July 17: Outdoors
(I did, in fact, start writing this in July, only to heartlessly abandon it after writing 4 paragraphs because I was a mess. So... enjoy it now? [insert shrug emoji])
Draco fucking loathed the heat.
He despised the summer, with the hot fucking sun and too few clouds. He hated the way his body felt, too hot, sticky, always wet, his clothes damp where they clung to his skin. It felt like the outdoors was boiling him in his own sweat.
And yes, he was sitting on the edge of the pool, his calves and feet in the cool water. And yes, he had worn his shortest pair of shorts, and his most light-weight button up shirt that he wore unbuttoned down to his naval, and his giant sun hat that shaded his skin and protected him from the sun (in addition to his strongest sun-blocking charms), and his huge sunglasses to keep him from glaring because of the sun (it didn't change his glaring because of his annoyance at the heat). And yes, he'd consumed more than his fair share of ice water and the long islands that his host kept on the table.
But it didn't change the fact that he was sticky, sweaty, hot and currently, more to the point, also fucking aroused.
Because Harry Potter didn't seem to have the same problems that Draco had in the heat. His bronze skin glistened with sweat and tanning oil; beads of water rolling down his pecks and abdomen, collecting in the hair on his chest and stomach when he emerged from the pool. Potter, instead of turning a hideously unattractive shade of red like Draco, only continued to grow more golden in the sun, painfully fucking beautiful. His swim trunks were indecently short, clinging to his muscular thighs and perfectly round arse, and leaving far too much of his skin on display.
It wasn't fair for Draco to have to be this hot and also attracted to someone. Attraction took up way too much space in his brain and body and he simply didn't have the energy for it in this heat.
“Draco, are you even listening to me?” Pansy snapped.
“No,” he replied honestly, as he took another long drink from the straw sticking out of his glass.
He didn’t have to be looking at her to know that she was rolling her eyes at him. “I will never understand your fascination with him.”
“Shut up,” he snapped. “You’re only attracted to women,” he said, then, “and I’m not fascinated with him,” he added as almost an after thought.
Before she could reply, Ginerva was interrupting them, sliding her soaking wet, bikini-clad body in between the two of them.
“Uggh,” he said, sliding away from her, “you’re soaking me.”
She looked over at him, that particular brand of Weasley mischief that Draco did his best to avoid, shining in her eyes.
“Whatever you are thinking, don’t you fucking dare,” he warned her.
But then both of her hands were on him, unceremoniously shoving him into the pool. And it wasn’t that Draco couldn’t swim, but he didn’t swim terribly well, and he hadn’t expected to be shoved into the pool in the first place, so the panic took over.
Strong arms wrapped around him, pulling him to the surface in spite of his flailing and choking. “I’ve got you,” the body holding his assured him.
And Draco recognized that voice, frankly, he was fairly certain that he could have simply recognized the body by touch alone; no need to hear or see or smell him. He wanted to tell him to just let him drown, let him slip back under and die because it would be better than living through this embarrassment, but he was still coughing and struggling to get a good breath, so none of the words quite came out right.
Potter carried him through the water and over to the steps. “Come on,” he said softly, guiding Draco out of the pool, “let’s head inside and get you some dry clothes.”
“Oooh!” Ginerva had the nerve to call out and Draco relegated her back down to his least favorite Weasley.
“Fuck off,” Potter called, flipping her a two fingered salute on their way in. "Are you alright?" he asked, all charming concern for Draco's well being.
“I’m fine,” Draco said, in spite of the way his throat was still burning and aching. “I should just go home.”
“Absolutely not,” Potter replied, leading him through the house and back toward what Draco could only assume was his bedroom.
And Draco had imagined Potter taking him back to his bedroom a thousand times but the circumstances had been very different in his imaginings. He'd imagined (fantasized) about Potter being so taken with him that he couldn't resist his charms; Potter calling him beautiful, sexy, unable to keep his hands off him.
Instead, Potter was treating him like a patient. In a decidedly unsexy way. He picked up his wand off the nightstand next to the bed, “I’m just going to cast a spell to clear any residual water from your lungs,” he informed him. The spell rattled through Draco as he moved his wand over his chest in a complicated pattern. “Then I’m going to stick pretty close by for the next couple of hours,” he said as he moved to the closet and started digging through for something for Draco to wear. “Best to monitor you.”
“I really don’t think that’s necessary.”
Potter turned to glare at him, “which one of us is the healer and which one of us is the wand maker?” He put his hands on his hips, “I wouldn’t argue with you about how to make a wand-”
“You would,” he interrupted. “You literally have.”
“You can either choose to be monitored by me or I’ll take you to St. Mungo’s myself,” he warned.
“You wouldn’t.”
Potter raised an eyebrow and crossed his stupidly buff arms over his stupidly broad chest, “try me.”
"Potter," he groaned.
"Don't Potter me," he said, apparently taking that for acquiescence and turning back to his closet. "Now, I think these swim shorts," he said, holding out a tiny pair of swim trunks with flamingos on them, "will work because they have a drawstring waist band. And this button up," he said, holding out a pink shirt that matched the flamingos, "will be best because it's lightweight and matches the vibe you're wearing now."
Draco accepted the clothes and carefully didn't point out that he could have just cast a spell to dry the clothes he was already wearing. The temptation to put on Harry's clothes was far too great. "Are you going to stand there and watch me dress, too?" he asked as he started to peel off his wet shirt. "Do I need monitoring so intensely?"
"No," Potter said, turning so quickly that he almost ran into the doorway. "Err," he said, stepping sideways and out of the door. "I'll just wait out here."
Once he stripped out of the wet clothes, he cast a quick spell to dry his body before putting on Harry's clothes. They didn't fit as well as his own did, certainly, Harry's chest and shoulders were far broader and Draco was quite a bit scrawnier than him, but they didn't look half bad. And more to the point, they were Harry's, so they smelled like him and even looking at them sent a thrill through the pit of Draco's stomach.
"Well," he said, stepping out of the room, "I suppose they'll do."
Harry, who'd been leaning against the wall, stumbled over nothing and nearly fell, choking on a cough as he stared wordlessly at Draco.
"What?" he asked self consciously, looking down at himself.
But Potter was trying to straighten himself, shaking his head. "Nothing," he said. Then he repeated himself, "Nothing."
"Right," Draco said, feeling a strange mix of self consciousness and attractiveness. He had the urge to flirt with the other man, just to see what would happen.
Potter turned and made his way toward the door, Draco followed and tried to decide what he could say or do to attract the other man's attention.
On their way back toward the pool, he saw it, the perfect excuse, dragging his feet just a bit, he let his toes catch on a tree root and let his body tip forward. "Oh!" he cried as he fell, "ouch! My ankle."
Potter was there in an instant, hands fluttering around Draco's sides, "what happened?"
"Oh, I tripped over the tree root and twisted my ankle," he said, holding his leg in the air and showing Potter. "It's probably the heat, I'm just feeling a little faint." He draped an arm over his head to demonstrate how faint he was feeling. He should have gone into acting, he thought ruefully, as Potter tittered over him, concern evident in each action.
Warm, competent hands reached for him, one taking gentle hold of his foot the other grasping his leg just above his ankle. "You're having a terrible go of it," he said, looking up at Draco with those guileless green eyes. "You're never going to want to come to one of my parties again."
Potter's magic washed through him, warm and bright, tingling around his ankle and Draco shivered with delightful anticipation.
"It doesn't seem like anything's broken," he said, "why don't we just go in and let you rest on the sofa." Without another word, he lifted him into his arms like Draco weighed nothing at all, and carried him inside once more.
"Thank you," he said, affecting a bit of helplessness in his voice. "I don't know what's the matter with me today."
"Probably the heat," Potter agreed, setting him down on the couch, rearranging the pillows to prop up Draco's leg. "Let me fetch you a glass of water. Are you in pain?" he asked as he moved toward the kitchen, "can I get you a potion for it?"
"Oh," he said, shaking his head, "I think I'll be fine in a few moments. You've been too kind already. I've been far too much trouble as it is," he demurred.
"Nonsense," Potter said, "You're no trouble at all." He carried the glass of water back to him and sat down on the sofa by Draco's hip.
Draco reached for the glass and took a long drink before letting his fingers skim over Potter's knee on the way to setting it on the table. On the way back, he casually brushed the back of his hand over the other man's thigh.
"Draco," Potter murmured.
"Yes, Potter?" he replied innocently before looking up and meeting his gaze.
The green of his eyes was burning bright and hot, and for just a moment, Draco couldn't breathe.
"Are you actually hurt or can I kiss you?" he asked.
In lieu of answering, Draco reached up and wrapped a hand around Potter's neck, pulling him down into a heated kiss.
A kiss that only got hotter and more desperate, escalating so quickly that before he knew what was happening Potter (and really, he thought wildly, he ought to start calling him Harry at this point) was climbing over him. He pressed him down onto the couch, straddling his hips, as his hands cupped Draco's face to angle it just right to deepen the kiss further. He let his hand stray down the muscular expanse of Potter's back toward his arse, fingertips just slipping below the waistband-
"Shit."
They both turned their heads in time to see that Neville and Blaise were standing in the doorway, gaping at the two of them.
"Sorry," Harry said, and Draco turned his head to find that Harry was looking at him with utter mortification.
And that simply wouldn't do. "Blaise," Draco said, staring straight into Harry's eyes, "be a dear and tell everyone that Potter's party is currently an outdoor only event and that he will no longer be available to attend to anyone's needs."
"Except your's apparently," Blaise said, smirk evident in his voice.
Harry buried his face in Draco's neck in a fit of shyness that Draco couldn't help but find adorable.
He smirked over at the other man, "except mine," he agreed. "Oh, and close the door on your way out."
The door clicked shut and Harry held out a hand, sending a wave of magic to lock it. He pulled back to look at Draco, "so what needs do you have that need attending to?" he asked, eyes sparkling with mischief.
"Oh, come back here and I'm sure I can come up with something," he replied as he pulled the other man's body down and flush against his own.
And it proved that once Harry started, it was all too easy to continue giving him more needs to fulfill.
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