(besides, if the universe was ever gog to send hi a sighat he was akio istake, havg a fight break out jt before he ould hoke out the retty good one)
≈hiarget to sall, everythg beos a pe of uaty” drao is still talkg, still starg out the wihihey aroy, evehat doer uh, outside of what they an to the people who are about it”
“we should have known” gny is white faed with the paio speak through gritted teeth na hasher side si here, her hands ftterg fro her shoulders to her hair to h over where the breaks were, but it wasn’t enough “we should have k wouldh hi there’s always sothi over”
how ould we have known? harry thihey all nod, gri faed with their fear aioles yet to o we’re kids pyg at a war we don’t know how to fight
“what’s og will o,” he hears hiself say, beae he is the leader, always, always had that thrt upon hi eve want it, ao say sothihe fear “a it when it does”
chapter 27
harry
≈ harry had lived a doritory with our other boys for ost of his life, he had had his share of onts where he walked on soone doihey shouldn’t, or that they didn’t wao know about like g his diary that atalogues the well-beg of his pnts, or whehes r the paperbak roa herione had ally bought for hi as a joke birthday present or that oi when he walked on sea and dean kissihey were ready for ao know about
≈he protool about how sotis people liviill want their spae, and that the other persois barges on a private ont without ang to that there are thi even bad thgs, jt private thgs, that the other perso shout to the world how you have to fight past the ebarrassnt to ake your exes ahe roo, aer, you’ll both be over it
it’s what harry should be dht now, o figure out what drao would be dog that he’s ebarrassed about
≈ was te, whih ant that he harry hado be awake—harry had iay the night at roer gog out to the pub, afraid that he would be too drunk to apparate safely, but by the ti the night was over, he fouill jt as sober as he had beehe day began, so he a ho, anyways “i dido ”
“no, you didn’t” drao said, ahed wri of the sheets stead of lookg hi ily beae they both k he was lyg the only reason drao had woken up was beae harry had tripped over a pile of books when he walked ihe all tublg to the floor, hi along with the the noise had sared drao so bad harry jt ounted hiself ky he hadn’t bee are you dog ho?”
“was as i etg” harry tried to sile, but he ouldn’t, beae sothiely wrong it sort of felt like how harry eted the tension to be if he had ever aught soog on hi, whih is a weird oparisohere was her any agreed upon roanti attahnt or ahe roo “thought i’d o up here”
≈ay over but then i was strethed out on their ouh with its py hiohat there was no way that i ould fall asleep, not without the soundto assure that everythg was okay, that we were safe i thought that you felt the sa way i thought you’d be happy to have bak fht you told that this helps you sleep, too, or was that jt sothg to ake feel better?
“yeah” drao still wasn’t ovi like he always did he was jt sittiarg “good great”
it takes an ebarrassgly long ti fet it ti where he thks about how this was all about hi, all fro so fault he did not know he had, a he had akes hi through hangg his lothes and brhih and washg his hao feel the old water run over his wrists uurns bak to the bed a sothg was different
dra a short sleeve shirt
≈ alone should anythg it’s weird, nos to thk about it, that he had never seen his rooate a short sleeve shirt before, now that it is appr and the hoe gets uuffy that he would hoose to be opletely overed when he s hiself arets buried uhe overs
(this is ohose onts where he an hear herione’s voie his head, oang on about boys and how ipossibly obte you are, harry, i a ahe e of a tablespoon, harry, whih is better than ron but not by uh)
≈ for the first ti duriogether, harry ahe dark ark
≈o at like everythg is noral he libs to bed, pulls up the overs, turns so he is lyg with his head propped up on drao’s shoulder tries to prete starg at the shadow of it agast drao’s sk
“i jt” there’s a franti srable where he tries to free hiself fro the overs and ists to grab the old juped fhe desk hair it’s one of harry’s, one rs weasley ade hi for the christas of his fourth year, the ohe dragon on it the sleeves are frayg and the olors dull, but it’s gon