44. How To Get Away With Murder ? Part 2

44. How to get away with murder ? Part 2

ENEMIES TO LOVERS TROPE | tw- torture | fluff |

Harry and draco resolves the murder mystery and readily takes the fall |

For @thebusyfangirl ( you're my consistent Reader and I adore you ) and @slytherinnbitch

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2 weeks of pretending they didn't hate each other when they were in the same room, pretending they didn't almost disgusted themselves when they had to hold hands, pretending that they infact had the most perfect relationship. It was all too much. Some day's were fine, when it didn't feel like pretending but most of the time, it was pretending and they both couldn't wait for it to get over.

It was until the third and the final week, when Draco was fetching tea for harry and him when he noticed something.

" you look rather lovely today, rosy " draco complimented rosy with a smile.

Blushing furiously, she pushed a strand of her hair behind her hair, her sleeves sliding down a bit " thank you dear "

Draco finally gave her a genuine smile and walked off to the room and immediately casted a protection and silencing charms.

" I definitely have the lead "

" who ?" Harry asked as he buttoned up his shirt, draco ofcourse didn't pretend to notice it was the second time he had seen harry practically shirtless.

" not here " draco answered.

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" are you absolutely, definitely, 100 percent sure ?" Harry asked when they had reached the door and put on the charms again.

" what's the first rule about investigating crime scene ?" Draco asked as he leaned over the table Harry was sitting opposite to.

" look for evidence " harry shrugged as if it was too obvious

" bingo. Exactly. A much skilled killer would make sure they never leave an evidence, it is infact the first priority but if someone did it for the first time, they tend to leave the evidence, mostly accidentally " draco's adrenaline pumped up as he cut to the chase.

" and you're saying you've found the evidence ?" Harry asked as he crossed his arm leaning backward into the chair.

" yes. Look what I found this morning. I was going through the evidence picture's yesterday, and look at this set of the picture. You see the dresser table, notice something familiar " draco pointed down at the picture, excitedly

" holy- shit that means-"

" yes- i noticed it this morning " draco widened his eyes In obvious surprise.

" holy shit- we've got it- we- dr- james- we got it. We got the killer " harry jumped from his chair and instinctively hugged draco, who too hugged back until they realised what they were doing and awkwardly separated away.

" we'll start at the beginning then. We can't arrest until we have the final words from the culprit themselves about it. Who, Where, When, Why, and How. We know who, we know where, we definitely know when, we need to know most importantly why and definitely how " harry said as he rubbed his Hands together grinning.

" this case finally got interesting " draco smirked at harry as he finally sat down on the chair.

" it definitely did " harry smirked back and sat down against draco.

" I can't imagine how I missed the detail " harry frowned

" it's alright. Can happen to anyone. I hadn't noticed it too until this morning " draco said nicely as he skimmed over the pages without looking up at harry..

Harry smiled warily " that's probably the nicest thing you've ever said to me "

Draco looked up, frowning " that's not true "

" it is " harry insisted

" what about- oh "

" exactly " harry bit his lip.

" I did say thank you for helping me with the trial though "

" you did..well this and that. Only two nicest thing you've ever said to me.. I appreciate it. You're good by the way. You make a nice auror " harry genuinely smiled at draco.

Draco frowned until it turned into a smile " why, thank you "

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" we have to find the key. There's no evident reason why they would commit such a crime" harry said as he flipped pages after pages in the files, frustratingly.

" don't worry-" he cut himself off and turned to harry.

" look at me ", frowning harry turned around to face draco, meeting with a thrust against the table, draco getting closer to him

" what- nmph-" Harry's hand collided with the table as his body pressed against it when Draco pushed him and kissed him over the lips. It was unexpected of how draco was kissing harry but it in the flow of the moment, harry kissed back. He enjoyed the sensation that sparked down his spine as draco's thigh adjusted between those of his own, his hands tugging Harry's shirt enclosing any distance left between them and the way draco was roughly making out with harry. It wasn't just a simple pleasurable kiss, it was a full fledged make out with draco's tongue grazing those of harry fighting for Dominance, his teeth biting off Harry's lower lip, emerging a moan from the back of Harry's throat. He let one of of his hand to rest against draco's back pulling him further in as harry deepened the kiss as if it would've been a Cardinal sin to not have the lustful, passionate, urgent make out. It was surprising of how draco had reciprocated the same but he had allowed himself to forget why he was kissing harry in the first place. He let himself drown in the moment, moaning softly as he felt Harry's tongue grazing his lip. They were kissing as if their lives depended on it, maybe it did but they had flown away in the moment that Only when they ran out of breath they separated and draco was faceplanted with reality again. He reached forward, his lips against harry's ear who without flinching let it happen.

" she's watching "

And harry immediately understood.

It was after work when they were walking back to the manor when they were discussing about the case.

" how did you figure she's watching ?"

" well I had my suspicions from the first week here when strangely the mistletoe thing happened and the next morning we had that argument. She had came in asked if everything was alright, since she thought she heard some yelling but if you vaguely recall you had planted the silencing charm, it would've been impossible for her to figure out but she had figured out, so I put an alert on one of the objects in the room if ever caught sight of that eye and this morning, it finally signalled " draco explained as he reached the gates of the manor and pushed open and walked inside

" she's one clever-rosy " harry stepped back

" welcome back, derek and James. Shall I get the coffee's before you go to your room ?"

" ah- of course " harry said as he suspiciously dumped his small transfigured case on the table while draco sat down on the chair.

" here you go " rosy grinned as she passed them the cup of coffee.

" I'd really like a biscuit rosy, if you don't mind" harry narrowed his eyes slightly at rosy. She nodded and walked away into the kitchen.

Harry immediately looked at Draco, who was holding the same expression that of his

" it's poisoned " draco whispered

" she knows " harry mouthed.

" here you go love" rosy said as he gave him the biscuit.

" actually you know rosy, I think I'd let this slide. I don't really feel like drinking coffee right now-"

" but I insist-"

" oh do you-" draco narrowed his eyes standing up

" of course, I do-"

" like you insisted Gary-" harry accused

" avada-"

" expelli-"

" stupefy "

Harry was thrown backwards harshly toward the back wall

" harry-"

" look behind " but it was too late, draco too was thrown back.

Harry groaned in pain as his fingers magically unnoticed moved the back furniture.

" I knew it exactly when you figured. When you refused to kiss that very night but you're much more clever than the old idiots who worked on the case " rosy tilted her face in a deadpanned expression.

" I'm definitely sure we're better " harry groaned still pulling off a smug look

" narcissist " rosy rolled her eyes.

She clicked her tongue in fake sympathy leaning down a little bit " he deserved to die, just so if you're wondering. He stole away this house from me. This house was supposed to be mine as his righteous daughter, too bad I wasn't a boy. Always underestimated me, called me squib, told me i didn't belong to this world, that I would never be half as good as any boy he could have, he sold this damn house. To whom, the stupid boy across the street. So I killed him before he could even write the will. Too bad for father" she clicked her tongue again.

Harry looked down at his lap, smirking when he finally looked up " you really are a bit more stupid than I thought"

" what did you just say !!" She yelled

" you're not that smart rosy " harry groaned, not moving even an inch

" you dare talk to me like that " rosy was pissed off. She should've hurt harry but she went in for draco, kicking him in the shin. But harry knew better to not so even flinch on the site of crime .

" tough boy " she frowned impressively as she grabbed Harry's face and squeezed it hard, slapping him away..

" I mean it rosy. You're not so smart. Wanna know why ?" Harry looked up with blood smearing his lips.

" enlighten me then potter boy " she raised an eyebrow, stepping back a little, just like harry wanted

" because you're not a killer because if you were, the first time you threw a spell at me, you didn't tie me down- bombarda " and the cabinet behind her broke in half, dragging rosy down with it.

She fell down painfully under the weight of the broken cabinet, groaning in pain.

" petrificus totalus " harry casted on her and she remained unmoved, her expression radiating anger.

" you really had to wait this long " draco groaned as harry lend him a hand to get up.

" it was the best of the show. Always keep them for the last draco " harry chuckled dusting off his clothes

" now for you my lovely rosy. Karma is gonna pay you. You know, voldemort's mother was just like you. Too bad she died. You're under arrest for the murder of Gary oakman, rosy Sheldon oakman " harry smiled at her and lifted her up and tying her to the chair.

" how did you know her entire name ?" Draco asked as he casted a message to the ministry for the team to arrive.

" you think you're the only one who figured out too soon. She have the exact same eyes as her father when she didn't wear contacts, it was that morning when she found out about our little fight" harry sighed.

" why didn't you tell me ?" Draco asked as he started putting on his auror uniform.

" I wasn't sure at least not until I found the details about her then same day when you told me about that broken earring from the picture and the morning you saw it"

Draco raised his eyebrows, surprised by Harry's neat skills " and the last move ?"

" never let your enemy know your last move " harry smirked

" you let me see " draco shrugged

" who said you're my enemy " harry smiled.

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" guess that pretend boyfriends worked out for you huh?" Ron teased chuckling

" I guess so " harry chuckled.

" your coffee " draco said as he bought the coffee and gave it to harry, placing a chaste kiss over Harry's cheek.

" When did this happen?"

" harry, dear boy. I- I can't begin to thank you enough for your services to the DMLE over the years " robard had said at celebration party

" oh it's nothing. It had been great working for the DMLE " harry replied as he took a glass of champagne from one of the waiters.

" it has been great whatsoever. You know I have to say I'm surprised how you returned back in one piece " robard joked

" why is that ?" Harry asked equally amused

" you were working with draco after all. Must've been quite few good fights and the hardest part of the case" robard frowned

" you'd be surprised " harry replied. Robard patted his back and finally engaged with other people to converse with.

Harry had been subtly enjoying his drink when robard decided to make a toast.

" hello, my dear fellows. You all must be tired so I'm going to cut this short" people chuckled forcing their attention on him " this is no ordinary party fella's. This is one farewell to one of our dearest workers, harry potter. I remember when he first joined the DMLE, not more than a little boy of 18 wanting to fight against the bad, he had that urge to prove himself, to push himself forward, to be the best.. and I've never regretted setting him up on any case. I've put you through so many life threatening cases and I do not regret to let you go harry, it was about time you took a break and finally looked after yourself.. we are losing a great auror, but this isn't a goodbye, harry, now is it. You'll be missed. To harry " robard raised his glass, people around the room clapping and raising the glass for harry too.

" so it's true, you're finally bidding goodbye to your savior complex "

Harry turned to his side smiling on recognising exactly who would use the word savior complex.

" sort of" harry chuckled.

Draco turned to face harry, a strange fondness etched upon his face with a light smile of solidarity.

" well- it's not going to be fun anymore" Draco whined playfully

" and why's that ?" Harry asked, light bouncing off his head.

" with you not here anymore, who would I have a competition with "

Harry shook his head laughing softly " strange way of saying you'd miss me "

Draco dramatically placed his hand over his chest " my, my. Me and missing you, in your dreams "

Harry laughed a little louder looking down at his champagne glass " it was nice working with you draco. You do make a great auror and with me out of the way, you can finally get the auror of the year badge "

" damn it, finally " draco pumped his Fist in fake victory until his smile turned into little laughter.

" you'll really be missed harry" draco finally said..

" I know. You will miss me the most " harry teased as he nudged his sides.

Blushing Draco rolled his eyes, nudging harry back " as if. I'm pretty sure you'd miss me more"

"I might, who knows " harry winked at Draco before he Walked away to talk with other people leaving draco entirely speechless, his thoughts running wild.

Exactly one hour later, they were found kissing behind the building. Better word, making out that is, ready to pounce on another.

" well it's a long story Ron, shall I begin from the time I was obsessed with stalking him or from the time I forgave him" harry asked knowingly fully well he was kidding

" or it might be first year, don't you think. I mean I was sort of into you to become friend's " draco suggested equally playfully as he sat down next to harry.

" oh god no, I've lived years of it, I can't- you guy's are such a cringe couple " Ron comically mimicked throwing up at harry holding draco's hands

" oh this cringes you out. Honey why don't you stand up -" draco obliged, before being pulled down into Harry's lap.

" how about you grind on-"

"no, no, merlin no. Hermione save me " Ron groaned as he got up and went to his girlfriend.

Draco broke into a fit of laughter in Harry's lap who too was chortling, instinctively hiding his face in draco's neck while one of his hand wrapped around Draco's torso.

" he's never going to forget this " harry laughed

" never " draco laughed looking down at harry until the laughter turned into a little smile.

" I think I might be falling for you " draco said as he pressed their heads together, sighing to himself, his hand cupping Harry's face.

" don't worry. I'm taking the fall with you " harry sighed and he softly kissed draco.

Well rosy didn't get away from murder after all but she indirectly put them together so every year, harry would send her a comical card on Christmas, all saying the same

" you didn't get away from murder. But you did get me and my boyfriend to make out, one plan of yours that didn't fail . Oh and my boyfriend says hi. With love, derek aka H"

Obviously rosy tore those cards down into shreds.

I did have fun writing this, however painful to see it being a flop. Happy reading.

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Day 43- love like never before | Day 45- there's no me without you

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44. How to get away with murder?

Prompt used- Sitting on others lap | harry and draco get's assigned for a murder mystery as pretend boyfriends | TW- torture | ENEMIES TO LOVER |

" no Simon, get the hell out of here " robard yelled walking into the room

"now, my favourite aurors " robard grinned as he settled down in his office chair in front of his two employees.

" greetings robard " harry nodded

" morning " the other one greeted

" right, greetings can go on for hours. Now the actual reason I sufficed you here. This particular case has been up by from other aurors as their inability to actually being able to sort it and who better than you two. Cutting to the chase, you know I don't like to waste time. You two are going to work on this case together-"

" with draco, no way-"

" with harry, no way-"

They both glared at each other, narrowing their eyes.

" now now, don't kill each other right here. I know how much you two hate each other but this case is important for DMLE. The truth is you both have strengths which if put together can be put to greater use. Draco is great at analysing situations, detecting potions and previously casted magic and you harry, dear you're fast, you're smooth talker, your wand less magic, and your instincts. All of your traits can so easily solve this case and I want your heads in for that" robard looked at both of them expectedly.

" come on, give me an answer. It's your last case harry, it's all chase and fun " robard insisted

" you're leaving DMLE ?" Draco turned to harry. Harry nodded without Daring to look at him.

" finally understood you don't stand a chance here-"

" as you please Malfoy. I've caught more people than you ever have " harry rolled his eyes

" see this is why I chose you. Your determination-"

" will you stop with the ass licking robard. I'll do it but I must insist at places I'd like to work alone " harry sighed

" same for me. I like to have my space " draco replied.

" well it's settled then. You're in the case for Gary oakman " robard clapped his hands lightly, passing them the files he had fetched before hand. Picking up the files harry and draco almost left the room when robard stopped them.

" oh and you're going to be pretend boyfriends. Do your best, good luck " robard grinned and shut the door on their faces.

" what-"

" what -"

They both looked at each other with morbid shock.

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Harry pinched his nose tiredly as they went through the case together " I hate this case "

" tell me about it , this man didn't even have had that much money, no heir to pass onto, no wife or anything yet he's murdered " draco sighed as he leaned back into his chair.

" the bigger part is, no culprits, no victims "

" we do have a witness though, the house maid. Rosy I suppose " draco skimmed over her details.

Harry looked at the watch knowing he had stayed in his office for far longer than he normally did " anyways, I'm going to head home. We have to be there tomorrow so the packing. I suggest you do that too "

Draco looks at harry, then at the clock in the wall " in a few " and harry nodded before walking out.

The next morning they met in front of the ministry

" I want you two at the best behavior and I mean it " robard insisted

" I'll try my best to be on the best behavior with my fake boyfriend james " harry rolled his eyes as he checked his coat pockets for everything.

" can I still do the case individually?" Draco rolled his eyes

" draco, trust me, I have thought this through and you would do best at the disposal of your resources " robard sighed as he shook hands with both of them " off you go now. Don't forget to revise your history "

And with that harry and draco sat inside the car.

" I'm so excited " draco sarcastically scowled

" it would be a pleasure to work with you " harry narrowed his eyes at Draco equally sarcastically.

As obvious, they didn't talk through the journey, knowing that if conversed they would want to rip each other heads off. So they Only talked hurriedly when they reached the manor.

" you're james , I'm Derek. We've been together for 2 years, right ?" Harry reassured

" much to my displeasure " draco rolled his eyes as he took down his bags from the car

" best behavior my ass " harry sneered under his breath as he took out his own bags and waited for draco to join him towards the door.

" huh, I'm sure you could never afford such manor " draco said as he dragged his bags towards harry.

" funnily enough draco, I am the owner of a manor since I was 17. Jokes on you " harry grinned sarcastically as he walked forwards towards the gate.

" oh and by the way, I'm far more rich than you are considering I donate a lot of money to orphanages and such. Good deeds. But what would you know about it " harry smiled sharply. It fueled draco how Harry was insulting him with a smile, but man he wasn't lying.

" shall we put this banters aside and finally get to business ?" Harry asked at last. Draco nodded and suddenly the Manor's door opened and they met, Rosy, the housemaid.

" oh my darlings, you are finally here. We've been waiting for you for an hour. Heavy traffic huh ?" She smiled

" it was a little bit of traffic. You see my beautiful boyfriend, he got up a bit late. Sorry about the inconvenience " harry replied as he pulled draco towards him and intertwined their fingers.

" I'm really sorry, that's just me " draco smiled at the lady.

" no matter, no matter. You can leave the bags, the bell boys will take these. Shall we walk inside then ?" She asked with a warm smile

" of course. Shall we james ?" Harry asked draco as he swiftly pulled him more closer to vanish any suspicions.

" of course Darling " draco swore he threw up a little In his mouth.

And they walked towards the main door with harry appreciating the gardens and the vines and talking about the architecture of the windows and doors from the 1960s.

" we'll let you freshen up then. This would be your room. And since you're a couple we thought you wouldn't need two separate rooms, right ?" Rosy asked expectedly

" oh- no no of course not. We share the same room and trust me Ms. Rosy If you had given us separate rooms, I would've been in his room all the time " harry chuckled.

" well then it's no inconvenience. Your bags are already up here. The lunch is at 2, and then we'll give you the house tour. Oh and yes, that area is out of bounds " Rosy cheekily smiled and walked away.

Harry kept smiling until they had reached the room and closed the door behind him and draco immediately jerked his hands off harry..

" wow, I love my boyfriend " Harry sarcastically said.

" what was the hand holding for ?" Draco sneered

" uh- draco, couple's normally do that and if you want to be done with the case as soon as possible, you too have to do couple things even if you hate it. It's important that we raise no suspicions at all. One suspicion and we're dead, alright " harry explained as he took off his shoes and lined it up up on the rack.

Draco hated to admit but harry was right " I think it'd be better if we didn't use our actual names too then and- muffalito- use protection charms all the time "

Harry raised an eyebrow at Draco impressively " guess robard wasn't all wrong about you then "

Draco rolled his eyes at harry and disposed off his extra clothes onto the chair.

" I'll take the shower first " draco announced and went into the bathroom.

Harry didn't had time to react but couldn't even if he wanted to, knowing draco was still a huge pain in the ass.

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" how are you going to transfigure ?" Draco asked harry as he got ready for the actual investigation

" polyjuice potion " harry replied not even looking at Draco sitting over the study going through the reports.

" you do know it's effect only lasts 3 hours ?" Draco asked

" believe me d- james- I have taken polyjuice potion much more than it would be recommended to for a child" harry huffs as he put his auror coat in the suitcase and transfiguring it into a smaller bag.

" right, of course, the saviour had to do a lot to save us from the chambers of secret's " draco rolled his eyes and turned back to his reports.

" here take this coin. If you need me, just write on it.. not that we'd be far away anyways" harry said as he tossed the coin at Draco.

" how does it work ?" He asked

" just- I have another set of it. If you write something on it, I'll know it too. I used this back in DA meetings at school " harry double checked his pockets walking around in the room looking for his wand.

" clever " draco impressively frowned " here, your wand "

" thanks. And remeber, don't raise suspicions" harry told Draco.

Rolling his eyes draco agreed and harry finally left the manor after greeting Rosy, getting ready to get back here again after transformation.

Harry returned half an hour later with his small team Including Ron and getting on with the investigation.

" Rosy, what's this all about ?" He heard someone ask as harry was standing just before the crime scene caution sign talking about the evidences found.

" oh, it's nothing. It was master's old bedroom. Mr. Gary. He passed away a couple weeks ago. These people think it's a murder and just barge in to investigate " Rosy sighed

" well that's too bad. My condolences Rosy. We hadn't known about it " draco sympathetically patted her back softly. Smiling to himself, harry got on with the investigation once again.

At night when harry had finally come back with reports and evidence he was met with a just out of shower draco.

" the water's still warm if you want to" draco told him as he softly patted towel over his head.

Harry nodded, dumping his reports and jackets over the chair and getting in the bathroom, smelling like Lavender and cinnamon.

It only took him 15 minutes in shower when he got out forgetting he didn't had his clothes.

" hey ma- james, can you pass me my clothes on the chair ?" Harry poked his head out of the bathroom.

He could've sworn he heard draco swear under his breath insulting harry.

" I can't find it, just come and take it yourself" draco called out.

Shrugging harry wrapped the towel around his lower body and got out of the bathroom, into the room to find his clothes.

" I left them h-"

" oh- I'm so sorry" Rosy had suddenly entered the room, turning her head in shame

" it's alright rosy. We- we just you know got out of the shower " harry gave her a little firm smile as he covered up his body with another towel.

" I- I'm really sorry. I will leave you two to it. Just bought some tea" she said without looking at them

" it's alright, leave them there, we'll call you if we need something " draco gave her a smile as he stepped closer to harry, putting his hand over Harry's shoulder in a physical gesture.

She nodded and embarrassingly left the room.

" just put on a damn shirt now, will you " draco rolled his eyes as he immediately created space between them.

" oh- I did not know that. I was planning on staying naked for the rest of the evening " harry rolled his eyes as he tried searching for his shirt until he saw draco.

" you're wearing my shirt "

" wha- oh. I didn't realise " draco looked down at his own blue shirt " no wonder it smells like shit"

Harry rolled his eyes " keep wearing it, I'll get myself another one " and he picked out another maroon shirt from the bag and wore it right there in the room.

" ahem- anyways, you got anything over the case ?" Draco asked turning around, giving harry his privacy.

" not a great deal. We would still have to go through every inch of that room and let me tell you, that rooms huge " harry huffed as he finally put on his pants and retrieved the files.

" here, these are the pictures I took today" harry displayed it over the table draco was sat on, ruffling his hair to dry them.

" wow- that's one- ha- stop dripping water over me "

" oh right- sorry" and Harry picked the towel again, drying his hair.

By the night, they decided to finally make an appearance downstairs for dinner.

" oh, I thought you'd had liked it in your room " rosy smiled

"we just thought it'd be nice to have dinner downstairs" harry smiled as he walked along with draco

" right, on the table then " she said and they made themselves comfortable over the dinner table.

" it's better than your manor " harry whispered to draco once they had settled in their Chairs. Draco narrowed his eyes at harry, giving him a scowl.

" here you go dears " rosy said as she placed plates one after the another.

" enjoy-"

" why don't you stay too. We'd like to get to know you, don't you think Derek ?" Draco asked smiling gently

" I think that would be brilliant " harry raised an eyebrow at Draco, impressed by his subtle approach.

With much hesitation rosy joined them, but not eating, just sitting further on a chair despite the insisted offer to join the table.

" pardon me mister's, I haven't been able to ask how you two met?" Rosy asked in Between

" oh- how we met- it's an interesting story actually-" draco stuttered

" we hated each other in school. But then we realised we only hated each other because we thought they had life easier. Infact we always liked each other and were too afraid to say it. So we put it into hate, until one day, I saw him alone in the school bathroom, crying and I consoled him, then I suppose we became friends and started dating after school " harry covered up for draco. Draco nodded along, amused but agreed to the story.

" that is so intriguing. I wish I could have a love like yours " Rosy grinned hopefully at them

" you know what, I think you'd get the love you deserve. And who knows might be very soon you meet the love of your life, like I have" draco smiled at rosy, drinking away his wine.

" I love you too james. I'm so glad I've met you " harry squeezed draco's hand across the table, making sure he raised no suspicions..

When they were finally done, harry insisted on helping through the kitchen, draco tagging along too when rosy spoke up

" you two make a very nice couple. I bet you don't fight a lot "

" we don-"

" oh we do, we do a lot. Who doesn't fight after all but we make up. We'd rather be with each other than anyone else. Right james ?" Harry smiled at draco, his cheeks hurting with smiling so much

" of course " draco smiled back at him as he intertwined their fingers and softly kissed Harry's knuckles. It was unfortunate that harry Blushed when he shouldn't had but with that craving physical touch, he couldn't resist.

" awh, look at you two "rosy happily sighed as he placed her hand over her chest as if touched by their relationship " oh look a mistletoe " she pointed

" a what ?" Draco's eyes suddenly widened, so did Harry's.

" there's a mistletoe " rosy pointed above their head

Harry forcefully chuckled "you don't believe in that thing, do you now rosy?"

" what's it with belief or not. It's a mistletoe. Always kiss under the mistletoe.. I mean it wouldn't matter much but make this lady happy " rosy happily said

Draco's opened his mouth to say something but unable to form any words he shut it close

" i- if that's what you want.. we're not such an open couple if you must know. Not into the public affection but for you rosy " harry gulped smiling pulling draco closer

" no suspicions " harry whispered very quietly to draco before pressing his lips against draco, tenderly kissing his soft lips, just for a few Seconds before breaking it off.

" is that how you'd normally kiss ?" Rosy asked

" what- no of course not rosy. We- we just you know save them for the bedroom, if you know what I mean " draco chuckled blushing.

Rosy's expression immediately changed " oh right, of course I understand "

" we should head to the room actually. It's getting late. We wouldn't want you staying up so late " harry said as he held draco's hands and started dragging him along with him.

Nodding, they finally left the kitchen and without so much of a suspicion made it to the room.

" you're sleeping on the couch for kissing me tonight " draco rolled his eyes as he dumped himself onto the bed.

" whatever " harry rolled his eyes and picked up his essentials and dumped onto the couch.

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" is everything fine with you two, Derek ?" Rosy asked as harry fetched the breakfast from her

" why do you ask ?" Harry frowned

" oh nothing- you just- I saw the couch with the blankets and everything and thought I- never mind, your personal life. I shouldn't intrude-"

" not at all rosy. Not at all. We just had a small Argument last night over something and, well it turned a bit ugly so I slept on the couch but I assure you, everything is fine " harry assured her taking two cups of coffee with him and heading back to the room.

" we've got a situation-" harry cut off when he saw draco wearing nothing but pants, getting ready for work.

Gulping harry broke out of it and casted a muffalito and gave draco the cup of coffee

" what happened ?" Draco asked as he pulled over a shirt.

" I think, it's a presumption, rosy knew I slept on the couch last night. She asked me about it and I don't want to raise any suspicions so let's not do the couch thing-"

" I've had enough with your no suspicions potter. We are not raising any suspicions. The only suspicion would be if it seemed as if our relationship was too perfect alright. Have some boundaries. I let it slide last night but you're never fucking kissing me again. That's the end of the end of it. I don't give a shit if there was a mistletoe or anything, you better not do that again" draco snapped

" I can't believe you. You'd actually believe I'd enjoy kissing you, for fun or something. Please. Don't flatter yourself. I don't care if the case matters to you enough or not but this case is my last and I want to make the best of it. I don't want anything going wrong, even the slightest bit of suspicion that we're not a couple, anyone would figure out and we'd be dead before you know it. So suck it up because If you're working with me, you have to work with me " Harry snapped, pulling off his coat , taking his bag and slamming out of the manor.

Draco shut his eyes for a moment, sighing.

" everything alright dear ?" Suddenly someone asked.

Auror instincts immediately made him get up and reach for his wand when he realised it was Only rosy

" I thought i heard yelling " she said

" right- " Draco frowned, until he remembered clearly every single word from harry just before " we had a small Argument. We'd be fine.. if you don't mind, I'd like to be alone "

Rosy hurriedly nodded and left the room. It was not much later, draco too left the manor to come back again with harry for investigation.

" I think I know where to start. Talk with me tonight, yeah ?" Draco had told harry between work. Harry frowned but immediately nodded, waiting for the evening to arrive.

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To be continued. Requests accepted ( even for part 2, despite that it'll be out anyways )

I had immense fun writing this. Also Tumblr cut me on word limit,soo.. you'll have to wait for the next part. Happy reading.

Serious notice- I have missed a prompt in between, which will be labelled 43 and willl to be out as soon as possible.

Day 42- little things | Day 45- feeling their temperature

corpus.

“Do you want to get high?” Draco asks, sharp knees knocking against Harry’s. They’re lying on the worn-down mattress on Draco's floor— a relic of a thing Harry admires for not just giving up and bursting— staring up at the cracks patterned like lightning on the ceiling.

“No.” He reconsiders. “I mean yeah, obviously, but no, can’t. There’s this— thing in two hours. Have to be there and I can’t show up—" he gestures at the air. “Y’know.”

“I know,” Draco clumsily pats Harry’s forehead. “Oh, I know.”

There’s a touch of condescension there, and Harry knows Draco well enough to hear everything he isn’t saying— I know you don’t want to go, I know you want to stay with me in my shitty apartment, I know you don’t talk about me to them at these things. There’s a version of Harry, lying somewhere in a ditch on the highway between who he was and who he is, who’d tear Draco apart for those insinuations. This version sighs a little and pokes him in one pointy shoulder.

“Hannah probably won’t understand the urge to stay holed up in here with my disreputable stoner boyfriend instead of attending her birthday party." He means it as a joke, it falls very flat. "I’m sorry.”

“You keep assuming,” Draco says, drawled and posh, despite the mould growing in the corner of the room, “that you need to justify yourself. You live your own life, Potter, I stake no claims on it.”

They say nothing for a while.

“Muggles have this thing,” Harry says eventually, breaking the silence. “The share market. Stocks.”

“Stocks.”

“Yeah. Hermione explained it to me. It was complicated and most of it went over my head but, but it all boiled down to— ownership, really. You— buy out parts of a company and you own those parts till you sell them. I think? I guess. The more you own, the more decision making power you have. Or something like that.”

“What the fuck are you talking about?”

“It’s— whatever, if I was a company, you’d own— fifty eight percent of my stocks.”

Draco’s looking at him like he’s lost his mind. And alright, that’s fair, but he’s trying here. He needs Draco to— understand. Swallows. Realises he cares a little too much about how well Draco understands this.

“You own,” he begins, swallowing again, Merlin, he’s parched, “fifty eight percent of me. Most of me. So much of me, Draco. I’ve never given myself over— like this. To someone else. But there’s a remaining thirty— no, Merlin, should have taken Arithmancy— forty two percent? That they still own. Ron and Hermione and Ginny and Neville and Luna and—” He gestures at the air again. Doesn’t turn to look at the softly breathing body next to his.

“Corporation,” Draco says slowly, words rounded without the razor sharp edge of before. “Corporare. Corpus. Corpus means body, do you know that? That’s the root of these entities, the body.” His hand, fine-boned and blunt-nailed, cards through Harry’s hair. “I own fifty eight percent. They own forty two. How much of your body do you own, Harry?”

“I don’t—”

“You don’t?”

They lie in silence again, the gentle scratch of Draco’s nails against his scalp a monotone soundtrack to their thoughts.

“Pansy bought me a book on anatomy once,” Draco says conversationally after long minutes have passed. “It was kind of awful. And I was thinking about making some grand statement about how you own the percentage of me that my heart weighs, but that’s about—? 0.69%? Which isn’t a declaration at all, it’s actually kind of offensive. So I thought of adding in the percentage of blood, which is about 10%, but even that sounds ridiculous.”

He pauses. His hand stills in Harry’s hair for a beat too long before starting up again. “What you own—” he clears his throat. “You own my thoughts, Harry. And they can’t measure that. Every time you walk out, you own my grief. Every time you stay, you own my joy. I can’t measure it, Harry, but immeasurable and infinite are synonyms.”

“I’m not going,” Harry says, sitting up. “I’m not going to Hannah’s stupid party, Draco, fuck it, I’m not—”

Draco just stares up at him. “42%,” he says after a second too long of silence.

Harry laughs. It’s wild, maybe a little hysterical. “Fuck it,” he says again, looking down at Draco’s flushed cheeks. “Yours. All yours.”

written for the @drarrymicrofic prompt: my girl has four cats and a sonos speaker system. i have no idea how it went to the weird places it did, but oh well.

Charming Conflagration

Harry’s on a date with Byron the first time it happens. They flee, chased out by wailing alarms and thick smoke billowing out from the kitchen. 

Draco’s unimpressed. “Must have been an accident, Potter. No need to be melodramatic.”

There’s no second date.

—

Harry’s clothes still reek by the time he slams through the door. 

He waves his arms wildly, ashes floating across Draco. “Michael’s jacket burst into flames in the middle of a rainstorm. I’m cursed! I just know it.”

Harry tries to visit Michael in St Mungo’s, and is turned away, ‘thank you but I’d rather not see you again.’

—

Harry and Margo are in the middle of ordering when the cooler magnificently combusts. Ice cream sublimating into steam from the scorching flames.

“Draco, the frozen ice cream was on fire!” Harry takes in Draco’s bored expression with suspicion.

Margo sends her regrets via owl, apparently flaming desserts are not her idea of a good time.

—

He doesn’t even make it to his date with Chris, as his wardrobe is charred beyond recognition before he can save anything.

Draco laughs shamelessly as Harry describes the blistered wood and scorched wallpaper. “Your clothes were hideous anyway, I’d call this luck.”

Harry swears off dating…until Draco invites him to dinner.

—

Harry palms his wand all night, anxiously awaiting the inferno while Draco watches him with amusement over his wine glass.

They barely make it to the sofa before Harry’s mouth is searing a path across Draco’s jaw. “I know it was you…”

A wicked smile lights up Draco’s face. “I’m certain I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

For the @drarrymicrofic prompt: dust/ash. Thank you to @lou-isfake for being the best buddy and beta. 

Previous microfics.

Broken attic

For @drarrymicrofic prompt : ash/dust

The door clinks open and draco walks in with so much of a sigh from a long tiring day and just wanting to fall into the embrace of his husband.

" harry"

" harry?"

Draco suspiciously walks further in

" harry? Love? Where are you ?" Draco echoes

But still met with no response

" dar- harry- what the fuck " draco exclaims as harry falls through the wooded roof covered in dust

" oh- hey babe " harry grins from the middle of the ground

" what happened- no what is wrong with you ? Why the hell are you grinning when you literally just fell off from the roof and the hole harry " draco worries as he kneeled and help up his husband

" oh never mind the roof you- this is so worth it. Look what I found " harry grins walking limply

" we should probably first take a look at your legs though " draco sounded worrisome as he noticed Harry's legs

" Merlin you, it'll just be a sprain, who cares. This is so worth it. Now see " harry pushes forward the book he had found. Draco shook his head at the absurdity.

" what is this? " Draco asked as he took the dusty box from harry

" open it " harry excitedly said

" it's all the cards we gave each other when we first started going out and some of our Polaroids " harry explained

" And you went into the attic to search this ?" Draco frowned as he opened the box and briskly looked at the cards and pictures

" of course. I want to show our soon to be kid how cringe of a couple we are " harry grinned

Draco covered his face laughing, Shaking his head " you're just as ridiculous as Arthur "

" but we love Arthur, don't we ?" Harry innocently asked tilting his head

Draco kissed the top of Harry's head, encircling his arms around Harry's waist " we do babe, we do "

Harry slumped down on the couch taking the box away " mia would love this"

" since when did we decide on mia? It'll be sheryl " draco too slumped down next to his husband, taking his leg into his lap and analysing carefully

" we'll see Mr. Potter " harry grinned and then groaned as draco casted an episky

" yes we'll see Mr. Malfoy "draco gave him a flying kiss before taking the box from him and dissolved into laughter as they both read cards after cards.

I had such a different plan for this but this sounded much more cuter..

Dumbledore: You seem to be spending a great amount of time with that Slytherin student—Malfoy.. I was wondering if.. perhaps..

Harry: Malfoy? No, no, of course not.. We’re just friends.

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List the Drarry tropes that make your heart and stomach go- 😩💗😭🦋🦋🦋😳🥰😍

I think I enjoy anything as long it's a got a good beginning that gets me hooked but here's a few that I like

1. ENEMIES to " I might care about you a little " to " I thought you were different " to " prove me wrong " to LOVERS, TROPE

2. A domestic drarry trope, with friends to lovers. I read this work by @slytherco one or two month's ago and I made a post about it too, it's fairly domestic with fluff and it's my favorite one.

3. The secret relationship drarry. If anyone's ever read it was all just a game by writeme_227, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

4. the " I don't love you but I'm jealous to see you with anyone else " kinda trope when Infact they love each other. So jealousy drarry trope with smut, maybe.

5. Lastly I love any trope with slightly literary language, something that I can't explain, but might have references like " anatomically saying.. " or " according to Greek mythology.." . I don't think it's a trope but this sort makes me jump.

I ask you the same.. tell me what makes you 🦋🦋🦋🥺🥺😭😢🥰😍😩🦋