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It’s been about a month since the panic attack Draco had, and from that moment Harry seemed to have made it his life goal to make sure Draco continued with a healthy lifestyle. Somewhere along that way they’d started dating, Harry had suggested it but Draco could tell that he was worried about fake gossip spread around from several sources. He was most worried about The Daily Prophet, and Draco was ecstatic to tell him one morning that Rita Skeeter got fired and none other than Pansy herself now had the power to edit or forbid entirely of the publishing of their articles.
Draco walked into his office, Harry wasn’t there yet which wasn’t surprising. Harry was never late, but he seemed to challenge that record every day by making it to work with a few seconds to spare. Draco was always at least a few minutes early, the need to be punctual stuck with him.
A little yellow note sat on top of his desk, not unlike the three from just a month before. But Draco smiled at the sight of them instead of the dread that had curled into his chest before, because though they looked the same this note had a drastically different message in it.
I love you <3, remember to stay hydrated! I’ll see you soon sweetheart
Around a week after the incident, Draco had seen another note left on his desk the next morning. He frowned at the sight of it and felt heavier and heavier as he walked closer to his desk, but instead of a cruel harsh message from unfamiliar handwriting, was a soft message.
Morning love, did you remember to eat breakfast? I’ll see you soon sweetheart
Draco smiled Harry’s familiar handwriting, as messy as ever and near intelligible. He loved it. He loved every single note, every ‘I’ll see you soon sweetheart’.
Draco had a drawer now dedicated to these daily little notes, Harry had a vase perched on his desk with little yellow flowers that Draco would get him every week. Yellow was officially their colour and Draco felt warm and safe whenever he’d see it.
Draco moved to sit at his desk, the note still in his hand and the smile still on his face. Their desks were moved to touch each other now so they could be closer, instead of the arrangement before where they were as far apart as they could be in their office.
He sat down and opened the bottom drawer that contained the small stack of notes that would overflow in the future, placing the one in his hand with the rest. Just then he heard the click of the office door open and turned to see Harry closing it.
Both grinning like idiots probably, Draco got up to greet his boyfriend with a kiss. Strong arms curled around his waist as soft chapped lips met his, one hand buried itself in his partner’s soft black curls and the other resting on his chest.
“Morning, sweetheart,” Harry murmured, resting their foreheads against each other. “Did you get my note?” Draco hummed when Harry’s hand came to caress his cheek, his thumb brushing back and forth.
“Of course.”
“Are you staying hydrated?”
“I believe so.”
“Good, hydrate or diedrate darling.” Draco burst out laughing.
“Hydrate or diedrate?”
“What? It’s a thing.”
“Harry dear I really don’t think it’s a thing.”
“Well, agree to disagree.”
~^*^~
It was a few minutes after 5:00 PM, Draco had left at said time on the dot with a kiss on Harry’s cheek. Harry really did love him, he was just so cute and endearing. Tapping a quill against his desk, the little taps loud and clear in the empty office and nearly empty Auror department, he stared down at the little yellow note and wondered what to write. Smiling he scribbled a small message down before getting up to stick it in the middle of Draco’s desk.
Miss you already, remember to smile! I’ll see you soon sweetheart
Harry moved back to his desk and gathered his bag, walking out and bumping into the small secretary of Robards.
“Sorry.” She looked up and her eyes widened.
“Mr Potter! I was hoping you hadn’t left yet, Head Auror Robards wanted me to give you this file.” She pushed her arms out and handed Harry a yellow file. “He moved this case from Sonders and Novusa to you and Malfoy, he says you don’t have to get through the file today.” Harry relaxed, he had been planning to go home and bake some of Draco’s favourite brownies then surprising him later tonight.
“Thank you, Jenice.” She smiled.
“No problem.” She turned and walked away, Harry went back in his office to place the file on top of the others. Walking towards the floo he hummed the tune of a sweet french lullaby Draco had sang before, grabbed a handful of floo powder and spoke his address.
~^*^~
Their hands were intwined on their desks and Harry felt happier than he realised he’d been in a long time. Ever since Ginny there really wasn’t anyone else, and now he had Draco. Beautiful, sweet Draco who loved his brownies even though he had messed them up last night.
Harry’s put the papers he’d finished reading on the small pile next to him and looked for any other urgent files when he spotted the yellow file. Grabbing it he took his hand back so he could write, leaning over to kiss Draco on the cheek as he did, despite him needing to work he really wished he could hold Draco’s hand the whole day.
He grabbed his quill and opened the file, seeing some of the notes that weren’t typed out yet and written in rushed handwriting. Something was oddly familiar about it, Harry frowned in thought when it hit him and his eyes widened. He saw red but he knew he couldn’t confirm it without proof.
Draco had told Harry it was fine, that there really was no need to investigate into who had left those notes a month ago. Harry didn’t push and he didn’t investigate behind Draco’s back, but he kept one of the little notes just for a time like this, when he’d need confirmation. Who did Jenice say this file was from? Novu...Novusa and… and Sun- no -Son...Sonders.
Harry opened one of his drawers and rustled through the mess, finding a little crumpled yellow piece. Unfolding it in his drawer so Draco didn’t see it, he scanned the message and got back up to check the handwriting in the file.
This was definitely it, one of those two, maybe both had sent horrible notes to Draco and now Harry was going to make them pay.
“Harry? Love, you okay?” Harry looked up to see Draco’s concerned face, “you look a bit… angry?” Harry blinked, realising his eyebrows were furrowed and relaxed his face.
“Oh, no I’m fine. Just got confused for a moment with the files but I’m all sorted now.” Harry smiled, Draco raised an eyebrow but smiled back anyways, leaning in to peck Harry on the lips.
“Okay, if you need any help you can always ask me.”
“Thank you dear.” Draco smiled again then turned back to his own work, Harry looked back down to the file wondering what he should do next. He decided that first things first, he needed to find out which of the two from the previous team wrote those notes.
He’ll decide what to do with them later.
He excused himself and told Draco he needed to ask one of the other aurors something, thankfully Draco didn’t ask and just nodded. Harry took the file with him and walked out their office, reading the plates on the doors until he came to Novusa and Sonders. He took a deep breath then knocked on the door.
“Come in!” Harry opened the door and walked in, a dark skinned person with a tied up ponytail of twist braids was looking at him.
“Harry Potter! How are you doing?” they walked up to him, “heard you and Malfoy have been quite the team since you were put as partners. Tir Novusa.” Novusa put their hand in the air for Harry to shake, he took it and saw them grin before noticing the yellow file.
“Ahh, our case. Do you have questions?” Harry looked down at the file as if he forgot it was there, then looked back up and nodded.
“Yes, umm… there are notes in here that weren’t typed out and I was just wondering who wrote them.” He handed the file to Novusa, who opened the file and paged through it until they saw the notes.
“Oh these were written by Sonders, my partner.” They gave a bit of an awkward smile, “he’s pretty good Auror but a sloppy with the other things.”
“I see, where would I find him?”
“I believe he’s in the breakroom right now.”
“Great, thank you.”
“Oh no worries, and Potter?”
“Yes?” They smiled.
“You and Malfoy make an adorable couple.” Harry’s mood picked up just a little bit from that.
“Thank you.” Novusa nodded, Harry turned to exit the office and started walking towards the break room when he stopped. Thankfully, after Auror training Harry’s impulsive side was better restrained, where he would’ve burst into the break room and beat Sonders black and blue a few years ago he now knows there are better ways to deal with the situation. Harry considered his options, standing in the middle of the hall while ideas of what he could do to Sonders flashed through.
He then decided on one.
Sonders was getting fired. Harry would make sure of it.
He walked back to his office and felt a million times better when he saw Draco, tip of his quill between his teeth as he chewed on it in thought. Harry smiled and went to sit at his desk, Draco’s quill separated from his mouth when he noticed Harry, he grinned brightly.
“Got everything sorted, love?” Harry leaned over and pecked kisses all over Draco’s face, smiling when he heard Draco laugh. He trailed little kisses down Draco’s neck, reaching a spot where he knew Draco was most sensitive. He raised his hand and tickled Draco after a final peck.
“AH- ahahahhah, sto- Harry!” Draco laughed and tried to push himself away from Harry, but the arm around him kept him firmly in place. “HARRY! Wait, no-” Draco howled, blushing pink when he snorted and covered his mouth, glaring at Harry when he finally stopped.
“Harry.” He whined, Harry grinned.
“Your laugh is so cute.”
“I snorted, snorting is not cute.”
“Yes it is, It’s adorable.”
“I sounded like a pig.”
“You’d be an adorable pig.”
“Harry, you absolute sap.” Draco leaned in to kiss him after smiling and shaking his head, Harry hummed and intertwined their hands as Draco’s other hand went to caress his cheek.
“Just a sap for you.” Harry said as they rested their foreheads together, looking into Draco’s grey eyes and feeling stupidly happy. Draco grinned and Harry leaned in again to kiss him but was stopped by a hand against his mouth, Draco laughed at Harry’s confused face.
“We still have work to do, remember? Because we’re still in our office?” Draco kissed his nose, “we can snog all you want when we get home, okay?” Harry rubbed their noses together.
“Okay, but I promise you this I’ll be doing a lot more to you than just snogging, tonight I plan to ravish you, Draco Malfoy.” Draco shuddered and moaned breathily.
“Harry… work.” Harry kissed Draco’s neck one last time before releasing him and letting Draco move back to his desk.
“Love you.” Draco smiled at his file, replying.
“Love you, too.”
~^*^~
Harry was currently sitting in Robards’ office, glaring daggers at Sonders as he sputed absolute nonsense, the crumpled note in his hand being crumpled even more as his hand tightened around it.
“I’m personally not surprised that Malfoy got this treatment, but I swear that I didn’t do it. Why would I waste my time writing hate notes to the git? Putting that aside, they’re just notes, a bit sensitive to be wasting time investigating who wrote a few words.” Harry grit his teeth.
“If someone sent a threat, Sonders, then it would be our job to investigate who wrote a few words. Sensitive? Auror Malfoy didn’t even want to further investigate the notes, but I got concerned for his safety in a work environment that is meant to be safe, and if the environment is not it’s an Auror’s job to make it safe. Is that not right, sir?” Harry turned back to Robards, who nodded.
“Auror Potter is right, but…” Harry tensed up, “it is not unknown that Auror Malfoy and you have a rather close relationship these days. Are you really not blowing things out of proportion, Potter?”
“What? No! Of course I’m not. Dra- Auror Malfoy came back to the office one day looking like someone crucioed him moments ago, I waved it off because back then I truly didn’t care. However, I went to the loo and found a note lying on the ground.”
“And how do you know that note was what caused Malfoy’s distress? How do you know it wasn’t directed to someone else.” Sonders sneered at him.
“If it was directed to someone else I’d still be worried, because that note said ‘fucking kill yourself filthy death eater’, sorry for my language sir.” Robards’ eyes widened, Harry cheered inwardly.
“You have proof of this?” Harry paled, fuck, he threw the note away. Harry glanced towards Sonders, who was looking like the cat that got the cream. He narrowed his eyes and remembered the note he was holding, of course, fucking hell he was an idiot sometimes.
“I don’t have that exact note sir, I’d thrown it away after I found it.”
“Likely story.”
“But I do have one with me right now, so if you could refrain from commenting for a few seconds, Sonders.” Harry uncrumpled the note as much as he could and handed it to Robards, this note was the one Harry hated most, the one that fuelled his anger till now. It was a lot less short and ‘sweet’ as the first one.
You piece of shit, you’re a shit Auror and human being so do us all a favour and AK yourself or I’ll do it for you death eater scum.
Robards read the note and Harry could tell he now understood the weight of the situation.
“Oh, how bad could it be?” Sonders snarled, Robards leaned over his desk.
“Auror Sonders, this is not ‘just a note’ this is an official death threat whether you realize it or not.” Sonders was the one who paled this time and Harry smirked next to him. “This will be treated as an official case and so I will let you decide whether you want to tell the truth now or later under veritasetum. Auror Potter you’re dismissed.”
“Thank you sir.” Harry left the office and grinned, when he noticed an angry looking Draco standing in front of him, arms crossed over his chest and a tapping foot. Harry gulped, a small part of him thought damn he’s hot when he’s mad but the rest of him thought run. Harry didn’t listen to either.
“Draco?” Harry smiled wryly. “Love, what are you doing here?” Draco lifted an eye brow.
“Don’t you ‘love’ me! You kept investigating the case behind my back?!” Harry’s eyes widened, his chest felt a pang of pain at Draco’s tone.
“No! I swear I left it alone but then we got a new case that was transferred from another team and I recognised the handwriting so I…” Harry looked down to the floor when he saw Draco’s expression turn from angry to disappointed.
“Harry… I told you to leave it alone.”
“But I couldn’t! What he did to you, the notes can’t be the only thing!”
“Harry I don’t care about the notes!” Harry flinched when Draco yelled, feeling sheepish. Draco sighed and walked to him, placing his hands on Harry’s arm, “Harry I care that you didn’t tell me.” His hands shifted down from Harry’s biceps to his hands, holding them and pulling one up as he placed a kiss on it.
“I hate secrets Harry, father kept secrets and we ended up on the wrong side of the war, Dumbledore kept secrets and it cost you a loving godfather, I kept secrets and hurt you in the process when we were younger and I just… I don’t want any more secrets Harry.” Harry leaned into the hand that Draco placed on his cheek, feeling guilty all over again.
“I’m sorry, love,” Harry felt horrible. “I promise I’ll tell you everything I can from now on.” Draco smiled and it was honestly scary how much better Harry felt just after seeing that.
“Thank you.” Draco leaned in and kissed Harry, surprised when they heard someone clear their throat behind them. They turned to see Robards looking far from impressed next to his door.
“Hello, yes, are you two done? If so please relocate your noise.” Harry blushed and saw Draco wasn’t better, both muttering a ‘sorry sir’ and started walking back to their office.
“So you’re not mad enough at me that we won’t fuck later, right?”
“Harry!”