Draco/Harry Fanfiction Rec: Beautiful World by Cinnamon
Beautiful World
by Cinnamon
Draco is afraid of living and Harry is afraid of dying, but sometimes the choice isn't offered. Draco's got to learn what it is to really live, while showing Harry how beautiful the world really is when you're not too scared to see it.
I've never felt more human, so painfully human than I did when I finished reading this particular story. It was so amazingly raw with emotions, the reality when it strucks that you live only for a certain amount of time, knowing that in the end, you just.. die. Because this is life. And life is never meant to be forever.
I know some people prefer to not read stories which involve death of the main character. Hell, I am one of those people. Even from the very beginning, half-way through and right at the end, I still hoped, you know, I just wished that maybe, just maybe. But then I realized... it would take the whole point of the story away and make a mockery out of it. So.. give this a chance. The story is not about the death itself, but it's about what they had to go through, the things they learn, and what made their love so incredible.
Really, there were so many beautiful lines, but my favourite was,
And then, walking backwards because everything he was leaving behind was so beautiful that Harry could not bear to look away, he lifted one hand and waved once, solemnly. Then he turned and walked forward, sleepy, weak, and aching for everything he'd left behind.
Fuck. "... because everything he was leaving behind was so beautiful that Harry could not bear to look away," Fuck, fuck.
That's a killer line. It just stabs your heart. Again and again.
Don't mind me- I am just really sad at the moment. I want to say it's depressing, but that's not it.
Funeral barges and winter wildflowers dancing in his eyes, he gathered his courage and crawled over to Harry's side, smoothing his hair out of his eyes and shaking his shoulder gently.
'The sun's up,' he called softly. 'Harry?' his voice slipped an octave and trembled a little. 'Harry.'
But Harry didn't stir.
God. I knew it was coming. I KNEW. But my heart still breaks for Draco anyway.
There's just no right words to describe this one. I know I made it seem like it's all depressing and shit, but that's not it, because the whole story had its significance, it teaches people the value of life and how hard it is to let go of something as precious and dear as love and such. I could say it was heart-wrenchingly beautiful or perhaps just really unforgivably bittersweet. But in the end, what is, is. A job well done, certainly, and the fact that it sucked my poor, poor, emotions dry doesn't change that opinion one bit. My only problem with this story was how cold and unsympathetic and just cruel the way Harry was told of his inevitable fate. You just want to scream at the whole unfairness of it all, but imagine being in Harry's position. That's just what the story was all about and how the storyline developed; Harry learning, Draco learning.
It's a beautiful world.
p.s. Haha, this might surprise most of you, but my all-time favourite pairing is Draco/Harry. And THEN it's Naruto/Sasuke. I just prefer to draw Naruto fanarts more than I do Harry Potter. )o)