Title: Study session
Author: idontgiveafaux
Rating: G
Prompt: Something fluffy! I personally think it still came out a little dark but I tried!
Word Count: 411
Summary: Draco watches Harry
Notes: For
lire_casander Happy [belated] birthday! x
Draco has been watching Harry for a while. He’s sat at the table, reading studiously through a book. Draco is sitting opposite him, watching the faint wrinkle lines creep into his forehead as he screws up his face in deep concentration. Watching his finger trace down the pages as he reads - the finger attached to the hand that feels so good when he holds it.
Draco has problems with laying his emotions on the line. He has certainly opened up a lot more since being with Harry but he still finds it difficult to say how he feels. The idea of telling Harry that he loves the way he reads seems ridiculous to him. And yet he does love the way Harry reads. He loves the way he absent-mindedly chews on his bottom lip, the way his eyes flicker in interest when he finds out something new and the way he could concentrate on the task at hand without getting distracted by things. Such as someone studying him while he studied.
Draco decides he loves Harry’s smiles the best. He has a few different ones and Draco has his favourites. The shy smile he gives when someone pays him a compliment, when he shifts his gaze to the floor but Draco knows he’s pleased inside. The lopsided grin he gives when Draco tells a bad joke and he has to pretend that he finds it funny. And his carefree smile where his eyes sparkle magically and he looks like he could burst with happiness.
Draco loves Harry’s laugh too and now can’t decide what he loves most. But he still couldn’t tell Harry that he was having an inner battle with himself because he couldn’t settle on only one thing he loves about him.
Harry looks up and suddenly sees Draco staring at him. “What?” he asks quizzically and throws out that lopsided grin. Draco’s heart melts.
“Just making sure you’re not slacking,” Draco replies and Harry chuckles before lowering his gaze back to the book.
“Harry?”
He looks up.
“I love…you. All of you.”
Harry gives him that carefree smile and it’s contagious because he’s grinning from ear to ear himself and he loves the fact that he can make Harry smile like that.
“I love you too,” Harry says and gets up from his seat, walks over to the back of Draco’s chair and snakes his arms around his chest from behind.
Draco loves life.
Draco loves Harry.