Chapter 5: The Ending

A/N- prompt used: [AU] Fairytale
Word Count- 455

A week after they moved into their new home, Draco flipped over to a new page in Astoria's epically long romance and frowned.

It was blank.

"Wait, where's the ending?"

Astoria glanced over at him from her vanity table. "What?"

"The ending? Where is it?"

"I didn't write an ending," Astoria admitted with a shrug of her shoulders, returning to her nail-polishing.

Draco's frown deepened.

That wasn't right. There was only one type of ending for a love story as grand and romantic as mermaid prince Draco and human farm-girl Astoria.

This injustice needed to be rectified immediately.

Prince Draco had been cursed by his enemies just as the war came to an end. They had won and saved the kingdom, but only true love's kiss could awaken Draco now. His comrades searched every nook and cranny of the vast ocean to find her, but they had no luck.

Then someone suggested the surface world.

Count Theodore Nott suddenly remembered that Prince Draco had disappeared for a few months years ago. And when he returned to the war, he had a terrible sadness in his eyes. A girl had clearly won the prince's heart. A human girl.

But how was he going to find her? Theo knew nothing of the surface world, so when he burst out of the water a short while later to start his search, he was surprise how quickly it came to an immediate end.

There was a girl with hair of straw and eyes of the sea waiting for him in a boat.

"A dream told me to be here," she explained. "What has happened to my Draco?"

Count Theo and Duke Blaise carried their prince to the shore where his beloved awaited. She didn't even wait until he was out of the water. She kissed him full on his fish mouth.

Draco awoke with a start and found his beloved staring down at him. "You saved me," he croaked.

"Always."

They lived happily ever after.

"Well, what did you think?" Draco asked the next morning as Astoria looked up from the notebook in her hands. He watched a tear fall down her cheek.

"Ugh," she cried, wiping her face with back of her hand. "For Merlin's sake, Draco! I just put on mascara!"

He watched his future wife run to the ensuite toilet, hiding her face in her hands. He smiled, and figured he'd just had a very successful endeavor with the written word.

Astoria popped her head out of the bathroom after a moment, and added an ear-splitting, "AND HE DOESN'T HAVE FISH LIPS! MY VERSION OF MERMAIDS LOOK HUMAN ON THE TOP PORTION OF THEIR BODIES! I DON'T HAVE SOME KIND OF FISH FETISH!"