HeartBreak (Veela Drarry)

A Thoughtless Statement

Harry had a faint idea of how work-life would be with Draco Malfoy as his partner. He would arrive in the morning to find the blonde already at his desk and glaring at Harry, pointing at the clock to show the brunette how late he arrived. Then, the blonde would ask what Harry needed from him that day and groan when the brunette stammered something about it being too early to talk about cases, putting his head down on his own desk.

When he eventually would get the energy to do actual work, it would be the most to-the-point and boring discussions of cases he would do, since Draco, as far as the brunette knew, was immune to jokes, interesting encounters, fear, or any other emotion that people normally demonstrated when Harry told them about his cases. Harry would take two lunch breaks as opposed to Draco's one coffeeless coffee break, but would ignore the blonde pointing out that what Harry was doing was breaking the rules and would delay both of their tasks for the day. Then, at the end of the day, Harry would get tired and go home, hating to leave the rest of the work to Draco, but not having any other choice since the blonde insisted on staying to finish.

The brunette wouldn't care about any of it at the end of the day. As long as Draco did his work and didn't get distracted by the fact that he was working with Harry Potter, as the brunette's last three partners did, the day would be tolerable. It would be just that: tolerable.

Harry was way off.

For the first week, the blonde would show up right after Harry with breakfast for the brunette and wouldn't bring up work until Harry had finished eating and declared he had enough energy to start discussing the latest case. The talking, itself, was actually entertaining and Draco laughed with his whole body and went pale at points of the description when the field adventures were too dangerous.

"B-but the other Aurors back you u-up, right? It's not like they would send Harry Potter out to get killed." the blonde asked breathlessly. If the brunette didn't know any better, he'd say Draco was actually worried about him. He didn't have to think about it too long. The blonde dropped the subject within the day, even though he kept bugging Harry throughout breakfast.

"If it's so dangerous, why don't you switch to reporting? I know you don't necessarily like working in documentation but-"

"No." Harry said firmly. He didn't want to insult the blonde by making fun of case report Aurors, but their jobs are so boring, the brunette didn't think he'd survive a day without quitting the Aurors entirely.

"But-"

"I definitely don't want to do that."

"What if-"

"Under no circumstances would I ever consider switching."

"Think about the positive side, Harry."

Harry startled at that. Draco's voice was actually soft and filled with concern.

Is he being...nice?

Does he even know what that is?

I should really research his illness better

Or I could trick Hermione into doing it somehow...

"I suppose it would've been better had Ron been my partner." Harry murmured, then looked up when he heard a gasp. The blonde was clutching at his shirt as if he couldn't breathe, his eyes looked frantic, and he ran out of the room like there was a loose wild animal inside. Harry blinked, completely confused. Had Draco been silent after the brunette's statement, Harry would've just assumed he was somehow hurt by it. But the blonde's dramatic reaction wasn't at all fitting the situation. And, either way, Draco shouldn't have even been offended by Harry's statement. Even if he wasn't a sociopath, well-