Inhale Me In Bleed Me Out...
A Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger Story...
Chapter 4... Memories... Albus Dumbledore...
"So take this night. And lay me down on the street. I know I'm not forgivenbut I hope that I'll be given, some peace . . ." Black Lab- This Night...
Draco`s POV...
"Good evening Draco, what brings you here on this fine spring evening?"
Albus Dumbledore questions and I panic, if this is the moment when I must kill him then I have got to have the upper hand.
"Who else is here I heard you talking!" I try to keep my voice level but I can feel it cracking under the heavy strain of more tears yet to be shed. I can only hope he will break faster than me.
"Oh, I often talk aloud to myself I find it extraordinarily useful... Have you been whispering to yourself Draco?" When I take in a sharp breath and swallow nervously he adds:
"Draco you are no assassin"
How- how can he say that! I know I'm not but if I don't then he'll kill all of us mother, father an- and me so in panic I desperately splutter.
"How do you know what I am? I've done things that would shock you!"
Then to my horror he immediately understands.
"What? Like cursing Katie Bell and in return hoping she would bear a cursed necklace to me? Like replacing a bottle of mead with one lased with poison? Forgive me Draco but, I cannot help feel these actions are so weak that heart could not have been in them." Those were the words that struck me the most. Because they were true, I would never strike down and murder an innocent man. I was not Voldemort or my father.
So in an act of franticness I drag up the sleeve and reveal the mark that will be forever branded on my skin, that will always me want to retch every time I take one fleeting glance at it and declare:
"He trust's me! I was chosen!"
The look of shock and surprise gives me a sense of foreboding but then he proceeds to take his wand out so I think fast.
"Expelliarmus!"
His wand sores through the air and lands with a clatter on the cold, wooden floor.
I'm shaking now. I can't do it and both of us know it. But I have to.
"Draco..." Just then soft clanking can be heard but I keep my eyes locked on to those of a far better man than I will ever be but when he next speaks, strangely I don't detect the smallest hint of fear. Just acceptance and it unnerves me as if I was the one at wand point.
"There are others, how?" Again he sounds curious.
"The vanishing cabinet in the room of requirement, I've been mending it"
I answer.
"Ingenious!" He praises.
"Let me guess it has a sister, a twin?" He asks.
"In borgin and burkes they form a passage" I reply
"Draco years ago I knew a boy who made all the wrong chooses please let me help you"
He begs I know he`s trying to save me and my already fragile soul but there is no use and we both know it, that either way were both doomed. And that`s when I break. That's when I can no longer halt the tears that stream down my face and the sorrow that infects me at that moment. So I barely choke out.
"I don't want your help... don't you understand!? I have to do this, and I have to kill you or... He`s going to kill me!"
A few moments later as if the past five seconds have pasted in a blurry haze Severus Snape- my godfather- was stood in front of me, facing Dumbledore. The look of pain in his eyes was unbearable as he stepped forward and the two wizard`s lock gazes.
"Severus... please." He was begging. Albus Dumbledore was begging for his own life and I only felt the strongest scene of dread because we all knew what was coming...
Snape took a deep breath and spoke those unforgivable words.
"Avadakadavra!"
For a moment Albus Dumbledore seemed suspended in mid-air as if he was flying and then would somehow drift back to earth. I was proven wrong when the sound of a cold body hitting the solid ground could be heard in the distance...
I was jolted out of my past and smashed back into the present when I heard Grangers screams stop. The pain instantly subsided apart from a dull ache in my heart that still barely burned. But my mind and insides were screaming: someone just get me out of here... please.