"What?" Sarah gasped looking alarmed.
"I just came to say good-bye."
"What? Wait, why? Where are you going?"
"Away, I wish I could tell you but-"
"Draco. You're going with him! Aren't you?"
"I really got to go. Thanks for being such a great friend."
"No! Desiree, please don't it could be dangerous."
"I'll be fine don't worry. You are the one who should be careful, well with dating Potter and all." I turned to walk away but before I did I said, "Sarah please don't tell anyone about this. I don't want to kill you."
I found Crabbe and he led me to a room I had once been to with Draco. The room was completely different, there was a cabinet on the wall and Crabbe told me I was to climb through it. I laughed thinking it was a joke but then a pale hand stretched through form the other side. I knew that hand…it was Draco's.
Once on the other side I embraced Draco and refused to let go for a very long time. I was afraid that if I did he might run off again. When I finally detached myself from him I asked for the last time:
"Draco, what's going on? Is he-who-must-not-be-named here?"
"No. Not yet, but before he gets here there is so much I have to tell you." Draco looked solemnly into my eyes with his ice blue ones.
"Oh, Draco. Please let's just leave. We can find Mcgonnagol, she'll know what to do!"
"First I have to tell you. I'm sorry, sorry for bringing you into this. Please forgive me. But there is nothing I can do now. I cannot leave, but you can!" He looked desperate.
"I'm not leaving you! Come with me."
"It's not that simple." He sounded as if every word was stabbing him through the back. Draco's eyes shined into mine.
"What do you mean?" I searched his face for the answer.
"Ah, sweet Desiree." A cold, harsh voice came from somewhere in the dark-filled room. For the first time I tried to look in another direction different from Draco's. It was impossible the only light visible was the dull light from the cabinet but that only light up Draco's face.
"Lumos." I lit my wand so it filled the room. It looked like an underground cave of some sort and soon a tall, thin, pale man stepped in front of me. "My Lord!" I gasped. I quickly dropped to my knees and faced down.
"No need for that my dear. I have been watching you, watching to see if you are worthy of becoming one of my life long servants. Everything seemed prefect, you're a pureblood witch, dedicated to a pureblood wizard, and you are ruthless and careless of the others around you. Ah, yes you fit so perfectly in. I observed you from day-to-day, watching you play quidditch, taunt other students and enjoying it. But, then I saw something, something that made me very upset." His voice became, if possible, colder and the slits for eyes he used buried into mine. "A mud-blood! You were conversing and pouring your heart out to a mud-blood!"
Draco's eyes bulged and he mouthed: "What?"
"Sarah Kurofsky. Pure, mud-blood. Not an ounce of wizarding blood in her she is also the girlfriend of Harry Potter!" the Dark Lord pulled out his wand and faced it in my direction. Draco withdrew his as well but pointed it instead at the Lord.
"Ah, I don't intend on killing your loved one Mr. Malfoy. Why, in fact I should be thanking her. If it weren't for her knowing this dirty-blood girl I would have never known that Potter was suspicious of you."
"And I was right to be!" Harry shouted emerging from the cabinet with Sarah close behind.
"Potter." Draco's eyes flickered.
"Sarah," I breathed.
"I see you have finally found us as I knew you would. Seeking revenge after your dear Albus Dumbledore. I expect Snape to be here soon, but for starters you can take Draco. After all it is his fault Dumbledore died." Voldemort Sneered.
Draco's wand shot toward Harry but Harry shouted a disarming charm and Draco's wand flew from his hand.
"No! Don't, Harry. You kill him, I'll kill her. Petrificus Totalus!" I stunned Sarah so she was unable to move not one muscle in her body.
"Let her go Desiree. You shouldn't be the one dying tonight." Potter eyed Draco.
"Enough! Potter you are here for me, so let me make it easier for you! Avada Kedavra!" A stream of green shot from the tip of the wand, the Lord cackled as he hit Draco in the small of his back. Draco's piercing roar of pain, the scream I let out as it happened and the thud from him slamming against the wall and onto the floor echoed throughout the cave.
"No. Please, no." I whispered. My throat felt dry and my tears were salty, I felt as if my stomach was swallowing my legs. I collapsed next to him and turned his face toward mine, it was the last time I would ever look into his eyes, his ice-cold, blue eyes. I looked away and around the room…searching for something that wasn't there. All I saw was Harry battling for his life and Sarah still motionless, just as Draco, but there was a difference because she was alive. I set her free of the spell and she threw me a sorrowful look before heading toward the battle. It didn't mean much, not when the only thing that ever mattered lay cold and dead in my arms. I'm not sure how long I laid next to Draco and cried with my arms around his lifeless body. I don't know how long people danced around me fighting until his or her enemy died; I don't really remember everyone coming in to battle at all. All I remember is wanting the world to burn because of what happened to Draco. I wanted Voldemort to burn because of what he did. After some time passed, after people collapsed out of death or exhaustion, Professor Lupin came and lifted me off the ground . I refused to leave Draco so I watched them take Draco's lifeless body to the hospital wing, then I saw Sarah's limp but alive body along with several others in the hospital. I guess an entire war broke out and I barely noticed, but the corridors were filled with either dead bodies or extremely injured ones.
It's been three months since school let out, since Dumbledore, Draco, hundreds of wizards and Voldemort died. Hogwarts will be reopening in a few days and I will be reminded of all the horrible things that went wrong not long ago. But now I have realized evil is not and will never be my path to greatness, just as Draco thought it was. If I'm on the good side and I feel good and happy about what I do, I can die happy. Maybe someday I'll see him again, but for now I'll just have to live through life as it comes.
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