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Wow! Well I'm not sure where this one came from. I don't know if I really like it much but this fluffy bunny wouldn't leave me alone.
Title: Brave New World
Author:
accioscar
Team: Aurors
Word count: 100x17
Pairing: HP/DM
Challenge: Bath
Rating: PG-13.
Warnings: fluffy flangst
Authors note: Unbeta'd. Please point out any mistakes. Comments=love. *g*
“Draco, why are we in the bathroom?” Harry asked as Draco pushed him gently down to sit on the toilet seat, “I mean when you said you wanted to talk to me, I presumed you meant somewhere more comfortable.”
“I meant I wanted to TALK to you so get your mind out of the gutter for once in your life will you!” Draco snapped.
Taken aback by the abrupt tone, Harry got to his feet again, “Draco is everything ok? What’s wrong? You’re starting to worry me,” he blurted out all at once, not giving Draco a chance to answer.
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Draco sighed deeply, “Everything’s fine Harry,” but his expression said otherwise. “Please sit down,” he pushed gently on Harry’s shoulders urging him to sit.
Harry gave him a questioning look and reluctantly sat back down.
Something was wrong. He just knew it. Draco looked nervous, scared even. He wouldn’t even make eye contact with Harry, kept looking down at his own shuffling feet. A sickening knot began to form in the pit of Harry’s stomach. What ever it was, it was bad, Harry could feel it.
“You know I love you right?” Draco blurted out, waking Harry from his thoughts.
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Harry looked up at Draco’s face; finally making contact with those silvery eyes he loved so much. Oh god, he’s going to break up with me, Harry thought, noticing a glaze of tears in Draco’s eyes.
“H-Harry?” Draco brushed his fingers across Harry’s shoulders, “Did you hear me? Are you OK?”
Harry couldn’t answer. He felt his own tears building up, the knot in his stomach moving up into his chest, squeezing painfully. His mouth was dry and he couldn’t form any sort of coherent sound. I’m losing him, he thought, oh god, my worst fear is coming true.
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“Harry, I said I love you,” Draco repeated.
“I-I love you too,” Harry finally managed to choke out, not knowing what else to say.
Then suddenly it hit him like a ton of bricks - that was the fist time Draco had said it. But-but why? Why now? When he’s about to dump me? Inexplicable anger suddenly surged through him and he spat out, “Well then? Fucking spit it out already. Lets get this over and done with.”
Draco looked as though he had been physically slapped and he took a step back from Harry, tears in his eyes.
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Harry saw the hurt flash in Draco’s beautiful eyes and he felt a sharp pang of regret. Draco looked him in the eyes for a moment and he seemed to be searching for something there. Whatever it was he must have found it because he suddenly drew a deep breath and took a step back towards Harry.
“Whatever you’re thinking Harry, please just hear me out before you say anything. This is not going to be easy for me. OK?”
Harry nodded.
“Um……right…..so….where was I?” Draco shuffled his feet nervously again.
“You-you said you love me.”
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“Yeah….yes, and I do, more than you know,” Draco sighed, “Everyday I wake up next to you I pinch myself, because I can’t believe that you love me. Do you know what I love about you the most?” It was a rhetorical question, Draco continued hesitantly, “You’re-you’re so brave. Don’t laugh.” he eyed Harry warningly.
Harry merely shrugged.
“You were brave enough to kiss me first, even though you didn’t how I would react. You were brave enough to love me first, even if I hadn’t loved you back. And you were brave enough to tell me first.”
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Draco leant against the sink and smiled, “You gave that to me and I was so fucking scared that I couldn’t say it back. Yeah, you said it didn’t matter but I know I hurt you Harry and I’m sorry. And I love you. I’m glad I can give you that now.”
Harry had just sat and listened as the words tumbled out of Draco’s mouth. He was confused, nervous. What was going on? Why was Draco saying all these things? But the knot of fear inside him couldn’t help but loosen a little at Draco’s words, I love you.
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Harry had always believed that Draco loved him back despite not being able to say the words, but a slight niggling doubt had always festered at the back of his mind. He felt a wave of relief wash over him and a fresh rush of love towards his blonde lover.
“Do you remember our first kiss Harry?”
Harry looked at Draco’s face again and was surprised to see a slight pink blush spread across the delicate porcelain of his cheeks. Harry smiled and muttered, “So adorable,” under his breath.
“What?” Draco asked.
“Like it was yesterday,” Harry answered out loud.
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At that, Draco blushed even more and dropped his gaze to the shuffle of his feet once more.
“It was in here,” he spoke to the ground, “at your birthday party,” Draco continued. “Three years ago almost to the day.”
“I remember, you-“ Harry started, but Draco cut him off with a wave of his hand.
“I’d had too much to drink. I was drowning my sorrows you see.
Or rather - trying to drown my feelings.” a pause, “for you. I couldn’t help it. You looked so gorgeous that night Harry. So fucking amazingly sexy and beautiful. I wanted you."
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“I couldn’t believe my luck when you agreed to let me take you shopping but it was torture that day Harry, seeing you in various states of undress. I struggled so hard to keep my hands off you. I wanted nothing more than to touch you. Anywhere. Everywhere. But I didn’t dare. Wasn’t brave enough. I was convinced I’d ruin our friendship forever if I tried it on with you. Plus there was the fact that you were so sickeningly straight.”
Harry opened his mouth to say something but Draco stopped him.“Please. Just let me get this all out.”
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Harry closed his mouth again.
Draco continued, “That night, when I saw you dressed in the clothes I’d picked out for you, glasses replaced by a vision correction charm, it was like that was the first time I was seeing your eyes. I mean really seeing them. Seeing you in them. So bright, so beautiful, so perfect. I almost came to pieces completely, in that instant. You smiled shyly at me and asked me if you looked ok. How could I answer that? If I’d so much as opened my mouth at that point it would’ve been to ravish yours."
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"So I drank myself to oblivion, tried to keep away from you as much as possible and almost bit my tongue clean off to stop myself from hexing that fucking Weaslette. Naturally I ended up in here, throwing my guts up, and it honestly felt like I was vomiting my intestines. Suddenly there you were, holding my hair back, your hand rubbing my back in soothing circles, comforting me, your voice laced with concern. Eventually my body figured I’d suffered enough, and I ended up sitting right where you are now, you kneeling on the floor in front of me."
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"I felt like shit, and I’m sure I looked it too, but you were looking at me like I was the most precious thing on earth. I wanted to die right there - with you looking at me the way you are now.”
Harry smiled and reached up to take Draco’s hands in his,
“And then I kissed you.”
“And then you kissed me. I’d just been sick and you kissed me anyway. The softest, sweetest, brush of lips, tentative, seeking, asking. I don’t know how I kissed you back, I was shaking so much.”
“Like you are now?” Harry asked.
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“I’m not brave like you Harry," Draco pulled his shaking hands from Harry’s, “not at all, and you’re brave in so many ways, you never fail to astound me with you’re courage.
You’ve given me so much Harry, I know I’ll never be able to repay everything that you have given me but I’d like to spend the rest of my life trying. Starting right now.” Draco took Harry’s hands again.
Harry looked at him, confused.
“I can’t be the first to kiss you Harry, but if you’ll let me I can be the first and last to do this.”
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With those words Draco dropped to one knee on the cold tiled floor in front of Harry, his hands shook as he pulled a small velvet box from his robes. “Harry James Potter, will you make me the happiest wizard alive by doing me the honour of becoming my husband and bonded life partner?” He opened the box to reveal a single gold band engraved with tiny snitches, their wings fluttering as they sped around the shining metal.
Harry gaped, open mouthed, hardly believing what he had heard. Tears welled in his emerald eyes as he stared back at Draco.
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“Um….that’s ‘Will you marry me?’ in Gryffindor,” Draco shifted uncomfortably and looked at the floor again.
Harry flung himself to the floor and wrapped his arms around his beautiful boyfriend, “Of course I’ll marry you, you great git,” he told his now fiancé. “Oh Draco, yes, yes, yes, I’ll marry you a thousand times over. I love you...I love you…so so much…so so much,” his words were punctuated with tiny butterfly kisses all over Draco’s face. He felt Draco heave a sigh of relief and relax in his arms as he continued to kiss him.
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They stayed in the bathroom for a while after that, lying on the hard floor, their kisses becoming more and more heated as the familiar arousal over took them. Draco thrust his hips up to meet Harry’s and their erections pressed together sending jolts of pleasure through them both. Holding Harry close Draco whispered in his ear seductively, “Why don’t we get out of this bathroom and go celebrate somewhere more comfortable?"
“Mmmm….” Harry purred, “And then I can show you how brave I really am.”
Draco shivered, “You mean?”
“ Yes Draco, anything you want my love. Tonight ANYTHING goes!”