Shades of a Relationship
Part 4: Finality
Chapter 2
By: Kamikazee E-Mail: neo_kamikazee@hotmail.com Disclaimer: Only in my dreams, only in my dreams. I do not own either Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Harry Potter. Summary: Pairing: Willow/Harry Distribution: Fanfiction.net, Twisting the Hellmouth and Never Tickle a Sleeping Hellmouth. Anyone else, just e-mail me the link. Author's Note: Takes place shortly after the first chapter of finality. Rating: PG
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They asked me to choose what to write on the grave markers. I get to decide what will mark the final resting place of my recently departed parents. What will be inscribed in stone above six feet above their slowly rotting and decaying bodies. Okay, I'm starting to ramble.
I don't see why this decision was given to me. I mean, they're asking me to summarize what my parents meant to me in a short sentence on a piece of stone. A hundred years from now, someone might read what I decided to put there and judge my parents character on it. My choice could result in a catalyst that could affect the opinions of the population of earth hundreds of years from now. I'm not over reacting, right?
Maybe I'm taking this a little overboard, but it is a serious matter. I'm not being overly paranoid or getting stressed out over the minor detail that was assigned to me. It's just that I really don't do well under pressure; a trait my mother used to assure me came from her. Why couldn't Tara have been the one to do this? She would not be reacting this way; my older sister is more like our father in that respect.
Of course, my older sister is more like our father in most areas. It's the way it has always been, Tara is like dad and I'm like mom. She's the popular Quidditch star and I'm the shy academic.
But, now I'm rambling, another trait I received from my mother. I need to stay on track. I need to decide what literary masterpiece I will choose to represent my parents, Harry and Willow Potter.
Which brings up a whole new set of problems. What can I choose that will adequately represent the impact that my parents have had on the world. I don't see how I can select. To choose one sentence to signify the entire lifetimes of two amazing deep individuals. It's crazy to even try; yet I get the job of doing it.
So, lets think of what was most important to my parents. Tara and I, of course. Hogwarts, definitely. Their friends, surely. But none of those were the be all end all for either of them.
So, when I think of the two people who raised me, what comes to mind? Well, if I consider it for a while, the only thing I've never doubted about my parents was their love. The way they looked at each other, the small innocent touches as they passed by and the way they always seemed to gravitate towards each other.
So, I suppose I should choose something that shows the undying love they carried for each other. Something that shows the romance that they never stopped carrying for each other.
'Love conquers all obstacles.' It's nice, but too formal for my parents, for the sweetness that they shared together.
I remember the stories they used to tell, about how they saved each other. About their first kiss. About the day my father proposed in a secret clearing of the Forbidden Forest. About their wedding day.
Wait. That's something. I remember my father telling me about what he was thinking that day. About how my mother rekindled his belief in fairy tales, made him think that happily ever after wasn't just a story tale.
I like it. It has a sweet, romantic sound that represents my parents perfectly. Because isn't it the end to every perfect story.
'And they lived happily ever after."
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Wow, it's finally done, my baby is finished. I can proudly say that this is the first series I have actually completed. So, what did you think?
For anyone who might want to know, I made a minor change to the second chapter of Love. See if you can find it. ::wink::
Kamikazee
By: Kamikazee E-Mail: neo_kamikazee@hotmail.com Disclaimer: Only in my dreams, only in my dreams. I do not own either Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Harry Potter. Summary: Pairing: Willow/Harry Distribution: Fanfiction.net, Twisting the Hellmouth and Never Tickle a Sleeping Hellmouth. Anyone else, just e-mail me the link. Author's Note: Takes place shortly after the first chapter of finality. Rating: PG
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They asked me to choose what to write on the grave markers. I get to decide what will mark the final resting place of my recently departed parents. What will be inscribed in stone above six feet above their slowly rotting and decaying bodies. Okay, I'm starting to ramble.
I don't see why this decision was given to me. I mean, they're asking me to summarize what my parents meant to me in a short sentence on a piece of stone. A hundred years from now, someone might read what I decided to put there and judge my parents character on it. My choice could result in a catalyst that could affect the opinions of the population of earth hundreds of years from now. I'm not over reacting, right?
Maybe I'm taking this a little overboard, but it is a serious matter. I'm not being overly paranoid or getting stressed out over the minor detail that was assigned to me. It's just that I really don't do well under pressure; a trait my mother used to assure me came from her. Why couldn't Tara have been the one to do this? She would not be reacting this way; my older sister is more like our father in that respect.
Of course, my older sister is more like our father in most areas. It's the way it has always been, Tara is like dad and I'm like mom. She's the popular Quidditch star and I'm the shy academic.
But, now I'm rambling, another trait I received from my mother. I need to stay on track. I need to decide what literary masterpiece I will choose to represent my parents, Harry and Willow Potter.
Which brings up a whole new set of problems. What can I choose that will adequately represent the impact that my parents have had on the world. I don't see how I can select. To choose one sentence to signify the entire lifetimes of two amazing deep individuals. It's crazy to even try; yet I get the job of doing it.
So, lets think of what was most important to my parents. Tara and I, of course. Hogwarts, definitely. Their friends, surely. But none of those were the be all end all for either of them.
So, when I think of the two people who raised me, what comes to mind? Well, if I consider it for a while, the only thing I've never doubted about my parents was their love. The way they looked at each other, the small innocent touches as they passed by and the way they always seemed to gravitate towards each other.
So, I suppose I should choose something that shows the undying love they carried for each other. Something that shows the romance that they never stopped carrying for each other.
'Love conquers all obstacles.' It's nice, but too formal for my parents, for the sweetness that they shared together.
I remember the stories they used to tell, about how they saved each other. About their first kiss. About the day my father proposed in a secret clearing of the Forbidden Forest. About their wedding day.
Wait. That's something. I remember my father telling me about what he was thinking that day. About how my mother rekindled his belief in fairy tales, made him think that happily ever after wasn't just a story tale.
I like it. It has a sweet, romantic sound that represents my parents perfectly. Because isn't it the end to every perfect story.
'And they lived happily ever after."
~
Wow, it's finally done, my baby is finished. I can proudly say that this is the first series I have actually completed. So, what did you think?
For anyone who might want to know, I made a minor change to the second chapter of Love. See if you can find it. ::wink::
Kamikazee