TITLE: BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

Main pairing: Harry potter and Draco Malfoy

GENRE: Hurt/comfort, major Angst, tragedy, romance

WARNING: MPEG, mentions of past rape, NC-17 for explicit sexual content

SUMMERY: Draco Malfoy knows what Harry Potter desires the most, but can he overcome his fears to give in?

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Prologue

Four years later

The war was long over and so were the childhood years of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Having married just months after the war, the two tried their best to move on with their lives. They had their ups and downs -- the start was sure rocky l, but they were young, in love, and full of dreams.

After finishing their final year at Hogwarts, the two went on to graduate school. Just as everyone suspected, Harry and Draco chose different paths, but it was surprising how easily they adjusted to each other's schedules without a single bicker.

Draco followed his long cherished dream of pursuing potions and attended a well known school in the technical fields of potions, astronomy, Arthi macy, and transfiguration. He graduated in two years instead of the expected four and was immediately invited to join a research team. For six long months, Draco wandered the exotic depth of the Amazon, living in strange straw teepees and walking across vine bridges with his research team as they stayed up long hours brewing a potion that would help rid a rare disease affecting albino unicorns. He enjoyed his student years immensely and became the youngest wizard to have an article congratulated in WIZARD INTERNATIONAL, a well-acclaimed science and magic journal.

For his part, Harry was quite happy pursuing a career as an Aurora, having latched onto the idea in his sixth year.The four year training program was both exhausting mentally and physically, but the work itself was well worth it. He finishes his studies at the Hogwarts school of dark arts ( only for Hogwarts students) and then joined the WIZARDING INVESTIGATION SQUAD ( WIS) at the minister's request. His salary was nowhere nowhere near as modest as Draco's, whom the whole wizarding world had come to respect despite his family's shady past, but Harry was only too glad to pass on the limelight to his husband.

Let's continue

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After two months of cutting it out in London, the couple set their sights abroad Harry wanted to escape the city that tied him to his past and Draco certainly welcomed change.

So Harry sent a transfer request to his head department and the ministry promptly complied by sending him to their sister department in the United States.

Draco had by then returned from the Amazon and, eager for more research opportunities, he followed his husband to California where the couple settled in San Francisco, close to the international relations headquarters where in lay Harry's new department.

They bought a cozy three-bedroom house overlooking the beautiful Golden Gate right at the Golden City and spent most of Harry's free time travelling up and down California's coastline.

Draco had no trouble finding a job when he decided to look for one a month later. He settled for a faculty post at the American Institute of Advanced Magical Studies as a potions Master.

Four days a week, he lectured in the afternoons and then had the morning's, evenings, and nights (when Harry couldn't nag him to come home) to devote to his research in the excellent facilities provided by the university.

Overall, both were happy with their lives and each other, but sometimes, Harry had that feeling that something was missing.

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Today was one of those times.

It was a sunny sunday morning and Harry was busy checking his email on the breakfast table.

He had bought a laptop after settling in and he even convinced Draco to use it to chat with Severus Snape ( who for some reason knew about the technology). Although suspicious at first, Draco accepted the muggle technology just as he had come to accept a lot of muggle things since moving in with Harry.

Cars, telephones, TVs, stereo, AC, etc.,

Draco thought all of it was simply junk and unnecessary, but coped with it for Harry's sake who delighted in them.

They used magic off course,, but Harry only twirled his wand at work and Draco, mainly to clean their home. Apparition wasn't as common in the US as in England, so they stuck to the floor to get them to work and back. More often than not though, the two enjoyed driving around in their black Mustang.

Harry had insisted upon a driver's license and had instructed his husband as well until they both were expert drivers.

If anything, they loved the thrill behind the wheel and loved how they could travel around muggle places without appearing suspicious.

So for all his pompous upbringing and pure blood bravado, Draco Malfoy lived a humble and in part half muggle life with his half-blood husband whom he loved to death.

He had no qualms, not after Harry gifted him with a rather irreplaceable muggle artifact on his twentieth birthday: THE COFFEE MAKER.

Ever since trying it at college gathering, Draco had developed a deep beverage. The stuff worked better than the sleepless potion he used to take during his graduate days and plus, it smelled delicious!

So this particular morning, Harry was not in the least suprised when his husband joined him at the breakfast table with a steaming mug of black Arabian coffee.

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TBC.

Harry greeted, as they sharia brief morning kiss.

Draco sipped the scalding liquid, smoothering the weekend paper on his lap. He still read THE DAILY PROPHET (along with five muggle and magical newspapers) everyday.

His own paper was published in its depths, but Harry knew Draco wouldn't even glance at it.

For all his school boy boasting, Draco Malfoy-Potter had turned into a calm and humble man, and no one appreciated this change more than Harry who found his husband all the more charming for it.

Harry questioned when he saw the corner of Draco's lips twitch.

Harry replied, quoting his husband's own words.

Harry sighed and closed his laptop just as Draco finished skimming the journal, setting it aside for now.

Draco was touched by Harry's thoughtfulness and didn't hold back in letting him know.

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