AN: Hello all, just a couple things before you start reading. "Acquainted with the Night" was inspired by two things: Robert Frost's poem of the same name inspired Draco's character, and the line "She was the color of extraordinary" comes from Jandy Nelson's novel The Sky is Everywhere, and serves as the foundation for Ginny's development. Please read on, and don't forget to review. That's all :) ~Vacare
A boy with blonde hair stood in a field and screamed a scream of unending fear and frustration and pain. He screamed for the childhood he lost at the hands of cruelty that left him with so many terrible memories of bruises, blood, bones, and broken bodies. A childhood he lost to easily swayed parents who didn't know how to say no and taught an innocent boy the ways of torture. He screamed in frustration at his inability to make friends, rather than cronies, to be different from his parents, but superiority had been pounded into his head and blood ties had been taught from the cradle. He screamed for the murder he'd almost committed, and for all the people hurt in the process. And then he screamed in fear for what would happen now that he hadn't carried out his task. What would happen to him? What would happen to the parents he still loved after all they'd done? Because in the end, they were all he'd ever known to be true.
Until he had met her.
And then he let out a scream far worse than its predecessors. It was colored with the pain of loss, the pain of remembering, regret, and love. It was a pitiful noise, a primitive noise, a noise of a person who has lost his way.
She had burst into his life like a fiery spark, brightening his blackened world. They had collided like fire and ice, how different they were. He had been reluctant, but she was determined to stay, to listen, and in reality, he had needed her more than he had ever needed anyone before. He used to tease her about her desire to help everyone, but secretly he couldn't believe how lucky he was that she cared so much. She put her heart into everything without reservations, and never had he met someone who loved life with such intense passion. Her warmth put the sun to shame. She was the color of extraordinary. She had shown him kindness when all he'd ever known was cruelty. She battled his hatred with love abounding. She had shown him how to live life in the light.