Title: Not Alive

Word Count: 207

Prompt: Tell about the biggest lie you ever told.

Character(s): Draco Malfoy

Rating: K+

Warnings: none.


Sometimes, he wonders if he is even human anymore.

Human beings cry, after all, and he does not. He never has. That is something he proud of, though, which is another strike against his humanity, probably. He isn't sure. Maybe some of them do, but he wouldn't know – he grew up in a world where that would never be tolerated. After all, to cry is to be weak, and to be weak is to be dead.

He is not dead.

And that is the biggest lie he ever told, because if anyone in this world is dead, it is Draco Malfoy, and he doesn't even know it, not yet.

He doesn't realize it when blue eyes stare back at him, faith evident in the fact that he will do Good, even though he has never done anything of the sort. Or when his mother saves a boy who might have died for him, for his sake, and condemns them to forever be half in, half out. Or even when that same boy nods to him, and his wife clings to his hand and wishes she could bring him back.

He is not dead.

But he is not alive, and that is a truth he will never mention.