Dear Dina| (WR Verse Drabble)
I wish I wasn't writing another letter to you that I don't want you to read.It's just...I can't keep talking about my doubts and fears about us. Voicing them, saying the words out loud to you...It's like a slap in the face to you.
Yes, I want us. I want you. I love you. I want us to have a future, but as long as Bellatrix Lestrange is lurking out there in the shadows and not rotting in a graveyard or a jail...
I'm still stuck. Sixteen months with her in my head? Add one year of being stuck in limbo. How can we move forward when I'm still hiding?
How can I move forward when I'm terrified? When outside in the sun I have to pretend to be someone else? And even when I'm safe behind magical enchantments here or at my friends' flats or with my family, I know everyone is cataloguing in their minds every difference. I'm competing with the memory of who I was.
I see him sometimes, but it's only when I forget the past, when I'm swept up in a moment of joy or happiness:
Eliza making me dress up like a princess despite my protests and Hayley laughing at her daughter's prowess at tiara straightening. Working with George on a WWW product, star-gazing with Avery,dragon babysitting with Grady, hot tea with Kassie, eating a box of chocolate frogs with Owana and Harry,Quidditch conversations with Ginny...
And when I'm with you, those moments when it's just us and everything seems right.
I can be him in moments, but good moments end.
I end them--my brain doing whatever the hell it wants and wandering where I don't want it to--or time ends them.
Unfortunately, I can't switch off my head or stop time, rewind time, give time to those people whose time has run out, make the good moments last forever or at least until I can believe I'll be okay.
The problem is I don't. I know I can't move forward until I can conceive in my mind some kind of future, but when I try all I can think about is...
She didn't kill me. She wasn't done with me. How much more was she expecting me to take? What happens when she finds out I'm not dead? I should say 'if'--'if she finds out,' but she knows me now. She had plenty of time to poke around in my head.What if she's still waiting?What if this is part of her game?
And even if it isn't, I can't hide forever. If she checked with the muggle side of my family, if McGonagall is alive and they've been questioning her, if anyone in the Order is working for them...There's too many cracks in the shield.
I can pledge you all my love, but I can't promise you a future. I don't dare.