Written for the Reunite Challenge by BlueEyes444.
Pairing: Lucy Weasley and Lorcan Scamander.
Prompt: Cold.
Lucy Weasley laughed breathlessly out of pure exhilaration as she walked, spinning around in endless circles until she was so dizzy that she could have fallen over.
She could hear the pitter-pattering of the rain all around her, smashing against the worn path around the Black Lake, and crashing against the grass shadowed by Gryffindor Tower.
The world blurred around her in a swirling twister of rain and the castle and the lake until they were all mixed together so tightly that she could hardly see a thing.
Lucy slowed for a second, just a half of a moment before she collided into none other than...some guy with blond hair and a hoop earring through one ear?
She nearly fell over, except for the fact that the blond-haired boy reached out and snatched her arm and pulled her up, and surprise flickered through both of their eyes.
"Lucy?" asked the boy, completely shocked.
"Lorcan?" she breathed at the same time, her dark eyes widening in surprise.
"It's really you, isn't it? Merlin, I haven't seen you since June! You look so bloody different! And your hair looks even redder than it used to be! And-"
Lucy cut in, "It's only been three months, Lorcan, that's not much time! But you do look different, and why on earth did you get an earring? It's shaped like...a radish!"
Lorcan grinned, answering, "Mum gave the earring to me as a keepsake, but I thought it would be more fitting to wear it instead of keep it in a box."
"So you pierced your ear by yourself?" she gasped.
"Nah, Lysander helped me with that part. All I had to do was numb my ear with an ice cube, pretty easy," explained Lorcan.
"What about the ear-piercing spell we learned in charms class last year? Couldn't you have just done that?" she asked him.
"Figured that, with my and Lysander's limited knowledge and skill with charms, we'd just do it the old-fashioned way. Your uncle Charlie showed us how at last year's family reunion."
Lucy just stared at him, trying to take it all in, that is, until she noticed something incredibly obvious. "It's raining," she pointed out.
"Pretty much," agreed Lorcan. "Aren't you cold? It must be below freezing, especially with all of this rain. I'd offer you my jacket, except it's all wet too."
Lucy rolled her eyes at the boy, taking his wet hand in hers as they headed back for the castle, two friends reunited after much too long.
And through it all, the rain never stopped coming down, but Lucy could have sworn that she could feel the sun still shining on her and Lorcan.