DRABBLE: War Orphans - 3 (Dean/Draco)
Title: War orphans - 3
Character pairing: Dean Thomas / Draco Malfoy
Prompt: as a city upon a hill
Rating: PG-13 (language?)
Word count: 352
AN: Part three of thirteen. Links to previous and next parts below.
Link to prompt table: here!
War Orphans - 3
It took a while for Draco to loosen up and not look like he wanted to die every time Dean went to sit next to him, and Dean had to give him some space. The whole being-locked-up-in-the-Malfoy-cellar business burst up more than once as Dean found that it was being even harder for the blond to come to terms with it than it was for him; whilst Dean and Luna had had other Death Eaters to worry about back then, Malfoy had lived weeks with the knowledge that there were schoolmates of his being tortured downstairs-people his age, people he knew. Dean had reminded him that he had tried to cover up for Harry (something he had learned during one of their “Gryffi-1997 high-school reunion” in Hogsmeade) but all he said was that it wasn’t an act of bravery but one of pure denial; he was a complete coward. Self-deprecating shit.
Nonetheless, sitting together in Charms soon became a habit. They didn’t talk all too much, but they began to exchange frustrated comments whenever a spell was too complex to perform or to share a piece of advice when one of them got the trick quicker. When Parvati had asked what he was doing, he had said that he was making friends-slash-making a point; when Justin had asked why he was being friendly to a bastard who thought he was nothing but a filthy mudblood, he had told Justin he was the only one who cared about his blood status. He was glad nothing much had happened with that wanker.
Draco wasn’t that bad, as he had hoped he wouldn’t be. They became study partners for Charms, which was a nice change given that he didn’t like studying with his dorm mates that much, and being with the girls all the time was driving him crazy.
When the Slytherin showed up in Transfiguration one day-though he had dropped the subject for months-and walked straight to the back of the class to sit next to Dean, the Gryffindor felt like he was finally winning one over the war.
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Character pairing: Dean Thomas / Draco Malfoy
Prompt: as a city upon a hill
Rating: PG-13 (language?)
Word count: 352
AN: Part three of thirteen. Links to previous and next parts below.
Link to prompt table: here!
War Orphans - 3
It took a while for Draco to loosen up and not look like he wanted to die every time Dean went to sit next to him, and Dean had to give him some space. The whole being-locked-up-in-the-Malfoy-cellar business burst up more than once as Dean found that it was being even harder for the blond to come to terms with it than it was for him; whilst Dean and Luna had had other Death Eaters to worry about back then, Malfoy had lived weeks with the knowledge that there were schoolmates of his being tortured downstairs-people his age, people he knew. Dean had reminded him that he had tried to cover up for Harry (something he had learned during one of their “Gryffi-1997 high-school reunion” in Hogsmeade) but all he said was that it wasn’t an act of bravery but one of pure denial; he was a complete coward. Self-deprecating shit.
Nonetheless, sitting together in Charms soon became a habit. They didn’t talk all too much, but they began to exchange frustrated comments whenever a spell was too complex to perform or to share a piece of advice when one of them got the trick quicker. When Parvati had asked what he was doing, he had said that he was making friends-slash-making a point; when Justin had asked why he was being friendly to a bastard who thought he was nothing but a filthy mudblood, he had told Justin he was the only one who cared about his blood status. He was glad nothing much had happened with that wanker.
Draco wasn’t that bad, as he had hoped he wouldn’t be. They became study partners for Charms, which was a nice change given that he didn’t like studying with his dorm mates that much, and being with the girls all the time was driving him crazy.
When the Slytherin showed up in Transfiguration one day-though he had dropped the subject for months-and walked straight to the back of the class to sit next to Dean, the Gryffindor felt like he was finally winning one over the war.
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