Title: Truth behind the name and the lies pt.4
Pairings: DracoxHarry, twincest, OliverxPercy, RemusxSeverus, CharliexBlaise,ViktorxHermione, future BillxFleur. Future Stalker Ginny! Seamus and Colin *hides*
Fandom : HP
Notes: An abused boy finds out he's a wizard and a hero; his tormented mind rebels. One person sees through the misconceptions to the real Harry and treats him the way he deserves. How does this change them both and those around them.

Chapter 21 - A second date and Dragons

Charlie had escorted Blaisé to his first class the day after he swore his Blood Oath, hugging him gently, "Stay close to Draco. Everything will be fine. We're going out to dinner, Severus recommended a nice place. Then I have something I want to show up."

Blaisé bit his lip, "I'll go to class. Just don't be gone long."

Draco slowly put an hand on Blaisé's arm, "We'll look after him. We don't want anything else to happen to him either." Draco had raged his displeasure to his House, Slytherins from every year had been told that morning, 'Once a Slytherin, always a Slytherin. Attack on one is an attack on all. One stepped out of line and injured another. The one thing Slytherin House always had was it's loyalty to one another. This breach made it hard to trust the family that Slytherin House was.

Harry smiled, "We'll look after him. We love him too."

Charlie smiled, "I know you do." it was easy to trust them, they had proven to be very protective of Blaisé. "I'll pick you up at five for an early dinner."

Blaisé blushed, stand up on his tiptoes to kiss Charlie. He didn't care Charlie was older or a Gryffindor, or that members of his House were here. "I'll be good. I'll stay with them. I can't wait until dinner."

Pansy and Daphne pouted. Clearly, they had designs on marrying the boys in their year.

Charlie kissed him lightly, "I'll be back soon. Don't worry, I'm not leaving the grounds."

Draco gently prodded Blaisé into Herbology.

XoooooX

Charlie picked Blaisé up at their rooms, he pulled his mate into his arms kissing him, "How was your day, love."

Blaisé snuggled into Charlie's chest, "I spent the day with Draco and Harry, nothing happened today."

Charlie smiled kissing him gently, "I'm glad. Ready to go out to dinner? Snape arranged for us to take a boat ride. He's busy with Lupin tonight."

Blaisé nodded, "It's the full-moon. Remus spends it in his office. I guess they warded it so Severus can stay with him."

Charlie smiled, "So Remus is a,"

Blaisé gulped, "Please, you can't tell anyone. Remus wouldn't hurt anyone. As long as he takes his potion, he is safe. He loves Severus and Harry so much."

Charlie sighed, "If you say so, I have to trust you. You are the Magical Creatures expert, I'll defer to your opinion."

"Thank you. Severus has been like an uncle to me, it is nice to see him happy. I'd hate to have that taken away from him." Blaisé said quietly.

Charlie smiled, "I promise. He's family. I made an oath to your guardian to protect you and all members of your family. If Severus Snape is family, then so is Remus. I'll have to keep the secret. Come on, let's go to dinner." he held out his arm.

Blaisé slipped his arm in Charlie's and leaned against him, "A Second date? How will you top giving me our home?"

Charlie chuckled as they made their way out of the castle and to the lake, "I have my ways. " He helped Blaisé into the boat, placed an arm around his waist. "It's pretty out tonight."

Blaisé snuggled, "It is nice." the moon was out and they could see pretty far across the lake. The moonlight was shining off the lake, the stars were starting to come out. Blaisé blushed, Charlie was being so good to him, it was easy to almost forget the other night.

The boat ride to Hogsmeade went smoothly, the lake was calm and the wind was barely strong enough to ruffle their hair.

Charlie helped Blaisé from the boat and tied it, taking his mate's hand and leading him towards the restaurant Snape recommended.

Blaisé smiled to himself, the place was nice.; not expensive but pleasant.

Charlie pulled out Blaisé's chair for him, kissing the top of his head, "Order anything you want."

Blaisé bowed his head embarrassed, he knew Charlie worked for a living and was embarrassed. He had been raised to a certain lifestyle, and he worried about if Charlie could afford to treat him like this.

"Don't worry, I promise I can afford this." He was going to receive the Nott Fortune on top of what he already had from the Prewett's as well as what he had meticulously saved from his job at the. What was left of the Prewett Fortune had been split between himself and Bill. The family's Wizengamot seat was going to Bill and a house called Shell Cottage, which was on the outskirts of Tinworth, Cornwall, near the coast. Of course, he wouldn't gain access to most of it until he was Bonded. He wanted to enjoy getting to know Blaisé, he did want their children to be hatched in a committed relationship but he wasn't interested in rushing things. He wanted their courtship to be perfect, something that they could tell the kids. Blaisé deserved the best, not because he was raised that way but because of his pure spirit.

Blaisé nodded, "I would like the Salmon and a salad."

Charlie chuckled, "Alright." bringing his mate's hand to his lips, "Anything you want." after the last few weeks Blaisé needed this, he was sure of it.

Blaisé laughed, "Kiwi juice please."

Charlie grinned, ordering a steak for himself and the salmon for Blaisé. They choose a salad first course.

Their salad and drinks came first.

They had a quiet table on the veranda, very private.

Charlie wondered, if Christmas would be too soon to ask Blaisé to Bond with him. They had only know.

XoooooX

Charlie tied up the boat, helping Blaisé onto the bank, "Trust me?"

Blaisé said softly, "Always."

"I want to show you something." Charlie entwined his fingers with Blaisé's taking his hand, "Come on." he really did want to show Blaisé this but he hoped his mate might tell Harry. Harry didn't deserve to go in blind, especially not against dragons. Dragons were dangerous even to experienced Dragonologists.

Blaisé pouted when he sniffed, "Hagrid. What is he doing here?"

But then - when they had walked so far around the perimeter of the forest that the castle and the lake were out of sight -

Charlie sighed, "He's always been obsessed with…wait how do you know Hagrid is here?"

Blaisé shrugged, "I smell him. "

"Wair is it you are taking me, 'Agrid?"

"Yeh'll enjoy this," Hagrid said gruffly, "worth seein', trust me. On'y - don' go tellin' anyone I showed yeh, right? Yeh're not s'posed ter know."

"Of course not," came a barely feminine sounding voice.

There was a large flash and then Blaisé heard something.

Men were shouting up ahead…

Then came a deafening, earsplitting roar…and then more roars, each with a different tone.

Charlie groaned, "The Horntail is at it again. Come on. Stay close to me."

Blaisé watched as Hagrid led his large female companion, he thought it was Madam Maxime who he had only seen during meals, around a clump of trees and came to a halt.

Blaisé hurried up alongside Charlie - for a split second, he thought he was seeing bonfires, and men darting around them - and then his mouth fell open. Dragons.

Four fully grown, enormous, vicious-looking dragons were rearing onto their hind legs inside an enclosure fenced with thick planks of wood, roaring and snorting - torrents of fire were shooting into the dark sky from their open, fanged mouths, fifty feet above the ground on their outstretched necks. There was a silvery-blue one with long, pointed horns, snapping and snarling at the wizards on the ground; a smooth-scaled green one, which was writhing and stamping with all its might; a red one with an odd fringe of fine gold spikes around its face, which was shooting mushroom-shaped fire clouds into the air; and a gigantic black one, more lizard-like than the others, which was nearest to them.

Blaisé recognize them from pictures in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them textbook; a Hungarian Horntail, a Chinese Fireball, a Swedish Short-Snout and a Common Welsh Green.

At least thirty wizards including Charlie, seven or eight to each dragon, were attempting to control them, pulling on the chains connected to heavy leather straps around their necks and legs.

Mesmerized, Blaisé looked up, high above him, and saw the eyes of the black dragon, with vertical pupils like a cat's, bulging with either fear or rage, he couldn't tell which by the smell…

It was making a horrible noise, a yowling, screeching scream.

"Keep back there, Hagrid!" Charlie yelled near the fence, straining on the chain he was holding. "They can shoot fire at a range of twenty feet, you know! I've seen this Horntail do forty!"

"Is'n' it beautiful?" Hagrid said softly.

"It's no good!" another wizard yelled. "Stunning Spells, on the count of three!"

Blaisé watched from Charlie's shadow and saw each of the dragon keepers pull out his wand.

"Stupefy!" they shouted in unison, and the Stunning Spells shot into the darkness like fiery rockets, bursting in showers of stars on the dragons' scaly hides.

Blaisé watched the dragon nearest to him teeter dangerously on its back legs; its jaws stretched wide in a silent howl; its nostrils were suddenly devoid of flame, though still smoking - then, very slowly, it fell. Several tons of sinewy, scaly black dragon hit the ground with a thud that watched as it made the trees behind him quake.

The dragon keepers lowered their wands and walked forward to their fallen charges, each of which was the size of a small hill. They hurried to tighten the chains and fasten them securely to iron pegs, which they forced deep into the ground with their wands.

"Wan' a closer look?" Blaisé rolled his eyes as Hagrid asked Madame Maxime excitedly.

The pair of them moved right up to the fence, but Blaisé was on the other side of it.

The wizard who had warned Hagrid not to come any closer turned, it was Blaisé's mate, Charlie.

"All right, Hagrid?" he panted, coming over to talk reaching into the darkness for Blaisé. "They should be okay now - we put them out with a Sleeping Draft when we got nearer to Calais, France. We also weren't sure they would behave well during the forty-five minute trip beneath the English Channel. The director thought it might be better for them to wake up in the dark and the quiet. Like you saw, they weren't happy, not happy at all,"

"What breeds you got here, Charlie?" Hagrid said, gazing at the closest dragon, the black one, with something close to reverence.

Its eyes were still just open, Blaisé could see a strip of gleaming yellow beneath its wrinkled black eyelid; he already knew what the breeds were.

"This is a Hungarian Horntail," Charlie said. "There's a Common Welsh Green over there, the smaller one; a Swedish Short-Snout, that blue-gray; and a Chinese Fireball, that's the red."

Charlie looked around; Madame Maxime was strolling away around the edge of the enclosure, gazing at the stunned dragons.

"I didn't know you were bringing her, Hagrid," Charlie said, frowning. "The champions aren't supposed to know what's coming - she's bound to tell her student, isn't she?" he was annoyed, he wanted Harry to be the only one to know.

"Jus' thought she'd like ter see 'em," Hagrid shrugged, still gazing, enraptured, at the dragons.

"Really romantic date, Hagrid," Charlie said, shaking his head, he was annoyed that Hagrid had the same idea.

"Four…" said Hagrid, "so it's one fer each o' the champions, is it? What've they gotta do - fight 'em?"

"Just get past them, I think," Charlie said. "We'll be on hand if it gets nasty, Extinguishing
Spells at the ready. They wanted nesting mothers, I don't know why… but I tell you this, I don't envy the one who gets the Horntail; it's a vicious thing. It's back end is as dangerous as it's front, look."

Charlie pointed toward the Horntail's tail, and Blaisé saw long, bronze-colored spikes protruding along it every few inches. He shivered, only of the horns on it's tail could puncture even his Veela skin.

Five of Charlie's fellow keepers staggered up to the Horntail at that moment, carrying a clutch of huge granite-gray eggs between them in a blanket. They placed them carefully at the Horntail's side.

Hagrid let out a moan of longing.

"I've got them counted, Hagrid," Charlie said sternly, he remembered Hagrid moaning that he always wanted a dragon when he was in school.

"Fine," Hagrid pouted, but he was still gazing at the eggs.

"I just hope Harry is still fine after he's faced this lot," Charlie said grimly, looking out over the dragons' enclosure.

Blaisé wasn't sure whether he was glad Charlie had shown him what Harry was facing or not. Blaisé sensed Dark Magic, he looked around and then in the darkness he recognized the goatee… it was Karkaroff. A Dark Wizard…

Karkaroff seemed very suspicious, looking around in the darkness. Then he crept back under the cover of the trees and started to edge forward toward the place where the dragons were.

Blaisé moved closer to Charlie, silently reminding him he was here. Perhaps this way was better; Madam Maxime would tell her champion and Karkaroff the sneaky ex-Death Eater that he was would tell Viktor if Harry wouldn't.

Charlie nodded to his fellow dragonologists, reaching for Blaisé's hand and lead him back to the Castle.

Once they were alone in their room Blaisé stood on his toes to kiss Charlie, "I can't believe you showed me dragons and I got to see you work with them."

Charlie chuckled, "Didn't intend for you to see me working."

Blaisé licked his lips, "You were hot…"

Charlie hadn't expected that reaction, "Blaisé…" he was wary of doing anything sexual since Blasé was attacked.

Blaisé deepened the kiss, "Amante…" pressing his body to Charlie's, he needed this.

Charlie kissed him back, unsure of what to do. If he pushed Blaisé away he knew that it would upset Blaisé, but he wasn't sure his mate was ready for this.

Blaisé pulled him back to their bedroom, slowly undressing. He was shaking, he needed to prove he was still desirable, that Charlie still wanted him. Charlie barely touched him after the attack, had Nott succeeded? Did Charlie not want him anymore? Were his bruises and emotional scars for hideous that his mate changed his mind?

Charlie bit his lip, "Blaisé, wait. Are you ready for this? It hasn't been that long since you were attacked, I don't want you to make a choice, you'll regret it."

Charlie's words broke his heart, Blaisé closed his eyes, pulled away, diving into the bed and pulling the blanket around him. "It's true." he started to shake, "you don't want me." he was going into shock, he could feel his body temperature dropping. Rejection by one's mate could emotionally and physically cripple a Veela, it could even kill them.

Charlie pulled him into his arms, "No, that's not true. I want you so much. Blaisé I love you. I want to Bond with you. I want to raise our children together." he opened his hand, showing his mate the scar he sliced into his own hand during the Rite of Blood Oath, "I took a Blood Oath to avenge you. I signed my name to a Blood Feud against the Nott family. I want you to be safe. I'll find the man who did this to you, who hurt you and make them pay. It's not fair that this person hurts you, they are attacking you when I'm not here to protect you. I can't believe anyone would hurt you, it hurts me knowing you can targeted in one of the safest places I know of. Blaisé, don't you know how much I love you?" He could feel a crushing sensation on his chest when Blaisé reacted as if he had rejected him.

Blaisé whispered, "You want me? You still want me?" he almost didn't dare believe him.

"You're beautiful, you told me once that you were born for me remember? I've been wondering when I should propose? I want us to be Bonded before our children are born."

Blaisé's eyes filled with tears, "You want to be Bonded to me? Before our children hatch?"

Charlie kissed his neck, "Of course I want that, I love you."

Blaisé shivered beneath his lips, "Then why won't you,"

"because, I don't want you to panic if we get intimate too soon. When you had your nightmare because of the curse I tried to wake you and you pulled away from me. It broke my heart, you were afraid of me…"

Blaisé shook his head, "Not afraid of you. I just couldn't tell the difference between your touch and the touch in my dream. I couldn't be afraid of you, you would never hurt me. You couldn't."

Charlie nodded, "I swore a Blood Oath to protect you."

"I didn't mean that; to hurt me is hurt yourself. We're mates, we're connected. What happens to me is supposed to affect you."

"That's why when you were attacked, you showed up in my dream screaming for me."

Blaisé nodded. "Yes."

"Then why didn't I know anything was wrong when you were under the Nightmare Curse?"

Blaisé turned and curled up against him, "I don't know. I've never heard of the curse before, I didn't dabble in the Dark Arts. I was more interested in Neutral Magic when I was growing up. Lucius made Draco learn though. You really mean it? You want to be Bonded to me?"

Charlie lifted his chin and kissed his beautiful naked mate, "Yes, more then anything. I've filed papers with the ministry that say I am your intended and informed mum that you will be family. I have a house that is yours too, how could I be with anyone else when you were born for me?"

Blaisé relaxed in his arms, kissing him back, "Please, I'm not asking for more then we've done already. I need you Charlie, please just be with me."

Charlie kissed him, "If you flinch or tell me to stop I will. I could never force you to do anything I promise."

Blaisé grabbed Charlie's shirt, "I need you, I need to feel your body next to mine."

Charlie whispered a spell that would send his clothes to the laundry basket for his house elves. He kissed Blaisé, holding him close, "I love you." he was getting aroused and it was pressed to Blaisé's thigh.

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Blaise snuggled, "I know."

Charlie vanished their semen, "Sleep well."

They fell asleep in each other's arms.

I cut out the intimate stuff. Well we know how Harry will find out about the Dragons now. of course Harry will have to tell Cedric...it's only fair.