Draco Malfoy x Reader fics

How Do I Say I Love You. (D.M)

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Draco Malfoy X Slytherin!Reader

Summary: The 5 times you realised Draco loved you. And the one time he told you.

Warnings: Alludes to/mentions of smut. A couple of swear words I think. Like the tiniest bit of angst at the end but its fluffy i promise.

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It was no secret that Draco Malfoy didn't reveal anything. Except maybe his hatred of the 'Saint Harry Potter', he very rarely revealed anything. At least not obviously.

You had chalked his lack of verbal affection up to his rocky relationship with his family. Even though his mother doted on him, kind words did not appear to take a high priority in the list of family affections. Instead, his father used words to belittle and seemingly humiliate him, while his mother preferred to send him sweets and buy his affection with expensive gifts.

So, saying that Draco didn't know how to be affectionate through his use of words was not a completely misguided assumption.

However, he also wasn't completely clear about where his feelings lay in any other form of affection.

The first time you realised what he was saying was during a potions lesson in 6th year. As it turns out, NEWT level potions was hard. Very hard. The amount of money you had spent on parchment and new ink in Hogsmeade for notetaking was astounding, and despite the amount of spare quills and parchment you had tucked safely away in your bag in case you ran out, it never seemed to be where you needed it to be.

All it took was a minute too long spent rummaging around trying to find a new piece of parchment. By the time you had sat back up straight to continue to make notes on Professor Slughorn's chosen potion of the lesson, both he and the notes on the board at the front of the class had moved on.

You hunched over your desk and let out a huff through your nose. Even though the notes would be in your potions book, it still meant extra time going through the information and picking out what would be useful, and this was time you did not particularly want to be wasting when you could be putting it to use on other homework.

On the other hand, that was also time that you could be spending with your boyfriend, who, despite being much better at managing his time, was also rather busy with his own work. He was also seated right next to you during your potions lessons, which made for a dangerously low level of attention to both the professor and detail during practical lessons. You turned your head slightly, leaning on your hand as you shyly snuck a glance at him as he switched between looking towards the front of the class and down at his paper to make notes.

You felt a sharp kick to your leg, and it pulled you out of your daze as you made eye contact with the blond boy sitting next to you. He gave you a pointed look before looking back at Professor Slughorn who had since moved and was now demonstrating something at the front of the class. Clearly you had not been paying attention for longer than you thought.

" -and there you go. Now, in the cauldron in front of each of you, I would like you to have a hand at creating your own in pairs please. The ingredients are in the cupboard and should you get stuck then the instructions are on page 79 in your books." Great. Slughorn now wanted you to make the potion you had been not been paying any attention to for the last however many minutes.

As you went to put your parchment back into your bag a familiar voice muttered next to your head quietly, "don't tell anyone."  You felt him go to move away before he came back, whispering directly into your ear so nobody else could hear him, "but maybe you should be punished for not paying attention." Your eyes widened slightly, trying not to give away the nature of what your boyfriend had just said. You immediately felt his hand cover yours and you looked down to see his potions notes as he passed behind you to head to the ingredients cupboard.