Shatter Me – Lindsey Sterling ft Lzzy Hale
Setting: The abandoned Astronomy Tower. A storm rages outside, lightning illuminating the castle walls. Hermione stands by the window, her fingers tracing the cold glass. Draco paces behind her, his hands clenched at his sides.
Hermione (softly, to herself): "I pirouette in the dark, I see the stars through a mirror…"
Draco (bitterly): "Tired mechanical heart, beats 'til the song disappears."
She turns to him, searching his face. His usual mask of indifference is cracking, shadows beneath his eyes betraying the war waging inside him.
Hermione: "Somebody shine a light, I'm frozen by the fear in me…"
Her voice wavers, but her gaze doesn't. She knows he's afraid—afraid of what he's done, of what he's becoming, of what it means that she's the only one he's speaking to.
Draco (laughs dryly, shaking his head): "Somebody make me feel alive and shatter me."
He slams his fist against the stone wall. The thunder outside seems to echo his anger. He hates this—hates feeling trapped, hates needing her, hates that she's the only one who sees him unraveling.
Hermione (stepping closer): "If only the clockwork could speak, I wouldn't be so alone."
Her fingers brush against his wrist, tentative, barely there. He flinches but doesn't pull away.
Draco (hoarse whisper): "We'd burn every bridge that we built to dream in…"
His voice cracks, and Hermione sees it—the truth. He never wanted this life. The mark on his arm, the choices forced upon him, the weight of his name—they're all chains, binding him to a fate he never chose.
Hermione (urgent, pleading): "Somebody free my hands before I'm gone…"
She cups his cheek now, bringing his eyes to her. His breathing is ragged. If she lets go, he might break completely. He leans his forehead against hers.
A bolt of lightning illuminates them—two souls caught in a storm, trying desperately to escape the cages built around them.
Draco (whispering, eyes locked on hers): "Somebody make me feel alive…"
She doesn't hesitate. Everything is about to change.
Hermione (breathless, whispering to his lips that are mere centimeters away from hers): "Then shatter me."
They close the space between them as another bolt of lightning flashes across the sky.