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mudbloodhater

dream • 017 • canon update

Sep 15, 2011 22:44

Warnings • spoilers for Deathly Hallows (book version), and some head canon.
Effects • none.

( Draco stands at a bathroom sink, shoulders shaking with tears unheard. )

character: harry, !ic, character: narcissa, location: hogwarts, character: lucius, location: malfoy manor, type: dream, character: voldemort

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madcuriosity September 16 2011, 05:16:13 UTC

Draco...

mudbloodhater September 16 2011, 05:38:33 UTC

[the reply doesn't come back for a very long time. Even then, Draco sounds more numbed than anything else, breathing still heavy.]

Alice.

madcuriosity September 16 2011, 05:59:01 UTC

[The over-exuberant response he may have been expecting doesn't come. Instead, he gets:]

It's... good to see you awake.

mudbloodhater September 16 2011, 14:29:56 UTC

[oddly enough, he's grateful. If she had been terribly excited, he probably would have found an excuse to go back to sleep.]

That makes one of us.

madcuriosity September 16 2011, 19:02:28 UTC

You aren't happy about being awake?

mudbloodhater September 16 2011, 19:04:04 UTC

Does it look like I'm happy? [his eyes is red, streaked slightly with tears, and...well, she saw the dream, didn't she?]

madcuriosity September 16 2011, 19:34:46 UTC

[His parents are here, Harry is here, people who love him and don't judge him are here. So yes, she is of the opinion he should be, but Alice doesn't want to argue, she doesn't want to fight. She shakes her head instead, having flinched from his tone.]

No.

[She knows Draco, or liked to think she did. However, there is still an age difference, a wide one at that. She still pisses him off and sometimes he does the same. Honestly, she doesn't want to deal with that, with his anger and sadness. She selfishly just wants to contend with her own issues. So she sighs.]

I'll leave you be, feel better... [or don't. She seemed to see Draco less and less happy and she would honestly care, she would. But at the moment she just didn't care and she didn't want to.]

mudbloodhater September 16 2011, 19:48:53 UTC

Alice. [his tone is still crisp when he speaks again - he's a tad exasperated that this is one of the first things he has to deal with when he wakes up. He's been out for two weeks: with that comes the territory that he's no idea what has happened the past two weeks.]

Considering you called me, I assume you realise what you just watched? Or did you simply ignore the dream entirely to ask me if I was happy to be awake?

madcuriosity September 17 2011, 06:55:34 UTC

Why can't I be happy to see you? And I-I saw the dream... But what would you have me say about something I don't understand?

mudbloodhater September 18 2011, 00:08:34 UTC

What's not to understand? I watched one of my best friends die, Alice.

Do you understand why I'm not precisely happy at this particular moment in time?

madcuriosity September 18 2011, 01:24:45 UTC

[She does understand, but as Draco has never once mentioned the boy Alice has no idea who the boy was, and she knows a life lost is a sad thing, but she can't bring herself to care about some boy she's never met. She only cares that Draco is here and awake... but she can't think of what to say. She doesn't know what to say. She looks away, both tired and ashamed. All she can think is that he'll hate her, like the fight he had with Takuma. She doesn't know, she wants to say. She doesn't know. What does he want her to say or do? So she just nods, saying nothing else. She just nods. Of course he's not happy, why woul he be happy, stupid girl. It doesn't matter if his parents and Harry and people who love him are here because he'll wake up and not even remember her or this or anything else.

So she says nothing and just nods, keeping her eyes down.]

mudbloodhater September 18 2011, 01:29:45 UTC

[before this moment, Draco admittedly didn't think of Crabbe as a close friend. But really, he had been there for Draco, through thick and thin, doing whatever Draco ever asked and never once complaining. Not until immediately before his death, at least. It had hurt - the blond felt more than a little betrayed, but at the same time, he wondered exactly how he had never noticed.

[That said, it's clear that Alice doesn't understand. She doesn't understand any of this. She can go on about how many people are around that love Draco, but it's all fairly irrelevant. It's more than likely that all of them could disappear at a moment's notice, leaving him just as suddenly as Crabbe had. Harry's affections could wane, or he could disappear just as Hermione had. His parents? Could die, could go home, could have a thousand things happen to them. And how many others were there that 'loved him'? He couldn't say that there were overly many; he couldn't really say that any of them even knew him ( ... )

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