sassy_cissa (sassy_cissa) wrote in slythindor100, @ 2007-05-04 17:11:00 |
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Challenge #50
Original poster: ruinithil
Title: You sort of Look Like Forever [The Eternity Remix]
Author of Original Fic: megyal
Author of Remix: ruinithil
Rating: PG
Link: Original Fic
“Draco, I couldn’t just tell you! You would have tried to stop me and the mission would have failed! We both know it’s true, so just stop acting like I’ve done something so terrible you can’t forgive me!”
I fight the urge to snap at Harry as I pull my too-large blue coat around me tighter as we walk into the next room. The ceiling is covered in twigs and at first I feel claustrophobic—I don’t like it. “It doesn’t matter.”
Except that it does, and we both know it. Harry could have died and I wouldn’t have known—and I tell him so. I can feel his regret wash over me and I close my eyes to ward off the next wave of sorrow he’ll unknowingly throw at me. I can feel his eyes on me, intensely sad. I feel bad for ignoring him, but damn, am I mad. I could have lost him! And where would that have left me? Alone with a coat that was much too big…that still smelled like Harry, even after all these years.
“How do you feel in this room?” I ask quietly. Harry is startled, but I continue as I take another look around. “Do you feel cocooned?”
I do, now that I’m really looking at it. The twisting branches overhead weave in and out of each other in a delicate, twirling dance only they can follow—I try, but am soon lost in another pattern.
“What?” He sounds incredulous but recovers quickly. “Sort of. I guess.”
He’s just trying to please me, I think, after making me so mad. I decide to soothe his regret a little. “It reminds me of you. It’s so crazy and yet a little bit stifling.”
“Wow, sorry about that.” Harry sounds angry now. Whoops.
“It sort of looks like forever.” I quickly amend. And it does, really. A never-ending in-and-out that goes on for eternity. It really is beautiful, just like him. “You’re my forever by the way.” I add, and that’s true too. Harry is everything I will ever need, even if he is a bit…stupid at times. Like with this case.
“Okay.” Harry comes closer to me and I grab his hand, tight. He looks at me and I fight to keep the tears from my eyes. I could have lost him. “Okay, I get it.”
He doesn’t let go, but neither do I.