potter rolls his eyes there’s a sile on his lips and a kle his eyes, like a proise of sothg fun “no, alfoy”
≈ands up, rosses the roo, and sits on the free spae above drao’s head he ruages i one ore and produes an old piee of folded parhnt, whih he ys on the bed front of drao’s fae “e on, tap your wand here and say i solenly s to no good”
≈ely igane fro hi (or the utter k res at the parhnt “are you fibbg with ?”
“no, i a not fibbg y diffiult o you?”
still spiiets his wand fro his ow’s a a quik trip to ollivahe st day of augt, on the very sa day that kgsley owled hi to say that his agi ban was over he had been nervo, ao et the old an agaihe death eaters did to hi their very ow garrik ollivaake hi, disappeared with his shelves of boxes, ah a wand and fiveness
“10 hes, rowan wood and uni drao alfoy no atter how dark the road, the vae is ieo fi”
it’s not the sa as his old one, of ourse, but he doesn’t k is (potter? the istry?) aoo sared to ask
holdih, drao taps the parhnt with his wand and says, “i solenly s to no good”
≈ unfolds, ahe iddle, towards the sides and the four oro for…
“hogwarts,” he says, breathless he props hiself up on one elbow, eyes wide he looks bak at potter with his outh ope
prs at hi iaps the lht orher dht where their nas are ped beside eah other
it’s defitely weird seeg their hey don’t ath, after all
“you weren’t at dier says, ontug their oiohe ap and didn’t see you anywhere”
drao looks at the area belled great hall it’s epty, as expeted he doesn’t know what ti it is, but it’s probably already after urfew he thks about the absurditydihat he’s nog out of his way to hek this ridiulo ap of his jt to look for hi
he bliop hiself fro feelg happy about it “other people ight all this stalkg,” he says stead
potter’s heeks are pk “shut up, i was worried”
he’s defitely happy dan potter “worried that poor little drao went bonkers ao the ke?”
“yes, alfoy, is it that weird of to worry about you? n to piss off, i’ tryg to have a ivil oion here”
drao lears his throat loudly he hopes the dark is dog its jobhis burng fae “alright, so you didhe ap, a i was i?”
≈’s o isn’t shown on the ap, so i took a hunh”
drao looks at hi disbelievgly “you went to the forbidde on a hunh?”
ps “it’s i i’ve bee and you did very far”
≈ ad potter’s ad he thks of all the thgs that ould have happehe ways that this day ould have gone h “rl, potter, you an to tell i alost got the saviour of the wizardg world ripped apart by wolves beae he id enough to o after aer on a hunh?”
pa “s alliop alli”
≈h true, potter don’t be so se”
“so,” potter irritably uts off, probably beae if they oalkg about this, they are goiher argunt “that’s how i found you”
drao huffs reply he shakes his head, still redulo, but that ovent reds hi that he still has a headahe and so he lies bak dowress it’s diro, that’s what this whole thg is
p here, beg so ddleso with hi and his life, and hi enjoyg it enjoyiention, his ti, his ohose godawful siles that he sends drao’s way when drao’s said sothg partiurly funny
≈s potter to s he does
the dark ark burns, hot and heavy on his forear, under his sleeve he throws it over his eyes, and takes a deep, shuddery breath he thanks his ky stars and whatever higher beihe sky that nothiher of the today, beae he doesn’t thk he an five hiself if sothg had happeer all beae he was razy enough to wa supposed to id enough to fall love
“ ti, don’t do it y life’s not worth yours”
there is a pae, os long enough for the tears to prik his eyes, before potter ururs, “that’s for to deide”
drao ughs, loty “you an’t save everyoi”
“i know but i wao save you”
“it got easier, the ore i did it,” drao fds hiself expier
≈ill lyiially ouro his side, wathg the ribbons of nas glide over the ap po bak to the other bed anyore aled f down horizontally, jt below the pillows his thigh is jt above drao’s head
drao had jt sified his lothes and his bed, ua a anyore, when potter asked if he k was the forbidde he was walkg to, whih evolved ihey are havg now
“i had always been good at ony y aunt said i had a natural talent for it” he loses his eyes, silg grily as he rebers beltrix lestrange a