Pairing:Lucy/Lorcan
Author:Chi (unwrite)
For:Dri (Skandar-Loves-Redvines)
Notes: All grammatical errors have been done purposefully.
while we're still burning bright
The night's one of those pitch-black ones but there are countless stars that give it light and silhouetted in the grounds are an awkwardly lanky blonde boy and a shorter girl with darker curls that are slightly out of place and a pale face that's set on going somewhere, on doing something. "What are we doing, Lucy? They'll catch us and it's late and we really shouldn't-" But she gives him a funny look that he doesn't really understand and she continues walking and it's kind of creeping him out if he's being perfectly honest but he follows her like he always does.
"Luce, are you okay?" his hand reaches out to her shoulder as if to hold her back from doing anything stupid but really who does he even think he's helping because she's never been one for reckless plans and spur-of-the-moment decisions and it's not like she's going to rush off and throw herself into the lake or something. No she wouldn't do that because then what would have been the point of bringing her broomstick along? "Where's your sense of adventure, Lorcan?" Don't you want to do something just before we leave here don't you want just one thing that you can look back on and say oh I did that because I was young and crazy and it was fun and that was reason enough back in the good days. Except she leaves that last part out because that's a bit too deep an insight to her thoughts and no one really needs to know that much about what Lucy's thinking except for Lucy, really.
She's mounting her broom next second and saying come on Lorcan don't you want to do something fun for a change Lorcan we never do anything fun and he knows her well enough to tell that the strange tone in her voice is the same one that comes right before she cries and he can't for the life of him figure out why she would cry but he knows what he hears and he keeps his mouth closed and nods. "Alright Luce where are we headed" and he gets on the broom behind her and she kicks off and doesn't speak so he sighs a little to himself as the cold air rushes past them and he hears a little watery hiccough coming from the girl in front of him and all that's going through his head is what on Earth happened and have I missed something and he thinks back on what's happened recently but he can't remember doing or saying anything stupid so really he's stumped.
"Lucy,"
And she stops in midair turning around to look at him and her eyes are red and her face has tear tracks crawling over it and he sort of forgets where they are and he reaches his arms around her for a hug and says it's okay Lucy it'll be okay and nothing's wrong Lucy alright? And he even strokes her hair a little bit and when she's calmed down enough he sort of remembers that they're suspended fifty feet above the ground on a small wooden stick and he figures that's probably not the best place to be so he reaches his arms around her to grip the broom properly and he leads it towards the castle but she says no oh I don't want to go back in there not yet and he says don't worry Luce we won't and she says okay then and puts her face back in his chest and he guides the broom toward a roof near some odd small tower that no one ever really goes to.
The two of them awkwardly clamber off the broom and the roof is rough so there's a scuff or two on their knees and a bit of a scrape on his hand but neither of them notice anyway and they sit down together and it's still an overly emotional teenage girl in the arms of a clueless boy just the same scene except now they're on a roof instead of in midair and that seems a bit safer so he decides to ask Luce you know you've got to tell me what's in your head because I'm really confused right now and she almost smiles a bit because he's the same old Lorcan after all these years and she says yes okay yes you're right okay I will then but it's a bit hard because I'm not entirely sure what's in my head but it doesn't come out exactly like how she wants it because there are sniffles in between what she says and she sounds pathetic she knows it but she continues anyway.
"It's just you know we're going to be leaving this place in a week Lorcan are you ready to leave here in a week because I'm not okay I'm really not and you know what happens after that when we go home we've got to start living like properly living in the real world and I don't think I can I really don't Lorcan I'm not ready for the real world" I want to stay here at Hogwarts where our biggest worry is whether we'll win the next Quidditch match or if we've done well enough on our homework to get a decent grade Lorcan I want to stay here forever do you know. Except she leaves that last part out because it sounds a bit stupid, really.
He opens his mouth to speak and he runs his hands through his mop of dirty blonde hair and then "Lorcan do you see what we've done we've wasted our time here and we've done nothing special and there's nothing to remember us by you know like there's nothing that we can come back years later and say oh that's us and we did that or we started that you know there's nothing" and she knows she's not really explaining herself very well at all but she hopes oh she hopes he understands what she's trying to say oh does he?
"Yes Lucy I see what you mean but you know what we can fix that we've got a week and a week's a long time you know there's a lot you can do in a week" and he smiles at her a little bit and she says do you promise we'll do something do you and he says yes of course I promise. Of course.
And they stayed out until quite late that night rarely speaking mostly thinking really but they were both smiling by the time they left each other and it wasn't the night they did anything special or crazy and it wasn't even the night he first kissed her (that would come later) in fact, it was the night that both of them could look back on and confidently say they did absolutely nothing of importance but it was the first night that was really properly theirs. And in a way that was sort of something special in itself.
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