You know that meme that has been going around where you list out your personal canon for your OTP? Yes, I did it. Well, first I wrote a long summary of the story and then I condensed it to bullet-points. It's still less a list than a narrative though, damn. Not long at all now, though.

1. Ron wears a lot of faded muggle t-shirts because he thought Harry always looked so cool in them. His, of course, are the correct size, because his mum tut-tutted when he showed up in one three sizes too large and promptly shrunk it down to a proper fit.

2. Draco wears a lot of sweaters. Weasley sweaters, mostly, once he starts seeing Ron.

3. Ron started fucking Draco almost by accident. He was supposed to meet an informant in a seedy muggle pub, but the guy didn't show. Instead he got ridiculously drunk and then got in an argument with Malfoy, who was inexplicably seated two seats down the bar. They stumbled to the bathroom together and fucked in the far stall while other people came and went.

[Please pause to consider Ron's idiocy in not realizing that Draco was the informant. Biases can be blinding.]

4. Draco met Ron every week, and every week Ron fucked Draco and Draco told Ron what the next Death Eater target was. The arrangement, Ron supposed, was mutually beneficial. Ron got information, Draco got fucked. By Ron. Who was totally a stud.

5. Ron thought he was straight.

6. Ron was wrong.

7. One time Draco owled Ron off-schedule; Thursday instead of the usual Monday. The note just said "NOW!" in Draco's messy scrawl. Usually the note said "same time, same place" or, in the one instance when they had changed times, "busy. wait for me?" When Ron got there, Draco was frantic and babbling. The only words Ron could make out were "The Burrow -- tonight," but that was enough.

8. The Burrow was a loss, but all the Weasleys survived more or less intact.

9. When The War (which was, in Ron's opinion, less a war than a series of skirmishes and a lot of skulking about) was over, Ron spent three weeks celebrating, getting riotously pissed and sleeping with the kind of girls his mother would have referred to as "loose women." And then the kind of men his mother wouldn't have talked about at all.

10. Ron didn't think about Draco.

11. Until Draco showed up on his doorstep in a threadbare sweater and worn-out corduroys, looking for all the world like he might just collapse and die right there. Then Ron thought about him a lot.

12. Especially when Draco crawled into his bed in the middle of the night, even though he had a perfectly comfortable one of his own in the guest room.

13. And even more especially when Harry and Hermione found out and appeared completely unphased by the whole thing. "Oh, yes," Hermione said, "I was wondering where he'd gone off to; he was our only informant in the war, did you know?" Ron said yes, he did know.

14. And Ron most especially thought of Draco when they sat in the kitchen in the morning, fighting over breakfast foods and sorting out the newspaper so that Ron could take the sports section and Draco the society section. The light streamed in through the windows and glinted off Draco's hair and Ron thought that, really, he should have known all along.