A/N: Thank you for running/writing extra stories for the Christmas Gift Exchange, Poison! Here're a few Lily/Andromeda drabbles, just for that.
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Inflamed
A tiny, uncertain, red-haired girl walks into the Great Hall of Hogwarts for the very first time. Even though she is in a crowd of other paranoid children, she feels as if the hundreds of eyes looking in her direction are looking at her.
When she is sorted, the cheering and applause coming from the Gryffindor table melts some of her inhibition, and she smiles. The brightness of her smile provokes a grimace in a pale face that is still standing in the line to the Sorting Hat.
When she sits down and watches the boy she knows get sorted into the house that has its table on the other side of the Hall, her smile fades a little. She wishes she could have been sorted in that house, because even though the people here are friendly, she doesn't know any of them.
She watches him sit down next to some people who definitely aren't as inviting as the ones she's with right now. Suddenly though, a tall girl next to him leans over and smiles at him, saying something that Lily can't hear.
Lily's attention is no longer captivated by the boy. Instead, she observes the girl, who seems so out of place among the unsmiling Slytherins that Lily wonders how in the world she could have been sorted there.
In Lily's eyes, the girl suddenly becomes the most interesting and mysterious person she has ever met. She craves to gain just a scrap of knowledge about her.
Andromeda Black has managed to do in an instant what Severus couldn't do in all his time knowing her.
She's invaded her mind and inflamed her interest just by existing.
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Fin