for dessie, via the flash fic tag

379 words, by google docs


b.

He was the only one who knew that it was wrong. He was the only one who didn't feel the pressure to follow his mother—she was never part of that. It wasn't right for someone in their family to get involved in a war.

Yet, he wanted to get involved. He could see the way his friends were struggling in a way that he couldn't imagine. He wanted to get involved, to stop it, but not in the way his friends were going.

He was the outsider of his friends, never having the pressure to join the dark side. He was the one with an outsider's view.

He was the first to leave Hogwarts, not belonging with his friends' decisions. He was the first to try and think for himself.


d.

She first realized that something was wrong, very wrong, with her parents beliefs when her younger sister came into her room one night, sobbing. She was told how much her sister hated the war, how her sister felt as if she was being torn apart.

How her sister knew that when she was a little bit older, she'd be forced to kill for them too.

How her sister didn't want to lose her.

She was the first from her friend group to ever voice her thoughts, seeing her friends being tortured because of The Choice: do they think for themselves and disappoint their families, or follow in their family's footsteps and become murderers and torturers themselves. She was the first to speak out against the glamour that covered their life.

She was the second to leave Hogwarts, following him, trying to find a better life, a life that wasn't this.


t.

He was alone in his common room, separating himself from the people that he called his friends. After all, his two real friends had left Hogwarts, leaving him in the process. He had never felt so alone and so wrong in his life. Everything he was doing, everything his family, his friends were doing, they were all wrong. That was why, he assumed, his friends left. He wanted to join them. He felt wrong, he felt alone—

So he was the third to leave Hogwarts, searching out his two friends, not wanting to feel so wrong.