Setting: Set in an alternative universe where the battles that happened after Book 4 in the real novel didn't happen, and Harry had somehow managed to defeat Voldemort during his short stint in the middle of the cemetery while trying to save Cedric.

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Chapter 14

Ron thought fast. The moment he heard the first syllable, it dawned on him why Draco had been hiding; Draco's father must have been a dragon too, and his mother would want to be rid of that reminder of Draco's father as well.

"….if I resemble my father any more than I already do, she'd kill me too, immediately…"

Then Ron saw it – another Realm just a side step from this one, curling out from one of Dumbledore's Suits of Armor.

Ron dragged Draco into it, and just as his mother finished the last syllabus, Ron and Draco had winked out of that world, leaving the spell to blast a huge hole in the wall.

"What have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?... WOMAN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BABY!" Molly Weasley yelled and rushed at Narssica, shaking the woman and beating at her, clawing at her skin. Mrs Malfoy's wand fell out of her and cracked under the rush of people coming at Narssica all at once.

Dumbledore, seeing that reasoning would be of no use, magically separated Narssica on one side, and everyone else on the other, and sternly surveyed the scene.

Ron pulled Draco back through the slip in Reality and looked around at the chaos and disarray they had returned to. His mother was crying and wailing and tearing out her hair on one side, and Narssica Malfoy seemed to be as pale as a ghost and dragging her mails through her face as though she wanted to peel it off.

"Wow wait, we're here, we're alive. Just that, could we not be killed please?" Ron said, pushing Draco to stand behind him and nearer to his parents.

When they all heard Ron's voice, the spell of shock and horror filling the atmosphere broke and Molly started crying again, but they were tears of relief and tried to go to her son. However. Dumbledore's spell still prevented her. She glared daggers at Dumbledore who signalled for her to calm down and wait.

Dumbledore turned to Ron and Draco and regarded them rather sternly. " You boys have been through a lot today. I'm afraid, Draco, you will be removed from the custody of your mother, because as I'm sure you know, a few seconds ago, she tried to kill you"

Draco just blinked at him. The shock hadn't worn off Draco yet. In fact, Draco wasn't even sure what had happened yet, and the moment he tried to think about it, a hole seemed to grow within his heart. Everything seemed to be happening slowly and sticky, like someone, was slowly suffocating him.

"No! my baby! I didn't mean to! It's just that he's too like his father!" Narssica suddenly started to yell " But no! Look at him! That traitor! He needs to be killed! He needs to be killed, to be reborn! He's dirty! He's tainted! He'll kill more people! Kill him now, before he kills more people!" Narssica began to wail like a banshee. She clawed at the confines of the spell. Her eyes had suddenly taken on a misty glaze, crazy look, and she no longer seemed to be in her right mind.

Then Narssica suddenly snapped into focus and began to snarl directly at Draco, looking straight at him with a most menacing glare "I beat you for this before the boy. Every day I've beaten you for being a stinking rotten lizard. Because of that fool, I gave birth to a MONSTER! I showed you the iron boy! I taught you how to kill that dirty retched evil part of yours! You're a dirty rotten snake and you know it! How dare you flaunt yourself like that! I ought to beat the life out of you! I ought to-" From here Dumbledore cut her off with a silencing spell, but the damage had already been done.

Draco stumbled back, his hands clamped over his ears. He sank to his knees and bowed over, grabbing fistfuls of his hair, and began to cry. The crying at first was soft and whimpering, but then slowly, it took on another form. He didn't wail or cry or sob, but it was as though visible wave after wave of a powerful sorrow-spell coursed through his veins and surround his body. It sliced through the air and echoed in the atmosphere.

"So this is why you beat me. This is why you hated me so. You never told me. You never told me" Draco started to murmur, shivering within this intensely self-tormenting spell.

For a moment, no one could move. His sadness was so thick and intense; it was like being in the middle of a heat-wave. And then suddenly, as though he was too tired and too overcome by his own sorrow, Draco fell to one side and curled up into a ball and fell into a deep sleep.

Ron shook himself out of the stupor and scooped Draco's limp body up and into his arms. Draco's body was burning up, becoming hotter and hotter by the second. Ron's eyes grew wide in wonder and horror. Could Draco be getting a sort of heat wave from within? Could it possibly kill him?

"You can't leave me. You can't" He cried, clutching Draco to his chest, trying to cool him down with his internal cooling system.

The spell on the professors and Ron's family waned as Dumbledore too was affected by the sorrow-heat-wave. The first person to approach the pair was Charlie, who immediately touched Draco's lips.

"Ron, he's suffocating himself" Charlie exclaimed in a groggy- tired manner, so weighted down by the heat-wave like the rest of them.

"What do you mean?" Ron asked, gasping as he tried his best to pump magic back into Draco's body.

"I've seen this before, in Fire-Type dragons. When they are wounded and dying, and cannot bear to wait for their deaths, they suck in air and suffocate themselves by letting the fire inside of them grow and explode them from the inside!" Charlie exclaimed.

"WHAT? What can I do to stop it?" Ron asked, panicking now.

"You have to cool it from the inside out! But that's impossible. This is not just fire, but fire-magic we're talking about. He's gonna die" Charlie groaned and pressed his hand to Draco's forehead and snatched it hand back immediately "Ouch! How can you hold him? He's already so hot!"

"From the inside huh?" Ron said and thought for a moment.

Ron kneeled down. Placing Draco's lower half of his body to rest on the ground, Ron rested Draco's head in the crook of his arm and used his other hand to gently tilt Draco's head upwards towards Ron.

"Come back to me" Ron murmured and kissed Draco deeply, and thoroughly.

Something beautiful and magical happened as Ron breathed water into Draco's unconscious form. The space directly around Ron and Draco changed. They seemed to be in a globe of changing landscaped. The outline of Ron and Draco within the globe glittered with blue and red stars that burst and hit the edges of the globe every now and again, and when that happened, another foreign beautiful landscape would appear and overlap the others that were already there. It seemed that by pouring water-magic into Draco's body, Ron was widening and merging all the possible realities around them, and drawing on the magic from all these other realms, in order to heal Draco.

"Remember who you really are" Came Ron's beautiful deep melodious Dragon voice, echoing around the room in everyone's mind. Everyone in the room was all now part of Ron's dragon magic at the same time, thus they too could hear what he was saying to Draco in mind-speak.

After a few more minutes, Ron sat back and all that magic, all those different worlds; the changing landscapes and stars, were sucked into Draco's slightly parted lips, and for a moment, Draco's whole body was lit up from the inside with a bright golden light, then it retracted within and dimmed.

Draco sucked in a gulp of air, and sat up, gasping for air.

"What-I-" Draco said and jumped up, backing away and almost falling over a chair behind him. Charlie caught him just in time and steadied him on his feet.

"You really are like a new-born dragon" Charlie grinned as Draco looked up at Charlie blankly " The both of you" Charlie added and winked at Ron.

"huh?" Draco said and looked at Charlie, who smiled warmly at Draco.

"Ron just saved your life. You should thank him" Charlie grinned.

Draco looked back at Ron, who blushed and shook his head "It's alright, your mother was...ah anyway, are you ok?" Ron asked and drew close, touching Draco carefully on the face, and then the hands, checking his pulse and his body-heat.

"Oh, my baby!" Molly exclaimed, finally having shaken off the shock of it all. She rushed forward and dragged Ron into her arms, hugging him tightly.

"Ma! Seriously! I'm not dead! This is really embarrassing!"Ron cried out.

Draco stood looking down at his feet. He had expected to be dead. Now, twice, Ron had saved his life. And for what? It's not even like anyone cared about him anymore – he was just some weird reptilian creature.

"No, you're not. You're just an ignorant young dragon who's never seen your real home. What your human mother did to you was wrong" Charlie said soothingly, softly caressing Draco's head. Based on a Baby Dragon's instinct, Charlie was cunningly stroking calming and soothing pressure points on Draco's dragon body, which made Draco snuggled close to Charlie, and when a deep purr began to buzz about Draco, Charlie knew without a doubt, that this was definitely a baby dragon. Just because the human side of Draco was well developed, didn't mean that his dragon side had developed at all, which was why it was so easy to sedate Draco without more than simple pressure-points and body-heat.

Charlie had hatched and tended to so many orphaned baby dragons that he had picked up how to mind-talk with a dragon, and what was the right thing to say to a distraught baby which found itself in a foreign world, far away from home. He also knew the appropriate dragon food and habitat for each dragon type and was already formulating what needed to be done for both Draco and Ron, and he was going to make sure it would be done correctly.

"Dumbledore, please give me permission to take Draco in as my ward. I also think it would be best if I add some improvements to the dragon habitat we were setting up for the two of them" Charlie said.

"What? A habitat? What are you talking about? You're making Ron sound like some kind of animal!" Authur Weasley suddenly spoke up. After having finally gotten his chance to wriggle Ron out of his mother's hands, and give him a good hug.

"Dad, Ron is an animal, but he's more amazing and sophisticated than even us humans can hope to be – and so is Draco. Trust me, I've dedicated my life to the study of these reptiles, I know what I'm doing" Charlie said as he shifted to allow for Draco, who was now half-asleep on Charlie's shoulder, to learn more comfortable against him.

Beckoning everyone to come closer, Charlie mouthed "Watch this".

Charlie made a spark at the end of his wand and suspended the spark delicately over Draco's head, and dropped it onto Draco's hair. However, it didn't touch the hair. It was snapped up by a strange transparent current, which highlighted a sleek slender reptilian face on top of Draco's human face, a long elegant neck, and then a slender elegant reptilian body, with the wings tucked in close to the shoulder blades and, to everyone's surprise, a thick long tail, curled around Charlie's leg! Because of the way his talons were spaced and the way his body weight was shifted, it was such a comfortable position, that it was no wonder Draco was asleep on his feet. Then once the spark has run its course, the outline of Draco's dragon-self disappeared.

"I've handled young human-dragons like these two before. Though rare and few, and I must admit, undisclosed to higher-ups, they do exist. Right as they are standing here, they are both a human and a dragon. There is no shapeshifting business involved. They are literally another species altogether. Trust me, I know what I'm doing" Charlie grinned.

"Awe man, Mommy, can we keep him? Can were?!" Fred and George suddenly exclaimed, startling everyone out of their wonder.

Everyone stared at each other blankly, then Ginny and Ron began to crack up, along with most of the Weasley Clan.

"Don't be silly, you can't keep a human-dragon person" Billy grinned.

"And besides, I'm keeping him" Charlie grinned, going back to soothing Draco by caressing his hair.

"No way man, Draco's mine" Ginny suddenly pitched in.

"Can you guys shut up? I think I wanna go to sleep too now" Ron groaned and crossed his arms in a huff, eyeing how comfortable Draco looked, leaning against Charlie.

Charlie felt Draco's tail twitch slightly and looked down to see a small smile spreading across Draco's face.

It seemed like things were going to turn out better than they seemed.

The End of Chapter 14

Wow, I wonder what happens next!

Music I Am Listening To Chandelier by Sia