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The Life and Times of Catriona Lucille Macleod


Dedicated to the ones I love, as these things so often are:

To my wonderful parents, For being everything I'd ever want to be and for the years we had together.

To my brother, We drove each other crazy not too long ago.

Pour ma grand-mère, Merci pour ton amour et ton courage. Si tu étais allé à Hogwarts, tu aurais été une Gryffindor.

To Alice, For always being there. A true Hufflepuff if ever there was one.

To my unwavering Gryffindors, Truer lions have never been found.

To Sirius, Of all people, I know I needn't say anything, but this once I think you might need to hear it: be strong.

In these times, nothing is certain and everything seems all the more precious for it. I can't pretend to know what life will throw at us, nor if life will even continue to exist for any of us, but in this I hope a small piece of us will survive the tide of time. Until recent months I'd never really considered dying, not really. (I had no reason to as far as I could tell.) And I despair at the thought of leaving all of the possibilities behind: no hope of ever painting that birdhouse with my grandma; not having my first Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Bean or my first electricity bill; missing the chances to dance in the rain just for the hell of it; no more tickling my brother into fits; never being able to give my baby a raspberry; no more laughs; no more cries; no more hugs; no more kisses; no more sighs; no more dreams; -

Well, I guess I'll leave you to imagine the rest. Hopefully we will all live to see dreams come to life.

Always yours,
Trina


Author's Note:
Sorry paragraphing isn't working so I put dedications in one line each instead of a ~letter format.
Will be in standard form from now on with only a couple exceptions, so will include description and dialogue etc.
Bear with me, I don't like Author's Notes (so this'll be one of the few) and I often take too long updating. Hope you enjoy it!