A/NThis is a new MultiFic that I've been working on, and I wanted to share with you all. Each chapter the point of view will alternate between Scorpius and Rose. I hope you like it! ~MaryLouise1996

The Flower and the Scorpion

It was the summer after his 6th year and Scorpius was staying with Rose's family.

Ordinarily, he would have been staying with Al, but he and the rest of the Potters had gone away for the holiday of a lifetime, travelling across the continent.

Scorpius didn't get on with his family. Their sadistic beliefs and blood-purity mania had rubbed him up the wrong way ever since first year when he'd seen what a load of bullshit it was, and last summer he'd finally had enough, packed up his stuff and gone to Al's, where he'd spent every holiday since then. He had yet to actually be disowned by his family and cut off from their sizable bank account, so for the moment everything was hunky-dory.

When he'd found out that he wouldn't be able to stay at Al's for the summer he'd understandably gone into a bit of a panic, until Rose's mum, Hermione, had invited him to stay with them. Her dad, Ron, had come to terms with their friendship in second year so, apart from a bit of pouting, he'd been fine with it.

It was a Monday evening about two weeks into his stay and they had just finished eating their evening meal.

"Rose, sweetie, could you please clear the kitchen for me? Your dad and I have to get ready to go out. You just need to dry up and put things away; I already had the pans wash themselves."

Scorpius watched as Rose rolled up the sleeves of her Holyhead Harpies hoodie and pulled her curly red hair into a ponytail. He reclined against the wall in his chair and positioned his hands behind his head as she picked up a towel and began to dry a saucepan. She turned around to lean against the worktop as she did so.

"Oi, you lazy oaf! Come and help!"

"Ah, you see, your mum didn't ask me to. Also, I'm the guest."

He smirked at her as he picked up a tea towel anyway.

"Have you heard from your dad this week?"

He could hear the concern in her voice, even as she tried to disguise it with an airy tone.

"That wanker? No. Which is good, if you ask me. No news is good news. It means that they haven't cut me from my inheritance just yet!"

"Well, I think they should hurry up and disown you."

Rose joined in on the joking around.

"I would if I were them. Couldn't wait to get rid of you. You're a complete arsehole!"

"Oi! Watch it you! You are talking about the Complete Supreme, King of Hogwarts, heartbreakingly beautiful Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy!"

Rose just snorted and he grabbed the towel that she was holding and held it high in the air. She was relatively short and he towered over her, at least a head taller, so she had no chance of getting it. But that doesn't mean she didn't try.

She jumped and squealed and tried distraction techniques and did absolutely everything in her power to get him to lower his arm. And then she punched him in the stomach. Hard. Eyes watering, he doubled over and Rose snatched the tea towel with a triumphant "Ha!" as he struggled to get his breath back. Her chocolate brown eyes glinted with laughter as she picked up another plate and began to dry it. Little did Rose know that Scorpius was only acting now, waiting for a chance to pounce on her.

Suddenly he sprang towards her and lifted her up. She squealed and screamed and kicked and pounded on his back with her fists.

"Put me down! Put me down right now Scorpius Malfoy! Oh my god! Get off! Put me down!"

The plate that she was holding slipped from her grip and smashed on the ground. Rose and Scorpius froze as they heard the pounding of feet running down the stairs and the next thing they knew, Rose's dad dashed through the door into the kitchen.

"What the bloody hell is going on?!"

Scorpius put down Rose as gently as a newborn baby for fear of angering her father further and retreated slightly, so that Rose was in front of him.

"We were just messing around, Dad. Having a bit of fun, that's all!"

Ron just glowered at her, pointing his wand at the shattered plate. Silently the pieces all flew back together and Rose stuck out her hand and caught it before it could fall to the ground again.

"See, no harm done. Just go back upstairs and get ready. Mum'll go mad if you're late."

After Ron had retreated back upstairs, muttering something about "his baby", Rose wheeled around to face Scorpius again with a mischievous glint in her eye.

"What was that?"

"What was what?"

"What was that little stunt you just pulled?"

"What little stunt?"

Scorpius pulled what he hoped was a "What, me?!" kind of face.

"Your brutal attack or hiding behind me. You choose. Which one would you prefer I ripped the shit into you for?"

"Urm… brutal attack?"

"YOU WERE HIDING BEHIND ME!"

With that, Rose lapsed into helpless giggles. Her hair, which had fallen from its band during their fight, fell across her face which was bright with laughter. It looked so soft in that moment that Scorpius just wanted to stroke it.

Rose looked beautiful when she laughed. She looked smoking hot most of the time, not that Scorpius would ever admit it, but when she laughed the whole world just wanted to laugh with her. Scorpius never thought these kinds of things though. He was far too manly for that.

"I was not hiding behind you!"

Scorpius spluttered in protest, while Rose just made some sort of helpless gesture towards him as her body convulsed with giggles.

"You were! You were hiding! Are you like, scared of my dad or something?!"

"I'm not scared of your dad! I just thought that you'd handle it better. What was I gonna say? 'Hi, I just brutally assaulted your daughter and caused her to smash one of your family heirlooms. Please don't throw me out of your house.'"

"Phaa. He's too much of a softie to throw you out. Even if you did just brutally assault me. Right. I've had enough of doing this the muggle way. Too dangerous with you around, seriously."

With a wave of her wand, Rose caused all of the dry pieces of crockery to fly into their rightful cupboards and the tea towels to begin drying all of the rest of the washing up.

"I'll come down and put it all away later. I'm gonna go and get ready for bed now. Then we can watch a film, yeah?"

"Sure. That sounds good. You're on the floor this time though. A growing boy needs the whole sofa to himself."

"My arse you get the whole sofa to yourself."

Scorpius washed his face in the en suite bathroom of the guest room that Rose's mum had prepared for him to sleep in. Wandering back into the bedroom, he pulled a pair of lounge pants and a t shirt from under the covers where he'd stuffed them this morning in a vain attempt to keep the room tidy.

He stripped to his boxers before folding his clothes and stowing them in his trunk. As he stood up he smacked his head on the lid and stood up swearing loudly.

At that moment the door to his room swung open and Rose walked in.

A/NLet me know what you think! I have about the first six chapters already written, but I will totally edit them if someone says "Oh, you need to do this, it would be better if you did that." I'm also not to sure on the title.. If anyone has any better idea then please let me know :D ~MaryLouise1996