This is for @rey-of-sunshiine who asked “Payton!!! If you’re still feeling like writing could you do something like a soulmate tattoo thing for Drarry? Hope you’re going well x” I hope you like this lol I just ate some chicken noodle soup and I’m ready too write!
First of all I’m a slut for cliches so just a warning lol So soulmate marks are a purely magical thing, muggles don’t have them. They start as blobs of colors and once you’re in the vicinity of your soulmate does it start to form a shape.
When Harry was growing up he hated the blobs of greens and blues and purples on his arm, thinking it only made him more of a freak
once he got to Hogwarts though he found that almost everyone had something resembling his marks, he asked his new friends about the marks and Hermione explained what soul marks were. She explained that not everyone’s were on their arms and that some people were born with no soul marks at all. Harry liked the idea of a soul mate, someone who would love him no matter what, it was nice.
Because of the robes they were all wearing no one noticed Harry’s mark swirling and moving when a certain blonde git offered his hand, it wasn’t till that night after they were all sorted did he notice that the mark had changed, not into anything yet but he could see less flowy lines and splotches and more hard lines and shapes.
He’d never tell anyone this but for about a week he thought Ron was his soulmate until he saw his friends shoulder and noticed how his colors were all reds, oranges and yellows.
It wasn’t until the third week of first year did his soul mark finally settle.
On his am was the most beautiful turtle he’d ever seen. It was still flowy and beautiful with the blues and greens and purples flowing together to form a picture, it looked as if it had been painted with watercolors.
He showed Hermione and Ron, wanting to know what the meaning was of it
After researching for a couple hours in the library they found that turtles were a symbol for protection, patience and stability. Harry almost cried when he found that out.
Harry wouldn’t admit this to anyone for a long time but he started referring to the turtle as his guardian angel in his mind, looking to it when he was stressed or needed motivation throughout the years of him being at Hogwarts.
No one really knew why Draco was so angry and mean to Harry, everyone assuming it was because he was jealous or upset that his friendship was shot down, some saying it’s because his dad was a deatheater. The only ones who knew the truth were Blaise and Pansy. The truth being the stupid ugly turtle on his forearm.
There was a reason he never wore short sleeves and it wasn’t because of a certain other mark he had on his other arm.
He had gotten the stupid dark mark, not out of loyalty to the psychotic lunatic, honestly Draco hated him with his full being, not supporting his cause just tying to protect his family. No, he got it to further prove how wrong the universe was, marking himself as unworthy of his soulmate.
Draco’s known Potter was his soulmate since first year, the idiot didn’t even try to cover the mark up, flaunting it off to everyone and beaming with pride anytime someone asked him about it. It made Draco sick.
Even though it broke him he decided he would make Potter hate him, deciding that it was better if Harry hated him, thinking of himself as to broken, to tarnished for someone as brave and kind as the golden boy.
Pansy and Blaise tried telling him he was wrong, that Draco wasn’t his father, he wasn’t bad. Telling him that none of them had a choice in this, they were dealt the cards they had been given and they had to suffer for their parents mistakes. Yet he didn’t listen, saying that the universe made a mistake and that Potter deserved someone more then he was, saying he’d just ruin the other boy, that he’d mess up and brake him as much as he himself was broken.
After fifth year though Draco stopped taunting Potter, he had let those vile people into the school. He didn’t deserve to even look to Harry let alone speak to him.
So he closed himself off and focused on surviving, worrying constantly during their 7th year that he’d get news of him being dead, he was filled with both relief as well as dread the day he saw Harry on the floor in the manor. He couldn’t tell who asked, all voices bluring into one, but he heard someone ask him if that was “The Potter Boy” and well, his answer was the easiest choice Draco’s ever made. He said no, knowing that it be easy to get into his mind, he was distracted and didn’t eve think. To worried about getting Harry OUT. Luckily though his performance as a loyal servant was believable. It wasn’t until everything was over and Potter had escaped did Draco realize he had stolen his wand. He hoped it would help him, that even if Draco died right now that Harry would survive and kill the bastard.
It wasn’t until Harry saved him from the fire that Harry noticed the mark on Draco’s arm. He didn’t say anything, to focused on the war that was happening around them.
And it wasn’t till Harry’s “dead” body was being carried back and Draco ran to him screaming his name did all of Hogwats realize.
After the war it wasn’t easy, they both still held hostilities and had to deal with the fact that they were on opposites sides of a war. But, after many fights and many tears and many confessions they started to warm up to each other.
Harry realized that the mark was spot on.
He protected Draco from all the nasty comments and all the rumors and hate, and was patient when Draco was having one of his days, where he couldn’t even get out of bed let alone speak or eat, to consumed with guilt and anger. And Draco protected Harry from the nightmares, from the gossip and press and crazy fans. He was patient when Harry’s past made it difficult to get him to talk about feelings or for him to admit when he needed something.
They were each others soulmates and Harry spent the rest of his life proving to Draco just how worth it he was, and Draco spent that time proving to Harry that he deserved to be happy.
So yeah! I like how this came out, I like writing depressed, war torn Draco and a Harry who feels others needs are more important then his own and the two coming together to help each other through the shared trauma. It just feels the most realistic to me. I hope you like it.
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