ᴛᴇᴀʀ ᴍᴇ ᴀᴘᴀʀᴛ [D.Malfoy, 18+]

Prologue: A Raven's Song

I watch as flames consume my childhood.

I watch as my fellow peers yield to fear,
while others succumb to death.
With soot-stained hands, I watch.

The beating of drums, the cries of battle, I watch
as our last hope fights until his last breath.
I watch as Harry Potter disappears in a blink of an eye.

The war is over.
The Chosen One and his army have vanished.
Leaving us, the tarnished, to kneel before our new Lord.
Voldemort.

I watch as my allies are struck down beside me
My heart pounds, my body aches
The animal within submitting to the inevitable
Until I see a familiar face in a sea of black

I watch as his face twists in panic, his mother holding him back
I watch as his hand shakes beside him, yearning to reach for mine
I watch as his trepidation overtakes him, silencing his cries

"I can't lose you, I won't survive."

The boy, I love, and his words, I adore, fade into black.

Now, several years later
I watch as my family is hunted.

taken, slaughtered, manipulated

And I watch as the boy, I love,
appears from the shadows
Turnt into a man, hardly recognizable;
I now fear.

I watch as he raises his wand to my throat,
Ready to obey the orders given to him.

There's no reasoning with Death;
how cruel to die by the hand that once traced stars over my scars.

So, I watch
with fearful eyes
And pray, that one day
He will utter my name with fondness
Like all those years ago

"My beautiful, ethereal Diana."

And so I smile
As he watches with no remorse
And I tell him, just like all those years ago,

"Tear me apart so that I may finally rest in your arms once more."

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