summary: taking the "bro's the type" trend on tiktok and turning them into oneshots.
warnings: use of y/n, fighting, mentions of addiction, smoking, cursing, alcohol, lowkey toxic! reader and draco
a/n: used tiktok user @ just_keepswimming_'s video for inspo!
it was your filthy little habit, and draco malfoy has hated it since well before you two got together, which was eight months ago.
you started in fourth year. theodore passed you a cigarette during a party and you hadn't stopped since. with the rising academic anxiety that comes with school, smoking was the only thing that calmed the way your heart would race uncontrollably or the thoughts that flew through your head at a mile a minute.
at the start of sixth year and the start of draco and your relationship, you had mostly quit. every so often you would pick one up when things got too hard. like when you failed that charms quiz two months ago, or when you fucked up that potion last week.
and right now, when you feel the buzz of one too many firewhisky's.
you're hidden in the alcove behind the tapestry of the serpent. you're stood across from theodore, sharing a cigarette you told yourself and your boyfriend you wouldn't touch.
but you did. you felt the need for one, and fuck it. you're your own person. you have free will, why not use it on a cigarette just this one time? also, why would you waste the cigarette theo so graciously gave you?
"draco doesn't have to know" you told yourself in your mind. you finish exhaling the last plume of smoke into the air before stubbing out the butt on the stone wall behind you.
you take a deep breath before stepping back out into the crowd, and you're immediately feeling better. the bass under your feet suddenly doesn't feel as strong as it did before and the nerves that kept running through despite the liquor had vanished. the smell of the liquor no longer makes you queasy, though it's probably due to the new faint smell of the cigarette sticking to your shirt.
but not even a minute after you rejoined the dim room you're being pulled back into the hidden alcove you had just stepped out of.
the pale hand wrapped tight around your wrist is all you need to see before your eyes widen. the way his fingers squeeze tighter around your wrist, the way he lets go as if your wrist burned to touch.
you look up, not enough to make eye contact but enough to see his face. though you wouldn't have made eye contact. he's looking around, his brows furrowed and his nose turned up as if he's smelt something disgusting, which you suppose he has.
"what the hell, y/n?" draco snarls. he finally looks down at you. you don't meet his gaze, you know that you'll only be met with grey eyes filled with anger and disappointment.
the guilt and dissapointment in yourself vanishes at his tone. you're not sure why, but suddenly you're overflowing with frustration. it's your life, why the fuck is he so upset?
"i thought you were done with that shit." he gestures to your body, the whole room, the bitter smell lingering on your clothes and the faint smoke you can still see around the room.
you know you're in the wrong you just don't want to admit it. so you raise your voice.
"it was one cigarette! theo offered and i thought why the fuck not!"
he raises his eyebrows in the annoying way you know all too well. he breaks eye contact and cocks his head to the left slightly and producing a small 'tsk' with his mouth.
he takes a step away from you. his tongue running over his teeth as he runs his hand through his hair, efficiently messing it up from its normal gelled perfection.
"you said you were done with this, y/n." he sighed out as he throws his arm up to gesture at you. "you said you were done two months ago, then last week. here you are again, doing the same bullshit as before."
his words hit like bullets to your already guilt-ridden heart. you'd take a step back if you weren't already pressed up against the cold stone wall behind you. his features are still coated in his annoyed look, the one that's just making you feel worse as the seconds pass by.
"i'm sorry i can't be perfect like you, draco!" you snap back, trying to salvage whatever control you could get over the situation
"perfect? really?" he scoffs and steps forward again, pressing you back into the wall. "i'm perfect for not trying to kill myself before i'm thirty?"
"let me kill myself then, draco! it's not your fucking life!" you push him away from you softly. not enough to hurt him or do any real damage, but enough to give yourself space again. to not feel more suffocated against the wall.
"so i'm supposed to stand here and watch as my girlfriend kills herself?"
in a wave of pettiness or frustration, draco takes another step back away from you.
"for salazar's sake, you're so fucking obsessed with what i do. it's fucking pathetic." you don't even mean the words coming out of your mouth. the guilt is eating you alive, churning your stomach and making your chest ache.
draco takes a step forward, pulling himself closer and lowering his voice so he can just barely be heard over the music.
"say that again."
"you. are. fucking. pathetic." you whisper back, glaring up at him.
he takes a deep breath, running his tongue over his teeth again, but this time you can't help your eyes from drifting down to his lips.
maybe it's the liquor running through both your bodies, maybe it's the mutual frustration from both of you, you don't know. but before you can blink, draco has you pinned against the wall, crashing his lips against yours in a heated and angry open-mouthed kiss.
you kiss him back, and your tongues battle for dominance as your back immediately cools from the cold stone you've been roughly pushed against.
draco wins the war and pulls away with that look that makes you weak in the knees every time. his blonde hair has strayed from its normal perfection, now messily stuck to his forehead and sticking out in random places. both your mouths are open as you both try to catch your breaths.
"go brush your teeth, i hate the taste of cigarettes."
and you do exactly that, brushing your teeth quickly before meeting him in his dorm and immediately getting pressed against the large wood door in another heated kiss.
a/n: this is a SUPA old fic before i took a several month break... apologies for the mediocre writing.