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.
