dracoharry100 | Harry Potter, Wardsmith. Part 46

Title: Harry Potter, Wardsmith. Part 46
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: Death Eaters
Word count: 100x5
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Challenge: space
Rating for this post: Rated PG-13
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, they belong to the clever Scottish lady. I just bend them and love them. Please don't smack me for playing. It isn't like I am going to earn any money from this!
Author's note: Comments are love!
Summary: Draco is done.

Part one: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/1154283.html
Part 45: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/206008.html#cutid1

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Draco walked Harry to the conservatory’s doorway. He took Harry’s hands and kissed Harry chastely. He asked Bippy to show Harry out.

Then Draco turned to speak. "I honestly do aspire to be your dutiful son,” he began. “However, I also need to live my own life and make my own choices. You have been actively making those contradict. This distresses me.

“Adults are afforded the space to make their own choices. To choose a profession, leisure activities, short and long-term goals, a life partner.”

He gave Mother an extremely pointed look before continuing. “Even to make one’s own errors."

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Mother did not react, but Draco thought he was making an impression, nonetheless.

“The salient point is you have that space. I hereby claim it for myself, as well. Harry and I… are becoming quite serious about one another. He is everything I could ever want in a man.”

Draco heard Mother’s small noise of objection, but he ignored her.

“Harry is handsome, generous, intelligent, kind, and funny. He treats me with respect, yet does not take either of us too seriously. He loves his work, which he chose for himself and pursued diligently. He knows how to be happy.”

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Draco peeked at Mother, but she was still quiet, so he continued. He was almost done, anyway.

“I’ve no interest in finding new space for my business, but we have options. For myself, I can continue to live here with you, date Harry, and see how that goes. Or, I could speak to Harry about moving in with him. It is… early for that. But in two or three months, I suspect it won’t be.

“Another option, if this is too hard. You could move out.”

He heard Mother’s sharp intake of breath, and forced his face to stay poker-calm.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

“We own that lovely place in the south of France,” Draco continued as though he was not upsetting Mother, whose would-be assailant would soon be on trial. As though he was not casually suggesting his mother move out of the country.

“Perhaps we have other properties I’m unaware of. Certainly, you seem to have made some very close friends in Johannesburg. Perhaps they would like another visit from you. The point is, you have options of where to sleep. But you will not be sleeping here, not again, if you cannot accept the reality of who I am.”

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Draco breathed in deep, through his nose: slow, slow, slower, until his quivery lungs felt they could burst. Then he held it until he felt capable of speech again.

Mother sat, stunned, visibly hurt and almost certainly calculating a shrewd, effective response.

Smiling serenely, he made sure to get there first.

“The new living wards have already been adjusted to exclude you from the space once you leave,” he explained. “I have complete control of them now. But I can readmit you easily. All you have to do, is fully, truly accept me, Mother. Just the way I am. Queer.”

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Continued: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/210017.html#cutid1