Hi. Hope you are going wonderfully 😊. I was wondering if there are fics where it is confirmed that Draco is madly in love with Harry, yet Harry has zero to mild love-y feelings towards Draco. Yet somehow the relationship is still happening. This potential angst seems to be the right kind of satisfying juice in these stress-y and depress-y times. Thank you in advance.
Hi darling, I hope you’re doing well! I’m sorry this took a hot minute. What a delicious heart-wrenching trope! I personally adore the fics below and will try to think of more. I wouldn’t say that Draco’s feelings are confirmed (or that Harry feels nothing for him) in those because POVs usually give us unreliable narrators (and I love it!) but I hope these will work for you:
I'll never be your chosen one by @andithiel (2019, Explicit, 15k)
Draco doesn't know what exactly he’s doing with Potter, he doesn't know how their unspoken agreement even started, and doesn't know where it will end. The only thing he knows is: he's not in love.
In His Nature by create_serenity (2015, Mature, 20.5k) - Veela!Draco
Harry agreed to have sex with Draco once a month in order to keep him alive, what he didn’t agree to was Draco popping up all over the place and disrupting his life in more ways than one.
Tuxedo Angel by tryslora (2013, Explicit, 25k)
Harry and Neville are looking for the infamous Dragon Lily, a Dark witch active throughout Europe and Asia. Instead, they find the Tuxedo Angel, a beautiful witch performing in Rome. Harry quickly discovers that the Angel is not what she seems, and fights his attraction to her, while both he and the Angel are drawn into a web created by ancient magic that pulls them together, whether they are ready for it or not.
Your Place or Mine? by @l0vegl0wsinthedark (2016, Explicit, 27k)
“This person is so much harder to hate. And I’m supposed to hate Malfoy. How the fuck else am I supposed to limit this to just sex?"
Stain of Silence by brummell (2013, Explicit, 28k)
After the war, Draco serves out his sentence in Harry Potter's house.
The Wand Slipped by @unmistakablyoatmeal (2019, Explicit, 35k)
After a messy, public divorce and a disgraceful exit from the Auror Department, Harry is trying to rebuild his life as a private investigator. But when his ex-wife ends up in St. Mungo's, and Harry's tasked with finding her attacker, he'll have to confront the mistakes of his past, and rely on an old enemy, in order to get closure and move on, and incidentally, solve the case.
Harry Potter Gives a Shit by talithan (2013, Explicit, 58k)
“Where are you headed?” “No place special,” Draco fumbled, and flushed further. But then: “I can change that,” said Harry Potter.
We Are Young (I'll Carry You Home Tonight) by @femmequixotic (2012, Explicit, 69k)
Harry and Draco have been falling into bed on and off again since the last election five years ago, much to the amusement--and financial gain--of their circle of friends. But when Harry agrees to work with Draco to put Kingsley Shacklebolt into the Minister's office, they can't work side-by-side again every day and sleep together; that would be courting disaster. Wouldn't it?
Lost In Your Arms by @femmequixotic (2017, Explicit, 257k)
Three months after their brief encounter, Draco has almost forgotten about Potter--or so he tells himself. Then a Dark wizard shows up on the Auror radar and all hell breaks loose. Draco will have to choose between everything he holds dear--everything he's worked so hard for--and a few stolen moments of passion with a certain green-eyed Inspector, once his sworn enemy and now something rather different entirely. He'll make the right choice, won't he?
Who is he kidding? He'll ruin everything, as per usual. Bad choices and the name Malfoy go hand in hand. This fic starts after Can't Get You Out of My Head.
Infidelity is not my jam but Femme has a quite angsty PWP that could be of interest:
Cigarettes Will Kill You by @femmequixotic (2010, Explicit, 3.8k)
He lights a cigarette across the pub, his hand cupped to his mouth as the tip sparks to life in a faint orange flare, and my breath catches.
I feel like these two amnesia fics might be a good fit too:
Ship of Theseus by GallaPlacidia (2020, Teen and Up, 18k)
When Harry gets amnesia and forgets he and Draco were ever married, he refuses treatment to remember. Inspired by an EXCELLENT fic by hupsoonheng called Remember Me. You don't need to have read it to understand this, but tbh you should just do yourself a favour and read it anyway.
Of Fates Entwined: A Story of Love Lost and Found by taradiane (2014, Explicit, 51k)
Harry Potter vanished without a trace from his home on a warm summer morning in June 2004. This is the story of how a random visit in a cafe on the other side of the world, six years later, proved that the ties which entwine our fates together can never be broken.
