Our Fairytale

by Celesti Rivers

Their love was like a fairytale: perfect, magical, everything imaginable within their grasps. Together, Sirius and Marlene found unexpected happiness at every turn. And yet, reality is always lurking in a corner, waiting for the fairytale, just like all of those before it, to come to its brutal end. A drabble collection. Based on lyrics from Fairytale by Milky Chance. Blackinnon.

2. fairy trees

This drabble is also for the Race through Hogwarts Competition, for which I had to write about a character that possessed a trait I envied. I picked Sirius' ability to find happiness no matter what (come on, guys, the man died smiling).

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2. Listening to the all-night-singing-sweet-melodies-fairy trees

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She glowed, Sirius realized, every single time she laughed.

Little did he know that Marlene's laugh was a symptom of his own infectious happiness.

"Goodness, what's the rush? We're invisible, Sirius."

Against better judgement, Sirius had snagged James' Invisibility Cloak. Usually, he would ask, have a stupid row about it, and then take it anyways, but this was different. This was just for him and Marlene.

Sirius wanted to show her the best place on the Hogwarts grounds, just near the gates, in the wee hours of the morning, when the only light was the faint glow of the stars and moon. He never showed the place to anyone else, and no matter how incredibly trifling his secret corner of the world may have appeared, it never failed to bring a smile to his face.

"We're here."

With one swift movement, the Cloak was out of the way and Sirius took in the sight before him. The trunk of the tree appeared so intricate, as if it was braided by the hands of Life itself, and from the top of it a wide canopy spread out, with lightly swinging vines hanging from the greenery that appeared almost a shade of blue in the moonlight. Then, gradually, the canopy started to twinkle with the golden light of fireflies. The tree held an ancient and unscathed aura that pulled Sirius' lips into a wide smile.

"This is... so beautiful," Marlene whispered. When Sirius turned to look at her, her eyes were filled with wonder. "It's like a slice of heaven."

Sirius wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. "It's our slice of heaven."

Seeing that smile on his face, one of pure joy, caused a surge of elation to course through Marlene's entire body. There was just something about Sirius' smiles, the genuine ones at least, that compelled her features to mimc his. Before Sirius, Marlene could never remember feeling so happy in one moment.