Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Pansy Parkinson, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Hannah Abbott, Parvati Patil, Cho Chang, Alicia Spinnet, Luna Lovegood, Rolf Scamander, Daphne Greengrass, Blaise Zabini, Bastien Queensbury, Dennis Creevey, Oliver Wood, Other Original Characters, Kreacher (Harry Potter)
Additional Tags: Humor, Angst, Drama, Obliviousness, enemies to best friends, lovers to best friends, BFFs, Coming Out, Getting Together, One Night Stands, Dating, Modern Dating Culture, Romance, Fluff, Love, slowburn, Harry’s Inner Voice is Dramatic and Rather Vulgar, Imperfect Main Character, LGBTQ Celebration, Touching, hand holding, Consent, Everyday Consent, respect, Enthusiastic Consent, Slut Shaming, Discussions Concerning Promiscuity, Sexual Autonomy, Coping Mechanisms, Mental Health Issues, Profanity, breaking up, boys do cry, Toxic Male Masculinity, Internalized Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Femslash, Background Relationships, Making Up, medical student, Texting, Layabout!Harry, AurorTrainee!Harry, Strong Female Role Models, Ginny is a Badass Quidditch Star, Hermione is an Excellent Friend, Weddings, Holidays, Birthdays, New Year’s Eve, Earth Magic, Modern technology, Early 2000s Technology, Late 90s/Early 2000s Music, The Oldies, Recreational Drug Use, LOTS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, Interviews, Camcorders, Pining, Anal Sex, Rimming, Blow Jobs, Frottage, First Time, film inspired, When Harry Met Sally - Freeform, Consent within Non-Sexual Relationships, Dancing, nightclubs, Clubbing, Slow Dancing, Snark, sassiness, Trampolines, Inappropriate Jokes, Tuxedos, Sex whilst Drunk
Summary:
This year’s love had better last, heaven knows it’s high time when you try to make lovers from friends. But Harry Potter realises time and time again that it’s simply not possible for him. And then along comes Draco Malfoy— the ultimate foe on the mend. Whatever will become of them? A story about love.
Excerpt:
Harry’s about to do something — say something, or maybe, maybe kiss Draco — when someone shouts out in the crowd: “Hey everybody! One minute ‘til New Year!”
“Do you want to get some air?” Draco asks. The spell between them is broken.
As they exit the dance floor, Harry catches sight of Pansy making her way towards Ginny. Hermione and Ron are already snogging at a table, Luna and her boyfriend Rolf are still dancing, and Neville and Hannah are chatting away with Angelina and George.
Once outside, they stand close to one another on the cobblestones. Harry takes a moment to fully appreciate Draco, awash in the bright streetlight he’s insanely gorgeous in his form-fitting burgundy tuxedo unconventionally paired with a black roll neck, his long blond hair swept back from his face in an artfully messy half-up-half-down hairstyle. They can still hear the crowd behind them counting down.
Harry’s surprised when he feels Draco’s warm hand close around his own. He glances down at their clasped hands before lifting a questioning gaze to Draco’s softly smiling face.
“Thanks for being here for me this year, Harry.”
Oh. Oh. Oh. Harry’s brain stutters.
Love for the other man flares through him .
Shit.
He’s in love with his best mate.
“FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE…”
Draco presses a soft kiss to Harry’s lips. It’s so quick that Harry questions whether or not he imagined it.
The people from the party begin to sing Auld Lang Syne and Harry’s struck speechless by just how warm and lovely this all feels as he gazes into Draco’s open, content face. There’s so much he wants to say to Draco right now: how amazing it’s been getting to know him this past year, how grateful he is to have him as his rock and his voice of reason, how beautiful he thinks he is, and how very much in love he is with him.
Yes, there’s so much he wants to say.
“Happy New Year, mate,” he says instead, tugging Draco into a tight hug.
“Happy New Year,” Draco responds, squeezing Harry back. “Now let’s go back in and get completely sloshed.”
This fic you guys!!!! OMG! You have to read it! I put off everything I was supposed to do to read it!
and this was my reaction, lol!
Go read the thing! It’s exceptional! (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧
