TITLE: School Student's Saviour

AUTHOR: Alli97nomel

DISCLAIMERS: I don't own Harry Potter or any of its awesomeness or its characters, only my imagination, my love of writing stories for others to read and my love of Harry Potter. Also, I don't own any of the head cannons I use – Tumblr is my supplier and all I do is bring them to life.

RATING: Because these will be short chapters I'm not sure of the rating but knowing me I'd better play it safe! (K – NC-17+)

WARNING: To all reading in class: as much as they can look like it, teachers are not idiots. Therefore I am taking no responsibility if your phone, laptop ect. gets taken off you for reading this in class. You all need to embrace your inner Slytherin and be cunning, clever and skillful when you are reading. May Merlin be with you all in your quest to evade dying in class!

CHAPTER 5 – THURSDAY

"Rose," Teddy called out from the bathroom as he brushed his teeth "bed…now."

Rose groaned. She really needed to finish this last report but it was ten o'clock and everyone was almost in bed except for her.

"But…" Rose argued.

"No buts," Hugo said as he buttoned up his pajama top "the only but is yours getting in to bed." Rose shut her books muttering to herself as she packed her work up.

Dominique sat on her bed as Lily braided her long blonde hair.

"You have the loveliest hair," Lily told her enviously.

"Dominique," Louis called from outside his bedroom door "me reveiller demain s'il te plait."

"Bien," she replied.

"Aussi, j'ai besoin d'aide avec mon francais demain soir."

"Tu es aussi bon que moi, vous le savez." Dominique told him with a sisterly smile. She tried to keep still as Lily weaved through her hair.

"Connerie," Louis scoffed.

"Louis!" Dominique reprimanded.

"Quitter l'idiot seul," Victoire grinned as she walked into the room. Dominique gave a quite sigh. Victoire unhooked her bra from underneath her pajama top and pulled it out through her sleeve. Lily continued to braid her hair not understanding one word of French.

"Done," Lily said as she tied a hair tie at the end on Dominique's braid.

"Thank you," Dominique said. Lily left the room and closed the door quietly behind her.

Victoire and Dominique's Room

"I am so tired," Victoire said as she hopped into the single bed on the left side of the room "like talk about a drainer of a day."

"My day was fairly busy," Dominique told her sister.

"So how's Matthew?" Victoire asked with a tired grin.

Dominique gave a small shrug, "The same."

"I don't get it," Victoire huffed "ask the guy out bloody hell."

"Vic I'm not like you, I never just ask the guy out."

"Yeah I know, you like to complicate things."

"Why should I be the one to ask him?" Dominique asked.

"Because eighty percent of men want woman to make the first move, true fact sister," Victoire pointed out.

"Where did you hear something ludicrous like that?" Dominique asked in a skeptical tone.

"Transfiguration today," Victoire answered. Dominique actually burst out laughing.

"Wizards and Witches Dominique Weasley has cracked up a laugh," Victoire announced to an invisible congregation.

They were quite for a while as they relaxed.

"I wonder how mum and dad are," Dominique said.

"I'm sure they're fine, why?" Victoire replied sleepily.

"I just worry about them," Dominique answered quietly.

Victoire snorted. "Why?"

"Well they're home all by themselves and I just worry that they're lonely without us."

"Dom they're fine, stop stressing." Victoire said.

"You're the eldest – you're supposed to be the one stressing." Dominique told her.

"Dom," Victoire turned to the other side of her pillow "we all know that you're the actual eldest. You're the smart one, the responsible one, the caring one. I'm the wild, loud and high-spirited one. Doesn't make for a good first child don't you think? I guess I feel bad dumping all the weight on you, but you're more cut out for it than I am."

"That's not true," Victoire said softly.

"Are you kidding me?" Victoire scoffed.

"No, I mean the part about you not being a good first child," Dominique shook her head "you're wild and loud and impulsive–"

"High-spirited," Victoire said wryly.

"–but that allows you to be something that Louis and I could never be – protecting. You're the perfect first child because you look out for us and defend us and protect us and if anyone were to hurt us you would–"

"Mangle them beyond recognition," Victoire nodded.

"I was going to say hex them but that works too," Dominique chuckled.

"Thanks Dom," Victoire said appreciatively.

"You're welcome," Dominique replied with a smile "Bonne nuit."

"Bonne nuit…"

o - O - o - O - o - O - o - O - o - O - o

Teddy and James' Room

"Remind me how you got the top bunk again?" Teddy asked as he pulled off he tshirt.

"I ran into claim it whilst you were too busy rummaging through the fridge," James replied grinning.

Teddy laughed. "That's right." He pulled his shorts on. Glancing in the mirror he frowned. His face screwed up in concentration as he changed his violet hair to an aqua blue colour.

"I like the blue better too," James commented.

"It's called aqua actually." Teddy told him.

"Blue, aqua, red, yellow – same difference." James rolled his eyes.

Teddy threw a pillow at him. "You dud," he smiled as he shook his head.

James threw the pillow back and Teddy placed it at the head of his bead.

"So is everything good?" James asked.

"Yeah," Teddy nodded "why?"

"I don't know," James shrugged "you just seem tense lately."

Teddy hadn't meant for it to be so obvious. "I've just got a lot on my mind is all," he told James. James stopped mid climb on the ladder and decided to climb back down. He grabbed his pillow and sat on the bottom bunk next to Teddy. The two boys sat leaning against their pillows on either end of the bed.

"Like what?" James asked.

Teddy was grateful that even though James was younger than him he had someone to talk to and share his thoughts and feelings with. Teddy bent one knee up and rested his arm on it.

"Your dad asked me to do this," he began "and we both knew I wasn't cut out for the part."

"Sure you are," James interjected.

"We both know that Rose could have kept everyone in line without me," Teddy said "I just don't understand why they asked me to do it. It's not that I don't want to be here," he added quickly "I love it here – beats living by yourself by a long shot – and being with family is great. But I'm not that responsible or mature."

James thought about it. "I think you're responsible and mature," he said finally. Teddy raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Seriously. Just because you like to have a fun and muck around sometimes doesn't mean that when it comes down to it you aren't responsible or mature. You make better decisions than I would."

"You make fine decisions," Teddy disagreed.

James laughed. "I can tell you're just saying that. Look, if you don't know why they asked you think about this: Rose is intelligent and reliable but she has a lot on her plate with work and dumping the rest of us on her isn't a great idea. Then you've got Victoire and the day she takes charge will be when the houses change at Hogwarts otherwise known as never," Teddy grinned at this "You can't put Dom in charge because we all feel bad. A small puff of wind would be enough to knock her over. She's like…" James searched for the right word.

"A soft soul," Teddy supplied.

"Yeah," James nodded "and you can't put that amount of weight on her shoulders. Then there's me and Merlin help us all if I'm put responsible, this place wouldn't have made it past Tuesday. You would now be standing on a pile of ashes. Stop laughing it's true!"

"I know it's true," Teddy laughed "that's why it's funny!"

"And what you said before too, you were living by yourself so maybe dad thoughts that he would be stunning two birds with the one wand if he got you over here – you wouldn't be living alone and he scored someone in charge here that was sane."

"You are all nut cases," Teddy agreed teasingly. James kicked him with his foot playfully. In truth Teddy contemplated James' words and was touched by most of them.

"I guess you are right," Teddy eventually concluded.

"Of course I am," James sighed feigning disappointment at Teddy's late realisation of that.

"Thanks though," Teddy said genuinely.

"Anytime," James said honestly. He ignored the ladder and pulled himself onto the top bunk. Teddy flicked the lights off with his wand. He straightened out his covers and sheets as he pulled them up and under his arms.

"Teddy?" James voice spoke out of the darkness.

"Yeah?"

"Supposedly I wanted to go out with someone older than me," James started "is that like…bad?"

Teddy swallowed. "How old would they be?" he asked carefully.

"Oh I don't know," James shrugged laying on his casual tone thickly "maybe someone Victoire's age…possibly older."

"Possibly older?"

"Well yeah…I mean…you know, hypothetically."

"Hypothetically…right. Well I guess that that's okay." Teddy answered ultimately.

Teddy nodded.

"As long as it's not too awkward," he added.

"Awkward?" James frowned.

"Yeah, sometimes it's really awkward if she's a fair few years older than you, you know. Parents wise and all."

"Oh…right." James thought about that.

"Well this has been good." Teddy said.

"Yeah," James agreed hastily. "Well good night then."

"Good night," Teddy said. The boys were left alone in the darkness to either drift off to sleep or ponder with their own thoughts.

Louis and Hugo's Room

"Car?" Louis said.

"Do you see a car in this room Louis?" Hugo asked.

"You're right, sorry. Cushion!"

"That was a good one," Hugo acknowledged "but no."

"Can I have a clue?"

Hugo laughed. "I see what you did there," he paused for a moment as he thought "it's a type of material."

"A type of material," Louis repeated "covers!"

"Nope."

Louis eyes searched the room, "C…C…Carpet!"

"Yes!"

"Mine turn," Louis said triumphantly "I spy with my little eye something beginning with…"

"Sometime tonight," Hugo rolled his eyes.

"Geez someone's pushy. Alright, alright…something beginning with S."

Hugo looked around the dark room. He spotted a few things that began with an S. "Sheets?"

"No."

"Shelves?"

"Not even close."

"Shorts?"

"No, but you're getting warmer."

Hugo really concentrated now; he was running out of things that started with S. He looked at the ceiling but that proved unhelpful because all that was on the ceiling was plaster and that began with a P. He thought hard.

"Stars?" Hugo guessed.

There was no reply.

"Stars?" Hugo repeated, this time a little louder. He sighed and dropped his head down so he could see into the bottom bunk. Louis was fast asleep.

"Oi!" Hugo shouted.

Louis jolted awake with a start. He looked around bewildered. "What letter was it again?" he asked sleepily as he hugged his pillow.

Hugo rolled his eyes. "It's your turn you dimwit!"

"Oh right, right," he nodded "remind me what letter I chose again?"

Hugo shook his head and sighed. "You chose S."

"That's right, I remember it now."

"Stars?"

"They're outside!" Louis said incredulously.

"Yeah but you can still seem them from the window," Hugo argued.

"It's not stars," Louis assured him.

"Okay then…Scorpius?"

"Scorpius? Really? That's all you can come up with?"

"Fine. How about…stuff?"

"You are hopeless," Louis laughed.

"Sound?"

"Sound?" Louis asked with raised eyebrows. "That's abstract. You can't see sound."

"I give up then!"

"You know that if you give up I get another go?" Louis checked.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Hugo said grouchily.

"Socks!" Louis revealed.

Both boys rolled around in their bed laughing.

Lily and Rose's Room

"Do you miss Hogwarts?" Rose asked as she turned the page of her book.

Lily did. Very much indeed. She missed the structure, she missed the Quidditch, she missed all of her classmates and friends and teachers. She missed all the fun; the sneaking out, the laughing, the dorms, the common room. She missed meals together. She had grown up there and being away from Hogwarts would take some getting used to. It was certainly challenging but nothing she would shy away from.

"Yes," she admitted.

"It takes some getting used to," Rose nodded. She understood – she had felt the same way after her first year away from Hogwarts.

"School life is very different to adult life, or working life," Lily said out aloud.

Rose smiled kindly. "It sure is," she agreed "but that doesn't mean that you won't have good or maybe even better times. Great things will happen that could never have happened at school."

"I know that," Lily sighed.

"You get to fend for yourself now and while that can be difficult at first you'll find it's another chapter in your life. You're the only one who can turn the pages to read on Lily and you know what I think?"

"What?"

"I think that you're turning those pages at an excellent pace." Rose said to her little cousin.

Lily smiled. "Thanks Rosie," she said quietly.

"And now you can seriously date Lorcan," Rose said innocently as she turned another page.

Lily froze and her mouth dropped open. "How did you know about that?" she asked shocked.

"I'm your cousin Lily," Rose told her "I notice things."

Lily felt a little embarrassed truth be told. She and Loran had been quietly seeing each other at Hogwarts. Quietly because she had many male relatives at Hogwarts and she knew that if they caught a trail of her seeing someone Lorcan would most likely need to go into hiding. After Albus had left school Lily had a year with Lorcan and she made Hugo, Fred and Roxanne swear not to tell anyone. The year after Lorcan left Hogwarts. They had kept in touch via letters and saw each other on the holidays. Now that they were both finished with school they had begun seeing each other again.

"So," Lily began, keeping her face neutral "you and Scorpius…"

"What about me and Scorpius?"

"No 'how did you know about that?'?" Lily asked repeating her cousin's words from previously.

"There's nothing to know," Rose shrugged purposefully not looking from her book.

"Uh huh," Lily nodded not believing her cousin one bit "okay then."

This time Rose looked up. "Okay then?" she repeated "no further interrogation?"

"Would you like for there to be a further interrogation?" Lily asked, grinning.

"Not at all," Rose said quickly as she looked back down to her novel.

Lily nodded and looked around the room for a bit. Rose continued reading and pretended that that topic had not come up.

After a while Lily said, "Well in any case I'd like for there to be a further interrogation."

Rose groaned and brought the book up in front of her face. "Lily," she complained.

"What?" Lily said harmlessly "It's my job to check up on these things. Have you ever noticed that I always talk about guys to you but you never talk about guys to me?"

"I don't talk about boys with anyone," she lied.

"Well the time has come for a change my dear Rose, I can feel it in the air," Lily said happily.

"I'm not feeling anything," Rose said dryly.

Lily jumped off her bed and walked across the room and sat on the end of Rose's bed. "Rose, ask Scorpius out. Please. The sexual tension between you guys is enough to make the rest of us have extra long showers."

"Lily!" Rose exclaimed.

"I'm serious. You like the guys admit it. He is good looking. He's also smart and talented."

"Why would I ask him out?" Rose asked stubbornly "I don't even like him."

"D. E. N. I. A. L." Lily spelled out in a song.

Rose ignored her.

"He is okay looking. He has some intelligence by the way none of it is emotional. We always argue and it's mainly always his fault. He would be an incredibly obnoxious boyfriend. He's unbelievably irresponsible. Extremely self absorbed. He does not possess one romantic bone in his body. What's more, my father would be astounded and not in a positive way, let alone his horrid father. In addition it wouldn't even be worth it because it would last a total of five seconds before we would be hexing each other. Lily trust me, we're better off as just friends. Besides, he doesn't even like me."

"In the name of Merlin, his book and the Hogwarts Founders…you are in love with the man!" Lily sported a broad smile on her face.

"I am not!" Rose insisted with a stern look. Lily got up and headed for the door. "Where are you going?" Rose asked anxiously.

"To the toilet," Lily lied "wanna come?"

Rose rolled her eyes. Lily walked over to Albus and Scorpius' room. She knocked on the door.

Albus and Scorpius' Room

There was a knock at the door. Albus got up and opened it.

"Al, can I talk to you outside for a minute?" Lily whispered to her brother.

Albus looked behind him at Scorpius who was looking at him questioningly. He nodded and stepped outside, closing the door behind him.

"Is everything alright?" Albus asked in a concerned voice.

"Fine, fine," Lily assured him "it's about Scorp and Rose."

Albus' eyebrows rose. "Oh," he said "what about them?"

"What do you mean what about them?" Lily exclaimed as quietly as quietly as she could "They're one step away from ripping each other's clothes off and screwing on the spot."

"Lily," Albus frowned "that's my best friend and our cousin you're talking about."

Lily ignored him and continued. "But as far as they're concerned it may as well be one thousand steps. Like, what is it going to take? Do we need to lock them in a broom cupboard or something?"

Albus sighed. "I know," he said in a weighted voice "he won't admit he likes her, I've tried to bring it up."

"Admit he likes her?" lily snorted "they'll admit their feeling for each other the day that Grandma Molly can't cook a good meal."

"Even if we try to work something out they're not allowed to be together," Albus said exasperatedly "firstly because of Draco and secondly because of the rules."

An impish grin spread across Lily's face. "A smart person knows all the rules so she can break them," Lily told her brother.

"Is that the only thing you remembered from Lubna Azmi's final Head Girl speech?" Albus rolled his eyes at his sister's mischievous tendencies, something that she and James shared.

"I won't say anything if you won't say anything," Lily said hopefully.

Albus sighed. "We'll talk later alright?"

"Yes!" Lily punched the air. She gave her brother a fleeting hug. She then ran into the bathroom and flushed the toilet.

"What are you doing?" Albus frowned.

Lily shushed him. "For good measure," she explained rapidly as she went back into her room. Albus wondered how he was related to her sometimes. But then at others he knew just how much he was. He smiled to himself as he entered back into his room.

"What did Lily want?" Scorpius asked.

"She asked me to wake her up tomorrow," Albus said smoothly.

"Don't you always?" Scorpius smirked. Albus laughed.

"What are you doing during your lunch break tomorrow?" Albus asked Scorpius as he climbed into bed.

"Eating lunch," Scorpius replied "why?"

"Mr. Skopa asked me if anyone one I knew would be interested in testing out a new broom we've created and I was wondering whether or not you'd be interested and I told him that you would say–"

"–Obviously!"

"–but he made sure for me to tell you that it is at your own risk but I still told him that you would say–"

"–Of course I'll do it, I'd be mad not to!"

"–So he asked me to double check anyway but I knew you would say–"

"–Yes!"

The two best friends laughed and then fell asleep.