Hale keeps trying to flirt with me, and frankly I can't stand her. I figured I'd sit over here. She wouldn't dare come near with you, Rose, sitting here since she hates you."

"Why does Malfoy have detention? Caught snogging in a broom closet again?"I snickered.

"Wait didn't I tell you what apparently happened at Quidditch practice?" Al asked. We all shook our heads confused. "Oh! Well you're going to love this Rosie, you too Dom. Scorpius 'accidently' hit a bludger at Solderini and he fell off his broom and broke his arm!"

I almost spit out the grapes I was eating. "What?!"

"Yeah," continued Al, "Scorp told everyone it was an accident, but no one believed him. And Professor Ludwig apparently didn't either because he gave him detention for the rest of the week."

I couldn't believe. It was obviously not an accident, since Scorpius is the best beater at Hogwarts. Could Scorpius really of gotten detention for me? Well, because he was mad at Blaine for strangling me? Maybe I was going crazy. Malfoy hated me, always has. I decided he probably had a thing for Dom. That seemed more plausible.

Later that evening, as I was heading back to the common room with Dom and Sarah, I saw Malfoy scrubbing the some plaques on the wall down a corridor.

"You go ahead, I'll meet you upstairs," I said. Dom's eyebrows went way up. I glared at her until she laughed and pulled Sarah away.

"Hey Malfoy, how's life as a housekeeper?" I asked him snarkily.

"Fine thanks," he spat.

It was obvious there was an uncomfortable feeling between us. Finally, I said with a softer voice, "I heard that you knocked out Solderini with a Bludger. I suppose that was out of spite from what he did to me?"

Malfoy looked at me straight in the eye. He held my gaze for a long time before saying, "Well I had to get my revenge on him for hurting you... I can't let someone else beat up on my wench."

I shuffled my feet, not really knowing what to say. "Thanks. That was sort of sweet of you, in a cold, twisted-Malfoy sort of way."

"You're welcome hag," he said.

I punched him in the arm, and then turned around and walked away. But I was smiling, glad that things were back to normal between us. And I knew that he was too.