and sorry if this one seems like...wtf is wrong with remus..it's just...totally random..?
Theme 54: Tower
Rating: K+
The Weight Of The World
You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall. The words hung in Remus' head as he led Lily up the narrow and creaking wooden stairs.
" What, Remus? What's up here?" she asked curiously stomping after him. He tried not to think about his task, and the fact the flimsy material holding them up was starting to sway haphazardly. Finally they reached the top, and stood in a spectator box of the Quidditch pitch. He pulled Lily to his side and they both surveyed the view.
Remus glanced away from Lily, as she took in their surroundings with searching accuracy. A quick movement bellow notified Remus that they were not alone. He edged a bit closer to her.
" Well look, it's there, see," he nodded off to a distant mountain, instantly stitching Lily's vision to that sight. Remus took a deep breath and shook out an already trembling hand.
" What? I don't see it. What am I looking for?" Lily asked leaning over the rail a bit and raising her hand to visor her eyes.
" Oh, you'll see, right…there," Remus wedged behind her and pointed a long arm out over her shoulder. Lily's piercing gaze once again returned to the distance and he took another shaky breath. One last glance down notified him that it was now or never.
Remus closed his eyes and lifted his hands, positioning them to hover over her shoulder blades. Taking another deep breath
" The- oh! Lily!" he gave her a shove, stumbling forward and leaning over the ledge himself as she was thrown over. A ear splitting scream was torn from her lips and she fell. Remus gripped the fabric covering the wooden frame of the spectator stand with white knuckles. His mouth was dry, if he'd just killed someone…
" Come on, James," he whispered searching the pitch, as Lily tumbled faster and faster. A nervous sweat broke out on his forehead, as his stomach twisted onto its self. " Oh no," he forced himself to steal a last look down.
His heart hammered hard in his chest as suddenly there he was! James was flying faster than Remus had ever seen. Hurtling though the air at break neck speeds, James swept in and intercepted Lily's fall, not twelve feet from the ground.
Sighing in the fact it'd worked, and he wasn't a murderer after all, Remus left himself slide down to the plank floor bonelessly. He shut his eyes tightly, what had he done? What was he thinking?
Eyes blinking open, he realized that if this was all an 'accident' he should be rushing down to Lily right now. Pushing himself to his feet he managed to shakily get to the stairwell and begin a quick decent. He licked his lips to no effect and took beep breaths to calm himself. He vowed to stop listening to Sirius so much, he was far too dramatic and even he wouldn't have attempted to murder someone just so James could be happy.
Reaching the bottom of the great tower he tore out onto the open pitch, where James had circled once and landed gently, with Lily still trembling in his arms.
" Oh, Lily! Are you okay?" Remus reached a shaky hand out to her as she clutched James' robes even tighter. Giving a tight nod she listened while he apologized profusely, explaining how he tripped, over balanced and effectively pushed her over.
Biting his lip quite hard, he watched as James just rubbed comforting circles in her back before nodding to his worried friend.
" It's fine Remus, I've got her now," he said and Remus smiled faintly.
And what a price to pay it was to give her to him.
