The Houses Competition, AU as far as I'm aware.
Ravenclaw, HoH, Drabble (Additional HoH), Prompt: "Calling him/her/them my other half means that neither of us is whole.", WC: 370
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"Calling him my other half means that neither of us is whole."
I remembered telling my mother that once when I was much younger and somewhat much wiser. She had been asking whether Ron, my other half, was treating me well amidst the chaos following the war.
"Are you whole, though, my dear?"
To be asked that was entirely perplexing, because I thought I seemed whole. And if I wasn't whole, did that mean that, by sharing myself with someone else, I was automatically diminished by the other person? Reduced to even less of myself? Of course, this puzzling view continued to distort my mind throughout the next few years, forcing me to consider myself as less as a person because what type of person is not wholly themselves? I struggled to find little pieces of my own thoughts and judgement after that one day when my mother questioned me so. If I was not whole, then I couldn't make whole-hearted decisions, and maybe it was better to claim back the bits of myself that Ron was supposedly in possession of.
Two years of contemplation later, and we were sitting in a grimy coffee shop, as I fruitlessly tried to explain my predicament to him. Nevertheless, he knew we were breaking up. He drank his coffee, pretended to understand, and then left.
Contrary to my expectations, I felt as though he took my other half with him and have been lost ever since. Although I thought the pieces of me might come back, and I could become truly me again – able to make better decisions, able to achieve higher, able to do more as a person and as a human – I was wrong. Ron had that half of me, and when he left, it was attached to him. When I thought of the lost part of me, it was always synonymous with Ron.
This wasn't to say that I was nothing without him, because that was entirely untrue.
Ron had been keeping that half of me safe within him. And I had to get it back. I had to celebrate the fact that we were halves of each other, but that it didn't make us any less complete.
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