This is for A Very Potter Challenge. My quote was "So many regrets-I'm dead!"
Disclaimer: I sadly do not own Harry Potter
"James, can you pass the salt?" she asks him, avoiding eye contact with him at all costs.
"Sure. Roxie, can pass this down to Molly for me?" he asks her, hoping no one but her would pick up on the smirk that he reserves just for her.
She blushes the classic Weasley blush, and, although her head's down, he watches as the tops of her ears turn red.
He snorts with laughter when she excuses herself from the table, as he casually stands to look for her.
He heads immediately to the garden in the back of the Potter-Weasley Manor, where the entire family was staying during the summer holidays.
He knows she'll expect him to come find her, and he knows she's probably gotten over her embarrassment for his sake. He reaches the back, and, not seeing her, turns back to the house.
Running footsteps startle him, and he turns around to see his cousin running at him. "James!" she yells. He stops, and waits for her to catch up. She turns to face him. "James…" she whispers breathlessly, before he shushes her, kissing her senseless.
. . .
The following summer, they do not return to the Manor. She tells their family that she is off to Scotland to have a breath of fresh air, away from everything. He tells them that he is going to apply for job of Hogwarts' Transfiguration Professor. And together, they run away to Berlin, Germany, hoping their family won't see through their little white lies.
. . .
They settle down in a small apartment in Berlin, posing as newlyweds. They stop using magic, even for the little things, adjusting to the Muggle way of life within the first month.
In the first couple weeks, they hear snippets of conversations from the people living on their floor.
"They're too young to be married."
"They look like they're sixteen!"
"They look like they could be related- same eyes."
But James and Molly ignore it, just like all of the other comments they knew were being made about them.
Come September, Lucy is off to Hogwarts for her Third Year. Their little white lies fall apart. They find this out when they receive an owl to their small home in Berlin. The letter reads:
Molly,
Your sister sent us an owl the other day. The parchment was wet; she'd been crying. She thinks James is dead because he's not her Transfiguration professor. Harry and Ginny have contacted the Ministry. If you happen to have any information, please tell us in the letter back.
There is no signature, but Molly knows if they were able to squeeze in every signature from the Potter-Weasley family, they would have. She shows James the letter, and he laughs at the lengths his parents had already gone through to find their son.
When he realizes that finding the son of Harry Potter would probably be high on the priority list of the Ministry, their laughter dies, and worry takes its place.
He paces the living room, while she writes back to their family, telling them that she's coming back until they find him. He plans on coming back with her.
. . .
She receives a wedding invitation almost two years later. James was marrying his best friend Andrea, from all those years back.
. . .
The next time she sees James is at the wedding. She leaves after a short conversation with James. She can tell that seeing her for the first time in two years brought everything back. She can see the hurt in his eyes. He whispers, "So many regrets-I'm dead. I can't live without you, Molls."
"I never stopped loving you, James. I'm sorry it ended this way," she replies, and turns on heel, and walks out of the reception to return to the life she once had.