"There you go again, Potter. Biting it back. Swallowing it down. You," Draco said harshly, "need to live again." He reached around Harry's torso and dug his fingers sharply into the skin over Harry's heart. "You need to feel pain, and embrace it. You need to live again, or it won't matter whether you get rid of the fucking Wand or not. If you don't live your life, you might as well keep the Deathstick, because that's what it is. You need to get through this, not around it. You need to cry, and you need to bleed. And I need to bring you there." Exceedingly well done fic. The thing I often find lacking in romantic fics is the assumption that both Harry and Hermione are able to "switch" from being totally in control (in order to survive) to letting go completely in a sexual situation. I understand, it's sort of prerequisite to writing porn not to have the characters be "frigid bitches", but it is fairly unrealistic. That's why I enjoyed your take on the subject so immensely.