James and Lily were flawlessly faultless in their perfectly perfect relationship. They were soul mates, with the kind of ideal, textbook relationship that everybody, Sirius and Remus included, lusted for. They had their perfect slice of Heaven with their perfectly adorable son. Sirius and Remus were, unlike James and Lily, damaged and broken. Alone, they were beyond repair. When they were together, however, Sirius and Remus were two puzzle pieces, albeit with serrated edges, that fit snugly. In each other they had the paradise most went their entire lives without unearthing, if only they remembered that.
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Para-para-paradise