in fairytales

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter and accept no credit towards it. I am not J.K. Rowling or any of her affiliates.

Warnings: not much actually. As far as my fics go, this one's pretty clean. Angsty of course, as usual.

Free verse

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your favourite colour is red

but her's isn't black

so that sort of throws you

because you love her

so she's supposed to love you

and in fairytales

the prince gets the princess

and the sun soaked castle

and they live happily ever after

but this is no fairytale, James

haven't you realised it yet?

she is not your princess with shining tiaras and floaty ball gowns

she's your warrior with fiercely furious red hair and bright green eyes that light up the world

and in stories

the warriors rarely get the happy ending

but maybe, maybe you two can be the exception to the cliche

and she can be your warrior princess and you her soldier prince

wishful thinking, Potter

you're fighting in a war with no feasible end

and you're sixteen

and you have to defend your five year old cousin from Death Eaters

and you nearly get yourself killed

but you survive

somehow

and you decide, that if you didn't die that afternoon

there must be a reason for you to live

so you go to school

and kiss Lily Evans on the lips

and for once

she doesn't push you away

and, instead pulls closer

red hair mixing with black to create ash and blood

b-u-r-n-i-n-g burning burnt

and you have your warrior princess and she her soldier prince

and you think you love each other

somewhere in the twisted fairytale of

green light, high pitched screams, hands on wands

and she needs you

and you need her

because without each other

you'd slowly fall to pieces

crumbling like towers

t-o-p-p-l-i-n-g, t-u-m-b-l-i-n-g, thud

but she's fire and you're smoke

and together you make explosions

beautiful, fiery explosions

and you're eighteen

and deadlier than sweet poison

sirius often says that if you weren't fighting for the good side, the Light would've lost by now and it's true

you kiss and kill with words more lethal than snakes

h-i-s-s-i-n-g, spitting, poised to kill

not Lily, not Evans, not Lils-

you kill the death eater about to murder your warrior princess

and she stuns the one about to aim for your chest

and you explode into fireworks once more

jamesandlily, j-a-m-e-s-a-n-d-l-i-l-y, jamesandlily

together until the very end

exploding into bits of glass

and slowly piecing yourself back together

amidst the ruins of blood and broken friends

and you're the light in everyone else's eyes

and Remus asks how you do it

how you manage to stay sane

so you tell him the truth

you're always breaking

all of the time

the difference is

the difference is, my friend

is that you know how to make yourself whole again

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How was it? I'm currently experimenting with various free verse style fics so please let me know if you want to see more.

If you liked this style of writing from me, you could check out my other story 'falling into dreams' which is written in the same format. Absolutely no pressure to do so, though. Shameless fanfic promotion, I know, but, hey, a girl can try, right?

Anyway, as always, thank you for reading and I hope you all have a wonderful day/night!

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