Chapter 11: Terrible Happenings on the Hogwarts Express
Dragon, Harry, Oliver, the twins, the triplets, and Alyssa all made their way onto Platform nine and three quarters. "Dragon, don't go!" Michael said, clinging to Dragon's leg.
"You'll see me tonight, you're going to go to Hogwarts with Oliver and dad. Oh and by the way, I totally forgot to tell you during my grounding, that I changed again to Ravenclaw. Now, hear me out you two," Dragon said, seeing their faces get red. "I only did this because of the fact that Melissa will be in Gryffindor and I don't want to deal with getting in trouble because of her. The fact that Mat is in there means nothing. I mean think about it, I got in trouble while in Slytherin, and I'm trying to avoid getting in trouble in Gryffindor. I got to go, the trains about to leave. See you all soon." Dragon kissed Harry's cheek, before hugging Oliver and boarding the train, the twins waved goodbye. Once on the train, someone jumped onto Dragon's back, nibbling his ear.
"Never ever ever get into another fight! That week was way too long!" Mat whispered in his ear, before getting off of Dragon's back and kissing him.
"I missed you too, and trust me, I'll try my hardest not to get into anymore fights. By the way, guess what." Dragon said, taking Mat's hand and leading him into one of the train compartments.
"What? Woo, is it something off the wall amazing or oh Merlin I can't believe that happened?" Mat asked, sitting down on Dragon's lap. He had never been included on a guess what secret from Dragon.
"Harry's pregnant! With another of Oliver's children! Which means not one, but two more babies at Hogwarts and home. Can you believe it! I mean seriously, they knew Draco was pregnant but decide to have another child! How crazy are they?" Dragon said, wrapping his arms around Mat's waist and pulling him close.
"I think it's cute. I've always wanted a big family so now I'm jealous of you. Anyways, have you been able to read the Daily Prophet lately?" Mat made himself comfortable on Dragon's lap before placing his head on Dragon's shoulder and closing his eyes.
"Nope, remember no Quidditch, no clubbing, and no Mat. That's where most of my news comes from, why? Was there something interesting? Are you tired?" Dragon asked, looking down to see Mat half asleep.
"Just a little tired, I didn't get much sleep. I told you I couldn't sleep without you. Anyways, yes something VERY interesting occured. The guy Melissa's pregnant by lost everything on a bet during the Quidditch World Cup! I mean EVERYTHING, and Melissa is dieing because she broke some promise she made to Sirius, so now niether one of them can take care of her child. Once it's born, she's going to die, and Melissa won't let Chastity and Severus raise her child because of them yelling at her over getting pregnant. So now the baby is broke and homeless before it's even born. How sad is that." Mat asked, looking into Dragon's wide eyes.
"Babe, I'll be right back okay? You go sleep, I'm going to see if I can contact dad or Severus and make sure this isn't something one of the papers made up. It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that the Daily Prophet doesn't have the reputation of being a very reliable source." Dragon kissed Mat's forehead before leaving the room in search of Melissa. He didn't have to go very far, since Ravenclaw seperated Gryffindor's from Slytherins. Before entering the compartment though, Dragon knocked. "Melissa can I come in, I want to talk." Dragon said, knocking on the door again. It was opened by Daniel.
"She's not here, something about taking care of loose ends. I'm not sure what that meant." Daniel said, sitting down in the compartment, Dragon following. "So how have you been?"
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Once Dragon left, Mat fell asleep knowing he would need it so he wouldn't fall asleep at the welcome feast. However, someone else had other plans. Melissa Black was waiting outside the compartment under her fathers invisibility cloak waiting for Dragon to leave the compartment. After Dragon left, Melissa slowly and quietly made her way into the compartment. She pulled a vial out of her robes, and waited until Mat was definitely asleep. "Stupefy." Melissa stunned Mat, before taking out a needle she had stolen from Chastity's nursing kit and put the potion inside. The potion was a very powerful killing poison, within minutes, Mat would be dead, slowly she lowered the needle to the fold of Mat's arm, injecting the posion right into his veins. She watched his breathing slow, checked his heart rate until it slowed also, taking off the charm she left the room under the invisibility cloak. Dropping the needle and vial in the process, all at once the emergency alarms started going off on the train.
"What is that?" Dragon asked, getting up. He had never heard these alarms before. Racing outside of the compartment he saw many students standing around watching each other, some looked fearful. Taking the closest shaking, sobbing student, and helooked her in the eye. "What's going on?" Dragon asked seriously.
"A student on the train is dieing, that's what the alarms mean. There was an attack." The girl said between sobs. Dragon quickly ran to the compartment he was in with Mat, bursting through the door he started breaking down in tears.
"I shouldn't have left you, I should have known Melissa would do something. I'm so sorry, please don't die, please please wake up, please. Open your eyes please for me, breath please Mat, please breath." Dragon said, panic filling his shaky and cracking voice. "Please babe, I love you, please open your eyes, please breath." Dragon drapped himself over Mat, before Chastity burst through the door.
"What happened Dragon? What's going on? You have to speak to me."
"I don't know, he's not breathing, his hearts stopped. I don't know, please save him, please. What are you doing here? Where's Madame Pomfrey?" Dragon asked, taking Mat's hand and kissing it. He didn't care who saw him crying.
"I took over, Madame Pomfrey retired. Dragon, do you know who did this?" Chastity asked, dropping to her knees to examine Mat easier, her knee hit the vial. She bent down and found the needle also, quickly she took hold of Mat's arms and looked for any injection point. "Dragon, go to the last compartment on the right hand side before the door into the compartment, inside you'll find a piece of parchment, it's a way to contact Severus. Tell him to come now, in bold capital letters, he'll understand what type of emergency it is and what to bring. If you want to save Mat I suggest you GO!" Chastity said, pushing him towards the door. "Mat, I know you can still hear me because your breathing once every ten minutes, and your heartbeat is very faint. You have to stay with us, you need to concentrate on breathing. I know your brain feels like it's shutting down, and it is, but you have to fight it. " Chastity pulled Mat up and sat behind him. "Do as I do, breath as I breath we'll get through this." Chastity started taking shallow breaths, while taking Mat's pulse and temperature.
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Dragon ran down the aisle, burst through Chastity's door, and picked up the parchment and quill. "Severus, emergency get here COME NOW!" Dragon wanted to make sure that Severus knew it was definitely an emergency. As soon as he put the quill and parchment down, Severus had portkeyed into the compartment.
"Who Dragon? Where?" Dragon ran out the compartment, Severus on his heel.
"It's Mat, in there. Please save him." Dragon said, trying to pull himself together before entering himself.
"Dragon, I need you to take my place. You need to breath shallow, make sure he copies you. Talk to him and keep him with us." Chastity pulled Severus outside the door. Dragon took Chastity's place, breathing as shallow as he could. "Mat, you don't know how much you've change me, changed my life." Dragon said, starting to explain.
"Severus, we have a serious problem. If we don't get the antidote to this Mat will die. It's from your stock at home, and the only reason he isn't dead is because Melissa used this." Chastity put the needle in Severus' gloved hand. "The air in the needle off set the poison. If he doesn't get the antidote in three hours, Mat will die on the train."
"Chast, there is no antidote for this." Severus said, looking at the vial, and uncurling the label.
"Then you better take the three hours you have and FIND ONE! Look, it use to belong to Voldemort, he use to give it to his top spies, it undoes any posion ingested except baskilisk venom. It's very dark, but it'll save Mat's life." Chastity wrote the potion on the back of the label, before handing it to Severus. With a quick kiss Chastity went back inside. "How's he doing?"
"His breathing is starting to slow down even more, he's starting to break out in a sweat. Can you help him?" Dragon turned hopeful eyes towards Chastity.
"We're trying Dragon, but even if he does survive there could be so many complications. The posion doesn't have an antidote, but Severus' is working on something that will work anyways. Look, if he pulls through this, he'll be extremely weak for a long time, he could come out paralyzed, he could have brain damage, or he could come out with Amnesia. What we're hoping is that he'll just come out being very weak, but I can't promise anything. Don't worry about Melissa okay? Severus and I will take care of her." Chastity started hooking upIV's and monitors.
"How long does he have Chastity?" Dragon asked, an hour and a half later.
"If Severus doesn't finish the potion, he'll have an hour and a half. "
"No." Dragon said bursting into tears again. "That's too soon. He's too young, I never got to tell him how much I loved him everyday." Mat's breathing starting becoming irregular.
"Dragon, you need to breath, you need to calm down, if you don't we'll have more problems and his time will shorten. Calm down. He knew you loved him, he knows you love him. He can hear you, he just can't respond. He knows okay? Calm down." Chastity said, watching the machines go crazy also. Dragon nodded his head, trying to stablize his breathing. Half an hour before Mat was suppose to die, Severus came back into room with the potion. Chastity took it from him and quickly poured it into Mat's mouth, rubbing his throat to get it down. "It just takes a couple of minutes." Chastity said, praying this potion would work. Dragon hand both of Mat's hands in his.Five minutes had passed, then twenty, with the lastfive minutes left for Mat to live, Chastity was getting very nervous and Dragon's face had gone ghostly white. Severus, was currently holding Chastity making sure that if Mat did die, she had someone.
"W-where am I?" Mat's voice croaked, a minute to spare.
"You're on the Hogwarts Express, do you know who you are?" Chastity asked, her heart beating a mile a minute.
"I'm Mat Mcguire."
"Do you know who I am?"
"You're Chastity, Dragon's cousin right? Why are you asking me this? What's going on? Where's Dragon?" Mat asked, getting worried.
"I'm right here babe, oh Merlin, I'm right here." Dragon said crying in relief and squeezing Mat's hand. "You were poisoned, you were going to die, I almost lost you babe." Dragon started kissing the top of Mat's head. Chastity came to sit down my Mat's feet, carefully taking off Mat's shoes.
"Mat, I need you to push against my hand." Chastity placed her hand on Mat's foot. "Very good. Can you wiggle your toes? That's great." Chastity tried the other one, and he passed. "He's not paralyzed, he doesn't have Amnesia, which is good. Mat do you mind if I test you?" Chastity asked, putting Mat's shoes back on for him.
"Go ahead." Mat said, leaning back into Dragon more.
"Let's start with something easy, take your wand and levitate the vial in Severus' hand." The vial levitated an inch but fell back into Severus' open hand. "That's okay, it's just because you're weak. Next test, can you transfigure the vial into a pin?" The vial had the head of a pin but the end of a vial. "That's very good, now for a potions question. Where can you find a bezoar?"
"In the stomach of a goat."
"Thank you, that rules out brain damage. You're doing really great Mat, I'm going to ask you to do something very hard okay? Can you stand up on your own?" Mat looked at her like she was crazy.
"That's not hard." Mat said, getting out of Dragon's lap. He put both feet on the ground and went to stand up but was only able to wobble before Severus and Dragon had to catch him. "Ok, it's a little harder then I remember." Mat said, laughing a little before coughing.
"Dragon, can you help him walk over to the other bench?" Chastity asked, writing down what was going on. Dragon stood up, took a firm hold on Mat's waist, while Mat put his arm around Dragon's neck and walked the three steps it took to get to the bench, by that time, Mat was out of breath.
"What's wrong with me?" Mat asked on the verge of tears.
"Your brain started shutting down and you've become really weak. You'll be like this for about two or three months, when we get back to school, you'll be placed in the hospital wing for a month or two. I'll be your nurse, so I can tell you what's going to happen. You'll be rehooked up to a lot of IVs, these IV will help give you a little bit more energy and have mild steroids in it. These steroids will help rebuild the muscles that sitting in a hospital bed for a month and your near death have shut down and started wearing away. Another of the IV's will be for food because giving you solid food right now would make you sick, evenif I were to even give you an M&M you'd get violently sick. Your stomach was the first to shut down after you were given that potion, which means it was the first one to start drying up and shrinking. We need to rehydrate and re-enlarge it so you can eat normally. That should only take about three or four days, then I'll start giving you potions to help with the shortness of breath and your sore throat, cause you can't fool me, everytime you talk you start squinting. Once I'm positive you're breathing is regular and the shortness of breath when you walk stops, we're going to flush your system of the traces of posion. Sounds fun huh?" Chastity asked smiling.
"An amusement park full of funness. So these treatments are going to last how long?" Mat asked, holding his throat.
"The IV's will take about a week, except the steroid one, that will be at least three. Starting you back on solid foods will be about another two weeks, so right there you have one month and one week. The potions you will take for shortness of breath we can start right after the food IV, and will be about three weeks. That's about two months. But you have to remember, you'll be taking the potion while getting use to solid food so it's really like a month and a half. The flush of your system will last three weeks, because of the potions potency. So, You'll be in there for about two months and a week, to be exact. The third month, will just be on and off check ups, making sure you're doing okay, that you aren't going to have any permenant and lasting damage, it's fairly easy. Since it's all happening at school, it's free of charge. However, we will have to inform your mum and dad about everything that's happened. They will be more then welcome to press charges against Melissa, but we will explain to them that it would be a waste of time seeming that Melissa is going to die in six, seven months anyway. She won't tell us how far along she is right now. We'll give you two a minute to talk things over, I have to talk to Severus outside about what Mat and I are going to need, and how I need the infirmary set up." Chastity said, walking outside with Severus. Once they were out the door, Dragon broke down crying pulling Mat close to him, but making sure that Mat wasn't going to choke or anything.
"Shh, I know it must have been scary for you, but I almost lost you also. I could hear you voice, I could tell you were in pain, but I couldn't do anything to stop it. I love you Dragon, with everything in me I love you, and I know exactly how much you care about me, but you shouldn't be stuck with someone so weak. I'm so weak right now, and you deserve someone whose not going to have side effects because of some unknown posion."
"I'm not going anywhere, and I'm not letting you go. This has scared the hell out of me, but the only thing that was going through my mind was that I couldn't lose you, and I'm not going to give you up right now without a fight. Yes you're weak, but I like taking care of people, and I love you, so that's just an added bonus. Plus, you won't be weak for long, and I'm going to help you get strong again, you're going to be strong and you're going to get better, and I'm going to be there every step of the way. I'm not going anywhere and neither are you, and I'm going to prove that to you through this. No matter what happens or who comes along, I'm not going to leave you. I know that's why you haven't accepted the ring, and why you've always guarded yourself around me, your brother told me that while I was grounded you were afraid Melissa would come back and take me away. That isn't going to happen. I LOVE YOU." Dragon whispered harshly, making Mat cry a little. "I'm sorry, don't cry, please babe don't cry."
"Shut up you lug! I'm crying because I'm happy! Because I know how much I mean to you. If you keep talking it's going to wreck the moment." Mat chuckled lightly. "I haven't accepted the ring yet, because it's not the right time, but soon Dragon." Mat kissed Dragon, tears still running down his face. Dragon wiped Mat's cheeks with his thumbs.
"No matter what happens, I love you and you're absolutely gorgeous, don't forget that." Dragon pulled Mat into another hug.
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A/N: Don't shoot! DON'T SHOT! Now, I said that you were going to be mad at Bit and I because of this chapter and yes it does have to do with the ring. If Mat had accepted the ring earlier in the story, Dragon would have known ahead of time that Mat was in danger and would have been able to save him...But I am Kime, so obviously, something else would have happened. Which I've decided will happen in another year, and I already know to who. Mwhahahahahaha. Sorry about the delay between this chapter and the last, but usually I only update after I finished the next chapter. Obviously, the next chapter is going to have to be handled with care, and still hasn't been finished, but I felt bad for not updating. Now, since you all love Dragon so much more then me, I'll hand it over.
D/N: Scowls at Kime How dare you hurt my Mat! I should have your head for that! Everyone complain and make Kime feel bad! Give her all Flames on how bad the chapter was and how stupid she is! So how is everyone? Yes Harry is pregnant, but you all should have known that was coming in the last chapter where they had sex and Harry said, "You know I can still get pregnant right?" or something along those lines. Anyways, on with the reviews.
Sarahamanda: Glad that babysitting went well, and that you enjoyed the last chapter..Now please Flame Kime, make her feel guilty and I'll Wuv you forever.
Bitcake: Yes a little bit of a girlfight going on over me...It's sort of fun. I'm glad you enjoyed the James/Harry moment, and yes the fact that James took Harry to where he and the other marauders use to go was an extra treat. Good because you aren't suppose to like the Parkinson girl. lol. Yes every guy has the whole I will not hit girls thing programmed into their head, but I didn't think Sarah was a girl, she was acting like an arsehole! Kime: I didn't know you were to be informed. I don't know why they said that stuff about me, I wish I knew. The HP Marathon I held at my house lol, which only got through Movie two because then people demanded my help. Mat: I know I'm not a cigrette, even if Dragon likes putting me in his mouth and ...You so brought that on yourself. Dragon: I don't remember what I said that could be a clue..Thanks though. James: Thanks, but we btoh know that's a lie. Harry: Thanks, and yes I liked the name. I think that's just people at school in general. Oliver: Hello Luv...What's a boo pop?
Orlin: Yep I had a good Halloween, what about yourself? Glad you enjoyed the chapter. James: Thank you, I've been waiting forever for this! Mat: What are you talking about a week last FOREVER!