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Adventures in Solitude (Are You There, Sirius? It’s Me, Draco)

oceaxe @oceaxe-ifdawn

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Portrait Sirius Black - Character, Scorpius Malfoy, Albus Severus Potter Additional Tags: Portraits, Slow Burn, Romance, Friendship, Family, Scheming, Past Character Death, Gay Male Character, Internalized Homophobia, Background Femslash, Non-Linear Narrative, Bisexual Male Character, HP: Epilogue Compliant, Christmas, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Past Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Past Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Community: hd_erised

Summary:

Draco is grateful to have had Sirius’ portrait to confide in all those years ago, about his sexuality and unwanted feelings for a classmate named Harry. But when he gets the portrait out of storage after twenty years, the secrets he has kept from Sirius all along come out. Secrets about Draco’s role in the war... and secrets about Harry Potter.

Excerpt:

“I don’t think I was entirely motivated by pure concern when I spent all of sixth year stalking you,” Harry says off-handedly, as he scoops ground coffee into the cafetiere. “Perhaps I should have realized a few things from the fact that I spent more time thinking about you that year than about the girl I ended up marrying. I thought about you... a lot. Rather more than a lot.”

Draco steadies himself against the countertop and crosses his arms over his chest, trying to process what Harry’s saying. It would be easier if he could see Harry’s face, but he’s still facing away, filling the kettle with water at the sink. “I mean, I knew you were up to something, and I was obsessed with that, but I was also just generally--obsessed with you.”

Harry shuts off the tap and turns around to bring the kettle to the range next to where Draco stands, barely breathing. He fiddles with the burner and adjusts it until it’s up quite high. Draco reaches out to turn it down slightly; even in these circumstances he doesn’t want the bottom of the kettle scorched, and their fingertips brush. It’s like lighting a match.

Harry’s hand is frozen on the knob and Draco just stares at their fingers touching for a split second. Then their eyes meet and Draco starts to understand that perhaps he wasn’t just seeing what he wanted to see, but what is actually there, clear and striking in Harry’s green eyes. The air seems sucked out of the room and time suspends itself as they draw towards each other, Draco’s gaze locked on Harry’s mouth.

“I’m going to kiss you,” Harry murmurs, and closes the last fraction of distance between them.

In slow motion, their lips touch and Draco’s eyes flutter shut for a moment. Harry’s hand has grabbed his own and holds it tightly, the firmness of the grip at odds with how very softly his mouth is pressed against Draco’s. They breathe each other’s air, warm and humid, and then Harry’s tongue tentatively licks Draco’s lower lip and heat rips through him like a wildfire.

His mouth opens and Harry surges forward, sliding his tongue in and stroking Draco’s—tentatively at first, but at the contact, something within Draco breaks loose and he opens his mouth wider to give Harry more access. Kissing has never felt like this, but this is so obviously what it’s supposed to feel like that he wants to laugh out loud. His head starts to spin as Harry lets go of his hand to pull him closer with an arm around his back, pressing against him, hard and hot.

Within less than a minute, Draco is breathless and almost panicked at how aroused he is. He’s lost track of everything his tongue and lips are doing in tandem with Harry’s, he only knows that it feels instinctive and incredible and he doesn’t want it to stop, but it has to because...because it just has to. It feels too good, too much.

He pulls away, shy and fearful that he’s ruining everything. Harry’s eyes open in confusion, and then he steps back, chuckling ruefully, and Draco feels his insides rearrange. Harry is still holding onto him by the hips, but their bodies aren’t touching and their lips aren’t touching and abruptly, Draco wants to plaster himself against that taut, compact body again, drown in that mouth. He smiles at himself, and at Harry, feeling like a teenager.

“So,” Harry begins, but the kettle suddenly shrieks and they both snicker, and it seems like the best possible portent, somehow. “I was going to reel you in and ravish you some more, but it appears that your kitchen appliances are protecting your virtue. Shall I—?” He asks with an eyebrow raised, gesturing towards the kettle.

Author: oceaxe

Summary: Draco’s side business requires him to know the hidden motivations of those he’s dealing with. When a chance encounter with Potter gives him a fascinating glimpse into the boy hero’s motivations, he can’t help but try to exploit his new insight. Featuring flirting, friendship, fantasies, furious denial, half-hearted denial, loss of denial, and a surprising paucity of puns.

Length: 28,550 words

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter Characters: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Astoria Greengrass, Millicent Bulstrode, Theodore Nott, Gawain Robards Additional Tags: Based on a Reddit Thread, Jealousy or Homophobia?, Wizards using Pornhub, Computer Nerd Millicent, Ideal Best Friend Astoria, Internalized Homophobia, Auror Partners, OMG THEY WERE PARTNERS, Theo's got some issues Summary:

When Harry and Nott are paired up to go undercover as fake boyfriends, Draco is disappointed not to get the assignment. It's just professional jealousy that's making him feel so upset. Obviously. He's engaged to be married to Astoria, after all.

The Partner, The Rival and The Very Big Case by oceaxe When Harry and Nott are paired up to go undercover as fake boyfriends, Draco is disappointed not to get the assignment. It's just professional jealousy that's making him feel so upset. Obviously. He's engaged to be married to Astoria, after all.

But when he walks in on Nott kissing Harry for 'practice' and has a wild magic outbreak, he starts to think that something else might be going on. Is Nott right? Is Draco a homophobe? Or is there... just possibly... another explanation?

I swear I didn’t plan to start reviewing and recommending every fic I read but every fic I’ve read so far has been an amazing read-!

This fic . . . Was great; adorable, cute, sexy, suspenseful, and surprisingly angsty. I love Auror job fics - I love job fics as a whole but the trope of Draco and Harry being Auror partners has a special spot in my heart - so this fic instantly caught my eye. I’m glad it did because this fic was a fucking joy to read.

My favorite thing about this fic was Draco and how he was handled. He didn’t realize he was gay at the beginning of the fic, but he very obviously felt . . . Something towards Harry, something that Draco always misread for himself somehow. He was pining without being aware he was actually pining and I just - I loved it. I loved it so much. And his self-doubt - the way he started to believe something about himself because other people said that’s what he was - was entertaining and fun to read while still being emotional and raw.

Jealousy is a fun trope that I have a guilty pleasure for - guilty since it very easily verges onto abusive, which this fic doesn’t! - it was fun seeing how Draco would react whenever Theo Nott would shamelessly flirt with Harry and how Draco would practically seethe - all while being oblivious for a good portion of the book that what he was feeling was jealousy. Like I said: pining without realizing he was pining.

This fic was very much a fic about Draco and his feelings, coming to terms with who he is and how he’ll be dealing with that. Because of this being a Draco-centric story, it did feel like it was lacking a little bit in aspects of Harry; he was quite literally gone for roughly half of the story on an Auror mission and while, yes, he did interact with Draco, it wasn’t face-to-face. But, with how little Harry was around, it made the ‘Drarry’ scenes shine and I just - ugh, squealed like a fat duck. Which doesn’t make sense, but imma roll with it. The banter and flirting between the two always shined when on screen, and I could never get enough of it. The “lack of appearances” could also be applied to Astoria, but that’s more of a want rather than a need. She did her part in the story, didn’t need more, but the authors take on this character was so fun.

I feel as though giving any more details into the story would give away some plot elements that I believe need to be read within the fic rather than told within a review - so yes, this is me saying this fic is definitely worth your time and yes, click the link at the top and start reading! It’s worth it.

So many great fics were posted for @hdconsentfest 2018 that I could hardly keep up - there were something like 50 fics in all!

It’s always hard to narrow it down, but here are some particular fics that stayed with me: