Harry & Draco

Cosmic Love

By, Florence & the Machine

(Words and Music owned by Florence & the Machine)

**This story is Slash. Please do not read if this subject matter will offend you!**

Dedicated to Shamrocker531

"You can't just keep running away from me, Draco. One day you will return and I will not be here waiting." Harry waited for the blond to turn, but Draco remained a perfect statue so the brunet finally continued. "What do you want from me?"

Draco turned around and scanned Harry before finally resting on his eyes, "I'm not sure…"

Harry's hands flew up in the air, screaming out his frustration. His tone dripped with desperation, "Well that's brilliant."

"What do you want from me?" Draco moved closer, grabbing Harry's hands as he started to move away. "If it is such an easy question…answer it."

All the struggle Harry had attempted in order to pull free from Draco ceased. He looked up at him with tears building in his eyes and blurted, "I want you to love me. Don't leave in the morning before I get up. Don't call me in the middle of the night after you're leaving a pub. Trust me enough to tell me your secrets. Allow yourself to need me sometimes. Think about how brilliant the next thirty years of our life together could be. Just… love…me…and if that is too difficult to imagine then ask yourself why you keep coming back because I ask myself that very question every day."

A long silence developed between them as they both looked off in different directions. Finally Draco looked back at Harry, pausing to take in the messy hair hanging in his eyes, but not enough to mask their emerald glow. He took a shallow breath and blurted quietly, "I miss you…that's why I come back. You want me to love you and I told you from the start that I don't think I am capable of loving anyone. If that wasn't acceptable then why did you keep letting me come back?"

Harry allowed his head to tip back and he chuckled slightly before looking back at the blond, "Because I miss you when you're gone. That's why I want you around all the time because when you're not here I feel lost again. But then you come back and pull me out of the constant twilight I seem to drift around in. You're like the sun, Draco, and after so many days of clouds even the sanest person starts to go mad."

The metaphor softened Draco immediately. No matter how much he resisted the idea that he could ever have all of the wonderful and beautiful things life had to offer he could never seem to succeed in resisting Harry. He pulled the brunet close to him and ran his fingers gently over Harry's scar and through his hair; finally resting at the base of his neck. "The idea of destroying you is devastating to me…and that is what will happen if I tell you something that I fear I can not sustain. At the same time, I remember the very moment I realized you were as tortured as I am in your own twisted ways and…the fact that when I can feel your heartbeat against my chest it is in perfect rhythm with mine…you are impossible to walk away from."

"So what are you saying?" Harry gently kissed the side of Draco's neck and whispered in his ear, "Just say it…please…"

A long silence developed as they clung to each other for dear life, desperate for the next moment that would open up the doors to a perfect forever. Draco could feel Harry's heart racing and just as he had described it was in perfect motion with his own. The air in the room seemed suddenly euphoric and mindlessly Draco finally whispered, "I love you…have loved you for so long, will love you forever or as long as you will let me."

Harry's eyes closed, tears escaping from beneath his eyelids. He pulled away and smiled at Draco, "See that wasn't so bad."