TITLE: Safety in Darkness
AUTHOR: wintervixen86
RATING: M
SHIP: Draco/Hermione
GENRE: Angst/Romance
SUMMARY: In the midst of a dirty gritty violent war, two enemies meet in the shadow of darkness to hold on to a string of their sanity.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything. This story comes from the deepest darkest corner of my imagination.
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FOREWORD
Dear Reader,
My story spans two years, forty eight days and six hours.
But I cannot tell you my story in days. Or months. Or years. Or even chapters. This is because I don't look back on my story and view the events that changed my life in minutes or hours. I don't remember if it was day or night, hot or cold, summer or winter. It doesn't matter because time is not what measures war. Not accurately anyway. A war could rage for a hundred years and you still wouldn't really understand the scope of the battle.
The only thing that really matters is loss.
How many people were involved, how many were killed or tortured or possessed by a stranger and forced to do their bidding. How many lost their minds, their family, their friends, their loved ones. How many gave their lives to a cause either willingly or unwillingly. How many died on the battlefield or in hospitals as healers worked around the clock to save them.
Loss is the only thing that matters in war.
A lot of people argue with me and claim victory is what's important, but victory doesn't keep you up at night. Victory isn't what worries you at every moment of every minute everyday. Victory is not what makes you break down into tears or scream so loud your throat wants to split in two. It isn't what sends you into a depression so deep you think you will never emerge.
Its loss that does those things. Its loss that makes you do things you wouldn't usually do. It was loss that sent me into the arms of the enemy, and loss that kept me going back even when I hated myself for it. It was loss that brought us together and kept us together even in the darkest and most desperate periods of time.
Call it what you will... death toll, lives lost, those murdered. Whatever. But those numbers are the only way I can tell this story.
Signed,
Hermione Granger
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To be continued...
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