A/N: Veela soulmate fic with an indepedent Harry, who's already in love, and quite frankly doesn't need the kind of emotional "healing" that "his" Veela is trying to force on him. He's not broken, and he wishes that the bloody veela would bugger off already!1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81EtRFJWTW
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Narcissa was leaning against the doorframe, an adoring look on her face as she regarded her son, preening in the full-wall mirror on one side of his bedroom.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSUmcKz9O1
"I look so fine!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYzYn9xeEY
"Your mate won't be able to resist." she agreed.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXW7FDZUYlR
"My strength will protect him."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2BQNvKsz2
"Everyone needs a protector." she seconded.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2gAOOzYHdr
"He puts up such a strong act in his Auror career, but I can tell he's hurting underneath. I can offer him healing."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQd1cvXm43
"And he will be fortunate to have such a loving mate." Narcissa cooed.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEagDgjMoZX
Draco spun on his heel, watching his wings flutter, and flare, and then settle back under his skin. The allure faded, withdrawing, till he appeared normal: ravishing, delectable, and delightful, yes, but still like a normal wizard. He strode out the door, draping a cloak around his bare shoulders and dropped a kiss on his mother's cheek as he went.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTkNHTXTtSy
"I will return with my bondmate!" he called over his shoulder. Narcissa smiled, and fluttered her fingers at him in farewell.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1T3v0qvydy
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Harry Potter, youngest Chief Auror in history, was demonstrating an intricate spell chain to the batch of third year trainees. 1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvvsjg2Z85
"Now half of these are silent, and the other half are verbal, and they all link up to be especially effective with one another. The beauty of this is, that even if they get a shield charm up, some of them are area-effect spells, so be sure your protective charms are activated before you...mpppfffph!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnkLtsKJjB
Harry whirled and cast a shield charm of his own, bouncing his invisible assailant off of him and to the other side of the room. A muffled moan could be heard, then the tips of two, shiny, leather boots peeked out from underneath an invisibility cloak. 1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwFBanc2vL
"Come out and drop your wand." Harry ordered, the trainees practically swooning at the opportunity to see The Harry Potter in action. A moment later, the invisibility cloak slid off the figure of a shirtless Draco Malfoy, rubbing the side of his head where a knot was quickly forming.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV63BBpq7FT
"Well that wasn't exactly how I planned it." Draco muttered, but quickly regained his alomb and straightened up, striking a regal pose, wings unfolding from his back and spreading out behind him. 1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOQSnybUXO
"Harry Potter. My magic has quested and searched the world for a mate, and it has settled on you." he said grandly, allure out in full force. "But do not concern yourself with your feelings of unworthiness: I need you as much as you need me." he leaned forward, passionately, eyes glimmering with his view of the future. "You need a guardian: I need someone to protect. You need a Healer: I need to take you under my wings to bind the wounds of your heart. You need someone who will always be there: I need to have someone who needs me. You need a lover: I need a mate. In short, we are perfectly matched. Come, let me enfold you in my wings and bear you away in my arms."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClyqlEFeDn
Harry Potter blinked. Twice.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvilTqoAk1m
"Er, Malfoy," he started, but Draco was already in front of him, a finger across Harry's lips.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgergzXT3GG
"Shhhhh," he crooned, voice taking on angelic, soothing properties. "Sleep, and when you awake, we will be bonded for eternity."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnR25bw5LB
Harry jerked away, eyes narrowing. "Now see here, I don't need guardian, healer, or a lover. I protect myself, I go to Saint Mungo's for healing, and I'm married." 1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVLPi14Ohix
Draco appeared nonplussed. "You try to appear so strong, but underneath, you're bleeding. You've never had time or the emotional security to heal from the wounds of your childhood and the war. I've contributed to that, I know I have..." Draco looked away, the picture of penitent shame, "but now I'm here to make it right. It's fitting that the first person in the Wizarding World to harm you now be the one to make it right."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IbppQy88p
"Actually, Voldemort was the first one to harm me. Or if we're going off cause and effect, Pettigrew was." Harry corrected him. "And I have healed. I spent a few years in therapy and I'm doing fantastically now."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrNBzhK06eq
Draco's face became the picture of abject sympathy. "But I know that the Healers were blinded by your fame; wouldn't allow your problems to be truly discussed, for fear that they'd destroy the Healers' image of you. You must still be devastated by that."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOpqgUsGgAt
"Well, the first Healer was sort of like that, but I never really felt comfortable talking to Dennis Creevey in that capacity, anyway. Mathilda Hathkirk was a far better option, and a highly competent one, too. In any case, Dennis promised he'd never be so blinded again after Hermione hexed him."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgps2M3Pe1G
Draco heaved a sigh. "And your marriage...your disastrous, failing marriage. It's all right to get divorced; it isn't a moral failing. I have already forgiven you for marrying someone so utterly unright for you."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrm0bidKa4e
Harry had lost his patience. "Hermione is the love of my life!" he shouted, voice somehow simultaneously deafening while still being low and threatening. "She's a rock; utterly supportive of me, and keeps me on my toes. I adore her!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVhJMQarwJ
"Harry, Harry, Harry." Draco shook his head. "You are so determined to put up this brave facade that you've almost convinced yourself that you are happy."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqxUkxw4QF
"I am happy!" Harry flinched away from Draco's hand which was attempting to caress his cheek.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkxizFqE7p
"See?" Draco sighed, "You're so broken that you shy away from my touch. You need me."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoE55OOVTlx
"I was shying away from your touch because you look like you're two seconds away from trying to throw me down here on the floor and shag me, not because I'm broken. Bugger off." Harry scowled impressively and stalked away. 1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzKb3OoqWP
"You can't go! I'll...I'll die without your bond!" Draco begged, hands outstretched. "A Veela can only choose once!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡip2Bswb41y
Harry raised an eyebrow and regarded his third year trainee bunch. Half were crying, hanging on Draco's every word, hands raised supplicantly for Harry to accept Draco's suit. The other half, the ones who were apparently immune to the allure, looked decidedly unimpressed. A few were vomiting in a corner from the saccharine sweetness of Draco's statements. 1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoKqQLS8okh
"Roberts!" Harry barked out, causing one of the latter half to pop to attention.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRFH0I2YN0w
"Sir!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxY3bi0QHou
"Your mother is a Veela, what do you say?"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCEgNsY4JVU
"Veela are free to choose whomever they want, and often have several bonded mates at once, Sir!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qVJyyNgP8
"And is there a spell to break the bond?"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sR2zLMQTA
"Sir, yes, sir! It's Amor Ariditatem, to be cast in a circular motion around Veela and bondmate!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmoDWgkmRVN
Draco looked horrified. "No, please...you're condemning me to a slow and painful death!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOOMG9YzQv
"Roberts?"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnF6uPkSX4Q
"Sir, false, sir!"1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWTRP0qecH
"Amor Ariditatem. Thank you, Roberts."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡupz7RQMCs2
Draco was weeping now, his allure fading, wings retracting into his skin. "You've killed me."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJkmex9y8O
"I have not, you big baby. Bugger off."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ4VSjC67Ut
"No!" Draco wept harder, "I'm going to die."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM7WJ50AiD4
"From what, exactly? We know now that the bond breaking won't kill you."1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiMokCxou5n
"My mother really wants grandkids!" Draco sank to the floor, sobbing and unresisting even as Harry tapped Draco's cloak, incanting "Portus". The despondent Veela was portkeyed away, back to Malfoy Manor.1115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkZgtLcfIT
