bluedreaming: (*pseudonym - porcelainsalt)
ice cream ([personal profile] bluedreaming) wrote in [community profile] dracoharry1002022-05-22 10:23 am
Entry tags:

authority and limit

Title: authority and limit
Author: [personal profile] bluedreaming
Team: Aurors
Word count: 100
Characters/pairings: Draco/Harry, Teddy
Challenge: 708: Violence
Author’s Notes: Title from THE HOUSE AMONG THE OAKS.

Watching Teddy playing, Draco sometimes feels like he’s slipped sideways, staggering off-balance.

No one is telling Teddy that he’s wrong. Maybe not in words, but in the tightening of a lip, the firming of a mouth. Thinking back to childhood, Draco remembers an undercurrent of violence. The sense that he needed to figure out all these secret rules, hidden expectations.

It use to feel like a game, made him feel powerful when he got it right. Now it just makes him feel sick.

“You’re such a good boy.” Bellatrix mocking, him still.

Draco buries his face in Harry’s back, breathes.