A/N: Just a drabble I wrote for the D/Hr forum. I live and breathe Dramione, it is my favorite pairing.
Disclaimer: If it was mine then Dramione would obviously be a canon…
~oOo~
Everything was muted - the sounds and the colors, as if someone had cast a Muffliato on her world.
Even the dull roaring of blood in her ears and the pounding of her footsteps on the well-worn grey stones of the castle, had faded into the background.
She couldn't stop, couldn't think, she had to keep running, had to escape.
There was a deafening explosion as someone blasted a door open somewhere behind her followed by the sound of running feet. Her heartbeat accelerated, she was sure she was going to die from a heart attack before the dreaded curse hit her.
She increased her speed even as her body screamed at her to give up.
She wouldn't give up.
She was a Gryffindor.
She was Hermione Granger.
"You won't get away this time Mudblood, I'll kill you!"
She knew that voice - it starred in a lot of her nightmares.
She threw a stupefy over her shoulder but the death-eater kept on coming.
She ducked as a curse was fired her way, but twisted her foot and fell to the ground, rolling to minimize the impact; which turned out to be fortuitous as a curse hit the exact place she had landed, leaving a scorch mark.
She scrambled to get up but a sharp pain in her ankle sent her to the floor. The dread was just setting in when she felt the cool sting of a curse on her back rendering her incapable of movement.
She was rolled onto her back by a sharp kick in the ribs.
The true impact of her predicament hit her then.
She was going to die here – staring up at the face of Lucius Malfoy, her angel of Death.
Suddenly, a green light accompanied by a shout of "Avada Kedavara!" came from behind Lucius throwing his face in darkness - immortalized in that hateful sneer, Lucius Malfoy fell – to reveal a disheveled and beyond pale Draco Malfoy.
His eyes mirrored her horrified disbelief with more than a touch of stricken grief in them.
Softly, "I shouldn't have fallen in love with you."