Hey there readers, who stumbled upon this little story of mine!
I will start with the end, kind of. To fully understand, I am afraid, you have to read the whole story :P
I hope you will enjoy our little ride together and I am always happy to receive a few words, whether critical or not :)
(For the ones being interested. I've been writing to the following song, so maybe it fits best while reading. But then, this is just a proposal:
Youtoube - amazing piano song - creepy picture where fingers come out of an eye)
Disclaimer: Here we go. In reality, I am Hermione Granger and this is my story. Nevertheless, it all belongs to the great J K Rowling. Still...
„I am done", was all she said.
Silence stretched while brown eyes got lost in a sea of stormy grey. Seconds, merely ticking away and the quiet seemed palpable, laced with a thick sort of tension, unspoken words hanging in the middle of two lost souls.
Her clenched fingers were buried in the fabric of her skirt and her heart raced, a steady rhythm echoing in her ears while she waited.
And waited.
"You changed me, you know." It was her voice again, breaking the uneasy silence and she caught a glimpse of something flickering behind his mask, like a shadow of sadness gracing his otherwise stony features. But no word escaped his mouth.
"My world was all black and white. I got boundaries. I knew to discern good and evil. It was never easy, but I had my eyes set on a way. We" and she hesitated, thinking of her two best friends, one of them currently occupied by going on a deathly mission with the beloved headmaster himself, Dumbledore. "We have a path to take", she got on, trying in vain to steady her voice but lost.
"But then you came. And you changed everything, Draco. My thoughts. My views. Me." The last word merely a whisper was drowned by her own rapid heartbeat and she willed him, willed him with every fiber of her being to answer. To say something. Anything.
However, he said nothing at all, so she turned.
It was a moment worth for the world to stop turning, but it didn't. There was no monumental shift, no big bang. Nothing, like the nothing coming out of his mouth and she felt the cold metal under her shaking fingers when she turned the handle.
"You are going, then?"
Cold words with a hint of desperation and there was no need for her to turn for she knew what she would see because she has seen it so many times she lost count of it. It was his face, set in stone, but his eyes that would betray his cool demeanor while giving a hint of the fear that was literally eating him alive. It was this expression that made her fall into his world of grey for the first time. It made her want to know. Know him and his secret.
"Would it change anything if I stayed?"
Silence was her only answer and it was sadness then, worming its way through her body and making her eyes prickle dangerously.
"You see." And the door opened, slowly, with a low squeak that was ringing loudly inside her head.
"If you`re going out of this door now, Granger, there's no way back."
"It's Granger again, is it?" she retorted with a lack of her usual bite. "Tell me, Draco, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to say with you saying nothing at all? You chose, as it seems and so did I!" It were tears now, streaming down her pale skin and suddenly she turned, searching for his gaze while a deep brown told him what she couldn't express with the mere use of words. For a moment he reacted, only a slight shiver and his fingers reached for her, stopping in the middle of the process and then he looked away.
Just like that.
"In another time at another place, this would have been great. Good luck, Draco."
A whisper that still lingers in the air even after the brown haired girl has vanished, leaving nothing behind but a destroyed hope for a better place to live in.
"Be careful, Granger."
"... Hermione."
But she never heard those words.
It' s pretty short, I know but then it's just the beginning. There will be more (even if you don't want it :P)
