Ravenclaw House : Challenge 5
Prompt:
To hear silence and song,
To shed tears of sadness and joy,
To forget what has been taken,
And remember what has been given. -Author unknown
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This wasn't real. It couldn't be real. I had to be dreaming.
We stood there in a circle around him, just looking at him, as he lay there - dead.
I was his older brother. I shouldn't have let this happen. I should have been there for him. I should have fought for him. And now it was too late.
I just couldn't wrap my head around it; Fred was gone.
He was too young to leave, had so much to live for and look forward to.
I hadn't got to tell him all that I meant to. That I was sorry for abandoning him. That, maybe, things might have turned out a little different if I hadn't. I had been a complete git. And I couldn't tell him anything now.
The rest of the family figured this would be hardest on George - he was his other half. But they didn't know I believed it all to be my fault.
It was my fault because I was there. I watched him die, right in front of me, and didn't stop it. What kind of brother was I?
I was sick with myself. It should have been me in his place, but now I'm here, watching my family suffer. We would never be the same.
You could only pretend everything waas fine for so long.
I watched the tears stream down my mum and Ginny's faces. Ron, George, and well, the rest of the family, were blank. Like they couldn't process this. I couldn't blame them.
"Sir?" The nurse walked to where we were standing, ending the silence. "We need to take him." I saw the sympathy in her eyes.
This was it. This was truly the end.
The end for Fred, yes. But the beginning for everyone else. A chance at a life without terror. Maybe this was actually the beginning to a better future.
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