Hermione wanted to throttle him. Her anger rattled inside her like a dancing fire inside a cage. She wanted to smack that mocking cheshire-cat grin off his face, wanted to scream
insults at him until her throat was raw. She hated the way he toyed with her emotions, and made her feel like the prey of some sleek wild jungle cat. She hated him. And now she could
hear him in the room above the kitchens.
"When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio....De Janiero..." His voice seemed to further mock her, dare her to feel hate and pain and love and anything of nothing. She wanted to burn the
whole place down, make him feel her pain, taste the bitter truth of life. The rose that he had hurt her with lay on the floor, looking deceivingly innocent. The charm he had used on it had worn off, and it was no longer black, but had pure white petals, tainted by tiny droplets of blood.
"Shades of grey, blur my reality..." His voice rang clearly, and it seemed like he was interpretting her very thoughts into song. The whole thing had Hermione more than confused.
She felt helpless, isolated, scared, furious...insane with a mad urge to claw her way back to a safe place, where everything was sugar-coated like candy almonds. He continued to cut
through the silence with random muggle songs, often pausing to laugh and smash a few things. It wasn't what he'd done to her that scared Hermione. It was his wild and strange
behaviour. It was the tinkles of glass on glass or the clangs of metal on everything else. Shades of grey began to swim in front of Hermione's eyes. The air in the kitchens, which
very noticeably stunk of onions and meat, began to smell like that of a tomb, a crypt. Hermione wanted out of this grey-on-grey chaos, and she wanted it now.
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a/n: sorry this chapter was this short. i wanted to make it snappy and powerful, instead of
long and drifty if you get what i'm saying. i used someone else's song for that whole Rio thing, but the lyrics of the other one(shades of grey) come from my imagination(as far as i am aware of there is no song with those lyrics)