control & suppress.

He's just about at the door when she impulsively speaks up, mindful to keep her voice low. "He looks like you," she doesn't know why she says it. Maybe because she had been thinking about her parents and how her dad had always puffed up in pride when she was young and people told him that she took after him. Malfoy pauses, and even though he's half turned from her, she can see the anguish on the periphery of his face. There's pain there, as much as there is love. His heart outside his chest. "No he doesn't," he murmurs. "Not if you knew her," and then he continues, leaving her alone in the library. Just the books and his grief to keep her company.

She swiped her finger against the roof, scooping up some royal icing and licking it clean, the sweet icing making her hum. She had learned that Draco was almost completely infatuated with this holiday, which was a contrast to Katie's own family tradition of Chinese takeaway and movies. It was a learning curve, she just didn't think gingerbread construction would be on the syllabus.

🍎 ｡:*• ─ IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME !     ›

"Oh wow. We're terrible at this."

Katie had thought it would be a cute couple activity. They didn't really engage in cute couple activities. Sometimes, when she was on the off-season, they would get brunch during his lunch break and she would make him explore the streets on muggle London. But other than that, they weren't like Leanne and Theo, who seemed to live every moment of their lives like they were in a Nora Ephron romantic comedy.

So Katie had suggested making a gingerbread house together and it was currently ... not looking well. Their house would not pass inspection. The roof was tilted and there was too much royal icing on the windows and even the gummy people she had purchased looked terrified of the crumbling foundation they were moving into.

draco tried not to be so ... critical. he took christmas festivities entirely too seriously ( blame that on mother dearest's holiday traditions ), and along with his innate nature of wanting to be the very best, seeing their poor gingerbread house a breath away from toppling over has his left eye twitching. "we?!" draco practically sputters. it was katie's heavy hand that had the icing drooping, katie's impatience that had the roof sliding off before anything else could dry, and draco's awful decision to bite his tongue in favour of some quality bonding time over a pristine gingerbread house. yes, fine. it was a group effort.

"I don't know how we're expected to save the world when we can't even save it from itself."

cold sheets oh, where's my love?

“ i’m broken. and i don’t need anyone to try to feed me white lies about it. something inside me is broken and it isn’t just going to be put back like it was. ”

wish i could do without this blood on my face where your teeth sunk in, bite me again