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@ 2008-04-16 13:34:00

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fic, nc-17, prompt: the empress, round i, team epilogue

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart -- Team Epilogue
Title: How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
Team: Team Epilogue
Author: mahaliem
Prompt: Empress
Wordcount: 26,532
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Language, sexual situations
Summary: In order to keep custody of his children, Draco needs to find a spouse that will shore up the Malfoy family's tattered reputation. But what starts off as a means to an end gets more complicated when Draco's target reawakens feelings in him that he hasn't had in a long while, and Draco starts to feel alive for the first time since his wife's death.
Author's Note Empress Prompt—Parenting, Nurturing, New Love, New Life.

Thank you to my betas—M, N, O, and fellow team members, with an extra-special note of gratitude to M.

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?

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goddessriss
2008-04-16 06:31 pm UTC (link)

I really enjoyed this story. It was fresh, entertaining, funny and had a decent plot, too. The characterization was good - I particularly liked Draco as a dad. The way he talked to his tribe was funny and real, as was his struggle to be a good dad after the death of his wife. His grief at Astoria's death was well described but not angsty; I particularly liked the way he described himself as not over her yet, 'but for the first time I feel as if I want to be'. The Gringotts interludes were fun too - giving Draco a taste of danger far removed from his family life. Harry was great, too, obviously uneasy with using Draco the way he did, yet unable to help falling in love with him. (And why not? Just confirms that he and I have good taste...) His verbal sparring with Lucius at the end was perfect.
I could go on...but I'm sure I'm boring everyone now. It was great. Nuff said.

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