A/N - Hi everyone! This is my first freeverse, written for the Freeverse Challenge Prompt 35 (Golden like the sun) and the If You Dare Challenge Prompt 970 (Bring back the sun). I don't know if it's any good or not so please just write a quick review so I can see how I did! Enjoy :)
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He had always loved the sun.
In his eyes, it was perfect.
perfectly warm
perfectly bright
perfectly unique.
Just like her.
He had always associated her with
the colour yellow.
yellow like her hair
yellow like her dress
yellow like the sun.
She loved the sun too
to her, it symbolized pure happiness
Something she had never truly felt since her mother died.
"Daddy says we should always wear sun colours to a wedding."
Did she wear sun colours to the funeral, too?
After the wedding,
she offered him a place to stay for the summer, while his grandmother was visiting relatives.
She told him about everything
Her mother
Her father
Her life
and
the sun.
And at that moment, he never felt so connected to another person
In his entire life.
-they returned to Hogwarts-
_DUMBELDORE'SARMY_STILLRECRUITING_
But at Christmas
on the train home
they took her.
They took her away from him, and he was crushed.
-he returned to Hogwarts-
alone
but he carried on.
"It's what she would have wanted."
The DA morphed
From [outspoken mob]
To {guerilla army}
But all he really wanted
Was for something to bring back the sun
That had slipped behind a cloud
That was shaped like the Dark Mark.
She came back, in the end.
He found her after the Battle
And told her he loved her
and that in his eyes,
she could do no wrong.
And they were happy.
u
n
t
i
l
she
left
him
on his own again.
"I'm going travelling, but I don't think you should come with me."
WHY?
She never gave him a real reason.
"Daddy says you can still stay at home if you want."
What was the point?
Without her,
There was no home.
He didn't see her for
T
H
R
E
E
Y
E
A
R
S
And to him,
It was an eternity.
When she came back,
She brought a new friend with her.
He was a
h.a.n.d.s.o.m.e...n.a.t.u.r.a.l.i.s.t
Whose great-grandfather
Wrote one of their school textbooks?
And he could tell that
the sun was shining again.
But not for him.
He knew she pitied him
He could see it in her eyes
As clear a blue as the sky on a sunny day.
It made his heart ache.
So when he bumped into Hannah Abbott in the Three Broomsticks
He arranged a date
And another
And another.
One day, she told him
I * L * O * V * E * Y * O * U
And he said it back
But all he thought of was her.
Because she was the sun
And he was the moon
Always chasing, never catching,
[Blocked] and (eclipsed) by the Earth.
The week after,
The sun and the Earth announced their engagement
At a Weasley dinner.
He was crushed.
Again.
Hannah didn't understand;
no-one did.
A year later
The happy couple was married.
—Mr & Mrs Rolf Scamander—
Her dress was adorned with
y-e-l-l-o-w-r-i-b-b-o-n-s
with a sunflower woven into her golden hair.
A year after that, the sun fell pregnant.
Lorcan & Lysander
twin boys,
both perfect
both the spitting image of their mother.
He decided it was time to propose to Hannah.
She was delighted!
Planning started immediately, and soon they were
-Mr & Mrs Neville Longbottom-
They bought a house in Godric's Hollow,
Just a few streets away from the Potters'.
He was offered a job at Hogwarts
Which he accepted.
~P.R.O.F.E.S.S.O.R~L.O.N.G.B.O.T.T.O.M~
After a while, Hannah told him she was pregnant.
Months later, a tiny girl
-Alice Eleanora Longbottom-
B|E|A|U|T|I|F|U|L
He imagined the thin caramel hair was a few shades lighter
Golden as the sun's
And her eyes just a little darker
Merging his eyes with hers.
He loved her more than anything
But in his heart of hearts
He wished it wasn't Hannah's child.
But then he felt bad
So he lavished hours of his time on her
Holding her
Talking to her
Playing with her
Looking after her
Trying to appease his guilt.
It worked, sometimes.
Hannah was happy.
He supposed he was too.
But Hannah wasn't his sun
because she wasn't
Luna.
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