Love is Love: A Scorose Fanfic

Chapter 45: The Tattoo

The day after the night at the beach, Scorpius apparated home. In the morning, it pained him to leave. Rose was still asleep in his arms when he woke up to Apparate home. They both went to sleep at about 2:30, and Scorpius woke up at 8:00. Scorpius sadly was careful enough to not wake Rose, and he slipped out of the hammock. He knew once Rose was up later, she would write to him or send him a Patronus, so he wasn't super worried about it. Before he snapped his fingers, he stole one last glance at Rose, and kissed her forehead. She stirred a little when he did this, but she didn't wake up. Scorpius smiled at her one more time, and then he snapped his fingers. After a minute of pulling and squeezing, he was standing in the living room of Malfoy Manor.

"I'm home." Scorpius said. When he said this, he got no response. This was odd. Scorpius then walked into the kitchen, but his dad wasn't in there either. It was Sunday. Gringotts wasn't open on Sundays. Draco couldn't have been at work. Was he still asleep? No. Draco never slept this late. This concerned Scorpius. So, Scorpius trudged up the stairs to see if Draco was anywhere up there. Scorpius continued to Draco's study, but he wasn't in there either. There was only one other place he could be. Now Scorpius was worried. Scorpius almost sprinted to Draco's bedroom.

When he reached the bedroom, Scorpius almost screamed. He was shocked. Draco was half conscious, and there was blood everywhere. Draco was muttering something, but it was something like I just wan't to be clean. Scorpius really didn't know what to do. His father was barley there, and his forearm was all cut and bleeding. Scorpius sprinted over to Draco, and took his arm into his hands, which were shacking with fear. When Scorpius looked down at his father's arm, where his Dark Mark Tattoo was,  it was all cut, bruised, scratched, and bleeding. Draco had lost a lot of blood, the cuts were pretty deep. Scorpius was shaking with fear. He lost his mum, he couldn't loose his dad too.

This wasn't the first time Draco did something like this. He hated that tattoo on his arm. It reminded him every day of what happened many years ago. He just wanted to forget it all. He wanted to be clean of his dark past. Every time he was in the shower, he always scratched and picked at it, but he knew it would never come off. He just wanted it off. And this time, he got a little carried away.

"Dad no! No no no! Stay with me! STAY WITH ME! I lost mum, I can't loose you too!" Scorpius screamed, shaking with fear, with his father's bleeding arm in his hands.

Scorpius didn't know what to do. He needed help. He grabbed his wand from his back pocket, and casted a Patronus to Rose. The shimmery, misty, dove erupted from the tip of his wand, and went to go get Rose.

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Rose had woken up shortly after Scorpius. She noticed that he wasn't there because she was cold. When she opened her eyes, her theory was proven true. This frustrated her a little bit, but, she understood that Scorpius was supposed to be home yesterday. So, she got out of the hammock, and put her t shirt back on. She agreed that she wouldn't tell her parents that she slept with Scorpius. That would be for her own enjoyment. Hugo was still sound asleep, snoring, with his mouth slightly open. Rose laughed at her younger brother, and decided to apparate home. Hugo could just hitch on to someone else later. With a snap of her fingers, she was pulled and squeezed, and the next moment, she was in her living room.

"Well, well, well. Where have you been missy?" Hermione asked playfully, with a little laugh.

"Oh, places. We all stayed at Uncle Bill and Aunt Fluer's, and we slept on the beach." Rose explained.

"That's nice. Where's your brother?" Hermione said as she was folding some laundry. But, her and Rose's conversation was interrupted by a dove shaped Patronus flying into the room. Hermione and Rose looked at each other for a second, at first, they weren't sure who's Patronus that was. None of their family members had a dove shaped Patronus. Then, realization clicked in for Rose. Scorpius's Patronus was a dove. But, before Rose could say anything, the Patronus started to speak.