∇ - evan (because it can never actually happen oops what)
∇ old age/aging headcanon
In an ideal world, this pair of best friends would be married to each other, to their sanity and their humanity. They’d be together, by each other’s side as they were always meant to be until the very end. Evan would never lose his alcoholic tendencies, and Emma would never stop rolling her eyes in fond, mock exasperation because for the love of Merlin, it’s not even 10am Evan! but they both knew she didn’t really mean it. Too much had happened for her to really blame him, however she did from time to time stage an intervention of sorts if it got to bad — they hadn’t survived the fucking war just for him to die of alcohol poisoning after all. They would bicker with each other, snap and grumble but anyone who looked closed enough to see the affection that was hidden beneath even the most barbed of comments.
However this was not an ideal world, and Emma was forced to grow old alone. Her best friend died before they were even 22 and Emma had never felt more lost. Old she grew, losing more and more pieces of her carefully constructed life along the way. First Evan, then Dorcas and so many people she called friends. Her husband was sent to Azkaban, and Emma was left more alone then she’d ever been in her entire life with two small children. Every year she’d visit his grave, and she made sure he was never forgotten. Even when her good looks failed her, blonde hair turned to grey and smooth skin became lined and her heart became almost too heavy for her frail body to hold up, she would tell stories about the best friend she called Evan Rosier.