- Rating:
- PG-13
- House:
- Astronomy Tower
- Characters:
- Draco Malfoy Hermione Granger
- Genres:
- Romance Drama
- Era:
- Multiple Eras
- Stats:
-
Published: 03/31/2004Updated: 05/18/2004Words: 5,830Chapters: 4Hits: 2,510
Falling for a Muggle Prologue
- Posted:
- 03/31/2004
- Hits:
- 1,000
- Author's Note:
- I want to thank beci, my beta reader for her help! She has made this so much easier for me, and fan!
They had been left into the darkness to suffer from the bitter cold. And darkness had never felt like that before, silent, sad... deadly. There was only enough light to reveal two pairs of eyes, fixed on each other. They were only staring now, revealing no emotion, no thought. They were unable to think, unable to believe. How could they believe their end was inevitable now?
Her wound was lethal. She knew that and so did he. Fragile as she was left, she didn't have enough strength to deny it any longer. But he wouldn't accept it. He couldn't. He had remained frozen, bent over her. He kept looking into her eyes and then at her wound, again and again, unable to think, to move, unable to do something, help her in any way possible. He placed her loose in his arms, like a cracked porcelain doll, afraid that she would break if he held her tighter. But she tried to hold him close, make him share some of his remaining strength, some of his warmth with her, as she felt colder and colder. She tried to make him grab her, for one last time, kiss her, tell her that everything would be all right, even if this was clearly a lie now.
She had felt the pain, yet now the pain was leaving her. And she knew that this wasn't good. Her end was drawing closer. Her blood was still flowing, spreading on the cold stone floor, like spilled red wine, losing it's life force as it abandoned her body. She was loosing the warmth of her cheeks, the redness of her lips. Too much blood on the floor... Nothing would remain there soon, nothing but an empty body, no soul left to occupy it, empty. The blood was on her clothes, her waving hair. And it was on his hands, the hands that had tried desperately to stop her from bleeding. The hands that had failed to do so. He was wounded too, but his injuries were healing fast. His pure wizard blood mixed with hers as he held her. "You see my love? It's the same..." Draco heard her whisper breathlessly.
And then, for the very first time in his life, his tears were too strong to restrain. They burned his skin, forming the deepest scar sorrow could ever create. Pure drops of sadness. He felt so very weak. Since he could remember, he had had anything he wanted. And now, the only thing his heart had ever truly desired was leaving him. He felt as if the spreading blood was flowing from his hart. And he could do nothing to stop it. Nothing but observe... His eyes met hers. And through his blurry vision he saw her longing for a trace of warmth in his ice blue glance, something to remember now that she was leaving him. She wished for anything that would bring back the sparkle into the remains of her life, if only for a moment. But only frustration was concealed in the frozen lake within his glance. Frustration was all he could offer her.
But let us travel very far. Not in place, but in time, far from this sorrow... We see her smiling as she' s trotting down the stairs of Hogwarts, with eyes so bright and a luminous face so very alive as she's moving. The young girl almost does not fit into this setting. She is too alive for the crumbling old school and the ancient dusty halls. She is carrying a huge pile of books. Heavy knowledge, just light reading for her. Such a magnificent brain, hidden into this pretty girly head. Yes, it is clear now that she has blossomed during the summer. The girl will be a beautiful woman soon. Heading to the library with haste, where she will meet with her friends. She didn't have the chance to see Harry and Ron during the summer... And all looks well! And she seems happy, she is happy! We find ourselves watching her one year earlier. All is set for their new school year. But yet, this year will be much different for her. Everything is about to begin...