and you, other? where have you been? sittg this aparthg ever happened?
“what do you wao do?” he shouldhat shouldhe b onto hiself, like he had dohg wrong what drao should have done was deand ant to see a a, who led his only son down all the wrong paths why he should are about the an who rued hi
“help hi” she was still stroro’s what drao realized, sittg there, as she reahed aross the table to th at his haears her eyes, a tell if they were real or a harade to ake hi py by her rules “you’ve got powerful friends he”
≈ wahe kd of person who akes friends only to ollet favors, but drao does n that to her it is not the world she lives
“i’ll ask,” he pr away fro her “but i an’t ake any proises”
if drao has learhg, it is that proises are rarely kept
harry
≈s bak fro offee with herione, he fds drao standihen, holdg a ug of tea his hand and starg out the dow
“hey” he keeps his voie ral on purpose, when really he wao know how the after “did you get to see your o?”
harry knows that the situation liated, so he etg drao to o ho and be happy about it but he dido turn and put his fist through the wall, either, or idiately ry out aer he akes ontat, thg at his hand
“holy fuk,” drao swears, beae drao likes to say the f-word a lot whehg surprises hi, then shakes his hand out, ughg “i didn’t thk it’d be a solid wall”
“what did you thk en?” harry’s already gettg a wash rag out and g ie ubes up it, beae his head he is still that uggle boy likg his wounds on his own, and it never ours hi to e agi draet rid of the pa i he is too urn down harry’s help, so he jt stares at his hand disay ahe akeshift ie pak
“i thought it ster that y hand wht through it,” he es, urses agaihr the sk, keepio run over his khen i ould jt repair it”
“ah” harry jups up oer, ao hi he alost doesn’t notie when his hao dra through it eveie, he doesn’t s “so i take it thgs didn’t go as well as y?”
“they did” drao’s voie was very surly “and then she asked if i had beeher”
≈ harry k or aybe (and it was horrible that this was the first ti that harry had this thought) he had been gog to see hi and jt not tellg anyone, beae who would give up oher, no atter how horrible?
“and?”
“and she asked to help hi” drao was bitg his nails, whih was a bad sig you to help hi”
drao doesn’t say anythg, beae hkg of that night the graveyard, wheared down at hi and i fell at voldeort’s feet
drao is still talkg “but you an’t help , an you?” the words ut harry apart, beae he hat to be the ase, that dra and harry be left helpless “you wouldn’t do a dan thg about it, even if you ould”
≈o kill ” harry tries to ake his voie as ge he falters o word he does not know how to ake drao uahat was his father without beio tell hi that he ould , even for hi “he ight have been a good person, but he was wrong”
“he was y dad” drao said, iserably, rippg at his nails now, and his hands were bleedg harry waell hi sorry, sorry that life was like this, sorry his other asked this of the, sorry that drao’s father did what he did, jt sorry, sorry for so any thgs that weren’t his fault and that he ould never fix he wao fix the, but ouldn’t, jt pulled drao to hi “he was y father”
≈ uh that ould be said after that they stay like that for a few ihen drao pulls away, tears still stag his fae and eyes red, his voie srathy fr harry aears on his shirt dryg
“whatever, right?” drao ughed, but it s, beae nothg about this ould be less fu he did, ahg that anyone an say about it”
≈o kill ” harry says aga, dubstruk, beae this, this ht now, what drao t be feelg, that was so uh worse than anythg that harry had to deal with wheo his parehey’re dead and you hey an never disappot “i’ sorry, drao”
≈ to hi, to try and pull hi bak, but drao jt barks out a ugh that he uts off befets started “rl, harry” drao siles at hi, tired but alost fond a way “i know it’s okay”
harry jt here is o that and what would he say anyways? aion of how this is not drao’s fault, how harry doesn’t b hi, how they are friends?
≈hey are really this is not how you feel about a friend, this is not what you do to ofort a friehey are hurtg and you are hopeless to help the they sped beg jt friends a lowill help the with this
chapter 15
harry
he hears sreag
it only takes a seohat the sound he was heario heriohat shouldn’t be happeng, it s