Chapter Five: Hey Ya'll Welcome ta Tennessee
Dragon woke up late the next morning, he only had three hours to dress, eat breakfast, make sure he had everything packed, and get Mat and himself over to the airport before Will took off without them. He quickly shot out of the bed, jumped into the shower and quickly brushed his teeth. "Dobby, can you please bring me a few pieces of toast and Strawberry poptarts please?" Dragon called out from inside his closet. He pulled on a pair of semi-baggy blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a green collared shirt with the first few buttons open.
"Step out of an Ambecrombie and Fitch magazine?" Oliver asked, sitting in a chair by the fire place in Dragon's room. "Harry's still asleep but he wanted to give you this before you left, but I didn't want to wake him." Oliver said, handing Dragon a wallet full of money and a few credit cards.
"Thanks, I think I have everything. I just need to eat breakfast and wait for Mat to arrive, he should hopefully be here any minute now." Dragon put on a watch and casual yet dress type of shoes, before spiking his hair.
"You're welcome, please be careful over there. I know you'll have security guards galour and that Harry hired you your own body guard but please be careful."
"I will Oli. Thanks for caring though. Thank you Dobby." The house elf popped up and handed Dragon his breakfast. Mat came tumbling out of the fireplace.
"Well, I'll go. If you need anything Dragon."
"I know I know, Floo you and dad immediately. Now go on. Hey Mat, you ready?" Dragon asked, picking up his suitcase along with Mat's.
"As ready as I'll ever be." Mat held onto the port key that took them to the gates of Malfoy Manor before getting into a limo. "Was that really necessary?"
"Well since we only have an hour to get to the airport and it would have taken us thirty minutes, yes it was necessary. I missed you." Dragon said, kissing him.
"I missed you also. I guess you haven't seen today's Daily Prophet." Mat said, kissing Dragon back before placing the Prophet into Dragon's hands.
Dragon and Mat:
The Real Truth
By: Rita Skeeter
The little town on Calfa had some very amusing entertainment last night as one Dragon Malfoy was seen with his new love Mathew Mcguire in a local Cafe. Dragon was also seen earlier that day in the family owned flower shop arranging flowers that he gave to Mathew the night of the date. Tourist that happened to be in the shop said that Dragon not only gave him flowers, but also a few Chocolate Frogs. Which bears the question are Dragon and Mat engaged, and if not what happened to Miss Melissa Black? Some of you might remember Miss Black, Dragon's girlfriend of two years. Reporters at the Daily Prophet wonder if Melissa and Dragon are still together and if so does Melissa know about the affair.
"Mat, it's just Skeeter okay? No one really takes her seriously, plus we'll be in a whole different contient in a few hours, chances are they don't even know anything about this article. If they ask we'll just tell them that we are friends, we talked this over already remember?" Dragon asked, kissing Mat before setting the Prophet a blaze.
"Sirs, we've arrived." The driver said, opening the door for the two.
"Thank you Smith, same time in three days." Dragon said, walking over to the plane, hand in hand with Mat and surrounded by body guards.
"Nice to see you again M-dog, I see your private date turned a bit public." Will said smiling and getting up to hug both of them.
"Yeah, we will deal with it when it becomes an issue. Now, let's put in a movie." Dragon said, sitting on one of the couches and pulling Mat down next to him. 18 hours later, and 7-8 movies later, they landed in Tennessee, USA.
"Hello Prince William, Lord Dragon Malfoy, and Mr. Mcguire welcome to Tennessee." One of the representative witches said, holding out her hand.
"Thank you for having us and please call us Will, Dragon, and Mat. Now, if you don't mind, we'd like to get settled and have something decent to eat, along with some sleep, it has been a long flight." Will said, shaking hands with the respresentatives, there were three witches and seven wizards along with the 11 body guards that Will, Dragon and Mat got each.
"Right away PrinceWilliam...Will, right this way. Now, you might not know, but the newspapers here are all talking about your affair with Miss Black, we just thought you would like a heads up." One of the wizards said. "My name is Robert, I'm head of the Charity committee.
"Well Robert, Mat and I are just friends, there is no affair as you so blantly put it." Dragon went into Malfoy mode. Once the three boys were in the first limo with their body guards from England, Mat turned to Dragon.
"You're a lord! I mean, I should have known but still!" Mat said shocked.
"Trust me, you don't even want to know his titles along with his name, it gets quite long." Will said laughing.
"No, I want to know I mean I am his friend, what if I'm asked?" Mat said, turning towards Dragon.
"Ok then, but Will did warn you. My full name is Lord Dragon Adain Octavious Malfoy, the Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Lord of Hogsmeade. Happy? I have a lot of titles. Most of them given to me by the death of my father."
"Oh my gosh! That's crazy, how do you remember all of that? Wait, Draco's still alive."
"No he died, long story. He died, but Blaise, Blaise's father and Harry brought him back to life, but since he died and I am the next heir, I get all those titles. I don't understand it really. After your whole life, you get use to it." Dragon said, before looking out the window. The Smokey mountains could be seen in the distance, there were a bunch of shops placed here and there. "What part of Tennessee are we in?" Dragon asked, turning back towards Mat and Will.
"A place called Pidgeon Forge we should be in the wizarding world in a few minutes. So, do you actually think we can get people to help support us? I mean we have a whole country to save." Will said, realization finally dawning on him.
"You two will do great, trust me." Mat smiled at them both. "Look, we're here." He said, pointing out of the limo windows. The streets unlike Diagon alley, were paved over. The shops looked respectable and extremely clean.
"Prince William, Lord Malfoy, Mr. Mcguire your hotel." Brion another offical said, as the three boys got out of the Limo to stand infront of the hotel. It was the wizarding worlds version of the Ritz. "You have a press conference this evening at five in meeting hall seven. Then tomorrow is the charity event, it starts at eight. Dragon, you and Will will give your speeches around ten and your performance will be at one. After that, you have a few press conferences and photo shoots."
"Thank you, that will be all for now, we will see you tonight at five." Dragon said, walking into the hotel through the back door and using the private elevator up to their rooms.
"Well, see you two in a few hours." Will said, going into his room and falling asleep. Dragon turned towards Mat. "I know they gave you your own room, but we can share one if you'd like."
"What if the press is outside our rooms or something?"
"We'll keep the curtains drawn unless we're positive, and the body guards know not to let anyone up unless they are our parents or committee members. Please." Dragon asked, giving Mat his puppy dog face.
"Okay, okay." Mat picked up his bag and walked into Dragon's hotel suite. "Oh Merlin, look at this place."
"Yes babe, it's called a pent house suite. You and Will have one also. Now come on, let's get some sleep before we're pulled all around town." Dragon said, crawling into bed and pulling Mat with him before wrapping his arms around Mat and falling asleep. At six o'clock, the were awoken by their security guards banging on the door.
"Dragon, Mat time to get up. You have an hour before the press conference." Robbie the bigger of the two security guards said, yelling through the door. "Are you two up or am I going to have to break down the door?"
"We're up!" Mat called out, dragging his butt into the shower while Dragon went through their suitcases picking out clothes. Once both were showered, dressed, and looked impressive, they made their way with Will to the meeting room.
"Thank you all for coming today, we will be happy to answer any and all of your questions concerning the wizarding economy of the UK. As most of you know, I am Lord Dragon Malfoy, next to me is my friend Mathew Mcguire, and to his left is Prince William of Wales. We'll start with you." Dragon said pointing out into the huge group of reporters.
"Now that the dark era is over, is there any prediction of when the next one might arise?"
"We are predicting that there will not be a Dark Lord or Lady for at least the next hundred years if not longer. However, that does not mean that there are not people out there willing to fight against the side of light. Next question. "
"What exactly does the UK look like now? I mean why do you need money to start re-building?"
"The UK though it seems far for most of you, has an unstable economy right now. Most of the villages were burned to the ground, some of our hospitals are filled because of people that were hurt during the war, even though this happened 13 years ago, we don't have enough money or people to rebuild a whole country, if not more. It will take time and the help of millions to get us back to where we and other countries were. Voldemort's reach went as far as Spain, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Luckily countries such as Franceamd America were not effected by Voldemort directly, even though you did live amongst Death Eaters. The war was almost restarted two years ago due to Belatrix Lestrange, Peter Pettigrew , and a few other Death Eaters that were in hiding and had yet to be found. Then again last year by Tom Riddle's daughter, out of an act of desperation, Kelly killed her father's own Death Eaters to save herself. In the end, she was killed by a curse stronger then the Avada Kedavra. However, we guarantee that the war is over. Next question please."
"Prince William, is it true that you are engaged to a girl named Sophia?" William looked over at Dragon and rolled his eyes, he knew once the serious questions were over with the stupid ones would begin.
"No, I am not nor have I ever been engaged."
"Dragon, we see that you've brought Mr. Mcguire with you. Are you two a couple? Friends? There were recently rumors that you were engaged also."
"We are just friends, we did meet at a club a few nights ago but nothing came from it. I was engaged to Melissa Black, but we decided to go our seperate ways, no one had anything to do with that seperation." Dragon said, rubbing the bridge of his nose. 'Sure no one but some other guy.'
"What about the kiss in the club that night? Or the photo's from this morning's Daily Prophet? How come your relationship with Melissa didn't work?"
"I can answer some of this one, the kiss from that night in the club was a drunken occurance. The photo's from this morning Daily Prophet was nothing more then Dragon coming over to talk to my parents and I about the guy's trip to America today, the flowers from the shop that day were given to my mother and the Chocolate Frogs were split between my father, older brother, and myself. "
"Melissa and I split because of a falling out we had, I love Melissa dearly, she will always be a friend of mine, but being as young as we were when we got together it was obviously not meant to last. I'm sorry, but that's all the time we have right now for questions." Dragon definitely wanted to getout of there before the questions got any worse. All three of them left the meeting hall and headed towards the car to go get something to eat.
"Wow, that was so weird, everyone wanted to know everything about you two." Mat said, curling into Dragon's side. The windows were tinted, so no one could see through them no matter how hard they tried.
"Mat, they wanted to know about you also." Will smiled as the boy in question blushed, it was funny how he was always shocked over Will and Dragon's fame that he missed the obvious. Dragon kissed Mat trying to calm him down.
"So Will, have any embarrasing stories about Dragon here?"
"Well there was the first time he got drunk at one of the clubs mmmhmm hpmmmph." Dragon placed his hand over Will's mouth.
"He's not interested in that story, trust me." Will shock his head, before resorting to licking the palm of Dragon's hand. "Ewww, I have Will germs on me!" Dragon said, wiping his hand on the seat.
"No, I'm completely interested." Mat sat on Dragon, making sure Dragon couldn't move or use his hands to cover Mat's ears or Will's mouth.
"Well, as you know Gillywater has alcohol in it, a lot of alcohol. Well, our little Dragon didn't know that and ordered some against H-dogs and mines warnings. By the time we decided to dance, he had seven of them. Let's just say we were extremely shocked when there was no picture of a naked, club dancing, Dragon on the front page of any of the magazines or newspapers the next morning. We were shocked to see a picture of Dragon at the Malfoy villa dressed in a dress and high heels running down the street claming he was a girl out to rob everyone of their Bertie Botts Every Flavored Beans, because he was sexually frustrated. We call him M-aid not just because it's Malfoy Adian, you know take the A and N off of each end and spell it back wards, but because he was wearing a maid's dress." Mat turned to look at Dragon trying extremely hard not to laugh.
"Go on laugh, everyone else did." Dragon's face was scarlet red.
"Aww babe, I won't laugh at you. It's a cute story. Ohh food, we're here." Will chuckled at that, as Dragon frowned.
"I get it, food is way more important then I am." Dragon said, getting out of the car after Will, and followed by Mat.
"That's not what I meant and you know it. It's just...it's food."
"You have to agree with him Drag, come on this is like a show type dinner thing. I believe it's owned by Dolly Parton and called The Dixie Stampede." The security guards led them through the crowd and up to the V.I.P seats. Once the theater type arena became dark, and Dragon and Mat were seated, Dragon reached for Mat's hand under the table putting three fingers against Mat's hand. 'I know' Mat traced the words on the back of Dragon's hand with him thumb, before turning to smile at him. They both had just agreed that this was their third date. The show and food were great, they had to eat with their hands, since it was based off of the old times. Once it ended, they were given hand wipes and escorted back to the car.
"Where to now young sirs?" The driver asked, rolling down the seperating window.
"Are there anymore shows or clubs that you would suggest?" Dragon asked, the only thing he had on his mind was getting close to Mat without making it look like a date.
"There are a few musical shows, two big clubs around the corner of the shows also. Might I suggest you take in a show and a club you are here for two nights."
"Great thinking. Do you have a map of the shows?" Dragon asked, leaning over the window. The driver handed him a map of all the local shows, pointing out the ones that the boys may be interested in that were about to start. "Here babe, twirl your finger and whatever show it lands on we'll go to." Mat's finger landed on a show called Country Tonite.
"That's a great show, it wins the best show award every year." The driver started the car and headed towards the theater. The show didn't just include country music, but also some of the most recent songs in other genres such as pop and rock. The only bad thing about going to a public theater was the fact that reporters and paparazzi were allowed in as long as the flash was turned off, which didn't help during the intermission.
"Great date you two are on, you should have just came out at the beginning." Will whispered into Dragon's ear.
"Yeah that would have went over well since they thought Melissa was pregnant with my child." Dragon whispered, getting up at the end of the show, they were once again surrounded by the three body guards hired by Harry, Oliver, and Prince Charles along with the ones provided by the counsel. Since they could barely be seen, Mat hooked his finger around Dragon's back belt loop so he didn't get lost in the crowd. After the show they went to The Oasis, a popular night club in the area before going back to their hotel room at three in the morning.
"Shhh...We've got to be sneaky, we don't want to be caught." Dragon whispered, looking out for the press in the enterance hall.
"Oh not this again. Let's face it Dragon, when you're drunk you are the worst at being sneaky. Watch out for the coat rack." Will said, pulling Dragon out of the way of the stationary coat rack by the wall.
"Babe do you even open up those pretty eyes of yours while you walk after you drink? Last time you ran into a wall, this time you almost run into a coat rack." Mat, who was the most sober said, leading the other two towards the elevator. "You just better be able to sing tomorrow. I can take him from here, good night Will."
"Night Mat, Dragon. Good luck." Will said smiling before going into his hotel room. Mat looked confused for a second, before shaking his head and opening the door to the hotel room and making sure Dragon got in there without bumping into anything. Dragon turned towards Mat and started kissing him, unbottoning Mat's shirt. 'Right, drunk Dragon equals a horny Dragon.' Mat reminded himself of the story.
"Hey babe, please let's wait. I want to make sure you are a bit more sober and we aren't in a hotel room." Mat kissed him, Dragon went into pouting mode. "How about I make you a compromise. We don't have sex tonight but we can go take a shower together tonight instead okay? You go and lay on the bed while I start the shower, heat up the water and get the towels." Mat laid Dragon on the bed, and went into the bathroom pretending to start the shower. 'Once his head hits the pillow he'll be out like a light.' Mat waited a few minutes, changed into his pajamas, turned off the shower and walked into the room where Dragon was asleep. Mat crawled into bed, covered himself and Dragon before falling asleep.
KimeKimeKimeKime
The next morning, Mat woke up wrapped in Dragon's arms. He smiled watching Dragon sleep, the small sliver of sunlight shining through the curtain and hitting Dragon's face just right. 'Merlin I wish I could wake up everyday like this.' Mat thought smiling.
'We could wake up like this everyday, once we get into a serious relationship and see if everything works out for the better.' Dragon's voice popped up in his head.
"Ok that's just weird." Mat whispered to himself. 'I am loosing my mind.' He thought again.
'You aren't, but I am, you owe me a shower or sex remember that was our compromise.' Dragon's voice said, as Dragon shifted his leg so his problem was a little more evident.
"Dragon are you awake?" Mat asked, looking Dragon over. Dragon definitely looked like he was asleep. 'But then how could Dragon have moved and be in my head at the same time.'
'You obviously don't mind that my hardness is rubbing against your leg. Oh and another thing, I'm a Legimens a great one, I'm also a great Occulmens. So, I can read everything going on in that cute brain of yours but unless you know the right time to break into mine it's like a steel trap.' "Shower?" Dragon asked, opening his eyes.
"Dragon! You should not have been reading my mind, that's an invasion of privacy." Mat was upset with Dragon, he had no right to do that no matter what.
"You're right, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to, I don't know how I did, I mean usually you have to make eye contact. I just woke up and heard your voice in my head, that's what woke me up in the first place. I'm really sorry, please let me make it up to you today. We'll leave Will on his own and do something, just the two of us." Dragon didn't want to be in the dog house with Mat, especially since they were getting along so well.
"Do you really love me?'
"Of course I do, you should never doubt that."
"Are we going to be together while we're at Hogwarts? Let me rephrase that, do you want us to be together while we are at Hogwarts?"
"Yes, I do. So much more then you know."
"Then why keep everything a secret? They are all going to find out the truth, either we'll be caught in Hogwarts, in Hogsmeade, someone will leak it to the press, or the best possible scenario we end up engaged and married, why not just put it out there, deal with the press now for the summer and get it out of the way. That way while we're at Hogwarts, over Christmas breaks, the free time that we get in the years coming will be ours and not theirs. Right now we are going out of our way to keep everyone in the dark about our relationship, when it's getting us no where. I don't know how your parents dealt with it, and I don't know how Melissa dealt with it, but I am just a small town boy, I live in the middle of no where with barely enough money to get by, all I want is a solid relationship. I don't want to sneak behind millions of people's backs, I wasn't born and raised that way. I want to be able to kiss you in public, to hold your hand, I just want to be with you like a regular couple. If that takes the press time to get over the fact that we are together then let them come get their kicks and get over it. I don't care if I become famous, I don't care what they say about me, what they say about us. I just want to be with you while being with you. "
"I understand, and that makes perfect sense when you think about it, but that's not how the paparazzi work. We admit that we are a couple and they won't stop hounding you, the village you live in. They will pull up everything that you've hidden about your past and use it against you and I can't see that happen to you."
"Dragon, my record is clean. The only thing they could use against me is the fact that I have no money, none at all, the flower shop up until three angels came into the store was going to have to be put up for sale because we can't afford it. That's how you helped my family, you, Will and Daniel helped pay for food and rent. The worst thing they could say was that I seduced you into dating me because I was after your money, which is far from the truth. Please don't pentalize me becuase of something the press may or may not do." It broke Dragon's heart to see Mat standing there, on the verge of tears bearing the his heart to him. He knew it had to be extremely hard for Mat to admit that he had absolutely no money, especially to Dragon who had more then enough for years and years. Dragon didn't know what to say, so he walked up to Mat and kissed him, running his tongue across Mat's bottom lip begging for enterance, which Mat was more then happy to grant.
"Let's tell the world." Dragon whispered, pulling Mat towards the shower. Once they were done taking a shower, in which both agreed not to look anywhere below the pant line on each other. They dressed in smart looking suits, Mat's was oneof Dragon's that wasenlarged to fit him, and met up with Will in the Limo, holding hands.
"Getting a little Daredevilish?" Will asked smiling. "So did you heed my warning last night Mat?"
"Yes, luckily he passed out on the bed before anything could happen. Dragon what are you doing?" Mat asked, watching Dragon stand up and opening the sun roof up.
"Telling the world." Dragon said, before standing up all the way and poking his torso out of the top.
"What is he talking about?" Will asked, looking through what he could of the sun roof.
"We aren't hiding it anymore, we just want to be a normal couple." Mat said blushing, as Will's mouth formed an 'O'.
"Mat Mcguire and I are a COUPLE!" Dragon yelled at the top of his lungs about three times. Mat's blushing just increased ten fold and Will tried not to laugh. "I love Mat Mcguire!"
"Okay lover boy, that's enough. I believe you thoroughly embarrased your boyfriend." Will said, pulling on Dragon's leg to get him back into the car. "Plus we're almost there, we have to lock the sun roof so no one will get in, or bug the inside of the limo. Now, get in here." This time both Will and Mat pulled each of Dragon's legs making him fall back into the car. They were ushered into another press junket, this time bigger then the first one and opened to the general public. The stage was set outside on a huge concert sized stage, Mat and Will stood behind the curatin as Dragon went onto the Stage to give his speech before Will.
"I would like to thank you all for coming today, I am hopefully going to answer most of your questions about what the UK and a few other countries look like at this moment, about how the economy is, and answer a few written questions that you handed in at the gates. As some of you know, I am Lord Dragon Adain Potter-Malfoy, son of the wizarding worlds two saviors Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, and grandson to Lily and James Potter, and ex-Death Eaters Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy. As all of you know, the Dark Lord died 13 years ago and the UK has not had the time to rebuild our economy, we still have many homeless people, people are losing their houses everyday. Our hospitals are over crowded and more people are admitted everyday. It is a little known fact that last year and the year before that the original Order of the Phoenix has had to stop Tom Riddle's daughter Kelly from bringing Tom Riddle back to life. We are happy to announce that we have succeeded in doing so, an Order member Chastity Snape, or as most of you knew her as Chastity Mayer or Chastity Malfoy, has predicted that we will not have a dark lord or lordess for quite some time, centuries even. The Order and Ministry of Magic stand behind this prediction due to Chastity's past alliance to Tom Riddle. The American Ministry of Magic has recently donated 7.5 million Galleons, the Royal Family has donated 18 million Galleons, and the Potter-Malfoy family has donated three houses and a combined total of 10 million Galleons. Even though that seems like a lot of money, it will still be spread very thin between a whole country and a few others such as Germany, Austria, and Spain. Please, anything you can donate even if it is just a Sickle will help in the long run. Now, onto the questions that were wrote in at the begining." Mat walked onto the stage and handed Dragon the index sized cue cards before starting to walk back behind the curtain. "Oh no you don't." Dragon said, covering the microphone with the cards. "I want you here, please. As you said, let them get pictures and get it out of their system." Mat smiled, trying to contain himself from hugging Dragon.
"Thank you Mr. Mcguire for the cards, let's give Mathew Mcguire a round of applause huh?" Dragon said, the whole crowd clapping and whistling at him. "Ok first question, what happened to Melissa Black. That is a great question." Dragon said, turning his head to smile at Mat and Will. "Well, it is true that Melissa and I were at one point in time engaged. However, it was revealed that she was unfaithful and pregnant with another's child. It is Malfoy family law that if either one of the engaged is unfaithful the wedding and engagement is called off. The father of Melissa's baby is only known to Melissa and himself. Next question, can you comment on the rumors in the Daily Prophet." Dragon threw both of the cards into the crowd. "As you can see, Mathew and I are extremely sober." Will had to laugh at this. "So, I hope this is proof enough." Dragon turned towards Mathew and kissed him, wrapping his arms around Mat's waist. "The rumors in the paper are true, Mathew and I are a couple. We ask that you please respect our privacy. We don't mind pictures, we just hope that if you do see us and it looks like we are with our families or having a romantic moment please just go on your way. As long as you aren't endangering us or our families you may take as many pictures as you want. Now, to introduce you to one of my best and closest friend, Prince William of Wales." Dragon smiled, took Mat's hand and exited the stage.
"Way to go you two." Will whispered before going and giving his speech. While William filled his two and a half hours, Dragon changed into baggy jeans, an orange and white Oxford button down shirt with a white t-shirt underneath. He sat off stage with Mat in his lap, getting his voice ready for his performance. Mat wrapped one arm around Dragon's neck, fixing the colar of his shirt, while his other hand was holding Dragons.
"Thank you so much, you don't know what that meant to me." Mat whispered, kissing Dragon's cheek. "Are you nervous?"
"You're more then welcome babe. Nope, I've done this before, it's a piece of cake. Come on, let's go check out the venues, we still have an hour to kill." As they exited the back door hand in hand, they were surprised that people weren't flashing cameras in their faces. They could hear the clicking of the camera, and the scratching of pen on paper, but the didn't see flashes, they didn't see cameras, and they didn't see anyone writing, just a huge mass of people intensely watching William.
"I told you it wouldn't be bad." Mat said, kissing Dragon before walking towards the booths that were set up. All of a sudden a crazy idea came to Dragon, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath he turned towards Mat.
"Please don't judge this idea until you hear it all the way through. Why don't you and your family move into Potter Mansion? My grandfather is living in Godric's Hollow right now and he'll probably move in to another Potter villa or something, but Potter Mansion hasn't been inhabited in years. That way, you don't have to worry about not having a house, you can keep the flower shop because now that the secrets out business is bound to boom, but you'd be closer to me. My parents won't mind I swear and it's rent free and paid off, it's furnished, and it's constantly restocked with food that companies send us to try so you'll never have to worry about food. See, your family could save their money, that way, they'll be able to pay for the flower shop, rent out the house above it, and start saving money for the future." Mat looked at Dragon with a watery smile on his face.
"Dragon, I know you care about me and my family, but you can't just give us a house, especially one that still belongs to Harry. I'd feel wrong taking it let aloneliving in it. It sounds like a wonderful idea, but I'd feel like you were doing this because I was some charity case you were helping out. You shouldn't be the one talking to me about this proposal, I don't mind living in poverty, I have for a while now. You aren't ashamed that I'm poor do you?"
"No, I love you even if you were living on the streets. I just thought it would be a good idea, you know save up some money for the rest of your Hogwarts career and your sisters. Have some money so your parents can have romantic get aways, trust me it's important that grown ups go somewhere without taking the kids. I'll talk to Oliver and Harry when we get back, we'll work something out, and I won't come back to you. Harry and Oliver or one or the other will go and bring the proposal up to your mum and dad. Aww, look Claddagh rings." Dragon said, looking at the gold rings sitting on one of the tables. Dragon took out two Knuts and placed them on the table, picking one up for Mat and putting it on his ring finger with the heart facing towards Mat, before kissing it. Mat picked up the other one, placing it with the heart facing Dragon onto Dragon's finger kissing it also. Mat then took the necklace out of hiding from under his green and white Oxford t-shirt so people could see it. "Come on, I have to get back on stage. It's almost time for me to perform." Dragon stole a kiss from Mat once more before the headed back towards the backstage door and disappeared behind it.
"That is all the time I have today for answering your questions, now without further ado it is time to start the concert part of this event so it is my deepest pleasure to re-introduce you to Dragon Malfoy." Will said, clapping his hands, before walking off stage and sitting down in a chair catching his breath, calming his mind, and grabbing a drink of water.
"Thanks and welcome again to Save-a-life 2005." Dragon picked the microphone up off of the stand, before turning towards the band whom started playing. " Whatcha been doin'? Whatcha been doin'? Whoa, Whoa, haven't seen ya 'round. How ya been feelin'? How ya been feelin'? Whoa, Whoa, don't ya bring me down. All that shit about me, being with her can't believe, all the lies that you told just to ease your own soul, but I'm bigger than that. No you don't have my back whoa whoa...Jump!" Dragon said, jumping up and down on the stage.
"Hey how long till the music drowns you out, don't put words up in my mouth I didn't steal your girlfriend. Hey how long till you face what's goin on, cause you really got it wrong, I didn't steal your girlfriend. Well I'm sorry that she called me, and that I answered the telephone. Don't be worried, I'm not with her, and when I go out tonight I'm going home alone. Just got back from my tour, I'm a mess guy for sure, all I want is some fun, guess that I better run. Hollywood sucks you in, but it won't spit me out, whoa whoa, Ha."
"Hey how long till the music drowns you out, don't put words up in my mouth, I didn't steal your girlfriend. Hey how long till you face what's going on, cause you really got it wrong, I didn't steal your girlfriend. Hey how long till you face what's going on cause you really got it wrong I didn't steal your girlfriend. Hey how long til you're leaving me alone, don't you got somewhere to go, I didn't steal your girlfriend. Whoa whoa whoa Ha! Whoa whoa whoa ha!" Dragon jumped off of the stage and into the crowd, walking around everyone putting the mic in their faces for them to sing parts of the song, two body guards constantly behind him just in case.
"Please stop tellin all your friends, I'm getting sick of them, always acting like I took her from ya." One of the guys in the crowd sang into the mic. Dragon handed him one of the events t-shirts.
"Hey how long till the music drowns you out, don't put words up in my mouth I didn't steal your girlfirend. Hey how long till you face what's goin on, cause you really got it wrong, I didn't steal your girlfriend. Hey how long till you face what's going on cause you really got it wrong I didn't steal your girlfriend. Hey how long til you're leaving me alone, don't you got somewhere to go, I didn't steal your girlfriend. Whoa whoa whoa Ha! Whoa I didn't steal your girlfriend.Whoa whoa whoa ha, whoa I didn't steal your girlfriend!" Dragon finished the song, running back up the steps to the stage and bowing to the audience before putting the mic back on the stage and getting off of it.
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After the guys ate, saw a few shows and went to the second club they all headed back to the hotel room. It was their last night in Tennessee, the next morning they had a short twenty minute press junket where they would recieve the check from the money they had collected from the concert to take back with them to England. "Can you believe it's our last night here? I don't want to go back home." Mat said, laying in bed with Dragon and watching T.V.
"I can't wait to go back home, sleep in my own bed. Go back to Hogwarts, kiss you infront of every incredibly jealous person in the school. Cause let's face it, everyone thinks your hot and so wants you, oh and of course to see our parents." Dragon said,licking and suckingMat's neck. "I know you don't want to have sex, but I think I have a better way to do things without doing things." Dragon said, running his hand down Mat's bare stomach and rubbing Mat's erection through his silk boxers. Mat started moaning in the back of his throat, bucking his hips and grasping the bedsheets in his fists. "See, just relax and let yourself go." Dragon whispered, his breath ghosting across Mat's neck and ear. With ina fewminutes, Dragon's hand had become sticky and Mat was trying to catch his breath. After they both showered, they got dressed and went to bed. The next morning the boys woke up and walked over to their packed suitcases.
"Do we have to dress up again? I mean I know this is a press conference, but we have an 18 hour flight ahead of us and it's going to be really uncomfortable if we have to dress up." Mat complained, looking through his suitcase.
"You don't have to dress up, we've done our job." Dragon said, pulling on blue running pants, a gray t-shirt that read 'Save a broom, Ride a Quidditch Player.' Before pulling a black hat on his head.
"I've never seen you this dressed down." Will said entering the room. "Nice abs you got there Mat, though I don't think they'll let you in the press room dressed in only a towel." Dragon and Will both looked over to Mat who started blushing. "Dragon, you know better then to dress in front of Mat, he gets distracted way to easily." Mat quickly ran into the bathroom to get dressed.
"Why do you have to tease him so badly, he's never been in this type of situation before...I think. I wanted to be comfortable for the plane, though you can't talk yourself, I believe blue jeans and a polo shirt is as dressed down as I've seen you."
"I'll change on the plane, sandals, track pants and all, okay?" Will asked smiling. "Glad you decided to get changed and lose the towel." Will said smiling and helping Dragon with his and Mat's luggage. Once they were outside the door, their luggage was handed off to a few security members who would escort it to the plane while they went to the meeting. Before leaving the hotel room, a five year old boy and seven year old girl ran inbetween the security guards to them.
"Are you Mat Mcguire?" The little girl asked wide-eyed.
"Yes, may I help you?" Mat asked, bending down so he was eye level. Dragon and Will turned around to watch what was going on.
"Can I have your autograph?" Mat was taken aback, he had never in his life been asked for his signature. Yet, here was this little girl, Mickey Mouse autograph book and pen in hand, with her little brother who had his book open also. They both wore puppy dog faces.
"Why do you want my autograph?" Mat asked, taking the note pad and pen from the little girls hands. "What's your name?"
"Marie and this is my brother Paul, we want your autograph because we saw you at the concert! Dragon and Prince Will are so lucky to know you." Marie threw her small arms around Mat's neck giving him a hug. While he was signing Paul's book, Marie turned around and finally noticed Dragon and Will who were trying not to laugh at how adorable she was, and how much more adorable she had just turned Mat. "Oh Merlin, can---will---please." She asked starting to stutter, she held her book and pen out infront of her, looking up hopefully at the two of them. Dragon bent down first and signed on the page next to Mat's name, giving the little girl a hug and kiss on the cheek before handing the book to Will and signing the brother's.
"You're one of my hero's." Paul whispered, while he hugged Dragon. Dragon was dumbstruck, what did he do that would make this little boy think of him as a hero.
"I didn't do anything." Dragon whispered back.
"You paid for your family ring from my brother. I got to eat bread and butter for dinner, mummy and daddy said you a hero. Daddy's friend let us come see you speak, you helping us get money for more food. You are a lot of people's hero's." Dragon just smiled, giving Paul another hug, before getting up and wrapping his arm around Mat's waist.
"They live in Calfa, in the antique shop down and across the street from your store." Dragon said, watching Will finish hugging Paul, before standing back up. "He called me his hero." Mat just kissed Dragon's cheek, before they took each of the children's hands and walked them over to their parents.
"Are you the parents of Paul and Marie?" Mathew asked, handing Paul's hand over to his mother. The two stunned adults just nodded their heads. "Anytime you need anything, just go down the street to the flower shop, we'll be more then willing to help you out." With that, the three boys made their way towards meeting room seven again. They walked in and sat down again, this time, Dragon holding Mat's hand.
"Thank you for inviting us to your wonderful country, your beautiful state, and your fantastic city. We have had a lot of fun taking in shows, visiting clubs, meeting everyone, and attending the concert event. Just because the event is over, does not mean that the UK still doesn't need your support. We have set up support funds and drives where you can donate money, blood, clothes, anything and everything. You can contact your government offices, state information centers, and local television and radio stations for directions on the closest location."
"Before we leave, I would like to say a few things." Mat spoke up, knowing that this was his last chance to get more support. Not saying that Dragon and William didn't do a great job, they did, but realisitcally Mat had to admit himself that if rich people were going to talk to him about the lower class in the UK now, that even he wouldn't believe them. How would they know, they aren't living it. "Most of you over the past three days, have come to know me only as Mathew Mcguire, Dragon's boyfriend. However, I come from a very small town called Calfa, it's basically a bed and breakfast village and has a population of 300, which is very small for a wizarding village. My parents barely own a flower shop and book store, and my oldest brother is barely able to bring money from being a waiter at The Leaky Cauldron. Food is scarce, you eat only what you can afford and only when you get extremely hungry, we were about to lose our house when Dragon, William, and their friend Daniel Zabini, donated money for flowers my mom was willing to give them for free. They sort of placed it on the table when she wasn't looking, Dragon didn't know until last night just how bad off I was, and he knows that I am not dating him because of his money, I would rather lose my house then take money from his family. Will just found out with the rest of you, if it wasn't for those three, my family and I would have lost our house and everything in it. These guys aren't sitting up here lieing to you about the fact that the UK in general needs as much help as they can get, so please even if it's a Knut, that Knut seems like a Galleon to someone in my situation. Thank you." Mat finished, not looking at Dragon or Will fearing that they might not have taken that little speech very well. Everyone in the room was silent, then very slowly someone started clapping their hands, the rest of them following suit. Dragon turned Mat's head kissing him, that's when all the camera's started going off.
"Very well said Mr. Mcguire, now to hand you all the check from yesterday's event so you can get back to England and hand it over to the patiently waiting new Minister of Magic Remus Lupin. The charity event last night raised the U.K. 180 Billion Galleons, the largest amount of money ever raised through a charity event." The three boys stood up, placing their hands on the huge check as the photographers took pictures again. After they were done accepting the check, they were back on the plane heading home.
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D/N: Yeah Yeah Laugh it up, I was dressed in a maid's outfit. Anyways, the song in this chapter is called 'I didn't steal your (boyfriend)' or a.k.a. "Boyfriend" by Ashlee Simpson. The CONTEST is STILL OPEN until the NEXT chapter is posted. There are 22-23 pop culture references! The town that Calfa is based off of has not yet been guessed correctly so Clue number 4: It's named after a Greek Queen. For the rest of the contest, The pop references are character names, places, lines, and there is one word spelled BACKWARDS! Just a reminder, the winner gets to name Draco's unborn child (First, Middle, and which last name it will take), They also get their favorite song in the story. So Please Please please, submit your answer and everything, the winner will be revealed in the next chapter. Anyways, There is a HURRICANE heading towards Florida, so far she will get very rough tropical storm winds and rain to a category 1 winds and rains. However, Hurricanes are very unpredicatable and if it moves north by a little bit and enters from Tampa instead of Naples, then it will hit Kime's city dead on at a Category 2 or 3. If you all remember the last time when she was writing twisted one or two, the hurricanes were a category three and power was out for two weeks. If that does happen, rest assured that since there is no power she will be writing constantly. However, as of right now her power may just go off this weekend for a few hours and that's it. The hurricane that's to hit Florida is the worst out of the whole hurricane season, even Katrina and Rita, they were a Category 3 and 4 when they hit Louisana, and had built up to that. Hurricane Wilma went from a tropical storm to Categoy 5 (Highest rating) over night, and died down to a category 4, however it does have to move over warm water which increases the speed of the hurricane. Now that we've rambled and warned, let's get on with those reviews.
Bitcake: Nope not Hamilton or Hahira. It's fine about the email review, I took the reviews signed out of my account and copied and pasted them as annonymous reviews. The town it's based off of is Beautiful, and was very hard to describe so I'm glad that you enjoyed it and were able to get some picture of it. I tried to make Dragon sweet and I'm glad that it went over well with you. Dragon: Thank you the flowers were beautiful Takes cookie and eats it Yep, all better :). They so could not both be pregnant! Give ME a break, I couldn't deal with two pregnant parents. I don't care if you're giving the cookies or not you can not say "aww poor thing!" Mat: Hugs back Yeah I know there will be worse things that will make me blush, I"m sure Dragon expressed most of them in this chapter too. Thank you for the cookie. Takes cookie, breaks it in half and shares with you Sev: I don't know why I'm wasting my time with YOU, and I am SO not five minutes ago! Take it back! Take it back! You...You...whore! S&C: Stares back IF you stunned us and we were staring, then we can't stop staring therefore we win! WHOOOO We're oh so afraid of your punishment. You'll hand us both over to Filch? You think he's not afraid of Chastity? James: Hey there are worse things to blush about...Even with Kime? What did you two do? Planning behind my back? She's been teasing you, what did she do? I'll go punish her now.Starts making out with Kime on the couch Kime: Sure you don't.It's ok,yoursuggestionsmade up with it plenty, but you were bad...Wanna borrow my boyfriend? He punishes very well;)...Or well, Icould send over a different character, I'll give you Snape as a prisoner. Harry was so reluctantto sign those papers because he's afraid that it's a trap again, that Draco is innocent and it will all end up some big huge prank or lie and he doesn't want to have to go through that again, he doesn't want to have to re-marry Draco a third time, hestill loves Draco and this whole thing is tearing at his heart.If you go back and re-readChristmas, you'll see thatChastity wasn't postive, shekept going between self harm and someone else, but it will be discussed in the next chapter also. I'm glad you liked the Dobby/Dragon scene.Azkaban: Of course we have phones you ninny! They're magically enhanced. Oliver: Kime and I have always hated Snow White, it was a stupid story, we love Cinderella. Plus Snow White sounds like she had taken some heavy drugs to get her voice to shriek like that.
Sarahamanda: I'm glad you liked Snape's Secret also. So far in this story, Draco is BAD very very bad! Oliver is good, he's innocent of all charges.
To all: Do you want me to continue with years 4-7 as Harry/Oliver or do you want me to come up with another pairing? I'd love your thoughts, comments, and opinions on the whole Oliver/Harry thing.
Heather: Glad you enjoyed Homecoming. That's the whole point, we wanted everyone to forget that Draco was with child because you wouldn't get mad at any of us when we admitted that we had forgot because of everything also. Just because there wasn't a sex scene doesn't mean that Draco and Harry hadn't slept with each other at some point at the end of last year when everything revovling around Chastity/Sirius/Severus was going on.
Orlin: Dragon: Thank you, but at the time how were we to know that Mat's family really needed it? It was the right thing to do. James: Yay! I was finally in it :). You'll just have to wait and see who I befriend...He he he. Kime: I'm glad you enjoyed the Harry/Oliver bit.
