This story comes from the Ten to One challenge by Lost in the Lies. I gave her a HP era, and she gave me ten characters and eleven prompts. Each character has his or her own prompt, and for the last prompt, I had to write a chapter that involved all of them. What I decided to do was write ten drabbles from the POV of each character. Then, for the final chapter, there is a full-sized one-shot.
Thanks to Lost in the Lies for the perfect starting point! This chapter had the prompt want and the title comes from the song "Needing/Getting" by OkGo.
No Man
Cedric Diggory
Needing and Getting
No one ever thinks that it can happen to them.
"Avada Kedavra!"
But when I hear those words, and I turn just in time to see that flash of green… well, it strikes me. Literally and figuratively.
No one is too young to die.
The Killing Curse is instantaneous, but no one will ever tell you what it feels like. Imagine bark being torn from a tree, with that sickening, wet rip. That's the last sound I hear—and I know it's the sound of my soul being torn from my body.
My last thought is I want to live—
