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“You’re sure your family’s okay with me being there tonight?” Draco asks for the tenth time, and Ron gives him an exasperated look.
Instead of answering this time, Ron wraps his arms around Draco and hugs him until Draco relaxes in his arms. “It doesn’t matter if they want you there or not,” he says. “I do. And if they can’t handle having the love of my life there, well then, we’ll leave.”
“The love of your life?” Draco pulls back to study Ron’s face, and blushes at what he sees there. He buries his face into the crook of Ron’s neck. “I love you, too,” he says. His heart hammers in his chest, because he realizes that he really, truly does love Ronald Bilius Weasley, one of his childhood nemeses.
They pack up the pumpkin pie that Draco had made from scratch, and the presents, and apparate to the Burrow where Molly quickly wraps Draco in a hug and kisses his cheek, and then smacks Ron on the back of the head, before pulling him into a quick hug. Draco isn’t sure what to make of that. It looks like it hurt, but he wisely keeps his mouth shut.
“What was that for?” Ron asks, rubbing the spot where his mum had smacked him.
“That’s for not bringing your boyfriend over sooner,” she says, and then she cups Draco’s cheeks with her hands and sighs. “Welcome to the family, son.” She kisses him on the cheek, and Draco can feel heat rushing to his face.
He hadn’t expected such a warm welcome from the family his own family had considered to be blood traitors. The Weasley-Malfoy feud had been a long-standing thing. Malfoy had anticipated being banned from the property. Instead, he’s warmly welcomed, and that makes him feel slightly wrong-footed.
Ron sputters, and blushes, and there’s no doubt in Draco’s mind that he’s hoping that Draco doesn’t want to turn tail and run. Ron needn’t worry about that, because for the first time in ever, Draco feels like he’s at home.
Molly pulls him into another hug, and Draco relaxes into it. He almost misses it when she pulls away and beckons him and Ron into her home. He can see where Ron gets his ability to give good, hearty hugs from.