“Sorry for showing up like…this,” I say, running a hand over my bruised and bloodied face. “Can I come in?” I’m ashamed to be here, but I’ve got nowhere else to go.
Draco doesn’t hesitate. “Of course.”
We end up in the bright kitchen, still painted the same sunshine yellow we chose when we first bought the flat, when we were happy. Before…
Draco hands me a steaming cup of tea and it’s perfect. Milky and cloyingly sweet—two years and he hasn’t forgotten.
“Why are you here?” That’s my Draco, right to the point.
“I can’t say—”
“Don’t,” he growls, hand clenched into a fist on the table. “You don’t—not after everything. Not anymore. The truth, Harry. You owe me that much.”
I meet his gaze. He’s burning, and I’ve got to turn away because I can’t bear the pain etched into every line of his face. It’s all my fault.
I’m a monster.
And I owe him so much more than the truth.
“It’s bad—really bad. Worse than Malta,” I say, glancing up at him.
The blood drains from his face, and he whispers, “Worse than Malta?”
It took him months to nurse me back to health, and it’s clear he remembers it as well as I do.
I nod. “I’ve got to leave. I swiped an unregistered Portkey to Brussels, and from there…well, I’ll figure something out. I want—but it’s too dangerous.”
“Harry,” Draco says softly, reaching for my hand. “Why are you here?”
Because I’ve never been able to stay away from you. Because I want to beg you to come with me. Because if the Ministry’s going to have me killed, then I want the memory of you on my skin.
Because I love you.
“I wanted to say goodbye.” His beautiful face blurs as the tears fall thick and fast down my cheeks, but I can’t look away. There’s only a few minutes left. Not nearly enough time to memorise every shade of grey in his eyes. To decipher the elegant slant of his mouth. To count the freckles on his cheeks.
I need time—hours, months, decades. But even if we had lifetimes and lifetimes together, it still wouldn’t be enough.
His gaze turns pleading. “That’s not all.”
“Draco, I can’t…I can’t lose you. Don’t ask me—”
“There hasn’t been one moment in the past two years that I haven’t been waiting for you,” Draco says, kneeling on the floor at my feet, holding our intertwined hands tight against his chest. “I meant what I said when you left, I knew that being with you came with risks, and I don’t care. I will follow you to the ends of the earth. I will do anything you ask of me, except live without you. Please don’t ask me to—not again. You are my life.”
The chair scrapes across the floor as I fall into his arms, and kiss him. I remember why I left, why this is a horrible idea, why I would never ask him to stay. But with his arms wrapped around me, lips warm against mine, I don’t care. I can’t get the words out, can’t ask him to walk hand in hand with me to his own death. I’ve never loved anyone as much as I love him, and I won’t live in a world without him. He must understand my desperation as I kiss him again and again because I feel his fingers reach into my pocket.
He presses one last kiss to my lips before his eyes meet mine. The rusted key sits in the palm of his hand, and he says, “I love you.”
I know what he’s asking.
Don’t leave me behind. Beg me to come with you. If the Ministry’s going to have you killed, then I want to follow you through the Veil.
A faint blue glow lights up his face, and I lace our fingers together, kissing his knuckles. “I love you too.”
What just happened? You were supposed to exit with Zeb. You’re lucky every stormtrooper in the prison doesn’t know we’re here.
Seeing the first gif a little slower, it’s interesting that Ezra reacts in surprise to Kanan’s annoyance, then almost immediately reacts as if he’s expecting to be hit. It’s only when he winces and raises his arm that Kanan backs off a bit.
I mean, this shouldn’t be that surprising. The streets can be a nasty place (imperially occupied ones even more so), and Ezra is just a kid, only recently taken off them. Still, the fact that the animators included this reaction makes it uncomfortably canon…
1. “You’d hurt yourself just to make them smile and then they want to see you bleed”
2. “One who holds the blade doesn’t claim his innocence”
3. “You killed them all in-front of me, and you expect me to blind it from my conscious ?”
4. “You won’t get what you’re looking for here, you’re nothing but a liar. I thought I knew you back then - but I guess I was wrong”
5. “Why spare me when I would kill you in an instant”
- “Because I know you, I may not trust you, but I know you”
6. “No amount of pain could ever amount to when you left me, no amount of tears that fall from your face will ever make up for the agony I’ve endured in your hand”
7. “No matter what you will never be a saint, you will always be a husk of who you were - if you ever were something to begin with”
8. “I loved you at some point, but the person I loved isn’t the person I see in-front of me”
- “Then fake it”
- “I don’t think I can fake it anymore”
9. “You’re more of a monster than any of your past has ever been”
- “Don’t act like you know what I’ve been through !”
10. “You’re a condescending, compulsive liar - who can’t be trusted as far as they can be thrown and even at that is a stretch”
11. “It’s all been a ruse, hasn’t it ?”
12. “You aren’t the hero you claim to be, I see that now”
13. “You’re cocky for someone whose been outed as a manipulative liar”
- “Because there’ll always be fools who’ll believe me”
14. “Why must you torment me with more promises that you’ll break as soon as you make them”
15. “I have a job to do, trust me or not I’m sure you understand”
- “Trust you ? You’re a fucking murderer ! You — you killed my friend ! And — and you were going to kill me - !”
- “I want to keep one person alive each time to tell my story”
16. “You’re quite cowardly than when we first met”
17. “I might’ve did all that horrible stuff but I’m still your spouse/friend/best friend !”
- “You’re not them, you never were - you’ve made that perfectly clear”
18. “The terrors only just beginning ? What the fuck does that mean you vague cynical bastard ?!”
19. “You fucking traitor ! You traitor I hate you I HATE YOU !”
20. “You bring dishonor to your family”
- “Not like there was any there to begin with”
21. “You were able to make these decisions, you were knowingly hurting people and I can’t stand by and do nothing anymore, not again”
22. “You..I trusted you - I treated your word as gospel !”
me and @infini-official went fucking bananas ass on an revolutionary girl utena au (ive reblogged a lot of their stuff already), but i never actually posted the comic i made for it. its non canon bc i made it at the very beginning, but thats ok, i still think it’s cool, and its fun practice!
Person A: “Well that went to shit a lot faster than I expected.”
Person B: “Youknewthis would happen?!”
Person A: “Of course, did you really expect (Person C) to play nice with those moronic amateurs for long? Besides, the moment they made that comment about (Person D), they went from mild annoyances, to putting themselves right at the top of (Person C)’s shit-list. Either way, they were never going to make it out of this building alive.”
