silent and colourless | d.m. [✔]

13 | in which

IN WHICH, 
i am supposed to get a Dark Mark.

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"Well, well, well,"
Voldemort's snake-like lips moved,
cruelly, venom-like.
"Look who it is!"
he laughed, hooting as if it
was the best joke ever.
"The Rosiers and the Malfoys!
Quite the pair, huh?
I see that you're hard up
for money."

Our parents bowed to the thin,
disgraceful wizard,
and pushed us down to
bow to him too.

I was terrified,
scared out of my wits,
and the only thing that
kept me from running far, far away,
was Draco Malfoy's hand around my wrist.

He looked just as scared as me,
teeth gritted,
silver eyes lost in terror,
even the walls he built around him
didn't stop the terror from seeping
outside, into me.

His eyes met mine,
Expensive silver meeting
ordinary brown,
and we melted into
each other's terror,
holding onto each other;
but we were both falling down
the black, black chasm.

"Scared, aren't you?"
Voldemort's lips moved
and my mother nudged me
to look at him.

Draco and I didn't move,
stoic and silent.

This seemed to provoke Voldemort,
and he said,
"Trying to be brave, are you?
Going on the "light" side?
Well, bravery isn't there. 
There is only power,
and more power.
And you are going to help me
obtain that power."

Voldemort was definitely demented.

"Now, Draco, would you like to
do the honours?"
Draco shrunk back,
shaking his head in refusal.

Voldemorts beady eyes flashed
scarlet — danger, the colour of blood,
I registered.

"You will do what I say, boy,"
Voldemort shouted.

I could tell that he was shouting
by the way his mouth moved
and his eyes flashed,
but of course,
I was saved from hearing it.

Draco flinched,
all courage giving way to fear,
but still he refused.
"I refuse!"

I stared at him.
Why couldn't he just
give me the Dark Mark and
get over this?

"Crucio! " Voldemort screamed,
pointing the wand at him,
eyes flashing a deep crimson.

I was incapable of controlling
my bodily movements,
and I threw myself at Draco,
pushing him out of the way.

A hundred knives pierced me,
all at once,
my limbs bound with heavy chains,
For a moment,
my hearing was released,
and I heard Draco screaming,
the one thing I had heard
in the past five years.

And then
everything went black.