Disclaimer: I own nothing! If I did, Percy x Oliver would have been a real couple in the movie and Harry would have been killed horribly in the first twenty minutes.
Summary: Oliver loves Percy, but doesn't get the chance to tell him until he finds out Percy is suffering from a life threatening illness. How will Percy react?
CHAPTER TEN
The Great Hall which so many students were used to seeing set up for dinners had changed dramatically for the dance this night. The whole room was lit only by floating candles, as it normally was but hanging from the ceiling was a chandler of crystal (though no one could tell if it was real or not) that lit up the dark room even more. There was a small orchestra where the teacher's table would normally be, dressed in their very best as they played the music in front of them with ease and every student, male and female, inside the room was dressed in either black, white or gold costumes. The tables were on the sides of the room, covered black table cloths accented with golden accents. On the table, bowls of various candies of various colors in between golden fountains that ran the pumpkin juice everyone was going to be drinking in between candles melting inside false skulls and false monster hands holding orbs containing static electricity that just seemed to jump out to the edges of the glass ball. A heavy layer of mist covered the ground and false gravestones littered the room, attempting to make it seem like a graveyard. Even the moon shone into the room from the charmed ceiling above everyone helping with the illusion.
As Percy and Oliver walked into this "graveyard" the orchestra began playing a familiar song from Oliver's childhood being that he was part muggle and he smiled. Just loud enough for Percy to hear him he sang along with the music "Boys and ghouls of every age, would you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see this our town of Halloween…" This earned him a strange look but the smile that accompanied it erased anything discouraging from the look. The pair laughed softly and walked over to the tables to get some punch, unknowingly having to pass through a group of Slytherins to get there.
"Well well, what do we have here?" the all too familiar sneer of Marcus Flint, dressed as the Phantom of the Opera, made out. "A pair of dancers? How utterly pathetic."
Percy couldn't be any paler but Oliver could see the surprise and flash of fear in his eyes. Still, they had decided to keep their mouths shut to avoid people recognizing them right off the bat, which was working so far, so they said nothing. He squeezed Percy's hand that was holding onto the crook of his arm with his other hand, trying to reassure him, a gesture that the idiot did not miss.
Marcus wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Ugh. I know Halloween is supposed to be a time for gore and other disgusting things but homosexuality could have stayed out of this one. God, are you two just too pathetic to get other dates or just out here to drive the rest of us out of here with your gayness?"
At this the two looked at each other, unsure if they were recognized or not but since Marcus has yet to blab who they were just yet he probably hadn't figured it out. So they smiled at him, almost cruelly, then Percy leaned up to place a gentle, chaste kiss to Oliver's black tainted lips. It was enough to make the Slytherin shiver and walked away from them and send them both into a small laughing fit. "That was perfect!" Oliver whispered in Percy's ear. "We'll have to do that for him just before a game and screw up the whole Slytherin strategy." Percy said nothing but, if there had been less make up on his face, one would have noticed the blush rising in his cheeks.
However, that was when the last bit to the previous song had ended and a new tune began to play, one Percy recognized immediately. He tugged on Oliver's sleeve, grinning almost evilly and it only took a moment for the Quidditch captain to recognize what he meant and grinned too. They quickly made their way onto the dance floor which had become mostly empty and took up the first standard, closed latin dance position as the heavy and dramatic tune of an argentine tango began. This one was one they had learned during their summer time ballroom dance lessons they had found out each other had been taking and so they decided to see what would happen if they showed their stuff at this dance. Judging from the positioning, Oliver was the lead though Percy was no slouch when it came to the dance either.
At first their steps were not complicated, a basic turn for Percy then for Oliver, then the typical long-long-short-short steps of the original tango. Then things became more complicated. Percy swept his foot beneath them while Oliver raised a leg to guide Percy backwards in the dance before gracefully re-stepping into his standard position and turning the pair of them a bit more so that Percy would have room to flip one long leg over Oliver's and back into balance before taking another step backwards and twisting that same leg between Oliver's then back the other way and turning to let Oliver do the same move in front of him. Some people in the audience flinched since human knees, they thought shouldn't have bent that way.
The began to turn again and Oliver lifted Percy into the air before gently setting him down again as Percy returned to that painful looking twist of the knees dance step one more time before they gracefully began dancing back towards the center of the room, feet sweeping gracefully over the ground as they seemed to come closer together. They returned to the basic tango steps as if to take a break, as they crossed to the other end of the room, but the look in their eyes as they gazed so loving at each other had no changed, meaning there was more to come.
Oliver took a step back and the knee twisting began again, with some sweeping steps and Oliver's leg coming up to guide Percy in a turn as it did before but it wasn't long before the dance returned to the basic tango step of this dance and a couple of sweeping dance steps until Percy ended up in a near split on the ground, one hand still holding Oliver's as if for balance. He seemed to smile as he was and turned to that he had one knee practically against Oliver's chest and Oliver had his leg underneath it, which Percy then used to rest his own leg on before taking his other foot and bringing it up so it almost hit his boyfriend in the ear before sliding off gracefully and back into the dance.
Oliver turned his boyfriend again before he dipped him, his free hand running over the stomach and abs of his handsome partner, before allowing him to straighten again. They fell back into turns and knee twisting though as it music picked up its pace they did with ease, seeming to go in fast motion but really just keeping up to the tempo, continuing with their complicated and almost painful looking steps as they moved effortlessly about the dance floor, focusing on nothing but each other.
They separated for one final turn then came back together, both breathing somewhat heavily from the exertion of the dance, then did a few more steps where their knees twisted before Oliver picked up Percy one more time then set him down, pulling him into a final turn and finishing the whole dance off by a dramatic split low to the ground on Percy's part and Oliver doing his best to keep his boyfriend balanced so he wouldn't fall in that awkward position. They were so close by the end of this move they were breathing each other's air and even granted themselves, just this once, the chance to kiss gently in front of the crowd.
The audience members, teacher and students and orchestra members alike cheered as they stood and took their bows, still hand in hand, before walking off the floor to go take a on a tombstone that was near the walls. They were both tired but at the same time energized and excited from the dance, so much so, they almost forgot their own "no speaking" rule. Oliver was the first to take a seat and Percy joined him by sitting on his lap and pulling strong arms around his waist while he watched the others dance to their more common dance music. The perfect dance for the perfect night.
Chapter Ten completed! WOOT! Long update time period I know but I had to think of the perfect dance for them. By the way, if you are having trouble picturing this dance, send me a message with your e-mail address in it to send you the URL so you can look at the dance I based this off of. Don't worry about me spamming you with junk and stuff, it'll just be for that one e-mail then it will be gone from my computer forever...I promise so READ AND REVIEW!