Written for the Pairing the Character Competition (Week 3: Sirius with Hope)
Wishing for a Time Turner
When she smiled it was like his whole world being lit up. Everything seemed clearer, better, to him.
His heart ached when she kissed someone else. When they were sitting around the dinner table and her hand slid over to her husband's. She would look at him through adoring eyes filled with love and wonder.
Sirius wanted it to be him.
He came to Remus' house just to see her. Sure, he liked Remus; they were best mates. But it was his mother he desperately wished to see.
At night he lied awake thinking about her. He imagined what it would be like if it really was him she looked at through those eyes.
It had become such a fantasy in his head, that when she came to him years later, tears running down her cheeks and a declaration of love, he ran. He told her it wasn't right.
That same night he wished for nothing more than a Time Turner. Given another chance, he would do things very differently.
Clearly an AU because Hope is still alive in their adulthood in this piece.
And it feels so good to be writing again! I'm balancing fulltime work and writing a little better now. Go me!
I hope you liked it!