Title: Flying
Author: OCDegrassi (Holly)
Pairings: Harry/Ron, Harry/Ginny
Rating: M
Warnings: Suicide, Slash
Note: This is for sick-atxxheart's Suicide Challenge. The challenge was to have one of the characters commit suicide and include at least one of nineteen quotes that were given. I wrote this story surprisingly fast. The words just sort of flowed out of me, so hopefully it ended up okay. This should be pretty obvious, but in case it's not, the normal text is the present and the italics are flashbacks. Enjoy.
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Ron stood on the edge of the Astronomy Tower looking down. The ground looked so far away, but it called to him. His mind thought back to what had brought him here.
"Harry, please, don't do this. I love you." His voice was hoarse from yelling and tears were falling freely down his face. His best friend of almost six years was walking away from him. Upon hearing Ron's words, Harry stopped and turned around. He sighed and when he spoke his voice was soft and sad. "Ron, I just can't do this anymore. I'm sorry. I'm going to be with Ginny from now on." Ron shook his head angrily. "My sister? No, you can't do this. You don't love her; you love me, I know you do." Harry's calm demeanor started to unravel.
"You're right. I love you, but sometimes love isn't enough.* I just want to be normal, Ron, for once in my life. All I've ever wanted is to be normal. I can't change that I'm the Boy-Who-Lived or the Chosen One or whatever they call me, but I can decide not to be gay." Ron laughed almost desperately. "You think you can change being gay? You can date Ginny. Hell, you can even marry her, but you can never run away from who you are." His eyes bore into Harry's, begging him to see the truth and change his mind. Harry looked down. He couldn't face Ron right now. "I can try." With that, he turned around and walked away, leaving his former lover to stare after him with his heart breaking.
Ron closed his eyes and felt the wind wisp past him. He raised his arms in the air like wings. He was a bird about to take flight, but before he could, he needed one last push.
Ron walked into the Gryffindor common room three hours later. His eyes were puffy and red from crying. He saw Harry sitting on the couch with his little sister. A part of him blamed her for this, but he knew it wasn't really her fault. She had no idea that he and Harry had been lovers since their second year. They hadn't told anybody because Harry wanted to keep their relationship a secret. Now Ron knew why. He was ashamed.
Harry looked up and saw Ron enter. He immediately pulled Ginny towards him and kissed her. His eyes never left Ron's. He was trying to prove to Ron that he could be with Ginny and forget all about him. Ron stared back in horror and disgust. More than heartbreak, he now felt anger. Harry was rubbing it in and Ron couldn't take anymore. How could his best friend be so cruel? He stormed out of the common room. Without thinking, his body led him to the top of the Astronomy Tower.
As Ron stood on the edge, he felt a single tear slide down his cheek. He took a step forward and felt his body lurch and begin to fall. He didn't open his eyes. He pretended that he was flying. He could feel the wind around him and he finally felt free. The soft grass below turned to concrete as his body connected with it. There was a second of pain, but then it was over. He was gone. Dead on the lawn for some unsuspecting student to find. He hoped it would be Harry.
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A/N: The sentence with the * after it was the sentence that I picked to include as part of the challenge. So what did you think? Please Review!