To Die. To Know. To Live & Love

Hello all I've brought to you another piece of my oveloaded mind this one it's kind of funny because I got inspired over dices, I know I've been gone a while I just hope You enjoy it.

*Disclaimer: I lowly being do NOT own any characters,JK Rowling (should be the Ruler of the world) is the mastermind behind this magnificent creatures, I do not make profit from this, just the fun of writing and playing around with them*

Well that being clarified

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Prologue: Nothingness

Sometimes to know what's between the lines you have to be gone.

And here I am the heir to fortune, fame and the power of the name and I have just opened my eyes and I really don’t know where in Hades am I.

This place is humid and dark much alike the dungeons at Hogwarts and I can’t see to remember how I’ve got here

“Hello?” I called to the nothing around me, my hands spread to my sides in case I felt some surface to lean on “where in bleeding hell am I?” and yes I was losing my composure can you believe the nerve

There was what it sounded like groan I jumped back and almost fell on my arse

“Who dares to come to the place where not even angels dare to?” the voice was hoarse like when you wake up in the morning and BOOM! Flames lit the place all around there was no entrance visible, maybe it’s so far that it can’t be seen. I started to walk towards the voice I heard.

“Who are you?” I asked, the voice chuckled and was at verge of screaming. Where the fuck am I? “Will you answer who are you?”

“I have many names but you can call me gambler” it said, gambler what in hell?

“What I’m doing here?” I asked curious “how did I got here and where is here any bloody way?”
It laughed almost cackled “oh my boy, you are into the nothingness”

My eyes widen this was a sick, sick way to get a laugh “that’s impossible did some idiot vanished me here?”

The seriousness in its voice made me fell “Boyo, you are dead”

“Is this some sick joke? Are you having fun, you bastard?” I lost the little control I had left “tell me is this funny to you, you sick oaf piece of shit!!?”

Silence was what I received as reply, I stumble on the ground and ran for dear life but there was no door or opening to get out “let me out!”

“You can’t” it simply said

“I can’t be dead” I said to myself

“But you are, it’s the only way a soul can find its way here” my eyes sparkled with fear and I let my knees hit the ground, my back turned from the gambler, I know my eyes were moist with tears and I heard shuffling so I turned my head a little “come boyo, sit and ask”

It had stepped out of the darkness surrounding it, I swallowed hard and blinked away the tears slowly made my way back to the light and sat there.

“How it happen?” I cracked a little

“I do not posses the answer to that” it said and I got mad again

“Then what the hell I’m supposed to be doing here with you? Have tea?” I asked trying to sound smug “why do you exist and since when?”

It breathed loudly “to that I have the answer young boy” it started “I exist since the beginning of time; my job is to play with the time of life and dead of every being” then it hummed in contemplation “that’s very strange that you are here”

Hope rise inside me “why?”

“If I’m not mistaken” it felt silent and I started to hear like a shaking of little rocks and then they hit the ground “ah yes”

“Yes what?” I asked but no answer came my way and again the shaking

“Mmm-huh yes, yes I’m not” it was like it was talking to itself and it was annoying I was being ignored

“What are you doing?” I snapped “what do you see?” I saw to little pieces coming near me and when I looked down I got more annoyed they were little wooden cubes, dices I looked up and hissed “Dices!
How I’m supposed to believe that I have died because of a roll of dice!”

And the fucker dared to laugh at my face “Ignorant child! Look at the numbers and add them up”

So I did reluctant but I did I needed a point here “seven, so what?”

“That means that you are dead ahead of time, you shouldn’t have die and that’s why your soul is here in the nothingness where I reside”

I jumped excited “that means I would go back, send me back” I said but it didn’t move “what are you waiting for send me back you said it yourself It’s not my time”

“Oh young one I can’t do that” it told me with ease and my hope and excitement shattered in front of me I’ll be here for eternity

“I’ll be here for eternity” I sulked

“Now don’t be such fatalist” it said and move a little more towards me “I was cheated and so were you” it kept rolling the dices and they kept stopping on seven or stopping in between numbers “You were cheated but you’re human, I am not and those who dare over time have paid dearly in doing so” it voice turned more freaky than usual

“and what are saying here?” it got closer after my question

“You shall see” two more dices added those ones were black marble with white dots

‘What the fuck are going to do now you freak’ I thought, I know it looked at me and I could feel the bloody smirk oozing from its face.

“Patience is something that I was doted with, when you gamble you can’t be hurrying things along” It lectured me, both pairs of dices were been shuffled one black marble and one white wooden when it stopped and blew on the square like dices put together, then put it in front of me, the dices put together has the same number of dots: 3 and they were connected making an ‘X’ “blow on them”

And so I did, knowing shit about what I was doing it threw them let them roll, stopping the black ones 3 and 4 and the white ones rolled 3 and 6 adding up to 7 and 9. “will you look at that, 79 hum” it said an paused , I looked confused each movement it seems nearer to me, I could see its cloaked hands and from one side of the cloak it got what it looked like chips in different colours, the fire roared and it chuckled with satisfaction “Yes!” the space where we were got more illuminated and I got to see it was lining the chips, just eight in line of fours; green, blue, yellow and red, the second line; red, yellow, blue and green. It made the same ‘X’ and threw it on the chips, the red from the first line and the green of the second line.

“What does that mean?” my words came out in a drawl, I didn’t mean to be disrespectful but it may look that way, the gambler or ‘it’ as I refer to it didn’t seem to care, with its cloaked hands it pointed the chips

“This one is you” pointing to the green out of line and then to the red one “and that is who shall help you”

“Help me?” I was very puzzled

“Young boy, look at you” a swishing sound surround me so I looked down at myself but saw nothing different and I arched an eyebrow quizzing “and here I thought you were Intelligent, not at your spirit at your body, turn around!” I gasped because I was already dead I couldn’t pass out my body was horrible my face, my Greek features torn into a horrible mock of who I was, my hair platinum blond locks were no longer on my head and My Soul was torn, mad and I scream in rage and pain, I crawled to where my lifeless body laid and I cradled myself rocking my head back and forth. I was caught up with my emotion that didn’t heard the creature making its way towards me, not until its hand touched my shoulder and gave it a light squeeze “come on boyo, come along son of Slytherin and hear me out”

It pulled me off my body and near it, I looked up at it cloaked self and found myself dumbfounded, the cloak was bone white and gray, long locks of coppery hair falling to the sides and the only part of the face visible was the mouth and chin it smile “a lion and a serpent” between its finger were the chips together “You are to return and find who did this to you who dare to cheat on my winnings in order to be restore on your living state, but get this you won’t be seen by anyone but this person chosen by the dices”

“Who is it?” I asked, it just smirked putting to shame my own

“That we’ll find out when you get there and maybe I’ll roam the earth for a while, and do not worry about rotting your body its preserve under my care, now Go!”

In a flash everything was dark suddenly and felt myself falling, fast I didn’t know where a very sudden thud but a stop to it, I felt queasy and closed my eyes.

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It’s dawning and I still up and this is madness, it has been over a year since the war ended and I really gotten over a lot of things buried in books, loaded in work, restless, my relationship with Ron on the brink. While the wizard society it’s falling into place I seem to be crumbling out of mine and I’m just twenty years old.

I move to the kitchen of my house to get a glass of milk and maybe get some rest, after serving me the glass of milk I sat on the kitchen island and swung my feet to and fro, suddenly I froze I would swear I heard a slight grunt, I sat still and waited taking my wand from the bun in my hair, I didn’t move anymore, I was about to scowl at myself for being paranoid but I heard steps very vague like when you walk in crisp grass but then nothing more.

I sat and waited I went stand up and something jumped at my lap, I screamed and fell backwards from the kitchen island falling on my bum and bumping my head on the floor, I got on my feet and call the lights, leaving me face to face with Crookshanks.

“Sod off Crookshanks, I almost killed myself because of you” I huffed at the cat who turned to leave “Crookshanks Out!” wand in hand I conjured the cat who was hissing at me and open the door to the backyard, lifted the spell and went inside again.

After that I went to the bathroom and pour myself a hot bubble bath, I let my body relax under the water, I sighed and let myself go.

After a while I felt as if I was been watch but when I opened my eyes, the only one there was me. I finished my bath (disturbed by the wind) and stood to dry myself but I must have forgot that its slippery when wet (the floor) and slipped, I hit the floor on full force and for he second time in this night I hit my head, the pain was excruciating
I know a moaned and whined my vision blurred and I tried to get a grip on the edge of the tub but my body didn’t respond “ so this is how I die, after battling for years against evil, after facing things that only exist in the worst nightmares, I’m going to die because I fell” I felt like crying but even falling into the black abyss I was conscious enough to hear it

“Don’t be so dramatic Granger, you just hit your big head” It was the drawl of dead person because I know Draco Malfoy is dead.

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