This is for Visa (Lowi)'s 150 Beautiful and Colourful prompts challenge on NGF
1st March 2012
colour: baby girl; becoming; LilyTeddy
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She knows she's just a baby compared to Teddy – a small, fragile little girl, who doesn't stand a chance with him when there's perfect Victoire in the way. She feels like this at three, at four, at seven, and even when she sees him kissing her cousin when Albus is going to Hogwarts for the first time.
Years pass, and with each time they come home from their fantastic weekend away, Lily's heart fractures a little bit more. She becomes more and more twisted and bitter, a startling contrast between her fiery, shining looks, and the way she knows she's better than all the rest.
And so she's the eclectic Slytherin Queen – no lowly princess for Lily; she has to rule – and she's icy and cold, like she should be, yet fiery and passionate, down to her Gryffindor heritage. It doesn't change her, however, from being ruthless and vicious to her cousins until she's sure that any notion of her being becoming to them is entirely eradicated.
And yet, no matter what she does, it doesn't get her Teddy; he's engrossed with the apparently flawless Victoire – though Lily knows that everyone has flaws, and maybe Victoire is just better at concealing hers – and jealousy only serves to make her crueller and more isolated from her family than before.
One day, she finds their wedding video on the mat inside her flat, and, as she watches Teddy kiss Victoire, she feels her heart shatter.
Victoire won.
Suddenly, she's back to being the little, naïve girl who loved Teddy and hated Victoire, yet now she's fearful, isolated…and alone.
This isn't what love ought to be.
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Vicky xx