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Key Plot Points:

- Ginny died in the war (AU) → Harry becomes emotionally detached, sleeps around.

- Pining!Draco is a alchemist who spends years chasing Harry. They eventually enter a one-sided relationship where Harry demands Draco can’t interfere with his hookups(😭).

- Secretly tender moments:

- Draco crafts a Patronus-like silver stag via alchemy that whispers “I love you” and nuzzles his fingers—he only takes it out when Harry’s gone. Later, he destroys it during their breakup.

- He casts a hidden ring charm on Harry’s finger (discovered later; Harry lashes out but lowkey loves it).

- Devastating breakup: Harry burns their photo album over a misunderstanding, says “I don’t care about you,” and leaves to hook up with someone. Draco listens to the stag’s last “I love you”, tears up, and shatters it.

- Draco leaves magic behind: He moves to Muggle Germany, surrenders his wand, and vanishes. Nine months later, Harry (now a mess) tracks him down while investigating a **Death Eater-related murder** (false accusation?).

Details I Remember:

- Title vibe: Might include “Only Sex Without Love” (was in the summary?).

- Word count: 100k-200k.

- Harry: Pro Quidditch player, emotionally wrecked.

- Draco: Alchemist, painfully patient, goes full “ I’d rather lose magic than keep loving you” mode.

Help?

If this rings any bells— PLEASE drop the title/author/link! I’ve searched every tag combo on AO3 (Post-War, Angst, Pining Draco, Alchemy, etc.) but no luck. Even vague hints would save my sanity!

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Potter empties a sugar into his coffee and sets the little stir-stick swirling with a wave of his fingers. Draco tries to focus on something innocuous: the dusting of dark hair on Potter’s knuckles as he grips the mug. The silvery scar stretched across the back of his hand. He tries not to remember the way it had felt: Potter’s fingers breaching him, twisting him open as Draco clutched his wide shoulders. Tries and fails not to think about Potter’s big hands holding his hips as he pressed inside, a groan tearing from both their throats. Most of all, he tries not to see last week’s headlines. The photos. The ring. Draco recrosses his legs, takes a sip from his own cup. The coffee here is shit. But Potter asked him to meet, and Draco’s as weak as this fucking cappuccino. It’s been nearly two weeks. Two weeks, and no word. Draco had cycled from eagerness to disappointment to fury at not hearing from Potter again.  And then the papers. He focuses now on the anger coiling in his belly, hoping to dispel the despair that threatens to bury him. He’d thought… but of course it doesn’t matter now what he’d thought.  Potter clears his throat. He levels Draco with that green stare, the verdant colour stealing his breath. He raises a hopefully-impassive brow. “I’m calling things off,” Potter says. Draco closes his eyes.  “Draco.” Warm fingers touch his arm. “With Gin. I’ve been an idiot. It’s always been you.”

Since you’re so good at writing angst I was wondering if you’ve ever considered writing bdsm gone wrong in any of your stories? Like both characters not really knowing what they’re doing and someone ends up hurt mentally or even physically. Lots of overthinking, misunderstandings, etc. Or maybe you hate that and it’s just too much? Feel free to say if so.

I really do love observant Damen so maybe it’s hard to make it work with Damen/Laurent but I find myself hunting for this trope a lot. Ik there’s not really any bdsm in canon but I think there’s a lot of moments in the trilogy where we could sense Laurent had certain thoughts or fears about sex and didn’t say anything (maybe that’s just my interpretation). Also maybe I relate to wanting to please someone at my own detriment so I wanna read about my fav characters doing it and cry.

I like the angst that it brings and watching it all get pulled slowly back together. I think it just makes the happy ending that much better. And there does HAVE to be a happy ending lol.

I hope this ask makes sense 😅 I guess I’m really just wondering if you like that trope (is that the word for it?) If you’ve ever held yourself back from writing it because you didn’t know how it would be received?

I’m sorry this ask is so long and random lol.

Hey my love, don't apologise, I love this kind of ask, don't be scared, I'm so balls out you can literally ask me anything, I promise my head and real life is weirder haha. There's no such thing as too much here!

And I could talk about BDSM all day long. Especially with Damen/Laurent.

To answer your question bluntly: yes.

To clarify, I was specifically thinking about Damen/Laurent. Other cp pairings don’t exist to me lol. Me saying maybe it’s hard to make it work for them was incase anyone thought I was being too unrealistic lmao.

I personally have thought of so many different ways it could work with them. It consumes my thoughts too often lol.

For starters, Laurent was tossed aside because he aged. Even knowing it was abuse by his uncle I think it’s a given he would still be scared of being discarded like he meant nothing again. I don’t think his trust in Damen would completely diminish that fear, at least not at first. So I could see Laurent not safe wording when he should and ending up hurt because he didn’t want to give Damen a reason to tire of him.

And that’s just scratching the surface! I see so many ways it would work and you talking about Dom-space gets me so excited, esp what you said about Damen trusting Laurent because yes!!! How do they even being to unravel all that, the “I’m hurt but I’m more worried about how I hurt you” type thing. It’s so messy and complicated and I want to read it nowww.

I think about both canon and modern a lot. I can’t decided which I would prefer but I can stay I think about it in canon the most. I like the idea of them having to figure things out without resources on bdsm. Not to mention they’re kings in canon so there’s all the added stress of that on their shoulders. A nice little cocktail problems lol.

There’s also the fact that Damen knows about the abuse in canon and probably doesn’t in modern at first, that can really switch the whole thing up a lot.

I feel like there’s so much that could be done with this trope. I’m glad you think about it too because I was starting to feel like the outlier lol