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Beautiful

Lavender Brown/Parvati Patil


Challenges:

The Twister Challenge: Character - Lavender Brown

Fanfiction Terminology Challenge: Prompt - Femmslash


Lavender sat on the end of the bed, the mirror pulled over so she could look into it. It was the first time she had seen herself in the mirror since Greyback had attacked her at the final battle.

The features she had admired about herself were gone. The only thing people valued when they looked at her, gone.

She wasn't the smartest in the class, she wasn't the bravest either. She wasn't good at sports... but she had been beautiful.

Her gaze drifted across the glass, taking in the scar running the length of her face, and she saw Parvati's reflection as the other girl took a seat next to her.

"Parvati, can't they fix this?" she whispered.

"Lav, they can't. It's a cursed scar."

"But, I'm ugly," Lavender whimpered. "I'm horrible."

"It's just one scar," Parvati said, soothingly. "Plus, I still think you're beautiful, Lavender."

"You're just saying that because you're my friend," Lavender replied, and watched as Parvati shook her head.

"No, I'm saying that because I know you're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. You're smart, you're fascinating and you're beautiful inside and out. You're amazing, and there is so much more to you than people realise."

Lavender's gaze moved from the glass.

"It makes no difference to me that you have that scar. It shows that you were in the war, and it shows that you survived."

Lavender looked back, willing herself to see what Parvati saw. Her head slowly shook from side to side.

"I don't -" she began, looking back at Parvati, freezing as lips touched the top of her scar, and again at the bottom.

"You are still beautiful," Parvati insisted, sitting back down, her eyes fixed on Lavender's. "I would never lie to you, we're best friends."

"Best friends don't kiss each other like that," Lavender whispered, in shock.

"I'm... I'm sorry, I crossed the line, I understand it won't happen again," Parvati said.

"I never said I didn't want it to happen again," Lavender replied, a smile finally forming on her lips.


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