Of All The Stars In The Sky HP ff (Drastoria)

The Crossroads

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Soundtrack: My Love is Always There (recommended listen while reading)

Of the soft moonlight and a star gazing teenager with too many disconnected thoughts floating around in her head, I would have never expected this to be the outcome.

A wand in my hand, a death curse on my lips, and the man – boy ­I had come to love standing in front of me in a similar pose.

"It doesn't have to go down this way, Astoria," he says warningly though my eyes catch the tremble of his wand hand and his eyes are frightened. A boy wearing the mask of a man. My heart softens like it always will, and I want to kick myself. I will always forgive, but forgiveness is not always the right answer. I can feel my sister's eyes watching me from afar, guiding my wand so I point it steadily at his chest. End this, Astoria. You will be a happier woman when this is all over.

Her promises are both deaf and loud to my ears. He and I are at a stalemate, standing a foot away from each other with our wands ready to cast the curse. The battle rages around us, all but forgetting the pair of misbegotten young lovers on the wrong ends of the war.

"I don't want it to end like this, Draco," I say, my voice monotone. "I am not a murderer."

He watches me, biting his lip slightly. "And you're not," he finally says but does not lower his wand. "Please, just..." He can't finish his sentence, leaving it hanging in the air when he gives me an anguished look.

Draco doesn't want this any more than I do. He was cursed from the start – a family name so drudged in wrongdoings and mistakes that even he couldn't pull himself out of it and wash his hands of the blood, and I wonder what he would look like if he were not a Malfoy but something else. A thought enters my head at that.

The universe comprises of time and space and darkness, but also of choices. Thousands and millions of choices that twist the universe into separate entities every time the fork in the road is reached. Perhaps in another universe I am nothing more like a speckle of energy in the darkness of space, or maybe I am just another woman living on the other side of the world. A simple flower, a goddess of the Ancients, or the broken tooth of a lion.

Here, I am a girl with a wand and magic and the power to kill.

Before I can regret my actions and he can react with retaliation that I know will be my karma, I say the killing spell, my shot guided by the spirits.

He is dead before he even hits the ground.

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Partially a prologue, but more of a flash forward... First chapter out May 1st 2012! 

Hello, you have just read the newer version of this flash-forward. While the ending sounds absolute, it is more ambiguous than it seems. :)