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LAST CHAPTER!!!!!!! I KNOW!!! IT'S TRAGIC BUT I DON'T CARE!! I MADE IT EXTRA LONG FOR YOU!!! THIS WANS'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAST CHAPTER BUT I STARTED WRITING IT AND BAM! IT JUST HAPPENED!!!! I HOPE YOU LOVE IT!!
Disclaimer~ I'M TO EXCITED TO EVEN WRITE A DISCLAIMER!! AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
"I knew it. I told you, I knew it." Light flooded Draco's eyes, blinding him as he sat up in bed sharply.
"Who's there?" he shouted, blinking rapidly. He felt Harry sit up next to him.
"See Mamma? I told you. I told you and now, you see it for yourself." Slowly the light dimmed and Draco's breath caught in his throat.
Standing in front of his and Harry's bed was Sean, Harrison, Mamma Nayka, and his mother, Narcissa. He looked over at Harry who was staring wide eyed at the group, hand over his mouth, hyperventilating.
"What the hell are you doing in my house!?" Draco shouted. Narcissa opened her mouth to speak but Sean beat her to it.
"The important question is what is he doing in your house?" Draco gaped and Harry seemed to be lost for words. "Well? See Mamma, sleeping with the match, that's against the rules, isn't it?"
Mamma Nayka stared at Harry and Draco.
"I see it, I just don't believe it..." Harry and Draco were both wearing boxers, Draco had on a loose shirt and Harry a thin robe. Harry had drawn his knees up to his chest and his eyes were flicking between the occupants of the bedroom.
Draco stared up at them. "How did you find out?" He asked. Sean smirked angrily.
"I knew. I knew the moment you defended this slut a week ago that you were sleeping with him. But if that wasn't enough, Mamma Nayka rounded us up for a suitors breakfast with her, and when she couldn't find you, she asked some of your friends. All your friend Hermione could say was that you were spending time with one Pansy Parkinson... Well we found her soon enough. Told Madame L'Enfant about our suspicions. With a little bit of veritiserum in her tea, this one-" He walked over to the door and pulled in a struggling Pansy by the arm. "- spilled everything. Apparently you two have been fucking for months." He spat out bitterly.
Pansy wrenched herself out of his reach. Running to the bed she collapsed against it and grabbed a fistful of Draco's shirt.
"Please, Draco, Harry I swear, I didn't mean to! I didn't want to! I didn't know the tea was spiked I swear it wasn't my fault, please forgive me please..." Draco gently pulled his shirt out of her hands and she began to sob hysterically into the bed sheets.
"Draco how could you?" Narcissa snapped suddenly. He stared at his mother. "How could you not tell me?" Sean laughed.
"HA! Tell you what? That he was sleeping with a suitor? I knew it. I knew it. Potter's such a whore that he'd sleep with the match just to get rich." Harry made a whimpering noise in the back of his throat and stared down at his knees, eyes wide. "Some god damn hero you are. If the press got a hold of this-"
Draco growled. "No! It's not like that! It's not... you don't understand..." Sean made to speak up "NO DAMN IT LISTEN TO ME!" Draco shouted, causing them all to jump. He sat up on his knees in the bed. "Harry was not sleeping with me to win... he's been... we've been.... Harry and I have been dating... for seventeen months now." He looked at Mamma Nayka, willing her to believe him.
"No, Draco, darling, tell me this is a lie. You would have told me, you would have-"
"No he wouldn't have ." Harry spoke up, still looking down. All eyes turned to him. "We wanted to wait to tell anyone... until we got engaged..."
"Harry..." Draco started.
"We didn't know about this stupid ritual. We just didn't know about it! Did you hear the whole story? We had no clue... then we found out and... Mrs. Malfoy, I love Draco. So much. I thought that...Pansy could help us, because if I could be chosen by the matchmaker than the world would have to accept us... Draco has tried so hard. Because I wanted him to...because I asked him to. Me, It was my idea, not Draco's. Don't blame him. Please, but know that I love your son. And I know he loves me to." Harry looked up at Narcissa with pleading eyes. Mamma Nayka finally spoke up.
"I can see that." Harry's head shot up, along with Draco's and Sean's. "But... that does not change the fact... established relationships are not allowed to be suitors. It's against the laws of this whole system. I'm afraid that your job may be at stake." Pansy let out a muffled sob into the comforter. "And Harry dear... I'm so sorry. This isn't allowed. I wish but... there are no exceptions to this one." Harry let out what sounded like a choked scream with his mouth closed. Draco began shaking his head.
"Please. Please no, please! I'm begging you. And Malfoy's don't beg." He jumped out of the bed and collapsed at the feet of his mother. "Mother please? Don't make me leave him I can't leave him please." Tears began streaming down his cheeks as he clawed at his mother's robes.
Narcissa looked down at her son then back up at Mamma Nayka.
"Is there any exception?" She asked quietly. Mamma Nayka shook her head. Sean laughed out loud.
"Then there it is! Draco can't marry Potter! It has to be one of us! You said it, no exceptions. Potter's rich enough, he doesn't even need this marriage!"
"YOU BASTARD!" Everyone froze and turned to Harrison, who had been silent this whole time but was now holding Sean by the collar with his fist drawn back. (In a less serious moment this may have been comical seeing as Harrison was about a foot shorter than Sean.)
"You jackass! You only want Draco for his money! I may not love Draco, but at least I want more out of this than fame. You're disgusting! Can't you see they love each other? Why the hell would you want to ruin that?" He shouted in Sean's face. Sean snorted.
"I deserve fame more than some stupid orphan."
WHAM!
Harrison's fist connected with Sean's jaw, sending him flying backwards into the wall, where he fell unconscious.
"I QUIT!" Harrison shouted, throwing his arms up. "Woman were crazy but they weren't THIS bad!" With that he turned on his heel and stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind him.
The only sounds in the room were Draco and Pansy's gasping breaths as they tried to stop crying. Suddenly Harry slipped slowly out of the bed. He stood and walked over to the closet, pulling out a coat at random. He slipped it onto his shoulders. Only when he closed the door quietly did Draco look up.
"Harry? Harry, w-what are you doing?" He stood slowly. Harry smiled and shook his head.
"I'm, um... I'm leaving, Draco. This is too much for me. Too much for you. I'm used to losing people, you... you're not. This is too much strain for you." He began to walk towards the door, Narcissa, Pansy and Mamma Nayka staring at them. Draco gasped.
"What? N-no! Harry, my love, my life, don't please!" He ran forward and grabbed Harry by the shoulders, and spun him around. He froze when he saw the tears on Harry's face, dripping down his cheeks onto his lips that were still smiling. Harry breathed in raggedly and wiped his cheeks.
"I c-can't Draco... I c-can't t-take this anymore." He began to cry into his hands. Draco struggled for words.
"N-no, we, we can... we can find something else, some other way-"
"NO!" Harry screeched pulling away. "I can't do this to you, Draco, if you do this, you'll be cut off from your inheritance, from your family, from your life... I can't do this, not to you. Not when I love you too much to hurt you." Draco grabbed him and pulled him close, tears dripping into his lover's ebony hair.
"Please Harry." He whispered.
"I c-can't Draco. I know what I can and can't do and I can't ask you t-to leave your life for me." Draco growled and pulled back.
"Then don't! Don't ask me! Tell me not to, fight me, yell at me, hit me I'll love you anyway! I'll stay with you whether you want me to or not!" Harry shook his head and began protesting but he was sobbing to hard to understand what he was saying.
"Draco... Darling?" Draco looked up from the crying form in his arms to face his mother. She stared at Draco and Harry, watched the way Harry fit so perfectly against Draco's chest. The way Draco carded his fingers through Harry's hair, and she saw it.
She saw the love that these two had surrounding them Seeping out of every pore, shining out of their eyes and dripping from their fingertips. She turned to Mamma Nayka.
"Mamma, please forgive my rudeness, and the trouble that I have put you through on my son's behalf, but I feel, under the circumstances... that I must call off the matching ceremony." Draco gaped at his mother and Harry's head shot up so fast that it slammed against Draco's chin.
"What? Mother... are you...?" Draco looked at his mother intently. Mamma Nayka gaped.
"Why I... I mean I never... certainly, I agree but... is that even possible?" She asked in a dazed sort of way. Two seconds later Pansy was by her side, drying her eyes.
"Why of course it's possible!" she replied quickly. "However, once a family breaks it's vows to a matchmaker, they are gone forever, and can never be renewed." She looked at Harry and Draco who looked at each other. Draco then chuckled.
"Well, you see, we are guys so... unless we adopt, we don't really need a matchmaker anyway..." Then he paused. "Are you serious? This is all we had to do?" Pansy nodded, then shook her head.
"Well, there is a fine. A price. Of... one million galleons...?" She looked away nervously and Draco and Harry gaped... Harry looked up and then quietly muttered;
"You know, I never wanted a big house, just a small one, a town house in Scotland... maybe a cottage... I don't really need much... and if we split the money between our families... well it makes a huge dent... but nothing to bad in the long run." Draco looked down into the sparkling eyes of his beloved and reached up to wipe away the remaining tears.
"No, not bad at all." Draco muttered before leaning down and kissing Harry softly on the lips. When he pulled back, Harry was grinning widely. Suddenly Harry stepped back and walked up to Narcissa. He looked up bashfully.
"Permission to hug my new... mother in law?" He asked quietly. She threw her head back and laughed before nodding down at him. He grinned and jumped forward, wrapping her arms around her, and she smiled as she hugged him back.
"Um... sorry to burst your bubbles, but what do we do about him?" Asked Pansy, jerking her head to Sean's unconscious form on the wall.
Harry and Draco looked at each other, and began to laugh.
"You may now kiss your husband." The bells rang as Draco pulled Harry into his arms and kissed him passionately. The crowd cheered, Molly and Narcissa were holding hands and crying, the doves were flying and the angels singing.
Harry pulled back and looked at the gold banned on his finger, write next to the diamond studded ring. He couldn't help himself he kissed Draco again.
Ron walked up and patted Harry on the shoulder, Pansy giggled and elbowed Draco in the ribs. He chuckled and smacked her arm lightly, causing her to laugh.
Harry grabbed Draco's hand and pulled him down the isle, the crowd following behind them. They entered into an elaborately decorated room, covered in Green and blue flowers and decorations. Harry looked immaculate in his golden dress robes, next to Draco who was clad in an olive green color. People shook their hands, hugged them, congratulated and kissed them as they walked by.
Hermione ran up to them, throwing her arms around Harry's neck and kissing his cheek.
"I am so happy that you two finally got together, me and Ron have been betting on it for months!" Harry laughed, but mentally reminded himself to smack Ron later. "Well? Aren't you going to throw the flowers?" she asked excitedly. Harry laughed.
"Alright everybody make a circle!" Draco yelled. The family and friends gathered around and Harry closed his eyes tightly, before tossing the bouquet into the crowd.
Pansy caught it in her hands before staring at it and letting out a heart felt "Blegch" and throwing it back into the crowd, where it was caught by Ron. Pansy was now working as a "relationship consultant", which was how she butted into other people's lives and made money for it. Ron on the other hand had proposed to Hermione two weeks ago. Hell, if Draco had the guts to do it, so did Ron.
"Would you care to dance?" Draco whispered in Harry's ear and he grinned, turning and allowing Draco to pull him onto the floor. A slow piano started up and the two began to dance.
They had bought a small town house in Scotland, right near this gorgeous penny fountain. It was small, but they couldn't be happier. They visited Narcissa a lot, and often had lunch with Hermione and Ron, and could Rarely get Pansy out of their house.
They had come a long way since two months ago, and all of the pain, all of the tears were worth it. They had each other now, and that was all they had ever wanted. Draco was now working as a Botanist, studying rare magical herbs and plants, and Harry was a nurse at a local hospital. It wasn't any saint Mungo's, but sick people in one place are as important as sick people in any other.
Harry looked into Draco's eyes and Draco looked into Harry's eyes and they new at that moment that they would never leave each other. That they would keep feeling, and keep loving and keep caring till their dyeing day, and when that day came, they'd never stop loving.
The day Draco proposed, the day after the matching was called off, Harry had said something to Draco;
They stood next to each other, their reflections shimmering in the waves from the ocean. Proposing on a beach, romantic huh? Tears of relief and joy flowed down their faces, and one dripped off of Harry's lips into the waters. He looked down.
"Did you see that tear Draco? The day I find that tear in this ocean is the day I will stop loving you."
Never, they would never let go.
The sun set behind the open doors as the last words of the song played out. Draco and Harry held onto each other, and kissed sweetly and held tightly, now and forever. This moment, was not the end, they had their whole lives ahead of them, so much more time, so many more moments with each other.
'So close.
So close... and still, so far.'
SOB! Wow, well... I just want to thank my amazing readers, and Fans, and reviewers! It's been so great writing this story! I hope you all liked it!
Harry: YAY! *Glomps OllyO* I just LOVE happy endings!
OllyO: So do my readers! That's why they review! *wink wink*
Draco: *Smirk* I only let you live because I to have an odd happily ever after fetish...
OllyO: Don't we all? *sighs* Well! I hope you all had a blast! I know I did! Thanks guys!
Harry: *kisses Draco* Thanks you guys for being loyal readers! If you're nice maybe OllyO will make a oneshot continuation of that leather outfit scene...
Draco: BUT for now... *Grabs Harry and kisses his cheek* we have a honey moon to go to, HELLO FIJI! *Disapparates with Harry*
OllyO: *Blink Blink*... ah, they'll be back in time for the next story! I LOVE YOU ALL! THANKYOU, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
~OllyO111