Chapter Seven: SCORPIUS' STORY

Rose had fallen on top of Scorpius and neither said anything. Scorpius look at Rose with a half smirk on his face and Rose was blushing. They heard the door close behind them and each got up as fast as they could. Each looked around to see who had entered the room; the Professor had entered and hadn't seemed to notice that the two of them were on the floor a few seconds before.

"Give me back my..."

"Scorpius! No talking! You are here to be punished not to socialize!"

Scorpius was not happy to be cut off. He angrily walked to a desk and sat down. Rose sat on the other side of the room keeping Scorpius out of her few. Detention seemed to go on without end. It was Rose's first detention and she couldn't understand what the point to doing these meaningless tasks all day. They each got to leave for lunch and dinner, but had to come back to finish. Rose thought that it was a complete waste of a day. It was twenty minutes before curfew when their Professor said that their detention was done for the day. Rose was relieved to leave.

As Scorpius and Rose left the room they went there separate ways. Rose walked a way but she noticed that Scorpius was not headed in the direction of the Slytherin dorm. Without thinking Rose followed him. The hallways were dark, but she didn't dare put a light on, she didn't want him to see that see was following her. They finally came to the end of the journey and Rose found that they were back at the Astronomy Tower. Scorpius went up the stairs and Rose just stayed. Rose wondered what he was up to; he had to be up to something dark right? As she walked quietly up the stairs she didn't hear anything, but weeping.

"Is this what you do up here Scorpius?"

Scorpius jumped, startled to hear Rose talking behind him. He wiped off the tears on his face and turned around to face her. Scorpius thought that she didn't look half bad with the moonlight on her. He would have said this, but he noticed his necklace round her neck.

"You have my necklace."

Rose grabbed the sliver locket which was around her neck and held it close to her. She walked over to a ledge and sat down.

"Why is this necklace so important to you?"

"I don't think that, that is any of your business! Just give it back."

"Why should I give it back to you, after how you have treated me all these years? How do I even know that it is yours? "

Scorpius sighed. All he wanted was to have the necklace back and he knew that Rose wasn't going to give it back to him without an explanation. Scorpius hoped that if he was nice he could get it back without having to elaborate about it.

"Rose, please, would you just give it back to me."

The look on Rose's face was in utter confusion. She hadn't ever heard Scorpius call her by her first name and she never heard him say please and meant it. She didn't trust him; she had to know why he kept on coming up here all alone.

"I am not going to give it back until you tell me why you are up here"

"That is none of your business Weasley!"

Scorpius turned to look out at the lake. He wasn't sure if he was getting more angry or sad at this frustrating conversation. He was lost in his thoughts he didn't notice that Rose had gotten up and was now standing next to him. Rose looked up at him and smiled, her smile gave him a sense of reassurance that he had never felt before.

"Why are you here Rose?"

"What?"

"I mean why did you follow me? I know you did."

Rose didn't know what to say, she really wasn't sure why she had followed him up here. She didn't know why she felt that she was being pulled to comfort him.

"You looked miserable I suppose. Thought you would like some company. You know. Someone to talk to."

"What would you know anything about being miserable? You have all your Gryffindor friends and your huge family to be around. Everybody likes you because your family saved the wizarding word."

"Trust me; it's not as great as you think it is."

"Oh yeah? Would you rather have everyone hate you because who your father and grandfather is?"

"I suppose not, but can you blame people? You treat everyone who's not a Slytherin horrible."

Scorpius was moving around now pacing back and forth and was very distraught.

"You think I want to be this way? I hate who I am! The second I got into this school, everyone had this set view on how I was to be. I was supposed to be this evil guy who hates one that's not pure-blooded! And you know somehow I became that. Being in Slytherin didn't help any! I never wanted to be in this stupid house! Always dark and filled with hate! I promised her to be better than them!"

And with that last remark he sat down. Scorpius buried his face into his hands. He couldn't believe that he had spilled all that out to someone her never spoke more than two sentences to. Scorpius took his hand of his faced and looked at Rose. He expected to see a face of disbelief, disgust, or amusement but he saw that Rose's face was none of the sort. She came to sit next to him.

"Who was she?"

"Huh?"

"The person you promised to."

"The person that necklace once belonged to."

Rose took the necklace off her neck and held it so she could look at the inscriptions again.

"A. G…"

"She was my mother, Astoria Greengrass"

As Rose held the necklace the locked opened for her revealing a picture of a young woman holding a little boy on older than three smiling up at her. Rose never thought that a member of the Malfoy family could have looked any happier.

"That was my mother's necklace. She gave it to me to remind me that I didn't have to become just like my father's before me…"

Before Rose could say anything else, Scorpius continued with is story about his mother.

"…About a year before we went to Hogwarts my grandmother died and so my grandfather Lucius came to live with us. Before he came, my father, mother, and I were quite happy. Lucius never bothered us before my grandmother died. I suppose that she and my mother had an understanding to keep him out of mine and my father's life. My grandfather was a cruel man Rose. When he lived with us he talked about bringing back respect for the Malfoy name and that we all needed to obtain our dignity back. So one night he was talking to my parents he was talking about continuing You-Know-Who's work, he wanted my father and me to help him start an upbringing of Death Eaters. My mother didn't want this to happen, she never had been one for the dark arts. She told my grandfather that she would rather have me raised my muggles or be a squib than to ever see my grandfather take me into the direction he wanted. As you can imagine my grandfather was furious. He called my mother a blood traitor for even things such a thing and my father as well for marrying one. Before I knew it he took out his wand and attacked my mother. He said that no one else was going to disgrace his family. The attack that he blew on her was sure to kill her. I'm sure that she knew that as well, for she came to me as fast as she could with all her strength ripped that necklace of her neck and gave it to me saying 'Never be like them'. She then turned around used the killing curse at my grandfather and then with a flash of green light he died. I looked down and my mother was pale faced…She died that night along with my grandfather. My father just stood there. That damn coward could have done something! I have been so angry that he didn't help her he didn't try to save her! It's his fault I am like him!"

Rose was amazed at the story that he had just told her. She had never seen this side of Scorpius and was sure that nobody had. Rose had a new-found admiration for Scorpius. It must have been the hardest thing to do, to tell this story to someone you were supposed to hate. She couldn't think of anything to say to him, but somehow the silence said everything. Rose took Scorpius' hands into her own and put his mother necklace into them. They stayed like that for what seemed like an eternity holding each other's hands. Scorpius looked at Rose and saw her like he never did before. Her red hair which was tied up was slightly messy from a long day and her light brown eyes sparkled from the moonlight shining on them. Scorpius thought that she was the most gorgeous person that he had ever seen. Rose smiled at him and he kissed her.