&hing about the artile is that it’s shoorld a part of themselves that they have down a, only ed arou’s a fme that’s fu would burhey got too lose. Drao doesn’t wahe it up, but it seems like her does Harry, so they just go about their day, aime that artile is in the bak of Drao’s mind, making him think that they really, really should talk.
And also that maybe they shouldn’t talk, beause if they start talkihey were goio an unavoidable onlusion: that maybe the With Weekly dy was right, a pushing off the iable, and that everyohem knows what they are both so desperately tryi away with not talking about, beause they’re afraid that ohem alk aoihey e with eah other in front of everyone and share a bed a of their time with eah other, maybe it’s more stupid than ao go on thinking that they don’t have feeliher.
A, Drao? The voie pops up again, and Drao tries to quiet it, he really does try, he hates the voie and what it says ahings it makes him think about himself, a even more beause wheep bak to look at thiively, it’s s wrong. It’s ohe truth that everyooo polite to say. You go on a date ahing’s good for a day, or a week, or a month, but the in a fight and he remembers who you are, what you’ve dohe minute you find yourself in a ell in Azkabahan you started. You an’t fool yourself that anyone would have ared about you if Harry doesn’t.
Whih is the truth, and also why he ao talk about it. He an’t beause he’s afraid, ahough he loves him, even though he’s fairly sure Harry loves him bak, Drao has to live with the fat that he is here and free all beause of Harry, that this is a debt he will o pay bak, and that he should be on his knees groveling for his five he has nht to eve. If he were to take a ha might be fine for a while, but a few mistakes down the road and this Harry has given him will go up i’s here. He is free with Harry’s blessing, and nothing more, and Drao had thought before or how muh less threatening Azkaban is now that it ks deme give up freedom now that he has a seo know what it means.
&he paper instead.
About hinny broke up, only to be reped by Luhe aftermath of the war. About the sentening hearing and how Harry stood up, whih started a whole other artile speuting about whether they had beeher before that, maybe even bak at their Hogwarts days, and some kids he had alked to wormed their way into a minute of fame to tell the press that it was definitely a possibility, whih, hello, Harry almost killed him ih year, and it wasn’t evehealk about the pes they had beeher and how st night was their first real publi an, and by the end of it, Drao ould almost be o himself.
&o be o.
& to be real, wants it in a way that makes him ahe, and just for a momehe paper, he thinks that Azkabahan this.
oint of pying it safe if you it feels like to burn, anyways?
&ill sleep together.
Drao had been afraid they wouldn’t, a is ohat they sleep in Harry’s room, it is up to Drao to deide whether or not he will be brave enough to try. He knows that Harry will be kind about it, make a wanting to stay up te a head ahe, but both of them will know, and Drao didn’t wa. He stands outside his room for a while, lohat the tiking of his l to drive him ihes his weight and the boards reak under his feet ahat it is poio keep waiting, sine Harry khere anyways.
“Hey.” He knoks and thehe door the rest of the eing in the doorway. “Do you still want to…”
&rails off, and Harry gres at him. His hair is evehan usual. Drao, oher hand, looks eveogether.
“Shut up.” He throws the bs in robably meant to be a sig was really just angry looki over here.”
Drao due, just rosses the room and then rawls ihen starts the routiing Harry’s breaths until he an fall asleep. But that doesn’t work, beause Harry is angry and Drao an tell, so he puhe pillow ft and lies on his bak to follow the raks utting apart the eiling like a spiderweb, hoping that might work, too.
It doesn’t.
There’s a paper sittiaies. It’s dark, but he an still make out the headline in glowing prihat Harry must have beeheir artile up uhat he heard Drao outside the door. “Is it beause of me?”
& meant to talk about it. He didn’t wahings bad for either of them. He didn’t want Azkaban, didn’t want this final sign that he was o reah redemption. Drao’s lear if Harry gives up on you, then maybe you aren’t w.
“What?”
&hey talked about you and Ginime.” Drao ws at the dark mark ahat Harry might feel the motiohes to twistiween his fiead. “Are you so upset this time beause it’s me?”