Chapter Fifteen: MISSING

Rose was on the Hogwarts Express in one of the compartments with her cousins Lily and Albus. Alice, Albus' girlfriend was with them as well. Once Rose got on the train she came to find out that Albus had already told Alice the whole situation that happened at the Burrow.

"Rose! I can't believe you didn't tell me about Scorpius. If I had known that you had a thing for him I would have never pushed Coretta to make her brother ask you to the ball."

Rose blushed. It seemed like ages the night of the Christmas Ball.

"I figured you would be angry about me like Scorpius, Alice."

"No way! I knew that he couldn't be as this big jerk that he always came of to be. My dad used to tell my mom how he always thought how there was something different about Malfoy boy and how he expected to be different considering his how he grew up with his dad. Besides Scorpius Malfoy's kind of hot!"

Rose felt so much heat to her face and Albus gave Alice an angry look. He still unhappy about the idea of his cousin dating his arch rival and was even more miserable to hear his girlfriend thinks that he was hot.

"What?"

Alice gave Albus a wink and pulled him for a kiss. They all laughed.

As the laugher died down, the four of them began discussing the necklace that Rose had found. Rose hoped to find Scorpius to give it back to him when they got to Kings Cross, but was unable to find him.

"So that necklace belonged to Scorpius' mother. It's so beautiful. I would love to get a necklace like that."

Alice was trying to hint to Albus and Rose could see how uncomfortable he was becoming.

"Yeah it's a locket. Has a picture of her and him inside it, but it won't seem to open now."

"That's really strange. Maybe he hid something inside for you"

Lily took the necklace from Alice.

"Alohomora"

Lily was disappointed to see that nothing happened.

"Don't you think I tried that already?"

Lily gave Rose and despondent look as Rose took the necklace put it around her neck next to the book necklace Scorpius gave her for Christmas and tucked it into her shirt.

Two weeks at Hogwarts had passed and Scorpius Malfoy was nowhere to be found. Rose knew that he hadn't come back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Rose was concerned about what had happened to him now that The Daily Prophet was reporting on various attacks by a new Death Eater uprising. They believed that an unknown former follower of You-Know-Who created a gathering of followers to bring down The Ministry of Magic. Rose was saddened that her family was unable to find any information on Lucius Malfoy or on Scorpius. She would write to her mother a lot to find any updates on their information, but all she got were comments about how her father and Uncle Harry were doing their best to find anything they could about Lucius and how they have been keeping their eyes out for Scorpius. Rose knew deep down that Lucius Malfoy was behind the attacks and she only hope that Scorpius was safe and not being manipulated by his grandfather.

That night she was dreaming of Scorpius. Though she would usually dream about him and with the two of them together in a loving embrace, this dream was felt to her more than just a dream. In her dream she would see is the Astronomy Tower, from where their love began and hear his voice calling for her telling her to find him. It was past midnight when Rose woke up from a dream. Rose got out of bed grab a jacket and snuck out of her dorm and the Gryffindor common room. Since the reports of the Death Eater uprising there had been some added security to Hogwarts, but since Rose had been sneaking up to the Astronomy Tower already she knew the places where the moving portraits, Filch, his cat Miss Norris II, and Peeves would be in the evening. Even with the higher security Rose thought it was easy to get around the castle without getting caught.

Rose made it to the Astronomy Tower with ease. It was a crisp night out with a light breeze in the outer space of the Tower. Rose walked around the tower a few times. She had hoped that her dream had meant something, she half expected to find Scorpius there.

For another few weeks Rose continued to have the now haunting dream of Scorpius calling for her and each night she would find herself going to the Tower looking for him. It was colder night that usual up in the tower, but Rose never left. She would only leave right before dawn as to not cause any suspicion. Rose was considering going back to her dorm room with how cold she was becoming, but she kept on thinking that Scorpius would show up. With that reflection Rose heard a voice coming behind her.

"You're going to freeze if you sit up here for too long."

Her heart almost skipped a beat. She hadn't heard anyone's voice up in the Tower for ages. Rose turned to see who the voice belong to was no other than Alice and she was caring one of the blankets from their room in her hand. Rose was surprised to see her.

"Alice, how'd you get up here without getting caught?"

"Oh please. Albus and I have a couple of places that we like to sneak off to once in a while."

Alice gave Rose a smile and wink which was an endearing quality of Alice's, which Rose liked.

"So, how did you know I was up here?"

"Well Albus told me about how you would come up here with Scorpius and I had been noticing how depressed that you've been lately. Then a couple of weeks ago I'd noticed that you been leaving at night. I kind of put two and two together."

Rose sighed with sadness and looked up that stars.

"I've been having this really vivid dream. It's like he's trying to contact me. I keep coming up here hoping that he will be here just waiting for me like before, but I always end up being alone."

Rose buried her face into her arms and started to cry. It was the first time she had since they had come back from their holiday. Alice sat down next to Rose wrapped her in the blanket and hugged her.

"I am completely stupid for coming here every night waiting for something to happen?"

"No, if it were Albus and me in your situation I'd probably end up doing the same thing. I know that it's hard not knowing anything, but I promise you that I help you out in anyway that I can."

Rose looked up at Alice with a smile of thanks. It was the first time Rose had felt like she had a true friend.

"Come on if you stay out here your going to get sick."

With that Alice help Rose up and they went to sneak back into their room.

The next morning Rose went down to breakfast in the Great Hall. It was the first time in weeks that she hadn't slept in to catch on some sleep. Rose was reading the Daily Prophet while eating a piece of toast in hopes of finding any updated news when she came across a headline reading 'Missing Boy at Malfoy Manor'. Rose almost chocked on her food.

Tragedy struck at Malfoy Manor when the Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy son of Draco Lucius Malfoy an employee of The Wizengamot Administration Services went missing on Christmas Eve. Some may remember the Malfoy family from a misfortune that occurred with the family years ago when a spell went disastrously went wrong at the home that killed the wife and grandfather of the household. The family had told authorities that the boy had vanished without a trace. Malfoy was stated as saying that the boy had excused himself to bed that Eve and when they came to get him for Christmas morning the boy was missing. Pansy Malfoy, the boy's step-mother was distraught and cried as she pleaded for her poor boy to come home safe and sound…

Rose threw the newspaper in anger, she couldn't read anymore of the article. Rose knew that Scorpius and his step-mother detested one another. He told Rose once that his step-mother told him to never speak to her unless it was in front of his father, because to her in her eyes he was a worthless child that wasn't good enough to be a Malfoy and how she couldn't understand how his father had ever married that Greengrass woman. Rose knew what was said in the article was a hoax, but now she knew that Scorpius' father was looking for him and so must Lucius. Rose was comforted to know that at least he was away from them, but now she wondered more than ever where he could be.

Hey! All I hope that you are enjoying my story! Right now I've been thinking about how to end it (thought might be a few chapters away) and I have a couple of different endings in my head right now. Could be bad, could be good. ;)Would love any feedback.