______<br/><br/>Just as any other night, Harry stirred awake during the early hours of the morning. His brain still muddled with sleep, he had turned, expecting to find Draco perched at the side of the bed.<br/>He didn’t.<br/>The room remained quiet and empty, and Harry couldn’t for the life of him place what had woken him. Feeling strangely unresolved, he buried his face into the cold, unused pillow.<br/><br/>When Harry for a second night in a row woke seemingly without a cause, he turned on his back, forearm heavy against his brow. He spared the feel of his body a moment of attention, struck with a nagging doubt that what might have disturbed his sleep could have been an unnoticed ache that suddenly and immediately nullified his announced departure from the Manor.<br/>After several long minutes, Harry had to accept that he felt no pain.<br/>They hadn’t talked much about it, neither the day off or the passing day. There really wasn’t much to say, having left little margin for them to have an open conversation about it; Harry had brought it up too late, his birthday an unmoving date looming in the near future.<br/>It wasn’t that he had gotten the impression that Draco was avoiding him, either. They had worked in separate spaces for a while now, significantly diminishing the hours they spent together throughout the way. His absence at night, however, felt more significant.<br/>“Coote,” Harry called into the void of his room. He moved his hand aside, rubbing at his eyes.  “Has Draco gone to bed?”<br/>The answer that came warranted Harry dragging himself out of bed, too.<br/><br/>Harry showed up at the door to Draco’s office in his pajamas and work boots, groggily dressed only to fetch Draco to bed - whosever that might be.<br/>While he didn’t bother knocking, Harry, even half asleep, didn’t cross the threshold, having received stern directions to keep at a distance from the dark objects in Draco’s possession.<br/>Blinking into the brightness of the room, Harry didn’t feel particularly eloquent. “You have to come to bed.”