So yah. This is pre-Always, the summer before HBP. Draco is on his way to being a death eater, and Aveline is trying to hold herself together and make everything right. She comes to an important descision.

I own nothing but Aveline.


How can I deccide whats right

Aveline slams the door to her room in her brother's face.

When you're clouding up my mind

She felt maybe fifty years older than she had at the start of the summer.

I can't win your losing fight

She and Draco had been fighting their father's past for so long...

All the time

And now... he had the audacity to give up?

Nor could I ever own what's mine

And people said she was the weak one.

When you're always taking sides

Now, he was just blindly following father's orders... like some sort of mindless drone.

But you wont take away my pride

If he could abandon her... what was to stop her from abandoning him?

No not this time

Let's see how he would do without his sister helping him.

Not this time

She stopped these dangerous thoughts, shocked.

How did we get here

She couldn't do that to him.

Well I used to know you

Not when he had been the only one there her entire life.

So well

Tears trickle out of her dark grey eyes.

How did we get here

"Why? Why do I always let everyone get to me?" She whispers.

Well I think I know

She was too kind of a person.

The truth is hiding in your eyes

Too kind to call out Draco's lies and destroy their family.

And it's hanging on your tongue

Destroy him.

Just boiling in my blood

And their mother... how would she react?

But you think that I can't see

Worse than Aveline had. She would self-destruct.

What kind of man you are

Aveline sinks down the wall, hugging her knees to her chest.

If you are a man at all

"No... I can't do that." She mumbles to herself.

Well I will figure this one out

So what could she do?

On my own

"Life was so much easier when I could just ask Draco the tough questions." Her own voice mocks her.

On my own

"But now he is the tough question."

How did we get here

How had that happened?

Well I used to know you

How had he gone from being her brother... her best friend...

So well

...To being another problem to solve?

How did we get here

It was so confusing.

Well I think I know

So troubling.

Do you see

"Aveline open the god damned door, would you!"

What we've done

"Not until you stop being such a selfish prat, Draco!" She mocks angrily.

We're gonna make such fools

But her voice shakes.

Of ourselves

She knows she has to figure this out.

Do you see what we've done

Has to make it stop.

We're gonna make such fools

But can she do that at the risk of her brother hating her?

Of ourselves

Is she capable of that?

How did we get here

No more blowing birthday candles out together.

Well I used to know you

No more crying on his shoulder and not being judged.

So well

No more thunderstorms in front of the fire...

Yeah Yeah

...And no more waking up on the sofa with his arm around her shoulders.

How did we get here

Could she risk it?

Well I used to know you

She hoped so...

So well

She would, if she found she was capable.

I think i know

Because a world where Draco hated her was better than a world without him at all.

I think i know

She would save him, no matter the cost.

There is somthing

She wipes the tears from her eyes.

I see in you

She takes a few steadying breaths.

It might kill me

Her legs move underneath her.

But I want it to be true

She stands and opens the door.