Change
A Harry Potter fanfiction
A/N: Don't own, so don't sue...I don't have much, being a college student and all...
I lit another cigarette as I sat down, waiting for him to show up.
I swear that no matter how many times I say no, I am always suckered into it, because of him.
I look down at my watch. It was now 9:30. He's late, I thought.
Another cigarette, another 15 minutes.
Finally, he strolled through the threshold, looking around, possibly for me.
He has changed so much since our school days. It seemed like yesterday we were eleven year olds showing other up, twelve year olds at our first Quidditch match against on another, thirteen year olds fighting, fourteen year olds dueling, fifteen year olds falling in love, sixteen year olds watching the blood flow, and seventeen year olds wishing we would have done things a bit differently.
Another cigarette, finally he spotted me, making his way through the crowd.
Something was different about him.
He sat across the table from me.
"Potter."
"Malfoy"
I looked into his eyes, the same ones I encountered so many times in my youth. The same cold, gray eyes I encountered years ago.
Yet another cigarette, followed by a shot of firewhiskey.
Something was definitely odd about the young man.
I remember at seventeen, he wasn't going about the same things normal seventeen year olds went about doing.
Sometime after the fall, sometime after the murders, he changed…
Another shot of firewhiskey, another smoke, and yet a third shot.
I have changed, too…for the better.