A.N. So here's chapter three of "Don't tell Ron." I own nothing that already belongs to J.K. Rowling.
9 year old Rose Weasley sighed. Who knew a joke shop could be so boring? The red head was currently sitting on the front counter swinging her legs as she looked around the nearly empty shop. She frowned in annoyance, for all the interesting people were away at Hogwarts, including a few of her older cousins. Tuesdays had to be the most boring days ever. She glanced around for her Uncle George. He wouldn't want his niece to be bored would he? She sighed again when she saw him occupied with the few customers that were in the shop. Rose bit her lower lip as she glanced toward the front door. She grabbed a bit of parchment and a quill and wrote her uncle a note saying that she was going for a walk and would stay in Diagon Alley.
The girl slipped out the front door in to the crisp cool air. She ducked around a frazzled looking woman with four kids younger than five and into her favorite shop, "Paige's pages". She walked past a blond woman at the front counter and into the back. The nine year old let her fingers run along the books on the shelves letting her eyes scan the titles waiting for one to pop out at her.
"Oof" Rose turned in surprise to the blond boy now on the ground.
"I am so sorry" Rose reached her hand out to help the boy up. He looked up at her
shyly, as he reached his hand out to grab hers, his face turning the slightest shade of pink. Now standing Rose studied the boy. Something about him seemed… familiar.
"Rose" the blond boy said still pink. Rose looked at him startled.
"I'm sorry… do I; I mean how do I know you?" Rose asked trying not to insult
him.
"Scorpius Malfoy. I spent the night at your house once" Scorpius said tentatively.
Rose's eyes lit up.
"P- us!" She said loudly. Very loudly. The two children flushed as they realized
other people were looking at them. One adult turned shaking her head at the unsupervised children. Rose turned back to Scorpius and giggled.
"So what books are you looking at?" Rose asked after she stopped giggling.
Scorpius shrugged.
"I'm just looking, while mother is picking up a couple of things" Scorpius
responded.
"Oh." Rose trailed her fingers over the books.
"Do you want to do something while waiting?" Rose asked hopefully, not ready
to go back to the boredom.
"Scorpius" a woman's voice rang out before the blond woman at the counter
came up to them.
"Mother" Scorpius said quietly, going to stand next to her.
"Who is this?" the woman looked at Rose standing there awkwardly.
"This is Rose" Scorpius said quietly.
"Rose. Rose Weasley?" asked Scorpius' mother, eyes widening before a smile
came over her face.
"Draco and Andromeda told me about you" she said. Rose looked at Scorpius
before looking at his mother.
"I am Asteria Malfoy, you may call me Asteria" said the woman.
"Hi Asteria" Rose said softly.
"Mother" Asteria leaned down so Scorpius could whisper into her ear. She smiled
and nodded her head. Scorpius turned to look at Rose, face lit with excitement.
"Do you want to come to lunch with us" the boy asked excitedly. Rose grinned.
"Sure. Let me just tell my uncle though" Rose ran to her uncle's shop. George
was helping some other customers that had come in while she was out. She wrote him another note and ran back outside to the waiting Malfoys.
They had just been seated when a blond man that looked a lot like 9 year old
Scorpius arrived. He stopped and looked at the young red head.
"Hey Draco" Asteria said to her husband.
"Hey" the blond man said distractedly, still staring at Rose.
"This is Rose Weasley. She's a friend of Scorpius', but I believe you met a few
years ago" Asteria said struggling not to laugh.
"Yes, yes we have." Draco said coming back to himself.
"Nice to see you again We- Rose" Draco smiled somewhat forcibly before sitting down next to his wife. Rose blinked.
"We've met?" She asked confused. Draco opened his mouth.
"Yea, Draco's mother and Teddy Lupin's grandmother are sisters. When you
were three you went to visit Teddy and Draco and Scorpius were there too." Asteria chimed in.
"Oh" Rose said brows furrowing. She didn't remember that.
George Weasley sighed as the customers he was helping paid and left. It just wasn't the same as when he was there years ago. He smiled sadly to himself and turned, looking around for his nine year old niece. Angelina had taken their two children shopping for… George frowned. What were they shopping for? Must have been on the wrong side of him when she told him, he reached up and touched the hole where his ear should have been.
Turning, the one eared man caught a glimpse of paper at the front counter. He read the messy scrawl that was his nine year old niece's handwriting. She was having lunch with the monkeys? He squinted a bit harder. She was her father's daughter alright with this handwriting. George smirked, well his niece was having lunch with somebody, he was sure she was okay; the kid could take care of herself thanks to Fred and James.
"Hey honey" Angelina said bringing their two children in with her arms filled
with bags.
"Where's Rose?" eight year old Roxanne asked looking around for her cousin.
"Having lunch with… somebody." George responded.
"With somebody?" Angelina turned around looking at her care free husband.
"She gets her handwriting from her father; I couldn't quite make out whom, kinda
looked like monkeys" George shrugged.
"Monkeys?" Ten year old Fred turned around eyes lit up.
"She's having lunch with monkeys?"
"Honey is it possible that this says Malfoys?" Angelina held the note in her hand.
"Malfoys?!?" George's face whitened. He grabbed the piece of paper out of his
wife's hand to read it again. He looked up with a look of panic on his face.
"Ron is going to kill me. No wait, we'll just find Rosie and not tell him. Yea okay
that will work. Don't tell Ron." George directed this to his children.
"Like I want Uncle Ron to kill me." Fred snorted. He was old enough to know
that his uncle hated the Malfoys.
"We have to find her!" George ran to the door in a panic.
"Hey Uncle George!" Rose walked in through the door.
"What's wrong?" the girl looked from her uncle to her aunt who was bent over in
silent laughter.
"Nothing sweetie, your uncle was just in a panic" the woman said wiping tears
from her eyes. It was then she noticed the people standing awkwardly behind her niece.
"These are the Malfoys" Rose said brightly introducing the people
standing behind her. George and Angelina froze.
"We've met" Draco said softly not meeting anyone's eyes.
"We just wanted to make sure Rose got back safely" Asteria said trying to dispel the awkwardness.
"Thank you" Angelina said.
"Bye Rose thanks for having lunch with us." Scorpius said mournfully.
"Bye Scorpius" the red head kissed her friend on the cheek. The nine year old boy flushed pink. Draco paled.
"Ok bye!" Asteria said quickly grabbing the deathly white Draco and the pink Scorpius and dragging them out the door.
"Definitely not telling Ron" George gasped out.
"It would have been better if she had lunch with monkeys" Fred said disappointed.
A.N. So I hope you enjoyed the third chapter. Hopefully the next one will come a little quicker. Also, for those who are old enough, check out my M-rated story Obsession and review it please. It needs some love and attention.
A.T. So J.K. spells it Asteria on the family tree. Where did Astoria come from?