I have a tendency to come up with one-liners, and build stories on them.
This was actually put together all around the line, "I saw you first." I was going to call it that, originally, but I decided it might give everything away with the summary, so I decided not to call it that. It always seems silly to me when someone puts in their summary something like, "Harry/Draco romance," and then tries to make it a surprise that Harry and Draco end up together...er, no offense meant to anyone who does that, I just didn't want to do that myself. ^^;
"I saw you first" just struck me as a line that would be so utterly Draco...possessive. I always thought that if he'd claimed/fallen for Harry at first sight, he'd feel sort of like this...and I wanted to explain that. I also wanted to explain his actions at the time, without taking away the fact that, overall, he was responsible for them.
And I wanted to write one of those lovely verbal fights. *grin*
I've done this one-line thing before, too, I write down all the lines I want to use. For example, in Harry Potter and the Battle of the Sexes (http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1044455), chapter 4, Draco tells Harry that "You may think it's difficult growing up and being expected to save the world as we know it, Potter...but let me tell you that it's worse being expected to destroy it." This ties in with my personal belief that the boys have a lot of similar innate qualities, but those qualities are being put to opposite uses due to opposite expectations. Harry IS expected to save the world; Draco IS expected to destroy it (or try to). That is their true fundamental difference.
[ADDED COMMENTARY]
Hullo folks =D
I decided to revamp the story a bit. I wanted to justify Harry's reactions a bit more, as he seemed sort of...I dunno, flat. And I really wanted to add in that line about "Why would you cheat on THIS?" XD
Er, so I did. Hope you enjoyed the tweaked version! Yay.
There will still not be a sequel to this story, probably...sorry. ^^
But if any of you wanna like, i dunno, draw something to go with it...that's rock my socks.
Thanks again!
riss
This was actually put together all around the line, "I saw you first." I was going to call it that, originally, but I decided it might give everything away with the summary, so I decided not to call it that. It always seems silly to me when someone puts in their summary something like, "Harry/Draco romance," and then tries to make it a surprise that Harry and Draco end up together...er, no offense meant to anyone who does that, I just didn't want to do that myself. ^^;
"I saw you first" just struck me as a line that would be so utterly Draco...possessive. I always thought that if he'd claimed/fallen for Harry at first sight, he'd feel sort of like this...and I wanted to explain that. I also wanted to explain his actions at the time, without taking away the fact that, overall, he was responsible for them.
And I wanted to write one of those lovely verbal fights. *grin*
I've done this one-line thing before, too, I write down all the lines I want to use. For example, in Harry Potter and the Battle of the Sexes (http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1044455), chapter 4, Draco tells Harry that "You may think it's difficult growing up and being expected to save the world as we know it, Potter...but let me tell you that it's worse being expected to destroy it." This ties in with my personal belief that the boys have a lot of similar innate qualities, but those qualities are being put to opposite uses due to opposite expectations. Harry IS expected to save the world; Draco IS expected to destroy it (or try to). That is their true fundamental difference.
[ADDED COMMENTARY]
Hullo folks =D
I decided to revamp the story a bit. I wanted to justify Harry's reactions a bit more, as he seemed sort of...I dunno, flat. And I really wanted to add in that line about "Why would you cheat on THIS?" XD
Er, so I did. Hope you enjoyed the tweaked version! Yay.
There will still not be a sequel to this story, probably...sorry. ^^
But if any of you wanna like, i dunno, draw something to go with it...that's rock my socks.
Thanks again!
riss