Author: Brighteyes88
Pairing: Cedric/Fleur
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: None really, I think they're kinda stupid, but oh well. I don't own the characters, blah, blah, blah.
Summary: Fleur falls in love with Cedric during the course of the Triwizard Tournament. When he dies, she thinks that her world has collapsed, that is until she figures out a way to save him. Through using the time tuner, and enlisting the help of Harry, Fleur is going to try and save the boy that she has grown to love, no matter what it take, so will she be able to save him…..read and find out.
The Death of a Champion
Her heart throbbed as she stood in the massive crowd that flooded the Hogwarts stadium on that fateful June night. The air was brisk and the sky had turned pitch black. She had been waiting for hours, she knew that, but how many hours, she was not sure. The level of anticipation increased with every second that passed.
"1...2...3...4...5...6...7" She counted as her heart beat so fast it felt as if it would soon fly our of her petite chest. They had been in the maze so long that she began to fear the worst. She glanced over to her right and saw Viktor standing with his bury arms folded over his heaving chest. Just the sight of Viktor made her flinch. What he had done to her shook her to the core. Her body shuddered as she thought of it.
"Who's there." She cried as she began to tremble. She was terrified beyond her wildest dreams. From the moment that she had entered the maze, her body shook with an ice cold horror and her heart skipped several beats. "What was I thinking?" She continually asked herself as she ran through the dark corridors of brush that made up the maze. "I am such a fool! People have died in this tournament!"
Then she heard it. The leaves rustled on the ground and a huge breeze swept through the maze. Her silvery hair whipped wildly in the wind, flying around her porcelain face. Then she saw him. Viktor Krum stood just feet away from her. His eyes were clouded with a gray-blue mist and his body moved with slow clicks as he lifted his wand, looked deep in her eyes and shouted in and unearthly voice,
"Crucio!"
That was the last thing she heard. She had though it wound be the last thing she'd ever hear. Looking into those inhuman eyes, she could feel herself slipping. She felt her knees hit the ground as she looked at her attacker, thinking that those cold dead eyes would be the final fleeting memory of her life. As she looked at him, the images of her soon to be death (as she thought) flashed before her in the minimal seconds before her collapse.
She had seen Gabrielle, her sister. The petrified look on her face when she saw her older sister dead. The look on the faces of all the students that would see her lifeless body be drug out of the dreary maze. Then she saw Harry, a look of moral grief on his young face as he cried, his Gryffindor robes stained with blood and dirt. Then she saw Cedric. Cedric Diggory. Ah yes, she had become quite acquainted with the Hufflepuff seeker and Hogwarts Champion. They had become close friends over the length of the tournament, but she had never had he guts to tell him how she really felt about him. She wanted to tell him that she loved him. She wanted him to know, whether he loved her or not. She needed him to know. But now it was too late. He would never know.
She saw him over her lifeless body, tears glittering in his gray eyes. Oh how she loved those eyes, she could look into them for eternity. Now more than ever she wished to be looking into those eyes, rather than Viktor bitter orbs as her breath declined and caught in her tiny frame. She saw Cedric's countenance, the pain on it inevitable, his brown locks tousled about his gorgeous face, which was no longer illuminated, but rather stained with mud and blood from fresh cuts and gashes, matching the crimson blotches on his gold uniform. He cradled her lifeless form, and then all went black...
The next thing she knew, she was laying on the ground outside of the maze. She wasn't dead, in fact she was very much alive. Madame Pomfrey, the Hogwarts nurse stood over her.
"Oh deary," She gasped with delight, "I'm so glad that you're ok."
"Where am I?" Confusion clouded her senses.
"Why, your on the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch dear."
"What?" she cried, "Zo...I'm here, notz dead."
"Goodness no." Madame Pomfrey gasped, "You're just fine darling, some cuts and bruises, but you're just fine."
"Where ees he?" She asked.
"Where is who?"
"Cedric?" She asked, hoping to God that he was safe and out of the maze.
"Mr. Diggory is still in the maze along with Mr. Potter."
That had been the beginning of her desperate worry, her ceaseless fear. No longer for herself, for she was fine, but for Cedric and for Harry. She no longer wanted to look at Viktor for looking at him killed her. She clenched the sleeve of her light blue jacket tightly, almost unable to contain herself any longer, when...
SMACK...
Harry and Cedric hit the ground hard as they came back from the maze. The cup had obviously been a port key, for they now both lied right in front of her eyes and the eyes of all the other students. Finally they were back, and her worrying had ceased. Her ears boomed with the cheers of the enthusiastic crowd. And then she looked closer, the cheering became jumbled and slow (in her mind for it was louder than ever) and her knees became weak. What was happening...Harry clenched Cedric tightly, he didn't move. The young boy's eyes streamed with tears as he desperately clung to his older friend. She knew then that it was all over, her world had just collapsed. The boy she loved lied in front of her, not moving, with eyes, not his eyes, but empty shells of eyes glancing up into the starless night sky. Blood stained his handsome face and body. Everything seemed to move in slow motion, these few seconds seemed like hours, and then she couldn't even comprehend it any longer. Her mind snapped, and all she could do was scream, scream louder and with more pain than she had ever done before.
"OH MY GOD!" She yelled as she pointed at Cedric's body, which everyone had ceased to notice no longer contained the real Cedric, but instead was now an empty shell of a human being. "OH MY GOD!" She yelled again, tears stinging her face. Now all became quiet as the other students heard her shrieks of horror. All eyes were on her for a moment as she let out one more desperate cry, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Then her body became almost as numb as her mind, and she just fell to the ground as she heard screams of panic and horror surrounding her last moments of consciousness.
"Fleur!" Was the last thing she heard.
Authors Note: Well I hope that you all like the first chapter. I will be adding a new chapter ASAP. The next chapter will be a doosey so hold on tight. Well hope to have you back for the next chapter. Please send me a review. I really appreciate them, you have no clue, I thrive off of reviews, and plus, you've come as far as reading it already so why not let me know what you think?
