Title: House Lily, Ch 01 - The Wandering Snake
Written By: ChuChu Von Lu
Inspired By: The Carnivorous Muffin's Default Origins
Warning: OOCness, Lack of Canon Compliance
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Chapter Summary: The snake wanders and searches.
Glasses
A bar is where it all started, and he can't help but think that maybe this is where he'll find her again.As he sits on the bar stool, he looks around for the unique colour of his friend and disappointingly he does not see it. The colours here are too dull unlike her extravagant and bright colours.
He hasn't found his friend but there he sees a face barely familiar to him. In the middle of the bar there sits the woman, Helga Hufflepuff looking far more self assured than when she last saw him years ago.
She, Hufflepuff, despite looking lost in the bar walks with a calm and quiet sort of confidence.
He does not intend to speak to her. She is but someone they had met long ago, he doubts she even remembers him.
Instead he waits for his glass.
Sweet
He hears someone sit in the stool beside him and he is surprised to see that it is Hufflepuff. Their gazes meet and she hears him say,
"Hello sir." Quiet, sweet, and somber.
He nods in reply and that's that. She looks away and waits for a glass of her own.
How many years have passed since he first saw this woman?
The woman before him is confident, wherein the girl from before was shy. Here she is comfortable in a bar filled with people where he sees the girl from before uncomfortable in the presence of just three people.
Yet she still exudes the same homely feel from a memory he can barely remember.
Small inocuous changes, yet still similar to the past memory of their only meeting.
How much has he changed and how much has he stayed the same?
Torture
It's torture sitting here in this bar with the straw haired woman besides him, reminding him that he still hasn't found the flower that gave him his hopes and dreams of a better future. Distracted with thoughts grim he almost doesn't here the woman besides him.
"I'm rather surprised to see you here sir, in fact I almost didn't recognise you... I suppose it's not all that surprising that you've cleaned yourself up since I have heard your school has taken in many children and they are quite the impressionable lot..." Sweet like honey, homely like the castle they had built long ago, somber unfit for the bar that they are in.
He is surprised to hear the stream of words come out of the woman's mouth, he doesn't remember her ever being this talkative. He is even more surprised to see that she remembers and recognised their one and only meeting.
An inkling of his emotions must have seeped through his face for her next words are,
"Oh! I'm sorry I seem to have been mistaken. You see... um... well you look similar to one of the people I've met before, they were... err... looking to recruit me to their school... and now that I've finished my mastery I was thinking of maybe becoming a teacher on their school..."
Lost on the wayward road of life yet her voice still exudes with the sweetness of honey and a castle homely.
He doesn't correct her and she continues to chatter on. Finally his drink arrives, he finishes and, pays. He stands up and walks away not looking back.
Summer
When night arrives he is encompassed by the summer night's cool winds and he thinks.
Maybe he was rash in his decision to ignore Helga Huffepuff. Lily had always been insistent that Hogwarts' Founders would not be the three of them but Godric, he, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff.
Maybe she in her decision to follow destiny searched for them again to convince them of becoming a member of Hogwarts. Hufflepuff has denied them in the past but now she thinks of becoming part of the intricate culture of Hogwarts.
Maybe Hufflepuff's decision to join Hogwarts is Lily finally learning the art of being subtle.
Maybe now she is looking for Ravenclaw.
(He knows that this may as well be a false hope, in all the years he has known her she has never bothered with the act but after years of searching he now, at least, has a direction to follow.)
Dare
Should he really follow this passing thought.
Does he dare hope when he knows that it might as well be crushed?
He never did take her much seriously when she had insisted upon the Four Founders especially when he knew that Lily was more than powerful enough to build the school by herself.
Maybe there was a reason that they should have been four instead of three.
Maybe Ravenclaw offered something that they don't have.
Maybe all those years of being with Godric and Lily has finally gotten to him because now he thinks that maybe looking for Ravenclaw is worth the disappointment of that maybe all this is just wishful thinking on his part.
Hamburger
Conversing with Lily has always lead to her referencing events, items, and people of a future yet to come.
One of the things she referenced were a hamburger. Once she had conjured one and made them eat it. He remembers his utter disgust for the things but, now in this reckless venture, in his rash actions he forgot to pack food and now here he is.
Before he fades to black he hears soft footsteps coming to his side and nothing else.