just a legacy to protect;

"i am the one thing in life i can control. i am inimitable, i am an original." noah richard lockwood. nineteen. muggleborn. gryffindor alumni. potions mastery. dumbledore's army.

[noahxlockwood]

happy 20th birthday noah richard lockwood !! ( october 15, 2005 )

[noahxlockwood]

alura-strange:

Alura waited as patiently as she could on the bench in the courtyard, staring at the door to Noah’s classroom. She held two cups of hot chocolate in her hands, and she tapped her fingers nervously against the cup as she waited. She knew he was fine, he’d texted her after it had happened, but she would only really relax once she saw for herself. She jumped up as people started filing out, using all the restraint she had to stay put and wait as she searched for his face. He was one of the last to leave, and Alura heaved a deep sigh of relief as she saw him. She sent him a bright smile, her feet moving of their own accord as she met him halfway. “White hot chocolate.” She grinned, holding out one of the cups to him. 

@noahxlockwood

Noah kissed her forehead when he took the hot chocolate. “Have I told you that you’re the best girlfriend ever?” he replied. He wrapped his arm around her. He was glad that she wasn’t there that day, knowing that he wouldn’t been on edge that whole time if she was. “Where do you want to go?”

[noahxlockwood]

wesleyskeeters:

“I understand,” he nodded briefly. “Any clue what that could be? Because I doubt we’ll find it here.”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “She’s kind of an enigma when it comes to this stuff. She’s sentimental but also likes knowing my muggle side, even though she has know idea what I’m saying half the time I bring it up.”

[noahxlockwood]

merindaskelly:

“Oh? And what would she want?”

“I don’t know, maybe she would. She likes weird things, she likes knowing about how I grew up. But it can’t be ordinary knick knacks.”

[noahxlockwood]

indigclane:

“I must be bloody lost,” Indigo sighed with a shake of her head. “What are you doing here?”

“Alura likes pretty much anything muggle, she thinks it’s fun, you find the weirdest knick knacks here.”

[noahxlockwood]

mcllysweasley:

“For sure. But there’s a lot of pros too.”

“Who are you buying gifts for?”

“My brother,” he replied. “I always have trouble with him. He does so much for me that it’s hard to know what to get him.”

[noahxlockwood]

aaliyahmacmillan:

“Excuse you – the Dollar Store is bargain heaven.”

“Yeah, but I want to get a Christmas gift for my girlfriend, not bargain toilet paper,” Noah replied.

[noahxlockwood]

wesleyskeeters:

“Why don’t we choose a more trustworthy store?”

“I just want to choose a perfect gift for Alura,” he replied.

[noahxlockwood]

merindaskelly:

“You’d be surprised how many interesting knick knacks you can find here and there in these sorts of places!”

“Yeah, but still,” he replied. “I don’t think Alura wants knick knacks.”

[noahxlockwood]

indigclane:

“Wait… this is a Dollar Store? How in Salazar’s name did I end up here? ”

“I don’t know, you’re the one who’s here,” he replied.

[noahxlockwood]

mcllysweasley:

“Not very, but I don’t have much choice right now. I’m out of time and money to get anything super fancy for the rest of my gifts.”

“Cons of having a big family, huh?”

[noahxlockwood]

“It’s the Dollar Store, how good could it be?”

[alura-strange-blog]

Future | Noah & Alura

[noahxlockwood]

alura-strange:

Alura watched his movements as he moved their hands together, and she narrowed her eyes slightly as she noticed the small burns starting to show on his hands. She sighed, pinning him with a stare. “Noah Lockwood, why do I keep buying you gloves if you refuse to wear them?” She asked, rolling her eyes, although the normalcy of their banter helped ease her somewhat. “I don’t -” She started, looking at her blanket clad feet. “I don’t think I have a career anymore. And they won’t say it, but I don’t think the healers do, either.”

She watched his expression, and despite everything that had happened in the past twelve hours, she smiled as he called her his fiance, glancing once more at the ring on her finger. It was amazing, really, that they’d made it that far. She had been convinced most of her life it would be her and Amata in the end, and that was it. “I love you.” She said suddenly, meeting his gaze. “And I really hope they don’t need you.”

“Look, it’s easier to just not use the gloves,” he replied, like he always did. He was usually reckless when it came to the gloves. “I promise I use them for when I work with Wolfsbane.” He ran his fingers over her ring, it had took him a while to save up to pay for it. “Alura LeStrange, I fully believe if you wanted to you could defy the odds of them saying you won’t be able to play again and play again. You’ve defied so many odds already just in the years we’ve been together. If not, I’ll be there for whatever you end up wanting to do. We may not be married yet but those vows still count right now.”

Noah shook his head slightly. “I got most the potions done for today, I was just working on some things, they probably won’t need me,” he replied. 

[aheartofvalor-deactivated202002]

My name is Mon-El. I’m the former prince of Daxam. And I was a spoiled, useless person, that I didn’t know. Until I met you.

[alura-strange-blog]

Future | Noah & Alura

[noahxlockwood]

alura-strange:

Alura met his gaze, teary eyed, but managed to nod without letting any spill down her cheeks. Just having him there made her feel better, if only a little, but she would take what she could get. Her mind was reeling, and she squeezed his fingers within her own as if they were a lifeline. “I know.” She replied quietly, shaking her head minutely with a single, soft sigh. It was over. She’d only gone professional a year ago, but somehow, it was already over. With another heavy sigh, she rolled gingerly onto her other side, facing him fully.

“They won’t let me focus on anything else.” She grumbled, clearly unhappy with how overly attentive everyone seemed to be. “Not that you would, either.” A ghost of a smile tugged at the edges of her lips and she squeezed his fingers again, wondering what she would ever do without him. “Are you gonna get in trouble?” She asked suddenly, concern coloring her voice. “You shouldn’t miss work.”

He winced a little when she squeezed his fingers but he ignored it and brought her hand up to his mouth anyway. He pressed his lips to her fingers, kissing them gently. “Oh hell no I won’t,” he replied, bringing his other hand to run through her hair slightly. “You are focusing on healing right now, because that’s the way that you might be able to get back to your career.” 

He shook his head. “No, no, I told them that you were hurt. I think they’ll let it slide considering my fiancee is in the hospital.” He still couldn’t believe he could call Alura his fiancee. “Besides if they really need me, I’m in the same building.”

[alura-strange-blog]

Future | Noah & Alura

[noahxlockwood]

alura-strange:

Alura sighed slightly, wincing as her ribs hurt from the effort. She could hear the nurses whispering just outside her door and she huffed once more, readjusting her pillow rather violently before settling down on her side, her back to the door as she stared unseeingly out the small window on the wall opposite her. She had asked the doctors to limit visitors, but she had a feeling everyone was going to find a way around that. After all, Dylan had all but gotten himself assigned to her case, despite her many glares and snarky comments, trying to get him to go away.

She heard a familiar voice in the hall, shaky and worried, and just more than a touch angry. Alura knew he would be the first one to come see her, and not just because he was the closest. The door opened farther with a small creak, and she lay still, not wanting to face him like this, as cowardly as that made her. She diverted her eyes down to her third finger, where the ring he’d given her was still on her hand - she’d yelled at them when they’d tried to take it off and put it with the rest of her belongings. “My career is over.” She said plainly, the words ringing in her ears. She closed her eyes briefly, finding just enough strength to roll over, meeting his gaze solemnly.  She held a hand out to him tiredly. “It’s…really over.”

@noahxlockwood

The minute someone has come to his office and told him about Alura, he took off running, putting away the potions he was working on, quickly. The Potions master could hear the pounding of his heart in his ears as people spoke to him. He barely processed what was being told to him, all he wanted was to see her. He hated these parts of hospitals. It reminded him of when he was younger, it reminded him of his parents. He hated the looks the doctors gave him, he hated the beds, the smells, the sounds. He especially hated that feeling in his stomach that made him so anxious, that turned all his sadness into anger. 

When they finally stopped talking, he pushed his way into the room, sitting next to Alura. “Alura, please, look at me,” Noah said to her. A tone of anger was still there but it was faded and not directed toward her. When she finally rolled over and spoke, his heart broke for her. “I don’t know,” he answered, taking her hand, intertwining their fingers. There was a few burns on his hands already forming but he didn’t mind them. “You just have to focus on getting better right now.”

[noahxlockwood]

alura-strange:

“I am so teaching you how to swim.” She rolled her eyes, letting loose a small laugh and watching the small cloud it formed before her. “Once it’s not like, 5 degrees out, I mean.” Alura grinned at him, trying to smack him on the arm but missing. “I brought you pudding the next day don’t even start.” She stuck her tongue out at him, before hesitantly grabbing his hands and shuffling forward. “Yeah, yeah. Why do you think I agreed to go skating again?”

Noah pulled her swiftly closer. “That’s if you manage to get me in the water, I may have been a Gryffindor but I’m completely terrified of swimming.” Noah smiled. “I don’t know, maybe you agreed so I could do this.” He then gently gave her a kiss, intertwining his fingers with hers so she wouldn’t fall.