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Draco grabs the freezing handle of the bathroom door and slams the heavy wood behind him as loudly as he can. It’s not like anyone can hear him, he thinks, as the roar of the party increases. The bass pounds louder till it feels like the walls are shaking.

He slumps his body weight back against the solid door using it’s stability to ground himself but the white walls continue to spin slightly as he looks around. Groaning, he gives in, closing his eyes. His bare toes wiggle against the cool tiles. He wonders when he’d lost his shoes. He can’t quite remember anything after he’d stormed angrily away from Harry and downed about seven shots of firewhisky with Hermione cheering him on, he’d never thought she’d be such a bad influence.

After the shots the night had taken on a surreal blurry quality like nothing mattered. At least nothing mattered until he’d gotten up from his stool at the bar and turned to catch a glimpse of crimson red hair in a darkened corner of the pub. When he’d looked closer Ginny had been with Harry. His Harry. All tousled black curls and flushed cheeks.

Except maybe not his anymore, Draco thinks, head spinning, as he remembers the way he’d watched Harry’s tanned hands card through Ginny’s flaming locks pulling her closer. That’s when Draco had fled.

He tips his head against the door behind him and tries to convince himself not to punch something. The problem is he doesn’t know what he should do.

He’d never pictured himself like this, drunk and sad, and looking for an apology that might never come.

I watch the sun on your hair in front of me as we scale the hill. Dry dirt rubs up between our bare feet as we pick our way up switchbacks. I only stop to rest when you say so, clear voice flowing through the heavy air like spring water. My lungs feel caked in with grass pollen. Humid wind stings at my throat. I wonder if I’m getting heatstroke as I contemplate cradling your cheek in my hands and asking you to repeat the words you just spoke. I imagine you would feel like guzzling straight from a glacial lake. Leave me gasping like when you stick your head out of a car window in a rainstorm. I trip on a rock and it sends me reeling, ruptures my reverie.

As I watch your back crest the peak in front of me a peach tree rises out of the earth beside you like a sunrise. Golden fruit glow between crooked branches just barely holding on to the summers end. The fruit bursting with sweetness feel soft like a bruise. When my hand brushes against one it splits and sends saccharine stickiness down my forearm. Something about the texture reminds me of blood. When I touch my lips to it I wouldn’t be surprised to taste iron.

2021.12 ~ Top 10 longest fics posted on AO3

1. I Do Not Love You by @writandromance [M, 228k]

►In 2013, a carefully-designed Obliviation leaves Harry reconfiguring his life and identity without any memories of true love; an act that’s essentially erased Draco Malfoy from his mind despite a wedding band and shared home. In 2000, Draco had expected Pansy’s relationship with Luna to bring the Gryffindors a bit closer to his orbit of quiet, carefully pacifistic existence, but he never expected to navigate such a transparent embrace into a unit of family, friendship, and love. // A mystery, two love stories, and a reminder that learning to love never has an end date.

2. Bake your way into my heart by @hufflepuffromantic [M, 220k]

►After Astoria died Draco was suddenly left as a single father and he had to get his shit together. He learnt to cook, which was fine but then eventually he learnt to bake which was heavenly. He loved it and funnily enough he was actually pretty good at it. It gave him a new lease of life and he became obsessed. When he realised that his sister-in-law (and pretty much his only friend) had entered him for a TV baking competition he’d never heard of, he went along with it, after all Astoria had told him to live his life to the full. It never even crossed his mind that he might meet someone there, let alone the man of his dreams…

3. In Another Life by petrichorca [M, 181k]

►After an encounter with a Bludger, Harry Potter wakes up in Slytherin robes. Everyone hates him except for Draco Malfoy, who is his friend—maybe more than a friend.

4. Trials and Revelations by KaiIsTyping [T, 180k]

►Harry unintentionally opens a portal to a long forgotten test hidden in Hogwarts. Stuck in an enchanted world faced with the realisation that no one will be able to find him, he logically decides to set out and complete the trials that await. Only, the place is covered in extinct Magical Beasts and all the instructions are written in incomprehensible Ancient Runes. So, really, it’s a very good thing he managed to bring Draco Malfoy along to help.

5. Accidentally in Love by @trash-tears [M, 140k]

►[…] While Harry struggles to adjust to his new roommates and his difficult new tutor who keeps calling him ‘scarhead’, it dawns on him that passing his N.E.W.T.s isn’t going to be the cakewalk he expected. It certainly doesn’t help that Malfoy’s all grown up now, and his soft hair and occasional smiles make Harry’s knees turn into jelly. Will their rivalry stir the cauldron or brew into something else entirely?

6. Say Everything by @findmeafterward [E, 135k]

►Draco, a reporter for the Daily Prophet, is assigned to write an in-depth, exclusive character profile about Harry, to be featured in a special edition issue for the ten-year anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. During their extensive interview process, insecurities are unearthed, past wrongs are righted, and feelings ensue.

7. Kaleidoscope by Saras_Girl [E, 104k]

►If Harry’s honest, the last thing he needs is a house full of Draco Malfoy, but partners are partners, and perhaps, the thing he wants the least will turn out to be absolutely everything.

8. Renovation of the Heart by Riyan_Blue [M, 92k]

►Draco Malfoy is an interior designer. Harry Potter is re-doing Grimmauld Place. And to make matters worse, a pandemic has just shut down the wizarding world, forcing Draco to quarantine in Grimmauld Place.

9. the measure of a memory by citrusbaby [M, 84k]

►Seven years after the end of the war, Harry has made a quiet life for himself, as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Dark magic looms just beyond the horizon, but all Harry wants is to be left out of it. Until Malfoy asks him to teach him the Patronus Charm. Harry agrees out of suspicion. No other reason.

10. It’s Saturday; Remind Me I’m Alive by @drarrelie [T, 71k]

►The blank piece of parchment stared back at him. What do you think you’re doing? it seemed to say. What do you think you’re trying to accomplish? He probably won’t even read it, so what difference could it possibly make? “Probably none,” Draco muttered as he dipped the nib of his quill in the inkpot, “but I’m going to do it anyway.”

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11. The Black Lily Community Center by Ebibily [E, 69k]

►One day when Harry is picking up Teddy from his wizarding primary school, he discovers Scorpius is getting bullied. Harry can’t just sit idly by. Harry runs a community center, Teddy and Scorpius become friends, and Draco has accepted the fact that his past will always haunt him.

12. Rapidly Becoming by @sayesayes [?, 67k]

►When Draco goes missing, Harry inherits Malfoy Manor and makes it his own.

13. Desiderata by Relevant_Peach [G, 49k]

►Harry’s life is nearly perfect, despite the fact that he struggles to get a good cup of coffee. He loves his job, has supportive friends, and, if he’s a bit lonely, it’s easy to ignore, considering how great everything else is. While investigating a case of accidental magic, Harry meets an adorable little boy who makes all of his protective alarm bells ring. As Harry investigates the origin of the accidental magic, he runs into someone from his past, and has to decide if he’s truly moved on from the suspicions he carried around at Hogwarts.

14. All These Things and More by @saxamophone [M, 46k]

►Harry Potter definitely does not have a crush on Draco Malfoy, even if the way he lights up around his three-year-old son, Scorpius, makes Harry’s stomach do something weird and fluttery. Draco Malfoy certainly does not fancy Harry Potter, even if the way Harry looks at Scorpius, all soft and attentive, makes his heart beat faster. Christmas is around the corner and these two dummies need a not-so-gentle push from their scheming friends and family in order to realise that maybe they do, in fact, belong together.

15. Under a wicked sky by @nccis [E, 46k]

►2nd of May 2018 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. Anybody who had been a somebody back in the day has been invited to a celebration at the Great Hall. Harry has his hands full trying to remember his speech, hiding the fact that he and Ginny are divorced and, you guessed it, obsessing over Draco Malfoy.

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The birds and the bees by @orange-peony [E, 32k]

Bonded by @ravena-wrote [T, 16k]

Destinies and Destinations by @manixzen [M, 18k]

Edge of Great by DracoWillHearAboutThis [E, 19k]

A Game With No Rules by am_i_awake [T, 27k]

Keep your hands on me by tenthousandyears [E, 21k]

Never Fuck with Draco Malfoy by @ladyroxanne21 [E, 27k]

The Prince and the Dragon Beast by 0FIREnICE0 [E, 26k]

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Ongoing Fest/Exchange

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25 Days of Draco and Harry 2021 | @slythindor100

All I Want For Christmas Challenge

CoMS Fall Fic Exchange 2021

Fanatical Fam’s Holiday Fic Exchange 2021

Gay Juice Secret Santa Exchange

H/D Erised 2021 | @hd-erised

H/D Mistletoe Exchange 2021 | @gwbexchange

Harry/Draco Owlpost 2021 | @hdowlpost

HP De-Stress December 2021 | @hpdestress

Harry Potter Trans Comfort Fest | @magicaltrans

Seven Shades of Drarry | @sevenshadesofdrarry

Wireless goes Cinema 2021 | @wireless-festive-minifest

For the @drarrymicrofic prompt: Good for You by Darlingside 

Draco stands at the summit of the mountain and looks out across the bright rolling hills. He can feel the heaviness of Harry missing him. It’s always there, in the slight pressure just above his sternum, the tight squeeze of his ribs. 

Sometimes he feels content, almost happy, here in America and then it hits him all over again. Something about his happiness makes sadness’s edge even sharper. 

He turns and starts to climb down towards the grass below. The rocky path under his feet is steep and perilous, demands his focus. He’s grateful for it. It keeps him from thinking about Harry’s face when he’d left him, green eyes blown wide and desperate, begging him to stay. 

Draco breathes in deeply, lets the frigid mountain air burn across his lungs. Four more months he reminds himself, just 121 more days to rebuild, repair, return better. 

He wipes his sleeve hurriedly across his face and it comes away wet.

Azkaban Escape 

Drarry Microfic, Rating: G, Words: 220

“You’re sleeping with Malfoy,” Hermione says, looking at Harry pointedly over the breakfast table.

“What?” Harry’s frozen in his seat, toast halfway to his mouth. His face is pale, guilty. He knows he’s always been a bad liar, so this is about to be the performance of his lifetime. He loves Hermione, loves her to death, and  obviously he’s fine with her knowing all of his secrets. All of his secrets except this one of course. 

“You. Have been sleeping. With Malfoy,” Hermione says slowly glaring at him. 

“I don’t understand,” Harry carefully sets his toast down on the plate in front of him. “Malfoy’s in Azkaban.”  

“Well,” Hermione draws out the word like she’s waiting for him to interrupt. “He was in Azkaban.” 

Watching his face carefully, she passes him yesterday's newspaper. The cover reads: Death Eater on the Loose: Draco Malfoy Escapes Azkaban in the Dead of Night. 

“Oh,” says Harry gazing at the paper. He widens his eyes and tries to look surprised, or enraged, or whatever he would have looked like if this had happened when he was a school-kid. “That’s too bad I guess.” 

“You’re sooo believable,” Hermione scoffs at him. She moves the paper slightly and gestures to one of the security camera photos at the bottom of the page. “Care to explain yourself?”