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Isn't there any way of putting yourself back together? Yes, but it would be excruciatingly painful. Why? How do you do it? Remorse.

I was falling. The first time I saw him, I was falling. Before I knew it, I was falling.

...I pound my hands on the wall, ignoring the blood running from them. "We were friends!" He can't hear me now, he's too far away, but I can't stop screaming. "We were friends! We were friends!"

It is the tenth century - The story opens with the return of Salazar Slytherin from Italy, where he has been training with Master Gaius, a member of the Council of Wizardry. He has come with news for Godric, that a group of Muggles have killed a witch, Godric's Mother, Sara. Godric goes with Salazar to where it has happened; on seeing his mother hung at the crossroads he swears a blood feud against the family that did it. The last remaining member being a man of sixteen, who is currently fleeing to Denmark at the news of Godric coming after him.

After a mission gone wrong, two men are trapped in a deserted Muggle building, one of them mortally wounded. What happens then sheds light on the true nature of friendship, love, and hope.

The secret Salazar has been choking on for weeks will stay hidden no longer... This is the truth. Rating for safety.

For most people, I have always stood for the opposite of what he does, for all that is good and strong and right, and he is selfish and greedy and evil... but I have made him what he is.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Some friendships last minor squabbles. These outlasted prejudice, betrayal... even death.

"When you can't walk, you crawl, when you can't do that - " "You find someone to carry you." Done for the Friends That Carry You Challenge on hpff.

Some things bring out the best of the evil people, and the worst of the good. Prejudice does not exclude compasion. Bravery does not banish callousness. Rating for safety.

She caused the death of only two people, although that in itself is miraculous. She distorted the memory of a very decent man. And she was not human. Not sapien. But very, very sentient. Rating for safety.