Tiebreaker.
Lily Evans: 3 6 6
Margaret Smith: 6 4 6
She liked to play tennis, ever since she was five. The feeling soon grew into a somewhat mutual love for the sport, and Lily was never able to let it fade away. The feeling of hitting that topspin backhand was so satisfying, not letting anyone take advantage of her, that there was no possible way she would have ever been able to live with losing.
All the memories rush back to her; walking onto the court, imitated to look like the US Open courts far away in the United States. Her chin held up high, her Adidas sports bag slung onto her left shoulder with carelessness, and Sev at her side, walking into the finals court with her just because she was nervous about going in alone.
"Go on." Sev nudges her forward with a pale smile, bidding her good luck. "You'll be alright."
Lily nods, and only sends a mere glance towards Sev, her right hand immediately clutching at her lucky dream-catcher necklace.
Spotting Meredith Smith, the three-time champion of the England Tournament, she nods slowly and gives a play-acting smile as they make their way back onto the court.
Picking up a ball lying by her feet, she bounces the ball an odd of three times, her red hair glinting in the beating sun and jaw set in a sense of finality. Giving the smallest of glares to Meredith across the court, she moves the racquet with the blinding yellow ball, only to toss the ball up into the azurean sky.
And the ball comes down in slow motion, her racquet gripped tightly in her left hand flies up. Lily jumps up for the last time on the tennis court, her face screwed up in concentration and her racquet breaking down over her head.
Racquet meets ball and ball meets Death. That's the way Lily likes to think of it.
"Presenting Lily Evans, champion of the England Tournament."
Instead of becoming Margaret Court and No. 1 in the world, she became an Auror and died.
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I know this took a long time to update, I'm sorry! Also, I will not be here to update from July 26th to September 7th. Sorry!
Note: The
England Tournament is what I made up, there was no researching what
surface it was on (Should be grass, but I made it hardcourt) or even
if there was a 'real' England Tournament. Also, I know that Sev
couldn't possibly be on the court with Lily before the tiebreaker,
but I wanted to include a bit of urging and friendship.
And just some background on the 'English Tournament' I thought of: Lily was playing in the 12&under juniors, and this tournament was a prestigious tournament to win. If it interests anyone, she was wearing a visor to block the sun from her eyes. :D