Everything That Happens is From Now On - Chapter 4 - trishjames - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]
1. Chapter One 2. Chapter Two 3. Chapter Three 4. Chapter Four 5. Chapter Five Panicked, Draco instinctively reaches up to peel away the hand covering his mouth. In response, he’s shoved against the brick wall deep in the alley as rough calloused hands now scramble to come around his neck to squeeze. An unremarkable-looking older man about his height with dark hair stares back at him in the poorly lit space that stinks of rotten eggs, shadows playing across his pale and unfamiliar face. Despite being startled and bereft of air from being flung and choked against a wall in his inebriated state, he quickly regains his footing and attacks the man, his short nails digging into the back of the stranger’s hands. When that fails, he reaches out to press his thumbs into the man’s eyes, but the stranger squeezes tighter around his neck, shaking him while doing so. “Get the fuck off me!” he wheezes, but the man says nothing as they begin to scuffle. Draco goes for his wand holstered up his slee