Speed Drabble: Ginny/Luna, "shiver" "dark" "burning" "breathe" and "You don't have to be afraid."
Belief
"You don't have to be afraid."
Luna had reassured me of this many times, brushing her hand through my red hair as she held me close to her. She was always so confident, so trusting, so brave. She believed in me where I never believed in myself.
Those words did not help me now though, when I was alone in the dark with the desperate need to believe in myself. Luna wasn't here now. She didn't know how to teach me to believe.
She would be if I asked her to be. She would come in a heartbeat if she knew. She would teach me everything she knew, in any way she knew how. Never giving up on the one person who had already given up on herself, never giving up on me.
I couldn't let her know. A shiver coursed through my body as I ached for the warm burning feeling I felt only when Luna was next to me.
I longed for it, but I did not want to be the burden on her I always felt like.
I needed to breathe for myself. I could not always be helped my Luna, even though I knew she would help me for as long as I needed it.
My scars still needed to be healed.
I think they need to be healed alone. Hopefully never to bleed again.
Maybe then I could prove to myself that I really was worth Luna's belief.