Jun 28
I finally finished a Coltland Gentry fic
https://archiveofourown.org/works/87033821
I saw a tiktok edit of Colt and Courtland to American Cars by Noah Kahan and got inspired <3
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I finally finished a Coltland Gentry fic
https://archiveofourown.org/works/87033821
I saw a tiktok edit of Colt and Courtland to American Cars by Noah Kahan and got inspired <3
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New fic! First Landoscar fic :D
This is actually the first f1 fic I wrote, but i got so scared about posting it for some reason. But it's cute and I don't want it to die in my google docs so here it is
..so um.
What if Dumbledore didn't have the Potters' invisibility cloak the night they died?
They knew they were in danger
And if that cloak had been passed down through James' family they had to have known it was special.
I think if they'd had the cloak, it would've been kept in Harry's room, specificially because they knew that Harry would be the target.
So imagine this..
It's Halloween Night 1981. It's a Wednesday.
Barely a week ago, the house of James and Lily Potter had been put under the Fidelius Charm. Their secret keeper was Peter Pettigrew- a last minute change that would lead to the attack.
It's still early in the evening.
Lily watches from the couch as James crawls around on the floor trying to make their son, little Harry Potter laugh.
They hear a loud bang as You-Know-Who opens the gate to their property.
They don't know it's him yet.
Peter is supposed to be in hiding.
Voldemort makes his way up the path at a leisurely pace. He has the upper hand. There is no way he will lose tonight.
James leaves his son to go check who it is, not knowing this is the last time he will ever see him or his wife.
Voldemort opens the door, and James' face drops.
Despite leaving his wand in the living room, James knows in that split second what he has to do.
"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!" James yells.
He tries. He does. He is a skilled and talented wizard..
But without his wand, facing a powerful dark wizard like Voldemort.. James could only hope to buy Lily a few seconds.
He is struck down by a killing curse, the unforgivable falling from Voldemort lips as easy as breathing.
In the living room, Lily scoops up Harry the second she hears James yelling.
She knows she can't escape by running. Even if she could, she wouldn't want to put the rest of the neighbourhood at risk.
Instead of running out the back door and into the garden, she instead runs up the stairs.
There is one way she might be able to save her son.
On her way she hears Voldemort utter the killing curse.
She doesn't have time to grieve.
She makes her way to Harry's room.
Baracading the door to give her a few more precious seconds, she grabs the invisibility cloak from where it is stored in Harry's room.
Later, she is glad she trusted James' instincts and kept it there, instead of moving it to somewhere harder for Harry to find.
A few panicked minutes looking for Harry the one time he managed to pull it down on top of him seems more than worth it now she knows how useful it was that fateful night.
She pulls it over them, and with the last few seconds as she hears Voldemort in the hall outside the door, flings open the window as a diversion.
It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
As Voldemort bursts into the room, Lily cradles Harry in her arms, begging the 15 month old to just stay quiet as they cower under the window.
"I know you're in here Ms. Lily Potter. Give me the boy and you'll live."
Voldemort's voice chills Lily to her core. She doesn't respond.
She silently prays to every god and powerful wizard she's ever known that Harry will just stay quiet.
"An invisibility cloak was a clever idea. But not clever enough!"
Lily flinches as Voldemort begins firing summoning charms around the room.
One is fired right at them, and she thinks 'This is it.'
It glances right off.
Dumbledore had mentioned he had a feeling that James' cloak was special.
Lily knows Voldemort won't give up. She's heard the Prophercy, and she knows he will stop at nothing to kill her son.
She is utterly trapped, cowering under a window, invisible to the eye, but holding a time bomb that could give away their position at any time.
"You don't have to die Lily Potter. Give me the boy."
Harry starts to fuss. He's upset at his game ending so quickly, and this new game is nowhere near as fun.
Lily tries to shush him without making a sound. Any sound could be fatal.
The house is silent except for Voldemort's footsteps as he paces the room.
Lily knows she has to get out of this room.
It's hard to trust that the invisibility cloak keeps them invisible as she creeps as slow as she possibly can towards the door.
She only moves when Voldemort isn't looking her way, just in case.
She thanks her lucky stars that James prefers to keep Harry's toys downstairs n the living room.
As Lily creeps silently and invisibly around the edge of her son's bedroom, clutching him to her chest tightly, Sirius Black enters Pettigrew's hiding place.
When he finds Pettigrew missing and no signs of a struggle, he knows it can only mean one thing.
Lily is nearly at the door.
She knows she won't be out of the woods until she can apparate somewhere safe, but she's inching closer to freedom.
It's not that easy.
As she hears the quiet rumbling of a motorcycle through their small village, she's distracted for a split second.
She bumps into the door.
It creaks.
Everything happens at once they both realise what has happened.
Lily knows she has given away her position, so gives up on being silent, and runs the last few steps to get behind the wall and out of Voldemort's immediate firing range.
Voldemort whirls around and fires a bright green killing curse right at her.
Swearing she felt it hit them, but not having the time to question it, Lily bolts towards the window at the end of the hall.
Harry starts to cry.
No one knows why until later, when Lily tells them about James' sacrifice, but the house explodes.
Lily uses magic she hasn't used since before she knew she was a witch as she dives at the window, holding her son in her arms.
They float to the ground as the house collapses behind them.
Sirius Black arrives on his motorcycle.
Neither of them know Voldemort is gone, for now.
Lily immediately jumps on the back.
"Go Sirius! Drive!"
Sirius drives.
Harry cries, wedged tightly between his mother and his godfather.
He has no idea his dad won't be coming back to play with him, but he knows there were loud noises, and his mommy is scared.
Lily clings to Sirius, clings to the invisibility cloak that saved her and her son's life, clings to her son.
Sirius takes them to Hogwarts.
He can't think of anywhere safer.
James and Lily's home was supposed to be safer.
Dumbledore lets them stay.
In the days that follow, the wizarding world celebrates that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is finally defeated.
Lily makes sure her husband's sacrifice doesn't go unrecognised as instrumental in his death.
Dumbledore doesn't tell her he thinks it's only a temporary thing. That even now he suspects he will someday return and try to kill her son again.
It isn't until days later, when Harry is in bed, that Lily truly gets a chance to grieve for her lost love.
The man she loved, still loves, who sacrificed himself to buy her the precious seconds she needs to get to the cloak.
Harry grows up without a father, but he has his mother, and his Uncle Padfoot, and his Uncle Moony.
He has Hagrid, who was the first to offer Lily a hot drink and a warm drink when she arrived at Hogwarts, and, along with Sirius, didn't leave her side while she was questioned by various aurors.
He has McGonagal, who Lily relied heavily on when Harry was a child, because she may not have kids of her own, but she has been teaching for over 20 years, and is always ready with a strong drink when Lily needs one.
He grows up with Ron and all his siblings.
Molly Weasley knows the poor girl is grieving, and having to take care of a baby on her own. She knows it must be hard, so despite already having 7 children, including a newborn baby, she sends a care package, and offer to babysit whenever Lily needs a few hours.
Lily makes sure Harry knows his father was a hero.
She makes sure he knows that he is loved, and is never alone.
She raises him on her own, with help from her friends, and he has a happy childhood.
He has no scar, but wizarding children still know who he is.
Wizarding adults look at him in pity and whisper, but he keeps his head high.
When he is old enough to understand, Lily gives him the invisibility cloak, and tells him the story of how it saved them, and how it used to belong to his father, and his grandfather before that.
He almost never leaves home without it.
Harry grows up and looks nearly identical to his father.
It stings Lily's heart occasionally, when she looks at him and sees James' smile looking back at her.
Voldemort does return.
Harry does have to face him.
But he has his mother behind him.
And the protection of his father.
And an invisibility cloak that is more useful than one could possibly imagine.
So this spiralled completely out of my control. I have no idea where I was originally going with this and I hurt myself so now you guys can hurt too lmao.
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Soft Intruality thing I wrote! Its very fluffy and cute.
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Logince impulse post!
It's pretty cute for something I totally forgot I wrote until tonight lol
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I wrote another cute little Dukexiety thing!
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This is my entry to Percico Angst and Fluff Month 2020!
I'll be updating this story every week in August for the different prompts!
(P.S. Soulmate timers totally count as marks shhh)
Real sentence I just wrote.