Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, I do not have any rights to Harry Potter and I do not make any money from writing these fics.

A/N: Written for the Procrastinators United Competition, the One Million Words Added Challenge, the Pairing Diversity Boot Camp Challenge, the 335 Pairing Bonanza Challenge, the If You Dare...Continued Challenge and the Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge.

Prompts: Caradoc Dearborn/Peter Pettigrew, Caramelised, Reality Bites, Crack Pairing.

Dark Romance

Caradoc ran a hand through his sandy brown hair as his blue eyes looked around the deserted words, in one hand he held his wand while in his other hand he held a heart shaped box of caramelised fruit for his beloved boyfriend.

As the full moon hung high in the clear blue sky and the silver stars sparkled like diamonds in the forest that Caradoc stood in glowed early in the night. Shadows covered the forest giving off spookily shapes, the cold winter wind blew through the trees adding to the atmosphere as the dying trees danced allowing the last few golden leaves to fall from the branches to the ground in an unearthly dance.

"Where are you my beloved?" Caradoc asked with glazed blue eyes looked over the empty graveyard in front of him, a love sick smile on his face causing him to look slightly insane, "I have come as you wished me too."

In response to Caradoc the wind blew through carrying the fallen leaves with it. An odd piece of stone came crumbling off of one of the old stone grave heads causing Caradoc's attention to quickly turn to the sound with an extremely hopeful and excited smile on his face only for them to disappear and turn into a pout when he spotted no one there.

"Reality bites," Caradoc muttered to himself with a pout as he slowly took a few more steps into the old graveyard, "Where are you to take me away from this horrible reality my beloved."

Coming to stand in the middle of the graveyard Caradoc froze in place as the sound of crunching bones came to his ears, it sounded like someone was eating the bones. His pulse speeded up and his heart pounded with fear through his mind stayed glued on his so called boyfriend causing him to ignore the warning signals that was going off all around him. As the crunching sounds took on a darker more eviler quality to them the cry of an animal that sounded like an insane murder's laughter echoed throughout the forest.

Caradoc's only reaction was to give a large hopeful smile as his glazed blue eyes turned in the direction of the sound and headed towards it without any fear, or any emotions, showing in his eyes.

"Love?" Caradoc asked hopefully yet at the same time it held an emotionless blank edge to it, "Is that you making all that noise?"

Caradoc paused after a few footsteps and tilted his head to listen to the sound only to hear nothing, the forest once again had fallen silent. Trying his best not to get disheartened Caradoc turned around and walked back the way he had come, missing the Dark Lord's large powerful snake go pass with a lump in her body letting others know of her just eaten meal.

Caradoc suddenly froze in mid step and a fresh love sick smile came to his face as the sound of hurried feet walking on top of the crunching leaves and sticks came from just inside the forest and grew closer and closer. Gripping tighter onto the gift Caradoc turned and walked in the direction of the footsteps only to let out a happy cry as the man he had been waiting so long for came out of the forest and stepped into the hidden forest graveyard.

"Peter my love!" Caradoc cried out entirely as he held his arms wide open in invention, "Are you alright? You took so long, I was worried that something might of happened to you or eaten you while you were in your animagus form."

"D-D-D-do not w-w-worry Cara," Peter stuttered out nervously as his feet clumsily stumbled along as he moved from the dirt ground to the cobble stone path, his head stayed lowered submissively while his eyes nervously and fearfully flickered from side to side as if expecting someone or something to step out of the shadows, "But I a-a-a-am here now."

"That you are my dear one," Caradoc answered with a large grin on his face, missing the scared squeak that came out of Peter's lips, "Come here and let me give you a proper welcoming!"

Feeling the many eyes on his body Peter gulped nervously, held his arms up close to him in a rat like way and quickly scuttled along doing his best not to fall down to the ground in fear. His thinning hair flew in front of his face causing his vision to be blocked slightly as another gust of wind washed through the forest forewarning them of the storm that would come in a few hours.

"S-S-sorry I am l-l-late," Peter squeaked out sounding a lot like his animagus form, he knew if he did not keep up the act and follow his orders to the T then he would pay dearly and not just from one single spell, "I...I h-had to g-g-get you s-something."

"Get me something special?" Caradoc cried out happy, his large grin grew on his face, "You should not have my love, your mere presence is enough! Through I thank you for the wonderful gift you have brought me!"

Coming to a stop in front of Caradoc Peter's hand slipped into his robe pocket as he allowed Caradoc to think he was reaching in for the gift. Once his hand had found the dagger Peter wrapped his hand around the handle and made sure he got a good grip on it.

"I...I am happy t-t-that you t-t-think so highly o-of me," Peter stuttered out nervously as he stepped into Caradoc's waiting arms allowing the taller male to pull him into a hug, "Are you ready for your present?"

"Yes I am love," Caradoc said with a nod only to let out a scream of pain and betrayal as a poison coated dagger was plunged into his back, "P-Peter love? W-why?"

As the love potion wore off and the poison coated dagger went deeper into Caradoc's back Peter leant forwards and whispered the last thing Caradoc would ever hear into Caradoc's ear.

"Good Night, Sweet Dreams."

End.