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Chapter Seventeen

"No, no, no!" Draco screamed.

I fluttered my eyes open to see him standing over me. His face was pale and his eyes were wide, staring back at me.

"Draco? What's wrong love?"

I could hear commotion around me and I could see movement. I glanced around to see students running and spells flying over their heads. Flashes of green and red zipped around us, lighting up the air like fireworks.

"Quinn don't do this! Don't fucking do this to me!" Draco screamed again.

"Do what my love?"

I could feel coldness beneath my back but nothing else. I looked down to see that I was lying on the ground inside the school but the school was gone. It was falling around us in pieces. Ash fell from the sky like snow and I could see a memory playing out like a movie in front of me. My father and Fynn dancing around in the snow as it fell from the sky. They stuck their tongues out, catching flakes in their mouth. I looked back up to Draco who now had tears streaming down his face. I reached up to touch his cheek but my hand wouldn't move. I couldn't feel my arms or my legs. I could feel the weight of my chest as my lungs struggled to lift it up and down, desperate for any amount of air.

"Draco, what is happening?"

Draco leaned forward and pressed his forehead to mine, squeezing his eyes shut. He began to rock me back and forth and I could hear him sobbing and could feel his tears as they landed on my cheeks.

"Quinn.." he cried. "Please. Don't leave me."

"I'm not leaving you Draco. I love you."

Suddenly he was gone, everything was gone.