who decides?
by @finelinegynandromorph / finelinegynandromorph
Prompt: Character A always tells people that fear is easy to beat, nothing more than a trick of the mind. They believed it was true until Character B challenged them to spend one night in a nearby graveyard where the fears they face seem all too real
Summary:
“I did it for us,” Harry pants into his knees, gripping her hand with all his strength. “I did it so we’d both survive.” He coughs into a shiver, and can’t tell whether it’s his own hand tightening, or if there’s an answering squeeze. “We were dying,” he sobs, and when he closes his eyes he can see the outline of a cross branded into the back of his mind. Harry chokes on his next breath.
or, harry spends the night in a field full of bodies. he tries not to think about his own
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