Change of Pace
A HariPo freeverse piece
by mew-tsubaki
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What an awful
w_a_r
(yes, most are that way)
But this one
screwed up all of
Bill's plans
He…
He'd had it all
right
in his head
Greyback's curse?
Just a small
DETAIL
It proved Fleur's love,
didn't it?
…
Didn't it?
Or maybe not
Maybe
(just m~a~y~b~e)
His mother would
getherway
Because who has time for
a wedding
amidst a bloody
W A R?
Oh, so maybe not
during
the war,
but surely there's plenty of time after
PercyAudrey
HarryGinny
Even RonHermione
(& the family knew never to count Charlie, even if there was that Hufflepuff a year below Ginny but Ginny's sorta-mate nonetheless who had gone to the Dragon Plains)
but…
where was
BillFleur
in all this?
And as Bill dwelled
(heavily)
on that thought,
suddenly one more wedding—
GeorgeAngelina—
was in their lap
& Bill bit back his gripes and
was there for his brother
(because that's just how
he is)
Funny thing
y'know, George & Angelina's attendants
Percy, the b.e.s.t.m.a.n
Katie Bell, the maid of honor
Add in a bit of angsty cheer
(please ignore the paradox)
& they'd had what the Muggles call a
Malatov cocktail
of
bitterness
Bill was happy for his siblings
(no, really!)
but he knew by then that
he&Fleur
were never going to happen
Then there was Katie
She, too, was happy for her friends
& former teammates
But it's not as though
things
didn't
s—t—i—n—g
Angelina was supposed to get Fred
Katie was supposed to get her
George
Instead
she had to watch him seal his union to
another woman with
what should have been her
kiss
Bill knows that resentment
He feels it half the time
Curses &
Scars &
No Love
(oh my)
Katie didn't feel so bad
bitching
to the eldest (& most understanding) Weasley
but it IRRITATED her
his one remark:
"Well, 'assume'
makes an
'ass'
out of
'u' & 'me'"
So she used her good throwing arm…
Hey! Weasley hair is near the red of a Quaffle!
Besides…
He needed a good clobbering
And even though they
got off on the
wrong (seriously?) foot…
They saw more of each other
It was only a few years later
George&Angelina
p-l_u-s o_n-e
Katie was to be
GODMOTHER
&& what was she to say to that?
"No, thanks"?
So…yup
Katie's a part of the
family
once again
But that's not all
She was on
England's
Quidditch team
(who could've guessed…?)
& prettylittleKatie
carried her team to the
championship
unsurprisingly against
(you guessed it)
E.g.y.p.t
Bill didn't know what to think of, well,
that
but he rooted for his homeland anyway
—and—
they won
Hmm.
She's quite spectacular, really
Whoever thought of Quidditch as a
unifying e;l;e;m;e;n;t?
But…it was
That "Quaffle punch"
was long forgiven & even became a sort of
inside joke
for them
&& it was all fine
until
Ah, yes
He should've remembered the
bullheaded
Oliver Wood
who (goddamnit) had an iron grip on
prettylittleKatie
Bill could break Curses
but this was new t,e,r,r,i,t,o,r,y
&& he could see it
see it
in her eyes
She wanted out
Well, Katie had become one of the
f.a.m.i.l.y
long ago
& Oliver didn't fit in with them, anyway
(he'd been friends with Percy, after all)
So Bill took a cue
from his kindasorta[female] mate
&& onetwo
K.O.!
So what if Oliver didn't have
r~e~d hair?
It's what changed
kindasorta mate
into
kindasortamaybe someone
M_O_R_E
& that made it all
the more awkward
when
prettylittleKatie
had to return home
But wasn't there
Bill's home, too?
How strange
To return
even more years later
for one little birthday party
(twins Freddie and Roxanne were the last to turn eleven for this generation)
& Godmother Katie was there
Of course she'd be
Bill knew this
He didn't know Gringotts would want him back in England, though
So…
So.
Now he had no excuses anymore
There was no more time for
running away
silly deliberation
It was right there,
SCREAMING
in their
f_a_c_e_s
Of course Bill should keep the one woman who can hit&run&love like her
Without further ado,
I present the m*a*g*i*c*a*l Prince William & Kate Middleton to you
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Holy crap, this was long. No breaks, either, mainly 'cause I felt they'd disrupt the flow…but woo! This was fun! XD Obviously, you can tell my inspiration from the last line. Hey, hey—April 29th, 2011! Good for them, right? :D
Thanks for reading, and please review!
-mew-tsubaki ;)
2017 note: Ahh, so nice! XD I freaked for a second, tho, editing this 7yo piece that went up in 2010…but my A/N talked of Wils&Kate's wedding date? Then silly mew realized, Ah. We knew of the date ahead of time. XDD I thought my timestamps got corrupted or something… ;P