Title: A Wake
Characters/Pairings: Aberforth, Albus
Author's Notes: DH spoilers. Poor Dumbledore family. I interpreted socks as punching, a la sock it to me.

The cemetery is silent, filled with figures tall and squat, yet all similar in shade; black is everywhere Albus looks, and he swears he can see it in his own heart.

Aberforth is silent, staring at Ariana's coffin. He says nothing, and never once looks at Albus, who is torn between his dead sister and mourning brother. When Aberforth's fist flies at his face – and suddenly there is red, and horrible pain – it is the only time his eyes leave Ariana.

Albus thinks if he had watched her then as Aberforth does now, there would be no need for black.