Measuring
Title: Measuring
Genre: Romance
Pairing: harry/draco
Rating: G
Word count: 270
Summary: Draco gets a package at dinner.
Draco was pleasantly enjoying his dinner when a lone owl interrupted, drawing every face away from the food; a difficult task indeed. It wasn't the fact that an owl came late for the post (or early depending on how one viewed things) that bothered him but rather the fact that the owl stopped in front of him, feet planted in his kidney pie.
He knew right away that it wasn't from his parents; the owl was a large Tawny one belonging to the school. Ignoring his classmates' questions, Draco gently unwrapped the long slender package and out rolled...A ruler?
But it wasn't just any old ruler. Instead of the usual numbers there was red and green ink written all over it. The top had his own name in green and at the bottom 'Harry' was in red. Along the length of the ruler there was a ranking titled 'indifference...hate...tolerance...like...love.' Year one was shown in the hate section for both but year five Harry's jumped up to tolerance, the next at like. Draco's stayed firmly locked at hate.
Draco looked over to find Harry with his face practically in his plate. Draco conjured silver ink and a quill. Still ignoring his classmates' steady gaze he changed his section so that third year it jumped to tolerance and stayed there through sixth. Placing the quill onto the wooden ruler he wrote '7th year' in the love section, right above Harry's seventh year mark.
With a wave of his wand the ink was dry and ruler rewrapped. With a nod from Draco the school owl set off to the Gryffindor table with the package.
Genre: Romance
Pairing: harry/draco
Rating: G
Word count: 270
Summary: Draco gets a package at dinner.
Draco was pleasantly enjoying his dinner when a lone owl interrupted, drawing every face away from the food; a difficult task indeed. It wasn't the fact that an owl came late for the post (or early depending on how one viewed things) that bothered him but rather the fact that the owl stopped in front of him, feet planted in his kidney pie.
He knew right away that it wasn't from his parents; the owl was a large Tawny one belonging to the school. Ignoring his classmates' questions, Draco gently unwrapped the long slender package and out rolled...A ruler?
But it wasn't just any old ruler. Instead of the usual numbers there was red and green ink written all over it. The top had his own name in green and at the bottom 'Harry' was in red. Along the length of the ruler there was a ranking titled 'indifference...hate...tolerance...like...love.' Year one was shown in the hate section for both but year five Harry's jumped up to tolerance, the next at like. Draco's stayed firmly locked at hate.
Draco looked over to find Harry with his face practically in his plate. Draco conjured silver ink and a quill. Still ignoring his classmates' steady gaze he changed his section so that third year it jumped to tolerance and stayed there through sixth. Placing the quill onto the wooden ruler he wrote '7th year' in the love section, right above Harry's seventh year mark.
With a wave of his wand the ink was dry and ruler rewrapped. With a nod from Draco the school owl set off to the Gryffindor table with the package.