Sugary-perfectly-sweet
It was cold in the kitchen. Draco curled around his cup, warming his nose on the steam. His bones felt melted, stretchy, so tired and so sated. Honey-filled veins, candy-floss head. It still felt like a dream when he snuck out of bed, still so far beyond possible it was silly. But now, watching the day break over the old chestnut tree—now was something else. Draco drew a deep breath, closed his eyes.
Potter took his tea sweet: two and a half teaspoons of sugar, far too much milk. Maybe Draco should surprise him. Come back to bed before seven in the morning with a full breakfast tray. He could smile, be horribly tacky, say something like ‘sweet tea for my sweetheart’, all awful and brave. But he didn’t move. Leaned against the counter, shook himself a little. It smelled like Potter here, in his kitchen, in his hoodie Draco stole off the floor. He wondered what it made him, a bit of a thief, a bit his. Perhaps too much. Soft, though, the fabric, and so nice on his bare skin. Draco decided to keep it. He hoped Potter might feel the same way.
The fingers of the old chestnut tree waved in the wind, yellowy-orange. Leaves littered the whole garden almost on purpose. Like Potter in his mind, everywhere-everywhere-everywhere, colourful and strangely sweet. Draco tried shaking himself back, making his cotton-wool-head work. It was too early. Maybe he should go back to bed, slide under the heavy duvet, back to Potter’s intense heat. Maybe he could wake him up, make him say all those things again, in the light of day. Make him mean it. Maybe he’d be brave enough to do it.
But he kept standing there, holding a long-cold cup of tea. Too happy and too scared. Bare feet on cold tiles, real, here, real. Maybe it was enough for now.
He could feel it still, the ghost of Potter’s gentle touch on his skin. Warm, hungry fingers, tiny kisses sprinkled everywhere. Draco’s hand rose, automatic, to trace their path: behind his ear, the back of his neck, slipping down beneath the hoodie. His toes curled on the floor, heating from the memory alone, from the feeling of Potter in his honey-blood, in his fairy-floss-head, in his dream-filled-eyes—
No, it was actually Potter, the real one, shimmering in the new light. “Hey,” he said, pyjama bottoms with no top, hair mussed and incredibly, destructively handsome. Draco blinked for a long moment.
“Aren’t you cold?” Potter asked, coming closer. Slotting behind him like the most natural thing in the world, as if they belonged like this, together. “C’mere. God, you smell good.” Then, after a beat: “I thought—when I woke up, and you were gone. I thought…”
Draco turned around, swallowed the gasp. “I’m not going anywhere.”
Potter didn’t answer, just buried his face in Draco’s neck. Soft and impossibly real, impossibly bright, like the start of a new day. Sweet and so warm.
(First day of @flufftober! find all Robin’s Flufftober ficlets here or on AO3! )
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"but i want MEAT."
"it looks and feels almost like meat to Me. enough C, enough roughness for your itching teeth. also, iii went to buy some fresh reindeer, I made a portal for that specifically."
"i could go get some myself!"
"says a fragile haunted corpse with seventeen doorframe impacts today. sit down, Or Else."
"i hate you."
tearing the grapefruit apart with his new, itching indeed, teeth, vessel one had to admit that the fruit had that exact amount of bitterness which made it quite delicious.
(ID in the alt text)
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bare footfalls - ss&sw
she goes to sleep, socks on
He wakes up, and tears them right off.
Ugh.
He glances over the precipice, the peak of the arc.
A downward trend stares back at him.
hey, we got this
Shut up.
cmon, man,
I said Shut Up.
He steps onto the ground, and shudders.
It's cold.
heh
Shut the Fuck up.
lol
Uuuuuuugh I hate living with you.
<3
Fuck you.
love you too, spect
Whatever… You too…
you do have my pity, by the way
Hm?
i mean, like
it genuinely does suck when like
autusm gets in the way of genuine comfort
yknow like, im genuinely sorry that you have to choose between what sensory issue to cope with
you could like
just let me take over, yknow?
Nah.
It's my day.
Sorry.
oh, dont be
Okay.
Not sorry.
Lol.
did you just say lol out loud?
No, I thought it out loud.
oh,
lol
Lol.
Alright, let's get breakfast.
im thinking-
Pizza rolls.
yeah, pizza rolls
Fuck yeah.
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