Did You Find What You Were Looking For
Chapter 16: An Ending
By: Taiyourshoes
1979
I remember, James… How lost I was after my parents died… I asked you to be my escape. I wanted to move fast to escape from the tragedy of that Christmastime. But you told me something I've never forgotten:
"What's the good of escaping? If you don't face the enemy head-on you can never win, and then you destroy yourself."
I listened to your words and then you listened to me cry myself to sleep. You held me and said you didn't mind that I got you all wet with tears, because my tears were just like little stars at night. You said they were something to wish on. I told you that you were cheesy, but you knew I thought it was sweet.
I know what those tears were now, though: they were the first showers of spring, the melting snow of winter. I didn't know who I was before my parents died. I hid from muggles in the muggle world, and I hid behind my parents in the wizarding world. Without them I lost who I was. With you I found who I had always been.
Did you know I had always loved you? Could you know that I was born to fall in love with you? If you do, I hope you know my answer has to be yes. Yes, I will marry you. Because of you, I can breathe again.
We don't just stop living. We go down the path of eternity and end up back here, together. And that is all I could have hoped to find.
Lily slowly pulls me to my feet, smiling in that way that tells me I'm in love. A palmers kiss, as our fingers intertwine as if they were grown together. She tilts her head out so I can see out our window. Mars is unusually bright tonight.
Taiyourshoes:
This is the first full length story that I have ever completed. Sorry it ended on a down, retard note, but at least it has an ending. I was quite on the money with a 5 month wait, eh? Now I'm just gonna finish up my last story and I'll be out of your hair, at least until HBP comes out.
BTW, special thanks to Christy, who reviewed WHILE I was writing these two chapters. It was kind of an amazing coincidence.
I have a web site in progress for this story. I hope I can finish it someday.
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