Preview 4: Saving Yourself

Italics indicate the lyrics to Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day.

Bold indicates the narrator speaking/time change.

Normal indicates setting the scene and dialogue.

FLASH indicates scene change.

AN: As you all know, the song that used to represent this preview was Welcome to my Life by Simple Plan but I thought that this song represented the story a lot better, so Ichanged the song.

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

One boy is asked to become a man sooner than the rest…

"Ron? Hermione? What's wrong with you guys?" Harry stammered.

"Like you don't know," Ron glared.

FLASH

"Look, guys, just talk! This is NOT how I wanted my last year at Hogwarts to end!" Harry pleaded, running after them.

Hermione turned around, furious. "We know what you did, Harry! We know what you've been doing! You're not really FIGHTING against Voldemort, you're WORKING for him!" Hermione's icy words cut slowly and painfully through his heart.

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone

FLASH

"Do you believe me?" He asked hoarsely.

She stared at him, and blinked. "I'm sorry Harry," She said after a moment. "But… it just doesn't make sense."

FLASH

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

"I'm leaving," He whispered. "For good."

"Good riddance," His once-companion spat at his feet.

FLASH

FIVE YEARS LATER

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

"Harry, what haven't you been telling me?" Rachel asked.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked casually.

Rachel sighed. "Harry, I know you're keeping things from me. I know nothing about your past and I haven't MET anyone from your past. Just, please, come clean."

Harry mimicked her sigh. "Okay…"

FLASH

One man has to face his worst fears…

"I have to go back!" Harry yelled at her.

"No you don't! You told me what they did to you! They deserve what ever kind of torture they're receiving!" Rachel screamed at him. Their small daughter was crying at their feet.

"But this is just something I have to do! I won't be able to live with myself knowing that Voldemort won the war! This is my battle as well as theirs! I was born to either kill Voldemort, or to die at the arms of him! I have to do this, Rachel, I have to!"

Rachel blinked at him, and then started to cry. "Okay…" She sniffed. "But I'm coming with you."

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

FLASH

"Harry, why'd you stop? This place smells horrible!" Rachel pinched her nose. "This sorta looks like the picture of those concentration camps when Hitler was around… well, keep going!"

"This… this is it."

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

FLASH

"HARRY!" Someone yelled. Harry turned to see a flash of red hair bounce on top of him. He fell to the ground, but quickly shoved the person off of him.

"Harry, what-?" Ron questioned.

"Get off of me, you filthy piece of dirt," Harry growled.

FLASH

"Oh, Rachel…" Harry sobbed. "She's gone. They got her. I-She wanted to come, and I let her. I let her! IT'S ALL MY BLOODY FAULT!"

FLASH

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

"RACHEL!" Harry screamed, and ran towards her limp body.

FLASH

And one man will risk everything for the people he despises…

"Harry, please talk!" Hermione cried.

"Oh, now doesn't THIS sound familiar?" Harry spat.

"What-?"

"Don't give me that crap! You expect me to welcome you back with outstretched arms!? 'Oh Ron, Hermione, I've missed you SOO much! Oh, by the way, THANKS for chasing me away five years ago!'" Harry mocked.

"Harry, you're blowing this WAY out of proportion," Ron tried to reason.

"Ron, shut up. Just shut up. I'm not forgiving you, and I did not come to save your little wizard world from Voldemort." Harry glared.

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

FLASH

"Harry… why did you leave?" The soft voice asked.

"I cannot believe you are stupid enough to ask that question," Harry shook his head.

FLASH

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I walk alone
I walk a...

"LISTEN UP! I am NOT here to save your pathetic asses from scary old Voldemort. I am here to save myself from Voldemort. If I had the option, I would let Voldemort kill you all."

Stunned silence rang.

FLASH

"Well, well, well… The Boy Who Lived has returned. We never thought you would want to SAVE your BELOVED wizard world after they HARSHLY isolated you." Voldemort sneered.

"That crap won't work on me, Voldemort, because I didn't come back to save them. I came to save myself."

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone…