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A/N: So here's one of the poll choices, as you've probably guessed I've had these written for a while, but am only putting the ones that you guys want to read up. So if you've read my 30 Word Prompt Challenge, this one
With all my Heart
Lily cried as she rocked her little boy to sleep, she wished with all her heart the Severus could know of their son, of their little family.
It's done from James' point of view though, and he already knows that Harry isn't his, and that James was in love with Lucius, who had been forced to marry Narcissa and produce an heir (see you're getting a little back story behind just a 30 word prompt, a prompt that never had a back story until me and my friends were talking about the stories behind the prompts, yeah we're a weird bunch of misfits :D)
Title: Lemon Drop
Category: Harry Potter
Characters: James Potter
Summary: The sweet yet sour knowledge of knowing your rival has lost everything, but then you had too.
Words: 461
James stood at the door to the nursery, watching his new wife Lily rock back and forth trying to calm little Harry to sleep while she continued to cry, his brown eyes turned to stare at the light blue walls. She'd been crying for a long time now, and he couldn't really blame her, Dumbledore had forced them all into roles that they had no want to play the part of.
Turning from the depressing scene he made his way to his room, although they were married they had agreed on separate rooms, and sitting on the bed his gaze fell on the picture of him and his lover. Lucius may have been an enemy to him for the public, but when they'd been alone in the Room of Requirement they'd been lovers, two parts of the same puzzle, but Dumbledore had stepped in there as well, forcing pure blooded rules and so Lucius had been married to Narcissa Black, Lily's friend.
He sighed, it wasn't meant to be like this, Lily was supposed to be with her real husband, both enjoying their child, both happy in the knowledge that Harry would grow up to have Lily's nose and not Severus'. He laughed quietly for Harry looked so much like Severus it was scary, but with the strong glamor's placed on the kid he wouldn't know that fact until he came into his magical inheritance, James sighed his gaze moving to the desk under the window.
It had only been a few months and yet he still had the thought to tell Severus everything, he may not like the git but he wouldn't begrudge him his child, but James had no idea where to start, how to begin telling the man about the manipulations of the old coot with the weird clothes. Laying on the bed he heard Lily shuffling past the door, sniffing, it was hardest on her because with the way things were they had no one to talk to other than each other, and he knew that the red-headed woman resented him in one form or another. Turning over he closed his eyes, maybe he'd send that letter tomorrow.
Alas it wasn't until October 1981 that he had the courage to write to the man, sending photos and hope that Severus would step up if anything were to happen. There was just something about that Halloween night that made James feel something bad was going to happen, and so as he watched the owl fly away and listened to Lily speaking quietly to Harry who was dressed in Slytherin colours he felt the wards fall and knew that even if it was a year and a few months late, at least he'd done it at the right time.