Chapter 28: Mat's O.W.L.s

Christmas vacation came and went and so did most of the school year. Dragon was getting the hang of how to deal with Tiger, since he was taking care of him most of the time due to Mat studying for O.W.L.s. Today was the last day of the tests, Mat had to take DADA, History of Magic, and Potions. "Hey Matty, rise and shine babe." Dragon said, shaking Mat wake. "I made you breakfast in bed." Dragon said smiling.

"Aww, thanks. I know I've been horrid these last few days and I'm sorry. I promise after today no more grouchy, horrible, hate-the-world Mat."

"Good, I miss the old Hapy, fantastic, I-want-you-now Mat." Dragon said, ducking as Mat threw a pillow at his head. "I'm sure you're going to do great."

"I don't know, I mean questions 42 on the Transfiguration practical was really hard. I don't think I got the pronounciation right to be able to spell it, and I'm sure I didn't list all three-"

"Breathe, deep breathes and drink your tea." Dragon said, rubbing Mat's back. "You're going to give yourself an anxiety attack if you worry yourself like this. You did fine, I'm sure of it, we could ask the twins if that would put your mind at ease?"

"NO! What if they say that I fail one of the ones I'm taking today. I mean I couldn't stand it, and then I'd be a failure, oh Merlin I only have a year to study for N.E.W.T.s a year! What if I fail the O.W.L.s, how will I pass them? What if I get labeled a TROLL!"

"Mat I'm sorry." Dragon said, pricking Mat with a needle. He had prepared it while Mat was ranting. "Since you weren't drinking your tea, I had to give you a calming draught through a needle. Look, you are incredible smart, you'll pass this with flying colors. You won't get Troll, but if you do, I'll still love you, Tiger will still love you. A year for N.E.W.T.s is way too long to study for them, you'll burn out before you even get to seventh year to take the test. Come on lean back." Dragon sat behind Mat, pulling him back into his lap, so that Mat could lean against his chest. "Breathe like this okay, just calm down and imagine it's a nice sunny day, we're at the beach, the water is clear transparent blue, the sand's pure white. There's no Tiger, no parents, no school, just you and me. That's good, now whenever you feel stressed out, I want you to close your eyes and imagine that scene and clam yourself back down. I don't want to see you in the infirmary today because you had a nervous break down. If you need another calming draught, tell Dobby or post me during one of your breaks and I'll bring it to lunch."

"Thanks, I couldn't have done this without you." Mat said, calming down and placing his hands on Dragon's knees. "I can't wait until we're both out of school. So have you given any consideration on what you want to do?"

"I'm still not positive, right now I have it down to a few professions, but it all depends how much schooling it'll take. For example, if I wanted to become a Medi-surgeon that would require Hogwarts, plus four years of Uni, and then another four to six years at a medical school. If I wanted to teach History of Magic, that would take Hogwarts and two years of Uni. Becoming a singer takes no years of school, you just sort of hit or miss." Dragon said, trying to avoid that it also had a lot to do with what you got on your O.W.L and N.E.W.T scores.

"True, I'm thinking of taking Remus up on his offer about being the head of the Muggle Liason office. That or coming back to teach but I'd have to wait until after you leave school as dating or marrying a student is strictly prohibited." Mat stuck out his tonuge at that. "I mean don't get me wrong, I know exactly why it is, it's just I wanna teach but damn you for being so incredibly irresistable." Dragon chuckled at that.

"Come on teacher boy, you have a long day to start, and I have a son and classes to get to. I promise though, when we come back tonight you can teach me a few things." Dragon winked, going to the nursey to get Tiger. Since he had finals, Dragon just took Tiger with him to the classes as his excuse to leave right after he finished.

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Remus was currently at St. Mungos, Alohov had brought him the night before because Remus had gone into labor. "Ten hours, TEN!" Remus yelled as a contraction came on.

"I know Mi, I know. Think though once she or he comes out, we'll have another little Brychan or a girl." Alohov said, brushing Remus' hair out of his face for him.

"You're almost there Remy, are you positive you don't want that Epi yet?" Chastity asked, walking into the room. Remus had decided to have Chastity deliver his baby, since his doctor was currently in surgery doing an emergency C-section on someone else, and wouldn't be out in time for the delivery.

"YES! Yes I do!" Remus said, almost crying. Chastity got out the needle and helped Alohov roll Remus onto his side before giving him the epidermal.

"I'll come back in an hour okay? By the you should be ready to deliver the baby." Chastity handed Alohov a cup of ice chips. "He's going to want something to drink, just give him these. I nicked the remote to the television for you, that way you can do something to take your mind off of everything. I'll be right outside in the nurses station grading a few finals, I have Sev handling my other finals today." Chastity answered at Alohov's raised eyebrow, before leaving the room. About an hour later Chastity entered the room, checking Remi over, "You're ready to have this baby, Dray and Harry are sorry they couldn't make it." Chastity said, pulling up a chair and putting on gloves. "Okay Remi start pushing." Alohov got behind Remus to help him, while Remus squeezed all the feeling out of his hands.

"I hate you Alohov! I hate you and your penis, and...and you!" Remus yelled, pushing as much as he could.

"Yes I know Remi, you can hate me all you want."

"I hate your support right now, you be the one pregnant! You squeeze a watermelon out of you." Remus yelled before laying back into Alohov. "I can't do this anymore I'm too tired."

"Remus, one more push and your done, you can do this okay." Chastity said, holding her hands out getting ready to help get the baby out. Remus took a few deep breaths before pushing one last time. "Congratulations guys, you have another baby boy. I'll go clean him up and get the paper work while Remi goes to clean up." Chastity said, going over to clean up baby Lupin, before getting the paper work. "Here's your newbie." Chastity said handing the baby to Remus. She left them alone for a few minutes.

"What do you want to name him?" Remus asked, looking from his new son into his husbands eyes.

"I think his first name should be John, since that's what the J in R.J Lupin stands for." Alohov said smiling. (A/N: It really is, J.K. said in an interview once.)

"Well since we're using names, I think his middle name should be Alohov after his other daddy." Remus said smiling. "Hey John Alohov Donlohov-Lupin." Alohov said, they had agreed that one of their children would have Lupin's last name and the other would have his last name. Chastity came in a while later and got the name before demanding that Remus get some rest. Alohov left to check on the ministry knowing that Remus was going to be out for a while since Chastity gave him an extra dose of Dreamless Sleep Potion.

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At lunch, Dragon was sitting at the Ravenclaw table feeding Tiger when Mat, and the others that had finished taking their tests, came in. Mat came up to the table, sat down, and placed his head in his arms. "Hun what's wrong?" Dragon asked concerned, placing Tiger in his lounge seat before rubbing Mat's back. Mat didn't respond but only started crying harder, before wrapping his arms around Dragon's chest and burying his face in the side of Dragon's chest. "Babe, shh, I'm sure it's okay."

"It's the Potions test he just took, they really were unfair to him. They gave him the fifth year potion and he did so good that they wanted to test him on a seventh year potion, and the tester had everyone staring at Mat and was asking him questions that didn't even relate to potions. It got Mat really nervous, I mean here his is doing great, concentrating hard and the tester comes out and blantly asks if he's molested you yet. I don't think he liked the fact that Mat was dating someone 'under-aged.' Mat dropped the correct ingrediant in, he just forgot to take it out of the vial and it made the potion explode. The teacher told him that he had to take points off of his score for that, but seriously, it really wasn't Mat's fault and he really didn't have the right to say the things he was saying." One of the Slytherins said, walking up to Dragon. Some of the Slytherins were still friends with him, even after he had switched to Gryffindor.

"HE WHAT!" Dragon yelled, before collecting himself. "Come on, let's go talk Mat, baby please." Dragon said, getting up and helping Mat stand, as he was still burying his face intoDragon's chest. The Slytherin helped by getting Tiger for the two and motioning for Draco and Severus to follow them. Dragon walked to the Infirmary since it was the closest to the Great Hall, and because it had a few heavy doses of Calming Draught. "Matty please take this for me." Dragon said, handing Mat a cup since the vial would have just been plan mean. Mat downed it while Dragon gave him another form of the draught in needle form on his arm, before kissing his forehead and helping Mat onto one of the hospital beds, getting on it with him and wrapping his arms around Mat.

"What's wrong Mr. McGuire?" Severus asked, having to play concerned teacher instead of concerned friend due to the students that were in the Infirmary. Mat just shook his head crying harder.

"He needs a re-test for potions, and not with the same Ministry approved testers. The guy he had asked him a lot of personal questioned from what I understand, something about if he molested me yet because of him being of age and me not. According to Mal here, Mat made his fifth year potion perfectly, and was asked to do a seventh year one, but because of the uncalled for question dropped the vial with the correct ingrediant in it, into the potion making it explode. Then said that it would take points off of his score."

"That's not right, he's only suppose to grade one potion, and if asked to do extra it can only give you extra credit not take credit off. Draco, as our Minister of Magic is currently delievering a baby, could you kindly see this tester out of Hogwarts. Mr. Reynolds, can you please show Draco whom the Ministry tester was." Once they both left, Severus turned towards Mat and Dragon. "Mr. McGuire, I'm going to go work something out, after lunch I want you to meet me at the same place you took your potions O.W.L. to take the re-test, and I will not leave that room until your test is done, that way if someone so much as tries to say anything that isn't good job or your done, they'll be escorted out personally."

"Thank you Headmaster." Mat said, wiping the tears from his eyes as the two calming draughts started to work.

"Anytime Mr. McGuire." With that, Severus left to see what he could do, putting Dragon in charge of the Infirmary.

"Mat, whatever that guy said to you, whatever your thinking don't. You are not a child molester, you are Mathew McGuire, father of Tiger Malfoy. Soon to be Mr. Mathew Malfoy, my husband, and don't you think I would have ended our relationship if I knew that being with you would get you into trouble? I mean you're friends with the Minister and head Auror, don't you think either one of them would have warned you or arrested you long before now. From what I heard, you did so great that you impressed the tester, that's saying something! Not many people can do that, and to think you were doing a seventh year potion perfectly, and would have finished it off perfectly had it not been for him. So, study up you have the re-take and then one last O.W.L. and afterwards I'll see if my parents will let me take you to get ice cream." Dragon kissed Mat on the nose before going back to giving out Calming Draughts and revival spells to those who were in the way of misplaced spells and potion mishaps. Once lunch was over, Mat kissed Dragon and Tiger before leaving to go back to where he had come from.

"Right in here Mr. McGuire." Snape's voice rang out down the hall, opening the door for him. "Good luck Mat." Sev whispered, standing besides the door as Mat retook his O.W.L. He had done great, prefect execution, even Severus was impressed. Once Mat was done and had corked his potion, Severus led him to his next testing site making sure that the tester would let him in. He had talked things over and they were going to let him come right after the potions final, but Snape forgot to tell them who the student was. Mat quickly slid into one of the back empty desks, before being handed a test.

"Thank you again." Severus whispered to the testing offical before leaving the room.

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"According to Snape he'd be surprised if you got anything below Outstanding on potions." Dragon said, eating his mint chocolate chip ice cream, while Mat was eating his cookie dough. Tiger was being watched by Severus as a treat to both the boys.

"Really? I thought I could have done better." Mat said, running his tonuge up the side of the cone since the ice cream was starting to melt.

"Really. He even said he couldn't have made it better if he made it himself."

"Wow." Mat said astonished. "Thank you for today, for everything you did for me. The whole calming draught, and the beach visualization, it really helped. Thanks for watching and taking care of Tiger too, I know he can be a handful at times."

"Mat, you don't need to thank me, it's the least I could do. Plus, I have O.W.L.s next year, and you'll be stuck with Tiger, and I'll be the one you'll have to administer Calming Draughts too." Dragon said smiling. "Come on, I got you a congrats on surviving your O.W.L. surprise." Dragon said, finishing his ice cream cone and holding his hand out for Mat. Once they left the ice cream parolor they headed towards the Three Broomsticks, and up the stairs towards one of the rooms.

"Where are we going? What do you have planned?" Mat asked, Dragon had blindfolded him once they left the ice c ream place.

"You'll see, but trust me you'll love it." Dragon opened the door for Mat, taking off the blind fold. The room had a bunch of lit candles and soft music playing. "I figured that after those stressful exams and the studying that you deserved a massage, but I knew that if we went back that we would be pulled here and there by everyone." Dragon decided to be nice and turned around so that Mat could get undressed and lay down on the bed. Matcovered himself with a towel.

"Okay, you can turn around now." Mat said, resting his head on his folded arms, smiling. Dragon came over and picked up one of the bottles of massage oil squirting some on Mat's back and his hands, before starting to rub Mat's back.

"This feels incredible." Mat said, closing his eyes. Dragon had started working on Mat's lower back, trying to keep his hormones in line. Once Dragon was done with Mat's back he started working on Mat's legs and feet. "When do you want to get married?" Mat asked, feeling extremely comfortable and relaxed now that Dragon was done. Dragon wiped his hand on a cloth to get the oil of of them before laying down besides Mat and pulling him close.

"When do you want to get married?" Dragon asked, running his fingers through Mat's hand while the other arm covered the hand Mat had on his clothed stomach.

"First off, before we discuss all this, it's not fair that you have clothes but I'm sitting here in a towel." Mat pouted, Dragon quickly did wandless magic and got rid of everything but his boxers, before spelling a pair onto Mat. "I was thinking, maybe we could get married the end of the next school year, like a few days after we get out, that way we can take a long honeymoon." Mat started making a figure 8 on Dragon's chest with his finger.

"That sounds great, that will give Sara a lot of time to plan the wedding. Where do you want to honeymoon though?"

"Malfoy Island, that one you took me to that Lucius gave you. That way no one can find us, it'll just be you and me, no press or anything." Mat said smiling, thinking of how great a change of scenery that would be after the publizied wedding. "What about when we decide to, um, well, you know." Mat said, starting to feel embarrased.

"When we make love?" Dragon asked trying to help him out.

"Well, yeah, whose that is whose going to-"

"Top and bottom? Mat there's nothing to be embarrased about, if you're nervous or scared please tell me so I know."

"Yeah. It's just I don't know how to give and I'm a little afraid of being on the recieving end of things, what if it hurts?" Mat whispered, burying his face in Dragon's arm. Dragon took Mat's chin in his fingers and turned it towards him.

"Topping isn't that hard Mat, you just have to make sure that you fully prepare the person on the bottom, and you know how to do that, we do that all the time to each other when we're fooling around, and if you want I'll walk you through it that day. You also have to enter me slowly and wait until I get use to everything, and I will let you know when I'm ready for you to move. When you start out you start slowly and build speed, trust me it'll all instinct. If you decide to bottom, I promise to be gentle, to make sure you're prepared and that it won't hurt too much. I won't lie, it'll be your first time so it will hurt a little, but trust me it goes away within a few minutes. After that it feels great, but when you wake up the next morning you're going to be a bit sore, but I swear I'll be right there with a potion so you don't feel anything, and I'll stop doing something all you have to do is say so. Why don't you think everything over and wait until that day to make your decision, I'll support you either way." Dragon said, turning on his side to look at Mat better before giving him butterfly kisses on his eyelids.

"Okay, I just don't want to hurt you if I do decide."

"If I start to feel it hurting we'll stop and add more lubrication."

"Really, that's it?"

"That's it. It's that simple. Next time you're afraid of something, please tell me so that we can talk it through."

"I promise." Mat said, cuddling more into Dragon's side, relieved that Dragon wasn't mad. "Dragon?" Mat asked, before Dragon could take a nap, he had been busy in the Infirmary all day. .

"Yeah Mat?" Dragon asked groggily.

"Nevermind."

"No what?" Dragon asked, waking up a bit.

"How many children do you want?"

"It doesn't matter to me, if Tiger's all we have then so be it, if we have more that's great too. Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering. You're learning to deliever babies right?"

"Yes I am, do you have any questions about being pregnant?" Dragon asked, knowing where Mat was going. Why the boy didn't just come out and say something was beyond him.

"Well, does it hurt as bad as people say it does?"

"I won't lie to you, yes it does hurt very much, but there is pain medication that the doctors can give you to easy some of the pain. The worst of the pain is over within mintues because that's when the baby is born, but there are ways around that too like having a C-Section. Plus, in the end it's all worth it because you have a new itty bitty baby."

"Which one of us is going to carry our children if we decide to have any?"

"Well, that depends on a lot of things, for example when we want to have more children, if we want to have more children. Also, who bottoms and who tops that night if we didn't use protection, that's part of my parents problem. Overall though, it depends on who really wants to carry them, if you wanted children and didn't want to carry them, I would be more then happy to, if you wanted to carry the children then who am I to deny you that?"

"But what if hypothetically I didn't want to carry the baby, and you didn't want to carry the baby? You just said that if I didn't then you would."

"Well if I really didn't want to carry the baby, then I hope that you respect that decision and we can always wait until one of us does want to."

"Of course I would respect that decision, I just didn't want you to do something because I didn't want to do it. I do want to carry at least one of our children, if not more."

"I'll see what I can do." Dragon said smiling. Mat really did have an innocence around him, it was quite adorable.

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"We have come to the end of another year. You all came here with little knowledge and left knowing more then you could dream, you have had the best professors this school has seen in centuries. I am impressed with the students that have graced the halls of Hogwarts this year, you were able to unite, over come school and house rivalries, and make this school better then it has ever been. You all leave tomorrow for summer, some of you graduate and start your future, I ask that you never forget what you have learned this year, and throughout your schooling. It is the most important thing you will recieve in your life, the only thing that counts. I know that the school rules this year were hard, they were tough, and they tested you to the limits, but look at what those rules did, what they helped all of you accomplish. We only had one serious inncident happen, which is a first since the school opened. Congratulation seventh years, you've made it." Severus said, before sitting down and clapping his hands so the food appeared on the tables.

"This year has gone by quick hasn't it?" Daniel asked, looking over at Dragon. Daniel and Thomas decided to join Mat and Dragon at the Ravenclaw tables.

"It has, but don't forget, Draco's and Harry's wedding is the end of next week. You all got your invitations right?" Dragon asked, feeding Tiger.

"Of course, we already R.S.V.P.'d too." Daniel said smiling, it was too cute and weird to see Dragon being a father.

"That's great, Mat and I set a date also." Dragon said smiling before placing Tiger down as he had fallen asleep in his arms, before wrapping an arm around Mat's waist.

"Really when?" Thomas asked, finally entering the conversation.

"The day after school gets out of next year. We decided it last night, so the Daily Prophet knows nothing about it." Mat said smiling. Mat, Dragon, Thomas, and Tiger watched as the train pulled out of Hogsmeade station, waving at their friends. They had a lot of places to hit before the wedding, and only a week to do them, such as tux fittings, rehersals, and present shopping.

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D/N: We're down to the last two chapters! The next one is last one! ).Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Bitcake where are you! (Sends out search party).

Heather: No harm done. You're right, I don't have to deal with a bunch of assholes. Aww, I'm glad you think that it was cute Tiger got his parents the same thing. Lol, glad you enjoyed the chapter.

Inuyasha: Glad you enjoyed the last chapter. Dragon: It's hard work isn't it. I don't need a babysitting book, I have Dobby. You shouldn't resort to violence to get rid of a problem. As I said, ignore them, they'll stop when they see it doesn't bug you. Mike and Izzy: It's Otay! Good luck to Ritchie. Harry and Draco: Yeah Sam, Steph, Ritchie, and Paul. Mat: Thank.

SarahAmanda: Glad you enjoyed the last chapter.

Adrianna: Mat: Yes, yes I did and it was HOT! Dragon: Yes! Yes I did! That child NEVER sleeps damn it! Mike and Izzy: Huh uh...sure. ;).

Kelly: Dragon: Looks like someone has a crush. Where are y ou going on your trip?

Orlin: Very long review there. Mat: I should have knocked, I know that now. But OMG was that HOT! Glad you enjoyed the Tat though. Yep, Dragon really loves me, and what are the handcuffs for? I don't understand. Okay, I'lllet you get away with that vile nickname this time, since I love Dragonso much.Dragon: Don't you just love it when he's naive? He's just so damn innocent. Glad you thought my gift to Mat was sweet. I got Luc a few books and Jamesie an inflatable girl as a joke. Tiger: Daaaaa? Harry: I try my best. Lucius: I didn't get it wrong, you got it wrong. James: I'm glad that you are amused, but I was serious. Plus, do you really think I did anything with that girl? I'm with Kime, she'd kill me off if I cheated on her with a stripper! I got everyone gift cards for various stores. Kime: It's okay.