For Now (H/D, G)

[sesheta66]

Title: For Now
Author: sesheta_66
Rating: G
Word Count: ~ 410
Pairing/Characters: Harry/Draco (pre-slash).
Giftee: For alaana_fair who always likes a happy ending. It also fits my GJ 100_prompts table #098 - "Wrong."
Summary: Can Harry admit that he was wrong?
Disclaimer: The author is not responsible for underage readers. Please observe the ratings, warnings, and age of legal consent for your country. The characters contained herein are not mine. They belong to JK Rowling and her publishers. No money is being made from this fiction, which is presented for entertainment purposes only.



I look at you sitting across the room from me and know that I was wrong. I can say that now, because I am man enough to admit it. After everything I've been through in my life, I figure How much more could the truth hurt? Apparently quite a lot.

I don't pretend that you were perfect, because no one is, and you made some bad choices. But when I consider your family, your house, your life, I have to question how many of your 'choices' had been made for you.

I, on the other hand, did have a choice. Long ago when a young boy offered me his hand, I turned him away. Yes, you were being a prat. Yes you reminded me of Dudley. Yes, you had insulted Hagrid. But as I think back now, I suspect it was just your way of winning favour. It's not like you knew that my cousin was a bully, or that Hagrid was the only person who had ever been kind to me.

I replay that pivotal moment in time over and over in my head, and I can't help but wonder how my actions that day may have set off the chain of events that became our rivalry. I feel that I may have done more in that instant to solidify your views that I would have imagined.

I get up from my table and cross the room, mind made up. I know we can't change our history, but I hope we can change how we continue in the future.

"Hello, Malfoy."

"Potter."

I put my hand out in a familiar gesture. I watch as I imagine the war going on in your mind. Should you shun me as I had you? Should you laugh at me and cause a scene? Or should you take my offer of friendship, so we may start afresh?

"I thought maybe we could try being friends," I offer. Your grey eyes pierce me with their gaze. I can sense that you're trying to determine whether this is a genuine offer or not. "All those years ago ... I was wrong."

Those words finally do it. I can see the coldness leave your eyes, to be replaced with a lightness that had never before been directed at me. Then you smile, and I feel my stomach flip.

"Friends?" you ask as you take my hand in yours.

Smiling back, I offer, "For now."

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Comments

[kaykayen.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Applauds Harry's insight and bravery. And a perfect ending!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks ♥

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Oops! Forgot your cookies.

[kaykayen.livejournal.com]

*munches happily* cookies are almost as good as a new fic from you!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

:o)

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

SQUEE! I never get sick of these.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well there are only ten, so ...

Then again, there are lots of birthday ficlets and Christmas drabbles to come. *wipes brow*

Thanks ♥

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

Christmas drabbles, YAY!!!!

Birthday... a long time off. *sigh*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you missed this (http://sesheta-66.livejournal.com/105249.html)?

[winter-june.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been thinking about choices and their results all day, and playing 'what if' a lot. Refreshing the friends page and finding this has thrown me a bit out of balance (telepathy exist?).
Soooo beautiful, so many opportunities, so many possibilities. I love they are wise and brave enough as to try again.

Gods, I even finish that icon ten minutes ago. Spooky!!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, I think the entire H/D ship is all about choices, isn't it?

Thanks ♥

[lire-casander.livejournal.com]

Harry being brave enough to ask for Draco's frienship is so IC that I wanted to hug him!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon.

[melmoe1.livejournal.com]

Okay, I remember reading this one. I loved it.

I was thinking about it last night, because I it was seriously bugging me that I remembered reading the stories, but not the actually reading of them. Then I recalled us giggling like idiots(enough that fiona came to see what all the noise was)over Vik's accent, “I Vont to suck your...." I think I said. *sighs* I drank all that day, from my tomato/beer when I woke, to those lovely bottles of white heaven that I can't recall the name of, to alaana's wonderful contraptions. So, yeah, it all just came back to me. *g*

Can't wait to not recall half of our trip to Chicago.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweets.

White Russians, perhaps?

Can't wait to not recall half of our trip to Chicago. - *cracks up*

[alaana-fair.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to not recall half of our trip to Chicago.

Hehe... me too!

Yeah, I liked having her read them to us better than having to read them myself. *is lazy* I mean really, it doesn't get much better than being tipsy, curled up in a warm bed, having someone read you slash. *g* Heaven.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Aww ... does this mean I'll be reading you bedtime slash in Chicago too? ;)

[alaana-fair.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it must have a happy ending. *g* No making me cry.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Awww ... *pets the sappy Slytherin Death Eater*

What if I read all the angst FIRST, then make up for it with fluff? Heh.

[alaana-fair.livejournal.com]

That'd be okay. A little smex would be good too. We can let Ryan read the smutty parts. *giggles*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

OMG, I hadn't thought of that. How absolutely PERFECT! We must have Mel inform him of his expected role as Storyteller! Oooh ... d'you think he'll put on a really ridiculous British accent to add some authenticity? Hee.

[alaana-fair.livejournal.com]

Must have Mel help him brush up on the accent. *g* Although, I'm not sure if it'll be necessary for the smutty parts. *snickers*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're right ... depending on how good/bad his accent is, it could add to the humour/authenticity. But yeah, the smex would be good any which way you say it.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

I love Harry's POV in this. Very effective.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

Awwww... *loves Harry here* :D

Heheh, Alaana and her happy endings, they certainly benefit the rest of us too. *g* Thanks for the fluffy Harry/Draco friendship. *hugs*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Yes, it would seem that those on my f-list, specifically those that give me prompts, like the fluffy endings.

*mopes* - I wanna write more angst.

[piratesmile331.livejournal.com]

So many misconceptions marked Harry and Draco's relationship in the books. It's lovely to think that they might have figured out a way to start over later in their lives. This was a very sweet and brave way to go about it.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's nice to think that they would have managed to get past the animosity, after everything they went through. *shakes fist at epilogue*

[prettyhairs.livejournal.com]

I really like that Harry can admit to Draco that he made a mistake!
And again my review is shabby but I hope you get the sentiment of appreciation and adoration:)

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

No worries, hon. Sometimes I just can't think of anything but "great job" or "excellent fic" when commenting myself.

Glad you liked it.

[thrnbrooke.livejournal.com]

Probably should have omitted the 'for now'. That would sound suspicious!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Ahh ... but I meant it as Harry wanting to be MORE than friends ... not that it was conditional friendship.

[alaana-fair.livejournal.com]

You already know how much I love this. *hugs* I'm slowly but surely getting through them all of the gift fics and it's bringing back such fun memories. I'm tempted to go buy a plane ticket.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad, honey.

Um ... a plane ticket to where? You do realize that none of us lives in Pitosi, right?

Just think ... Chicago in 9 months. Woo-hoo!

[accioscar.livejournal.com]

Damn J.K.R for not writing this! But thank you for doing it. *g*
A perfect depiction of what I like to call The Handshake:Take 2.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Hee! Your icon says it all, my dear. Damn that epilogue. I mean really ... what was the point? *g*

[accioscar.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the point was to squash all the little plot bunnies to death once and for all!? haha.

Seriously though, I would've preferred to have seen more of the aftermath of the battle. We all KNEW who was gonna end up with who, we didn't really NEED an epilogue to tell us. *shrugs* Ah well, what's done is done.
And let us not forget that they are plenty of years between the 'end' and the epilogue for us to play around with. *g*
Or we can just ignore it altogether! *points to the previously mentioned icon*
Dontcha just love fanon! ;)

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

*nods* I love my fandom. ♥

I'm writing "The Missing Years" ... part 1 done, part 2 in the works but back-burnered while I do all sorts of other stuff. The title is pretty self-explanatory ... I'm filling in the nineteen years with this particular story.

We can go back in time, forward in time, remove some stuff, and basically do whatever we want. Yup, I like it here. *g*