A/N: So here is the third chapter. Thanks to SugaryTears again for your encouragement! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I solemnly swear I am up to no good. Not mine, of course!
Les Fleurs du Mal
Part Three: Sleep
Ever Dream of me… (Nightwish)
Tossing and turning in his bed, he slowly opened his eyes. Sweat rattled down his face, and his whole body was shaking.
Every night in his dreams, they haunted him. All the faceless innocents, the uncountable spectres of the children he had killed, the women he had raped and the men he had tortured haunted his dreams. When the long-awaited sleep finally came, it was always filled with those nightmares.
He couldn't forget their faces. Their pleading, their tears, their fighting against the inevitable, and, finally, the look in their eyes when they died, he saw it all again. A thousand times, a million times, his nightmares repeated their faces, begging for mercy, dying.
He couldn't forget their bodies. When they fell back, hit by his curse. When their eyes closed for the last time. When they became motionless on the ground, slowly going cold. When he looked at them one last time to make sure they were dead. The image of all these corpses, innocent or not, bloodied faces and bodies, torn clothing, pained expressions, sometimes resignation evident in their eyes or the way they lay on the dirty battlefield grounds.
But there was only one victim he saw every night. One woman of an unforgettable beauty. Ginevra Weasley. Although it hadn't been him who'd killed her, he somehow felt responsible for it. Young and inexperienced, he'd believed himself in love with her once, a long time ago. And the next time he saw her, she was fighting a lost battle, on a rainy day at some remote battlefield. Then he saw her fall down. Every night, she came back to torment him in his nightmares.
He turned again and closed his eyes, hoping to escape her that night. But as soon as he fell asleep, all those innocent victims were back. They would haunt him forever. For eternity.
A/N: So now, since this is the third chapter, I'd like to have some reviews... so far SugaryTears is the only one. Please, please leave a review, anything ;)