Turn Back the Clock

Chapter 5: The Nature of Us

Ron POV

My glare intensifies more than I thought possible, as my apparent future daughter storms out of the room with the Malfoy spawn. 

"Ronald Weasley." Mother spits out as soon as Rose and the devil are out of the room. Mum crosses the room and makes a mad grab for my ear. 

"Ow Mum!" I flinch, unable to get away. 

She always overreacts. I was just trying to protect the girl that was going to be my daughter, from the trouble that only a Malfoy could inflict. Mine and Hermione's daughter. I smile a little at that thought, but the force of Mum's grasp on my ear, quickly brushes the smile off of my face. 

"Ronald Weasley. You are going to go find them and apologize!" 

"I will not!" 

Her grip on my ear tightens, causing me to yelp. She was one strong woman. 

Managing to get out of her reach, I step away and knock over a few chairs in the process to hide behind Hermione. "No way. I'm her father, she should have to apologize to me." 

Hermione stiffens at my words and suddenly I realize my hands are on her shoulders and that her hair smells amazing, like strawberries. 

"Even so Ron, you were in the wrong." Hermione shakily agrees, taking a seat at the table, so that I could no longer hide behind her. "It doesn't matter that you are her uh father." Hermione says rather awkwardly, crossing her arms. A blush rises to her cheeks and I can feel my own flourishing on mine. 

The twins and Harry's attention-seeking son, snicker behind me. I turn to glare at them, which only makes them laugh harder. 

"The girl is right. My entire family is made up of death eaters, but look at me. I'm working in the order and I was in Gryffindor." Sirius says. "I'm nothing like my family and we shouldn't judge the boy without at least getting to know him. If James would have judged me by my last name then we wouldn't have become best mates." Sirius stops his rant and sends me a ghostly smile. 

"I'm not apologizing. Don't you two remember all that Malfoy did to us?" I demand, looking at my two best friends. "All the times he called you a mudblood. The times he's got you detention. Or when he almost got Hagrid fired. Or that time whe-" 

"But that wasn't Scorpius." Harry says, cutting off my rant.

"That may be true, but the ferret raised him. He has to be like him in some ways." 

I was stubborn, I knew that, but there was no way I was going to apologize and let my pride take a massive hit like that. 

"Just leave it." Lily insists, leaning back in her chair. "Uncle Ron is far to stubborn to actually go apologize. Besides, this is their relationship in the future, why should it be any different now?" 

"Who's relationship?" I demand. Was Rose dating the Devil's child? Were they in a relationship? My blood boils at the very idea. 

"Your's and Rose." Lily states, chuckling lightly, despite the heavy tension in the room. 

The future kids smirk and nod their heads agreeing with her. 

"What's that suppose to mean?" Hermione asks.

"It means that you and Rose fight about Scorp all the time." Al reveals, giving me a disgusted look. I flinch at his gaze and notice it looks a lot like Ginny's when she's angry. Not that I was scared of Ginny or anything. "You always say something insulting about Scorp and it sets Rose off. You'll get into these big fights and not speak to each other for a few days. Once you finally do start speaking again, you get into another fight about Scorp and the whole cycle starts over again."