❛ all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red. ❜ ( im super slow w thread replies so have?? lucius post first wizarding war weaving poetic lies abt his time under the dark lord's 'control' . but hang out w him alana :^) let him lie to u )
ACHING was her heart at the sight of the tired malfoy’s eyes. though she looked at a man before her, she saw the boy she first met at hogwarts. he was shorter than her, who had reached her peak height of 5 feet tall, he had much CURLIER hair than he did now, and his eyes were much more innocent. alana will never forget the look on his face when he was nearly ENDED by an erkling, small they may be, but they do not lack in ferocity and would do almost anything to satiate their affinity for the taste of children. in that moment, she didn’t care about whether he was a MALFOY, all she cared about was saving his life. he looked so small and HELPLESS, alana couldn’t get that look out of her mind right now.
alana had a particular disdain for the dark wizards and witches, as a FEW YEARS before the first wizarding war took place, wanna-be death eaters tried to prove their loyalty to the DARK LORD by killing her parents. her parents were innocent, they had never professed their loyalty to either side. so alana had to admit it was hard to take when she saw LUCIUS and his family on the other side of the war, fighting with the DEATH EATERS and lord voldemort himself. but nevertheless, she, as an auror now, fought for her parents honour. she did what she had to do.
she stops for a moment, her empathy taking over, she could feel the exhaustion, and could feel the toll being under the imperius curse took on him. she swallows hard, thinking on all the bloodshed. so many lives lost on both sides, but for those FIGHTING AGAINST the dark lord, their loss was far greater; voldemort had an ARMY of witches and wizards who were not only willing to die for him at any moment, but they were TALENTED as well, he also had creatures fighting on his side that alana had never seen in her life—————–it was the scariest time of her life, but that NEVER STOPPED HER.
during this war, nobody knew who was UNDER THE IMPERIUS CURSE or who was willingly a death eater, nobody knew anything for certain except there would be great loss no matter what the outcome was. even with the F A L L of the dark lord, there was no feelings of relief after it was done. they had all undergone FAR too much suffering to rejoice, they had lost too many LOVED ONES to care about anything else. and if not loved ones lost, people had also lost parts of themselves.
it was a dark time to say at the least.
looking at her old friend, alana was at a loss for words. she was TIRED herself, and her heart was weary———-she could only imagine how lucius must feel. she can’t think of the right words to say------for the FIRST TIME alana feels absolutely speechless. so instead of trying to fill the void with half hearted words about the amount of blood that was shed, and the amount of loss they all endured she reaches out and wraps her arms around the man’s neck, and pulls him in close.
she holds him tightly, not expecting anything in return. she holds him so close, and squeezes her own eyes shut. ‘ I’m so happy you’re alive. ’ was all that she could manage to get out, still thinking back to the little boy whose life she saved.
a lost meme // @purecfblood
