The Unpsoken Things
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Just darkness, near-fatal wounds, and the unsaid things finally being spoken aloud.
Snippet:
Harry feels hands on his torso, blood smearing through his clothes, across his skin. And suddenly, his shirt is coming off. “I’m dying,” he chokes.
Malfoy hums. “Probably.” His fingers brush lightly over the many gashes across Harry’s chest. Harry gasps at the pain, but Malfoy shushes him. “We’re matching.” Now it’s Malfoy whose shirt is coming off. In the dim light, Harry can make out thin white lines slashed across his chest. The shirt is pressed onto Harry’s own slashes, soaking up the fresh blood.
For a moment, it’s silent. Harry closes his eyes as pain washes over him. He is dying, even if Malfoy isn’t acting like it. And they are matching. Same curse and all. Plus, when the cavern’s entrance came down, Harry’s injury hadn’t allowed him to dodge as easily as Malfoy had. To Malfoy’s credit, he had tried, at least, to pull Harry away. That didn’t stop the rubble from crushing Harry’s leg.
“I don’t want to die here,” Harry says, interrupting the sound of Malfoy's fingers trying to spark up some poor attempt at wandless magic. The Lumos was impressive, but that seems to be about all he can do.
Malfoy doesn’t even look at him. “Ah, the cupboard thing, right? Too dark. Too enclosed.” He clicks his tongue and shakes his head. “So dramatic, Potter. Is the simple fast that you are dying not depressing enough?”
“Fine,” Harry snaps. It comes out painfully weak. “I don’t want to die here with you.”
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