third person pov

' glass shattered on the white cloth
everybody moved on, I
I stayed there '

Rose woke up with the feeling of warmth and supreme rest despite the pounding headache from the inhuman amount of alcohol consumed last night.

She stretched her legs out, ready to gloat to Draco and Whitman that they didn't have to wake her or Theo up.

That is, until she brought her head up out of Theo's warm chest, beginning to smile happily at his peaceful face until realizing there was a extra arm wrapped tightly around her waist-a body pressed up against her back.

And then, she remembers she's in the hospital wing.

And that extra arm and body is in fact, Draco Malfoy.

Rose goes to get up with urgency, finding it impossible as Draco and Theo's grip turned into an impossible escape-both tightening their hold.

Considering I'm top of our class, I don't seem very smart right now, Rose thought.

The curtains being ripped back by a wide-eyed Poppy brought Rose out of her own mind, giving the mediwitch the same look of blown pupils. The sound of a gasp makes Draco and Theo shift enough for Rose to shimmy out of their arms, rolling over Theo's body and into the floor with a thud.

"Dear me! What are you doing in the floor Miss Black?"

Rose huffed while scrambling up, "Did you not see me tumble Poppy?!" with a sarcastic tone.

Pomprey goes to offer a hand that Rose only swats away while standing and yanking her school bag off the ground before pointing a finger at the mediwitch, whispering with urgency.

"You best not tell Minnie"

Pomprey hides her giggle with a palm as Theo two boys roll away from eachother on the bed, "Oh-I'm telling Minnie"

Rose attempts to scowl but can't, beginning to smile too widely at what occurred with not only Theo last night but Draco too. She reached forward, grabbing Pomprey's arms with a matching giggle-keeping the whispering tone. "Can't you believe it Poppy? Both of them!"

That was the thing, Rose often gossiped to Mcgongall about the boys shamelessly-leading to her girlfriend knowing everything too.

Pomprey shook her head while dropping the hand down, "Both of them!"

Rose erupted into a fit of laughter before hearing Theo mutter her name-making her eyes go wide.

"Best be going" Rose began to take off quickly, "Thanks for the help Poppy!"

Not only had she almost kissed Theo but her and Draco said many things they shouldn't have last night. And he touched her again, Draco touched her hand. The thought of which made Rose internally scream.

Held her again, slept with her again.

Rose Black was in fact not okay, in the best way.

"Wait!" Pomprey yells, "You get back here and let me check those bandages Miss Black!"

As Rose opened the left hospital wing door, she yelled back with a cheeky smile. "No can do Poppy!"

When the door closes, Rose takes off in a run with the fear Madam Pomprey will force her back in and that just will not do.

She has a mission in mind.

And she cannot look at Theo or Draco until she gets over this excitement.

Although, Rose had to stop halfway down the first floor corridor, the world beginning to spin.

I definitely shouldn't have drank half of bottle of fire whiskey.

When's the last time I ate actual protein?

Why is my throat so dry?

Get yourself together bitch.

On the count of three move,

One.

Two.

Three.

Rose pushed herself off the stone wall she leaned on before lifting her chin, forcing herself to walk down the hallway.

Her fast pace didn't stop as she glided down the corridor, into the dungeons, and then her shared dorm with the four boys.

Luckily, it was around seven in the morning, meaning Whitman nor Blaise would be awake.

With thankfulness, Rose hopped into the shower, lazily dragging on her uniform and chunky boots instead of the Mary Janes that day. Frankly, she didn't have the time or care to dry her hair, leading to her tying back the wet mess of curls with her wand before tip-toeing to Whitman's bed and taking a moment to smile at the sight of him cuddling Nyx to his chest.

Rose bent down after shoving the loving in her chest down, peeling a slowly awakening Nyx away from him and brushing his hair back.

Whitman grasped onto her wrist without opening his eyes, speaking gruff from sleep. "Ro?"

Her eyes went wide before she yanked herself away, beginning to run out of the dorm-swiping her bag up as she passed by the foot of Theo's bed.

Rose didn't stop walking until reaching the open doors of the empty great hall, listening to Nyx complain over and over again about Rose not coming for her. Rose stopped by the right door, leaning her back against it as she tried to soothe her dry throat, the only source of water that had entered her throat since waking up was from brushing her teeth.

She had in fact, sent two howlers to Luna and Hermione before leaving the dorm-demanding they wake up and meet her immediately or the possibility of dying was too real.

Consequently this led to Luna Lovegood skipping down the long corridor, the large funky pink glasses used for finding wacksourts on her head as she spotted Rose holding Nyx close to her face.

Rose jumped as Luna stopped beside her, speaking in airy voice. "Are you alright Rose?"

In the afterlife Regulus Black stood across the corridor with Pandora Lovegood, watching Rose squeal after placing the snake around her neck and beginning to pick up Luna with cheers of being reunited.

"Gods-Sometimes I think me and Rosie are alike until she makes that awful noise" Regulus said, nudging Pandoras shoulder.

"More alike than you can imagine" Pandora smiled softly at the two girls as Rose began to grab Luna's face and check her over, "A Black and a Lovegood taking in the world today-deja vu, huh?"

A smile worked on Regulus's face, "Also a Black defending their Lovegood's honor amongst the scum of Hogwarts? Now that is real deja vu"

Rose released Luna's cheek at the sound of Hermione Granger running from the opposite side of the hall at full speed, shouting frantically.

"Are you alright?! What's happened?!"

Luna smiled and tucked her hands infront of herself, beginning to sway as Rose yelled back.

"Only the best day of my existence Granger!"

Hermione halted to a stop, skidding in the stone floor directly in front of them. "You told me you were on the verge of dying!"

"I am!" Rose said, placing her hand over her heart and stumbling back into Luna as if she was fainting. "Love has murdered me Mione! Murdered me!"

Regulus blinked at the dramatics of his neice, "Now that....that she gets from her father"

Pandora scoffed with a sly smirk, "Excuse me? You are worse than Sirius himself! You fainted on a chair when I told you I was getting married!"

Hermione yanked Rose up straight with the help of Luna, "My goodness! You'll give me a heart attack before the age of thirty!"

Rose chuckled with a happiness that made Hermione's eyes grow before she latched onto both girls arms, beginning to drag them towards the main courtyard.

Hermione began protesting, demanding to be told what was happening and if her best friend was on drugs as Luna happily went along. But Rose didn't explain or speak besides laughing until she had forced both girls down onto a stone picnic table, placing herself on the other side before clearing her throat dramatically.

"I have news" Rose said with a lifted chin before dropping onto the stone bench.

"Ooo" Luna cheered with a small smile, "Tell me everything"

Hermione glanced at Luna before her lips quirked up, "Did something happen with Theo and Draco?"

Rose, being Rose scoffed at the mention of Draco, refusing to give in and admit her deep love for him despite Hermione being well aware of the act.

"Draco, no-that's disgusting! Why would you even say that?" Rose began before leaning forward on the table, "But Theo......."

Hermione squealed excitedly, and Rose was grateful for the empty courtyard with most students sleeping or in their common room. "Tell us right now!"

Rose smiled with a giggle before dropping her reddening face into her hands and mumbling, "Oh my god-I can't even say it"

Luna's brows furrowed as she slid her pink glasses off of her head, "What has he done to you? I've never seen you in such a mess!"

Hermione latched onto Luna with glee, "Did you kiss?!"

This made Rose's smile drop before slowly lifting her head up, "No-way too ruin my mood"

"No no no!" Hermione reached over, grabbing Rose's hand. "What happened?!"

"Here" Luna began to stand, accidentally using a lot of force to shove her pink glasses onto Rose's face. "Now be happy again!"

Rose blinked, trying to adjust her eyes to the way the glasses made everything appear as if she was looking through colorful fisheye lens. Once adjusted she smiled in shock, "That was some arm strength you have Luna"

Luna smiled dreamily, "Oh-I've been doing that workout you told me about"

Hermione busted out into laugh, "A workout? Rose working out?"

"Oi! It's dagger throwing and very good for each woman's upper body strength!"

The Gryffindors humor faded to a gasp, "You have Luna throwing daggers?!"

Unbeknownst to Rose, Pandora and Regulus sat on either side of her-high fiving at his niece teaching Pandora's daughter self defense in the most Black family way.

"Oh yes" Luna began, "She even gifted me a dagger covered in beautiful crystals! Purples and blues"

Rose winked at Luna through the goggles while fishing around her Slytherin robes for a pack of cigarettes, Hermione rambling on with her laughter resuming.

"What have you done?!" Hermione wrapped an arm around Luna protectively, "You'll make her a weapon!"

"Yeah yeah" Rose rolled her eyes, placing the unlit rolled tabacco inbetween her lips. "Now listen!"

Hermione glared as Rose lit the tip with her finger, taking a long hit of the cigarette before blowing it directly in her face. She swatted her hands at the air, "Keep your crippling addiction away and spill! You will not get out of this!"

Rose's face returned to red, the entire sight of her smoking with the large goggles and flushed cheeks driving Hermione in Luna into another fit of laughter. "What if Theo's in love with me too?"

"She admits it!" Hermione cheered, "Finally!"

"Obviously I'm joking to cope, I'm doomed to be hopeless in love with Mister Nott forever-anyways!" Rose began to laugh to cover up the sudden sadness.

"He is in love with you!" Hermione affirmed, Rose choking on the tabacco smoke from zero amount of liquid all morning.

"Mione..." Rose opened and closed her mouth dramatically, "You have the odd little muggle invention with you? The liquid holder?"

"My water bottle?"

Rose shrugged along with Luna, adjusting the pink goggles with amusement at how huge both her friends faces looked as she took a puff. Hermione laughed as she pulled a pink metal bottle out, sliding it across the stone to Rose.

The Black heir confusedly placed the cigarette in her mouth as she began tapping on the plastic lid before realizing she needed to twist it off, beginning to chug the icy water with need.

When she finished, Rose slammed the bottle down. "Odd little invention" she pointed her cigarette at the girls after, "Now I will actually tell you every detail of what happened with Theo"

"Yes!"

"Stop teasing!"

Giving in, Rose began to recall each detail of what Theo did. As she explained, Hermione and Luna couldn't help but listen intently-unable to believe their stone cold friend was pausing to giggle while sounding lovesick as she recalled Theo's actions with hope.

*

When eight thirty came around, Rose ushered the two girls into the great hall to force them to breakfast as she slipped away and down the corridor again before she could be stopped.

Rose had her reasons.

She was sat on the first floor, smoking once again as she laid on a long windowsill-letting Nyx rest on her chest as she told the snake every detail of not only Theo's actions, but Draco's as well.

Rose's parseltounge is silenced as Theo's towering presence settles above her, his voice firm.

"When's the last time you ate?"

Rose grinned as her eyes focused on his elegenat face and messy tie without sitting up, "You greet every lover that way?"

"I have one lover for your information" Theo started, bending down to her level with a raised brow that communicated he was serious. "And I need to know if she ate today or not"

Rose could attempt to lie to him, but would fail miserably-he knew each quirk and shift of her gaze when she did.

"No" Rose grumbled, averting her eyes up to the ceiling by the stained glass window.

"Up" Theo demanded, reaching out for Nyx and slipping her onto his neck. "I brought you something"

Rose narrowed her eyes as she sat up with a defiant look, Theo crouched down and placed his hands over the black tights covering her knees with a lazy smirk.

"Oh come on baby" Theo soothes her skin, "You know I gotta take care of you or you won't do it"

That's all it takes for Rose's lips to twitch, "I'm perfectly capable Mister Nott."

Which prompted a dramatic eye roll from Theo.

"Mhm and I'm the minister of magic" Theo deadpans before his smirks returns, "You are capable of anything love but the question begs, will you take care of yourself?"

She forced down the laugh that wished to slip out at his joke before muttering, "No"

"But that's okay because I'm here" Theo pressed his lips down onto her left knee before taking one hand off to reach into the bag over his shoulder, "Brought you something"

"Yeah?" Rose asked softly, melting with his gentleness.

Theo hummed, pulling a small and thin carboard box out before smiling. "Look-I made a box for you"

Rose smiled painfully wide with a giggle as her fingers brushed over the silver watch on his wrist, "You made me a box?"

"Mhm"

"In the great hall?"

"Transfigured it"

"For my food?"

"Can't have you being treated like a animal with it wrapped in a napkin"

Her giggles grew, chest warming. "Oh Teddy-you're adorable"

Theo looks offended as he places the box on her lap, "I am not adorable"

"Then what are you?" Rose asked, raising a brow of inquisition.

He lifted his chin, the cocky smirk coming back. "I'm a beautiful specimen that happens to be obsessed with an even more beautiful woman"

"And who might this lucky woman be?"

Theo leans up lightly from his squat infront of her legs, "I can't even bare to look at anyone but her"

"Really?" Rose asked suggestively, leaning forward to him.

"My eyes only see you love" Theo grasped her chin, switching his flirty tone. "Now be good for me and eat"

*

As Rose and Theo enter the DADA class, the first noticable thing a most the bricked walls is a shaking wardrobe in the dead center. They began to push their way closer to the front, settling on the left side where Whitman stood with Draco and Blaise.

Whitman scowled at Rose before stepping forward to throw his arm around her shoulders, "You're still in trouble young lady"

Rose shot him a fake kiss, "You'll forgive me when you realize my protective instincts stretch beyond just you"

Whitman's lips quirk as she glanced back at Draco, being met with a glare that makes Rose roll her eyes before looking away.

Blaise nudged Draco as she does, whispering lowly. "You know what happens to guys like you when you act as your usual dick self?"

Draco ignored him, leaning on the wall with his arm in a sling. But Blaise continues on by his ear, "Them two-" he nods at Theo and Whitman both holding their arms protectively around Rose with sharp stares at anyone stepping too close. "They get the girl while you my dear-end up alone and grumpy because your too much of a puss to drop this act"

Draco's gut dropped, the way his throat bobbed made Blaise satisfied enough to lean away with a smirk as Remus Lupin trails down from the upper stairs of the room.

"Intriguing, isn't it" Professor Lupin started, "Would anyone like to venture a guess as to what is inside?"

Rose leaned her head back towards Blaise, "What's up with them giving us a sexy Professor?"

Blaise's smirk twists into a grin as he looks the professor up and down, "I don't know but I'm enjoying him being under eighty in that horrid cardigan"

"Cardigans are amazing-fuck off" Whitman muttered back.

As the class stays silent at the question, Rose casually blurts out the answer with her heart rate picking up at the realization. "A boggart, professor"

Remus's gaze drifts over to the spitting image of his once true love in female form, the student he had been avoiding glancing at since arriving to Hogwarts yesterday.

It hurt him deeply to see her standing tall with a blank face Sirius once used as a defense mechanism, everything from the shoes on her feet to the wand tucked into her curls making him have flashbacks.

But that's not what truly does him in. It's the blue eyes that Rose had gotten from her mother staring into his own, the ones that once did as a newly born baby. A year of his life after the death of her mother Remus spent helping Sirius take care of Rose.

The girl who once was attempting to call him baby version of the words 'dad' was now staring at him like a stranger.

Bem, one of the Gryffindors, call out to him. "Um...Professor?"

Remus cleared his throat, "Very good Miss-"

"Black" Rose's filled in his cut sentence, making the assumption he didn't know.

Of course Remus knew, he just couldn't quite bring himself to say it right then.

Rose began to get lost in her mind as the professor turned his attention back upon the class, her thoughts running in rampantly.

I can't stand in front of that boggart.

I can't let everyone see my biggest fear put on a pedestal.

'Never show your weakness, in friendship or in love, it will be your downfall' Walburga would be telling me now, and it was one of the few times I actually believed her words.

Rose was brought back to reality by Hermione explaining what a boggart is with an intense pompous attitude.

"No one knows sir, boggarts are shape-shifters. They take shape of what a particular person fears the most. That's what makes them so-"

"Terrifying yes, yes ,yes" Lupin finished off for her, "Luckily, a very simple charm exist to repel a boggart" The wardrobe started to shake violently again, "Let us practice the charm! Without wands please!"

"Now repeat after me 'Riddikulus'"

"Riddikulus" The whole class repeated, besides a certain group of Slytherins who were simply blinking.

"Very well! Now one more time...loud and clear....Riddikulus"

"Riddikulus!"

"This class is ridiculous" Draco spat with an eye roll.

Theo glanced back at Draco with a nod of agreement. Rose scoffs at them both, "You are both ridiculous"

Rose gave Theo a look of annoyance as he leaned down to whisper, "Not all of us are entertained by drooling over the Professor"

She elbowed him harshly in the ribs, Theo only grunting with a smirk before tapping her chin at her need to cause pain.

Draco sneered from behind them, "Why don't you two get a room?"

"Why don't you get a life?" Rose shot back.

"At least I'm not slumming it with my best friend"

Theo's normal lazy stance instantly shifted as he whipped his head around, sliding his arm off Rose. "I don't know what crawled up your arse today Draco but you're not going to talk to her that way"

Draco scoffed, looking them up and down as Whitman turned with a pleading gaze-begging Draco to not take everything to a physical point.

"Oh yeah and what will you do if I keep going?"

Rose's eyes grow with sudden worry, knowing Theo would blackout if they began to fight-he turned into a different person when angry and it was quite scary for anyone around.

Theo shoved Draco off the wall before gettin this face, beginning to speak but being cut off by Remus's yell.

"Mister Nott! Mister Malfoy!"

Both their heads snap towards the front of the room as the professor continued, "What is the meaning of your behavior?"

They stay silent and turn their eyes onto Rose, making Rose curse under breath as Whitman pushed her forward-signalling she was breaking this one up.

"Sorry Professor, Malfoy was being a cunt" Rose said while grabbing Theo's arms away from Draco and pulling him back, shooting the Nott and Malfoy boy sharp glares that made them freeze.

Remus had to force himself to keep a straight face, "Did you just say what I think you said Miss Black?"

"Yes sir, I have a hard time censoring myself when it comes to the likes of Malfoy"

"Filthy little blood-traitor" Draco grumbled behind her, making Theo lurch out of her grip.

"Enough!" Remus shouts, Whitman and Blaise stepping up to push Theo away from Draco with force. "All three of you see me tonight for detention"

Rose harshly yanked Theo away this time, giving him a look that a scolding mother would before glancing at the Professor. "Gladly-be sure to stick Malfoy with the worst job for his bigoted opinions"

Remus gets another wave of deja vu, muttering under his breath before resuming the explaination.

"As I was saying the incantation is not enough! What really finished a boggart is laughter. You need to force it to assume a shape that you find truly amusing!"

"Neville! Let me explain; come forward my boy! Don't be shy!"

Neville wearily went to the front, standing by in professor Lupin with hands shaking.

"Now what are you the most scared of?"

Neville started to mumble incoherent words with unsteady breaths, his answer completely inaudible.

"Sorry Neville, I can't hear you"

"Pro-Professor Snape"

The class began to laugh, but Rose couldn't bring herself to. Snape had always treated Neville with such hate, such animosity that it was awful to witness. Rose couldn't imagine why a grown man would treat a boy who radiated only sunshine and warmth in such a cruel way, it reminded her of the tortment people used to put Luna under.

"Professor Snape?" Lupin asked, a smile spreading across his face as looks off into the distance, wondering if James Potter was listening and laughing. "Yes, frightens us all"

Especially his greasy hair, Remus thought, knowing the thought would have made Sirius laugh.

James Potter was in fact listening but not laughing. He was scowling with Regulus Black in the corner of the room at the impact Snape had to have had on a child's life to become their boggart.

"And I believe you live with your grandma?"

"Yes sir, but I don't want that boggart to turn into her either!"

Remus shook his head in understanding, "It won't, but I need you to picture her clothes though...Only her clothes. Very clearly in your mind"

"Well she carries a red handbag-"

"We don't need to hear it, as long as you see it, we'll see it"

"Now when I open this wardrobe here's what I want you to do-" Lupin paused halfway through his words, leaning down into Neville's ear to whisper something before standing back up straight. "Can you do that?"

"Uh I-I think so"

"Wand at the ready!"

The wardrobe knob clicks, turning slowly before a hand popped out-Severus Snape busting out in his black robes.

Neville shouted, "Riddikulus!"

In a flash, Snape spins, his clothes changing into a green pantsuit and a big frilly hat with a reddish bird atop.

"Oh very well done Neville! Now, everyone form a line!" Lupin announced, walking to the left of the room to turn on a record player with jumpy music beats.

Draco, Blaise, Goyle, and Crabbe go to push everyone to the front-assuring they don't have to go. No one can blame them, who wants the world to know your biggest fear?

"Rosier!" A random Slytherin boy with mousy hair calls, Whitman sliding his arm off of Rose before walking over to the line.

Each classmates fears start to be revealed quickly, Rose and Theo simply hanging to the side in amusement with no plans of going anywhere near the boggart.

When Ron Weasley steps up, the boggart shifts into Aragog, Rose being unable to keep herself from laughing over his inability to get over what the enormous spider did to him.

Many more went, fears ranging from mummy's to sickly eyeballs and so on. Rose began to turn her chin up to Theo, preparing to mock Parvati Patil being the third person to have a mummy as her fear.

But Theo sucked in a sharp breath, his eyes not usually meeting her like always. Rose followed his gaze because of it, finding it was Whitman's turn.

Oh no.

Whitman stepped forward, the mummy shifting into a exact replica of Theo with angry tears profusely running down as he yelled. "You killed her! You killed her and it's all your fault! You're a monster!"

A thick silence fell over the classroom, a pin could have dropped and it would've been loud from the pause of breaths and words all stopping at once.

The boggart version of Theo side-steps, revealing a bloody Rose laying on the floor. She was covered in bite marks, scratched, and completely mangled.

Angrily, boggart Theo pointed down at her. "I told Ro! I told her all along what would happen to her in the end! You're just a filthy-"

In a quick instant, Rose became aware of his lycanthropy about to exposed, jumping in front of a frozen Whitman.

She let out a breath of relief, turning to face Whitman. "Go"

Whitman nodded, forcing himself to swallow the bile that wanted to come up as he began to turn. But then he stopped suddenly as multiple gasps ring out.

Oh fuck.

Is it who I think it is?

Rose slowly began to turn back around to the front, coming face to face with her grandmother.

Yeah.

It's exactly who I thought.

Walburga Black stood in all her glory, a sneer on her face as she pointed her wand at Rose. "Don't worry, this will help you not become like your disgraceful father!" She raised her wand after, yelling the all too familiar curse. "Crucio!"

The silence became even thicker as Rose felt Whitman's hand slide onto her shoulder, closing her eyes while willing the boggart to change into a different fear.

Then she opens her eyes, welcoming a face she missed too much to be considered sane.

Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Handsome as the day she met him in the chamber.

Tom stepped forward, placing a hand on Rose's cheek. "They all left you like you knew they would. Look how I punished them"

Rose's head reluctantly looked down to his right side, her breath catching at every single person she's ever cared about dead-stacked up into a gruesome pile.

She could feel the water beginning to run down her face, but didn't know when the tears began.

"Accept it Rosalie, no one will ever care about you like I did"

With a few swallow breaths, Rose whispered. "You...tricked me"

Tom appeared offended at the assumption, wiping her tears off. "Tricked you? No-I saved you"

She shook her head as Tom held her cheeks, unable to move or breath properly to have his eyes piercing into her own once again.

Collecting himself, Remus jumped in between them, knocking Tom back.

"Riddikulus!" He shouted, sending the boggart into the wardrobe with a loud bang.

The silence of the room rang in Rose's ears, Remus turning to her with an expression she can't place.

It was one of pity, sorrow.

Using everything Walburga had ever taught her, Remus watched an action that mimicked her fathers. Rose lifted her chin with a wobbly lip and a face of defiance, wiping off her cheeks roughly before turning to walk out as if nothing happened.

As soon as the classroom door closed though, Rose began to quickly walk in an attempt to avoid everyone, the tesrs flooding down again.

Then she could hear her name being called, only making her pace speed up into a slight run.