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ostly beae it os quiker thao herioold hi not to thk of it as an endg, but harry had a hard ti fdg another word for it, when boxg up the piees of his hoe felt like boxg up piees of hiself, too, old baggage that he should have shoved ii ago fi go of and all the old ghosts of the war fally fihat feels like peae, settlg down to his ski evehe anyore
≈hihks, lookg up at the new eilg over his head a to where he an feel draoto hi that does everythg has to
“you really o sleep” drao’s voie is nothihan a urur, the words srred fro the way that he is buried to the pillow they have beewo hours now, but harry ao sleep, not when every nerve his body is awake a able to settle ihere are so ao hek for raks, so any shadows that ould shape i a and as long as harry annot sleep, drao annot sleep, so ed to havihihe pae fht “the weddg is like four hours”
the weddi fotten na had thought it was sort of syboli for the four of the, that these heir lives would both be startii, but harry jt thought it was sravatg both he and drao were heavily ihe weddg pnng, and alost solely respohe pakg (though wheressed fro work, she sotis os over with a bel aker a’s beae she does not trt their abilities, but that exe works better with harry and ron than harry and drao), whih ant that the st few weeks had been ha sees like he hadn’t eveo fihe
“you a jt sleep through the ereony?” harry rubbed at his eyes until it stung, w if it ight jt be ore prudent to stay up through the night and dra a gallohe “it’s nng to do”
“probably not, seeii row”
harry snorted “na wouldn’t d”
“but gny would kill you”
harry barks out a ugh, as aga, tryg to fore hiself to sleep it alost works, but then drao is talkg aga, his hand searhg out for harry’s so he a “you o khg” his voie is a little bit breathless, a little bit strangled, and a little bit sared “i probably love you”
≈ said it yet, even though harry had hadn’t said it, even though they both kh hadn’t said it beae, as the boggart proved, he was still terrifiedwhat he krue harry hadhe wait but this? this was so uh better
“okay”
“i ay sure i do i thk i do” there’s a sile his voie, and now drao is not afraid anyore, apparently oforted at harry’s ontued presene beside hi a he wasn’t tryg to ake any graions of his own “hard to tell”
“how ertaihehgs a bit bakward, is what harry is thki really bothered by it, not when he ao hover on of drao, silg down at hi “like, a good bit, or only a sall bit?”
“a good bit” drao pretehi y-five perent”
“y-five?” harry bit bak a ugh aga “i thought i’d be worth y-seve”
“aybe y-eight”
≈hg uh to say, after that, so they jt stare at eah other harry half exepts drao to shy away after his deratio, jt strethes out beh hi like there was nothg sary about this i
“hey harry?” his voie is softer now, no jokg
“yeah, drao?”
“i really do love you” he reahes out to trae the spikes of the lightng bolt sar, and harry’s hands fd his way to drao’s stoah, to the silver les he had sshed aross the ay ago “really, really”
harry wants to ry he wants to ugh he wants to hold onto all of draes and broken piees and old sars until he an dra the ahe away, but he ales with i love you stead, over and over andthat it fally akes hi believe it
“good,” is onds with, hokg it h his ughg and his tears “good”
chapter 43
drao
there’s a ont where he alost turns around
it’s o, he jtifies ter, whe (and how did she even know, she was bak the burrow a ohe garden) and gih a gre, but it’s long enough for hi to stand and wath the others all to eah other, fall i had been drawn before drao had eveo stahe, and the ark on his ar sees t hi of how he does not belong, how they annot want hi, how he will only tat this, taihen harry turns to ath sight of hi and r an ar up ig and heri aross the grass, lipboard hand, until she barrels i
≈!” the whole pe looks wo’s draped silver and gold a be, olors that he would not have piked but herione had sohow ade work, jt as hat they would despite giane, she had agreed to have it at the burrow at fleur’s i her hoareto yours, vhen y a voa? kily, everyohe roo had taken it as a oplint and gny had agreed without any further issue “i didn’t thio, but we did! and it’s all on shedule!”
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