Later that week, Draco and Ginevra were sitting by the lake. She looked over at him and he looked back at her. She looked away. He frowned. "Why do you always look away like that?" he asked.
She turned to face him again. "How can you see into my eyes like open doors? You seem to go right down into my core where I'm still so numb." She looked out across the lake. "It feels like I don't even have a soul anymore. It's like, I'm sleeping somewhere cold."
"Then I'll find you," he said simply, "and lead you home."
She laughed bitterly. "Can you really? Can you really wake me up inside? Can you just call my name and save me from the dark? Do you really think that you can make my blood run before I fall apart? Can you really save me from the nothing I've become?"
She stood and looked down at him. "Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me here. You have to find a way to make me real again. You have to bring me to life."
He stood up and met her gaze evenly. "Yes, I can wake you. I won't just leave you in the dark. Now that I've found you, I won't let you be nothing, I won't let you be undone." He bent down and kissed her.
Wrapped safe in his arms with the warmth of his kiss running through her, she could feel her blood running through her veins, coursing life to every dead and frozen part of her.
He gently broke the kiss and hugged her closely. She laid her head on his shoulder. "All this time, I can't believe how blind I was," he said, "but you were there. It seems like I've been sleeping a thousand years, but you've opened my eyes to everything."
She shuddered. "I've been here, frozen, without a thought, without a voice, without a soul. Don't let me die here. You've shown me that there's more. You alone are the life among the dead."
They held each other there, knowing that without the other, they would truly be alone, that they had been alone. They held each other there, knowing that they would never be alone again.
a/n there it is, another untraditional album fic from me. hoped you liked it. to come: let go, alternated with various matchbox twenty songs from draco's point of view. continuum. possibly the open door, under my skin, and not too late
for those that are interested, i still plan on finishing founded again someday, and possibly a handful of others i haven't been posting because my updating is so irregular that i don't want four or five unfinished, half-posted stories up. see you around, hope you liked this one