A/N: I just realised I forgot the disclaimer. I do not own Harry Potter or the song Crash And Burn. The characters ar JKR's and the song is Savage Garden's.
Crash And BurnWhen you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild, wild heart
Draco was sitting in the Heads' Common Room, wondering how he had managed to end up as Head Boy, when at least half of the wizarding world wanted him dead because they thought he was a Death Eater, and the other half wanted him dead because he wasn't one. The door opened and in walked the Head Girl. She was his only comfort, his only friend. She had taken the time to listen to him. She had taken the time to get to know the man behind the façade. And he had let her in. She gave him the courage to finally open up to someone, and he felt as if he had become more passive. She had tamed him.
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door
And you feel like you can't take anymore
Since the war, Draco had not been able to be in the Slytherin dormitories, due to the fact that he surely would have been killed by his housemates. The one place he had ever felt safe was now one of the most dangerous places for him to be. The few actual friends he'd had while in Slytherin had already tried on multiple occasions to harm him. It had been so bad at one point that he'd considered committing suicide, or letting his former friends kill him.
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
But then she had come along. He had run to her one day after a particularly nasty attack. He had run into the Heads' Common Room to get away from them. She had gone out and opened the door for him, and took about 500 points away from Slytherin as well. She was always there when he needed her. When he attempted suicide, she was there with a bezoar to cure the poison. She was there when he cried for the first time since childhood. She just sat with him and let him break down. And he did break down, because he knew she would always pick up the pieces. She never told him that it wasn't manly to cry, she just let him break down. She was the only person, since his father had murdered his mother, that made him feel loved.
When you feel all alone
And a loyal friend is hard to find
You're caught in a one-way street
With the monsters in your head
Even in the largest of crowds, he felt alone. All of his friends had abandoned him when he refused to take the Dark Mark after being forced to watch his mother's brutal murder. He only had one way to go now. He had been disowned by his father, and had he not Disapparate when he did, he would be dead as well as his mother. He had nightmares of that day every night. The only thing that made the nightmares go away was when she went to his room to calm him down. She would wake him and hold him until he fell asleep again.
When hopes and dreams are far away and
You feel like you can't face the day
He felt so helpless. He could barely get up in the morning. He didn't want to go to class, for fear there might be another attack from his former housemates. But he went, because he couldn't bare being that far away from her.
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
Because there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again
You'll breathe again
He couldn't remember a time before her when he had felt this safe. He tried to think of a time where he hadn't been afraid for his life, and couldn't. She was the reason he stopped trying to kill himself. She was the reason he got up in the morning. Without her, he wouldn't survive. She was his oxygen, his strength. She was his lifeline.
When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild, wild heart
She had made him whole again. With her by his side, he felt as if he could conquer the whole world, even when the world was against him. She had calmed the rage in him, and made him human again. And he would never forget that she did him that kindness.
Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone
Now, five years later, he stands at the alter, looking down the aisle at his beautiful bride, his saviour. He can't believe so much has happened between them. She had let him fall apart, had let him be himself for the first time in his life, and now she was doing something more for him. She was promising to always be here for him. She was promising to always help him pick up the pieces. It had been a hard journey to this point in his life, and there was no one he would rather spend the rest of his life with than Hermione Jean Granger. The love of his life, the one who saw behind the mask, and the one who let him love her with all of his heart.
A/N: This was my first (published) try at a songfic. It was written to rid me of my writer's block on my story 'After The War'. Please Review.
