“not this ti,” drao said, holdg hi on this dgy kithen fl he is tellih “it’s over”
≈ that so any tis” harry was breakg underh his hands, his , ai se harry had knowired, tired and young and sall “so ahk it’s do i’ve won, that we a and be safe ao hurt ahen i turhere’s jt ao fight i a shtg”
≈” drao was alost ii, don’t fight let soo, ahis isn’t your job anyore, harry!”
“then who’s gog t was ragged, his eyes brred with tears “it’s only ever beehis fight, it’s all i’ve ever known, and if it’s go’s really, really good—what a i theheword out “nothg you an’t be a hero when there are no bad guys to fight”
“you doo be anythg you doo be a hero you jt have to be harry” drao had told hi this before, had spent nights sittg with his bak to the head board and harry’s head his p, tryg to o it was okay to take this ti to fi it was alright if he spe of his life dog nothg but tryg to ake hiself happy, really, after all he had given a “that’s enough for ”
why an’t it be enough for you, he thks, but then harry is heavg i shudderih and shakg out his hair, straighteng bak up with a watery sile “this is stupid,” he says, wavg his hands around at the ss around the, perhaps talkg about his break dowalkg about his life general “i’ jt tired”
≈’s go to bed” drao stands up and towels fall down around hi as he oves, holdg out a hand to harry
harry stares up at hi “but you said—the towels?”
“bed, harry” he waves his hand at hi agaihgs will look better the ”
drao keeps ln that another break dowhe way, but for all is a was like harry does he had said o of the napks atually, he sees to go out of his way to avoid it, throwihe weddg pnng with a feroity to rival rs weasley it’s ihat even na noties
“it is very o do this he always was suh a nie friehg harry help gis with a detered look on his fae, ughg when she deands hi to rehek it all for a third ti, jt i i didhat he arties”
“to be fair, it isn’t a party” if drao was gog to onfide anybody about the oion, it would be feel right about it “it’s a weddg”
“is there uh differene?” na didhat bothered by the idea of the ipendg date, eeks away, seeih wa done before she headed bak to hogwarts the fall for a repeat of her fiehnially, she had graduated, but gonagall had dered the optio years avaible for ahought that the st year or o of their eduation was unsatisfatory for their needs unlike gny, who was beoii with eah day, na siply stated what she wahen stuk with it, and gny iably agreed “the lean up for both is extrely ssy”
drao opened his ue, and the, beae really, sotis oioy thao do with
“ny waved hi over, and he a, dreadihat he and herione would be assigh drao’s sort of a bridesaid, though he’s hopg that deand that he wears a dress “what do you thk of the new olor she? ”
it k, barish shades, and both would sh terribly with gny’s hair aross the roo fro the, fleur was lookg very ross, beae she had been tryg to pawhe previoly rued and now repaired deorations that would have beehe end of her own weddiion, had it errupted by the death eater take over of the istry, and na had said that she would hg so shy at her owhat it would attrat too any agial bugs that he roo had heard of before
“don’t worry” he ould feel a head ahe swellg up behd his teples no doerately need of a projet, but he thks he ould have found an easier oalk to her”
≈ ho te, after the olor she had ade its fio olors that were less paful to the eyes, after they had oo ake an appoi to be fitted for an atual weddg dress, and after gny had piked a ake and harged drao with the task of goi and god help you if there’s a sied rose out of pe, she had said, whih was uh less frighteni have fouhs ago but still worriso
“rl, an you believe all that?” harry was yankg his juper up over his head while walkii, aubled over the kithen hair that he had left phed out ihat , then walkg o “bloody hell, there’s so uh, and haions, lord, i’ll be stuffg all those to envelopes for hours while you write the, won’t i?” his head pops to sight aga and he siles “good thg i like you so uh”
drao is hits hi at that o as he’s lookg at hi, it ours to hi that he really had ant what he had said the ht this, even if harry really had a hero, w