A/N: happy summer everyone.
I got a boyfriend, yay!
Then he dumped me. boo.
Oh well life goes on.
Parents didn't get a divorce yet, Yay!
Had oral surgery this morning and am high as a kite from the pain killers, yay!
Ewan McGregers one hot piece of ass. Jesus that man is adorable! Yay!
Yeah so I guess since there's more yays then boos life is good. so here's an update, last chapter, be ready for an exciting climax. Psh yeah right. Well anywho read and enjoy.
We stand, hand in hand, at the edge of that hallway. It seems to go on forever, just getting darker and darker. Together we stand at the edge of oblivion, the only warmth comes from the interlacing of our pale fingers.
I guess there comes a time when every person is faced with oblivion. And they are presented with a choice, to run away and hide in the safety of their cozy coffins, or to break free and face the world, hash and cruel as it may be.
Draco wanted to run.
But I couldn't, I wouldn't. I took a step forward and I could feel Draco wince. "Draco, we have to do this."
"No we don't," He yanked me back, away from the crushing darkness of that hall way and pressed me close to him. The blonde buried his face in my hair and held me like a frightened child held his teddy bear. "We can stay here, in the factory. We'll be safe, happy, forever."
I smiled, for a second I felt eons older then Draco. I placed a hand gently on his cheek, "No, it doesn't work that way. We'll die here, we'll die in this coffin, and we'll never see the real world."
He didn't argue.
I slid my hand down his neck, down his arm, and reclaimed his hand. "Come on, there's a world out there, I wanna see it."
"I'm scared."
Finally the god steps down from his pedestal.
"Me to."
I offered him a weak smile and started down the hallway, my beautiful god a step behind me. The light faded from the hallway and fear crept up my spine. The darkness was suffocating, choking. I could feel panic welling up in my throat, the madness that a caged beast feels. I swallowed it down.
Neither of us could see where we were going, we just kept walking. I clung to Draco's hand as if it was the last warm thing in the world, and right now it was. I wouldn't ever let him go, I wouldn't fail him this time. I'd show him the real world, I'd be the one to liberate him from this coffin.
"I remember," He said softly.
And suddenly memory flooded my mind.
"Draco!" I screamed again, it was the only sound in that piercing darkness. I could feel his thin fingers slipping through mine. I was losing him.
"Harry let me go!" He begged softly, he was still, succumbing to the tendrils of shadow that were stealing him away.
"No, no, no!" I struggled violently, kicking, scratching, desperately trying to find the monster that was attacking me. "Draco, I won't let you go! Not again!"
He took a deep breath, he was preparing to tug his fingers away and leave me along, leave me at the mercy of oblivion. That bastard. I tried to reach him with my other hand, but it held fast. My fingers curled around his, and his wrapped around mine. Draco, with those icy blue eyes looked into mine one last time.
They were alive now, sparkling, dancing, circles of icy blue, singing and gleaming through the darkness. He was smiling, tears pooling at the corners of his blazing eyes. I was spellbound. I thought the doll had beautiful eyes. I was wrong. Those eyes were nothing compared to the dazzling orbs that met mine.
His eyes were singing, smiling, laughing, showing me eons of memories, all starring me. We laughed, we danced, we cried, we screamed, we smiled, we sung, our hands interlaced.
"I love you," Draco smiled, his voice was so warm, loving, enveloping me like a blanket.
I knew it was happening, his fingers relaxed in my grip, but I couldn't stop it. I could just watch, paralyzed by the shadows binding my body, while the only god I would ever worship slipped away from me, smiling, dazzling eyes singing songs in my head.
"Draco!" I cried.
His fingers sliding with a note of farewell through mine
The shadows tightened around me.
Those dazzling eyes never left mine, those mesmerizing eyes singing beautiful songs to me.
Darkness enveloped him, dragging him down.
The soft pad of his finger on mine, giving me a painful glimpse of true love.
Screams ripping the air, I think they were mine.
Through it all someone was singing songs in my head.
And then it was gone.
The song ended.
"Draco!" I screamed again. I couldn't see him, couldn't feel him, couldn't hear him.
Suddenly I fell to my knees onto a hard floor. I gasped for air, looking frantically around for my Draco.
"You do have a fiery soul." Someone purred.
I looked up to find a man sitting in a huge black marble throne. His hair and clothes blended into the darkness so the only thing I could see were his flaming red eyes and skin pale as bleached bone. "Shut up! What did you do to Draco!"
"He owes me his soul, Harry, a debt is a debt." The man shrugged.
"Draco already gave you his soul! He's been giving you his soul over and over again!" I shouted. I stumbled to my feet and started towards the chair. This was the bastard who was hurting Draco, who'd torn us apart all those times before. I'd make him pay.
"And he will continue to give me part of his soul each and every time he finds you, Harry Potter."
I stopped. "Me?"
"You are what causes that beautiful boys frozen heart to beat. You are his perfect compliment, your fiery soul brings his to life, just as I intended it to."
At that I stumbled and fell again to my knees, scull pounding violently. "What are you talking about?"
"I gave you the soul you now posses. Your soul is the byproduct of the pact James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Lucius Malfoy entered with me. Their souls are flawed, none of them could've powered my machine."
Suddenly the darkness lifted and I saw it, a huge churning mill of steel and gears. It was gigantic. I didn't understand what it did until I saw the blood. Huge vats of blood feeding into the machine and skinless bodies being churned out. I vomited all over the floor.
"You're a monster." I hissed. The pain in my scull was becoming unbearable, what was he doing to Draco? I struggled to my feet with a gasp of pain. The world was becoming hazy.
"The moment I saw Draco, I knew he was perfect. His icy soul combined with the right fire would be strong enough to power my machine." He stood up and I saw that his skin was rotting, flesh and muscle turning to a rotten color of green and brown. I gagged, but there was nothing left in my stomach to vomit.
"Jesus Christ," I gasped. Blood was pounding in my ears, I grabbed my head and screamed.
"My body keeps dying! I can never make a perfect one! This time… maybe this time it'll work!" An insane glint light his eyes and the world faded to black before my cloudy eyes.
I was floating in darkness again, and then I saw him. Draco, curled into a fetal ball, glowing through the darkness of oblivion.
"Draco!" I called. I started to run towards him.
"You'll never reach him, you never do." A cruel voice hissed around us.
"No! I'll reach him this time!" I screamed back. "Draco!"
But he wouldn't move, he couldn't wake up.
I had to make him see me, he had to wake up.
"Draco! I found you! I'm here!"
His eyes opened curiously and he caught sight of me. "Harry stop it!" He screamed. "Your doing exactly what he wants! Harry just run!"
"No, Draco, I can see you this time! I can reach you!"
My icy god sighed, and buried his face in his hands. A slim hand raked through his hair as a sad smile light his eyes. "Not this time, darling." He watched, as the ground fell from under me, he watched as I tumbled into darkness again. He watched as I failed, once again.
I crumpled to my knees, tears trickling down my cheeks. "I'm going to fail again, Draco."
He lifted me gently to my feet and kissed the tears from my eyes. "It doesn't matter, I've never really been alive anyway."
"But I'm going to kill you again! Every time you find me it kills you more! We're just playing into Tom's hands! He wants us to fall in love just so he can take your soul away!" I screamed. Draco planted a soft kiss on my lips, forcing me to be quiet.
"I love you, Harry Potter. The only time I've ever felt alive is when I'm with you."
"But that's what Tom wants," I cried softly. "He's using us!"
"So what? I'm happy this way. I'm happy as long as I can be with you."
"You're happy being a pawn, your happy having your fucking soul ripped away from you!" I shoved him away and screamed into his face, "You've become exactly what he wants Draco! You're a martyr!" I hit him.
He grabbed my wrists and shoved me against the wall, pinning them over my head in a bruising grip. "We got to be in love, even if it was only for a little while. Some people never find love. We're lucky to have had it. Do you really want more?"
Draco let me go and I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him with all the fire and anger I could. I put every ounce of heat in my body into that kiss. He had to know. I had to show him.
I have to show him now.
"Our lives up to this point have been calculated, we've been pawns. Now we have a chance to live our own lives, however the fuck we want to. Draco this isn't love. We've been forced in love, shoved together."
"That's not true," his voice was raw and torn. And in that moment I knew I was right. "I love you."
"Tom wants you to say that. He wants us to be in love. He made us so we'd fall in love. And then he'll take it from us. Over and over again." I took his hand in mine and planted a tiny kiss on it.
"I've seen your eyes, the way they were meant to be. I love the person in those eyes. Not this doll."
Suddenly he yanked me forward, jerking me down the hall. "Come the fuck on, Harry."
"Draco?"
"Shut up and walk!" He snarled.
I wasn't scared anymore. Neither was Draco.
"Whatever happens don't let go of my hand." He instructed.
"You're always the one who lets go," I growled.
My blonde angel spun around and drilled his eyes into mine. "Not this time." I started to laugh. His eyes, they were dancing again, they were alive. Yes, this was the Draco Malfoy who I loved. I saw his eyes, orbs of pale azure, the same shade as mid winters sky, sprinkled with glittering snow flakes. They were singing to me.
He pulled me into a tender embrace, laughing with me, pressing soft butterfly kisses down the sides of my face, on my eyes, nuzzling his nose with mine. For the first time, in all my lives, I felt like I was whole. Yes, this is it. This is a feeling worth fighting for.
And then the darkness came, pulling us apart. I didn't fight it, I just kept my fingers curled around Draco's and I kept my eyes on his. I drew strength from those dancing orbs, I could feel Draco, the real one, here with me.
"One last dance?" He asked with a laughing lit to his voice.
I gave his fingers a
squeeze and smiled, "I'm game." I shut my eyes and let the
shadows carry me away. I could feel Draco's fingers slipping away.
"Draco?"
"I'm here."
I knew for a fact he was getting farther away, his fingers sliding through mine. The first threads of panic laced me voice, "Draco!"
"I'm here," He whispered tenderly.
I felt myself once again hit a marble floor.
"Back again, Harry Potter?" Tom Riddles voice flooded the floor.
I grinned. "As always, you fucking bastard."
He laughed, it was wicked and cruel. "You'll never win, Harry. I made your soul, I know exactly what you are going to do. You can't win."
With a shrug I got to my feet and started to walk calmly towards him. "Shut up, Riddle. You may have made this soul, but it's mine now."
"You will always belong to me, and me alone." Riddle growled, his voice becoming heated.
"No, I belong to myself." I smirked. "And Draco."
"You are mine. You are both mine! Mine to do with as I wish!" He stood from his throne, skin peeling from his bones once again, and he stalked towards me. Riddles' eyes were flaming, he was beginning to realize that, for the first time, I understood his game. I had the upper hand now.
"No, Tom, Draco and I are free. Our souls belong to us." My skull wasn't pounding, I was totally fine. I smiled. I reached Tom and I shoved him out of the way.
"No! I command you to stop!" he shouted. "You are mine!" Riddle grabbed my arm, and for a moment he had me. That familiar fear crept up my spine. And then I grabbed his hand and pulled, hard.
I heard him scream and a slight cracking sound. Riddle tumbled to the floor, nursing his wrist with was now missing a hand. The flesh started to peel and turn a sick greenish color. I tossed the pile of bones in my hand at him, grinning with a feral satisfaction as they turned to ash. His body was dying again. But this time, Draco's soul wouldn't be used to make him a new one.
His machine, this gigantic chocolate factory started to hiss and creak. It was failing, in a few minutes it would finally explode. I looked back at Tom Riddle, a pathetic mass of screaming flesh on the floor.
"I told you, Tommy-love, I belong to me."
I fell into the abyss once more.
I opened my eyes to find myself floating in the darkness, clothes soot covered and torn, but my skin shining with some ethereal light. I found Draco huddled in the corner, glowing just as I was.
"Draco?" I asked.
He opened his eyes and they were no longer dead, lifeless dolls eyes. This was the real Draco. This was the man I loved. "Hey, Harry," He said with a smile.
"Ready?" I smiled, extending a hand.
He hesitated for a moment, "So this is it."
"Mmmhmm."
"We're going to finally see the real world," My golden angel asked.
"Yupp,"
Draco smiled weakly at me, "What if I don't find you?"
"We're star crossed lovers, of course you'll find me," I giggled, I felt like light, perfect and bubbly.
"But without Tom's interference-"
"Draco," I extended my hand even further and smiled, "If you don't find me, then I'll find you. You're stuck with me."
"Forever?" His voice was so young, childlike.
"Nothing lasts forever. But as long as I love you, I'll never let go."
Draco grabbed my hand and yanked me close. He pressed his lips against mine in a chaste kiss. "I'll find you." He whispered insistently.
XoXoXo
Suddenly we were standing, facing each other, still glowing in the darkness.
"Draco?" I asked fearfully.
He took my hand in his, "I'm here," He smiled.
"What is this? I thought we were free!" I looked around frantically for some escape, and then I saw it, a tunnel. I turned to face him gleefully. "We're free!"
Draco kissed me again and then gave me a tiny push towards the tunnel behind me.
My smile faded, "I don't understand."
"Go, Harry, the outside world is waiting."
"But…we have to go together right?"
He took a step away from me, "I'll be there Harry, but you have to go, now."
I started to move towards him.
"Trust me, Harry, please."
I met his eyes, they were glowing and sparkling merrily, singing a tender song in my head. I didn't understand, I was scared. But he wasn't. Draco nodded towards the tunnel again. "Draco?"
"I'm here," He whispered, voice hot in my ear, even though he was several steps away from me.
"I'm scared."
"I know. Trust me, this time, let me save you."
I sniffled and started walking towards the tunnel, I glanced back at him over my shoulder, he smiled at me, eyes filled with warmth. "Promise you'll be there?"
"Trust me."
It suddenly occurred to me, that I hadn't trusted him. All this time, I'd tried to do everything myself. I had never really listened to him, never tried to understand the cryptic things he tried to tell me. Did I trust him? Did I trust anybody? Well, I trusted myself.
But I love Draco.
But I don't trust him.
I trust myself.
I've only ever had myself.
Draco….
I turned, and I walked, straight into that black tunnel, I could feel him at my back, and suddenly I heard a voice in my ear, "I'm here."
Two bright lights filled my vision.
Someone screamed.
The lights got closer and brighter.
Something hit me.
I was gathered like a broken doll into somebody's arms.
The light was still shining in my eyes.
"Draco?"
"I'm here."
A/N: yay! It's done! frolics I'm sorry it took forever, but I wanna thank my loyal reviewers for hanging with me and reviewing and helping me out. I know it's a bit of a cliffie, but wait for the epilogue I'll probably post it tomorrow or later tonight. Lol, I promise it won't take as long as it did for me to post this chapter.
Again, reviewers thank you so much for hanging through the story, I apologize for my bad updating habits, you've all been amazing.
