Disclaimer: none of this is mine. I'm just playing with the characters.

A Smile Remembered

Every year I did the same things, never getting tired of them. Or that was my excuse; until a boy with messy hair and glasses changed my perspective.

All of my friends giggled whenever I was paid a lavish comment or given a lily; because they matched my personality. Every time that was said I scoffed and tried to hurt him. It didn't work because he always came back.

I rolled my eyes every time someone said the two of us looked lovely as a couple. That changed in Seventh year.

I was watching inconspicuously in the corner, while he laughed with his friends. The smile I saw dazzled me. I wondered why I had never noticed it before. His whole face lit up and his cheeks became flushed.

Of course, he never looked like that around me. Sometimes I think the smile was forced especially as I look at him now. His smile has been genuine since I married him and proved that my friendship with someone he never liked had fallen apart after fifth year.

I'm penning this while watching my husband playing with the only other man in my life: my son. I could never imagine life without either one of them with the war so close to home.

I think my husband has been feeling locked in and he doesn't know how to handle it. Hardly any of his friends visit anymore and it never fails to shock me.

Well Harry is getting fussy and my husband is calling. I might as well wrap this up.

Lily Potter

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When she put the letter down, James had managed to settle Harry down, but she felt it was time for bed.

She looked over her shoulder in time to see him throw his wand down.

But the next minute, the door burst open and she heard the laughter of the man who had been hunting them down.

She ran as she was told and heard the sound of her husband fall to the floor. Then the laughter was heard again.

The pain she felt was diminishing under her son's gaze. She would do it for him.

A/N: and we all know what happens. Sorry this was a spur-of-the-moment thing. I hope you enjoyed it! Please review!

Serindraxx