she tastes like hope.

you roll a cigarette between chipped-paint nails, and watch the smoke dissipate into the evening summer sky. you’re young and old at the same time, poisoning your lungs with each breath; barefoot in the dewy grass and waiting for fireflies. LILY EVANS. 19. former gryffindor. potioneer.

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remus lupin.

To say that the full moon had gone well was an understatement. Well maybe it wasn’t, but no bones had been broken and for Remus it was good enough for him to feel satisfied. James, Sirius and Peter had all been there after three months of scattered companionship, and he could tell that their presence had helped a great way. Yet and as always, there was still a deep exhaustion that had crept its ways in each one of his bones, making him unable to do more than reading or… Sleeping. Thus, he had slept through the day and he was now laying on the living room’s couch, huddled under the comfiest blanket of the flat with the Picture of Dorian Gray resting on his chest, a cup of warm tea waiting on the floor. Sirius was working a night shift at the bar and the only noise around was coming from the pages being turned. 

That’s why, when the fireplace roared to life as someone unexpectedly appeared in their flat, Remus nearly fell off the couch in a littany of muttered obscenities all directed at Merlin. He looked up at the visitor and raised two eyebrows at the sight of a disoriented Lily. “What the bloody hell are you doing here? And why didn’t you use the door?” He asked in a gruffy voice as he sat up with a hand clenched to his chest, containing a wince at the pain in the back of his neck. “Seriously you just gave me a heart attack Lily.”

she was surprised, but relieved, to see remus. out of all the fireplaces she could’ve fallen into, this was by far one of the better options. she didn’t even want to think about what could have happened if she’d appeared, without warning, in a stranger’s house. “ --- you know i LOVE you, remus, so i mean it in the best possible way when i say i did not intend to come here, ” lily grumbled, threading her hand through her hair and glancing mournfully at her sooty fingers. she glanced at remus just in time to catch his wince, suddenly realizing how exhausted he looked. of course -- the full moon had been just last night. she’d forgotten. “ --- i can make a sleeping draught for you, if you like, ” she said in a softer tone. “ --- or something to ease the pain. ”

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september 7th 8:12 pm a fireplace somewhere

perhaps it showed her muggle roots, but lily liked taking the tube home from work much more than she liked apparating or flooing. it grounded her, and she enjoyed the travel time when she was able to just sit and think. however, she had worked late today, and it was dark outside, and lily just wanted to get home. she slung her bag over her shoulder, grabbed a handful of floo powder and stepped into the fire, clearly saying “ home! ”. or at least, that was what was supposed to happen. what lily had not accounted for, however, was the dustiness of the fireplace after months of disuse, and it was that dust that she choked on, and so her “ home! ” was not clear at all. as soon as she vanished from the potion shop’s fireplace, lily knew things were not going as planned. oh, bollocks. she did her best to keep her eyes tightly shut and her elbows tucked in as she whizzed through several different fireplaces, each gone too quickly to tell where they were. finally, she tumbled out of an entirely unfamiliar fireplace, covered with soot and coughing. lily scrambled to her feet, brushing herself off and doing her very best to look dignified. “ --- erm ... hello. ”

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andromeda black.

outside st mungo’s september 3rd 10:04pm

andromeda was rushing as she escaped the hospital, her mind set on the firewhiskey she was determined on having, the firewhiskey she was sure she deserved after that HELL of a shift. as she stopped herself from r u n n i n g through the doors, she found herself quickly colliding with another body, sending them both crashing down to the cement path. “–SHIT,” andie half-screamed as her elbow collided with the path. “merlin, i am so sorry.” she was scrambling with her bag as she moved to stand up, extending her hand to help the other to their feet.

“ --- jesus christ, meda, you’re supposed to heal people coming to st mungo’s, not mow them down, ” lily said, amused and pleasantly surprised. she accepted andromeda’s hand and pulled herself up. “ --- i was just bringing some potions for the hospital that need cataloguing. ” she paused, seeing andromeda’s hassled expression. “ --- but ... they could wait until tomorrow. ”

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marlene mckinnon.

‘ woah, woah, woah-’ marlene started as she moved her hands in the air for the other to stop, she was dizzy from all the information she got today. it looked like being away for so long had its consequences. ‘ -could you talk piece by piece and tell me one information at a time? i came yesterday ! i’m still not used to this weather and well, i do miss my dragons.’

lily huffed, not out of impatience with marlene but because she was so out of breath from her long-winded explanation as to why she was currently on marlene’s doorstep covered in soot. “ --- UGH, fine. long story short -- tried to floo home, inhaled some floo powder; wrong fireplace; lots of unpleasantry, including a niffler; got lost; ended up near your place and here i am. ” she cocked her head at marlene, confused. “ --- what does the weather have to do with anything? ”

[sentencestarters-and-asks]

Send a space thing for questions

Planets: Life

Mercury: What’s your full name? 

Venus: What’s your first language? 

Earth: Where’s your home? 

Mars: What’s your sexuality? 

Jupiter: Do you have any siblings? 

Saturn: Any pets? 

Uranus: What’s your hobby? 

Neptune: When’s your birthday? 

Pluto: What time is it right now where you are? 

Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study? 

Stars: Experiences

Sun: Have you ever had alcohol? 

Sirius: Have you ever failed a class? 

Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster? 

Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country? 

Arcturus: Have you cried out of something other than sadness? 

Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about? 

Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about? 

Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone? 

Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret? 

Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend?

Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t? 

Constellations: Favourites

Centaurus: Favourite holiday?

Orion: Favourite month?

Cassiopeia: Favourite book?

Delphinus: Favourite study?

Hercules: Favourite instrument?

Gemini: Favourite song?

Pegasus: Favourite place to be?

Libra: Favourite colour? 

Phoenix: Favourite thing to wear?

Aries: Favourite movie? 

Cygnus: Favourite weather? 

Hydra: Favourite sound? 

Galaxies: Love/Friends  

Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend?  

Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social? 

Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight? 

Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss? 

Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills? 

Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much? 

Pinwheel Galaxy: Would you date the last person you talked to? 

Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now? 

Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer? 

Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someone out of pity? 

Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship? 

Whirlpool Galaxy: Have you ever cried over a breakup? 

Other stuff: Wishes 

Comet: What’s your big dream? 

Asteroid: What does your dream life look like? 

Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t? 

Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what would it be? 

Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be? 

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? 

Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die? 

Quasar: If you could spend the rest of your life with only one person, who would it be? 

Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t? 

Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see? 

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ariel mackay.

ariel gasped in light amusement as lily dragged them into a more secluded area. she couldn’t help the smile that crept up on her lips at the familiarity of the scenario – a scenario which ariel had quite enjoyed in their younger years. as lily took one step back she took two steps forward, getting closer than was allowed. “damn,” she whispered, eyes flitting between lily’s lips and her wide eyes. “SHIT, you’re right, i don’t particularly care. but…” she lent in close until their noses touched before stepping back to press her back against the wall. “i am a lady of morals, despite what some may say.”

lily’s heartbeat jumped erratically as ariel’s nose brushed against hers, so close she could smell the wine on her breath. she couldn’t help but notice the way ariel’s eyes flickered to her lips, and she couldn’t help but do the same. being back at hogwarts was definitely bringing back memories. when ariel stepped away after what felt like ages, she wasn’t sure if she was feeling relieved or disappointed. lily blinked, forcing herself to focus again and silently cursing her heart for once again completely ignoring any logic. “ --- a lady of morals? ” she repeated, raising her eyebrows. that’s not the way i remember it, she was about to reply, but caught herself. she wasn’t a horny, flirty seventeen year old anymore. “ --- well, ” lily said instead, almost primly, “ so am i. ” she allowed one last, indulgent glance to ariel’s lips. “ i’m glad we’re agreed on that. ”

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edgar bones.

ed flipped the sickle in his hand up into the air, before snatching back into his grasp. he breathed out heavily, cheeks billowing with the sheer weight of his sigh. “ – hard to think–we spent some of our best years here. ” muttered the hufflepuff back as his sullen gaze lifted up to the castle, still looking darkened by current events despite the accumulation of lit candles around. “ the aurors will try and the ministry will try, but the death of a minister does not say great things about our security. ”

“ --- you might have spent some of your best years here, but i’m still hoping my best years are yet to come, ” lily retorted teasingly. she shrugged wordlessly at his last comment. he was right, of course, and she was sure everyone here was thinking the exact same thing. the expected sorrowful mood of a funeral was barely concealing an underlying, unspoken fear. “ --- they’ll be stepping up security now, though, ” she added, ever the optimist. still, lily couldn’t deny that she was on edge too.

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sirius black.

“You mean you hadn’t fantasised about coming back here for a crappy funeral?” Sirius looked shocked. “Well shit, I thought everyone did.” He gave her a stupid grin and nudged her arm. “Come on, it’s not that bad. There’s food and food is always good.” He hadn’t come here out of any desire to mourn the minister. He’d come because Remus had asked him to and he was determined to have a good day and eat everything he could. He was not going to let this leave a stain on his memories of Hogwarts. 

lily made a face at him, but she was smiling. that was certainly something that had changed since hogwarts -- she was certain she could count the amount of times she had smiled at sirius whle they were at school on one hand. “ --- well, i’m glad you can keep up your appetite when the minister’s CORPSE is just a stone’s throw away, ” she said, but the effect was slightly ruined by lily reaching over to grab a vol-au-vent from a passing waiter.

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                     LILY EVANS & FRANK LONGBOTTOM 

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frank longbottom.

frank relaxed into the distraction, allowing the stones and lily’s intent on learning to draw his attention away from the funeral’s dreary air of gloom and mourning. he laughed as the stone plopped into the depths of the water rather than skipping elegantly as his own did. “no, lils, it’s like a…” he chuckled. “like a FLICK. you’ve gotta just FLICK your wrist, y’know?” he demonstrated again, the stone taking a delightful trip across the surface of the water before sinking again. “see? go again.”

“ --- frank longbottom, seasoned stone skipper, chooses to use the classic wrist flick technique. beautiful form, ladies and gentlemen, BEAUTIFUL form, ” lily said in a faux-deep announcer voice. she was, perhaps, being a bit more ridiculous than what was necessary, but she felt like frank needed it. “ --- but wait! who’s this? a rookie is stepping up to the plate. is she -- i do believe she’s trying to imitate longbottom’s wrist-flick move! will she pull it off, ladies and gentlemen? she aims ... she throws, and -- ladies and gentlemen, i DO believe that was a skip! ” lily thrust her fist into the air as she watched the stone sink beneath the water. “ --- a measly, pathetic, and probably fluke skip, but a skip nonetheless, ” she added in her normal voice.

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severus snape.

Severus tensed up at the familiar voice coming beside him. The last time he saw her was graduation and he he pretty much accepted the fact that he was never going to see her or speak to her ever again. He was a little bit surprised to see her actually. “You didn’t have to come y’know?” he said quietly not looking in Lily’s direction. Instead he looked around to see more students and former students filling the grounds. Look at everyone pretending that they care he thought to himself. Severus shook his head, he was only there to pay his respects to a man he never knew, but then again he didn’t really care about the minister either. To be honest he just didn’t really feel like being by himself, like he was every other night.

it was probably the fact that they were back at hogwarts, or the live without regrets attitude that funerals always seemed to spark, but lily was feeling particularly sentimental. so when she found herself standing next to the boy who had once been her best friend, she felt compelled to say something out of -- sympathy? compassion? regret? of course, once the words left her mouth, she immediately regretted it. ending her friendship with severus was one of the hardest decisions she’d ever had to make, and she didn’t want him thinking she was reconsidering that decision. “ --- WELL, neither did you, and yet, here we both are. ”

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dorcas meadowes.

“ c’mon then. ” lily’s smile was mirrored on dorcas’ face as she placed her empty glass down and hooked an arm through her friend’s, tugging the other girl towards the castle. “ kind of strange being back, don’t you think? ” even after two years, everything was as dorcas remembered it, as if hogwarts was forever untouched by time. the only thing that ever changed was the students that roamed the unchanging halls.

it felt wrong to smile at a funeral, but surrounded by the familiar grounds and castle that had been her home for seven years, it was only natural. lily let dorcas pull her along, and they quickly entered the great hall, where lily’s smile grew wider and more nostalgic. “ --- when you think about it, in the GRAND scheme of things we haven’t been gone t h a t long. hogwarts has been here for, what, a thousand years? two years away from it is really just a SECOND. ” lily had to fight the urge to hug herself in childish excitement. “ --- is it WEIRD to feel like it missed us? ”

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ariel mackay.

ariel slapped on her cheekiest smile, pointing a finger at lily. “you could quite possibly be right.”

“ahh, to be young and seventeen,” she teased, sighing as though she weren’t a mere two years older than this. ariel followed lily’s gaze to the grey-haired lady whose eyes glistened with dissent. she waggled her fingers in a sarcastic wave. “LET them stare. two beautiful ladies flirting so openly? it’s like every disgusting man’s dream.”

lily rolled her eyes, hiding a smile. she took ariel’s wrist, tugging her into an archway and out of sight of the elderly lady. the simple action brought back a rush of memories of kissing in the shadows while they were still at hogwarts, and lily had to physically take a step backwards to clear her mind. “ --- two beautiful ladies? you forget i’m not a single woman anymore. ” she paused, considering. “ --- or perhaps you don’t forget; you just don’t CARE. is that closer to the truth? ”

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lily evans.

frank felt himself soften again into lily’s hug, grateful for her presence despite his previous wish to be alone. “mm, you’re probably right.” his words came out quietly, as if not even his voice box wanted him to speak. he gave her a meek smile as they pulled away, grateful again that she knew what he needed ( a distraction ). lily had always been good at that – knowing what he wanted without even VOICING it. “it’s all in the wrist,” he smiled, blocking out the hum of the funeral in the background and focusing on the crisp water in front of them. he breathed in the fresh air, relishing in all the scents and the sights he’d missed in the time since he’d left hogwarts. oh, what he wouldn’t give to be a student again. “see, like this.” he threw another rock for demonstration, looking back at her with a smug smile as it skipped so elegantly across the surface.

lily watched him throw the stone, biting her lip intently. “ --- all in the wrist. got it. ” she scanned the ground, looking for a flat stone. when she found out, she picked it up and held it the way frank had just done, narrowing her eyes at the still black water. “ --- like ... this? ” she tossed it, poorly, and the stone sunk into the water with a splash. lily let out a frustrated huff of air. “ --- okay, wait, i can do this. let me try again. ”

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dorcas meadowes.

“ you’ve always been something of an optimist, ” dorcas murmured back, fondness for her friend colouring her voice despite the sombre affair. “ truth be told, i didn’t think i’d be back here at all, so there’s that. ” she went quiet then, contemplative. it’d only been two years since she’s last seen these familiar castle walls, but it felt like a lifetime had passed. times had been simpler back then, and dorcas felt a sudden overwhelming wave of nostalgia. “ do you think the fat lady would let us in without a password? she’s always liked you. ”

dorcas was quiet, but lily could tell what she was feeling, because she was feeling it too. the nostalgia from returning to hogwarts was only heightened by the melancholy mood around them. lily couldn’t help but smile fondly at her friend’s question. “ --- there’s no harm in trying. come on, nobody will notice we’re gone and the school’s empty for the summer. ”

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ariel mackay.

“well i think it counts as disrespecting the dead,” ariel quipped, her bottom lip sticking out in a pout as lily plucked the glass away from her fingers. “ah, c’mon lils, you can’t get drunk on w i n e.” she brightened ever so slightly, eyes narrowing in a light state of teasing lust. “plus, you know you want to see me even just slightly tipsy,” she all but purred. “makes me an easier TARGET.”

“ --- i think you’re ALREADY slightly tipsy, and you’re forgetting we aren’t seventeen anymore, ” lily returned lightly, but she couldn’t deny her heartbeat had quickened at the other girl’s teasing gaze. she noticed an elderly lady peering over her spectacles at them with disapproval. “ --- come on, ariel, people are staring. ”