Harry blinked, slow and exhausted. Draco's words were painfully honest, but Harry understood them to be true. All of them; from Draco saying he couldn't wait for Harry to make up his mind, to the inevitable fact that this was how Draco's life was. Harry scoured his brain for anything that might disprove Draco's point-blank statements, but couldn't find any.<br/>"You're right."<br/>His voice was soft when he spoke. At no point had either of them raised their voices, making the tension in the room feel that much more suffocating. It started to feel less like an argument and more like they were finally coming to face truths they couldn't outrun.<br/>"I don't think I can do more, though," Harry eventually added. His eyes were on Draco even when the other wasn't looking back at him.<br/>His lips parted for an instance before he finally gathered the courage to say<span style="font-style: italic">his</span>inevitable truth.<br/>"I'm not ready for you to meet my kid yet, or to introduce you to my friends. You haven't even been to my flat."<br/>Harry seemed pained. He had paused, mentally continuing the list of this he still didn't helt prepared to do. Harry couldn't take time off of work to maximize the time spent with Draco; he couldn't even be seen in public with him without the certainty that it would destabilize his entire life. To him, that felt like a poor excuse of a relationship.<br/>At some point, Harry's eyes had drifted. He was no longer looking at Draco when he finally seemed to gather his thoughts enough to phrase them as a question.<br/>"If I can't do that - if it can't be anymore than what it is right now, is that enough for it to be a relationship?"<br/>Only then did he look at Draco. It was phrased as a yes or no question, supposedly in the attempt of narrowing in whether or not they agreed on the extent of them being<span style="font-style: italic">together</span>. Harry, however, felt nauseous at the prospect of Draco leaving for another months on end and the possibility that when he returned, Harry wouldn't get a second chance.