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OT3 Challenge - Day 11 - Alone
Charms - Assignment 1: Task: Write about someone who just won't wake up. This can be because of medical reasons, or something else.
Emotion Challenge - Sad
Pokemon Go - Pokestop: St. Mungos
Bad Movie Tuesday - Superhero Movie: [location] Hospital
Cinema Challenge - Write about the dark, or alternatively, angst.
Alone
Remus sat by the prone form of his former lover, his heart hurting with each bip of the monitor. Things had fallen apart so quickly, they had never gotten the chance to fix things.
He replayed the events over the last couple of years in his head. They had been happy together in Hogwarts. Sirius and James had been madly in love, Remus had quietly pined after both of them, then he had become slightly jealous when Lily started seeing them both.
Not that Remus would ever do or say another about it, though Lily had attempted to break the pair up, her intentions to only be with James, and James had ended things, choosing Sirius.
Sirius had admitted that he wanted James to choose Remus instead of Lily, and that James wanted Remus too, though they hadn't been sure of Remus' intentions.
It was an hour after the conversation that Remus joined their relationship, all of them being equal. Though there was the occassional case of jealousy, the three began to work it all out and Remus had never been happier.
Lily was pregnant. She insisted—and James got the baby tested—that it was James' baby. Remus felt the tears in his eyes at the memory. James had ended things with them both. He had to take responsibility, at least until the baby was born. He had quickly and quietly married Lily, leaving Sirius and Remus to find comfort in each other, feeling something was missing.
That was where everything completely feel apart. There was a spy, was it him? Was it Sirius? Did one of them hate Lily that much for stealing James that they'd give away the location?
Remus' breath caught as he considered the newspapers he had read. James was still alive, whereas Lily was dead. The newspapers were playing on Sirius' love for James, and how he wanted Lily out of the way, but Remus couldn't believe it.
James was in a coma, and Voldemort had tried to kill Harry. James' son. Sirius may have hated Lily, but he would never have allowed harm to come to James' child. He had only met the baby a handful of times, but it was clear in his eyes that he loved that child like his own. They both did.
The Potters had gone into hiding before the divorce. James had insisted that once the threat was removed, they could all be together again; that he would push the divorce though quickly, so the triad could be a family once more.
But now… Remus glanced down at his body once more. James didn't look like himself without the glasses. Remus reached over, picking them up from the table and placing them on James' face. Much better.
One was in a coma that he might never wake up from, one was residing in Azkaban, unable to leave unless the first man woke up, telling a different story.
And the last… well, he was alone, spending his days sitting by a bedside.
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