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Written for auction prompt - Theo Blaise Headcanon
Word Count - 315
By Your Side
You've been friends since you were in diapers. Play dates with each other filled your childhood, and you grew up with Blaise firmly attached to your side. He's your best friend, and if asked to name the most important person in your life, you would choose him without fail, without question.
He's by your side on the first day of school, when you stand shakily in the crowd of first years, praying for Slytherin because your father won't settle for anything else. And he's by your side when you cry in the dorms from sheer relief that the two of you are still together.
He's by your side through your school years, through the good and the bad, and you think that if you didn't have Blaise you might have fallen to the pressure to be a good Slytherin before the end of the first year. He's always teased you that you're more badger than snake.
He's by your side when you tell your father that you don't want to fight in the war. You don't want to take the mark of the mad man because while you're certainly not about to go and make friends with Muggles, you don't really understand why Muggleborns are such a bad thing.
He's by your side when you cop trouble in school, because you refuse to curse the first years simply because they exist.
He's by your side through everything, and you think, that perhaps, he'll be by your side for life.
And that is why you lie to him with every move you make, because you cannot lose him.
You hide your love, and you play it off when asked why you don't date, because you can't tell anyone that it would feel like you were cheating on a man you can't actually call yours.
He's by your side, and that's enough. It will always be enough.