Is this love at first sight?
Summary: Harry left the Wizarding World after the War. After graduating in a Fashion school in the muggle world, he started his career and is now a world-renowned Fashion designer by the name of Hadrian Black. Then one morning on his flight for New York, he met a man who was going to change his life forever.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter
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Chapter 1: Hadrian's travel adventures
Hadrian Black was waiting in the airport.
From his current place of residence in Los Angeles, California, he was flying to New York for New York fashion week. He left England years ago for Paris after he defeated Voldemort. Because only a few remained true until the end. It was only Neville, Luna, Kingsley, Bill, Fleur, Charlie, George, Poppy, and the rest of his former professors who he trusted because the rest especially his closest friends and his so-called girlfriend tried to lay their grubby hands on his inheritance. Also papers struck his nerve when they started publishing rubbish about his supposed marriage to Ginny or about him being the next dark lord so he sued them all for slander except the Quibbler. So being fed up and disgusted with what was happening he decided to leave and reconnect with the muggle world.
Being influenced by Fleur during his stay in Shell Cottage, he learned to speak fluent French and somehow learned that he was good in art especially in fashion design. Hence his decision to move to Paris to study in the School of Arts and Design in Paris. He also used his whole name Hadrian and the surname Black in honor of Sirius. His features also changed after the final battle. His scar has faded and is only seen if you look really closely and it was slightly covered by his hair. His old messy hairdo changed into straight and silky which fell to his mid back due to his usage of magic. His Emerald eyes are not obstructed by glasses after he had his eyesight corrected. Though his slender frame and short height never changed due to his malnutrition when he was younger which was a constant cause of his ire, even Luna was taller than him by an inch and she was on the average height for women. Well after he graduated from Paris he moved to California and started a little shop which sold great quality yet affordable clothes. Then after a few months his shop was doing well off then suddenly there was a fashion critique in disguise entered his shop and liked his clothes very much. After that event everything was pretty much history because his little shop expanded and became a world fashion brand called Tigerlily in honor of his mother and he bacame a famous deseigner known for making clothes for celebrities and other famous people.
So here he was waiting in the airport for his flight for New York and it was delayed by 2 more hours, so he went to the nearest coffee shop and ordered for coffee. Then while drinking his coffee he was looking for a seat in the waiting area when someone rudely bumped into him. Hadrian stumbled a bit and lost his balance and fell when an arm shot out and caught him by grasping his waist. Hadrian then regained his balance with the person's help and looked to his right to see the person who helped him. The man who caught him was still holding his waist and looked very stunning. He was wearing khaki pants and a royal blue long sleeved shirt with the sleeves folded to his elbows paired with leather shoes. There was a bag next to him and a sketch book on top of it. He looked to be a lot taller than Hadrian with a broader frame. He had blue-gray eyes and short wavy brown hair which Hadrian wanted to touch to know if it was as silky as it looked.
Is this love at first sight? Hadrian hoped it was, because for he had been waiting for someone who would love and care for him for such a long time.
After his attempt at kissing Cho and dating Ginny, he found out that he swung for the other side. All his life he wanted someone to protect him and be his Pillar and hold him up for every time he fell. He did not want to be someone's protector and save the damsel in distress. After he left England there were some men who tried to court him but nobody really caught his attention like this man did as he was too concentrated in his studies.
"Are you alright?" A deep voice startled Hadrian out of his thoughts. He still remembered that he was still on the man's arm and then a hand held his arm and steadied him to stand up.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Hadrian looked up to see the worried blue-gray eyes of the man who apparently was taller than his 5'5 feet height and looked to be at the height of 6'3.
The man smiled and nodded and let go off Hadrian's arm and waist. Hadrian took one step forward and then pain shot through his left foot and stumbled once more but was saved by the man who caught his waist again. Hadrian realized that he must have sprained his ankle during his fall.
"You don't look to be alright." The man said frowning slightly as Hadrian answered him to opposite a while ago.
"I must have sprained my ankle during my fall." Hadrian said to explain why he fell once more.
The man smirked a bit and suddenly carried Hadrian piggyback style while he gathered his bag and sketch book and went to 2 empty seats near the gate where Hadrian was supposed to board.
"What's you name anyway?" The man asked after he sat Hadrian down on a seat and sat down beside him.
"Hadrian" he said, "Hadrian Black."
The man smiled and said, "I'm Andrew Smith, but call me Drew."
Drew gently removed his shoe then brought a handkerchief and wrapped it around Hadrian's ankle while saying "You should ice this later on, where are you headed anyway?" T hen Drew placed the shoe back on Hadrian's foot.
"I'm headed for New York" Hadrian said as he brought out a novel from his bag.
"What a coincidence. I'm headed for New York as well." Drew smiled at Hadrian and glanced down at his sketchbook.
Hadrian didn't dare to look at the sketchbook thinking it would be an invasion of privacy. So both of them continued what they were doing in silence when a little girl came it front of Hadrian and gently tapped his shoulder.
"Yes?" Hadrian asked as he glanced up from his book.
He saw that the little girl had shoulder length blonde hair and light blue eyes was hugging a notebook to her chest. She was also wearing one of his designs from his other brand "Spirit" which he is the anonymous designer who designs clothes that caters to people who couldn't afford the clothes from Tigerlily. She was wearing a carnation pink dress that reached until the knees that had puffy sleeves and there was ribbon to be tied on the back that had the design of a staff with musical notes on it. It was from the Spring collection he released last year inspired by his new goddaughter Victoire.
"Um... , would you sign this for me? Please." The little girl requested as she handed out her notebook along with a pen.
"Sure." Hadrian set his novel down on his lap and took the offered notebook and pen. From the corner of his eye he saw Drew set down the sketchbook and pencil and watched the little girl and him. He then glanced down at the notebook and smiled because the page had a lot of drawings of clothes even if they were drawn childishly and on the other half of the notebook had a bunch of pictures of various designers, himself included. So he flipped to the next page which was clean. He then looked up to the girl and asked what her name was.
"Natalie" she answered softly while fiddling with her fingers.
So Hadrian then looked down on the notebook and started to write:
Dear Natalie,
Always follow your dreams and keep on designing. You will be much better as you grow and become one of the best the world has ever seen.
Sincerely yours,
Hadrian Black
He then handed the notebook and pen to Natalie who happily squealed and hugged his neck and ran to a man who he thought was her father and grasped the man's hand and together they walked away.
"So, you're famous ?" He looked back to see that Drew was staring at him with the sketchbook back on the man' slap once more.
"Maybe yes , maybe no" Hadrian responded and smirked slightly when he heard a page being torn followed by a groan.
"Can you just answer me normally?" Drew pouted, which was a bit unnecessary.
Hadrian resisted the urge to coo at the man who was currently acting like a child and cleared his throat to answer. "I'm quite well known for my job. I work as a Fashion Designer." He said softly.
"Now I know why your name is so familiar," Drew's eyes widened. "You're the famous Hadrian Black, the owner of Tigerlily. Can I just say that I really love your clothes. Most of my wardrobe is from your store." Drew said excitedly.
"Tha..." Hadrian was cut off by the intercom.
"Flight 1121 bound for JFK airport, New York is now ready for boarding."
"Where are you seated?" Drew asked.
"Row 5 seat A." Hadrian responded as he was looking at his ticket.
"That's great then, we are seated next to each other so I can help you." Drew said as he placed his sketchbook and pencil inside the bag and started to carry both their bags on one shoulder and helped Hadrian to stand and wrapped an arm around Hadrian's waist to support him.
As they were making their way to their seats Hadrian noticed that Drew was a lot taller than him, he was just until the other man's chest. Hadrian just sighed there was nothing more that he can do about his height.
When they finally got to their seat Hadrian was seated by the window with Drew seated by him. They resumed their own activities which they were doing a while ago, Hadrian drawing and Drew with drawing. Hadrian was too engrossed in the book "The Fault in our Stars" by John Green that he didn't even notice that he was crying. That is until a hand with callouses on the fingers reached out to wipe the tear streaks on his cheeks.
"Are you okay?" Hadrian looked towards Drew and saw the man's worried eyes.
"Yes, I'm fine." Hadrian said, "It's just the story is really sad that my emotions are really messed up."
Drew smiled slightly and Hadrian was surprised that his upper body was suddenly plastered to a broader frame with his head tucked in under Drew's head and arms wrapped around his slimmer frame. Hadrian just sighed and relished in the warmth provided before he straightened up and sat properly on his seat.
"Thank You." Hadrian said sincerely to Drew who nodded in acknowledgement.
After a few minutes Hadrian suddenly felt drowsy and the airplane shook a bit due to turbulence.
'Thump' was all that Hadrian heard before his shoulder suddenly felt heavy, He turned and saw that Drew had fallen asleep while grasping his sketchbook and saw that he was actually drawing a very detailed portrait of Hadrian. Hadrian just placed the sketchbook and the pencil back in the bag under the seat in front of the other man and brought out a blanket and wrapped it around Drew. He also wrapped a blanket around himself and placed his head on top of Drew's ignoring the erratic beating of his heart and tried to get some sleep.
He really hoped that he would spend more time with the man even after they get off the plane. Because for the first time he felt his heart race for someone he just met and he really hoped that it was love.
