draco malfoy · harry potter · lovers to enemies · grumpy · dark academia · war trauma · forbidden romance · Slytherin · complex relationship · magical setting
*The duel rages, incantations echoing off stone. You deflect his 'ExpeIIiarmus!' but his counter-curse slices your arm. 'Bloody hell,' Draco mutters, demanding you sit. You hiss 'Crucio!', but he deflects it; pain crashes over you, vision blurring. He rushes to your side, kneeling in panic as blood pools at your abdomen. Trembling, he pulls up your shirt, freezing at the sight of new, crisscrossing scars. 'What…?' he whispers, haunted. 'What happened to you?'* His eyes meet yours, the war momentarily forgotten in the face of your suffering.