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MalfoyzBeloved · 07-17-2007, 09:32 AM

Yeah, I know this song well since its release, but it took me until now to think it would make a really tragic (and romantic through manipulation) one-shot.
Like I said, I have to manipulate the song to make it a romance king of thing. It’s really about drunk driving and the innocent being killed because of someone being intoxicated and driving (something along those lines apparently), so I’m changing it a bit... if I didn’t this would be a Character story, so I’m trying to make it Dramione.
I heard this and thought ‘Deathly Hallows’ when I realized what this could be used for (with ‘at least one dying’ or ‘two deaths’ or whatever it is now - to be determined on Saturday, July 21st!). This is a challenge I wanted to take on before D.H release which I succeeded in a bit over an hour!

Song: Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me?) - Simple Plan

Draco’s POV for obvious reasons.
This is a mix of anguish and sorrow on Draco’s part... I, myself, am not one that cries easily so I can’t say if this’ll make you cry (probably will but I’m not sure).
Warning: Some detail in the Cruciatus Curse

Story: It’s the Final Battle (5 years after Hogwarts). Hermione and Draco bickered about her going as she was recently found pregnant, but in the end she went. When Draco and Hermione are fighting side-by-side, the Death Eater shoots the Cruciatus Curse - Draco jumped in front of Hermione and took it for her. As the pain crushes him, as he’s dying... he tries to recall the times he had with Hermione, all the good times, all the times that led to this moment...

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I waited for Harry to break down the door to his old home and thought about what I was getting myself into. It was crazy of me to even join the Order, but I let Hermione pull me into it. I truly wanted to demolish what had destroyed my life, but I didn’t want to die in the process, or worse see Hermione die. I couldn’t bear to loose her, and with the news of her pregnancy, I didn’t want to loose our baby, either.

A splintering crack brought me back to reality.

“Draco,” Hermione hissed from in front of me.

I blinked and then followed her inside. The house was a wreck, chairs were laying across the scraped hardwood floor, the wallpaper was ripped from the wall, the stairs had holes in them, the railing was missing! What got me was the silence; where are the Death Eaters?

As soon as this thought hit me, a series of pops and a flurry of spells bounced around the main floor. Everyone fanned out, leaving me and Hermione in the main entrance.

“If anything happens, just remember that I love you,” I said quietly to Hermione as I whipped out my wand.

“We’ll make it out of this alive, love, I know it,” Hermione responded. “I love you too.”

As soon as she spoke those words, a Death Eater Apparated in front of us.

“Draco Malfoy?” a shocked, female voice asked. She then cackled. “You’re about to get what you deserve...”

She shot the Avada Kedavra curse at me, but I ducked, narrowly missing the spell. Hermione blasted a Body-Bind spell, but the Death Eater countered it and sent it flying towards who I assumed was Neville Longbottom. He went down like a raindrop during a storm.

“Ah, shan’t forget the little mudblood,” the Death Eater said in a sickeningly sweet tone. It was then that I recognized who it was.

“Pansy Parkinson?”

The Death Eater, Pansy, stopped and looked at Draco. Beneath her mask, I saw a smirk forming.

“Yes love, it’s me.”

“You little...” Hermione cast the Killing Curse and hit Pansy. She flew across the main hallway and into a wall, lifeless.

I looked at Hermione in shock.

“I’ve been wanting to do that for years,” she responded simply. “Come on!”

We ran into the next room and were automatically met by another Death Eater. The Death Eater sent out a flurry of spells and one of them hit me. I went down under the Impedimenta Curse. Moments later, I stood up. Hermione and the Death Eater were locked in battle.

“Crucio!”

“No!” I dove in front of Hermione and took the curse.

My body crunched from the intensity of the Cruciatus Curse. Twitching on the ground as the pain strengthened, I tried my best to remember all the good times. The laughs and the jokes seemed distant as the Curse stole them from me. My hearing was deteriorating, yet I heard Hermione’s screams above me and her efforts to stop the Death Eater. With each of her attempts, the pain increased, my screams of agony doubling.

It was then I knew I wouldn’t survive. My heart slowed, and I began to go cold. My sight was starting to go black, but then I saw it, my worst night had come true - Hermione thumped to the ground beside me. I saw her eyes, her fear and grief shining in the beautiful pools of chocolate brown quickly dissolving to nothing. I tried to scream, but all that came out was the noise of screeching pain. Tears of loss flooded my face - I had lost her, the only love I’ve ever known, the one that had shown me there was light in this world of darkness. The sight of her rigid body disappeared into the ensnarement of anguish and pain that crushed down upon me.

The voices around me became loud - the yells, the screams, the death... it all soaked into me. I would never see these people again, and if I did... I couldn’t bear to think of a life without Hermione there with me and for what would’ve been our child.

A white light started to emerge, and I song, a song I had heard on the radio by a Canadian, muggle band...

I open my eyes
I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light
I can't remember how
I can't remember why
I'm lying here tonight

And I can't stand the pain
And I can't make it go away
No I can't stand the pain

How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

Everybody's screaming
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I'm slipping off the edge
I'm hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again

So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't

How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

I made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream...

My breath came to a halt as the last words entered my mind.

How could this happen to me?

Harry and Ginny??? · 07-18-2007, 07:41 PM

That was amazing!
I got the chills all down my arms and back as I read the story! It was sad but yet it was very beautiful. I have never heard of that song before but I like it very much!
So sorry for Draco but he saved Hermione! And that's something that Hermione will never forget!
I actually feel like crying but I'll hold back the tears...(my moms in the room...)
Great one-shot Sarah!

Love,
Emma