Title: Break Me
Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy
Notes: this will be a multi-chapter. This is just the prologue - other chapters will be far longer. Enjoy!
This was not how he'd envisioned dying.
He'd seen himself dying for what was right; or in some hopeful parts of his mind, he'd seen himself slipping out in his sleep, unaware. An easy transition.
His killer would have been the Dark Lord after his betrayal - or maybe it would just have been nature.
He'd never imagined that he'd be at the mercy of Hermione Granger.
Her face was covered in grime; it was startlingly white in the places where her skin was still visible. She looked like a corpse - but her eyes were shining out of them, fierce, determined, and he knew she was going to kill him.
"Granger - please - " he croaked. He knew it wasn't going to do anything, but inexplicably, her wand arm dropped.
She didn't want to, and it was ridiculously clear by her posture.
"I have to." The answer was blank, unfeeling, and he knew she was struggling - and maybe his life would be saved in the process.
She raised her arm again, and there was something there that hadn't been before, and he knew he was going to die.
He closed his eyes-
-And then he crumpled to the floor.
Hermione looked at his body. Carefully, she levitated him into the Great Hall and laid him beside his family.
Even lifeless, without any of the expressions, he looked exactly like his father.
She closed her eyes - inhaled, exhaled, wondered if she'd done the right thing - and ran.
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Autumn x