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 16

"Hey Draco, have you finished- Silvia! Stop that!" Ron scolded.

The transparent girl-child looked up and pouted at Ron, then jumped up and off of Draco.

Ron offered a hand and helped Draco up.

"Sorry, I thought she was still asleep. Silvia, this is Draco. Draco, this is Silvia, another Water Dragon. Charlie brought her over because he felt that with only one Water Dragon if anything went wrong and you accidentally ignite something here, two water dragons would be able to tackle with it swiftly, especially when one of them – Silvia that is – actually knows how to use her powers" Ron grinned.

"I-I was just playing" Silvia stuttered and then retreated back into the water with a shy wave, disappearing like foam on the shore of a beach, into the water.

"You know, if she's going haunt that water, I'm going to take a bath at the lake next to my bed" Draco sniffed.

Ron laughed "She pulled you in, dragged you about, released you, and then did it all over again didn't she? She did the same to me! But seriously, she's perfectly harmless; in fact, after I probed her a little later, she told me she was surprised that I immediately turned back into a human when I was startled. She said that I probably need to be startled out of such a reflex, or I never ever should get startled during a battle"

"Really? Intriguing. I too snapped right back into becoming a human. I was quite shocked that my dragons just slid off of me the moment she slammed me down" Draco replied.

"Well come on, your clothes are over here. Maybe we can make it a point to scare each other every now and then to practice" Ron grinned.

There was also a proper human bathroom built into the rocks of the waterfall. Inside was beautiful. Everything was made of marble, including the toilet seat and the faucets so that nothing reacted with Dragon-sensitive skin – though Draco thought to himself that he'd lived with porcelain and metal bathrooms all his life and you didn't see him complaining. But it wasn't as if he was about to give up a bathtub that was really a jacuzzi, and it was also marble and sunk into the floor, with steps leading down into it. The bathroom walls were lined with glass shelves, and the lights were warm and golden. It was warm, romantic and relaxing all at the same time; the perfect mix to relax a mind, and Draco could definitely see himself relaxing for hours in that tub.

After standing for a few minutes in this for-the-likes-of-royalty bathroom, Draco decided that he wouldn't mind a second bath, with soapsuds and shampoos and body lotions, which he found inside a beautiful glass wardrobe.

Thirty minutes later, Draco sensed his way to Ron, who was sitting in a beautiful marble gazebo, surrounded by exotic plants of all kinds, and on the table was a breakfast set for two. Draco couldn't help but admire how bougainvillaea, hibiscus, wild roses and trumpet flowers seemed to be growing out of the very cracks of the place and entwining themselves around the gazebo's pillars, and strewing the floor with beautiful flowers.

"Silvia isn't joining us?" Draco asked " And also… I didn't know Weasleys' are literate" Draco added with a cheeky grin… old habits die hard it seemed.

Ron folded the newspaper he had been reading and set it down on the table, turning to face Draco as he sat down.

"Silvia is more Dragon than human. She eats fresh fish and fruit, and finds it too tedious to sit down and eat like how we humans do" Ron explained " And that comment was low, even for you, Malfoy"

"Ah, I see. So" Draco began, pouring himself some tea from the teapot while trying to bit back a smile " What were you going to tell me?"

" Oh yes right, well you see…"Ron began.

Ron explained to Draco about the Dome while Draco ate his breakfast. Their new abode was specially designed to keep as many intruders out as possible. They were still on Hogwarts grounds, but a little way away, and completely invisible to anyone except Dumbledore, their house Teachers; Snape and McGonagall, and Charlie, who was going to make a trip over to check on them every fortnight. For humans to get into the Dome, there was a Portkey established inside Dumbledore's office, which linked to the Dome at a specific spot in the ground. There was no door anywhere along the whole Dome, to prevent wandering curious students who actually discovered the Dome, to be able to get inside it. Thus the only way for Draco and Ron to get out was through the roof, and only dragons with Draco, Ron and Silvia's blood could go freely inside and outside of the dome. Any other dragon would be bounced to another realm altogether.

What Ron had been drawing into the ground earlier was a sign signalling where the portkey object on the inside of the Dome was buried. He had filled in his markings with gold plaster, so now there was a very firm golden sign which marked out where any visitors would end up, and also where they'd have to go, to get back outside.

"This place was also set up so that we can practice some of our mental abilities" Ron explained and stood up, walking over to the edge of the gazebo and snapped off a branch "For example" he smiled and held the branch up.

The branch shimmered and split itself apart. Then it twisted and curled itself into itself, and split apart several times more until it became a beautiful and rather intricate Celtic Circle.

"Wow, how did you do that?" Draco gasped and stood up, moving to take the circle from Ron's hands.

Ron grinned, shaking his head and sitting down " Finally, now I get to teach you something about being a dragon"

"Oh really? You say that as if you hadn't already saved me twice, and to make matters more embarrassing, from myself" Draco sighed, fingering the circle and sitting back down again, across from Ron.

Ron blinked, then smiled and reached out and took Draco's hand in his, drawing Draco's attention.

"Just because I wasn't externally committing suicide, doesn't mean that I wasn't steadily heading downhill myself. The Elder, Gerdion he called himself, said that my distress cry was so strong that it reached the Royal Palace of his Realm, and seriously, if that isn't a sign of a mental distress I don't know what is" Ron grinned "Not to be mushy here, but I think you play a considerable part in maintaining my sanity because seriously" Ron said and leaned closer and said in a whisper" If you leave me alone with Silvia, I'll kill you. That girl is crazy! She tried to jump me last night!"

Draco burst out laughing. "Seriously? Oh man, she must be desperate!"

"Hey, what do you mean desperate?" Ron pouted, "What? Only desperate people would want me is it? I'm quite good looking if I might say so myself" Ron retorted, glowering.

"Yeah, in your dreams" Draco grinned, loving the sight of Ron's chocolate brown eyes turn into a pair of dark slits as Ron glared at him from over the table.

"Arm wrestle!" Ron suddenly exclaimed and dragged the hand he was holding up so that their elbows were resting on the table top. He magically cleared the dishes so that they appeared on an adjacent table "We'll settle this score with a quick match of strengths"

"Fine, but I need to change hands" Draco smiled and replaced his left hand with his right hand " You sure you want to arm wrestle me? I'm pretty strong."

"Absolutely. If I win, you have to admit to the fact that Ron Weasley is gorgeous" Ron grinned.

"And if I win, I want a boon" Draco grinned.

Ron blinked " A boon? What kind of a boon?"

Draco shrugged innocently " Does it matter? Since you're about to win?"

Ron grinned evilly " No of course not. Now prepare to hail the great Ronald Weasley!"

After the fifth time in a row of losing to Draco, Ron ran out of excuses. The first one was lucky to try. The second was caught off guard, the third was not ready, and the forth had been "Once more, please?"So Ron sulkily shifted about as Draco thought of his boon.

"Ok, come with me" Draco smiled and stood up, walking out of the Gazebo, with Ron following behind.

Draco led Ron through several winding paths. On the ground level, the flora was beautiful. Wild roses growing around palm trees and Hawthorne trees bent over by a dense blossoming of creeping orchids blessed the path with fallen flowers and shaded the pair of them from the sun. They passed winding pathways into dense foliage, neat little benches in a garden of sculptured hedges and neat roses of tulips and petunias, and crazy over-grown fields of the loveliest kind – the kind that made Draco and Ron want to roll around in them and sleep.

Finally, Draco came upon a fountain which he had seen from above while he had been flying towards the waterfall earlier. It was a beautiful Moroccan flower-shaped fountain, which had deep trenches with water running in through one end and out through another, to flow into a stepping stone pool a little way away.

There wasn't a statue in it. Pipes just within the pool bubbled water, creating a soft soothing sound as the water murmured amidst it. It was tiled with small different shades of blue mosaic tiles, which glinted and glittered in the sunlight.

"Ok, stand in that" Draco said and pointed at the fountain.

Ron grudgingly took off his shoes and socks and got in and turned around in the water.

"The thing is, you've been inside of me, technically, before. I want to know what it's like, to be inside of you" Draco said "Like Silvia just now – she wasn't even a dragon in the water. It was like she was the water. I want to know if different dragons, feel differently inside their life source.

Ron looked taken back. "What?"

Draco, suddenly feeling a lot less confident of his choice, backed off " Umm never mind, I think I was getting too carried away"

Ron strode to the edge of the pool and captured Draco's wrist just before it went out of reach with the rest of his body. He yanked the fire dragon over to him, but not all the way into the fountain.

"If you want to do this, then you have to take off your clothes – you're gonna get wet" Ron grinned.

Draco blushed. "R-Really, is that so? All my clothes?"

"Well, not everything. Just remove your shirt at least" Ron shrugged and released Draco. He then reached up and pulled off his shirt, dropping it outside of the fountain " Fair's-fair. Now strip" He grinned.

Draco also took off his shoes and socks and pulled off his t-shirt. The lingering gaze of Ron's eyes didn't go unnoticed, but Draco chose to ignore it.

Ron turned around and went to stand in the centre of the pool.

"You ready?" Ron asked after a few minutes.

"Yeah," Draco said, standing in the fountain as well and watching Ron's back.

Ron took in a deep breath and then sighed. As he sighed, his body lost all its colour, and he became a body of water. Ron turned around, and as he did, all the water rose up and around the two of them, submerging them inside the water.

Draco gasped, and for a second, thought he was going to suffocate and drown. But it was strange, being inside of Ron's life source, where Silvia had been violent and playful, Ron was steady and pleasant, but heady and strong at the same time.

Draco reached out for Ron, but only felt the water.

"You have to be in your life force as well, to touch me here" Ron's voice vibrated through the water.

Draco gasped and at the same time, swallowed water and began to choke. But as he did, he thought of the fire inside of himself and flared up, his own body disappearing within waves of flame.

It was then that he realized that he was being held against a firm smooth body. Before in the potions room, he had been so caught up in himself, he hadn't taken in what Ron looked like when he had come for Draco within the fire. Now seeing Ron like this, clearly and beautifully, was a completely different story.

"You're like a nymph. A beautiful water nymph" Draco sighed and raised flame fingers to cares Ron's cheek. Ron still retained his human-look, except that his skin was silvery and soft in this form, and rippled when you touched him. His eyes were the same blue tone as his dragon-self, and his hair, surprisingly, was the only thing that retained its original colour – flame red, which as a huge contrast with the rest of his being. Draco himself, on the other hand, looked exactly the same as he did in his human form, except that his eyes were golden, and when you touched him, flame rose from the surface of his skin and licked and flickered against your fingers.

"Haha, so warm" Ron smiled "I can feel myself steaming"

Draco grinned " Then let me blow your mind" and cupped Ron's face in his hands and kissed him.

Water and fire hissing as their lips merged into one another's. Ron ran his hands down Draco's body, his fingers steaming up and boiling as they went by but that was the least of Ron's cares at that moment.

Draco felt as he kissed Ron, water pouring into his soul, cooling him from the inside out, which made him shiver in delight and want. He wanted more of Ron than just his touch. He had fantasised about being in Ron's arms since that afternoon in the potions room. He thought it would be enough, just to be held again in the same way.

But no. Now, everything had changed. He wanted everything. Everything that Ron could possibly offer him, and more. Draco wanted Ron's very soul, all for himself.

"Ronald?" A soft probing suddenly broke the union that the boys had built up between each other.

Draco and Ron fell apart and right back into their human forms with a great SPLASH!, sending water everywhere.

The End of Chapter 16

But that kiss tho...

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