[Once again, Draco is out in the snow - something that seems to be a newly discovered habit of his, despite how often he'll complain about the cold. At the moment, however, the cold seems to be the farthest thing from his mind, judging by the almost tortured expression on his visage: fury, indignation, misery, and a strange flicker of longing for
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[After a shakey moment, he yells into the communicator.]
Draco! Come home.
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I thought I told you to sod off.
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[He huffs, and then in a softer tone.]
Please just tell me what's wrong. I want to help you.
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[The words are scathing, his anger unbidden. Or perhaps he's simply displacing it.]
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[He sounds hurt. 'Potter'? Sure Draco has called him that, but not in such a manner. With how shot his nerves are from the argument he just had with Ron, he couldn't take something like this.]
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[It's true - he sounds much more like he had for the better part of the six months they've spent living together. And a voice in the back of his mind brings up the fact that he probably shouldn't be taking this out on Potter, but he stubbornly ignores it.]
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[His voice sounds angry, but also desperate and extremely worried.]
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[There's a moment of silence during which Draco is sorely tempted to simply shut off the communicator and be done with it, but that moment passes, and he lets out a frustrated sound.]
But I think it's rather obvious what's wrong. Or are you blind now to go along with being deaf and dumb?
[The venom in his voice hasn't diminished in the slightest, but at least he's talking.]
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If you want we can talk about this when you get home.
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[He's clearly referring to who the letter had been addressed to, sure that even the Gryffindor is capable of making that connection.]
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[He pauses and tries to remember. 'My dearest dragon' Sounds like it was from his-]
W-Well... I'd have thought you'd have been happier to get a letter from your mother...
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[There's another span of silence, longer than the one before. Nothing other than the howling of the wind can be heard until Draco speaks again.]
...I'll be there in a bit.
[He intentionally chooses not to refer to the apartment as "home".]
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[Because honestly, where else would Harry be?]
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