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Notes: This is for the wonderful tat1312, who is gradually making me like this ship. (Okay, has already made me like it.) Nothing much to say except that reviews are appreciated and desperately hoped for.~
It's an illness that Astoria can't cure. No matter that she's a Healer and knows everything there is to know about medicine (or so he's heard), no matter that she tries her best, Draco has Wandering Eye And Hand Syndrome and there's nothing his wife can do about it.
Gabrielle, on the other hand, is just what the doctor would order, if Draco felt he needed one. Sure married purebloods make all those vows to be faithful, but quite frankly, Draco's not interested. He's bored. While at school, he would have been able to simply take out his boredom on those lower than him - most notably Potty, Weasel and Beaver Girl - but now school's over and he's supposed to be so much better than that.
Gabrielle slips into something nice for him one moment and is cold and leave-your-wife-if-you-want-me the next. She speaks the language of love while Astoria speaks the language of dull domesticity.
Honestly, what man would say no? Maybe, come to think of it, it would be an illness not to.
...Besides, Draco can still remember his father's hand on his shoulder and the words "Contracts are made to be broken, son."