AN ESSENCE OF LOVE, LIFE AND LONELINESS
Summary: Lily reflects back on her memories of her life, attempting to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, I'm just borrowing them to use for a while. All credit goes to the extraordinarily talented J.K. Rowling.
PROLOGUE
He didn't know her.
And she would never understand him.
He wanted to.
She - well. To put it nicely, didn't. In any way, shape or form.
She wanted to fly, to stretch out her wings and leap without stopping to think. She wanted to be free. The trouble was, she didn't know how.
He wanted to run, forever
and ever
and
ever.
Never looking back, never stopping to think.
She had always followed the rules.
He had broken hundreds.
She was intent on leaving school with a perfect record; he was relentless in his troublemaking antics, never once giving his future any thought.
She had learned to accept what would come her way, and be grateful for all that she had. She was generous, and kind, and selfless to the core.
He had been spoiled rotten since the day of his birth, always taking things for granted and almost never putting anyone else's well being before his own.
Until he met her, and learnt how to love.
How to value someone else's life so, so much more than your own.
Until she met him, and learnt how to breathe.
How to jump without pausing, on reckless impulse alone, finally free.
Until they met each other, and found a loud moment of joy in the dense silence of a terrible time.
But life is cruel. And war never ends. And tragedies like these only ever bring people closer. Even if in the most harrowing ways.