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Draco Malfoy ([info]lordlyheir) wrote in [info]paddedrooms,
@ 2012-07-07 17:09:00


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Draco didn't get visitors. He was allowed them, but his father wouldn't dream of coming to a place like this and his mother would need his father's permission to come. She wrote him letters and sent him food and sometimes clothing, but never visited. There wasn't anyone else to come see him. So it was very strange when one of the orderlies came to his room and interrupted the game of chess he was playing with himself to let him know he had a visitor. He assumed they'd got the wrong room at first, and then followed them out into the hall feeling very puzzled. Maybe his mother had gotten his father to agree to let her visit, but she would have called or written ahead, wouldn't she?

When Draco followed the orderly to the common area and saw Tom there, it didn't ease his confusion. He almost turned and went back to his room. Tom could make him fall apart again far, far too easily. The orderly left them standing nearish each other and Draco eyed the other man warily. "Hello," he said, looking around the common room. Fleur was reading a magazine and Luna was chewing on things again, but other than that it was empty. "Aren't you afraid someone's going to see you visiting a mental hospital?"


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[info]riddles
2012-07-08 05:27 am UTC (link)
Tom nodded and looked back at Draco. Maybe he felt guilty about everything that had happened. But, he wanted to make Draco happy again. He gave him a tight smile. "I can send you some t-shirts and denims if those would be comfortable."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-08 05:33 am UTC (link)
Draco nodded. "That would be good," he said. He brushed his fingers through the hair at the nape of Tom's neck. Everything about him still felt the same. "Thank you. I... If I got out of here do you think things could ever go back to the way things were before?"

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[info]riddles
2012-07-08 09:10 pm UTC (link)
That was a loaded question. Tom looked back down at Draco and touched his side, shrugging. "I don't know." He admitted quietly as he looked him over. "What if you hate me?"

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-08 10:27 pm UTC (link)
"I won't hate you," Draco promised. "I'll have a music more realistic view of what to expect this time. I'm not going to get caught up thinking anything could be more than what it is." But he could still have someone who paid attention to him and cared about how he was, even if Tom didn't love him and wasn't going to leave his family for him. "And... there's a girl here. She's expected to marry the same way I am. We talked about arranging it ourselves so we'd have freedom to do what we wanted outside of being together."

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[info]riddles
2012-07-08 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Tom really didn't want that for Draco. He knew how horrible it was to be in a marriage to a woman that you couldn't love, but he knew it wasn't something that Draco could actually be able to get out of.

"I think that sounds good for you." Tom told him quietly and then took the boy's hand into his own. "Whatever makes you happiest."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-08 10:38 pm UTC (link)
Draco would be happiest with someone he could have both a physical and emotional relationship with, but that wasn't really an option for him. This was the next best thing, taking the two things and getting them from two different people. "I think it would work," he said. "If I had a wife who understood and I could still have a lover. That could make me happy."

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[info]riddles
2012-07-08 11:09 pm UTC (link)
"I'll support you in whatever you do." Tom told him quietly and nodded. "You know that it's what I had to do. Get married to a woman that I will never love. Not that I don't love her. She's just.. not what I was looking for."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-08 11:13 pm UTC (link)
"My father doesn't have any other legitimate children as heir," Draco said, shrugging. "I care about the family, even if he thinks I don't. I know what I have to do. I can't be gay. Even if... everyone knows I am now. I'm sure my father's had a nightmare cleaning up my scandal."

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[info]riddles
2012-07-08 11:31 pm UTC (link)
"I wouldn't know. I haven't spoke to your father, but I don't think it got too far out there." Tom admitted and then looked Draco over carefully. "Once you're out, people will see how well you've recovered and you'll be in their hearts."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-08 11:33 pm UTC (link)
"Haven't you?" Draco gave Tom a slightly surprised look. "I've been in here for a few months now. I'd have thought work would mean you had to speak to him. I suppose that doesn't mean either of you would have to bring me up." He ran a hand through his hair. "I hope I recover well."

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[info]riddles
2012-07-08 11:39 pm UTC (link)
"Our jobs don't require us to have hands on experience with each other. I can talk to him through my people to his." Tom admitted and then laughed softly. "I only spent so much time at first, with him, so I could get closer to you."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-09 12:07 am UTC (link)
"Really?" Draco smiled at Tom, leaning against him a little bit more. "Well, I'm flattered. I suppose I should have figured it out when you flirted with me at his business parties instead of wooing benefactors."

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[info]riddles
2012-07-09 03:32 am UTC (link)
"I did both. I was just more... focused on flirting with you. That's all." Tom smiled at Draco. Maybe now the other boy could understand that he was in a relationship with a woman and that he was a public figure. "What else do you need?"

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-09 03:40 am UTC (link)
"I don't know if there's anything else I need that you can get me," Draco said, after a moment. He brushed his lips against the other man's neck. He wished he could change things. Make Tom love him, or make his family different, but he couldn't and if he wanted to get out of the hospital he had to accept those things. "I'm sorry too. About the way I was acting before I came here."

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[info]riddles
2012-07-09 03:52 am UTC (link)
"It's okay, Draco." Tom assured him and then leaned in, kissing him softly for a long moment. He pulled back slightly and gave him a small smile. "I should leave and go find the things you wanted. There's a book shop just down the way."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-09 04:25 am UTC (link)
Draco didn't want Tom to go. This was the first time Draco had felt sane since arriving at the hospital. Asking him to stay wasn't sane though. "I'll miss you," he said, before he could stop himself. He was back here again. Back watching Tom leave his room, hoping he'd come back eventually.

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[info]riddles
2012-07-09 04:30 am UTC (link)
"I'll be back." Tom promised him and then touched Draco's hair, running his fingers through it. Just as he always had. The problem had never been Draco. It had been his actions. "I promise."

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[info]lordlyheir
2012-07-09 04:38 am UTC (link)
Draco leaned into Tom's familiar touch, just as he always had, and wished he was smarter or stronger or better than this. He knew he wasn't. "Thank you," he said, giving him a faint smile. "I'm looking forward to the books."

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