Disclaimer: Anything you recognize is J.K. Rowlings, anything you don't is mine.

SURPRISE CHAPTER! I hope you enjoy it and it clears some holes in the story that you might be asking yourself.

Also this chapter will be touched upon in the Rose and Scorpius's story that I will be starting to upload maybe when "Barthalemou" is half way done.

Enjoy!

-adastra5

I love my family. I love my parents, I was truly given a silver spoon, not in wealth but in love, being born into the family that I was lucky enough to have and grow up with.

Very well off, successful, kind and loving are just some words to describe each and every person who I am surrounded by. My parents, they are my world and shaped me to be the person that I am.

I look at my father, as clumsy and awkward as he can be, he can be the much needed laugh to a boring day, quite clever in ways that my mother cannot be, and can show that your sensitivity doesn't mean it is always a bad thing.

My mother the epitome of perfection in my eyes. She was beautiful and loving. Although she could be high-strung sometimes and very meticulous, she knew how to balance wanting the best for us and being the best for us.

Even though they have been married my whole entire life, I couldn't help but wonder if there was something missing. Of course my parents loved each other, there was no doubt. But sometimes they lacked the fire - and not in a "let's argue until sundown" type of fire - but a fire between them that never died out.

My parents grew up being best friends, but as a I stand here planning my wedding day and trying on all of these gowns, I just to think to myself is this enough? Are we enough? Am I enough?

"Mum!" I cried running into the arms of my mother. I was fifteen but my mother's arms never got old!

"Rosie! I've missed you so much! Let me have a look at you!" my mother said as she held me in front of her and examined me.

"This never gets old." I thought to myself as my mother placed the loose hair around my ear like clockwork and counted all the freckles on my nose that I inherited from my father.

"Mum, where's Dad?" I asked looking behind her.

"You're father is attending an Auror meeting." she said as she cleared her throat and picked up one of my suitcases from the floor.

"Oh." I replied a little down fallen, but I perked up a little bit when I heard my name being called.

"Rosie!" My eyes lit up as I looked to see some speckled eyes meet mine and I hugged my Uncle Harry as tight as possible.

"Uncle Harry! I'm so happy to see you! But excuse me if I sound a little disappointed but why isn't Dad here?" I asked him.

"There was a meeting that ran a little over. I was able to leave to meet you all here. I hope you don't mind me being a stand in." He said putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Of course not. I'm always happy to see you Uncle Harry. Thank you for making it." I hugged him again as he ruffled my hair.

"UNCLE HARRY!" I squealed and smoothed down my hair as I noticed a glint of silver blonde hair come my way.

"Hello Rose-ie. Hello Rose." Scorpius Malfoy approached me and smiled. My cousin Albus walking up to his father and giving him a hug beside me.

"Hello Scorp." I responded and ignored my Uncle Harry's right eyebrow going up and my cousin's whistling.

"Hello Mrs. Granger, Mr. Potter. I hope you don't mind me interrupting but I just wanted to wish Rose here a good summer." He said smiling at me.

"We don't mind at all, do we Harry." My mother laughed and nudged my Uncle.

"Not at all." My Uncle responded while rubbing his rib where my Mum had nudged him.

"Thank you Scorp. I hope you have a good summer as well." I said beaming back at him.

"Thank you Rosie. I do hope you write back to me."

I surprised him and myself by pulling him into a hug. "You can call me too." I whispered into his ear. I could hear my Uncle clearing his throat behind me so I let Scorpius go.

Looking at Scopius who was red in the face made me giggle.

"I do believe your father would have my neck if I had let that hug go on for any longer." my Uncle Harry responded laughing.

"Have your neck for what mate?" I immediately lit up and ran into the arms of my father. "Hi Dad!"

"Hello Pumpkin." he looked at the scene and cleared his throat, "Hello Scorpius."

"Its nice to see you could make it." my mother cut in using a tone only we knew that she used when she was annoyed with him and one that we knew he should not argue with.

"Hello Mr. Weasley. I best be on my way. I see my parents have arrived." Scorpius put on a good face while waving to his mother and father who was walking up behind my own family.

"We will be seeing you over at the house this summer, won't we Scorp?" My Uncle asked Scorpius.

"You will Sir!"

I thought to myself, "I must visit my cousins a few times while Scorpius is over."

"Hello Son." Malfoy Sr.'s voice broke me from my own thoughts.

"Hello Draco." My Uncle greeted politely, "Hello Daphne." he said leaning over to kiss Scorpius's mother hello.

"Hello Ron, I see you were able to leave the meeting in time to get here." Scorpius' father greeted my father but then greeted my mother in a much softer tone that I don't think anyone else at the time noticed, "Hello Hermione."

"Hello Draco." my mother responded politely avoiding his gaze.

"Let's not hold up the Potter's and Weasley's son." Malfoy Sr. suggested and everyone said their final goodbyes. I looked back at Scorpius one more time and couldn't help but notice his father looking back at my mother before finally turning away and grabbing Mrs. Malfoy's hand in his.

My mother wrapped her arm around me whispered to me excitedly, "Someone has a lot to catch me up on!"

"Mummmmmm!" I whined.

"Rose and Scop sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G." my younger brother Hugo sang behind me.

'KISSING! KISSING THERE WILL BE NO KISSING OF BOYS." My dad exclaimed completely red as Scorpius was when we pulled away from our hug.

"Dad calm down. It's a kid's muggle song to tease people." I looked at my mother pleading for help with my eyes.

"Hush honey. Calm down and Hugo stop making fun of your sister." my mother tightened her arm around me and whispered in my ear, "You owe me now. Details when after dinner."

That's one thing I always admired about my mother. She was always so open with me and I could go to her for anything. Now here we are on my wedding day and I couldn't help but feel nervous.

It wasn't her fault. I know it. I know there had been hints that my father wasn't the love of her life. She loved him but of all the people in the world. It made me wonder if I was rushing into this marriage. If I was marrying this person because he was the only person I ever knew.

I felt like I suddenly couldn't breathe and started to have a panic attack.

"Take it off! Take it off!" I cried. I could feel the corset of the dress tightening around me and I started to frantically try and rip the gown off in the middle of the stage I was standing on despite the fact that I was in the middle of the designer boutique.

"Rosie!" my mother screamed.

"Just give me a minute." while I gathered my senses and ran back into the changing room. I pulled the curtain closed and sat down on the elaborate couch that was provided.

My mother came barreling in and cast a locking charm on the curtain and silencing charm. Before she even asked if she was alright she put her arms around me in a hug and I let out a cry.

"Rosie. Talk to me, what's wrong?" She asked while she cupped my chin with her hand.

"Mum, how did you know Dad was the one?" I asked her while wiping tears from own cheeks. I know the question caught her by surprise as her face was in complete shock.

"Rose. That's a very peculiar question to ask me at a moment." she said composing herself. If it had been anyone else they would of not noticed how off balance she was at the moment.

"Because I need to know. I need to know if marrying Scorpius is the right thing to do." I pleaded with her at this point. Maybe it was my own insecurities awakened by the scene I had witnessed a few days ago, but I needed reassurance at this point.

"Honey why would you question that? Please don't tell me this is about your father. Your father got over this already. He gave you his blessing! You and Scorpius are perfection! You are meant to be!" she said in her reassuring voice whenever I was nervous.

"Then why didn't you marry Scorpius' father?!" I cut her off.

Tears now welled up in her eyes and I knew the damage had been done.

"Scorpius! Malfoy!" I squealed in between kisses.

He had me on top of a table and he stood in between my legs with my arms around his neck.

"Can't I kiss my wife?" he replied while placing more kisses all over my face.

"Future wife!" I giggled while pushing him away and standing up smoothing my clothes over. "We are not married yet!" I said smiling at him.

"We're right there love. I love you. Can't I shower my bride in love?" he said suggestively.

"Hold your horses! Mr. Malfoy" I said not making the situation easier by pulling his tie and kissing him. "We said we were going to wait three months until our wedding day. AND our parents could walk in on us at any moment!"

"Alright love. Only because that makes you happy and because I'm not sure if I've ever be able to live down a moment like that." He said smiling at me and kissing me gently on the forehead.

"Thank you." I said sincerely. Just then his mother walked in and I looked at him giggling, "Told you so."

"Darlings! This place is magnificent! You have to check the gardens!" my future mother-in-law gushed.

We looked around the ballroom with the full glass ceiling. It truly was magnificent and I couldn't believe we would be getting married here. Today we choose to bring our parents so they could take a tour of the mansion we had chosen for our wedding venue.

"Yes mother." It still slid of my tongue weird, but Astoria Malfoy insisted I call her mother instead of Astoria since I was to be her daughter-in-law. "Have you seen my parents?"

"The last I saw them they were in the garden with my husband. I had to come in here to freshen myself up. If we have any ceremony or reception in the garden we will have to place a cooling charm in the area to keep ourselves and the guests from melting in the sun." She said while fanning herself with her hand. "Scorpius darling, will you accompany your mother to get a glass of water from the kitchen."

"Yes Mum." Scorpius kissed me on the cheek and put his arm out for his mother.

"Rose love, please meet us in the entrance foyer once you've found your parents and my husband." She said sweetly before her and Scorpius walked away.

He gave me one last glance before he disappeared down the hallway with mother.

I walked down the hallway leading to the gardens. The place was absolutely magnificent. I couldn't believe I was lucky enough to be marrying the man I had been with since my sixth year of Hogwarts and here we were years later.

I was admiring a painting when I heard a pair of voices behind a door that caught my attention.

"Draco. Why here? We can't do this now!" my eye grew wide recognizing my mother's voice.

"What would her and Scorpius's dad have to be discussing?" I thought to myself and I stood by the door very closely making sure that my heels were quiet enough to not raise alarm inside the room.

"Hermione. It has been years! Please can we talk?" he pleaded with her.

"We have talked! We've talked throughout the years while our kids were in Hogwarts. We've talked at every family gathering while our kids dated. We've talked at Government Balls, Meetings, arrangements! We have talked Draco Lucius Malfoy!" my mother said in an annoyed voice.

"We haven't talked about US!" Draco replied to her pleading again. "We haven't talked about us since.."

"SINCE US ENDED. DRACO WE WERE DONE YEARS AGO." my mother yelled at him.

"BECAUSE YOU RAN!" he said bitterly. "YOU RAN AND YOU NEVER LOOKED BACK!"

"I RAN! YOU NEVER CAME AFTER ME DRACO!" She yelled back at him, her voice breaking, "You never came for me."

"Hermione." his voice softened at this point I had snuck a pair of extendable eye under the door and I could see him reaching for her hand which she quickly snatched back again. His voice became sharp again. "I wrote hundreds of letters to you. I tried to call your muggle phone, I flooed you, I even asked Ginny to get in contact with you for me!"

My mother was in complete tears now, "I know. I know." she said turning away from him.

He walked up behind her and spun her around, "So why did you not let me back in."

"Because I couldn't Draco! Everything was too perfect between us. What happened killed me. It killed apart of me forever." She said sobbing.

"You stubborn witch! Hermione that killed me too. Do you not realize I don't think about that every day. How I wish I could of changed what happened between us. The life we could of had together!" He said wiping her tears away with his fingers.

Suddenly I realized what it was between my parents that I never saw until this moment. The fire, the love, the passion, the undying love that I was not witnessing between my own mother and my father of my betrothed.

My thought was suddenly cut off by my mother exclaiming, "The life we could of have! Do you realize what you are saying Draco. We would not be standing here where we are! We would be living a completely different life. Rose wouldn't be who she is. Scorpius wouldn't be who he is. Astoria! You love her and she's perfect." My mother said with her eyes wild and her hair flying all over the place.

"I love her! Yes Astoria has been perfect, but she's not you! She gave me my son and helped me build this beautiful life. BUT HERMIONE JEAN GRANGER SHE IS NOT YOU. She never held a candle to you. I would have given it all up to have been with you again." He said cupping my mother's face and tracing her jawline.

My mother shook her head and swatted his hand away. "You don't realize what you're saying. We are at the venue of our CHILDREN'S WEDDING! This is hardly the time and place to be discussing this."

"Then tell me this if you refuse to discuss anything else with me Hermione. Tell me that you stopped loving me all those years ago. Tell me that you never fell out of love with me. Tell me that you never thought about how our lives would of been if we had worked things out. Tell me." He said staring at my mother like my father had never had before.

There was silence. The only thing I could hear from my side of the door was my breath hitching in my throat.

"You know I can't do that." my mother finally replied looking everywhere but at him.

"Why not then Granger! Why?" he demanded.

Suddenly my mother turned sharply and looked him dead in the eye, "BECAUSE I NEVER STOPPED. Are you happy? I never stopped loving you for a moment. It killed me to walk away. It killed me to let all your letters go unread. It killed me to shut Ginny out when she pleaded with me to talk to you. I never stopped loving you Draco Lucius Malfoy and I will never stop loving you. But this is wrong and you know it." my mother said walking away.

The click clack of her heels could be heard echoing in the room. I was about to pull the extendable eyes from under the door until I saw my future father-in-law open his mouth again.

"Hermione. You know...that night...I was going to..." he said walking up slowly behind her.

"Please don't say it." my mother begged and I pulled the extendable eyes from under the door and casted a silencing spell on my heels while I ran down the hallway into a open room to hide.

I hid behind the open door to hide and catch my breath. I didn't slip out until I heard my mother's heel's walk away and Mr. Malfoy's dress shoes walk away a few moments after her and disappear.

Between what I heard and what I seen I was completely torn and now questioned if I was doing the right thing.

"Rose. Things were different back then. It was still so hard." she tried to explain.

"Mum, I'm sorry but it doesn't seem that way. It seemed as if you were very much in love. But you walked away." I said harshly.

"I might have some explaining to do Rose. But you still have to watch your tone with me." my mother turned sharply.

"Explain then. Because I am months away from the grandest wedding since the Golden Trio's." giving her a side eye, "And I am freaking out."

My mother sat down beside me and smoothed out her skirt before taking my hand and placing it in her own, "Everything was perfect up until this moment Rose. Why does the history between me and Scorpius's father shake things up for you?"

"Because I sit here and wonder why you aren't with him. Why did you choose Dad over him? I mean I love Dad, but there is so much between you and Scorpius's Dad." I stood up taking the veil out of my hair, "Did Dad ever look at you like that? I've never seen you look at Dad the way you look at Scorpius's Dad. How will I know in fifty years that Scorpius will still feel the same way about me that he does now."

"Because Scorpius is exactly who his father is for me as he is for you." my mother said reaching her hand out to have me sit down next to her again. "Me and Draco were a very long time ago. We happened when me and your father weren't together. I would have given everything to be with him. But things crashed around us and I ran. I ran back to the safest thing I knew which was your father." she continued as tears ran down her face, "We have different soul mates in our lives, different people who become the loves of our life. There is no doubt in this world that I don't love your father. But I also love you, your brother, your Uncle Harry. You are all the loves of my life in some way."

"But Mr. Malfoy..." I urged her on.

"He will always place a very special place in my heart and I'd like to think in an alternate universe things worked out between us. But I am very happy the way my life turned out here. If it didn't I wouldn't have you or your brother! And you, young lady wouldn't be marrying the love of your life in a few months."

"But Mum.." I started.

"Do not but Mum me. You two have a rare thing, a type of love that is rare and pure. That boy has loved you since I heard about him having a crush on you very early on in your beginning days of Hogwarts. Even before then according to Astoria. He pestered you until you gave him a chance and look at you now."

"You're right." I admitted, "It must be wedding day jitters. I know it took me forever to give him a chance, but maybe part of me was afraid. Look at him and look at me. Here I am bushy hair, freckles."

Before I could go on my mother stopped me right there, "Did you think he cared about any of those things? He liked you when you were 11. The most awkward stage of your life and continued to like you even as you got older."

"So then how did you know he would be good to me? How did you know I would be happy with him Mum?" I asked her.

"Do you remember all those years ago? When you first asked me for my thoughts on him and you two?"

"Rose what are you doing?" I jumped from the letter I was writing Scorp and turned around to my mother.

"Just writing a letter to Scrop." I replied casually but I could feel my cheeks burning.

"Oh really?" she teased me while sitting on my bed. "How is Scorpius fairing this summer?"

"Quite well. He's in France visiting his great grandmother's chateau"

"On the French countryside." she finished for me.

"Yes how did you know!" I asked her inquisitively.

"Oh you know, me and his father were in the same year and he bragged about all of his homes he would be inheriting one day."

"That makes sense. He's amazing Mum. He's so sweet, caring, intelligent." I sighed, "Honestly Mum I could go on and on."

"I see that sweetheart. If he makes you happy and he treats you fairly and with respect I am all for it." she replied.

"What do you honestly think Mum? From what you've seen and heard. Albus is best friends with him so I know you've seen him when he goes to Uncle Harry's house." I asked. She is my mother and if I wanted advice from anyone it would be from her.

"Oh Rosie." she said kneeling over to where I was sitting at my desk and placing the loose hair in front of my face behind my ear. "Be careful giving your heart to a Malfoy."

"When I told you all those years ago to 'Be careful giving your heart to a Malfoy' I meant it more for us than them." she said looking deep in my eyes. "If Scorpius was going to be anything like his father I knew he would treat you well. He would do anything to make you happy. He would take care of you like you were the most precious thing in the world to him. But us? I know how we can be. Temperamental and stubborn. I knew there was nothing to worry about if you and him ended up together."

"Now I understand. I should have picked up on this years ago." I said to myself.

"Now you know. But Rose you love Scorpius and Scorpius loves you. You have nothing to worry about. When I look at you two I see what me and his father could've had so trust me when I say that you two have nothing to worry about."

"Thank You Mum. Alright I'm calm. I have one more thing to do!" While I pulled out my phone and sent a text.

I grabbed my Mum's hand and walked out of the dressing room and ran to the figure standing with all of my female family.

"SCORP!" I said running into his arms.

"Rosie! What's the urgency are you alright!?" and before he could say another word I pulled him into a kiss that seemed to last forever.

The catcalls and giggling broke us out of our world and I looked into his grey eyes and declared, "I love you Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy"

He smiled at me and captured my lips once more, "I love you with all of my heart Rose Granger-Weasley Malfoy" he said laughing.

I looked at my mother who was holding Astoria's hand and I knew everything was going to be alright.

See you in the next story :)