A/N: I've been thinking and thinking, trying to figure out how I was going to use this prompt. I wanted to make it cool and unique, and have it be tied in so much better. But nothing has yet to come to me, and I am running out of time to figure something out - so this is what you get. =[
Prompt: Bones
So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
More Than A Feeling :: Boston
It has been thirteen years since Lily was murdered; thirteen years since he last saw her. Thirteen years ago Sirius Black never thought that one day he would forget the exact shade of Lily's hair, or the exact pattern of the freckles dusting her skin. He felt that with everything inside him, he felt it in his bones, that he could never, would never forget.
He had studied and studied her face until he felt he knew it better than his own, knew every line and every crease. Although, at the time he had never thought that he would one day only have faded and blistered memories left of her. He never imagined that she would be gone so soon, that she would leave him so soon, and he never ever imagined that it would be possible for him to forget her face – but he has.
Was her hair copper, or was it closer to ruby? Were there three freckles on her nose, or only two? He doesn't know, he can't remember. For as many hours as he spent memorizing her face, it is only now that he learns the truth: that memory, no matter how infallible it may seem, is nothing, nothing at all, when confronted with time.
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