(not over, over he was goi lear before he evealkiill live together, a friends, ahey an’t funtio walk arouhey’re attahed to the hip, but there’s erta thgs that theyrid of if they’re ever gog to ahihihe bed sharg, and the huggg, and the kissg without talkg about it, and sayg i love y they an it ptohough they both know the words are too heavy ihs to an that little it wouldn’t turn to anythihrog road bloks up their own way)
harry’s head, his thought proess le it wasn’t that he didn’t want to keep all of that, it was jt that he was uhe ipression that aybe they would have a sturdier foundatiohrew away all their shaky begngs and started buildg it all up fro srath his head, drao would uand, ahe ould shift their not-so-fuionship iter, a beg jt friehey were both standg on solid ground, with drao not havg the k one word fro harry ould send hi bak to azkaban hangg over his head
it was easier to thk of sayihan atually f the words out, so even though harry was tryg to softeh a night out a he bought (he always buys, beae he likes to onsider hiself a gehough drao always srunhes his nose up ahis look, like he kly what he’s tryg to do and thks it’s opletely stupid), he ouldn’t quite ake hiself do it drao jt looked so happy, and for o hekg over his shary eneies every five seonds there was ie rea stuk to the side of his heek but harry wasn’t tellg hi, ahey left the store, drao took harry’s hand ihere was hat that was where they belonged
≈er all this ti, they had jt beo aeher, and that hurts, hurts so bad that harry fores the words up fro behihat was grog his throat ao ake the words rash through the barrier that had ford behihey do even lose “drao” drao turns to fae hi, and he is holdg both hands now, tiltio look up at hi beae he is o ground and harry is still standiep above hi “drao, i ell you sothg”
he’s o he does not look worried there ight have beehose words would have sent hi to a pani, thkg that this was over and harry was sendg hi away, but now their friendship was set iil the ont harry says what he had brought hi here to say a all rublg bak i’s that, harry?”
drao also looks beautiful they are ureetlight, and his hair, whih has grown uh too long to be as sleek and shy as it was bak hogwarts, falls over his fae a fuzzy halo harry resists the urge to ph it away fro his fae and looks up at the sky stead, whih is streaked with the st strands of a su
≈ sorry that he had to say it ihis lovely, but he has io do it at ho, with all the ories, a briat any part of their life with his words it had to be sope differehat had the least hane of follog the ho)
“i jt…” he gives upt ao hi, ao his touh it ould be perfet, if harry let it it ould be everythg, if he would jt give upto do thi way if he would only st to save hi whe not need savg ight not want saviop to do sothi”
≈ill is “what do you an?” drao starts to take a step bak, falters, and theaiill annot fatho the thought that harry ight be the o hi, after all his worry about what stra be thkg “i don’t uand”
“i know” harry takes a deep breath, shakes away the tension that had settled his shoulders “we jt—”
≈ehat it’s over that’s what he had brought hi there for, and that’s what he was gog to do, even if it killed hi, jt as soohered up the he exploded i t have been half of gee’s stok of fireworks, ahat he had run out of ti
drao
it’s like the war aga, beae spells are flyg by hi and it’s sary and he ould die at a it also ishis ti, fii side of thgs, pearihe fray, s by the soke and the fshes of lights, a of the bted dispy dow of his shop, sleeves phed up to the elbows and robes billog out behd hi
(it’s a glorio entrane, ng and red hair fshg through the soke and ndg a rouh, a snarl his voie and a sirk on his fae, like he ould not wait to tear soo was al to see hi, and drao was kd of jealo)
“yht ate?” gee rosses the few steps to hi like they’re seeiher fro opposite ends upspeial, jt o friends runniher after a long week ss runhes under his feet, and his eyes are dartg arou, and when he draws even to hi, drao a he is bleedg fro his daredevil leap through the dow
“i’ fe you?” he nods down at his ar, whih is ut open and bleedg, drippg down his hand and athg at his wand
“this?” ge