a/n: Happy belated 17th birthday to my soul mate. I love you. You're my best friend and can always make me feel better no matter what the situation. I just wish we lived closer. I'm sorry these are so late.

Chapter One: WendyCamKara

Prompt: Stubborn, Skies

It seems that all my bridges have been burnt
But you say that's exactly how this grace thing works
It's not the long walk home that will change this heart
-Roll away your stone, Mumford & Sons

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that's exactly hot this grace thing works

He thinks love is for children.

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He knows he's not the most graceful person. In fact most people if asked would say that Cameron Leon is anything but graceful. After all he burns all his bridges to void himself of contact with actually people, instead he stays tucked into a world of knowledge. In Cameron's world there are no such things as fairy tale endings, of love at first sight, or miracles that seemingly happen at just the right time.

Even if he's surrounded by a world of magic, he may be a wizard (and a great one at that) but there's no denying that if Cameron Leon was one thing it was nothing but realistic.

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Though she seemed to have a different idea about her. And being just as stubborn as he was Kara never allowed him to burn the bridge between them completely. She wouldn't have it; she wouldn't have it at all.

At first it was hard. Cameron Leon didn't do friends. He did facts, and problems, and books, and history, and art, and music. But friends? Never friends. People always had a way of making a mess of things and being emotionally detached was better than being so involved that one couldn't think straight.

After all if Cameron Leon was one thing it was nothing but a thinker.

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But like a love story somewhere along the line she changed him.

Though it shouldn't be her. Not Kara Finnigan with her ever changing red to blonde or blonde to red hair. Not her with her daddy issues and sweet tooth. Not her with her cheesy love for the romance novels he hates and her persistence to be his friend.

Kara shouldn't be the one.

Wendy should. Because Wendy brought out the best in him, she made him think about his actions, she made him question everything he believed in; she made him look at the world differently. She believed in fairy tales and love at first sight, she believed in faith, trust, and pixie dust. She believed that there was always good in everyone on the face of the planet, she believed in miracles. She brought light into Cam's darkdark world.

Except he didn't want light, he didn't want to question everything he believed in, he didn't want fairy tales to come true. Cam had always been dark and twisty, and he would always want Kara's dark and twisty, not Wendy's light.

Really if Cameron Leon was one thing it was anything but happy.

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The skies are dark when he finally does it, Kara's beside him looking over the grounds of Hogwarts. One of their many routine things to do on a Sunday afternoon was to sit at the top of the Astronomy tower and just talk.

He knows she's waiting for him to say something and for a while he tried to come up with exactly the right thing to say. Words and him have never exactly gotten along. But as soon as he tried to say them he finds himself at a loss for words. Instead Cam reached a tentative hand out to grasp hers.

It wasn't much. In fact it wasn't anything really. Yet at the same time for Cam it was everything. It meant everything. Sure, it wasn't a big speech on how he couldn't live without her, or how wonderful she was, or how much he wanted to be with her.

But he knew as soon as he took her hand in his that she would understand. And yeah, he always says he didn't see the surprised smile on her face as he turned to look back out at the grounds etching this moment into his memory forever.

Because really if Cameron Leon was one thing it was anything but a romantic.

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