"Walk Away" is © the Crüxshadows. Now, I would normally tell you what album the song is from, but unfortunately, I do not know this one, so you're just going to have to find it on your own. All the usual disclaimers apply. Not going to repeat. All chars and settings are © J.K. Rowling. And away we go…

Walk Away

In this fading image,

We'll carve our destiny.

Sometimes life is a cruel friend,

Sometimes that's what we need.

I figured out what I must do. I have to let him go. I have to tell him our friendship is over. I have to tell him I can never see him again, and to leave me alone. Why? Because it's the only thing I can think of to escape this pain. If I can just… get him out of my sight, out of my mind, I may have a chance at happiness. Even though it seems as though he's already gone, he's not, I still see him everywhere. Every time I wake up, when I walk thorough the halls, when I sit atop the Tower, even when I close my eyes at night. He's always there. I need a chance to be happy. I need a chance to be free. But, if it's the only way, why does just the thought of it hurt so much?

I'll hold my eyes,

When the light comes in.

I'll sell my silence for a song.

Now I won't die,

If you walk away,

But I may not live.

All I can see in my head is the hurt in his eyes when I tell him, the tears running down his face. All I can feel is my heart breaking. I see him walking away, out of my life, in pain, in tears, and part of me thinks that it's just what he deserves for making me hurt so much. The other part of me thinks that I should apologize and say I'm sorry and just throw my arms around him and tell him I love him. I close my eyes at the images in my head and the feelings in my heart. If this is how I feel just thinking about letting him go, what will it actually be like to do it? And do I actually have it in me to do it?

Now I watch,

As the rain comes down,

To purify this pain.

When mountains crumble,

And stars collide,

I am what remains.

I look out the window, and it's raining, but I can't figure out if the rain is coming from the sky outside or just from my eyes. The tears fall and fall, but offer no comfort. I feel as though the world around me is crashing down, my shoulders bearing the weight. Crushing me, smothering me. In the end, it isn't so. It's just me, sitting here, Feeling the pain inflicted upon me, the pain I am planning on inflicting on another. I know what it feels like to have a friend walk away, so why do I feel the need to make another feel it?

There are lessons,

That sadness can only teach.

There are things that we must learn…

I don't think I can do it. I've lost enough as it is, but to watch him walk away forever, to watch him leave in tears, would only hurt me more. I love him too much to let him go.

Now I won't die,

If you walk away…

Trapped Forever,

Ron Weasley

But I may not live.