It was perfect. Somehow, they went together better than they ever had before.
Usually she was too short, and he had to position himself awkwardly.
Sometimes she wished he would go faster. This time he did, and it was better than she had ever imagined.
Occasionally she could be a little overdramatic, but now, as she sweetly moaned, he decided he liked this even better.
Often she thought that he felt a little too rough, but tonight he felt smooth and wonderful.
She responded enthusiastically to his kissing, when usually she preferred him to kiss her elsewhere.
He was a little more attentive to her chest, and she thanked him for it.
She seemed to want to prolong it, rather than end it before he was ready.
He apparently had a little more stamina than usual, and held out until she was there.
He rode the wave of pleasure blissfully.
When he did she froze in sheer panic before her own sensations overcame her.
"I love you." he murmured.
"Damn! The condom broke." she replied.
"What? What's a condom?" he asked.
"What? You were wearing one weren't you?" she questioned.
"Are you okay? Is your potion having side effects?" he was worried.
"Potion? What potion?" she was momentarily too confused to panic.
"Uh, the birth control potion? Please tell me you took it?" he replied.
"What the hell?" she said "Can we turn on a light?" She reached for her wand "Lumos."
Their eyes widened as James and Rose took each other in.
"No. No. No. No." said Rose repeatedly.
James just swore.
"Tell me that did not happen." pleaded Rose. "What the hell were you doing?!"
"Me?! I was trying to shag my girlfriend? What the hell were you doing?!" cried James.
"I thought you were Scorpius!" Rose yelled. Fortunately, the one thing they had managed to do was put up a silencing charm.
"You didn't check?" said James.
"Who else would climb into my bed in the middle of the night?" hissed Rose. "Don't you know which bed is Tayden's?"
"We've only done it three times! It was dark, and I'm pretty sure we did do in this bed once!" replied James.
"You had sex in my bed?!" yelled Rose.
"Really?! That's what you're upset about?" shouted James sarcastically. "And what the hell is a condom?"
Rose stared at him and suddenly everything went black.
"Rose? Rose?" James shook his cousin, none too gently.
"James." said Rose quietly.
"Thank goodness." muttered James.
"James." Rose repeated.
"What?" asked James.
Rose closed her eyes. "We didn't use protection." she whispered.
"What?!" yelled James. "Don't you take a potion? Are you telling me you and Scorpius, Mr. and Mrs. Goody Two Shoes, don't use birth control?"
"We use condoms." replied Rose. "It's a Muggle thing, it er... goes over. He wears them, so I didn't have anything..."
James froze.
Rose started to cry.
Suddenly James jumped up and left. He ran out of the room without saying a word.
Rose couldn't even form a thought. She unlit her wand and cried herself to sleep.
"James! Yo, Jamie!" James little sister pounded incessantly on the dorm room door.
James pulled himself out of bed and dragged himself to the door. "What?" he said flatly.
"I don't know what's been going on with you for the past couple of weeks," replied Lily "but I'm not going to ask. You'd better get your act together before we go home for Christmas though. You missed a Quidditch game! Seriously?"
"Get out." James pointed his sister towards the door.
"I'm not trying to lecture you. Just saying. Anyway, I'm here because Rose wants to see you, and she's crying, so if you don't go I'll hex you." threatened Lily. "What'd you do to her?" she asked curiously.
James said nothing, but he followed his sister out of the door. She had a mysterious prowess with the bat bogey hex, and she was quickly mastering some others as well. James suspected that someone was giving her secret lessons, but he hadn't discovered who yet.
Lily led him through the castle, all the way up to the seventh floor and into an unused classroom. James was not looking forward to this discussion, and he cursed Rose for not allowing them to put it behind them.
She was sitting by the window, and indeed she was crying. She attempted to dry her tears with an already sopping wet handkerchief. "Thanks Lily."
Lily showed signs of wanting to stay, but James ushered her out. "This is private. Go far away. Thanks for not hexing me Lils."
"I haven't ruled it out!" she yelled as he closed the door in her face.
"I really don't want to do this." said James immediately.
"Neither do I." replied Rose softly. "But..."
"Yes?" asked James. If she didn't want to do this, why was she?
"I'm pregnant." The words fell heavy in the air, with no one to catch them. Tentatively, James reached out and touched one.
"Pregnant?"
Slowly Rose nodded.
"It's Scorpius'." said James.
Rose shook her head.
"Mine?" he asked.
"James! How many guys do you think I've slept with?!" she yelled.
James didn't hear this "You. Me. Baby. Father. Shit." he mumbled. "What do we do?"
"I don't know." replied Rose.
At this point Lily burst through the door. She seemed to have been trying to open it for quite a while now, and had finally succeeded.
"You had sex?!" she yelled, rounding on James, then on Rose. Unable to make up her mind, she swiveled between the two like a top.
"It was an accident." said James stupidly. He shouldn't have said anything, because Lily finally made up her mind and turned on him. A stream of hexes shot out of her mouth.
James lay knocked out on the floor twitching. He seemed to be covered in patches of fur, pustules, hair, tentacles, and everything in between. His untidy black hair was now streaked with green and silver.
Lily, having ended her tirade, went over to sit beside Rose. "What happened?" she demanded.
Rose started to cry again, and Lily's heart broke. She wrapped her arms around her cousin.
"It was an accident." began Rose. Slowly, she told Lily most of the story. Lily was the baby of the family, and she really didn't need to know every detail of how sex worked in order to understand the story.
"And you're having a baby. Wow." whispered Lily. "I'm going to be an aunt."
Rose didn't bother to correct that statement. Not that Lily wouldn't be an aunt, but... circumstances were kind of unusual, and Rose had no idea what would happen.
Lily had removed most of her spellwork from James, but she left his hair streaked with Slytherin colours as a reminder not to mess with her. The three of them were now sitting in Lily's empty dorm.
"I can't believe this." said Lily. "Bloody hell!"
"Lils! You never swear." replied James, aghast.
"And I never thought my brother would have sex with my cousin and best friend." replied Lily. "It seemed like the appropriate time." she added.
Rose, who was cradling her stomach, didn't seem to hear.
"What's the plan?" asked Lily.
"There isn't one." said James. "Do you have a plan for if Hugo gets you pregnant?"
"Eww!" shrieked Lily "Gross! No!"
"We can't hide it." said Rose. "They'll all have to know."
"Can we let them decide?" asked James.
"No." said Rose. "This is our stupid mess. But we don't have to do anything until we see what they say."
James nodded. "Shouldn't we make sure though?
Rose scoffed. "Who do you want me to ask? Aunt Hannah?"
"Oh, right." replied James.
"We'll just go home for Christmas, and we'll each tell our parents." said Rose.
"What if they kick us out?" asked James.
"They wouldn't!" cried Lily.
"Let's hope not." said Rose darkly.
Author's Note: So my idea for this story was for Rose and James to have sex, but in a way that made sense with cannon. (I realize James was recently confirmed as being two years older than Rose and Albus, but I wrote this before that happened, and I think it works better here anyway.) I know my summary didn't give a very good explanation of the story, but I didn't want to give away these first three chapters. Hopefully you have a good idea of what the story is about by now. Thanks for reading.