“Can I at least owl him?”James had asked her
“James, just owling him can get us killed”Lily said
“Don’t bring up death at my favourite holiday sunshine”James said standing near her They were dancing, slow and cute though the music was Halloween theme it was still very romantic
“Dumbledore said that by Christmas most of everything’s gonna be okay”Lily said hugging onto James, James hugging back
“I don’t want to wait two months”James whispered
“One, one month”Lily corrected
“It’s the 31th, still October hun”James smiled pulling away as a faster and much more energetic song came up Lily smiled They were dancing, I don’t think it was even a Halloween song
“This isn’t halloween”Lily smiled dancing along either way
“It isn’t but, I wanted to think of Sirius at a random point”James smiled “Really, led zeppelin”Lily laughed They danced for so many songs tell a very specific song came up The air that i breath- the Hollies The most beautiful and most lovely scene had come up James singing along Lily doing so once and a while They danced like they weren’t going to live the very next day Harry on the couch watching then James had seen him slowly wake up and walked towards him in a slow movement, dancing his way to him and took Harry Lily and James held the baby with such love in their eyes as they danced and held each other And as the song ended they were in a brace that no one with anything can separate them
“I love you flower”James whispered their foreheads together
“I love you sunshine”Lily said back Harry giggled
“Oh Harry I love you so so so much”James smiled kissing Harry’s head
“That reminds me, baby Harry it’s your bed time, you bad boy”Lily smiled taking Harry from James arms Just as James was about to say something, they had a knock.
James looked at Lily “Sweety, bring him to his room, please”James whispered kissing Lily
“I love you”
“Goodnight raspberry!”James shouted as Lily disappeared up the stairs
“Goodnight love!”Lily replied and Harry made a loud gasp making James smile James made happy steps to the door smiling, he loved his life.
He has a family, who cares how old they were? He has a beautiful and wonderful wife, he’d do anything for her, for Harry. His son, his wife, he has a beautiful life.
James didnt expect this as a child, he didn’t know what he expected, maybe this life but older, but he doesn’t care.
As he made his way to the door halfway he shouted
“Hey Peter HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!”
“Oh? Voldemort?”and he died No shouts. No warning. He just died.
Who knew just a flash, just a whip of an arm, someone can die? Two words, 6 syllables not even 10 seconds.
Someone’s who’s lived to see a full life of happiness.
One he thought he would have by the age of 35, he had then.
In a way, even just at 21, he knew that in any fucked up way, he deserved to die.
Not literally but his lived a full life by 21.
Maybe not with Harry, but he was happy through every minute.
Of course he deserved a whole lot more but James thinks he has lived enough, he thinks though, Lily deserves the world, what if she thinks the same with him? Then he wanted to live for the love of his life, he actually mourned his death.
That moment he wanted to live.
Anything for Lily
As Voldemort was making his way to Lily, Lily knew, in some odd way, she felt James die.
She let her tears build up, she helped Harry to bed but he just would not go back to sleep Under pressure playing from downstairs she smiled with tears in her eyes
“This is your father’s favourite song, Harry”lily smiled
“Under pressure, pushing down on me”Lily whispered among the lyrics smiling at her son mumbling the other words of the lyrics As Harry made little noises she smiled sitting on the floor watching Harry through the little round rails
“Harry you are so loved, Harry, mama loves you, dada loves you. Harry be safe, Be strong.” Voldemort entered, Lily might have said words but they flew from her mouth, she didn’t know what she was saying, she was just trying to save her baby, her son, her world She unlike James wanted to live.
She wanted in her very heart to make amends with her sister, to make her understand, she had been thinking of telling her about Harry, about her future daughter about how if petunia has one, about how hers and Harry can be friends She wanted to see the world from being young to being old, she wanted to see if her opinions changed, to see the world, to help, heal and change families upon families, she was going to make the world a better place.
Lily doesn’t know her last words, she was devastated.
Once she had entered the afterlife she saw James sitting, he didn’t look sad, didn’t look disappointed and for some reason that made Lily break down, she had started crying, so loud so hurt.
“Lily! Lily?”james ran to his wife
“We were only 21!”Lily screamed
“my baby”she choked
“our babies”she lowered her voice, tears falling Falling Falling And falling
“Babies?”James questioned
“I was pregnant.”lily whispered
“it’s a girl. I was gonna tell you tomorrow.”Lily cried onto James arms James didn’t reply, he didn’t, cause right then, he wanted to live to see them, he wanted to see the world old and young, see his children grow, have He cried with Lily, mourning the life they would have Turns out after dying, you don’t forget shit. You just die. Only difference is, once you’ve mourned, you understand that life can end whenever, yours just came, theirs just came with a slap across the face they would’ve been free
“James? What if us dying was how the world was safe?”Lily asked after they had cried for Merlin knows how long
“If that’s the case, I’d die all over again.”James whispered kissing lily’s forehead
“Are we at Godrich’s Hollow?”Lily asked after they had sat and she looked around
“Looks it”James nodded
“You know James, I died to under pressure”Lily smiled
“Wicked”
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