@drarrymicrofic | 391 words | prompt: bond | beta: @hodgepodgebooks
Pansy was happy—no, elated—to finally have Draco here. Their favourite watering hole in Knockturn was swamped with its normal Friday crowd.
Somehow they’d not wound up in Azkaban. In lieu of incarceration, they were serving their time by working for the DMLE—Draco as an Auror; Pansy a forensic specialist.
Their bottle of nero d’avola arrived—a silent ode to Blaise—and Pansy opened her mouth to vent about her week working under Gryffindors, only to be cut off by Draco snarling, seemingly apropos of nothing, “Potter.”
Fuck, this again. Draco’s Harry Potter obsession flaring back to life.
Before she could redirect the conversation to the ills of Granger’s dastardly, arse-hugging pencil skirts that couldn’t possibly be Ministry-approved, Harry Potter manifested before them.
It was infuriating enough Potter had gotten fitter with age, add on his Auror robes and all of sundry were staring.
Pansy was trying to stay below the radar. Great. Soon that sodding cunt Skeeter would be here.
“Draco,” Potter said, and Draco jolted in his seat. His grey eyes owlishly wide and his mouth dropped open. His flushed cheeks rounding out the visage.
Gods, this was embarrassing.
“What do you want, Potter?” Pansy asked.
Potter, without class or decorum, grabbed Draco’s wine and glugged it down. Draco made an affronted noise.
“Draco, Robarbs just made me Head Auror.” Even more shocking than the use of Draco’s name or an explanation of why he was here, disturbing their evening, was when Potter dropped to his knees and buried his face against Draco’s thigh.
Pansy prided herself for her quick thinking in outlandish situations, but all her brain cells were in absentia.
With a sharp glare to Pansy, promising death upon interruption, Draco lowered his hand to the nape of Potter’s neck and stroked.
“Harry, you don’t have to take it.” Draco waved his wand conjuring a new chair at their table and waved over a server. “Firewhiskey, please,” Draco said as he helped Potter to his chair. “Please keep out the press.” And despite Potter’s flailing objections, Draco offered over an obscene pile of Galleons.
Pansy didn’t put on her best lipstick for this shit.
“What in Circe’s rosy tits is going on?” she hissed.
“Er,” Potter said. “We might have a bit of a bond now.”
Draco buried his head in his hands, his face aflame.