Title: How To Save A Life
Author: AngelHeartOfMine
Rating: T
Summary: "There never really is a better time you realize you're in love nor is there a better place, than that one moment when you're about to die." DMHG

A/N: I've got no clue where this story came from! I was reading through some of my favorite quotes and got…inspired. So I bet you'll recognize a lot. I wonder if you are able to recognize the quotes I used. There are too many to list. So:
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. And everything else you recognize doesn't belong to me.

There never really is a better time you realize you're in love nor is there a better place, than that one moment (heart beating loud, head clear and totally unexpected) when you're about to die. In that single agonizing yet blissful moment you smile. It's complete. Your life is complete now.

The well filled with love you tried so hard to keep shut is brimming now. It's seeping through every core, every fiber of your being, almost choking you. Yet it's welcomed. Because after everything you're relieved you can actually feel. Time slows.

What is time? In only seconds you will be a memory, vanished into nothingness.

As you spread your arms to protect her you grasp the meaning of death. There's nothing glorious about dying, anyone can do it. But it's sacrifice that makes the world remember. And even if you're sacrifice is silent and goes unnoticed by the rest of the world. You know she'll remember. And you revel in the knowledge she'll forever remember you for this moment.

Your back is facing her. But you know exactly what she looks like now. If you had had more time, you'd have chuckled. You bet she looks like a right mess. But love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

Love. Hate. Well, weren't you in the damn middle of it now?

You tried to hate her when the love was already there. But decided to stick with love, hate is too great burden to bear.

The sound rushes back to your ears and time heals itself. Around you the cries of humans fighting for their lives continues.

Life is once, forever.

"Draco!"

And from that second you decided you loved her more. Did that make any sense? Well you guessed not. But unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

You have to be empty in order to be full.

"Avada Kedavra."

There it was. The ripping sound of the earth splitting open, swallowing you whole. And you fell, right into its warm embrace.

And to think you never got to thank her. She gave you peace in a lifetime of war.

Thank you, Hermione…