Order Only - Private message to Hydra

[alt_draco]

Well then?

I know you've spoken to her by now, I saw your private message go up.

I don't want you to betray her confidence in any way. I just want to know that she's alright.

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[alt_hydra]

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to make you feel bad about yourself, and I don't think she'd want that, either. We both think you're too hard on yourself, sometimes, even though you don't like to show that you are. Isn't that why you're so sarcastic?

I don't know, Draco. Maybe you could have just... lived peacefully with your feelings. Instead of fighting them. I don't mean that you should have pursued her, but just accepted your attraction and fondness. Because the fact that you fight those feelings away, well, it says that you see love as something that will make you weak or hold you back, rather than something that will make you stronger. I mean, you told me yourself that love makes people weak. Isn't that what you meant?

[alt_draco]

Isn't that why you ended things with F-F?

[alt_hydra]

No, that wasn't why at all. And I didn't end things, we decided together.

You're sort of proving my point right now. About the sarcasm.

[alt_draco]

For the record - and you can pass this along or not, I don't care - I do accept my feelings for what they are, and the only reason I've tried so hard to rid myself of them is because facing the disappointing reality of what can never be is just one more unbearable thing that adds to the load we all carry, every day, and sometimes I don't know if I can endure it. And now that burden's been put on her, too. I hope she can forget about what I told her. I can't - but it sounds as if she, perhaps, can.

[alt_hydra]

I wouldn't be too sure of that.

See you at Tea, Draco.