Time doesn't heal. Nothing does. Time simply allows you to grow to survive. The pain never fades, it never subsides. It haunts, it buries itself into parts of you that you never knew could hurt. It mocks you by allowing you moments of freedom only to be greeted by horror. Pure indescribable, excruciating pain that no matter how hard you try to rid yourself of only magnifise with every night that passes, every shadow that follows you, every nightmare that feels never ending.

There was a time I believed that this, this life was temporary. That there was something beyond this. That one day I could be free, free from my past, my present and my future that was somehow already destined for me without even knowing.

After Dumbledore's death everything changed. I wasn't even aware how bad it would get, how stupid was I to think that there was even the smallest chance that it would end, that it would all be over. I've tried my best to recall what really happened for the last few months as best I could but I guess that's just how the brain works. When life gets too much it builds a wall so high that you simply don't have the energy to climb. Sometimes I could sit for hours replaying the same memory in my head on repeat like a record, I could see everything so clear until I couldn't. I couldn't see anything at all, just darkness. Maybe I wasn't ready to feel them again but I needed to, I wanted to. I needed to understand everything, I need to pick apart at every single piece of information. I need to find a way, an ending. Something other than this.

With each memory I could hear every voice so vividly like it was right in front of me, I could see their mouth moving with every word and each expression that crossed their face. What they were wearing, their scent, their hair. Everything....like it was right in front of me...but it wasn't.

Hours turned into days, days to weeks and who knows maybe months. Life like this was torture, waiting and waiting. Waiting for something, for anything. Trying to keep a broken brain alive was near impossible. I can't describe it, I only wish I could. It almost felt like fading, like slowly my body was fading into the walls around me, sinking into the ground.

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I was sure I wasn't imagining it. I lifted my head up off the wall I was relying on for strength, to the distant noise. This wasn't the first time I had heard noises from above, I was unsure on how many were real and how many were my brain playing tricks on me. However this noise was different, I could feel it? Yes! I could feel it. A vibration of some sort shuddered through my back. I pulled myself up of the cold floor and walked towards the locked gate. I could hear muttering of some sort, I looked up the stairs where another sealed door stood, making sure that anyone who came down here would remain here. I waited and waited for movement from the handle, but nothing came.

The noises returned after a minute or two but I was certainly too far away to hear anything clearly.

"Draco........please...Lucifer"

"What?" I muttered under my breath, I couldn't work out at all who the person was or what they were saying. For a second my survival mode kicked in and I was close to screaming from the rooftop 'HELP, HELP I'M IN HERE! HELP ME PLEASE!" but it shortly dawned on me that I wasn't lost, in fact I was exactly where they intended me to be.

The silence fell across the four walls once more, with no idea when I would hear anything again. No idea when there would be some hope that I would have the chance to get out of here and find out what's going on and where Draco is! And if he's okay...and if he still loves me...and if he forgives me.

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BANG.

I gasped so hard my breathe hitched in the back of my throat causing me to loose my breath for a moment.

"...Hello?" I creeped my head around the wall to the gate. Nothing...no reply.

But then there was a noise I was sure of. A door handle twisting. At first the rush of adrenaline crashed over me, I was free! I can get out of here! But I hadn't even thought about my destiny beyond this gate. If I even had one? Would I live to see the sun rise again? Or to see Dracos face, or to hold him one last time.

His ice cold stare penetrated through me. "Hello dear, enjoyed your time away?" Lucifers smirk was nearly uncontrollable as if shifted his face.

"What do you want?"

"Oh it's not what I want Ivy. It's what the Dark Lord wants." he stepped closer to me until we stood face to face with just the bars between us.

"What-what does he want?" I tried my best to cover up the fear that consumed every part of my body.

"You'll find out soon enough, now any other questions you would like to WASTE MY TIME WITH. " His words spat at me with anger.

"...Yes, one. Draco?-I-"

"DON'T YOU DARE ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MY SON. If it wasn't for you then The Dark Lord wouldn't had to of done what he did! YOU! You and everything you are have ruined him! Don't you dare speak his name to me, you don't deserve his name in your mouth."

"W-what do you mean what he's done to Draco? Where is he?! What's happened?!"

"BE QUIET!!" His cold scream immediately stopped any other further words from coming out. I stared at him, nearly cowering at his words.

He pulled out his wand and before I knew it the gate slowly swung open, an overwhelming sense of dread swept over me. Even in this hell hole least I could imagine a better life out there, least I could tell myself that Draco was okay. That somehow after everything happened he found a way out and he was safe. That he somehow found a way of getting rid of the mark and he could be free. But the moment I step of this room, that's going to change instead my truth will be changed with the actual truth and I don't know if I am ready for that.

"Move." I did as I was told. I moved my body up the stairs nearly lifeless.

The dark halls wrapped around me, I tried my best to concentrate on just putting one foot in front of the other but my brain was in overdrive at what would be beyond these doors. How my life would be different, whether I had a life at all. Time felt deathly slow yet too fast, the corridor felt never endless yet terrifyingly close. This nightmare I was in was nothing like I describe, every fibre of my body felt on fire with fear.

I watched and I waited as the main door theatrically opened as if I was a prize entering a ring to be slaughtered. One foot in front of the other Ivy. One foot in front of the other, I watched my feet with every step I took too scared to see what lay in-front of me.

"Ahhhhhhh....Ivy. How good of you to join us." His wicked laugh echoed around the room, still too scared to lift me head. "I don't believe you've been introduced to everyone, forgive if I'm wrong. Yes..you've met Lucifer, and Bellatrix of course. Now let me see of course you've met Draco" My head darted up, I scanned the room quickly, a sea of dark clothing and deathly stares was the only thing I could see. Where is he? He's alive?! "Ahh don't worry my dear he's here, although he might look a little different since the time you saw him." My heart dropped into my stomach.

"Come here Draco" Voldemort raised his hand. Time suddenly slowed down, each footstep he took echoed through me. It pulsated through my ears. I watched as he moved his way through the crowd, until he was stood next to him.

"oh my god Draco, what-what ha-"

"What happened you ask? Ah I think you know what happened Ivy, it was you. Draco here needed a lesson in why you do not go against my word. Didn't you Draco?"

His eyes met mine, dark purple circles cradled his eyes. Bloodshot like mine. Ghostly white like I'd never seen before but all things weren't the problem. A dark red scar crossed from the top of his forehead, across his nose, down his cheek onto his neck and then it was lost under his clothing. A burning sensation filled my eyes, tears poured out of them like an endless stream. He seemed so weak, so afraid. I watched as he tried his best to reassure with his smile, he mimed the words "I'm okay" but I was afraid he was far from that.

"Anyway shall we proceed. I had no intention of keeping you alive Ivy. The moment you betray me is the moment you no longer have purpose however I was reminded of something that makes all that rather.. difficult so I figured we'd have some fun." Draco's head dropped at Voldemort's words. Bellatrix's cackle filled the room. "Now just incase Mr Malfoy hasn't already learnt his lesson I thought I would give him one more. Now."

Draco edged his way closer to me, his smile grew wider and wider the further out of sight he was from the others. He reached up and grabbed my hands, I couldn't help but fear that this surely wasn't allowed yet nobody said a word.

"Draco..what's happening?" My eyes unable to settle on one part of him, absorbing every second.

"Ivy.." he took the deepest breathe as if he was in pain. "I will love you till the day I die, I never meant for you to be in any pain. I just wanted you to be mine. Even if I had a million years with you it would be too short, you are my everything and I'm so sorry." he trembled with every word.

"Draco you're scaring me...what's happening" I gripped on to him with every being of my body.

"NOW DRACO!" Voldemort's scream rang in my ears.

"I love you...always and forever." He took his thumb and ran it over my lips like he had done so many times before, but this was different his thumb trembled on me making me shake.

"DRACO?!" I cried out.

"Obliviate."

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