Mirkys Drabble Chain

Title: Drabble 31 - Void

Pairing: Harry

Fandom: Harry Potter Xover LotR

Warning: Gen, Pre-Slash

The whispers of the void beckoned him forward, they uttered promises, and hope for a future he believed he would never have. The curtains pooled on the floor flared out and caressed his ankles in a loving hold, his wand rested limply against his side as his heart constricted.

Sirius, he must save Sirius. He couldn't be selfish and save himself.

/He's safe... come within... meet your destiny... meet the one destined for you... little wizard come.../

Was it true? Was Sirius safe? But Voldemort…

Luna sidled beside him glancing at him then at the void. She rested the side of her arms against his forcing him to break his contemplation and pay attention to the world around him. He remembered his friends who came with him to help, he couldn't abandon them could he?

"Tempting isn't it?"

Harry wasn't startled that she knew, understood. It was Luna. "Yes." Her smile was soft, gentle. Gray eyes shining with something old and made him catch his breath as their gazes held. "Luna?"

"Jump Harry."

What? He couldn't have heard her right.

"If they speak it is truth, jump."

She nudged him again and Harry could feel the tug on his ankles firm and he would have taken a step but a shout of "Harry!" had him hesitating.

"Jump Little Wizard." Luna's words had a tinkle of a bell behind it, almost unearthly and then she was blinking. "Go Harry." and it was her with her radish earrings. Fear gripped at him but he could be selfish, just this once let him be the reckless teen everyone thought he was.

Better to die with hope than in battle, taking Luna’s hand in his he squeezed. "Tell them..." he glanced at the dark void, the voices beckoning him forward as the curtain persisted.

"I will. Go Harry."

And so Harry went.