Title: It's okay. Author: vanessawolfie Beta: curiouslyfic Recipient: bleedforyou1 Fandom: Harry Potter Character(s)/Pairing(s): Harry/Draco Prompt:[Spoiler for fic (click to open)] Draco only cried in front of Harry once. It was the day he found out his father had died, and he didn't say why. Harry didn't ask, though-- he just held Draco close adn told him it would be okay.
Rating: PG Word count: 365 Warning(s)/Kinks: Draco's crying here. That's what's pretty obvious. So angsty ahoy. Author Notes: So, did you guys know? MY BB BLEEDY TURNED TWENTY TODAY! So, this was written as a bday gift for her. She's amazing, I love her, and I want to hug her to death today, but I can't, so I have to make due with posts and fics. I hope you like this, both bleedy and others :D (Also flist, sorry for the spamming I'll do today, I have a couple of posts/fics I'll be posting today. Sorry. ---
Harry wasn‘t exactly sure what to do. The last, and only, time he‘d seen Draco crying, they‘d ended up dueling. At least he knew not to do that again. Rule #55 about dating Draco Malfoy, don‘t duel with him and end up almost killing him. Yeah, that wasn‘t a positive outcome. Still, no matter how hard he looked through his memories of the last eight years with Draco, he couldn‘t find one incident where Draco had cried.
Harry, on the other hand, cried a lot of times, first after the war, when they were just starting to date, when he‘d still get nightmares about Voldemort and Fred and Remus. After the first year, Harry calmed down a lot, but he still cried regularly.
All this ran through Harry’s head as he stood in the doorway into their bedroom. Draco sat on the bed, shaking with sobs. Harry wasn’t even sure he should enter the room. His heart was telling him to go inside and comfort his husband, but his head reminded him of how bloody proud Draco was. Interrupting him when he was this vulnerable could be deadly. It didn’t take long though for his heart to win out and he knocked lightly on the door. Draco looked up in surprise, but his face only showed desperation and sadness. When a second passed without Draco cursing him, Harry quickly got inside and sat beside Draco on the bed. He wrapped his arms tight around Draco, pulling him close and it seemed to trigger something in Draco; Harry could feel him letting it all go and just breaking down. Harry still didn’t have the slightest clue as to why Draco was crying, but he didn’t even think about asking. Right now wasn’t about the why; it was about being there for Draco.
“It’s okay, babe. It’s going to be just okay,” Harry murmured into Draco’s hair, gently rocking them.
“I can’t, Harry,” Draco said, his voice broken and rough. He had to struggle with the words to get them out.
“Shhh, it’s okay, honey, I’ll be here,” Harry said, clutching his husband more tightly as he could feel the sadness in the air around them.