drao should have probably k go, that gee was w through so thgs, but talkg to harry’s friends ikg your way through a i pes were perfetly safe, butstep and you fd your world piees
“why not?”
“what do you an why ures wildly at the side of his head with the bottle, at the shiissue where ao be “i lost y ear i lost y brother what ore do you want fro ?” and of ourse it would be about fred, everythg that has happeh gee over the past year has been about fred
“you doop jt beae he’s not here”
≈ to be
(atually, srath that, he dido be , he was jt thkg about the fs and goyle, and snape beg dead and hailed as a hero without oo the people like drao who would atually ourn hi, and his father azkaban who would be horrified to see how his so, about how he ould not s jt beae they are gohe of his outh)
“you thk i’ a ee’s voie was soft a, and drao was foribly rei he was ron’s brother, beae it seed like all the weasley boys would like to punh their feelihrough the drao would adire it, if it didn’t keep ang that he fouhrown up agaih their fists hes fro his fae, hands raised iryg to fix whatever he had broken “that i should never have walked away”
“i don’t thk anythg” there was a rowd arouhese uggles orried faes, and all of the on gee’s side “really, an whatever’s gog on with you, it’s ool with ”
gee snarls at hi, fae isted a way that akes drao thi to ry, and then shoves away, stalkg out the door drao paes loo throw ohe bar and theer hi, ign the people who tells hi he should let it go
it doeso fd gee, who did very far he had ohe orner, and now he was hunhed over beh a streetlight, hands on his knees he looked like he was about to be sik
“are you havg a pani attak?” a stupid question, beae he was, aupider beae even though heriohe all to read up oiur trauas, knog the lgo and knog how to help arehgs
≈ a wipes his outh with the bak of his hand and stood up “i was gog to kik your ass”
“you wouldn’t have”
≈’s easier to feel o whe apart, but bak there, with the tensi high ao s it, he was so, so dead)
“i’ve punhed yee’s outh ithed to a sile as he said it, and drao had an unofortable fsh of hi urled on the gr to protet hiself, gee and harry’s fists flyg it had hurt quite a lot
≈”
“yeah” gee said, silg, and there was fivehat sylble, enough so that when he sank down to sit on the urb, drao thought it was safe to o and sit beside hi “you really rat”
drao hoked on a ugh, feelihan he had all night “i ant it, though about not thkg anythg about you not fightg” he was wadg bak ierritory, beae apparently drao doesn’t have any self preservation skills “you’ve done enough”
gee sighed, flopped bak onto the sidewalk so he was lyg ft on his bak “try tellg that to harry”
“trt ,” he says, thkg of gog bak, of getti aid supplies ready and starg fro the lok to the door and bak agaiay awake until harry os ho “i’ doi”
chapter 22
harry
≈o sreas
for a ont, harry a where they are og fro he knows this hoe is safe—herio, and his ountless hekg of every lok and or that there was no way soone ould sneak ihere was o hase after hi,aess, h eaters rkg the shadows to pay hi bak for what he had doer
still, that doesn’t s hi fr bak the rabbg at his wand a atter of se down the orridor towards drao’s roo, towards the sreas, ready to fight off whatever ight be hurtg hi
ohg there
there’s only drao, sittg up with the sheets pooled around his hips and his hands pullg on his hair, behe waist, taki were sed that they sou, tears streag dowries to al hiself down and now there was harry, who had threw the door open so hard it atually raked the wall behd hi, sta starg at drao, with wand thed his hand a his lips
“what?” drao was on the defensive a way that he hadn’t been f ti, aybe si night he a here, but harry supposes beg aught i so vulnerable would ae ahrow their still, he doesn’t want it to turn to a fight, hi seeio solid ground
“nothg” harry realizes he is still potg his wand and lowers his ar it takes a o slide his wand bak to his poket and s lookg to the orners for an visible ere fore of will to rei everythg is okay, that they are safe, that drao is here and whole, eve opletely happy “i jt—”
jt what? jt heard your sreas and thought i’dto save you like pre g, and then you would throw yourself to y ars a