Lily
Trying to drag a full sized human being up the pathway to the small house she, Mary and Marlene shared was more difficult then Lily had anticipated.
“Oh my fuck why is this so hard” lily heard mary pant
“Come on we got this, the door is in my sights”
Lily was holding onto the boy's legs and Mary had a tight grip under his arms.
Taking home strangers from alleyways was not something she did often, but seeing this boy's face and the pain etched into it, had stirred something inside her.
He looked too much like Sirius to leave behind.
They managed to reach the house, and With the door finally closed and locked, Lily instantly felt better, her home relaxed her; it simply held everything she loved, her friends, her family, and all the strong warmth they radiated unconditionally .
“Alright he can sleep on the couch tonight and we can explain to marlene in the- ‘
Her sentence was abruptly cut off because she’d finally turned around. Both Marlene and James were sitting on the small sofa, wine glasses in their hands staring, open mouthed right at the boy sprawled across the floor.
“What the fuck is this random dude!” Marlene cried hands and wine flying every witch way.
“Lily liked him okay, so we brought him home” mary tried hopefully
“You kidnapped him?!”
“Hmm I guess we did”
“Huh”
“No we did not kidnap him we are just letting sleep here tonight okay” lily soothed
Marlene was looking skeptical “And why are we doing that, i really don't want to be stabbed when he wakes up”
“He hasn't got a knife marlene don't worry we checked”
“Are there not knives in the house”
“Just, okay ” please just look at him really look at him”
Marlene made to get up but James was faster, on his knees next to the boy pushing black curls out of his face with gentle hands, exposing sharp pale skin.
Sirius? he breathed “he looks..” James' face was unreadable in that moment, eyes shining with something she'd never seen from him. Was it anger, fear, wonder, lust? She couldn't decipher it, it seemed like them all.
“Oh my god what the shit why does this guy look exactly like sirius but also not at all, lily what have you done you've brought a demon into the house and now we're gonna need an exorcism” marlene screeched all in one breath.
She had one hand on James' shoulder and the other over her heart looking slightly panicked. She'd managed to come up next to them without Lily noticing, her eyes still fixed and james’ strange expressions.
“that is exactly what I was thinking, But lily the love of my life had other plans’’ Mary coughed out, look at lily accusingly
Marlene groaned at this, her head rolling back dramatically. “Mary your love has doomed us all”
“Hey we still might be okay, ill call my gran she probably knows how to perform the exorcism”
’'I - know" James' sudden whispered breath came out of nowhere haunted and hollow. "I know who this is.”
Lily felt her chest draw in, and both Mary and Marlene snapped their heads away from each other, looking at James as if he was now the one in need of the exorcism.
Bringing her hand up to rest in his lily gave it a small squeez willing her warmth to reach and comfort him somehow.
“Who is he James” she asked eyes not leaving his.
“he's.. he's Sirius’s younger brother”
He said those words with so much pain. Lily knew Everyone could sense heavy air that was washing over the room engulfing and smothering it.
“I didnt no sirius had a brother,” Mary whispered gently.