For Camp Potter (Fireworks Show - write a CharlieDraco fic); the Slash/Femmeslash Bootcamp (6. Sarcastic) and the If You Dare Challenge (709. Clouded Mind).

For Serena.

Here's the thing about Draco – he's snarky, he's sarcastic, and he happens to have a strong case of self-loathing. After all, being forced to side with a genocidal maniac in the greatest war in recorded history had to leave some sort of a mark, and with Draco, it's that it completely tore down his wealthy, entitled, confident persona, and left him sure that he'll never be worth anything.

People don't recover from the type of mistakes he's made.

Here's the thing about Charlie – he's a bit of a daredevil who likes to live life on the edge. No one becomes a dragon handler if they don't possess those qualities. The specifics of his job also happen to make him a bit of an idiot – that's another requisite for being mad over dragons.

But more than anything, he's loyal and faithful and courageous. After all, he's a Gryffindor and a Weasley, and those are qualities that have been instilled in him since he was born.

So it's pretty obvious that he sides with the side of the Light in the aforementioned war. It should also be obvious that he doesn't have regrets like Draco does, but well, that's wrong.

He regrets a lot of things. He regrets not being in England and spending more time with his family. He regrets not being able to recruit more people for the Order. But most of all, he regrets that he wasn't able to arrive at Hogwarts until after his little brother had been killed. Maybe – but he can't live on maybes, so lives on his regrets.

Draco Malfoy and Charlie Weasley are nothing like each other. At all.

So everything that actually happens between them shocks the world.

It starts with a meeting.

Kingsley Shacklebolt and Minerva McGonagall had started a support group for the survivors of the war, the ones who still are still hurt and haunted. It was a concept they had borrowed from the Muggles, and though it had been met with doubt and veiled scorn at first, the support of two of the most influential people in the wizarding world combined with Hermione convincing Harry to attend a couple of sessions had convinced most people.

Not normally people who would be caught dead in therapy, Charlie and Draco found that they were rather useless at arguing with their mothers.

Which was how they met.

The counsellor – or whatever her title was, Draco had never bothered to actually learn it – had decided that they needed to share their feelings with each other, and so had decided to break them into pairs.

Of course, Draco ended up with the one person more likely to be his enemy than anyone else in the room – the bloody Weasley brother who had decided to come in at the same time as Draco.

Draco shot the woman a glare. She was way too perky to have ever known any loss or hardship, and if that wasn't enough to annoy Draco, she clearly had it out for him.

Of course, Draco had never expected that somewhere between a growled out, "Malfoy" and a snarled, "Weasley," he'd manage to become best friends with the ginger idiot.

But – Weasley- Charlie- he doesn't hate him the way Draco expected him to. Hell, after that first growl, he doesn't act anything but nice and friendly towards him. And when Draco asks, the only reply he gets is that everyone deserves a second chance, and if Snape could get one even though he was partly the cause that Harry's parents are dead, Draco could get one for being indoctrinated from birth.

And when there's barely anyone left in your life who treats you like you're worth something, it really isn't that hard to fall in love with them.

Which is exactly what happened to Draco. Because Charlie Weasley was good and right and gorgeous, but most of all – he didn't care. He didn't care about anything that Draco had done – only what he could do.

It's sort of terrifying, falling in love with your best friend, especially if he's one of the only friends you had left. There's a part of Draco that really, really wants nothing more than to ignore it and pretend like he felt nothing, but Charlie had changed him. He'd taught Draco about being courageous and brave, and Draco wasn't about to betray him by being to cowardly to speak up.

So he does. He walks up to Charlie, heart in hand, and offers it to him.

He's sure he's going to be rebuffed – it's one thing to be friends with an ex-Death Eater, completely another to date him – but he promised Charlie that he wouldn't hide himself any longer.

And then Charlie kisses him, and takes the heart Draco offers and replaces it with his own.

And all Draco can think is maybe that woman wasn't such an idiot after all.

Because Draco Malfoy and Charlie Weasley might be polar opposites to each other, but there's a reason that opposites attach is a cliché.

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