To Keep Living
AN: So, these are a series of connected drabbles that are about Draco Malfoy and Astoria Greengrass. While there is no timeline, it starts somewhere before the events of the Astronomy Tower in HBP.
These were written to keep my focused on my new fic I'm working on and to clear my mind for final exams. I hope you find them interesting!
Prompt: Driven
He was driven to complete his task. He no longer had any choice. He had to do it. The choice to no longer do it was not an option. They were all looking at him. All of them.
He could feel their eyes, burning into him. He could feel their excitement and their impatience. The one in front of him, though, he could feel his compassion. And he wanted to laugh.
He wanted to cry.
He wanted to just disappear.
None were an option.
He raised his arm. He was going to do it.
And then, he couldn't. He thought of the compassionate eyes, the voice and the fact that she took away shadows. He thought of the sunset. And he knew he could not do it.
He lowered his arm.
It was done anyway. To not have done it would have been to assign him to death. Having it done—that assigned him to something worse.
A non-existence.
Word count: 159
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