Chapter 1
An explosion had hit right beside where Draco was stood, although when the smoke cleared Draco felt fine.
Well his body felt fine but a loud ringing in his ear persisted for a minute.Then it dropped and everything went silent. Completely silent.
And that’s more or less how it had been ever since then.
It was…inconvenient to say the least, To say the most it was quite possibly the worst thing to ever happen to him ever. It was embarrassing to have someone less than 15ft away from you speak and not what they’re saying. Plus nobody in the wizard world knew sign language…well except from Potter.
He went to a primary school in the muggle world and they taught some sign language, and now for the convenience of the professors,Harry has to follow Draco about and listen for him.
“Well, that is technique correct but-“ Harry is signing word for word. This is humiliating.
“Stop.” Draco sighs.
“Just stop, my head hurts” Draco puts his head in his hands.
‘Everything okay?’ Harry signs.
“talk when you sign…please?” Some sense of normalism, he craves it.
“okay…but are you alright?” He can barely hear the whisper of Harrys stupid irritating voice .
“yes, I am fine…just let me sit?”
Harry nods and turns away. Draco places his head on the desk, his hair falling around him.
His hair had grown a lot since the war ended. It was now past his shoulders, constantly covering his face, and his hearing aids.
He wishes he could tie his hair up, he does like it long but it gets in his way a lot.
But he can’t tie it up, he doesn’t want to draw any attention to his aids.
But at least he could tie it up when he was alone, like for example when he was study.
“Why would I need Harry to study with me?!” Draco shouts.
“Draco, Please calm down, We know you have a tendency to study alone, and we thought you might need the extra hand-“ Harry signs as the professors speaks
“God dammit!” Draco turns and leaves the room, He can’t even complain about Harry without Harry being in the room.
And don’t even get him started on the change in Harry’s attitude towards him. He’s been so unnaturally kind! Draco doesn’t need pity! He was a fucking death eater less than a year ago! Harry should hate him! Harry should hate him…
Pulling his hearing aids out as he walks up to the Astronomy tower, He sniffles a bit and eventually when he reaches the top of the tower he begins to sob. Sinking to the ground, head in hands.
A hand creeps onto his shoulder.
He flinches.
“Fuck off Harry-!” He sobs again.
Harry doesn’t, Instead he sits beside Draco.
“What do you want?” Draco tried to stop sobbing unsuccessfully.
“…I’m sorry” Draco jumps at his hot breathe on his ear, He’s close enough that Draco can hear his voice, His deep…raspy voice.
Draco squeaks, a stupid high pitched squeak.
Draco places his hand on Harry’s shoulder.
“Don’t…uh-Don’t…” He blushing a bit, he can feel it.
“what’s wrong? why are you so upset?” His breath tickles on his neck…
“I…I’m fucking deaf Harry…what do you thinks wrong?” Draco wipes his tears.
“I-I have a fucking War symbol engraved on my arm! I’m a death eater! a-and everyone treats me like i’m a stupid pitiful child-!” His tears start flowing again.
That’s when Draco feels two arms wrap around him from beside.
“w-what are you-“ Draco freezes
“I’m so sorry… you were a child Draco, not a death eater” The way Harry says his name, centimetres from his ear.
“H-Harry please…” Just as he’s about to tell him to get away…He stops himself. When was the last time anyone had comforted Draco? The soft touch of the hug…Draco relaxes immensely, As tears start to flow from his eyes.
“I-I’m sorry” He must look stupid, He must look so fucking stupid.
“Don’t apologise…please don’t apologise…” Harry mumbles into his ear.
Harry moves to the front of Draco and reaches to brush his hair out of his face. Draco lets him, Harry…doesn’t care about his aids…he doesn’t care that Dracos a freak.
“Do you wanna talk?” Harry signs as well as says. Draco looks at him for a second. “Uh…c-could you talk?I feel like people havent even tried talking to ever since people found out about my hearing”
It was stupid request…Harry was gonna say no and-
“Yeah, of course” Harry starts signing again. “You probably heard about Ron and Hermione, but they’ve gotten back together turns out Ron’s just an idiot-“ Harry starts laughing a bit as he tells a lengthy story.
Before Harry, or Draco, knows it the suns gone down, It must be about Ten pm. “…Do you wanna get back to your dorms? It’s getting cold”
”…Uh…The people in my dorm…they just aren’t…I don’t think they’ve ever met a deaf person before, I’ve kinda been avoiding…going back” The Slytherin boys in Dracos dorm…aren’t the most open minded so the long haired, slim and deaf boy isn’t their favourite person.
“What? Seriously? Draco that’s horrible, do you maybe wanna stay in mine? my dorm i mean? The senior Gryffindor boys dorms are really big…” Harry smiles.
”…yeah…actually” Why did he say yes? What on earth just possessed him!