Draco POV

"Mya. Mya? MYA!" I called her name over and over, then I realized I had given her the afternoon off. I was planning on taking off, why shouldn't she? She hadn't spent nearly enough time with Severus lately, she was the ever present workaholic in the office. Sev would very often floo at Rosie's bedtime saying that she needed her Mummy to come tuck her in. It would be only then that she would look at the clock and gasp at the time. It was good for her to get out with her whole family.

I gave up and sat back in my chair. Potter was coming back later, probably with an engagement ring on his finger, ready to fully talk about the loan. There was no way that he was going to give up the guy that he had been apparently in love with since 5th year. I mean, really, only an idiot would do that.

I heard the POP and thought that Mya had heard my screams all the way in Diagon Ally, and immediately began to feel bad. I had taken her away from the first family day they had had since she had come back to work after Rose was born. But as a raven headed male opened my door, I began to feel bad for other reasons. Reasons that were entirely selfish.

"Yes Potter?"

"Um, I came to finalize the loan." Of course he was.

"Okay, sit down then. I'm going to need you to sign here again, then here to approve everything that we've talked about various times over today."

"Umm, Malfoy. Actually, I need to sign a different loan. And make this one void." He looked sad, upset, downtrodden. And ringless.

"Why? Nott didn't want to get married?"

"No. He did. He had a ring and everything. I just, I couldn't. It's, it's, it's to soon." He was beginning to tear up. What I really wanted to do was jump over the desk and kiss those tears away, and say that it was okay, Nott was a jerk anyway, and of course it was too soon, you just got a divorce. What I actually did was something different. Kind of.

"No, of course. Nott would want to get married. We all knew he was a bender and would be the girl in the relationship. Hell, we caught him with Witch Weekly more than once. Besides, I understand, it's too soon. You just got divorced right?" Potter looked stunned. But then, they came. The waterworks. He was full out blubbering now, head in arms on my desk.

"I know! I mean, it only happened 3 days ago. I've been staying with Theo and they seemed perfect, but I can't be married again so soon! Especially not to him, not right now! No one even knows I'm gay, except you and Ginny and Theo for obvious reasons, but I just can't get married again! I don't know if I'll ever be able to!"

By the end of this, he was getting better, than hiccuped. His hair was a mess, and his face tear-stained. I did something right then entirely un-Malfoyish. I got up from my chair, walked around to his back, and hugged him from behind.

"I know. Believe me, I know entirely to well. I caught Blaise cheating on me in our bed, and I broke down. Sev and Mya tried to get me back out a week later, and I broke down in tears in the middle of the Hog's Head. I know how you feel, it's way to soon to even think of dating, let alone marriage."

He hiccuped again, and I moved around to the front of him and kneeled and put my hands in his lap, grabbing his. I looked in his eyes.

"Yes, I'm being nice. Yes, I know this is out-of-character for me. But I also know what you're going through to an extent. And there's no reason not to be sad. Cry, whine, drink, anything. It's acceptable for another week. Then you have to get out and really start life again. For me, it was coming back to work, and spending time with Rose. For you it could be getting back and working even harder, spending time with the Weasel clan, minus the Weaselette. Or it could be going and traveling or becoming a-a-an, oh I don't know. But rules say you can take a week and a half to wallow in self-pity. It's the best thing that you can do." Then, he did something very non-Potterish. He looked at me, blinked back a few stray tears and kissed me.

"Or kiss your worst enemy. Whatever works for you." Then, I kissed back.

A/N Hi again! It's been a while =) I put up all the pre-written chapters at once, and now I'm writing and putting them up one by one. Expect more of a schedule now, probably every Friday or Saturday. As always, reviewers get virtual hugs!