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Harry Potter Character Posters

Alan Rickman as Professor Severus Snape in

this was so much fun! my first time writing for the drarry discord monthly drabble challenge, and what a joy it was!

Rating: T Warnings: None Prompt: Spring

WC: 192

Sleep is a comfort, a safe haven. When Draco sleeps, he dreams.

Long blades of grass whispering against his skin, leaves rustling in gentle sighs, clouds floating on the edge of his consciousness. He can reach out his hand, feel the soil under his fingers, small grains unsprouted catching his nails. Tiny saplings bursting forth, breaking free of their confines, cracking the surface of the earth, sun hot and high as it beams down on him and his peace.

His days make him yearn for it. Keeping himself compact, shoulders shrinking, the blood rushing in his veins and his heart pounding beneath his fear. The magic in the manor clinging, shadowed, insidious, and silent. He occludes, and imagines himself back in his meadow, breaths deepening in his chest, sweat cooling as he reaches desperately for that liminal state.

When he enters the drawing room, panicked excitement swirling around him, tension building as each step brings him closer to the subject, he’s in a fog. He is not here, he is there.

Until their eyes meet. He sees green, like his meadowed blades. Tawny skin, like the dust turned up against his palms.

When even Voldemort ships Drarry.

(And Lucius is sweating. “Damn it, Draco. I knew we should have dealt with your accursed crush on the Potter boy years ago, but no, your mother had to let it run its’ course.”)