OWL GIFTS for @digtheshipper!
Read on AO3: one step at a time
Summary: After the war, Slytherin house is dwindling - students are leaving or requesting re-sortings, and first-years arrive with an ingrained fear of being sorted into a house blamed for so much of the horrors of the past years. Draco and Harry are back for their 8th year and join forces to stop the bullying Slytherin students have to face. It doesn't help that Draco has been in love with Harry for years and their necessary proximity poses its challenges.
Word Count: 10,687
Rating: Mature
Contains: discussions of social justice, falsely assigned blame, mentions of bullying
Notes: @digtheshipp protest work is something they are very interested in at the moment, I hope the discussions of social justice, responsibility and rehabilitation, and falsely assigned blame are topics that cover that sufficiently. I wanted this fic to be more explicit, but the plot kind of took over and it would have been too big a leap, but there is a lot of pining and gradual coming together that hopefully makes up for the scarcity smut. :)
Check out this Review for: Shatterproof Plan, by @digtheshipper
Summary of Fic: Teddy drags Draco to Australia for Christmas. Draco is down on himself for being forty and still single. They see Harry. Angst. Past relationship drama. Happy ending.
Word Count of Fic: 21,005 words
Rating of Fic: explicit
Commenter's Notes: Such a fun fic! Adult Teddy is a gift to us all - his devotion to Draco is heartwarming, I love their relationship so much. It's such a lovely look at how romantic relationships can differ at different stages in life, seeing Draco and Harry coming back to each other while Teddy is having the ups and downs of a new possible relationship in the background. The way that the snippets of information about how Draco and Harry were together before and why they broke up was so clever, and I felt so sorry for Draco! Also, Neville and Charlie? Never considered it, now considering it very hard...
A lovely festive story in a beautiful setting!
Read another long fic on AO3: A Long Time
Summary: Harry and Draco are both helping out protests against the Ministry in secret. When the press assumes that they are dating when they are spotted together in public while discussing the protest details, they have to go with it, or expose their involvement. Along the way, feelings get exposed that neither of them expected.
Word Count: 5648 words
Rating: Explicit
Contains: Enemies to friends (sort of) to lovers, fake relationship, blow job, hand job
Notes: Happy owlpost, @digtheshipper! I've never written anything like this before, and the idea for the protest came from a recent IRL thing in my country. So I hope it was at least close to what you were thinking when you prompted it!