Third Floor Corridor

[JadieLou]

Corridor on the third floor, leading to the Hospital Wing and Muggle Studies classroom.

[Rose Malfoy]

Rose stumbled out of the Hospital Wing, and sunk down onto one of the benches in the corridor outside. She was in shock. No. She can't be. This would make everything else worse. Her mother was going to be extremely angry, and her father was going to murder her. She didn't feel sick anymore. Thank god. She was pretty sure the shock had stopped it. She didn't know what to do. She supposed she should tell Scorpius. But how? Lovely thing to say. Oh, by the way, I'm pregnant! She was happy though. If it had been anybody else's, she would have freaked. And, there was no way it could be anyone but Scorpius'. She wasn't like that. She sighed, just sitting, rather rigidly on the clod bench. What was she going to do?

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius walked down the stairs, hefting his schoolbag onto his shoulder. He'd just come from the library, and the books he'd checked out were heavy. He was about to continue down the next flight of stairs when a tiny sound caught his ear, like a sigh. He glance in the direction of the sound, and froze. There sat Rose, on a bench outside the hospital wing. Her face was white, her expression shocked.

"Rose? What's wrong?" He walked towards her. "Rose?" He sat beside her. "Tell me what happened."

[Rose Malfoy]

Rose didn't even register her name, the first time it was said. The second time, she looked up to see Scorpius sitting beside her. She sighed, and rested her head on his shoulder, burying her face in his hair.
"I - I - I'm - er..." she mumbled. She didn't know how to say it. It felt odd to just say it. Too blunt. But, really, there was no other way to say it. "I'm pregnant," she whispered quietly, her voice muffled by his shoulder.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Mystified, Scorpius put his arms around Rose as she turned to him and pressed her face against his neck. He could feel the tension in her body. Was she trembling? "Tell me," he said softly. "What's wrong?" He waited as she mumbled for a moment. Then he heard her whisper, and although it was muffled, he heard what she said.

He felt like someone had tipped a bucket of ice-cold water over him. She was pregnant? He had a sudden mental image of his parents yelling at him, his grandfather ranting...

"Are you sure? But... I thought there was a charm girls used so they don't..." He stopped. It sounded like he was blaming her. "Rose, I'm sorry, I should have thought of it, I should have protected you...." He held her tight, stroking her hair.

[Rose Malfoy]

"Well, they say magical nurses aren't wrong about things like this," she mumbled. She raised her head, and looked at him. "Well, I wasn't exactly expecting it to happen. I haven't studied that charm. I didn't think about it, to be entirely honest." she admitted. She'd just been so happy, the thought hadn't even crossed her mind. She shrugged. It wasn't entirely his fault. She should have thought about it too. Wasn't all up to him. "So, umm, what now?" she asked him. She was half expecting him to leave her, to be honest. This was going to make everything really hard.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

What now? That was a good question. Their parents were going to freak. "I don't know Rose." He looked down at her, seeing the doubt in her face. He felt a weird jolt in his stomach. Was she doubting him? "Rose - whatever happens now, it'll be happening to both of us." He kissed her cheek softly. He tried to picture what lay ahead of them. Her parents screaming. His parents screaming. Rose in labour - maybe screaming at him for landing her in that position. Rose holding a baby...

He raised his head suddenly, looking at her intently. "A baby, Rose. Our baby!" All of a sudden, things didn't seem quite so grim. Whatever else happened, he still loved Rose, and she was going to have their baby. "It'll be all right, Rose," he promised.

[Rose Malfoy]

Rose kept her eyes on him. As he spoke, reassuring her he was there to stay, she nodded. Well, at least she knew he wasn't leaving her. But, they'd have to tell their parents. There in lay the problem. Their parents hated each other.

She put her hand on her flat stomach as he looked at her. "Our baby," she repeated, the smallest of smiles slipping onto her face. It was still going to be a long hard road, but, with Scorpius beside her, she felt his words 'It'll be alright' would be true. "I love you," she murmured.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

"I love you too, Rose." He put his hand over hers as she rested it on her belly, and tightened his other arm around her shoulders. "I - I suppose we'll have to tell our parents next." Scorpius wasn't sure which confrontation would be worse. His parents would be outraged; but Rose's father would probably want to kill him. "Does the Headmistress know yet? I suppose we'll need her permission to visit our homes. Or - maybe they can come to Hogwarts...?" That might be safest. Mr Weasley probably wouldn't be allowed to kill him on school grounds. Another thought occurred to him. "Rose, when is the baby due?"

[Rose Malfoy]

Rose looked down at is hand as it covered hers on her belly. She leaned into him a little, her head back on his shoulder. "Ummmm. Yeah," she said, rather uncertainly. She could see her father now. His livid red face. She could guarantee, the other times he'd been furious at her, would be nothing on this. "I only just walked out of the Hospital Wing before you walked up. Well, I presume I did. I haven't told her. Maybe we should." She shrugged. "I think them coming here would be best," she suggested. That way, she was almost guaranteed the father of her baby would live through it. She looked back up at him. "July, around then," she answered. Suddenly, despite the inevitable fighting with her family, she was rather excited, the shock was almost gone.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius sensed a faint change in Rose. Looking into her face, he could see a glimmer of excitement. She must be looking beyond the excruciating task of telling their parents to the time when they themselves would become parents. "July. A summer baby. We'll have the whole summer with the baby, and then..." He hesitated. "Rose, will you - do you think you'll be coming back to school after the baby's born?" He couldn't stand the thought of Rose staying at home, looking after the baby, while he had to come back to school, be apart from her for months at a time.

[Rose Malfoy]

Rose smiled. A full blown, happy smile this time. "The whole summer," she repeated. Wow! This was amazing. Incredible. Unbelievable. Then she sighed. That bit she didn't know. She wanted to come back. She still had two years left after the baby was born. "I want to come back. The baby'll be around two months by then, so, surely, the Headmistress can make arrangements for us," she said, shrugging her shoulders. She didn't know if she would be able to be parted from her child once it was out of her. But, her education was important too. Her mother would understand that. But, also, she didn't want to be away from Scorpius for too long. Entire terms would kill her.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius nodded. "We need to talk to the Headmistress. Surely something can be arranged. If I have to, I'll pay for a private nurse to come here and take care of the baby during the day while we're in class." If, of course, his father didn't disown him... though that was unlikely, considering he was the only child, and the heir to the Malfoy estate. However furious he was, surely his father wouldn't put the future of the family in jeopardy...

He stood up, keeping his arm around Rose. "I think we should got to see the Headmistress. The sooner we get this all arranged, the sooner we can concentrate on the baby." He suddenly smiled at her, the full realization hitting him. "Our baby - we're having a baby!" It was going to be rough for a while, but nothing could change the fact that the girl he loved was going to have his baby."

[Rose Malfoy]

Rose smiled. But, she would pitch in for it too. "That sounds good. I wouldn't - uh - particularly trust the nurse with the baby," she admitted. She trusted Raven's judgement, and her skills. Just not the woman herself. She'd heard too many stories. Mind you, that was sort of hypocritical, considering the father of the baby.

She gasped softly as he stood up, bringing her with him. "Yeah, okay. Good idea," she agreed. She giggled softly as he smiled and exclaimed about them having a baby. "Yes, Scorpius. That's what we've been talking about for the last 20 minutes," she teased, chuckling softly. "Silly billy," she said affectionately, nudging him with her shoulder, and started walking off to the Headmistress's office.