A/N: This is not my normal thing. This is for georgiebunk29 -my wonderful scopa and sisy-because Mickey won't give her a kitten. Dramione- warning you now. If you don't like, click back to my other stories where I promise there'll be more Harmony and slashy goodness to sink your teeth into. But you'll like it I promise.
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To Fall Like Rain
The rain falls around her,
in the hum of the street lights,
in the burnt out shells of the empty buildings.
It falls in the ruined shards of London like a thousand tiny, perfect crystals,
crushed and shattered on the asphalt.
Why not? she thinks, everything else is destroyed.
She does not regret the day she killed Draco Malfoy.
-
She is smiling, which was a rarity even in those days.
He glances at her coyly, raises an eye-brow and she laughs.
"I didn't think you would actually come!"
He glares at her. "I said I would, didn't I?"
"Yes, but- It's so foolhardy, so Gryffindor. I mean...why?"
He sneers as the stairs start to move, then it slips from his face and he grabs her.
"I missed you" he whispers.
-
She stumbles as the rain falls more heavily.
There is a hiss of water hitting boiling metal and the stench of death and decay and despair.
She starts to whisper and then to shout and then to sing.
Dancing around in the broken street.
Dancing on her bruised and bloodied feet.
Dancing because if she stops she will have to face reality,
face this desolate place, so she spins on, drowns on, dances on at the ending of the world.
Why not? she thinks, I'm the only thing still moving.
She is glad that London is broken, because she does not think she could bear it if it stood now, whole and empty.
-
He shakes her, hard.
"You cannot come with me! I won't let you throw your life away because you think you're in love with me!"
She glares at him .
"Why are you doing this!" she demands. "Why are you going! I know you don't want to!"
He turns away to stare at the incessantly sunny skies outside the shadowed classroom where they stand.
"Since when has what I've wanted ever mattered?"
he questions bitterly and when he turns back his eyes have gone cold again.
"Just go, Hermione."
"But-"
He snaps. "GO! GET OUT! GET OUT!"
He glares at her with a hate she has not seen in a long time.
"I don't want you!" he hisses.
-
Something bright darts in her eye and she stops dancing to pick it up.
It is a shard of glass, shattered like the rain and the city.
It rips at her flesh, spilling blood over her fingers, but she is too numb to feel it any more.
Perhaps she should break herself more often.
Why not? she thinks, I'm the only thing left with blood to bleed.
She does not mind that everyone and everything else is dead.
She wants to be alone anyway.
-
There is blood everywhere and bodies and mud and tears.
Everyone is shouting or cursing or crying.
-It's madness, she thinks. It's chaos, it's pointless, it's madness.
And dodges another spell and kills and kills and doesn't think.
-Don't look at the faces, don't look under the hoods, just kill and dodge and try not to remember.
She sees a wand levelled at her and she doesn't think, doesn't feel, just shouts out words before she sees the eyes: The smile; the promises; the lies.
But when he opens his mouth it's not words but screams,
screaming and screaming as he falls to the ground
and she can only try to hold the blood in his broken body,
crying though he cannot hear her, crying as crimson spills over her hands and he goes still and more still.
Colder and-
"VOLDEMORT'S DEAD"
-
The rain falls around her,
in the hum of the street lamps,
in the burnt out shells of the empty buildings.
It falls in the ruined shards of London like a thousand tiny, perfect crystals,
crushed and shattered and broken like her tears on the asphalt.
She does not regret the day she killed Draco Malfoy,
the day they won the war and made the world a good place.
A good empty place.
Why not? she thinks, why should it be saved when we cannot be?
And who said it could end any other way?
No, she does not regret the day she killed Draco Malfoy.
She just regrets that she lived through it.
Because now she is left: Spinning on; drowning on; dancing on at the ending of the world.
-fin-
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