DRAMIONE: Time Turns Flames To Ember The memories of his childhood always hit him late at night. As he lay there in bed, the silence felt deafening and this thoughts consumed him. He was six years old. It was early evening and that time of year where the fireflies were hovering around the Manor gardens. Draco crouched down and sneaked up through the overgrown grass at the end of the garden. Spotting his target, he slowly raised his arms, hands spread apart and ready to catch the firefly. “One.. two…” he whispered to himself, and on the count of three, a pair of hands grabbed him round his waist, picked him up and spun him round with him squealing in delight at the surprise. “Catching fireflies again are we, Draco?” his mother smiled, putting him down and staring in mock disapproval. He was about to reply when his father soundlessly strolled up behind his mother and clasped a hand on her shoulder. Speaking above Draco’s head, Lucius smartly said, “A Malfoy does not frolic and catch fireflies, my dear. Young Draco was trying to kill them weren’t you?” Draco bowed his head and nodded. After his father left, Draco remembers his mother kissing him on his forehead, leading him by the hand up to bed and tucking him in. Now he was thirty two years old with his own children, yet he still felt like he was growing up. While the days of doing the Dark Lord’s deeds were gone, in a way he missed it. It was all he had ever known and at the time he had believed in the ideals set forth by the deranged wizard. However, he had done things he regretted to this day and it was at nights it came back. The memories of his very early childhood were what kept him sane. That, and his wife Hermione Granger. She constantly tried to help him that ‘who he is, is not what he did’ and a lot of rubbish about self worth. But as he lay there with her body pressed up against him, he knew in reality that he would never recover from his disrupted childhood. He was balancing on a tight rope and wasn’t sure how much longer he could stay upright. The monsters will soon catch up. ~ Hermione Malfoy
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:21:12 +0000
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