Secret 
by Silvia

 

It's stupid, so stupid to tear his lip raw from the inside - tiny sharp teeth - because it's not stopping the momentum. He's still walking forward. He smiles.

"Potter," he says, and smiles, and the smile turns so sick inside at the flinch.

Chin up, hair flopping backwards off stark forehead, The Boy Who Lived And Never Stopped And Never Slowed And Would Always Be Everything He Couldn't Have narrows his eyes.

He thinks, maybe, chew them off. He bites, bites, and says something a boy called him once when he still let boys call him anything. The Boy He Calls Potter snorts.

And trips.

Draco digs his jaw down, hard, and crumples robe beneath his fingers. Laughs instead of reaching down to lift him up.

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