Erase and Rewrite (Dramione)

Dread and Despair

Panic,
that's what she feels when her knees hit the forest floor.

Complete,
overflowing,
gripping panic!
Because for a split second she thought they didn't make it out in time.

The green flash speeding through the room,
aimed at them.

She knows what it means.
Doesn't know how,
but she knows,
the green flash kills.

Her head is spinning, but the only thought in her mind is Draco.

Draco,
Draco,
Draco,
please let him be okay!

She tries to get up,
to look around for him,
but the dizziness clouds her vision.

What if the curse hit him?
What if she can't help him?
She needs to get to him!

But there's nothing but darkness around her.

She turns her head,
but all she sees is pitch black.

She tries to listen,
any sound that might differ from the normal sounds of the forest.
If this even is a normal forest, to begin with.

Her head spins again
and she puts her hands to the ground to steady herself,
and closes her eyes.

She's alone,
again...

Alone in the darkness.

He is not here!
if he was he would have called for her already.

Or what if he is?
Lying somewhere close,
but unable to talk...
unconscious,
or dead.

What if his body is somewhere there in the darkness just out of reach?
She opens her eyes and tries to look around once more.
What if he needs her and she can't help him?

Breathe, she has to remind herself.
Breathe, panic doesn't help anyone!

The wand is still in her hand.
The wand she doesn't know how to use!
She glances down to it and feels useless!

How stupid of her to insist to know the theory before practicing.
Now she has nothing useful.

She knows there is a spell to light the tip of the wand,
but has no idea how to do it.
She knows there is a way she can summon things she lost,
but can't recall even the words.
What good it is to have a wand if she has no idea how to use it?

If someone attacked now,
she has no way to defend herself.

But still just a moment ago in the cottage,
she was ready to fight!
Every muscle of her body prepared to defend him
and herself
and Dipsy,
from any harm.

Before landing in the forest there was no sign of panic in her.
She had been ready!
Now she can't be further from ready.

She's lost,
with no idea what to do,
where to go,
how to find him.

She stands up with shaking knees
and suddenly a freighting thought hits her already panicked mind,
What if this is death once more?

What if this darkness is another form of it?
What if she should fetch him as he fetched her from the platform?

"Draco?" She whispers into the dark.

Nothing
Just the hum of the trees around her.

"Please, if you're here, please answer," Her words are barely audible.

But no...
She's still alone.

What if they got them?
What if she was the only one who got away?
Where could she go?
She knows no other places than the cottage.