Warning: Dark
435. Kakurenbo - Japanese for "hide and seek".
Malfoy manor is empty, save for Draco and Bree. Draco is terrified. He's alone with a madwoman and he can't run because she's pressing a knife to his neck and if he moves she'll slit is throat.
"Hey Draco, want to play a game?" she whispers. There's a too wide grin on her face and a crazed gleam in her eyes.
"What kind of game?" Draco asks, desperate to prolong his life.
"You ever play hide and seek back when you were a spoiled stuck up child? It's like that, only instead of hide and seek its hide and pray I don't find you." Bree replied. She pulls the knife away from Draco's neck and turns her back to him.
"I'm going to count to one hundred, then I'll come find you, and when I find you, I'll kill you. It will not be quick." She tells him. She starts counting and Draco runs from the room while he still has the chance. He can't leave the manor, Bree has already sealed all the doors and windows. He stumbles over the bodies of those who have already lost Bree's game.
Really they shouldn't have been so surprised that she had escaped the dungeon. She always escaped long before they managed to drag her back to England. She's probably just been playing along, just to get into the Manor. And it was understandable that she would want to get in now since she had lost her mind. Though Bree didn't describe it that way. She said she had found new parts of herself that she hadn't known existed. Dark parts. Considering everything that had happened to her, everything she'd lost, it wasn't that surpriseing. She had gone through hell and come out of it a demon.
Draco hides in a crawlspace. He doesn't move, doesn't breathe, Bree finds him anyway and drags him out, deaf to his screams. The knife comes down. The knife comes down. The knife comes down. Draco's death is not quick.
Malfoy Manor is empty. Bree walks down the drive, covered in blood. She doesn't look back even as the building burst into flames. It's not an interesting sight, not compared to all the cities that have burned, that are burning. London, Tokyo, New York, Sydney, finding a city that is not burning is impossible. But there is still fighting going on, enemies to kill, and she will find them. She will find them.