Invisible String [t. s]

Skyfall

"Amélie, we've got to go." He pulled again with no use before he picked her up and started running with Élie in his arms. It worried him how she was just like a rag doll, how she couldn't speak, how it felt as if she wasn't even breathing. "C'mon, c'mon, Rosier. Wake up from it." They closed in on the bridge, where they'd be taken to the top of the mountain, where the celebration will take place.

  When they were about to arrive, Theseus spotted dark clouds above them, like streaks of smoke. Dark wizards. One of them got too close to him and he felt the weight of Amélie shifting in his arms, she punched his face and they fell, letting go of her, both rolling over the ground. Lally stopped on her tracks as Theseus and Amélie stood up, and the smoke turned into Vinda.

"Kill him." She whispered and Amélie looked at her.

"What?" Amelie's face reflected worry, sadness, a hint of fear, a part of her was awake, fighting the strong spell. "I-"

"Kill him." Amélie's face went from sad to nothing before looking back at Theseus. Vinda disappeared and Amélie started to throw the green unforgivable curse at Theseus. He defended himself by using everything physical that was around him: bricks, cauldrons, everything he could use to block the curse. Lally stepped in and tried to stunt Amélie, in her logic that would snap her out of the curse, but Amélie blocked the spell, in a second, Lally found herself being held by the ornament in her hair, a brown lace that was braided with her dark black mane held her and she couldn't move. Hicks could hardly breathe.

  Even if Amélie was being controlled, the conscious part of her mind screamed for her to stop. She didn't want to do this, she'd never be able to do it. If her controlled self had a good aim and managed to hit the target and she woke up to Theseus' corpse in her arms, she'd have to die too. Amélie shifted and held her head as she groaned. Theseus breathed in and out with relief, then he ran to her.

"Amélie, fight it. Fight it." He held her face. "Please, love, fight it. You're strong, stronger than anything. You can fight it." Amélie groaned and looked at Theseus, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I know you don't want to do this, I know it!" She sent him backwards, making him groan; regardless of the pain, he stood up. It suddenly felt like this was the end. "You don't mean it." He fell backwards again, grunting when he hit the ground roughly, and Lally held her breath as Theseus stood up once more. "I know you don't want to hurt me." She disarmed him and made him fall and this time he didn't stand. Amélie placed herself on top of him, her wand against his neck, her knees on each side of his hips. He felt the Earth moving and his heart bursting in his ears. This was the end.

"Avada-" She said and he closed his eyes.

"Fuck it! I love you!" There, he said it, and Amélie froze, the unforgivable curse trapped in her throat. Theseus thought that would be the only thing, the only words that could bring her back. The last words that would come out of his mouth. Suddenly, she tensed and she frowned as she blinked. "I do. I've loved you ever since you kissed me at that stupid Yule Ball. I feared to tell you all those years ago, when we were kids, at the Muggle war where the worlds collided and the days were dark, when we made love for the first time and all those years after. But I do love you, more than I could ever love anyone. You're my world, Amélie, and if those will be my last words, then so be it. I'll be gone in peace knowing that I finally told you." She blinked a few times and his hand found her cheek again. "I love you." He whispered and she groaned in pain, willpower is the only thing that snaps you out of the Imperius curse, and Vinda was too out of reach as to make sure the curse doesn't break, but with Theseus' confession and her willing to let him live, Amélie woke up. The fog in her eyes cleared out and that shade of green that drove him crazy looked into her favourite shade of blue. He smiled. "That's my girl."