16. What’s their favorite “domestic bliss” moment? Do they cook/clean together? Do they like to go out shopping together?
Ship Ask Game (answering for The Travelling Cabinet universe Taco)
This can double as an answer for 3.
So Tom is banned from cooking (despite being the one who taught Draco how to operate a stove) because his idea of gourmet is baked beans, stale bread and carrots reduced to the texture necessary for a toothless geriatric. There isn't a vegetable he won't boil to death and if a steak isn't grey he assumes it's undercooked. He thinks pepper is spicy and that all questionable flavours can be fixed with more salt. It's lucky he spent his youth decades before the invention of the microwave because the crimes he would commit with that piece of technology are beyond comprehension.
Draco, being raised a spoilt little pureblood, developed a taste for the best from a young age, and thus had to learn to cook or else starve thanks to his refined palate. This is why Tom does the grocery shopping—so that he can substitute truffles with mushrooms and strike things like saffron off the list entirely.
When they lived on Knockturn, Draco would do all the cooking out of necessity, due to Tom's long hours, but once they move to Hogwarts it became something he could choose to do for enjoyment, and thus something he could rope Tom into (along with gardening). While Tom isn't allowed near the hob, Draco does let him chop up the vegetables and bread. He's very good both with a knife and with severing spells, for reasons we shall not address, so this task is well within his skills. So at least once or twice a week, they skip the house elf meals and instead cook together. It's quiet and simple and perhaps the least complicated thing in their lives. It's also time they set aside for each other, since Draco works odd hours once he reaches the practical component of his training, and Tom often meets up with his... 'friends' in the evenings.
