A Peaceful Moment: Part 2
Here's Part two!
Ari lay on her back on the balcony of the Astronomy tower.
She breathed in the smell of the fresh air that can only be had in the Irish country-side.
She often came here to get away from the hectic people she called her family, and just to think.
But today watching the stars spread across the sky like a complex blanket wasn't enough to stop her thoughts about what James had said today.
His angry expression and the ease that he landed his blow that cut like an axe through her defenses kept replaying over in her head.
The words he said hadn't helped.
She didn't cry, she had long stopped crying, for crying was a sign of weakness and if you showed weakness you got hurt, and she didn't want to hurt anymore.
She sighed and tried in vain to clear her head yet again, to no avail.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
Once again her peace was not to last.
She heard a shuffle from the door and opened her eyes to see James Potter looking very disheveled. But not like usual, it looked like he had been pulling at his hair and clothes.
He is breathing hard as if he had been running the entire length of the castle.
He looks at her for a second, frozen in the doorway
"Hey," he says quietly
She does not acknowledge and continues her deadpan stare at the sky, looking but not seeing.
"I-I'm not good at this kind of thing, you know, feelings and stuff." He began
"I want you to know that I'm sorry and I wasn't thinking when I said that, I was just really, really angry and I know I don't deserve it, but can you forgive me?" he said looking her in the eyes, pleading with his own eyes.
She sighed and searched his dark brown eyes that swirled with flecks of bright grass green.
"I-I guess so but I need to know I can trust you," she said
He sighed but smiled "I understand," he said
He stood to go but she wasn't finished.
"Potter…sorry, James," she said softly
He turned back around so fast she was surprised he didn't get whiplash.
"I hope we can be friends," she smiled shakily
It was obviously the first time she had smiled in a while.
And his heart melted.
He grinned and went back to sit next to her.
They sat and talked for a long time, and when there was finally nothing else to talk about, they sat in a comfortable silence.
She stared at the stars.
"Artemis," James finally whispered
She looked over at him, and noticed how his eyes swirled with hidden emotions, and how his eyelids were drooping slightly.
He however, had been staring at her for the entire time they had been talking and silent. He loved how when she talked about things she was passionate about; her obsidian eyes seemed to glow with hidden power and swirled with flecks of gold and dark brown; how her dark hair curled slightly at the ends and how when she got nervous, she would start braiding and un-braiding a strand of hair.
She smelled intoxicating, like exotic flowers, and dark chocolate and something he couldn't quite put his finger on.
He hadn't noticed but he'd started slowly leaning in.
Her heart fluttered inexplicably and she blushed slightly.
Whether or not she wanted to admit it, there wasn't always a simple reason she liked picking fights with James Potter.
Finally, he leaned in and gently closed the space between them.
She hesitated, but slowly slid her arms around his neck with a small sigh.
His insides were jumping for joy and he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into his lap.
They just sat there snogging for a while, until they had to come up for air.
He smiled down at her, and said softly
"I love you Ari, always have and always will,"
She smiled and said just as softly
"I love you too,"
Then they sat there having a peaceful moment together.
And this time, it was going to last.
At least, they hoped it would, but they were part of the Potter-Weasley-Malfoy clan, so you never know…
(But really, they were going to make it last.)
So how was that, this is my first Harry Potter fic, so I hope you enjoyed.
Wow, I'm on fire! I finished my ten chapter fic, Happily Ever After this morning and now I'm finished this too!
Thanks for reading!
~Dookamargirl
