Bellatrix can not, and will not face the truth that her Lord is gone.

Scorpius doesn't like the feeling of pretending... Lysander thinks it's okay to pretend sometimes.

"She needed him to be whole because without love she was empty. She needed to show someone the beauty in life that only she seemed to be able to find. She was haunted, and only he could make her feel otherwise." Bad summary but give it a go!

"And although she saw the best, the beauty and reason in what Blaise had done, it didn't make it seem any better to her. He was throwing his life away for her – there was no telling how many years this could last for."

"She might have tried to fix herself, but not anymore. She always ends up in that same place, and she's just not fixable anymore." Warning: Depictions of an eating disorder.

"Now there's no utterance and no agony but now there's no breathing either and finally, she finds that she's just a silhouette."

Twelve pairings; five hundred words; the day before the final battle, the final battle, and the day after the final battle. PAIRING TWELVE : GINNY/HARRY

Blaise reflects back on his life and how his mother, aunt and Daphne fit into it.

"He broke her heart so she's breaking herself."

"One day- he doesn't know exactly when, but she realizes that her pretty little smiles are all that she needs to get by and make people see her as a happy person." Blaise sees right through that pretty little smile.

The war is continuing, and Voldemort is winning. Draco is one of the orders only links to the world outside Grimmauld Place, and Hermione can't trust him, but he fascinates her. Diary entries by Hermione.

"He hates her. Those knowing little eyes that peel him apart layer by layer and hold them up to the light so he has to confront his flaws are in his dreams- his nightmares."

"She blinks rapidly, pretending he's not there, pretending she doesn't have to face this, pretending she hasn't committed the ultimate betrayal." Narcissa doesn't want to face the painful truth that she loves two men at once, so she isn't going to.

"She can't decide whether this gnawing suspicious feeling at the back of her mind is something she should be worried about. Maybe today is the day she should put together the pieces of this jumbled, shattered puzzle."

She teetered on the edge of the bridge, her heart thumping so strongly against her chest that it caused bullets of pain to rip through her body. It seemed to as eager to jump into the icy water as she was. Implied attempted suicide and other things, dark.

"But she is a puppet. She is a pawn." warning: depictions of self harm. "and it disgusts her, for she is like them." "They will respect her the most, not love, no, for Blacks' don't have hearts." 14, 16 and 18 year old Narcissa, Andromeda and Bellatrix.

"And he watches her, his heart and his soul and his body and his mind all longing and screeching out to her, attacking him from the inside and demanding him to love this girl."

Astoria always played Draco's heart strings. - "It's passionate and it's rocky but it's her so it's okay that things aren't ever perfect."

Hermiones sanity is suffering at the hands of the war. She tells Draco her account of their relationship through the war so far - the stories of her scars. Drabbles.

"His conscience knew he was a monster.He often ignored his conscience." Drabble series, a collaboration with RecessFanatic2011.