charingfae - Fic - There's an Art to Pining (E)

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There's an Art to Pining (5001 words) by charingfae
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy
Additional Tags: Pining Hermione Granger, Fluff, Angst, Happy Ending, Christmas, Explicit Sexual Content, Minor Theodore Nott/Harry Potter, Romance, piano playing as foreplay, Sex, Soft Draco Malfoy, POV Hermione Granger, Sad Hermione Granger, Community: dhr_advent, D/Hr Advent 2024, Holidays, excessive amounts of pining, how many knitting metaphors can i fit into one fic?, sorry for making music terminology horny
Summary:

Hermione yearns. For love, for success, for contentment. Above all, she yearns for something—or someone—she'll never have.

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Malfoy is everywhere. He’s in the way she takes her tea—black with a splash of honey, like he does. Etches and echoes of sweeping tendrils of silver-blond strands falling across his forehead, shadowing his cheekbones beneath the harsh afternoon sun. Long fingers that drum against his thighs when he’s bored.

His sharp wit comes out on pub nights, and it’s a delight to see it turned on other people. To laugh with him. He looks at her sometimes, in those moments, and the secret smile he gives her is nothing short of earth-shattering.