Title: Cigarettes
Author: Lilith ( [email protected] )
Word count: 100 Archiver's note: written to go with this Draco picture.

Cigarettes

Draco had always wanted to be respected and adored. He had always had a thirst for being glorified and venerated.

So, as a deluded 14-year-old, he took to smoking cigarettes. He imagined that the soft curls of smoke which framed his face made him look mysterious, the bright ember a contrast in the ink-dark night making him look fearsome.

It was a horrified Draco which found out later that the milky pads of his fingers and whiteness of his teeth had turned a sickly yellow; his Quidditch performance had been affected. It was then that a wan desperation overtook Draco.

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