splitting seconds

Malfoy's face is too angular for beauty. Everything is flat planes and sharp angles, and all the roundness it ever had is melted away into taut white skin and shades of chalky pink. In fact, Harry isn't sure that he remembers if Malfoy's face ever held roundness.

He has this ridiculous theory that it suddenly disappeared one day, and Harry had been so occupied with punching it that he hadn't noticed.

Malfoy's face is not ugly. It is anything but. Despite the sharpness it is inexplicably, infuriatingly, devastatingly captivating. Harry doesn't understand how Malfoy Enters a room and draws all eyes to him. Harry gets the surreptitious stare at his scar.

It could be his eyes. Harry isn't sure when he realized that Malfoy's eyes are grey, but they are. So what? Harry's are green. Green is more interesting than grey anyway.

At this point, as if on cue, Malfoy looks up and meets Harry's gaze. His mouth, which is too thin and always feels like pliant marble, quirks up into a smirk and his eyes glitter with malice. Well, okay. Harry's are just green, and Malfoy's grey enlivens his face from statue to flesh.

Harry breaks off the staring contest before Malfoy can get him in trouble.

It is a strong face, beneath the paleness and the delicate features and the dark-lashed eyes. The jaw line is strong despite the pointy-ness, and Harry thinks that one day Death will come for Malfoy and Malfoy will grit his teeth so his chin juts out and is even pointier, and try to cast Jelly-Legs on the spectre.

Malfoy will probably never die. Harry tries not to grin as his answer sheet suddenly wipes blank and reads "Potty stinks."

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8:02 PM

4 October 2004

lokogato enterprises ltd.

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Mm. Tiny little drabble. I want to put this in a much larger fic, but I can't quite put together the plot, not to mention embarking on another long fic right now is probably not in my best interests academically, socially, and health-related-ly.

Huzza.

Please review. Please? Please? With nekkid Malfoys on top?

loko

P.S.: Disclaimer: Don't own it. Don't sue.