Fic: Alone

[sassy_cat]

Title: Alone
Author: xonceinadream
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley (and all combinations of)
Rating: R
Prompt: 444. When character A asks their partner character B if they can open their relationship to include Character C (A has been in love with C for ages) but after they do, Characters B and C are best suited to each other and want A to go.

Comments

[sophie_french]

OMG, that was absolutely heartbreaking! The longing Harry feels for Draco and yet, he marries Ginny. The way their relationship evolves, how Draco and Ginny fall in love, just wow, this was beautifully written, in a few hundred words, it really broke my heart!!! Well done! :)

[xonceinadream]

Thank you! (As odd as that sounds to be saying thank you to it being heartbreaking :P). I'm sorry that it broke your heart but... well, it was what I was going for so thank you! :)

[youcantseeus]

Ahhhh, this is amazing. My heart is breaking for Harry. It's amazing how you were able to show the evolution of the relationship so well in a relatively short number of words.

[xonceinadream]

Thank you. :) It was originally going to be longer but I thought it had a bit more of an impact with fewer words. ♥

[katmarajade]

Oh, just heartbreaking! I like how we can see that something's wrong long before Harry can and his belief that he's the glue holding things together while really he's being pushed out makes me ache. I love how he just kept apparating over and over until he was so far away. Beautiful.

[xonceinadream]

I think what broke my heart most writing this was Harry just not realizing that something was wrong at all. Thank you! :)

[snegurochka_lee]

I really liked this! It's so easy to make these threesome/poly situations idealized in fic (and I've done it myself, don't get me wrong!), but the other side of that coin HAS to be more like this, I figure. :) I really liked the dynamic among all of them, especially Ginny and Draco. ♥

[xonceinadream]

Thank you! I love writing poly fic and write it often where things just work between the three and so this was definitely interesting and fun to write. :)

[eevilalice]

Oh man, oh man. What a slow trainwreck of a situation. It's amazing how much you accomplish in a small(er) space like this, and that definitely intensifies the sense of tragedy. I'm not sure how typical my response was to Harry in this fic; in this weird way I thought he deserved it--I was annoyed with how he didn't seem to know what he wanted or never seemed happy. Yet that didn't lessen the anguish for me as a reader. And I liked that you did something different in that it was Draco and Ginny who ended up together; with this trio, it's almost always Draco and Harry at the end.

A great read!

[xonceinadream]

It broke my heart to write Harry, honestly, but at the same time I almost wanted to write more of Draco/Ginny because I felt like they were really what the story was about. Harry was angstier but I liked Draco and Ginny's dynamic. And Draco/Ginny was my otp long before H/D so it was fun for me to write it that way. Thank you! :)