"Father paid too much to" ooooo Draco finish that sentence! I'm assuming paid too much to buy back his place in society for Draco to lose it by killing Charlie?
" Still, making sure no nosy house-elf would eavesdrop on them" do Fred and George have a product for that? Lol
“None of your business. " HA if I was Draco I would be like "the fuck it isn't if it is making you reconsider our bond" Charlie got off easy there
"curious to see whether Charlie would follow suit." I'm also curious if Charlie will also sit down. It would be kinda telling. If he can't even sit at the other end of a bench from him how are they supposed to make being soulmates work??
"But the man stayed standing, " ah sigh. Lots of uncomfortable, unwilling body language.
At least Charlie apologized? Ehh, he'll need some actions to back it up
"But I’m also willing to consider that I might not know you enough to form an adequate opinion.” - okay! I'll call that progress!
"seems like we both have some prejudices to do away with.” well isn't that an understatement
"I’m rather disinterested in sharing anything of this with other people.” I dunno, this kind of made me sad. I think it's because I'm thinking ahead too much to when they are settled into their friendship as soulmates. I would assume that would bring them not and why stay silent about joy. Gotta stop counting the chickens before they hatch
Ooo they are fighting in elevated prose
He admitted about his mom having a soulmate mark! That's a lot to share.
Narcissa's soulmate is Andromeda? (Okay I will admit I stopped at this point to go look up Malfoy family trees to confirm my suspicion) Andromeda is usually her sister (unless there is something different in this AU?) ? This is very interesting. Definitely feeds into the platonic soulmate existing in this world. Oh, it's also kind of tragic too isn't it? Cause Andromeda was essentially disowned from the Blacks for marrying Tonks Sr. So Narcissa would have had limited contact with her sister, her soulmate. How lonely.
" “And yet you sought me out …” I like the idea that Draco is longing for love and acceptance. A soulmate would give him that acceptance that he craves.
" still have nightmares from a world in which the Dark Lord won sometimes" 🥺😔
"Thank you," sometimes a few small worlds contain the entire world
" how writhing at the feet of a maniac in pain beyond comprehension had the power to knock a lot of hard beliefs from a teenager’s mind." Good sentence!!
“What do you expect … or hope … this thing between us will be like?” - how mature to set clear expectations and communication!
"There seem to be so many different ways of being soulmate" 😍
"turn out to be won’t be a romantic or even a sexual thing is pretty high up my list.” -- it is best to be clear from the start about that
" I have to marry and father at least one child, so … " I must say it's unusual to read a soulmate story where Soulmate B is telling Soulmate A that B is going to marry and have sex with another person 😅
Hmm. Why did Charlie narrow his eyes about Draco not wanting to tell his wife about his soulmate? Really? From Mister"I’m rather disinterested in sharing anything of this with other people.”?? Although who is Draco kidding. How is he going to hide a massive dragon on his back from his wife??
"” I couldn’t change most of them anyway. " Oh that's heartbreaking. I'm so sorry Draco
So... Are they going to talk at all? Be friends? Meet up for tea weekly? Do a monthly bookclub?
Okay, there will be an "owl" so they will at least write and likely meet up in person again.
"You won’t send me a dragon now, will you?” 🤣🤣🤣
"We’re not allowed to use them for shenanigans like that. " I love how they had to have a rule because someone did want to try something like that
" He swallowed when he thought about what he would be able to see if the collar were a bit lower." 👀👀👀
" An army of ants was marching through his stomach " I like the imagery!
They have the same dragon 😍
What quick thinking of a charity event!
Charlie is an outdoorsman for sure
Oh no Narcissa is suspicious
"Still, I hope you … won’t lose sight of what is important for our family.” fuck you Narcissa. Just because you made a choice to not choose your soulmate don't take Dracos choices away from him
I'm glad Draco has Theo. And oh my, his head in his chin. How scandalous!
“I’m thinking about renting us a flat to meet.” well that's a little ridiculous.
“I hope I don’t need to tell you that the way families like yours are handling stuff like this is rather worrying?” the tea is SCALDING
"You're a wizard, you will likely live past one hundred." Something I'll never understand about HP is that wizards live longer and so many having kids before 25.
They will be fine with it after he's married? Malfoy are so backwards
Draco can make Charlie laugh and Charlie can make Draco tea. And he'd probably get Draco the whiskey he wants
“At least she doesn’t force me to have children.” ladies and gents and enbys we have a winner for the worst!
"“I won’t be the uncle of yours, by the way.”" 😞 he doesn't want to be a part of his soulmates kids lives? Does not compute for me.
You finished Draco's sentence correctly. As troubled as his feelings about his father are nowadays, there is still some respect left. 😆
Fred and George absolutely have a product to eavesdrop! "Extendable ears" was it, I think. But the house-elves would never use those, of course. ^^
Yeah, getting as close as sharing a bench was still a bit much for Charlie here. But he's there! And he's talking! Small steppies and all of that. 😁 I think you really expected a bit too much too fast from Charlie. He's not as desperate for somebody to understand him as Draco is; he has a loving family and real friends he can talk to, and he doesn't have any worries about being open either. That's why I imagined he can very clearly communicate his expectations and boundaries, too, and isn't afraid to share vulnerable moments with Draco. As chaotic as the Weasley family is, I think Bill and Charlie turned out very level-headed and at peace with themselves. They know who they are and what their strengths are, they're not afraid to show their emotions... I think things became more complicated only when Percy was born, because I'm sure Bill and Charlie had a lot of fun making trouble, too, and dealing with three children at once feels like a situation in which one can easily come up short. Sadly, that was Percy, and the arrival of Fred and George didn't improve things for him in the slightest. But I think Bill and Charlie always had each other and were very close. Or they just have strong personalities. Anyway, both of them always seemed to be very determined about their lives and what they want to do, not quarrelling, not searching for recognition, and yet fine with returning home now and then, knowing that they will be welcome no matter how much Molly might have been nagging them about their jobs. Draco, on the other hand, has to keep his true thoughts and emotions hidden most of the time, one wrong step can blow up his relationship with his parents, and he doesn't have siblings he could turn to. For him, this opportunity has a bigger impact. But as you saw, Charlie warmed up to the whole thing, too, in the end. 😊
Yes, whenever I write a soulmate AU, platonic bonds are usually a thing. I just can't imagine that soulmates always have to be romantic partners, feeling so deeply connected to someone happens in different ways. And I particularly like the thought of siblings bonding occasionally. In my other soulmate AU, it was Bill and Charlie, which, for obvious reasons, didn't work here, so I decided to throw in the tragic story of Narcissa and Andromeda being soulmates. I also like the thought of them reconnecting after Draco came clean about his bond with Charlie. Lol, yes, I assume the whole set-up for them is a bit unusual here. 😆 But I always got the impression that Draco actually wanted to follow the expectations his family was putting on him. I think he's proud of being a Malfoy, prior to the war more than after it, but I think he still wanted to keep the family alive and going. So, I knew from the start that he would marry someone else, and their relationship being an asexual one helped tremendously in realising that. 😊
When Charlie said, "I’m rather disinterested in sharing anything of this with other people," he meant the details about Draco's life and his family, by the way, not necessarily their soulmate bond. Charlie doesn't strike me as a person to chitchat, I see him as someone who won't remember what you told him if it wasn't relevant to him because he was thinking about dragons again. 😂 So the idea of him approaching somebody to tell him Narcissa has a soulmate and it's her sister does not feel like something he would do. Thinking about it, I can absolutely see him at a family event a couple of years down the road, casually dropping something like, "Oh, yeah, I have a soulmate, it's Draco Malfoy" in front of one of his siblings, only to turn around and leave without telling anything more or even waiting for any questions in return. 😂 But all of that is coming from someone who isn't married. Somebody as close as that he would absolutely tell about the whole thing, so Draco considering not telling Astoria doesn't sit right with him.
Ahaha, yes! The dragon reserve does need rules! And I bet at least five of them were added because of Charlie. 🤣
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