It Was All Right - Harry/Ron

[icarus]

Another drabble request, this is number seven of twenty (yes, they're going up -- people keep adding more) for ragnhildholm, Harry/Ron. This is my first attempt at a post OotP fic.


It Was All Right
by Icarus



The sun slowly settled beyond the outline of the Forbidden Forest. Harry leaned both elbows on Ron's shoulders and stared off into the distance, not really seeing the sunset, magnificent though it was. Ron shifted uncomfortably.

"You're getting heavy."

Harry leaned a little harder, wrinkling his nose in an impish grin.

"Harry..." Ron complained, "you're such a dick sometimes."

He relented, and nuzzled into Ron's hair and hummed in his ear, slightly off-key:

"Weasley is my king,
he can do most anything,
that's why Gryffindors all sing -
- Weasley is my king..."

Ron glowed, his chin dropped in embarrassment. "You're a dreadful singer, Harry. I think I hear Fang howling. No - wait - he's gone deaf."

Harry cuffed him, laughing. But he didn't draw away.

Ron eyed him cautiously, up and down, for a pregnant moment. If anyone caught them even sitting like this it was a good bet they'd hear about it. But there was an undefinable line they usually didn't cross. Usually. Just friends.

Still, lately Harry had taken to staring off in the distance, then becoming suddenly present and doing things... well. It was crazy. It was also hard to say no, who could say why? Because he was Harry Potter? Because he was his friend?

Warm arms slid around Ron's waist, causing Ron's pulse to race, and then Harry rested his chin on his shoulder. A puff of a sigh breathed across Ron's cheek.

It was all right.

Comments

[wistful-fever.livejournal.com]

This is simply lovely. It's short, and I'm glad it is, because it leaves it open to interpretation. What I see here? Friends playing with fire, not quite sure of what they're doing, but attracted to it all the same -- and perhaps a bit of key obliviousness on Harry's part.

You have a really lovely style that I envy. Great work, as usual.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*blushes* This is on my inner favourites list, along with Skinny Dipping and a few others.

Yeah, they're playing with fire and Ron has better (and rather nervous) idea of where it's going. But after what happened in OotP he's going along with things that he would have never allowed otherwise.

As for Harry, he's part oblivious and part just doesn't care what the consequences are. Learning he's destined to kill or be killed by Voldemort has changed his perspective on what he will or won't do in other areas of his (potentially) very short life.

Icarus