#01 - Walking
She grins, placing her foot in the snow: her foot is dwarfed by the enormous track left behind, but she carefully follows each of his prints across the field.
#02 - Waltz
Lily never could dance, but every step that she takes seems to have a life of its own; waltzing through air, through life, if not on the ballroom floor.
#03 - Wishes
He curses the human mind, human soul, that makes him still hope, still dream, even after he knows he can no longer have her.
#04 - Wonder
She's always been curious why Sirius calls her "Evans" instead of "Potter" after she got married; he shrugs and says, with unfathomable eyes, that it's a habit that he can't seem to break.
#05 - Worry
Sirius is always worried whenever he's in her presence, trying desperately not to break the silent code set by the Marauders, by James, by himself; she senses his uneasiness, but spends much of her time with him anyway.
#06 - Whimsy
She presses her lips to his cheek (smelling cologne and dog) one summer afternoon in complete silence; he shivers.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland
Sirius knocks down the last wall standing in Godric's Hollow, wincing at the splintering sound; his eyes are dry, because he knows that she, that they both, wouldn't want him to cry.
#08 - Whiskey and rum
Lily teases Sirius when he never drinks in her presence, saying that she didn't know she was that good--he shrugs, smiles, and never quite tells her the real reason why: Alcohol has a habit of breaking secrets.
#09 - War
The first night Voldemort killed, Sirius came into Lily's room and asked for her picture: she gave it to him, never asking why.
#10 - Weddings
Ever since that day, Sirius has always hated and loved weddings; whenever they smile at each other, he can feel his heart breaking and swelling at the same time.
#11 - Birthday
James forgot her birthday two years in a row (Sirius never did).
#12 - Blessing
She thought that she may have to beg for his blessing, as did James, but he gave it the first time that both asked for it, without a drop of spite or sadness: she'd never wanted to kiss him so much as she did then, she mused, reflecting on the irony.
#13 - Bias
Sirius had hated red the minute he walked into Hogwarts for the first time; growing up with green draperies and silver smiles, he never saw red for what it really was until he'd sighted her hair for the first time.
#14 - Burning
He'd once asked her how did it feel, to have a flame for hair--she grinned, tugged his black locks, and said nothing--his coal for her fire.
#15 - Breathing
She really wasn't all that bad at Transfiguration, but she always asked for his help; she knew it was shallow, but she loved feeling his breath on her cheek.
#16 - Breaking
He'd broken the second wand this year already, and Lily wondered how on earth so many wands could find it in themselves to like him--suicidal wands, he informed her.
#17 - Belief
Lily thinks that they will all survive the war in one piece, as one happy family; Sirius knows otherwise, but doesn't have the heart to tell her.
#18 - Balloon
She told him she loved balloons; he asked her what a bell-oon was, anyway, and the next day, the Great Hall was full with them.
#19 - Balcony
James, on their first date, picked her up off the balcony on broomstick; she knew, as she got on, that she had told Sirius that Romeo and Juliet was her favourite play.
#20 - Bane
For many years after her death, he would always turn away from people (especially women) with red hair.
#21 - Quiet
She knows he hates silence: Loves filling up space with his noise, his hair, his jokes, him him him, but he shuts up every time she asks him too.
#22 - Quirks
He drummed the table with long fingers, bit his nails, chewed on his hair, rubbed his chin, and stuck his wand behind his ear; Lily smiled quietly to herself.
#23 - Question
He never asked why, but she always did the best she could to answer; she failed every time she tried.
#24 - Quarrel
James would come to Sirius after he and Lily fought; Lily would come to Sirius after she and James fought; sometimes they ran into each other on the way there, and neither got where they were going.
#25 - Quitting
He stopped trying the first time he looked up and saw Lily's eyes on James instead of him; he looked at her throughout the whole lesson, but could never make eye contact.
#26 - Jump
Sirius had two broken ribs, a split lip, and a torn ligament; James sported a broken leg and arm and a black eye, and both had bruises to match: Lily told them that if they ever tried switching brooms in full flight again, that would be the least of their injuries.
#27 - Jester
She loved laughing, throwing her head back and fully enjoying every second of it: that, she decided later, was why she liked them so much, and it was also why they liked her.
#28 - Jousting
Sirius knows that Muggles used to ride horses and thwack each other with sharp sticks for a lady's hand: he mourns that those days are over.
#29 - Jewel
His favourite stone had always been an emerald, but the reason for this changed over time.
#30 - Just
"Just once," they both whisper in unison, walking in opposite directions even as they speak.
#31 - Smirk
Sirius wants to smack James's smirk off his face the first time he got a date with Lily, but he knows that he himself was the one that taught James to grin like that in the first place.
#32 - Sorrow
He tries never to cry; it's been bred into him to be manly, never to show weakness--just this once, he thinks, the tears already trickling down his cheeks.
#33 - Stupidity
She loves James; she knows that, but whenever she sees Sirius, she thinks that love is really quite a stupid thing.
#34 - Serenade
She'd always liked his voice more than the one of her boyfriend's; she never told James, or, for that matter, Sirius.
#35 - Sarcasm
It bites, Sirius realizes, and it wounds and leaves a scar of superior intellect; that's why he likes it.
#36 - Sordid
She always feels filthy around him, contaminated by Muggle blood; when she told him this, he informed her precisely how many times he bathed in a week.
#37 - Soliloquy
When she comes to visit him at his flat and hears the pacing of footsteps and the low growl of a solo voice, she always turns tail and flees, though that's usually the time he wants company the most.
#38 - Sojourn
He never stays the night at the Potters' house; she never has to ask why.
#39 - Share
It did start out equal: Lily split between him and James, and, slowly, gram by gram, the scales shifted.
#40 - Solitary
A child, playing in a park, notices the pawprints of a huge dog; he wonders why there's only one set, when there's usually deer hoofprints beside it.
#41 - Nowhere
"There's nowhere I won't follow you," he informs her, "except the library."
#42 - Neutral
Remus is the mediator, the in-between, the middleman: he often wonders how someone could be so impartial, so unbiased, and shrugs it off as something that he'll never quite understand.
#43 - Nuance
He hands it to her, telling her that he thought it would bring out her eyes, staring at his feet all the while; she wears it every day for a month.
#44 - Near
Nearsighted, such a funny term; both reflect that James is blind in more than one way.
#45 - Natural
He knows that James and Lily were meant to be, just as he knows that his place in life is the outsider, but he smiles all the same.
#46 - Horizon
Lily watches his motorbike, one arm around her husband and the other around her gently swelling stomach, until it fades into the horizon; just like a horse and cowboy, James chuckles, and she's surprised he knows that bit of Muggle trivia.
#47 - Valiant
Harry James Potter is born at the deepest part of night; however valiantly he tries to stay awake, he falls asleep--James, of course, sits vigil the entire night.
#48 - Virtuous
He wants to wait until both Remus and Peter had held the baby, but Lily smiles tiredly at him--you first, she informs him.
#49 - Victory
Both Remus and Peter think that it's James' doing that he's the Godfather, just as it was James' doing that he was the Best Man at the wedding--he knows that this is not the case.
#50 - Defeat
"She's dead."
