A/N: This Chapter is dedicated to Bitcake, who won the contest! Her song is Fix You by Coldplay, unfortunately you all have to wait to find out what she named Draco's child :).
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Chapter 9: I Have Something to Confess...
Dragon woke up the next day wrapped around Mat with his legs tangled with his. Dragon smiled to himself, 'life couldn't get any better.' He thought. Dragon didn't want to move, but he wanted to see what Mat had wrote for the Daily Prophet.
(Flashback)
"Can I read what you wrote?" Dragon asked, trying to lean over Mat's shoulder.
"Nope, you can see it with everyone else."
"But I'm Dragon...I'm your boyfriend...I'm special."
"Yes you are, you are just as special as everyone else, no matter how big your ego is." Mat kissed him on his nose before stuffing the letter down his pants.
"Do you really think I won't go in there after it." Dragon asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Go ahead and try...I dare you." Mat smiled, holding his hands above his head.
"OUCH! What did you do?" Dragon asked, taking his fingers off of the waist band of Mat's jeans.
"Put a burning charm on it, so when someone touches them they will get burnt..It'll only be on there until I send the letter."
"Fine then."
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Dragon quickly got out of bed, threw a pair of pants over his boxers, and made his way down towards the kitchen. "It's amazing seeing you up so early in the morning." Oliver said smiling.
"It's amazing to see you up also."
"Your dad still won't let me sleep in the same bedroom. He's still on about needing time to heal, so that's what I am doing, giving him time to heal."
"Good for you, so has the newspaper arrived yet?"
"Yeah here ya go." Oliver handed the paper over hiding his smile.
Only a Heart of Love
By: Mathew Mcguire.
A recent article run by the Daily Prophet said that I only love Dragon Malfoy because of his money, his titles, and his fame. That couldn't be farther from the truth. When I met the love of my life that fateful day, I was so out of it that I didn't know who he was, and when I found out, I felt that I wasn't good enough for him and was ready to be friends or to go my seperate way. I promised not to say anything about what had happened, and that I wouldn't bother him again. Luckily, Dragon felt the same way about me as I did him, and we became a couple. I do admit that at times I feel terrible about breaking him and miss Black up, so terrible that doubt about staying with Dragon plagued my mind. Now, I was raised not to say bad things about others, however the person that wrote into the Daily Prophet, someone well known in Dragon's life was the real gold digger. It wasn't right of them to play Dragon like they did, and it wasn't right of them to treat me like they did. Unfortunately we both know that Dragon will never forgive you, but I only just got to know you and it's very hard for me not to give people a second chance. I love Dragon with all my heart, so I just ask that you stop trying to break us up, because it's not going to happen.
Dragon couldn'ttake the smile off of his face. Mat had stood up for him, but not only that called him the love of his life. 'It's definitely time to tell him.' Dragon thought, running over and hugging Oliver.
"What was that for Drag?" Oliver asked, hugging Dragon back.
"Being there for me." With that Dragon bounded back up the stairs, taking Mat breakfast in bed.
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After Oliver was done his breakfast, he made his way upstairs and into Harry's room. Noticing Harry was still asleep, Oliver went to leave again, he didn't want Harry to think he was trying to do something. "Don't go." Harry whispered opening his eyes.
"Harry, I shouldn't have come in here."
"I'm glad you did, don't go." Harry held out his hand to Oliver, who took it and was pulled onto the bed. "Thank you for giving me the time I needed, I know you thought it was stupid, but I needed it."
"You're welcome Harry, and I never thought it was stupid, I thought it was strange. It's fine though." Harry cralwed on top of Oliver and started kissing him deeply, placing his hands on each side of Oliver's head. Oliver wrapped his arms around Harry's waist, grinding into Harry.
"Oliver, I haven't taken an anti-fertility potion yet. So unless you want to add another child to the family, on top of the Draco's currently with, we have to stop." Harry panted out.
"Harry you've already blessed me with three wonderful children. It's up to you if you want another little Potter-Wood running around. I mean you already have seven children and one on the way, most under the age of two. I can't believe the twins are actually two, and Alyssa's a year and a half, it's amazing when you think about it. "
"Yeah I know. It's just if we have anymore children, both of us are going to have to quit working to take care of them."
"Hey, I'm unemployed anyways, I can take care of them while you're working. You said you always wanted a big family also."
"You don't think eight children is a big family? What world do you live in?" Harry asked, staring down at Oliver shocked.
"Well, in the old times they had like fourteen, fifteen children. Especially the old pureblooded families, and you are part of a pureblooded family. Plus, the wizarding world needs to be repopulated." Oliver said, kissing Harry again.
"Good thinking. The wizarding world does need to be repopulated." Oliver flipped Harry over and started taking off Harry's clothes while Harry took off his. Harry grabbed the lube off of the bedside table and handed it to Oliver.
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Melissa was currently sitting in the parlor with Chastity waiting for Severus to come back with Xander Harris. "So what are you going to tell him?" Chastity asked, holding Cap in her lap.
"The truth, all of it. It's only fair that he take care of his child after I die."
"I can't believe that you are this calm about death. You really knew you were going to break that promise didn't you."
"I knew I had to get pregnant with the Malfoy heir to inherit the Malfoy fortune." At that moment, Xander and Severus entered the room.
"Welcome Mr. Harris, I'm sorry to have called you here on such short notice, but we do have a very urgent matter."
"It's about that article in the Daily Prophet isn't it?"
"Yes, well Chastity and I will take our leave, but we will be back very shortly." Severus said, taking his son in his arms and his wife's hand and leaving the room.
"So Melissa, I never thought I'd be seeing you again." Xander said, sitting down and facing her.
"Well, I have something really important to tell you...I'm pregnant and it's yours."
"We only slept together once."
"Yeah, well so did Chastity and my real father, and that lovely bouncing baby boy that was carriedout of here was the result of that...How many times do you think it takes to get pregnant?"
"I don't know, I didn't expect it to just happen. I read the article about the person close to Dragon that was a gold digger, that was you wasn't it? You decided that you couldn't get the best so you go for someone in the middle of the list huh, I bet this chid isn't even mine."
"Well seeming the only people that I slept with were you and Dragon and the paternity test on Dragon came out negitive I'm fucking postive. There's a complication though."
"A complication? A COMPLECATION? What does it have, like two heads and a tail and three fingers? What?"
"I'm dieing! The only thing keeping me alive right now is this child. I made a promise to Sirius that I wouldn't have sex until marriage and I broke the wizarding promise. Once I give birth I will die, there's no stopping it and there's no getting around it."
"Mel, I don't have the money to take care of the child. I just wasted all of my inheritance on the Quidditch Cup and lost everything. I'm broke." Xander said, looking at the ground. "Why did you have to break that promise? If you didn't we wouldn't be in this position."
"Well it's not my fault my father made me promise in the first place. So what are we going to do with this child?"
"Live the rest of your life to the fullest, when the baby is born, we'll put it up for adoption. I'd suggest abortion, but you probably want to use the rest of your what eight or nine months to do whatever you've miss the chance on."
"Well, do you think we should get married so people don't think the child is a bastard?"
"I am not marrying a dieing person, and the public already knows it was concieved out of marriage, seeming you were engaged to Dragon...Why didn't you tell me you had a fiance? Was that too hard to tell me?"
"I knew you wouldn't have slept with me if I did."
"I wouldn't have slept with you if I wasn't drunk also, but are you going to hold that against me too?"
"Don't say that."
"Why not it's true. I'm going to go, when you go in labor you know where to find me." With that Xander went to get up.
"You aren't going to stay and see this through?" Melissa asked desperate.
"Not when the girl I got pregnant turns me into half a murderer.If I hadn't slept with you, you wouldn't be about to die. By the way, why didn't it work with Dragon? I mean you slept with him why didn't the curse start then?"
"Because when we slept together we were promised to each other, and that's a loop hole. See, wizarding law considers promise rings a guarantee that you will marry that person, so Dragon being my husband in practice off set the curse, then he proposed which basically solidifed the fact that we were going to get married until he cheated on me with Mat. Since the events took place before he cheated they voided out when we broke up, starting a new with you. Since we weren't promised or engaged when we slept together the curse started, it must have known that I had been pregnant and if it wasn't for Chastity yelling at me about it I wouldn't have known that the curse had started." At the end of her spiel, Xander left the room.
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The small concert Dragon was giving was going great, the place was great, the press was everywhere, and the people were hyped. He had seen Mat dancing with Daniel somewhere on the floor during the last song. He had yet to tell Mat what Micheal had shown him, but he couldn't wait. "We're going to slow it down a little because I'm starting to lose my breath and need a little break. This next song is dedicated to three of my most best friends, Will, Daniel and Bit, and to someone I love and will always be therefore no matter what, the sexy guy in the corner over there, Mat. Babe, I swear if you ever need anything I'll always be there to help." Everyone clapped their hands as Mat began to blush.
"When you try your best but you don't succeed...When you get what you want but not what you need...When you feel so tired but you can't sleep...Stuck in reverse." The crowd started cheering, most of them being Coldplay fans.
"And the tears come streaming down your face...When you lose something you can't replace...When you love someone but it goes to waste..it be worse? Lights will guide...you home...And ignite... your bones...And I will try to fix you." Dragon smiled and pointed to Mat.
"And high up above or down below...When you're too in love to let it go...But if you'll never try you'll never know ...Just what you're worth...Lights will guide...you home...And ignite... your bones...I will try to fix you."
" Tears stream, down your face...When, you lose something, you cannot replace...Tears stream, down your face ...And I ...Tears stream, down your face... I promise you, I will learn from, my mistakes." Dragon placed his hand over his heart at this point, making a cross over it with his fingers. "Tears stream down your face ...And I...Lights will guide... you home...And ignite... your bones...And I will try to fix you." Dragon finished the song, jumping off the stage and kissing Mat. The camera's instantly stopped flashing, remembering Dragon's plea to leave them alone when something romantic was happening or if they were with their parents. "I have something to tell you...follow me." Dragon whispered in Mat's ear, leading him out of the pub and over to the lake.
"This place is beautiful Dragon." Mat said looking around at everything.
"Come here." Dragon walked half way across the lake, sat down and pulled Mat between his legs. "I have something to show you." Dragon pulled an empty pensive out of his cloak, put his finger to his temple and pulled out a long, wiggly, silver memory placing it in the bowl. "Since it's not fair that I can read your mind and you can't see into mine, it's only fair that I share these personal memories with you. There are four, and the last one is extremely important because it involves you. Go on, I'm not--I can't go in, I just can't let myself relive these." Mat put his finger on the memory and fell in.
Landing on his feet, Mat noticed that he was standing in Dragon's bedroom at Malfoy Manor, he looked to be aboutnine-years-old, his knees were pulled up to his face. He was sitting with his back against the wall, his clothes in tatters and his body beat up. "Please Dragon, tells Dobby what's wrong, please lets Dobby makes it all better like the fairy godparent in Cinderella, or Chip in Beauty and the Beasts.. Please." Dobby said, cleaning Dragon up the best he could before the small boy clung to the house elf.
"It happened again...Father hurt me, I don't know what I did wrong, I don't understand it. I want daddy, I want to tell daddy, but he said if I told daddy he would kill us both. He said you can't tell daddy too or he'll hurt you too. Make it stop hurting, my heart hurts Dob, I can't stop it from hurting."
"Yous needs to tells your daddy Dragon, you mights have a heart problem. You've had this since everything begans Dragon, your father might be poisoning you."
"It's not poison Dobby, it's just a broken heart, it will nevers get better. Ever. Melissa tries to make me feel better, but it always hurts. Please make it stop, stop my heart if you must."
"I can't do thats Dragon, that woulds kills you thats would. I won't do it." Dobby wrapped his tiny arms around Dragon's shoulders hugging him. "The Great Harry Potter will be heres soon and makes it stops he will." Dragon laughed a little.
"Daddy keeps telling you to stop calling him the Great Harry Potter Dobby, Harry is fine."
"But he's the Great Harry Potter, defeater of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."
"Yes Dobby, I know. He who has lived to die. I get it." The memory then became fuzzy and Mat came back out of the memory.
Mat placed his ear on Dragon's chest trying to listen to the heart beat before kissing Dragon's chest through his shirt. "What are you doing?" Dragon asked a little confused.
"Trying to make your heart feel better, you were so hurt and you wanted it to stop hurting. I'm trying to fix you." Mat whispered, his ear pressed back to Dragon's chest.
"You made it stop hurting that day in the club, and trust me, it's still beating. Are you ready for the next memory?" Mat nodded his head, preparing himself for the next memory. Dragon replaced the first before taking out the second.
Mat noticed it was from last year. He was currently standing in a cold gray cell, 'Azkaban.' Mat thought before he saw Dragon burst into flames."Merlin please, I swear please, let me go home. I promise I'll stop please, I'm so sorry." Dragon whispered on the fourth night in bed. It broke Lucius' heart to hear Dragons please, but he pushed it as well as he could to the back of his mind. Mat was starting to cry seeing Dragon burn like that. He remembered Dragon telling him the only reason he was in here was because his father had used the Imperious curse on him to lie.
"Dear boy, do you really think Merlin, let alone your family and friends, believe you? You don't have a cut or bruise on you, they'll never believe you were tortured." Mat turned around to notice that the stranger was right, Dragon was healed perfectly.
"I keep healing due to that cat, it's not my fault, I swear I'm sorry please believe me. I want my father, please I want Draco." Lucuis could take it no longer and walked out. The memory faded to black like the other one and Mat was pulled back to the real world.
Mat quickly wrapped his arms around Dragon, crying profusely. He kept casting a cooling charm on Dragon's skin. "Babe that's enough, any more of those charms and I'll freeze to death." Dragon really would, his lips were starting to turn blue. "It was a while ago, it's ok, I'm ok. I'm not burning."
"But I saw you! I saw what happened, I saw those strangers not care, Lucius walked out of the room. He didn't even stop anything."
"Shh, I know. I know okay. Calm down and I'll let you see the last two." Dragon pulled Mat into a tight hug, pulling him on his lap. Once Mat had calmed down and Dragon changed the memories, Dragon decided Mat was ready for his second to last memory. "This one is a little longer then the last two, it's from my first year, and it's longer because there is a lot that happened and it all goes together. Go on." Mat cautiously touched the top of the memory before being sucked in.
Mat was standing in the dungeons of Hogwarts, in an empty, unused classroom. The door held Sirius, Remus, James, Harry, and Draco. On the other side was Lucius, the twins, Dragon and a girl that looked vaguely familiar. "Oui Dragon, Je suis de retour. La tige carrée d'entraînement vous a-t-elle parlé au sujet de joindre le côté en noir ?" Lucius asked.
"Save it father. I didn't teach Dragon another language, he has no idea what your saying." Draco snapped.
"Ah, well. Yes Dragon I am back, did Kelly tell you I want you to join the Dark Side? Unlike my son and his husband, I promise to take care of you and so will Tom. So what do you say?" Kelly, he remembered that name, It was the girl that had seduced his Dragon into losing his virginity, she was the daughter of Tom Riddle.
"Dragon don't you dare! I didn't fight a war for you to join my enemy." Harry yelled.
"Really? Because I don't remember my parents telling me anything about fighting a war. I remember there being a car crash though. Here, I'll choose this way, show me how bad you want me, and then Lucius can do the same. You both have 15 minutes, since your my parents I'll let you go first." Dragon sat down on one of the desks. Mat was lost, Dobby had told him that 'the Great Harry Potter' had fought the Dark Lord, so why did Dragon saying he doesn't remember his parents doing that, that's when it clicked. 'Harry and Draco never told Dragon about their past, Dobby did, and it was probably only that once.'
"If you don't get your arse out of that seat and help us rescue your siblings I'll make you get out of here, and then I'll take you over my knee and beat you, you ungrateful brat." Draco yelled. 'Very wise Draco, threaten your son infront of everyone.' Mat thought sneering.
"Draco! Dragon, I know we just met, but trust me, the Dark Lord makes promises he can't keep. He makes the world seem great through his point of view, but it's a terrible idea. Plus, I thought you cared about Melissa, she was willing to take you back after you two had that huge fight, and if you join us you two can be happy together. I know how it feels to be without the one you love, if you join their side you'll be miserable, more so then you can imagine. Please trust me." James said, slowly walking towards Dragon until he was able to hug him. At that momment Melissa and Daniel burst through the door.
"Daniel, get Melissa out of here!" Sirius yelled when he noticed them.
"Why?" Daniel asked, but it was too late Lucius picked up his wand.
"Avada Kevadra." Lucius said pointing his wand at Melissa, killing her instantly.
"NO!" Dragon ran towards Melissa picking her up in his arms and holding her close. When he noticed she was dead, he took his dad's wand from Harry's pocket and pointed it at Kelly. "I know you didn't mean to kill Melissa, did you Lucius?" Dragon asked harshly not taking his eyes off of Kelly. 'Oh no, he's doing it for revenge..Calm down Mat, he did tell you he killed people.'
"Um, Drag you might want to point that at your grandfather." Lupin said holding Sirius back.
"No, I'm pointing it at the right person, well Lucius?"
"I ment to kill her, she would have got between you and Kelly. Dragon, lower your wand and everything will be fine." Lucius couldn't help the nervous tone his voice was taking. 'Father can you hear me?' Dragons voice was cracking in his head.
'Yeah babe, I can hear you.' Draco answered back.
'When I kill Kelly, kill Lucius. Kelly's been bringing him back to life. She's planning to bring Tom back also.' Dragon thought. "No Lucius, I don't think I will lower my wand. Avada Kevadra!"
"Avada Kevadra!" Draco yelled at the same time, killing both Kelly and Lucius for the final time. Dragon dropped Harry's wand and ran from the room. Harry went after him but James pulled him back. 'He just killed his grandfather! Oh dear how could he handle that afterwards.?' Mat thought, coming back out of the memory.
"I didn't, I locked myself up in the Room of Requirements for ages, well until dad came and got me to come back to civilzation. I promise the last memory is a lot better." Dragon kissed Mat's head while changing the memories out once more. Mat touched the last memory and fell in. He remembered this room as the nursery at Malfoy Manor.
"Shh Micheal, you'll wake everyone up if you're not quiet. Please, what do you want to say?"
"Drag---in...Dragin! Dragin Dragin dragin!" Michael said clapping his hands.
"Very good, that's my name Dragon. I'm very proud of you." Dragon said, kissing his brother's cheek. "But why were you setting off fireworks? I swear your sister and you just keep getting more dangerous."
"Dragin...ey." Michael held out his little hand and dumped a ring into it.
"Michael, your sister and you have to stop giving me the Malfoy family promise ring, I have no use for it."
"NO! No no no no no! Dragin ad."
"I am not dad, dad is alseep."
"NO!"
"No what? I swear I can't wait until you can talk normally because you're driving me insane." Dragon sat down on the rocking chair, his brother in his lap. Michael gave Dragon a wet and sloppy kiss on the cheek. "OK, now that you know how to stop me from being mad at you, what do you have to show me?" The words Compagnon d'âme wrote themselves in the air. Dragon gasped.
"Who Michael, whose soulmate? Who are the people?" Dragon knew the importance of Soulmates, they were born to love each other forever. He had read about them in one of the books in Malfoy library, soul mates shared unbreakable bonds, there were three, heart, soul, and mind. It was also against the law to try to break up two soulmates also.
"At! At!"
"At? At where?"
"NO, AT At at at at at...Dragin at." Mat fell back into the wall of the nursery, he did not just hear what he thought he heard.
"Michael are you talking about me and Mat? That's impossible we just met each other."
"He he he...At! He he he." Michael said smiling. Somewhere in Mat's heart he knew it was true, Dragon and him had always been soulmates, even if they had never got together, they would have kept bumping into each other at the most unlikely of places. Dragon's face however showed awe, he had been amazed by the news that he had a soulmate, one that actually loved him and knew he didn't want to let Mat go.
"Thank you Michael, I owe you a lot right now." With that the memory started to fade and Mat was brought back to Dragon's loving arms.
"Un jour, je projette vous épouser, pour vous sont mon compagnon d'âme, vous ne le savez pas en ce moment, mais je le sais parce que mon frère m'a montré. Remember when I told you that?" Dragon asked, wrapping his arms around Mat's waist.
"Yeah, it was the day I moved into Potter Manor with my parents, I was afriad you'd leave me because I wouldn't sleep with you. What does it mean?" Mat asked, leaning back at peace with everything.
"One day I plan on asking you to marry me, for you are my soulmate, you do not know it right now, but I know it because my brother has shown me."Dragon wrapped his arms tighter around Mat opening his hands, inside of them was a ring box. "Before you open it and see what's inside, I'll just tell you that it belongs to the Malfoy family. It's the one thing Melissa wanted and I refused to give her, it's why she was after me. Once she hears you have it, and if you accept it once she sees it she's going to be pissed, for it's not only the key to the Malfoy vaults, it's the key to my inheritance, to everything I own. Once you have this people will treat you differently and after you open it you'll know why. I can't and won't explain anymore until you open it." Dragon said, kissing the back of Mat's neck.."Go on." He whispered. With shaky hands, Mat took the box out of Dragon's hands and carefully and slowly opened it to reveal the same ring that Michael had dropped into Dragon's hands. Mat gasped at the beauty of the ring, it was perfect. It was a skinny silver band with blue topaz placed in a cirlce set inside it. The middle blue topaz held the Malfoy crest etched inside it in a faint white color but could still clearly be seen. "Before you put it on or accept, let me explain. It's the Malfoy promise ring, the guy gives his love the ring, they promise that they won't be with anyone else but each other, it's usually used in long-term, serious relationships, basically you're promising yourselves to each other in every means possible. It's given to the girl or boy after there is an arranged marriage contact, but since we're soul mates, we don't need a marriage contract. You can only take it off if both of you decide that the marriage isn't going to work. If one of you thinks the marriage is going to work, then you or anyone else can't take the ring off. You don't have to accept it, but keep it in the box and think it over. When you decide, the other ring will appear on my finger. I won't be mad or upset if you don't accept it, I'll understand."
"Dragon, just give me a day or two to think everything over. We're still really young, I mean you're just fourteen for Merlin's sake, and it's a big decision. Just a few days okay?"
"Of course." Dragon kissed Mat, they were content on just sitting there for a while.
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A/N: Ok, I want you to know I have already wrote the next two chapters, and Mat has not yet accepted the ring! I thought and someone agreed with me, that having Mat accept the ring right away seemed like a really bad idea because they barely know each other. However, when we get to the second chapter, you are probably going to kill me and Bitcake! he he he. Because bad stuff is a happening! Other then that, are you guys liking the fact that the story is being updated a lot more often or should I go back to updating it every few days? Anyways, I'm turning it over to Dragon. Dragon: All I have to say is Orlin and Heather got their reviews in just in time! You're sooo lucky you two :).
Sarahamanda: Glad you enjoyed the chapters.
Bitcake: Chapter 8: Actually Mat wasn't being a tease, I was! so :p. Hey the Gold digger song is playing in our heads over here also. Mat's mom and Chastity are not gold diggers so :p also. Pretends to take off pants Are you kidding me! Mat would kill us both! Mat: Takes cookie and shares with Dragon I don't see why I have to share! He ate my first cookie :(. Hugs you. James: Boy would have gone better :(. Kime: Andrew Wells, it was a buffy reference. Yes, James' punishments have been suffiencent:). Harry: You won't do what since you are under the age of 20 and don't plan on having sex or getting married soon? Thanks for the donought.Oliver: 'Ello right love. Gives you a hug...This chapter: Yes, this showed what lead up to the article. lol yes you weren't suppose to know what happened during this chapter. But why are you confused?
Orlin: I know right! Glad you enjoyed the chapter and the quick updates. Yes you can state that you really dislike Melissa, but in two chapters you'll wish she dropped dead ;). CLUE CLUE CLUE! Glad you enjoyed the last chapter. Dragon: Thanks for the support Orlin.
Heather: It's ok that you can't remember what you said in the last chapter. Glad you think the chapters rock :).
