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Draco.
You’re frowning at this parchment, I’m sure of it.
I can imagine how you look; the curl of your lips and the furrow of your brow. Of all the wizards in this world, I expect I'm the last person you imagined receiving an owl from today.
Still, I thought I ought to write.
You’ll have received your invitation for Ginny and Luna’s wedding now, I expect? We’ll be in each other’s company for the first time in five years. I hope we can make polite conversation rather than a scene.
We might have parted on bad terms, but please can we at least be civil?
~Harry.
Potter,
Yes, you read that correctly. Breaking my heart puts you back on surname only basis. I have not only received my invitation but I responded immediately that I would be attending. I would never miss such a joyous occasion; I am happy for our lovely friends even if I myself will never be married.
Of course, I will be civil, I am not the same boy and angsty teen that I was in Hogwarts, or have you forgotten how much I have grown? But regardless I will be there wishing the brides a marvellous, drama free day.
~Malfoy
Draco.
I haven’t forgotten anything. It might be five years but every day of our love affair is seared into my memory. You know how much I loved you.
I’ll bite: I was surprised you wrote that you’ll never be married. Why is that? France has many eligible bachelors that would surely love to slip a ring onto your finger.
Perhaps you are waiting for Zabini to make an honest man of you? The two of you were very close when we broke it off. I imagined that wedding bells were imminent.
See you at the wedding.
~Harry
Potter,
As much as I wish I could forget our love so that I might sleep better at night, I also remember every second of our lives together. You don't have to bite but if you really want to know I’ll tell you why I will never be married.
Apparently baring my soul, my fears and nightmares to someone wasn't enough to prove my love for them. So, the only person I ever wanted to marry, and could truly see myself having a life with, didn't want me. Therefore, I will never be married. Blaise is not my type.
~Malfoy
Draco,
Do you think I’VE forgotten? The lazy summer days? The lay-ins? Sitting together and talking until dawn? I loved you, Draco. I was utterly smitten.
That’s why your words cut me deeper than any Diffindo.
You say Blaise isn’t your type? Yet I know you were seeing him, whilst we were still together. I saw the pair of you, in Flourish and Blotts. I found notes where you’d arranged meetings. Merlin, but I even found holiday brochures, from that agency on Diagon Alley.
I’ve never felt such heartbreak.
~Harry.
Potter,
How thick can you get? I was always yours, even when we were in Hogwarts, I was yours. I never wanted anyone else. Were Blaise and I close? Yes. Because he was my best friend besides Pansy, and she isn't great at planning things. We were planning a surprise, destination wedding, for YOU and I. But I needed help with it because I am not a wedding planner, Blaise is.
I don't know why you couldn't trust me. I trusted you completely, but apparently that didn't go both ways. But that is the past now so forget it.
~Malfoy
Draco,
Very bloody thick, it would seem.
Five years. I can’t believe that I’ve wasted so much time. I’ve been such a fool.
It wasn’t that I didn’t trust you. I didn’t trust my luck. Everything between us was so brilliant, like all the pieces of my life had fallen into place. I was waiting for everything to go wrong; self-sabotaging my happiness like I always do.
I won’t ask you to forgive me, Draco. I suspect that broomstick has flown. Perhaps you’ll let me have the honour of dancing with you though, at the wedding? I might have been thoughtless enough to lose you, but please let me have a memory of holding you close, one final time.
~Harry
Harry,
Well at least you admit it, and it's good to hear that you trust me. I want nothing more than to be yours again, but I can't have you self-sabotaging us. I want you with every fibre of my being, I crave your love and your touch. I can forgive you, but I have a few conditions.
You need to get here and hold me as soon as possible. I want you to talk to me and visit a mind healer for things like self-sabotage, and next time you are ready...you ask me to marry you.
Love,
Draco