Trick or Treat!
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asentiaPrompt: Ghost
Rating: G/K
Word Count: 222
She drifted along in the forest slowly, her dress trailing behind her. The train caught on a branch and there was a horrible ripping sound. She didn’t flinch.
She turned around suddenly and looked at him, her eyes cold. A smile played on her lips.
“After all this time, you finally come after me?” she said icily, still smiling. Draco froze.
Her eyes were a dark red and her face, a ghostly white.
Probably because she was a ghost.
A long scar ran diagonally across her face and a portion of her cheek resembled a chunk of meat.
“Hermione?” Draco croaked. She smirked.
“Surprised?” she said softly. She held her arms out towards him. “Come here.” Draco shook his head and turned around. “Come here!” Hermione yelled, more loudly. Draco began to run. “COME HERE!”
Draco tripped over a tree root. He turned around, wide-eyed, as his dead wife approached him, malice in her eyes-
“Draco?” came a quiet voice. The Slytherin sat up abruptly in his bed and turned to look at his wife. She smiled. “Are you okay? You were screaming.”
“I- I had a nightmare,” Draco stuttered. He relaxed a bit. “It’s Halloween eve, so-”
“Yes, the ghosts do like to come out and play things like mind games and such,” Astoria said pensively. Draco nodded.
“I couldn’t agree more.”