“i thi” harry breatheshis fihe sooth oak ahe firepe bef away and irlg through the rest of the roos—the dg roo with the big overhead skylight, the o bedroos upstairs, the dg stair ase ahen, fally phg through the sreen door and standg outtowards the burrow with a big gr on his fae
drao gives hi a ont, and then follows he doeso say anythihe sreen doors squeals and squeaks, announi was the only door, at the ont drao had thought that would ake harry feel better, the k soo shout so real effort
“there are ore buildgs that o with the property, if you want to look at the” drao waves his hahe area behiowards the elr and the shed and greenhoe, apparehat one ould need for proper ou isn’t really his style, but drao ould get ed to it was already getti, if he was beg ho “or we ould jt let the go, tear the dower ohe”
≈ thihe we if this is where harry wa was where drao would go
“i doo look, i already know it’s perfet,” harry says, and it ould have bee for drao, too, if he would have jt sped talkg “of ourse, you have to look at pes, too we o fi you wa,” and suddenly, drao ould he, beae the idea of goi harry was not was not the pns
but pns hange
drao should be ed to that by now
“right,” he says, and the sile does not even slip fro his fae, that is how good he has be “of ourse”
the words follh the afternoon and ost of the night, until harry was goh up on issed sleep and drao fds hiself alo of the fire pe, wathg the fs leap and whither, wishi so uh of a oward, wishg he ould go up and rawl to bed beside hi without seond guessihere, jt this one
there iture of the o of the ole, ars ed arouher, right ihe other pitures of people that harry had deed iportant—of harry and ron and herione, faily pitures of the weasleys, his other, his father, re and tonks, a bunh of baby teddy, even so of a an that drao now knows to be siri bk, bak when he was youors had heir way to hi bak before he was rued
that iture ahere, on the bookshelf, were his books aable beside hi was his fav, and a b herioted hi was throwhe hair, and there, even, bak by the hallway was ahroair of shoes that he had abandoned piees of hi were everywhere he belonged here he lived here this, here, with harry, was his ho
≈ ahkg, drao thks, tryg to al hiself down, thkg that he really should jt go up and y down with harry jt so he ould quiet the d up side hi how ould he? yether, always, he said so
it akes se he’s telli so does the doubt
they go bak to the ottage theday, this ti with a, who has the talk about it oo ake sure that they are erta that this is the pe for the (she’s a little iffed, drao thks, that she has o extrely wealthy lients right frohis is what they end up buyg) and shows the where to sign quill hand, harry looks happier than he had a while, like he is fally beg freed
“there” he dots his itials dow le a drao, igor as to dissuade hi oi, show hi a few of the ansions and towill his an and his se “all good, yeah?”
all good, is what drao wants to say, but the words annot quite lear his throat beae they do hat true, beae to really be all good he would have to ask harry the question that has been burng up, he would have to know for sure that he had a pe here
≈, harry” drao reahes out to take his hand and harry lets hi, stands up to et hi for a kiss, the first kiss this or be daned “absotely perfet”
they spend a lot of ti ihat day, h it, hekio be do an stay, deidg how ahgs fro griauld pe should o with the
“none” harry deides it for the both of the, lookg arouy roos and shakg dt off the abaas “it’s goiart, drao airely new ho”
drao agrees, but really, as uh as he hated it the begng, he would iss griauld pe it’s a dreary old thi hate it,was the only thg that had spared hi fro a prison ell, a was where he and harry fouo eah other he knows that you have to ove on to ove forward, but he does not want to srub it out of their lives jt yet, jt when thgs were gog so good
≈he take a tether, and harry babbles on, about lettg drao hoose the art wo ohrough the hallways, and how they ould put piture fras up on the wall aloairs he talks about expandg the dg roo so all the weasleys an fit, beae now that he has a real ho he wants to have the oes out to the greehe broken r support beas, talks about pn, says that he ight take up gardeng
≈ire hoe is a projet, sothg to keep