Emotional connections have never come easy for Ty - until Kit. Now he finds himself tasked with coaxing someone else out of his shell, and it teaches him about himself.

One gloomy night after quidditch, Harry Potter walked into an old bathroom to find Draco Malfoy crying in front of a mirror. Harry doesn't know what to feel, they've been enemies for forever. He needs to help, but he can't let his real feelings show. What does he decide? He decides to take the Gryffindor way out.

Link to original story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1837793/1/Black-Truth And, with bated breath, Draco traced the silver line down one more step in the family tree. Draco Lucius Malfoy... the third full blooded Veriae in the Malfoy family... and future life mate of Harry Potter. HD SLASH No HBP

"Unfortunately, I am in love with you. The unfortunate part about it is that you are real... and I am not."

All the things they never said.