So I'm back! These next ten drabbles will be about the Marauder's Era. Enjoy!
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(chameleon)
Marlene McKinnon is a chameleon. Gideon Prewett first comes to this conclusion in 1978, at his parents' annual Christmas party.
She is charming, her dark brown hair pulled back into an elegant chignon, a little black dress and high heels on, looking upper class but young and stylish at the same time. She laughs with the women, smiles warmly at the older men looking her up and down, and by the end of the party everyone is commenting on the remarkable woman who came to the party with young Gideon Prewett.
A few weeks later they go down to the pub, expecting to meet friends there for a few quiet drinks but they're early and Marlene walks up to a bunch of bikies by the bar and starts talking. A few minutes later, they're all laughing uproariously and Marlene is having a drinking competition with the leader, a scruffy man with a beard and tattoos covering his arms. She is crass and one of the boys and Gideon just smiles and kisses her cheek when she turns to him, wide brown eyes sparkling with that zest that only she has.
Around the members of the Order of the Phoenix she is guarded and brave, not afraid to backchat one of the older members or go into the thick of the action. A burning fire within her comes out and she fights and fights, even snapping at her best friend Dorcas or even Gideon or Fabian after meetings.
She's so kind, loving and sweet around her family, playing with her younger brother and sister and making her sick mother cups of tea regularly.
It's all of these things that makes him realise that he loves her.
She still smiles widely at him, eyes sparkling, lipstick smudged and laughter on her lips, but she is a chameleon, changing personalities with the drop of a hat and making friends with nearly everyone she comes across.
He whispers this into her skin one night as they lie in bed staring at the moon from his window and she curls into him and kisses him soundly on the lips, giggling and whispering back that she is his chameleon.