The Stars Above Us

Long Way Down

It was a day later and Harry was at work when he got a call, as a customer came to the bar "I'll be back in a moment, I have to take this." "Go ahead." Harry walked through to the back, and answered the phone "Hello?" "Harry, it's me. Draco's in hospital. He had a violent seizure after you left for work." "Oh shit, Lucius, is he okay?" "He's asleep at the moment, but he's had two seizures at home, and one in the ambulance and the other in hospital. So four in the past hour and a half." "Okay, do you need me to come home or anything?" "No, it's okay." Lucius heard the bed move around, looking at his son, who's eyes were beginning to flicker. "Harry, I'm going to need to go and time this, but I need you to get down here." "Okay, what hospital?" "Newham General." "I'll be down soon." The two hung up and Harry walked upstairs, getting his bag and jacket, walking downstairs, walking out.

15 minutes later, Harry got there and he rushed to the ward where Draco was. He walked over to him, and began to stroke his hair as his eyes flickered open slowly "H-Hi." "Hello sweetheart. I was told by your dad." "Yeah, 5 seizures. I'm sorry." "You can't control who you are. You can't control your FND, I can tell that they hurt." "They scare me, and it was worse when I gave birth to Maisie, I was fighting them back," "I know." Draco sat up slowly "I should've called in sick this morning if you were this bad, but Sophie was there so she could've covered as Kit was on his way and you're still on leave." "Yeah. I was going to head out to the park with Maisie but as I was getting dressed, had a seizure." "Oh babe, are you okay though?" "I'm okay now." Lucius came in with a nurse "How are you doing, Draco?" "I'm doing okay at the moment, when can I leave?" "Let me get discharge papers and you can sign them and head off." The nurse came back a few minutes later with the papers.

Draco took the pen out of her hand and signed the papers with the date and his signature on a few pages, and got up, pulling his jacket on, walking out of the hospital with Harry and Lucius. Draco got in the back with Harry. Harry buckled them both in "Draco?" "Mmm?" "Would you ever wear a skirt to work?" "Yeah. I've got a long black one." They got home, and Draco walked in the living room "How's Maisie?" "She's good." Draco walked upstairs and felt dizzy as he collapsed on the stairs. Harry rushed upstairs and he had collapsed on the stairs.

Harry got him upstairs and laid him on the carpet. Narcissa walked upstairs where Draco was laying on the carpet. Narcissa got on her knees and placed her hand in the middle of his chest and rubbed in the middle of his chest, and rubbed harder "Darling, come on." "Narcissa, stop." Harry grabbed her wrist "He's fainted." Draco's eyes opened after 2 minutes "Hey Harry." "Hey." Harry helped him up, and stroked his face. "Harry?" "Yes baby?" "Can we go in my room and do something?" "Of course." Draco got up with holding onto Harry's hand, walking into his bedroom with Harry. Draco sat on his bed as Harry closed the door, "What's up?" "What would you say if I told you I didn't feel male?" "Do you not feel male?" "I don't know. When Maisie grows older, she's going to be calling me mummy, and that's going to take a lot for me to respond." "It will take a lot. I might be thinking about something." "What's that?" "I might be Genderfluid, it means it exists outside of the gender binary, which refers to the idea of gender as being either a man or a woman only." "Okay. I get it, so you don't want to be male or female." "No, but still use he/him pronouns." "Okay, lovely, that's perfectly fine, if you ever want to change, let me know." "I will." 

Draco got up, walking over to his wardrobe, opening the doors, getting his white dungarees out, and got out a black long sleeve top. He got dressed into the outfit, sitting on the bed and cuffed the jeans from the dungarees as Harry came into the blonde's room, "Your mum wants to speak to you." "Okay." Draco got up, walking downstairs to where his mum was "What's up, mum?" "Harry told me you two were talking." "Yeah we were." Draco sat down at the table with his mum "I've been thinking about this for a while now." "Okay, what is it?" "Have you ever heard of the term genderfluid?" "No, what is it?" "Genderfluid means that a person is flexible in regard to the gender with which they identify." "Okay, sweetheart. So your gender fluctuates over time?" "Yeah, it does." "Alright. I just want you to be comfortable and happy, so I support you in every way possible." "Seriously?" "I'm serious. I'm so proud of you." Narcissa got up, walking over to her son.

Draco got up, and hugged her tightly. Narcissa hugged him back "Do you want me to tell your father?" "You could do, mum." "Alright sweetheart. How about a few months later we can go shopping together?" "Okay." "I knew for a while that something was going on, whether you're a girl, a boy, I'll always love you, sweetheart." Draco teared up, looking at his mum. Lucius came inside from behind in the garden, "You okay, Dragon?" "Yeah, I need to tell you something." Lucius sat down "What's up?" "I've already told mum and Harry this, don't feel like I'm disowning myself from this family because I'm not." "Why would you think that?" "I just know what you're going to say if I tell you." "I won't say that, tell me." "I'm genderfluid." "Is that the thing where you exist out of the gender binary thing?" "It is." "Okay, honey. Well, sweetheart, you have my full support, and I fully accept who you are." Draco smiled as Lucius moved his chair closer to his son, and hugged him. Draco hugged his father back.

Lucius pulled back, and looked at his son "Are you ever planning on getting anything done?" "I don't know yet. I could get top surgery if I wanted to, but I'm too sure yet if I do want to get it done." "If you want to get it done, we can pay for it for you, but it's your choice." "I know, but like I don't know what I want to do. I might go for top surgery." "Okay, that's alright, what about bottom?" "No. I can tuck." "Okay, my sweet." Narcissa told him, and kissed his forehead. Draco walked upstairs and leaned against the doorframe of his bedroom with a big smile "Look at your big smile, did you tell them?" "They're so supportive. My dad even asked if I wanted to get top surgery, and I almost started crying." "Aww." Draco walked into his bedroom and sat on his bed with Harry. Harry looked at Draco, and pulled him into his lap. Draco placed his knees on either side of Harry's hips, and leaned down. 

Harry felt his warm breath against his lips, and leaned up and softly kissed Draco's lips. Draco kissed him back, and placed one hand on Harry's chest, and they shared a long but loving kiss. It lasted a couple of minutes before the brunette pulled away, looking right into Draco's beautifully shining grey eyes. Draco hid his face in his sleeves of his top, and smiled.

It was 3 and a half years later and Draco was sitting in the garden in a bikini in his and Harry's new house as Harry came into the garden and sat on the blonde's legs "You okay?" "Yeah, warm." "I know it is Summer time." "I know it is. Did you drop Maisie off?" "Yeah, I did." Draco got up, walking over to the pool and sat on the edge, and put his feet in the water. Harry came over and sat on his knees and massaged his shoulders "That feels nice. Come and get it and I can sit in between your legs." "Let me change first you hot human. I'm not going to call you a man as you're genderfluid and you won't like that and it'll probably give you gender dysphoria." "It will, I do prefer you calling me partner not boyfriend." "Okay sunshine." Draco smiled at Harry.

Harry walked back inside and upstairs to their bedroom of their home in Brighton. Harry got changed and walked back downstairs to where Draco was sitting in the pool now. Harry got into the water and pulled the blonde to sit between his legs. "Are you happier that you've had both surgeries between a one year gap between them?" "Yeah. I just didn't like having hardness down there and in between my legs." Draco got up "Are you okay?" "Yeah, going to the toilet." "Oh okay." Draco walked inside and walked into the downstairs bathroom. Once he came back outside, he got back into the water with Harry, and leaned his head on his chest "Are you sure you went to go to the toilet?" "I'm sure." Draco turned himself around and straddled Harry's lap, with his hands on his shoulders "What are you doing?" "Sitting on you." Harry pulled him forward into his lap with his legs on both sides of his hips. Harry pulled him in closer so their chests were touching but it was harder for the blonde, but Harry kept him on his lap and didn't let go of him until they felt ready to get out and get comfy in the living room with a film on or just to cuddle.