HP drabble: "pain" prompt for 100quills
Rating: PG
Category: Drabble
Era: a short time after HBP
Main Characters: Draco Malfoy
Ship(s): none
Keywords: pain
Summary: Draco faces the truth.
Author's notes: Prompt no 27 - pain - of the 50.3 set of the 100quills. Many thanks to waterbird for her detailed beta-reading. All remaining mistakes are mine.
Word count: 100
Concrit is always welcome.
Spinner's End
Distant eyes looked at him from a face streaked with sweat and dirt.
“Draco, I’m proud of you.”
He saw the lips that formed the words. The praise was ringing in his ears.
“Tonight, my son, you proved yourself a true Malfoy.”
Draco stared back, unblinking, and leaned forward to get closer. This was just too much, too real.
His vision blurred, and then reality hit him hard. Something like pain screwed up his face.
The ugly contortion was hidden when his condensing breath fogged up the half-blind mirror, but he knew it anyhow: a true Malfoy would not cry.
Category: Drabble
Era: a short time after HBP
Main Characters: Draco Malfoy
Ship(s): none
Keywords: pain
Summary: Draco faces the truth.
Author's notes: Prompt no 27 - pain - of the 50.3 set of the 100quills. Many thanks to waterbird for her detailed beta-reading. All remaining mistakes are mine.
Word count: 100
Concrit is always welcome.
Spinner's End
Distant eyes looked at him from a face streaked with sweat and dirt.
“Draco, I’m proud of you.”
He saw the lips that formed the words. The praise was ringing in his ears.
“Tonight, my son, you proved yourself a true Malfoy.”
Draco stared back, unblinking, and leaned forward to get closer. This was just too much, too real.
His vision blurred, and then reality hit him hard. Something like pain screwed up his face.
The ugly contortion was hidden when his condensing breath fogged up the half-blind mirror, but he knew it anyhow: a true Malfoy would not cry.