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Amortentia	By : goldensnitch18 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Scorpius/Rose Views: 13221 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter Five
After that first week in October, Rose and Scorpius often worked on their homework together. It had only taken six years, but Rose finally realized that they had distinct and different strengths and she might actually be able to learn something from him. He helped her with her Potions work and she helped him with Transfiguration. Everything else they were of pretty equal ability, but even in these areas they still picked up on different things and had knowledge to share.
Every once in awhile, when Scorpius would figure something out before her, he would get that stupid little grin she had come to know and hate so well. She would be tempted to slam her book shut, tell him off, and stomp off to her room. Actually she did do that … twice … but she was trying really hard not to do it, and she was able to accept his occasional ability to best her better than she ever had before, which really meant she wasn’t sending any unfortunate spell work his way.
Rose still went to the main school library with her girlfriends once or twice a week, but it was so easy to grab her things and slip off to her and Scorpius’s library that she found she had to be intentional about spending time with them outside of class. She was looking forward to Hogsmeade weekend because so far, none of them were going with a date. It was going to be just the girls for a whole day and Rose couldn't wait.
By the fourth week of October, the Head Girl and Boy were both running on fumes most days. Between Quidditch Practice, rounds, and classes where their homework load was only going up, they were struggling to fit it all in, let alone fit in time to snog, or do much more than that. They were both tense, tired, and cranky and it needed to stop. The past weekend had been spent on homework and Monday was ridiculous and before they could even blink it was Tuesday. They only had short breaks on Tuesday morning and afternoon, which meant they spent them with friends. Tamsyn had asked Rose to work on Defense with her that particular Tuesday and Scorpius had worked on Charms with Euan.
After dinner, Scorpius had walked back to the Dungeons with his friends and dumped his bag on the floor by his bed. He was not studying and neither was Rose. He had decided that while staring at her across the Great Hall at breakfast. He had been fantasizing about what he wanted to do with her and Albus had caught him staring. “Scor, what the fuck? I thought we talked about this.”
“What?” Scorpius had eloquently replied, torn out of his daydream.
“You were staring at her.” Albus didn't even turn around. He just pointed his fork over his shoulder in Rose’s general direction.
“No I wasn’t. I was thinking about my Herbology essay. I can't control where my head looks when I'm zoned out.”
Albus had rolled his eyes then and told him, “Just keep leaving her alone,” and Scorpius had nodded while thinking, Not going to happen. Not even a little bit. And that was how he knew he needed her for more than two minutes here and there before he grabbed her in the middle of the great hall and started snogging her like an animal.
When he walked into the library, Rose was already spreading her homework out on the table like they had every night for the past few weeks. He watched her for a minute and just enjoyed the sight of her. He loved her hair. He loved the freckles on her cheeks. He loved the way she looked in the Muggle clothes she put on to study. Her jeans hugged her hips and her arse so perfectly and it made him want her immediately every time she came out of her room in them. Most of the time he still couldn't believe that he got to actually touch her and snog her after wanting to do it so badly all of sixth year.
“You need help.” Rose told Scorpius, looking up at him standing there with a sideways grin.
“Why?” He started walking towards her spot at the table.
“You've been staring at me all day.”
“Yea, well I want you. And I have been wanting you and we've been so damn busy.”
“I know. And tonight I have …”
“Oh, no.” He reached the table and pulled on her, bringing her up out of her chair. “You want me too.” He kissed her softly and she wrapped her arms around his neck, her body moving into his. “Come in my room.” He whispered, pulling back from her for a moment.
“Your room?” This was a line they hadn't crossed yet. They had never actually been in a bed together.
“Yea, my room. I want you in my bed. I want to feel you.” He moved his hand up under her shirt to make his point. She sighed at the contact.
“Do we even know if it will let me in?” She looked over at his room suspiciously as if Professor Longbottom might show up to stand in the doorway and stop them from entering.
“No, but I want to try. No more weird chair, wall, broom closet, shit. I want a proper bed and I want you under me.” His lips touched her ear and she shivered. “Even if I can't do what I really want to you.” Rose shivered at his words. She still knew she didn't want to have sex with Scorpius, but damn did she want to have sex with Scorpius. It was confusing and awful.
“Ok.” She let him lead her by the hand to his door. He went through first, still holding her hand and she held her breath for a moment as she stepped over the threshold. Nothing happened. He let go of her hand, took out his wand and tapped the portrait of the Slytherin Head Boy with it. A curtain flowed down from nowhere, covering him, and Scorpius shut the door.
“Your room is nice.” She said awkwardly, looking around.
“Oh, yea, I'll give you the grand tour later.” He put a hand behind her neck and moved into her. His lips found hers eagerly and she moaned as she clutched at his t-shirt, pulling it up over his head. He followed suit, leaving her shirt somewhere on the floor as he pulled her to his bed. By the time his legs hit back of the mattress, he had her bra unclasped. They broke apart for a second so she could drop it on the floor and he pulled her onto his bed, tossing her playfully onto her back.
“Fuck.” He said, moving to kneel between her legs.He took in the sight of her, half naked, her perfect breasts uncovered. She blushed and tried to move her hands over her chest. “Don't you dare.” He grabbed her hands and pinned them over her head as he leaned over her, using their hands to hold himself up. “You are so fucking beautiful.” He told her, and his mouth was claimed by hers, her body arching up into him.
He fell onto her, careful to situate his weight to the side. He let go of her hands, so that he would have his to touch her skin, to feel every inch of her exposed chest, to tweak her nipple softly between his fingers while he kissed her neck. She moaned and clutched at his back, scratching him with her nails. It was the perfect amount of pain and pleasure.
Rose could feel him hard against her thigh. She wanted to feel him in her hand, to see his face when she held him, stroked him, so she moved her hands down to his belt, fumbling with the clasps for a few moments before it finally broke free. He helped her push his trousers down and then she grabbed either side of his underwear. She hesitated for a moment, realizing that Scorpius was about to be completely naked in front of her.
“Are you okay?” He asked, putting his hands over hers.
“Yea, just … I never thought I would be getting you naked.” She blushed again, something she seemed unable to control around him, and he smiled.
“I am looking forward to returning the favor very soon.” He told her with a grin and she laughed as she pulled down the last bit of cloth he had been wearing and threw it aside. She fell down onto him, kissing him again, letting him roll her underneath him, and then she felt his hands on the button of her jeans. He popped it open and pulled them down. “Oh gods, Rose.” He moaned as he saw her lacey black knickers.
“I may have had plans too …” She laughed as she enjoyed the way his eyes took her in as he licked his lips.
“Fuck.” He leaned down and kissed her over the knickers breathing hot air directly over those sweet lips he wanted so damn bad. She moaned and arched again, pressing her core closer to him.
“Scor, just take them off.” Scorpius stopped, his hands on her knickers, and pulled back.
“What did you call me?”
“Uh … Scor?”
“You've never …”
“Is this the time for debating what I call you?” She wiggled her hips and he looked back down at her.
“I guess not.” He smiled and pulled down her knickers, slowly rolling them down with his hands so he could feel every inch of her legs. In that moment he wanted to bury himself inside of her more than anything while she called him Scor over and over.
She pulled him back up to her face and kissed him. The smell of sandalwood and cinnamon washed over her, arousing her even more. She reached a tentative hand down and wrapped it around him. He made a sound in his throat as she started to slide her hand up and down his shaft. He kissed her, probably trying to hide the moan she could feel escaping his lips as she quickened her pace.
Scorpius slid a hand between Rose’s legs, his fingers sliding home inside of her. She began to rock against him as he used his thumb to rub those incredible swirls around her clit. “Scorrrrr.” She purred into his mouth as she felt the familiar raging fire inside of her intensify at his movements.
“Red.” He responded, trying out his nickname for her that she had always hated. She didn't seem to mind at all as she moved against him, biting into his shoulder softly. He grabbed at that fiery red hair with his free hand and gently pulled her up so he could claim her mouth with his. This was the first time anyone had been near his cock in months, a lot of months, and after nearly ten minutes of her playing with him, he was fighting hard not to explode. He needed her to get close, to come so he could lose it without feeling like a failure.
As if she read his mind, Rose let out a soft whimper as her walls started to seize around his fingers. “Oh, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, yessssssss, Scorrrrrrrr.” She purred again and he lasted all of another thirty seconds before he was moaning right along with her.
Scorpius leaned off the bed to grab his wand and cleaned them both and his bed. Rose was lying next to him, her hair flying all over the pillow on that side, her face showing the clear satisfaction he had given her. Scorpius pulled the blanket at the end of his bed up and covered them with it before he laid back as well.
“This was the best decision ever.” Rose told him.
“Yes. Yes, it was.” He wanted to grab her, pull her into him and snuggle into her lavender scent, but he wasn't sure how she would feel about that so he settled for laying next to her. “So, Scor?”
“It's what your friends call you, isn't it?” She rolled on one side propping her head up with her hand.
“Are you saying you want to be my friend?” He said it in an over the top excited voice, but inside his heart skipped a beat. This was new territory.
“I … well … I thought maybe we had become friends lately. With everything.”
“Me too. Is that why you didn't slap me when I called you Red?” He also rolled on his side, facing her.
“I … kind of like it.” He saw the flush move into her cheeks and he couldn't resist kissing her again, pulling her into him.
XXX
Three hours later the pair of them were walking around the school doing their Heads Rounds. After they had finally made it out of bed, Rose had disappeared up to her room to shower. She had soaked in the water, letting it fall down on her for thirty minutes trying to deal emotionally with what had just happened.
She and Scorpius were going to be friends. He had called her “Red,” and she had loved it. The zing of annoyance that usually accompanied the nickname had never come when it escaped his lips while he was entangled with her.
“Bloody fuck.” Rose had said as she sat in the shower, her head falling back against the wall. It wasn't that bad. Being friends was okay. They could still be friends and just mess around on the side, surely. It wouldn't change anything. They would be over at the end of the year, she would finally figure out what the hell she was going to do with her life, and she would forget Scorpius Malfoy had ever made her feel like she needed him like a fucking muggle drug.
She cried then.
Sitting in the shower, water pouring down at the perfect, never changing temperature, she cried and wished that she had never smelled that stupid Amortentia. It was making her life complicated when she really just wanted it to be easy.
She had somehow drug herself out of the water and gotten dressed, pinning her Head Girl badge on the front of her jumper. What would Professor Longbottom think if he knew what the Head Students had been doing in the Head Boy room that night? Rose felt shame at the betrayal of the Headmaster’s trust. She brushed her hair, pulled half of it back in a clip, and went down to find Scorpius for rounds.
That led them to wandering the castle, looking for students out of bed. Rose was still thinking about the way he said “Red” and trying not to say or do anything stupid and Scorpius was being quiet for some reason. She almost didn't want to know.
“Is something wrong?” She asked him finally, breaking out of her own daze to find out the cause of his.
“Oh, no.” He shrugged as they turned towards the Astronomy tower.
“You're quiet tonight.”
“So are you.”
“I was just … wondering … if … does being friends change what we're doing?” She spoke softly just in case someone was out of bed, listening to her speak to him, which was ridiculous. She tried to make the question sound nonchalant, like she didn't care what he said back, she just wanted to know.
“Yea. I guess I was wondering the same thing.” He started up the stairs and she followed him, quiet as they made their way to the top. If they were going to find anyone out of bed here it would be there at the top of the tower. When they walked out onto the balcony and didn't find anyone Scorpius continued talking. “Do you have feelings for me? Anything more than lust and friendly whatever?”
“No.” She told him. She didn't think she was lying. She wanted him. She wanted him bad, but that didn't mean she had those kind of feelings for him. She definitely didn’t feel the way she had ever felt about Rowan.
“I don't either.” He shrugged, shoving his hands in his pockets. “So, I guess as long as it stays that way …”
“It's okay to keep doing this.” She moved into him, looping her fingers in his belt loops, pulling his waist against hers as she kissed him softly.
“I agree.” He moved his hands out of his pockets and put them in the back pockets of her jeans, squeezing her arse as he kissed her back. After a few minutes she pulled back.
“We should get going.” She told him, and led the way down the tower again, a grin on her face.
Behind them, standing on the Astronomy tower under the invisibility cloak, Alice was still holding one hand over Al’s mouth and the other around his chest as he made two fists with his hands. She waited until their best friends were long gone before she released him.
“What the fuck was that?” She asked. She didn't really expect a rational answer, but she needed to get it out there.
“That fucking traitorous snake.” Albus punched the wall of the tower, grabbing at his fist in frustration and pain. “Fuck.”
“Al!” Alice pulled out her wand and fixed his hand.
“I told him to leave her the fuck alone, Alice.”
“Well, clearly he decided not to listen to you.” Alice told him, her annoyance clear in her tone.
“He's going to hurt her.”
“She's technically an adult, Albus. She's got to make her own decisions and you don't get to tell her that one of them can't be Scorpius.”
“She hates Scorpius!” Albus sputtered as if this was the most obvious thing in the world.
“No, she doesn't. She's never really hated him. She was jealous and angry that he was and is just as smart as she is. Rose doesn't like sharing.”
“She just …”
“Is a big girl.” Alice leaned in, placing her lips on his. “Calm down.”
“When the fuck did they become friends? Did you hear that prat? He asked her if she had any feelings outside of friendly.”
“I reckon around the time they stopped being incapable of being in class together without shouting or cursing one another. They haven't been very subtle about the shift.” Alice stared down the stairs their friends had taken. “I was starting to wonder what had changed. I guess I know why she’s always in that library they share now.
“Gods. He's probably shagging her all over the school and doesn't even have the decency to take her on a real date.” Al didn't need the glare Alice gave him to realize he'd fucked up with that one. “Not like us … it's different.”
“Oh is it? How Albus Potter are we different?”
“We have the more than ‘friendly whatever’ feelings.” He pulled her into him. “I've been mad about you for ages.” He told her softly.
“I think we have enough of our own issues to deal with that we shouldn’t go stirring up any of theirs.”
“Just let me write to my parents that were dating. Let me take you to Hogsmeade. James … He's an idiot and he won't even realize he should be annoyed that his baby brother is shagging the perfect girl he let get away.”
“Al …” She stared at the floor, but he put a finger under her chin to stop her.
“Alice, I told you this summer, I'm never letting you go.” He snogged her passionately, trying to show her how much he cared. “I don't care that you snogged James. If I tried to find a witch in this school that hadn't I would be left with my cousins and that is decidedly more icky.”
“I know … but …”
“No, I want you. You're mine now in the most non-ownership way possible and I don't care what anyone else thinks.” He trailed his lips down her jaw and onto the soft spot on her neck that made her moan.
“Gods, you're perfect.”
“I know.”
“Well except your dumb insistence that Rose needs you to protect her when she clearly doesn't. That could use some work.”
“I'm still going to punch him in the face. Again.”
“I guess that's between the two of you. Rose will be bloody pissed at you.”
XXX
Albus knocked on Scorpius’s door at 8:00 the next morning. He heard Scorpius’s feet shuffling over to the door and when he opened it Albus had just enough time to see that he was only half dressed before he pulled his fist back and punched Scorpius in the face.
“BLOODY FUCKING FUCK!” Scorpius cried, falling to his knees as blood began to seep between his fingers and onto the floor. “My nose. Fuck.” Albus stared down at him and shook his hand which he thought he might have broken. He almost didn’t notice the portrait on the wall to his right swing open, Rose walking into the room with alarm.
“Scorpius?” She asked and then her eyes fell on the pair of them. “AL! What did you do to him?” Rose rushed over to Scorpius, pulling her wand out and said “Episkey.” healing his nose.
“I fucking punched him in his traitorous snake nose.”
“What are you talking about?!” Rose shrieked back at him.
“I saw you, the two of you, Rose!” Albus shook his wounded fist at her and then grabbed it again as a pain shot through his arm.
“Saw us what?” Scorpius asked hesitantly, knowing what was coming.
“I saw you bloody snogging last night!”
“We … but … that's …”
“Took grandpa's cloak for a spin.” Scorpius said as Rose sputtered beside him, still holding his arm. He pulled his own wand out of his pocket and cast a silencing charm to keep the words from floating up the stairs to unsuspecting boys in other dorms.
“Bloody right I did. Alice and I had to… Fuck…” Albus, Rose, and Scorpius all went wide eyed at that. “Forget I said that! You two are the bloody ones snogging in the astronomy tower when you're supposed to hate each other. I told you to keep your hands off her.”
“You and Alice …” Rose said softly. “She didn't tell me.
“Oh does that break your heart, Rose?” Albus said sarcastically. “It must feel something like your two best bloody mates who claim to hate each other suddenly shagging and not telling you.”
“We are NOT shagging.” Scorpius said.
Rose stood, walking towards. Albus and poking him in the chest. “Oh, fuck you Albus. I can bloody well shag whoever I want and you don't get to have anything to say about it. You're my cousin and my best friend but you aren't my father or my brother and I don't need you protecting me because my boyfriend decided to tell me he's a cheating asshole three weeks after we finally shagged. If I want to go shagging Scorpius all over this damn school to make myself feel better there is nothing you can do about it and punching him in the nose isn't going to stop me.”
Rose was furious as she stared at him, but Al was looking past her to Scorpius. She turned around and saw his jaw had dropped. It was in that moment that she realized that neither Albus nor Scorpius had known the details of Rowan’s cheating. Albus hadn't even know Rowan cheated for sure, just that he'd really hurt her and it was over.
“Rose…” Scorpius said, and she could tell he was trying to come up with words, put together sentences.
“Don't.” She told him and she walked across his room and into the library, slamming the portrait behind her. She finished packing her bag that she had left abandoned on the table when she'd heard Scorpius screaming, and carried it back to her room in Ravenclaw tower. She went straight through her room and down to the 7th year girls dorm.
The door was closed, but Rose yanked it open and found Alice alone. “How long have you been with Al?” She demanded.
Alice crossed her arms and returned Rose's look of indignation. “Seriously? How long have you been with Scorpius?”
“I'm not with Scorpius.” Rose told her. “We have a mutually beneficial physical relationship. It doesn't mean anything.”
“It definitely looked like something last night. It's made you friends, something you swore up and down would never happen.”
“And you and Al?”
“This summer. Really the end of last year. Albus told me how he felt and we've been together ever since. I still feel weird about the James thing and I don't really want anyone to know yet.”
“That's dumb. If you both like each other, you should go for it. Scorpius said that and I told him something along the lines of he was a stupid prat, but I think he's right.” Adrenaline was still pumping through her veins and her words came out fast and passionate.
“I know. I'm going to go to Hogsmeade with him.”
“Good.” Rose said loudly, suddenly unsure of what else to say.
“So … Scorpius?” Alice sat back down on her bed.
“It's … complicated.” Rose sighed. “I wouldn't even know where to begin.”
“I don't have class for two hours. I'm all yours.”
“Well honestly, I need to tell you about why Rowan and I broke up first because I just accidentally told Albus and Scorpius.” Rose moved onto the bed next to her best friend and began the long overdue story.
XXX
Later in the day, Albus seemed to have calmed down and had apologized to Rose at lunch for not respecting her right to made her own bad decisions. It had been good enough for her. She hated fighting with him. Rose knew Scorpius was trying to get her alone the rest of the day and she had ignored him. She was putting off whatever he wanted to say, whatever his reaction was to her stupid outburst and if she could have she would have avoided it entirely. Telling Alice had been hard enough.
She'd gone into much more detail with Alice than she had with the boys. She told her everything. Alice knew about the Amortentia and what she had done with Rowan after and how she hadn't been able to stop thinking about Scorpius and how she'd lost her virginity to Rowan and thought they were in love and about the night she found out Rowan was shagging other girls three weeks later. Alice had been calm and nodded a lot and then she had hugged Rose and cried with her and then she had told her she was going to think about everything Rose had said before she really said anything about the deal she and Scorpius had agreed on.
Rose had felt better after telling her everything. It was nice to finally have someone she trusted know what had really happened. Rose had been so embarrassed that she was clearly not enough to keep Rowan around that she didn't want anyone to know what had happened, but she was happy Alice had stumbled into knowing about Scorpius and made it possible for Rose to share. It had been cathartic. She was not expecting her conversation with Scorpius to be cathartic at all.
After dinner, she knew she couldn't ignore him anymore. They would have to do their nightly rounds together anyway and she would much rather have this conversation in private then let him start it wandering around the halls. Apparently gits hid in the castle under invisibility cloaks and you never knew when they were watching you. She dumped her bag on the table and walked over to her blue arm chair to sit and wait for him. She'd seen him get up a moment after her and she knew he was coming.
Sure enough, the portrait to his room opened a few minutes later and he walked in. She watched him drop his bag off at the table and he moved over to the fireplace nervously. He ran his hand through his hair as he fell into his armchair.
“Hey.” She said softly, staring at the fire, avoiding his eyes.
“Why didn't you tell me?” He asked her, not bothering to answer her superficial greeting.
“I didn't tell anyone. My parents and Hugo knew. They were there when I found out. Plus, we kind of hated each other.”
“I never hated you.” Scorpius told her.
“Well I guess I'm just the terrible person that hated you.”
“Did you really?”
“I don't know. Yes. You were annoying.”
“When did this happen?” His voice was soft and she hated it. It seemed so … intimate.
“Three weeks after his graduation.” She curled her legs up into her chest and wrapped her arms around them.
“He's a fucking dick, Rose. You know that right?”
“Of course, I know he's a dick Scorpius. He cheated on me with I don't even know how many girls who just want him because he got signed to that stupid team.”
“No, that's not what I mean.” Scorpius moved out of his chair and kneeled on the floor in front of her. “Rose, you are incredibly sexy. I get hard every time I even think about snogging you.” He grabbed her legs and pulled them down away from her chest and moved between them. “When you touch me it's everything I can do not to finish right there because you are so fucking beautiful and smart and I can't believe that you think I'm good to look at and want to mess around with me when you could have any guy in this school.” Scorpius leaned into her, his lips inches from her now, his eyes holding hers. “Rowan Wood is the dumbest fucking dick I've ever met in my life. He had all of that crap that I get plus you were crazy in love with him. I … I don't know how any bloke could give that up for some slag Quidditch groupies. Don't ever let any other arsehole make you feel like you aren't good enough.” He pulled her forward, moving his lips against hers and he snogged her hard. It took him a minute to realize that even though she was snogging him right back she was crying.
“Sorry.” She mumbled wiping her wet cheeks with her hands.
“Don't be.” He pressed into her again, but she moved him back away from the chair and slid down to the rug with him. He carried her to the floor and she rolled over him, never letting her lips leave his. She moved her hands up under his shirt and moaned as he reciprocated. Moments later her bra clasp was undone and her nipple was between his fingers.
He rolled her over to be beneath him and he ground his jeans into hers, trying to rub away the desire growing inside him. “I really want to fuck you.” She mumbled sadly.
“I really want to fuck you.” He replied, groaning.
“I can't though.” She wanted to. She wanted him inside of her so damn bad, but she couldn't let it happen. Two months ago she hadn't even kissed him yet and now she was writhing on the floor of the library wanting to feel him move inside of her.
“I know.” He growled as he pulled her shirt and bra off with one swoop. His mouth claimed her breast and she moaned again in frustration. He tugged and kissed and teased and licked her breasts and then began to move south, leaving a trail of soft red marks on her stomach. His fingers undid the clasp on her jeans and she wiggled out of them. He found her in a pair of pink silk knickers this time and they were just as sexy as the black lace.
He pulled them down her legs, kissing his way down them until she kicked off her knickers and moaned for him to come touch her. He slowly kissed his way back up and when he reached her core, he leaned his face down, pulling her legs apart to reveal her wet lips to him. He was about to lick her for the first time when she squealed and shut her legs on his head and then backed away quickly.
“What the hell?” He asked in surprise as she sat, completely naked in front of him.
“I … never did that.”
“What?” He gaped at her.
“I've never done it. I don't think I want your … tongue … down there.”
Scorpius rolled his eyes and moved towards her again, pulling her onto his lap. “Believe me, you want my tongue down there and I want my tongue down there.”
“But …”
“Rose, I want to do it.”
“What if I don't do it back.”
“I might cry, but I'll probably survive as long as you keep using your hand to help me out.”
“I don't know.” His hand moved up her thigh and finally settled between then, moving inside of her, causing her body to lean forward into him.
“What about a bet.”
“A bet?”
“My first match is next week. If I win …” His thumb began to rub familiar circles. “I get to do this with my tongue afterwards.”
“I don't know …”
He put his mouth at her ear and whispered. “I promise you will love it.”
She pulled back, looking at him, trying to concentrate despite what he was doing to her. “Okay. If you win … you can do it … once.”
Scorpius laughed and shook his head. “You'll definitely want it more than once.”
XXX
On Saturday, it was time for their first Hogsmeade visit. Rose’s plans of having a girl's day had completely fallen apart. Alice had finally told them all she was going with Albus and Poppy and Tamsyn had considered this the okay to find dates of their own. Poppy had ended up heavily hinting to Aaron Boot that she wanted to go with him and he had been all too happy to ask her. Tamsyn hadn't known who to ask, but it ended up being a moot point when George Rudolph, a Hufflepuff prefect asked her on Thursday and she happily agreed.
Rose was happy for her friends but she found herself preparing to go to Hogsmeade alone for the first time in over two years and she would have been lying if she said she wasn't a little jealous of them. She also would have been lying if she said she could have handled a date that day. Memories of Rowan in Hogsmeade kept bubbling to the surface. They had always had a great time on their visits, because honestly who didn't? They were free for once from lessons and homework and Quidditch practice. Free to hold hands and snog and buy loads of candy and tricks and drink butterbeer and laugh with their friends. If she had gone on a date with Aaron or Colin she would have spent the entire time struggling not to remember what it had been like with Rowan.
She decided that even though she didn't have someone to snog or hold hands with, she was going to to go anyway and enjoy herself for a short while and spend the rest of the day in the library working. She had intentionally not asked Scorpius what his plans were because she didn't want him to think she wanted him to ask her and he hadn't told her. She was sure he wasn't going with anyone else because he would have told her they needed to end whatever it was they were doing. It was one of their rules.
She ate breakfast with her friends that morning and waited while their dates slowly came to walk them to town. Aaron smiled at Rose as he took Poppy’s hand and she gave him a wave. George Rudolph came next and he and Tamsyn stayed and chatted with Rose and Alice for a few minutes before they too left. Next came Al. He walked up to her and Alice’s spot at the table and kissed Alice on the cheek. “Ready?” He asked and she smiled brightly.
“Yea. You want to walk down with us Rose?”
Rose waved her hand at them. “No, go on.” She watched them leave, hand in hand, and turned back to finish her pumpkin juice. When it was gone, she stood, wrapping her coat and scarf around her before leaving the Great Hall. She headed towards the front door and waved at the caretaker who nodded his head at her, checking her off the list. Rose walked slowly, her hands shoved in her pockets, and her face watching the ground. She felt more alone than she had thought she would, and she felt a lump rising in her throat. She thought she was over Rowan, but a small part of her missed his hand in hers, missed his laugh as she teased him while they walked, missed his kiss as he stopped walking suddenly and pulled her into him.
When she reached the town she headed for the Three Broomsticks first and ordered a butterbeer. She grabbed it from Madame Rosmerta with a “Thank you!” and set off the find a table towards the back corner of the pub. She sat there watching the rest of the Hogwarts Students drinking butterbeer and laughing with friends. She was regretting her decision to come when Scorpius approached her table with his own butterbeer and settled into the table across from her.
“You look miserable.” He told her.
“Thanks.” She told him, wondering what in the world he was doing.
“All my mates have dates. Being alone today was an unforeseen side effect of not dating.”
“You could date.” She told him.
“Eh. Not really anyone I would have wanted to ask.” He glanced around them as if he was scoping out the prospects.
“Okay. So you're going to sit here with me?” She wasn't sure how she felt about that.
“Why not? We’re friends now.”
She nodded. “Yea, but …” She couldn’t help but think about the words he had said to her as he had kneeled in front of her in the library. In fact she hadn’t been able to stop thinking about them, hearing them over and over in her head like a broken record.
“We won't hold hands or snog and I won't buy you candy or take you to Puddifoot for tea.” He smirked at her and she grinned.
“I guess it won't be a date then if we don't drink the fancy tea.”
“So, how is your team doing at practices?” He took a drink of his butterbeer and she shrugged.
“Good. We've been a team so long it seems like we just kind of read each other's minds. How is your team doing?”
“Fine. Al’s gone a bit nutty and he's talking about adding in a third practice.”
“What? Did you tell him you don't have time for that?”
“Yea. I told him I would quit.”
“Quit as Keeper?”
“Yea. I have to get a N.E.W.T in all of my classes this year, so if he adds any more to the schedule I'm going to have to cut it. I'm barely getting everything done as it is.”
“I get it. Why do you have to get a N.E.W.T in all of your subjects? I mean I know we're both doing it, but I don't know what in the world you would need them all for.”
“I … accepted a job already. I have to have them for it.”
“Oh.” They sat there quietly for a few minutes, listening to the buzz around them as Rose felt like a failure again for not having a job yet. “What are you going to be doing?”
“Uh … working for Ollivander.”
“What?” Rose's eyes grew wide.
“He … He’s going to teach me …”
“How to make wands?” Rose hissed and Scorpius nodded, looking around them again.
“Look, don't tell Al okay? He wants to go be Auror’s together and I … well this is …”
“Amazing, Scorpius. That's incredible.” She saw a flush creep into his neck as he ducked his head down and drank from his cup again. She was surprised to find that though she was jealous, it was because he had a plan and knew what he wanted, not because he had bested her. She was excited for him and couldn't believe that he was going to get to have such a unique job right out of Hogwarts. “I won't mention it to Al.”
“Thanks.” They drank in silence again as they enjoyed the warming sensation the butterbeer spread down their bodies. “What are you going to do?” He asked after the break had gone on for several long minutes.
“I’m … well …” She didn’t want to tell him. She couldn’t, not after what he had just told her. He would think she was an idiot. “I …”
“Rose ! Scorpius !” Alice called their names, walking into the corner with Al behind her carrying two drinks. “Are you here …” She took a step back, as if she was afraid she was interrupting something.
“Just two friends, sharing a butterbeer.” Scorpius told her, smiling widely at his best mate’s girl.
“Oh, good.” Alice smiled brightly and sat down at one of the two empty chairs. Albus took the fourth chair and handed over Alice’s drink.
“Scorpius saw me sitting here alone and just came by to chat.”
“Oh what are we talking about.”
“Nothing exciting.” Rose told her. “Mostly just about classes.”
Alice rolled her eyes. “Oh Gods, you two. Leave it at the castle. This is our day off! We’re free!”
“It didn’t take you two long to end up in here. I thought you were headed for the joke shop.”
“It’s too cold to stay out there.” Albus motioned to the entrance, where more students were pouring in. “Plus George will send me pretty much whatever I want if I owl him.”
“We did get some sweets.” Alice told them. “Honeydukes was packed.”
“I’m not sure I’ll be braving the shops today.” Rose told them. “Probably just going to head back up to the castle and read something that doesn’t have anything to do with homework for once.”
“Oh, no Rose! You have to do something fun today.” Alice insisted.
“That is fun to me.” Rose teased.
“It sounds great to me.” Scorpius raised his glass and took another drink. “I’m so bloody tired of reading and writing essays. I just want to get these damn exams over with and go on with life already. This year has been so crazy.”
“Can you believe we’re all really going to be graduating in a few months?” Albus shook his head. “We’re going to have real jobs and we won’t be coming back to Hogwarts.”
“I’m trying not to think about it.” Alice cringed. “My dad finally started in on me last week. We had dinner in his office with Mum and he just kindly hinted at it while Mum kicked him under the table to get him to stop.”
“I’m sure we will all find something.” Albus put a hand behind her and began rubbing small circles into her back. “If not we can all just live at home forever.”
“No way.” Rose wrinkled her nose at him. “Hugo will be graduating in two years and if I’m not living on my own by then one of you needs to host an intervention.” They all laughed at the thought of Hugo Weasley, underachiever of the century outdoing Rose.
“That kid.” Al shook his head. “I have a feeling he’s going to be joining Uncle George.”
“Probably. He already helps Dad and George in the summer. I don’t even know if he’ll want to get N.E.W.Ts. Mum will probably make him.”
“My Dad would have murdered me if I left when I came of age.” Scorpius shook his head.
“Hermione would murder Hugo. She’s right scary when she’s angry.” Albus told Scorpius, dead serious and Rose grinned.
“Mum isn’t so bad.”
“Yea, well you’re perfect Rosie. You’re never on her bad side.”
Rose rolled her eyes at him, remembering several occasions when she had indeed been on her mother’s bad side. “I’m just honest with her. My mum is very forgiving.”
“Do you lot remember that time we put that time we put that Love Potion in Teddy’s tea?” Alice started laughing and Albus and Rose joined her.
“He wouldn’t stop touching Victoire the whole day.”
“Your Mum nearly exploded when she found out what we had done to him.”
“We were just trying to help him out!” Rose insisted defensively. “Considering the results, I think we did just that.”
“Yea, but he was mortified for the next week.” Albus looked at Scorpius. “He wouldn’t come out of his room at our house the entire time he was staying with us.”
“No wonder with you three shits ruining his life.” Scorpius laughed at them and shook his head.
“Oh, yea. Married, expecting a baby, and already an Auror. Cry me a river. What a terrible life.” Albus said sarcastically as he stood. “Another round for everyone?”
“I’ll come help.” Scorpius stood as well, grabbing Rose’s cup as Albus grabbed Alice’s.
As Rose watched them walk towards the bar, Alice watched Rose. “You’re in trouble.” She told her friend.
Rose looked back at her and cocked an eyebrow. “What am I in trouble for?”
“You like him.”
“What? Scorpius?” Rose told her, indignation clear in her tone.
“No, You’re bloody cousin who I’m here on a date with. Yes, Scorpius.”
“I don’t like him.”
“Rose.” Alice shook her head, smiling softly. “You’re playing with fire.” Rose grinned, thinking about the way that Scorpius made her feel like her body was on fire when he touched her. “Yea, that stupid smile is really helping your case.”
“Oh, shut up. Just because I can stand being around him …”
“And you’re snogging him and who knows what else.”
Rose blushed deeply thinking about the bet that Scorpius had made with her and the possible repercussions it could have. “We’re just …”
“Trying to snog the attraction away? How does that even sound like a good idea. Let’s snog a whole bunch and roll around naked and see if we want to rip each other’s clothes off less.” Alice stared at Rose and watched her best friend gape back at her.
“Well … I don’t know what to say to that!” Rose said, exasperated.
“Say you’ll stop, or at least give him a real chance.”

“He doesn’t want a real chance, Alice. That’s why I’m snogging him and rolling around naked with him. He doesn’t want me to be in a relationship with him. If he wanted a real chance I’d have turned him down like I did Aaron and Colin.”
“Rose … you’re a big girl, I’m just worried you’re going to end up getting hurt when you least expect it.” Alice grabbed her hand and squeezed it as Scorpius and Al headed back towards them.
“I won’t. I promise.” She told her friend, squeezing back, and she almost completely believed it.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter … It’s the longest one yet :) Let me know in the review box below !
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