Striking a Balance (H/D, G)

[sesheta66]

Christmas Gift Drabble #14:

Author: sesheta_66
Giftee: hapendfro
Prompt(s): Christmas balls

Title: Striking a Balance
Rating: G
Word Count: 249
Pairings/Characters: Harry/Draco
Other prompts: slythindor100: #2 - holly ; 100_prompts: 066 - "Balance"
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.

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It was their first Christmas together, so Harry and Draco were going through the plans for the season.

"I've got loads of decorations!" Harry cried excitedly as he made his way downstairs to gather up his collection of Christmas odds and ends. In his haste, he missed the condescending roll of the eyes that was directed at him.

"I can hardly wait," Draco drawled. The sarcasm was lost on Harry.

Draco had been good. Very good, in fact. Extremely good. So good that he thought his head might explode from the sheer pressure of holding back. Then Harry pulled out one more red and gold streamer and he lost it.

"This isn't the effing Gryffindor common room, Harry! It's our home! Surely you do not expect me to be surrounded, engulfed, and literally drowned in Gryffindor cheer?! I mean I get that you're proud of your house, such that it is, but really, enough is enough." There. He'd said it. That wasn't so bad, was it? Only ...

Harry looked crushed. "But red and gold are Christmas colours. I didn't mean ..."

Draco felt awful after exploding like that. He hadn't meant it all to come pouring out that way. "It's okay, Harry. Why don't we just go out and pick up some more Christmas balls, some garland, some holly and maybe some tinsel."

"Green and silver?" he asked.

"Yeah," Draco agreed. "Maybe strike a good balance, right?"

Harry smiled and gave Draco a big hug. "Just like us!"

Part 2 - Perfect
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Comments

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Draco, you big Slytherin Scrooge! *swats him*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Aww ... don't be too hard on him. He's feeling a little nervous, and everything that came out was in Gryffindor style, and he was feeling overwhelmed by it. But as soon as he saw how hurt Harry was, he made it better. *nods*

[kaykayen.livejournal.com]

Nice recovery Draco. Raps him over the head. Fortunately for him Harry's so excited about Christmas he's easily redirected!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Aww ... he feels badly too. It'll be okay.

[svgurl.livejournal.com]

Oh Harry ... *hugs him* He's too adorable for words. Be nice Draco ... but then again, you can hardly blame him. He's still a slytherin and there's only so much they can take. LOL

but the ending was too cute ... Harry reminds me of a big puppy. :D

Thanks for writing and sharing!

i'm positive i've shown you a version of this pic before but it's a BIGGER one and TW is pretty against a sky backdrop. :D

(http://pics.livejournal.com/svgurl/pic/000322t8/)

[accioscar.livejournal.com]

Sorry but can I just intervene to say GUH! How HOT is it picture? That is all. *g*

[svgurl.livejournal.com]

you may indeed intervene and say how how it is. tom welling is one beautiful, beautiful man. ;) me and sesheta_66 have a deal going on. for every fic she posts, i give her a tom welling photo. it benefits everyone. :D

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Aww ... Harry will be fine, and they're going to go out together and buy even more decorations, so Harry will be in heaven! *hugs the boys*

And de-li-cious pic again, m'dear!

[accioscar.livejournal.com]

Oh Draco. *shakes head* You silly Slytherin scrooge.
Me thinks you'd better make it up to Harry with some hot sex! Yep that'll do it. *g*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm sure Harry will get some extra-special lovin' out of this. He wasn't trying to be a scrooge; he just couldn't take any more red and gold. ;)

[winter-june.livejournal.com]

Harry seems so taken by christmas that I don't think he'll argue to even more decorations, whichever the color (but, Draco, just asking nicely should be better) *rolls eyes at tactless Slytherins*

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Well, Draco thought he WAS being tactful, not saying anything for so long. But then it all built up inside and he exploded. Silly boy.

Harry is in a very forgiving mood ... although perhaps a bit of 'making it up to him' is in order for Draco. *nods*

[who_la_hoop]

Very cute :)

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :o)

[lackofmendacity.livejournal.com]

Ahahahah, poor Draco. *g*

And isn't green and red Christmas colours? *is suspicious*

Heheh, Harry's so perky in this one - I blame Christmas. :D

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

*pets Draco*

Well, yes ... but so is gold ... and silver. Just depends on your take. Harry saw the decorations as Christmas-ey, not Gryffindor-ish.

Yes, he's far too perky. I'll be posting a part 2 soon (hopefully tonight, if I can get it written).

[sassy-cissa.livejournal.com]

sheesh....that Draco! Glad he apologized. Very cute!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Aww ... Draco just felt out of sorts, but he's better now. ;)

[hapendfro.livejournal.com]

Thank you sweetie, this is so great. I love where you went with the prompt. Poor Harry, Draco should learn to control his temper, even if he did make up for it later.

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Aww ... Draco did feel really badly about it ... see Part 2 (http://sesheta-66.livejournal.com/144220.html).

Glad you enjoyed it.

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

:o)