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CHAPTER SIX

Rose's mind had gone numb, her body obliged to follow as she stood rooted to her spot, inanimate and invisible. She thought of making a run for it. A few steps stealthily towards the door and her mind asked her to stop.Why am I running away from Malfoy? she asked herself. After all, Malfoy didn't have any evidence to incriminate her. Feeling a bit more confident and after looking around to make sure that they were alone in the room she pulled the invisibility cloak from over her head.

"Give it back here Malfoy, unless you want be hexed to death!" shouted Rose while moving towards the center of the room, while Scorpius began tossing the time turners in the air.

"You wouldn't dare hex me, Weasley. Especially in the middle of the field trip," he sneered, hoping to get her riled up.

"I saw you pulling that thing over your head and followed you till here. I used the homenum revelio spell," he added upon seeing Rose's curious expression.

"Daring and quite impressive. But not clever enough Weasley. I'm going to make sure everyone finds out about your kleptomania," he smirked.

Rose, in between frantic gulping and vigorous sweating, managed to throw back something in response-

"Yeah like anyone will believe you Malfoy. Currently you're the one holding the time turners. No one will believe that I stole it. You don't have any proof," she taunted, despite feeling nervous.

Scorpius said nothing but kept grinning crookedly. He stopped tossing the time turners and took out a black metallic object from inside his robes. I'm going to die young of a heart attack, thought Rose as she set eyes on it.

"I suppose you know what this is, Weasley. Its a device similar to what Muggles use. It works on magic instead of their idiotic methods. I brought it along to take a few pictures of this place. And how lucky I was indeed. I managed to get the most delectable portrait I could possibly get. Every frame, from you pulling on the invisibility cloak, to your bare hands floating out of it and snatching the time turners, has been preserved in the memory of this bad boy. They're -all- in- here." said Malfoy, tracing his fingers through the contours of the camera.

Rose, who had been moving towards the center of the room all the while Scorpius spoke, had now reached the raised dias. Her hair was out of its bun and flowing smoothly along her shoulders and it made her look like a fiery serpent ready to strike. But Scorpius wasn't intimidated. After all, being struck by the serpent was exactly what he was intending to do.

"So lets see. Your parents are going to revoke your Hogsmeade permission if you get into trouble again. But with this incident, you'll most likely get to have a date with the dementors. The model Gryffindor. What ever will you do?" he faked a concerned voice.

Rose kept moving towards Malfoy and Scorpius was taking an equal number of footsteps backward. Rose was trying to position herself so as to accio the camera in Malfoy's hands, all the while keeping her eyes fixed on the twinkling objects that Scorpius had resumed tossing in the air.

"Like I said earlier, Weasley. Is this one of those vain attempts to gain popularity? To get boys' attentions. See, I don't even understand why you do that. No matter what you do, no one is going to ask you out again. Especially after what happened with Randy Davies,"

What? Rose jerked her head to look at Scorpius. She hadn't been paying attention to a word the scumbag was saying so far. But the last line distinctly caught her attention.

"What did you say?" she asked, readying herself for what was to turn into an all out wizards dual.

"Your ex Randy Davies wasn't as nice as you thought he was. The first thing he did after dumping you, was to spread around the details of your short lived relationship,"

"Randy Davies didn't dump me. I broke up with him!" she roared.

"Come off it Weasley. Who in their right minds would believe that. Roger Davies is an attractive young man who is the captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. He can have any girl he wants. You on the other hand.." he left it mid sentence

Rose took out her wand and gave him a deadly stare. Anyone standing at the other end of a Rose who looked like that would run for their lives, but Scorpius kept tossing the time turners and smirking shamelessly before continuing..

"Of course that wasn't the big story. He went ahead and told everyone something else, something that traveled all the way down to our dungeons as well, and something that gave you the reputation of being..."

Rose's hex missed Scorpius by inches and went shooting straight through the veil behind him.

"You liar! Take that back!" she screamed and Scorpius, instead of defending himself with his wand, kept sneering.

"Sorry to disappoint you Weasley. But its a fact. A fact the whole of Hogwarts is familiar with,".

Scorpius knew this was a big lie to tell and that she would find out it wasn't true, the moment she went out and talked to her friends. But his objective right now was to get her to attack him and he was willing to stoop to any level to get that done.

You will not cry. You will not start crying. The chants in Rose's head managed to pull back the tears that were threatening to effuse through her eyes. She breathed heavily to calm her nerves and tried to focus on her top priority - the retrieval of the metallic object in Scorpius's hands.

"I'm asking you one final time, Malfoy. Give me back that camera and my time turners," she warned, taking a more authoritative and mature tone, as she kept walking towards Scorpius.

"Your time turners?" Scorpius scoffed. "What? The Ministry officials spent every hour of the last twenty seven years, since the last ones were destroyed, so that little Miss princess could play pranks with it. What is it? A special award for the Weasley family, recognizing their efforts in reproduction?" he jeered and started laughing hysterically.

Rose's temper had reached its limit. But her thoughts suddenly shifted from retaliation to that of fear. The fear due to the sight of Scorpius standing mere feet away from the veil.

"Malfoy. You idiot. Are trying to get yourself killed? You are standing really close to that veil," she shouted, a fear creeping up in her voice.

"What happened Weasley? Softened your stance? Realized you can't beat a Malfoy after all,"

"You fool! Get out from there and we can talk," her concerned voice surprising herself.

"Come out from here? So you can accio it back. Nice try Weasley,"

Rose stopped moving in hopes that Scorpius would do the same.

"Half the school believes what he said," Scorpius continued. "So now you can stop with your little tricks. Coz no one in their right mind would want to go out with you,"

Despite the vitriol and hatred that was stacking up inside her, Rose at present was worried about Scorpius's safety. As a result she was busy paying attention to Scorpius's feet instead of listening to his rants, and just as she expected he stopped stepping backward when Rose stopped moving.

"But don't worry Weasley. There are always a select few students who wouldn't mind dating you. Going by what Randy Davies said, they would be more than pleased to take you out, since you'd be willing to..."

The set of ephemeral events that followed, zoomed past Rose in lightning speed. The spell shooting off her wand accidentally and hitting Scorpius on the chest - one of his hands passing through the veil - Rose running forward to catch his other hand from falling through entirely - Rose twisting one of the time turners that had fallen out of Scorpius's hands so as to reverse what happened.

By the time her mind settled in to everything, she felt herself falling through the veil, and all light being sucked out from her surroundings. Engulfed in a sea of darkness and digesting the fact that her short life had been extinguished, she passed out, expecting to wake up in the after life.

But soon, she gained consciousness and before she could open her eyes, she felt a heavy thud on her head. Her head throbbing in pain and eyes still shut, she dreaded the thought of being in the place Grandma had talked about, where they tortured those who did bad things. But even before the sunlight had a chance of blinding her eyes, her nose took in the fragrance of fresh air in the spring.

Author's note: Liked this chapter? Frankly I didn't. Whether you agree or disagree, do leave me a comment or two:)

The next chapter is from were our story really begins. The previous chapters were merely to setup the characters and their relationships with each other. Oh and I'll also be introducing a few new lores of my own..:D