Challenge: The Ultimate Pairing Drabble Competition
Pairing: Charlie/Draco
Prompt: Dragons
It's been years since the Final Battle occurred. Alone in his bachelor apartment on the dragon reserve in Romania, Charlie Weasley thought about one of the few people that he could share the rest of his life with. The one lost love that Charlie thinks about would be his youngest brother's school-aged bully, named Draco Malfoy. They spent six amazing months together in complete secret in the year following the Final Battle. After those six months, Draco returned back to England to take over the family business of Malfoy Holdings.
The moment came when visiting his parents after the birth of his nephew, James Sirius Potter. When he realized he could only dream of a future with Draco, as it would not become a reality.
The morning after visiting with his newborn nephew, Charlie reads in the Daily Prophet of the event of the season: the joining of the Malfoy and Greengrass families. The wedding of Draco and his bride Astoria was featured in this particular issue of the Prophet. The details ranged from the location to the flowers to the wedding gown. However, what stood out the most to Charlie was the detailed timeline of the newly married couple's relationship.
It was devastating to learn that the same Yule season, merely six months after Draco's return to England, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy confirmed that their only child was currently in a relationship with Astoria Greengrass and had been for the last three months.
Charlie sat there, stunned in the realization that even though he loves Draco deeply, he realizes that he truly did not know how Draco felt about him during their brief relationship. Looking upon the pictures of him passionately kissing his bride in her wedding gown.
Returning to Romania alone, Charlie had lost his ultimate life partner in only because not only he was his beloved lost love but because his name in Latin means 'dragon.' That is why Charlie spends with his days surrounded by the dragons on the reserve. As they remind him of the one that he lost.