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Don't Think I Can Fight This Anymore

Evelyn Finch went to the war, never looking to come back.

When the war was over and she found she had nothing, she opened a tea room in Diagon Alley. She kept an eye on her new friend George Weasley. She held a monthly card game for terrible cheats. She drank because if she didn't she had nightmares. And when Sylvia Vance came back from the dead, she kept an eye on her too.

She did a lot to avoid thinking about what Voldemort and his followers took.

Charlie Weasley fell into her life and she never wanted to let him leave. He understood what it was to be a war veteran. He knew she kept a lot under the surface and out of reach. He made it so she hardly had to try to distract herself - when he was there. He still had his work in Romania. So it was letters, and much too short visits.

And that just wasn't enough. Especially not if Evelyn's war isn't quite over yet.

I don't want to be here anymore
I know there's nothing left worth staying for
Your paradise is something I've endured, whoa whoa
See I don't think I can fight this anymore
I'm listening with one foot out the door
And something has to die to be reborn
And I don't want to be here anymore


I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore, Rise Against