Author's Note: This would have been up hours ago, only I stopped in the middle of proofing it to work out logistics of seeing Darren Criss in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It's not %100 yet, but it looks like a go :D Cross your fingers for me, okay?

The Star Tour does not look as hopeful :'( but I'm still trying.

Now, on to the actual chapter!

(Oh, and yes, there is 1 last song in this final chapter)

-SQ

Disclaimer: I own the Harry Potter books, but not the rights

Chapter Twenty: Your Song

Rose strode up to the entrance to Ravenclaw Tower, Lily at her heals.

"No sooner spoken than broken," said the Eagle-shaped doorknocker. "What am I?"

"Do you know the answer?" said Lily when Rose didn't respond right away.

"I'm thinking, be—oh of course. Silence."

"Well reasoned," said the knocker, and the door swung open to allow them entrance.

Rose stepped through and scanned the room for Nicholas Boot's distinctive figure. The Ravenclaws looked up curiously at Rose, but she ignored them in favor of the tall, dark-haired boy by the window.

"Nick!"

Nick turned around. "Rose," he said in surprise. "Lily. What are—?"

"Scorpius is lying in the hospital wing!" said Rose angrily, marching up to him and standing on tiptoe to so that they were as close to face-to-face as possible. "I want you to tell me what in Merlin's name you think you were doing! Why were you fighting with him! ? Did you forget that you are a prefect! ? That he is your Head Boy? ! Did you forget that he is sick! ?"

"No," said Nick. "I didn't forget. And I didn't mean to fight with him. He attacked me."

That stopped Rose for a moment. "Why?"

"He didn't like what I was saying."

"Which was…?"

Nick shifted his weight. "He heard me telling my friend Billy that I wanted to get you back. Is that such a bad thing?"

"It is when I'm dating someone else."

"Rose—"

"Nick, stop, it's not going to work. I appreciate the position you're in, I do, but I'm dating Scorpius. I love Scorpius."

Nick flinched. "So you're not even going to give me a chance?"

"I gave you a chance, Nick. We didn't work out. Scorpius and I do. Don't ask me how or why, it doesn't make sense to me either, but if you really like me, and have any respect for either of us, you will not try to mess that up."

Nick sighed. "I did want Scorpius to not be in between us, but I never wanted him to get hurt."

"Well he did," said Rose bluntly. "You're a good prefect, Nick, and you're smart, and you're friendly, and you're nice. But you need to accept that I'm with Scorpius, not with you. I'm not going to report you for fighting today. Next time I will not be so forgiving."

"If you reported me you'd have to report him too."

"Don't push me, Nick."

"I still think we could work together," said Nick.

"Yes, well, I don't," said Rose.

*****INEBHG*****

Rose left Lily at the entrance to Gryffindor Tower and returned to the hospital wing, her feet clipping sharply on the stone floor. She checked her watch and saw that she had been gone just over an hour. Scorpius should still be asleep. She would have time to re-collect her wits before talking to her boyfriend about almost getting himself killed. She bit her lip. No, he was fine, he was fine, he was—awake.

Rose strode across the room, drew back her hand, and slapped Scorpius as hard as she could across the face.

Scorpius's silver eyes widened and his own hand went to his reddened cheek. "Was that…entirely…necessary?"

"You—you—you—jerk! What in Merlin's name were you thinking? Are you trying to kill yourself? Do you want me to have a heart attack? Do you think you need to prove yourself to someone? To him? To me? I don't care if you're the biggest bully in the schoolyard, I just care that you're alive!" Anything more that Rose might have had to say was impeded by her sudden flow of tears.

"Rose…Rose, shhhh, don't cry." Scorpius reached out and gathered the redhead into his arms. "I'm okay."

"You're—an—idiot!"

"I know, shh, I'm sorry, shh."

Rose hiccupped. "Did you just admit that you're an idiot?"

"You have no proof."

Rose pulled back and looked at her boyfriend. He was as pale as a ghost, with reddened eyes and a bruise starting to form on his right cheek, the mirror image of where she had slapped him.

Rose touched it with her finger. "He hit you. He told me you attacked him—"

"I did," said Scorpius. "What he was saying about you…it made me so mad…"

"What was he saying?"

"That you should be with him. That you would be with him if I wasn't in the way. He was talking about kissing you…"

Rose took a long breath and let it out slowly. "Did he say that I'd kissed him?"

"Yes," said Scorpius. When Rose didn't lift her gaze to meet his he felt his chest constrict even more than it already had. "Did you?"

"No," said Rose. Scorpius let out a sigh of relief. "But he kissed me."

"He forced you?"

"No," said Rose quickly. "No. I—I let him."

Scorpius felt as though someone had pricked him with a pin and all the good feelings were leaking out of him. "You like him."

"I liked him. Past tense. Before—us."

"So I did steal you from him."

"No," said Rose. "First of all, I don't belong to anybody, second… Scorpius, Nick and I…we were never really anything. Yes, I had a crush on him for a couple years, and when he started paying attention to me…it felt good." Scorpius opened his mouth, but Rose ploughed through. "It felt good. And yes, maybe if it wasn't for you Nick and I could have had something. Maybe. But I don't want him, I want you."

"Rose," said Scorpius, "what—what happened between the two of you while I was gone?"

Rose closed her eyes briefly and then forced herself to meet Scorpius's gaze. "Not much…but more than should have. He…he started coming onto me as soon as—well, actually before you left I think."

"You think?"

"You know how oblivious I am. I didn't even know he was hitting on me until he came out and said it."

"And then…"

"I was so confused! I liked you, but I had hated you for six and a half years, and I used to like him, and I didn't know if I did or not anymore, only I knew I liked you better. But I didn't really know how you felt about me, and I knew he liked me. No one had ever liked me like that before… And, as he kept telling me, he was there and you weren't…"

"Out of sight out of mind?" said Scorpius bitingly.

"No. No. I thought about you. A lot. I shouldn't have let him walk to me Gryffindor Tower every night, I shouldn't have let him flirt with me and hold my arm. I shouldn't have let him kiss me. I thought…I don't know what I thought. That I could keep it from going too far, I guess. I liked those things, but I didn't really want him." Scorpius's eyes were like two pieces of flint boring into her. "I did finally tell him no, Scorpius… I never meant to hurt you."

"This was going on while we were writing each other?" asked Scorpius.

Rose nodded. "I'm sorry, Scorpius, I didn't mean to cheat on you—"

"You didn't," said Scorpius. "As you pointed out, we weren't together."

"I wanted us to be."

"Me too."

Rose sighed. "I feel like one of those trashy girls who walks around teasing every guy who looks at her."

Scorpius laughed so hard he began to cough, and Rose had to rub his chest and back until it subsided.

"What's so funny?" demanded Rose, glaring at the panting Head Boy.

"You—will—never—be—anything—like—those—girls."

Rose frowned.

Scorpius touched her hair. "Rose, I wouldn't want you to be."

Rose leaned back against the headboard, into the crook of his arm. "All the girls you've dated before have been."

"Notice I'm not with them anymore."

"Are you still with me?"

"Yes," said Scorpius. "Unless you'd rather have Nick."

"No." Rose fingered the ends of his pale hair. "You've got to stop scaring me like this, or I'm going to have a heart attack."

Scorpius smiled. "Well, we wouldn't want that."

"How come you were awake when I got back?" said Rose. "Madam Leer said you'd be out for a couple more hours."

Scorpius scoffed. "I spent a month in the hospital, nothing a school nurse would give me could knock me out for more than an hour."

Rose tsked. "You're impossible."

"Impossible to resist," said Scorpius, stealing a kiss.

Rose spluttered. "Scorpius!"

"You don't like my kisses?"

"Of course I like your kisses…"

Scorpius gave her another one. "I love you."

"I love you too."

"You're sure?"

"What do you mean? Of course I'm sure!"

"Hey, don't bit my head off," said Scorpius. "I just don't want to pressure you into anything you're not comfortable with."

"Comfortable?" said Rose. "Of course I'm not comfortable. I have no idea what I'm doing. I hated you until a couple months ago. But you're not pressuring me into anything. I am here because I want to be here! I do what I want to do. And if I decided I wanted to—to have sex with you tomorrow that would be my decision too!"

Scorpius's eyebrows lifted. "Oh really?"

Rose flushed. "Erm…well…maybe not…that…yet…"

Scorpius laughed. "Don't worry. I won't be allowed to do anything so physically strenuous for at least another week."

Rose smacked him on the shoulder, still blushing furiously. When she had gotten herself back under control and had stopped envisioning Scorpius in various states of undress, Rose straightened up and looked at her boyfriend. "Scorpius, you're always whipping out your guitar and singing songs for me. I can't play the guitar, but I'd like to sing a song for you."

"In front of the whole school?" said Scorpius teasingly.

"No," said Rose. "I think we've had enough of that. Just—just here, if that's alright with you."

"You're asking my permission?" said Scorpius, lifting any eyebrow. "That's a first."

"You're right," said Rose. "I'm not. Sit there. I'm going to sing for you."

"Yes ma'am."

Rose waved her wand to give herself a starting note and began to sing.

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money but boy if I did,

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no

Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show

I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song, and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple, but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is now you're in the world

I sat down on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite crossed

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is, what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple, but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is now you're in the world

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is now you're in the world

Scorpius brought his hands together in a slow clap, but he wasn't the only one. Rose whirled around and saw her cousins, best friends, and younger brother standing in the doorway.

"What are you lot doing here?"

"Gagging, now," said Hugo, making a face.

"We came to make sure Malfoy hadn't killed or jinxed you," said Albus.

"Or you, him," added Lily.

"We can see that neither of you are dead," said Jessica.

"But we 'aven't quite decided whether you're bewitched or not," said Eleonore.

Rose glared at them. "This was kind of our moment."

"And what a nice moment it was," said Albus, smirking.

"Piss off," said Scorpius.

Hugo narrowed his eyes at the Slytherin. "Are you serious about my sister?"

Scorpius raised his eyebrows. "Would I have gotten up in front of the entire school and sang thos esongs to her if I wasn't?" he said dryly.

"Good point."

Albus considered the prone Slytherin. "You had better not die on her," he said.

"Don't even joke about that!" said Rose, but Scorpius smiled.

"I'll try not to."

*****INEBHG*****

Scorpius was let out of the hospital wing the next day, under strict orders to take his potions, avoid stress, and to "please not get in any more fights!"

"You know," said Scorpius as he and Rose strolled down the corridor on their way to the first of their NEWT exams (Transfiguration), "since I'm going into music, I really don't need to take my NEWTs at all…all that unnecessary stress, you know…" He laughed at the warring horror, concern, and confusion on Rose's face. "Relax, I'm only joking. I've worked way too hard getting caught up to just drop it all here."

"Scorpius," Rose complained, "must you make a joke of everything?"

"Someone has to provide humor in this relationship," said Scorpius. "By the way," he added offhandedly. "I rented the flat."

If Rose had had anything in her mouth she would have spit it out. "What?"

"I rented the flat," repeated Scorpius. "We have a place to live when we get out of here."

Rose knew the expression on her face must have been the epitome of silly, but she didn't care.

"I take it you're happy," said Scorpius in amusement. Rose nodded. "I'm glad. Now go kick those NEWTs' asses."

Rose looked at him. "Is that supposed to mean 'good luck'?"

"Yes," said Scorpius, chuckling. "It is indeed supposed to mean good luck."

"Then good luck to you, too," said Rose.

"Yeah," scoffed Scorpius, "like I'm going to need it."

"Prat."

AN: Yes, you have indeed just finished It's Not Easy Being Head Girl. It is over, it is done, I hope you liked it. :) You have one last chance to review now, don't pass it up!

-SQ