15 min.

The man beside Harry stared at Draco, his gaze unwavering. Draco stared back, also not blinking.

"Well... How are you Draco? Did you die too?" The voice was in no way kind or forgiving. The sound was harsh and grating, very unlike how Draco had known it to be before, when the person had been alive.

14 min.

"Blaise, how wonderful to see you," Draco answered his voice equally as hard and merciless.

"But the pleasure is all mine. You see, Harry here will die in... Oh, I'd give him about twenty minutes... That's what happens when you get in the way of an unforgivable... Apparently my spell to make him a full vampire is void now... It must have happened while he was in the shadow world. So since he's a hybrid, he's easier to kill... I'm sure he's told you?"

Draco felt himself nod, but he was no longer thinking of what he was doing. All he felt was a strange emptiness. Harry was dying. Dying...

13 min.

"So since he decided to be a hero for once in his pathetic life," Blaise kicked Harry in the side. He didn't even move.

"Because he stepped in front of the curse I threw, it rebounded, but it was still potent enough to kill him, obviously."

12 min.

Draco gritted his teeth and drew his wand, but Blaise raised his hand, and threw his wand aside.

"I'm already dead, do you really think that your pathetic spells will do any damage? You, however, are alive, so just think of the advantage I'd have!" Blaise let out an awful noise which Draco supposed was him laughing.

11 min.

"No. We will not be using wands... I prefer swords myself. Here," Blaise tossed a sword towards the blond. The blade was a black color, and looked highly reflective, but when he looked closer, Draco saw that he couldn't see anything except for swirling colors.

10 min.

"These blades can kill the dead, so to speak. They can bind a ghost to a person, therefore eliminating the free will of said ghost. Ready?"

Draco nodded.

9 min.

The swords made no sound as the clashed against one another. Draco found it unnerving.

Sparks would fly from the blades every time they came in contact with one another, as if to make up for the lack of sound.

8 min.

Ghosts don't get tired, but Draco wasn't a ghost. After only a minute he was hardly able to keep up with Blaise.

That was turning into a problem.

7 min.

Sparks. That was what Draco saw right before Blaise's sword came down towards his throat, but stopped short.

Blaise chuckled again, those awful dry sounds issuing from his throat, making Draco want to cringe, and cover his ears.

6 min.

"Well... seems as though I have you, Draco Malfoy... but I would like you to watch something first..." Blaise walked over to where Harry was lay, crumpled and knocked out cold.

"Goodbye Harry Potter," Zabini said, and then brought the sword down through Harry's neck.

5 min.

"No..." Draco whispered to himself. Something in him just snapped, and instead of being angry, instead of wanting revenge, Draco wanted to curl up and die. He stared at Blaise and didn't move.

"Why?" He asked, even though Blaise had already told him everything, he had the strange feeling that Blaise had left something out.

"Why?" Blaise repeated, "Why, Draco, you really are quite thick sometimes. You two are mates, didn't you realize? That's why I wanted you to watch that, because I am sick and tired of you doing everything better. You do better in Dark Arts, in Potions, in every single class, in Quidditch, and now, you took Harry when I loved him."

4 min.

Draco was crying, and he didn't care, he just wanted Blaise to kill him. Bring the sword down and end it all. Maybe he'd see Harry...

3 min.

"Well... good bye Draco!" Blaise laughed swinging the sword in an arch downwards towards Draco's neck.

Malfoy closed his eyes, waiting for the dark to wrap him into it's protective cocoon... who knew, maybe he'd be a ghost and come back to this world...


A/N: Short chapter, I know! But I really wanted to make this a cliffie, and I think I did! So enjoy! (I promise I'll post the next chapter tomorrow so you don't have to wait too long to find out what happens!)

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