Something Blue All Right:
" Lily, why!" Doe begged standing on the street outside of the muggle shop.
Lily crossed her arms angrily over her pregnant belly, " Dorcas Euphegenia Meadowes, you are getting married, you need to try on some dresses"
Doe frowned.
Lily had convinced her to take the morning off from work to spend time with her. It had been hard to schedule but she had eventually she had managed it, but Lily had tricked her into going wedding dress shopping and there was nothing that she wanted to do less.
It wasn't that she wasn't excited to be getting married, because she was. But the idea of trying on dresses turned her stomach. She hadn't even gone dress shopping when Lily was engaged, she had Alice go with her.
Doe didn't know what it was about dress shopping that made her so nervous, but it did.
" Just a few, please?" Lily begged opening the shop door.
Doe sighed, sge didn't like to see Lily beg. She knew if she did, that Doe would agree.
" Fine, Lily. But only a few" she said.
Lily smiled brightly and dragged her into the shop. The little muggle shop was in the middle of London and you could see it from a block away. Its walls were slightly pink and all of the racks were covered with massive amounts of white dresses and tool.
" Hi" A chipper sales girl a few years older than them asked as they walked in.
She looked at both of them and smiled. She raised her finger and pointed at her.
" Let me guess, you're getting married right?" she asked happily.
Lily and Doe exchanged a quick look, before she nodded.
" So what are you thinking?" the sales girl pressed on, " Summer wedding? Winter? ooh or maybe fall?"
She blinked at her quickly, " I have no idea" she told her quietly.
The sales lady waved her off, " Don't worry about it, we'll find something perfect for you" she said grabbing her shoulder and dragging her to the racks of dresses.
Doe eyed Lily darkly, and she just giggled.
The saleswoman pulled a bunch of very fluffy dresses and set them up in a dressing room for Doe. She took one look at all of them and sighed.
Lily sat outside of the dressing room, while she tried one on of the dresses the sales woman had put in there. Every single one was strapless and fluffy. They looked like cupcakes.
" Lily," Doe said sticking her head out of the room, " everything in here is ridiculous"
She laughed, " Stay there, I'll find you something more you"
Doe was thankful that someone who knew her well was here and could choose something for me. Lily knew her so well that when she returned with a handful of dresses, she didn't hate any of them.
" Thank you" she told her taking them into the room with her.
All of the dresses Lily picked were much more simple than the ones that the saleswoman had picked out. Doe tried two of them on and didn't feel as though they were right. She slipped on the third one and stopped short.
The dress was long sleeved, and the entire top part was made of lace. The bottom was full, and it appeared to be all tool.
Doe didn't know what it was about it, but it felt right.
Doe spun around in the mirror, the dress was captivating.
" Do you like any of them?" Lily called from outside of the dressing room.
Doe opened the door and came out in it, to show Lily. As soon as Doe was out of the dressing room, Lily gasped.
" That's it, Doe" She said happily, " it's perfect"
" Do you think so?" Doe asked her spinning slightly so she could see the back in the mirror.
Lily nodded, " Definitely"
" That's a beautiful dress" the sales woman told her, " that's perfect for a winter wedding"
Doe took one last look at the dress in the mirror and decided she should get it.
" I think, I'm going to get it" I said happily.
The sales woman beamed, " Fantastic, I'll order it for you!" she said going to the front desk.
Doe took the dress off and changed back into her clothes.
A winter wedding. she liked the sound of that. Maybe December.
Doe changed into her clothes and went up to the front to buy the dress. Lily was almost annoyingly thrilled that I had found one. She gushed about it all the way to the tea shop.
" So you're thinking a winter wedding?" Lily asked happily.
Doe nodded, " If Remus is okay with it"
Lily laughed, " You could say you wanted a circus wedding, and Remus would be okay with it"
Doe smiled, " He's far too good to me"
Lily shook her head, " You're good for each other"
They entered the little tea shop and ordered. They took their tea and sat down at one of the tables near the counter.
" You don't know how happy I am that you and Remus are getting married" Lily said smiling.
" I'm glad, Lil. I'm happy too" Doe told her.
" Dorcas?" A timid voice behind her asked. Lily's eyes widened in surprise.
She turned around and almost spit out her tea. Standing in the little tea shop with a friend in tow, was her mother.
She hadn't seen her for two years. She looked exactly the same. Her wild curly hair was going slightly gray near the top, but she remained as put together as always.
" How have you been?" her mother asked.
The friend looked rather uncomfortable. She just stared at her. She had basically unceremoniously kicked her out of their house and hadn't spoken to her in years. Now she sees her again and all she had to say was ' How have you been'?
" Dorcas, answer me" her mother said firmly.
It was like her mouth wouldn't move. She was struck between anger and hurt.
She looked down at her hand, noticing the engagement ring.
" You're getting married? To whom, Remus?" she asked.
Doe didn't know what to say to her. She grabbed her bag and got up from the table.
Lily got up too, following her.
My mother tried to stop her as she left, " Dorcas, answer me" she pleaded.
Doe yanked her arm back from her and left the shop.
" Doe, Doe wait!" Lily's voice called from behind her.
Doe stopped down the street and let Lily catch up with her. She had momentarily forgotten that she was pregnant.
" Are you okay?" Lily asked her.
She nodded quickly, " I'm fine, I promise" she told her.
Truthfully, her emotions were on a roller coaster. Her mother was something she never knew how to deal with.
" Do you want to go back to my house?" Lily asked, " We could have lunch or something before we go back to work"
She shook her head, " No, I'd rather just go to work" she told her.
" You're sure?" Lily asked.
She nodded, " I'll help you get home first".
Doe walked with Lily back to the Leaky Cauldron so she could floo back to work safely.
" Promise me you'll be okay today?" she said before she stepped into the fire.
Doe nodded, " I will, Lily"
Lily hugged her tightly and then disappeared into the flames.
Doe waited until she was sure she was gone and then apparated back to work. It was much earlier than she told them she would be there, but she didn't care.
Doe made her way back to the auror office and sat down at her desk.
" Weren't you spending the entire morning with Lily?" Sirius asked. He stopped when he saw her expression.
" Why do you look like you've seen a ghost, and one not as friendly as Nearly Headless Nick" Sirius asked.
" I saw my mom" Doe told him.
Sirius flung his legs off of the desk and looked at her clearly, " How did that go?"
" I didn't say a word" she told him.
Sirius sighed, " Was it weird seeing her?" he asked.
" Very weird" she told him, " We're family and it felt like we were strangers"
Sirius frowned, "I'm probably not the best one to talk to about this, seeing as my family is so messed up"
" She just kept saying 'Dorcas' over and over again" she said bitterly.
" So I take it she's not getting an invitation to the Meadowes Lupin wedding" Sirius said quietly.
Doe sighed, " I'll be the only Meadowes in attendance I think"
When she got home later, she told Remus all about what had happened earlier. And while he supported the idea of a Winter wedding, he decided to hold his tongue about her mother.
" No, what is it tell me" she said.
They were lying on the couch, a quilt thrown gingerly over them.
Remus frowned, " It's just, you don't think you she misses you at all?"
Doe sighed and shook her head, " I think she misses Dorcas" Doe told him, " the muggle daughter that she wishes she had"
" I don't know if that's true" Remus said pulling her closer to him, " I find it hard to believe that anyone that close to you, could know you and not love you"
" She didn't accept me, or my lifestyle. She'd rather not know me, then know me as a witch" Doe told him.
" Well, it's her loss" Remus whispered in her ear.
She pulled him closer to her, thankful that at least she could count on him as her family.