Written By: Hikari Riku
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all related characters are the property of Joanne K. Rowling. I do not own them.
Summary: In which Harry learns that loving someone doesn't necessarily mean trusting them and Draco learns that sometimes old habits die hard.
Word Count: 166
Genre: Drama/generally sad little drabble
Rated: T
Pairing(s): Draco/Harry
Authoress Notes: Short little drabble, that can go either way. Theme #72 Force Of Habit Written for the 2008 100 themes challenge at: www . livejournal . com/hppottermalfoy (without the spaces)
Accidents Happen
As he sat next to the lifeless form of his beloved, he thought about how it had happened. How it had all just happened.
Thinking back, he remembered that there had been something in his walk. Something in the way he called his name and reached for him so suddenly. Something that had awoken it.
That old and buried instinct to protect himself from harm, that had brought the curse to his lips.
That curse. He hadn't meant to use it of course, after all, it had just happened.
"Did you really think...I would hurt you?" His beloved looked imploringly at him.
"Never!" He replied a bit too quickly. "I just...it was..."
"Just a force of habit?"
As he bit down on his lower lip, not trusting himself to speak again, his beloved smiled sadly up at him.
"I thought so..." he whispered, and turned away.
And he thought about how it had happened. How it had all just happened.
Like "they" had just happened...
Authoress Notes: Okay, the hell? This is the SECOND thing I've written about them in a row that isn't exactly happy...
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