and let me tell you that i'm dreaming (OPEN)

[lightmagic]

CHARACTERS: Lily Potter AND YOU!!!
LOCATION: A mystery. (Miscellaneous!! Halls, elevators, media library, kitchen, take your pick.)
WARNINGS: TBA??
SUMMARY: A June catch-all post.
NOTES: Please feel free to start threads with whatever! I wish to rp all of the things and Lily is criminally approachable, so if you want to have someone bump into her or leave an opening for her to say hi, I'm down for whatever.


Lily doesn't leave her room often. It's ostensibly to rest and make sense of things, but she simply doesn't think to go anywhere. She lays in bed and tries to sleep, thinks better of it, and spends hour upon hour going through network archives instead. Being busy keeps her mind from drifting back home to where everything went wrong.

'Not often' is not 'never,' all the same - she has to leave to get things to eat and drink, do washing up, and eventually media library holds enough of a pull that she heads out to investigate it and returns to her room with too many things loaded into a data pad to be able to go over in days, though she's determined enough to try.

(One day she considers trying to relax by swimming but rethinks it at the last moment, does an about-face near the rec area and heading back toward her room.)

She doesn't linger long enough in the kitchens to make entire meals but she does snack while she makes up her tea before disappearing once more into the halls again.

She wanders them enough to get a general idea of the layout enough, and not just on her own floor. She doesn't stray far despite the elevators making things easier, but she likes to have a mental map at least. She's approachable enough even in her upset, quiet and maybe a little morose but who isn't, some days?

Comments

[thebreakingwave]

"He'd put pieces of his soul into things so that if you destroyed his body, his spirit could return." It's a very roundabout way of describing a horcrux, but he is certain that if Snape finds out that he's explained any of it, he'll never hear the end of it.

"About that, yes. The first time we fought I was in my first year."

[lightmagic]

There's nothing in her memory for that description to connect to, luckily for Harry, but even alone it's enough to raise her hackles slightly. "Of course he would," she says quietly, but she's careful to keep any bitterness out of her voice because she asked to know.

Her husband is dead.

"Your first year." She's leaning to peer directly at him, eyes searching his face for... she's not sure what. "I never wanted that for you." She never wanted any of the war to touch her child, and now he's telling her it took his childhood.

[thebreakingwave]

"I can't imagine anyone did. It's not really something people want, it's just how it is. What needed to be done," he says with a bit of a shrug. It's terrible and he'd fight tooth and nail to stop it from happening to any other child, but he's not too troubled about it being his lot in life.

"And it's alright, I came out okay in the end." Sort of. Mostly.

[lightmagic]

That isn't the whole point behind what she said, but she lets it go for now. The war is over for good, and he came out okay in the end, and that's important to her.

She leans forward but doesn't try to touch Harry again, chewing on her lip thoughtfully. "I'm glad to hear you say that," is all she can think of to say, "and I'm glad to know that the war finally ends."

There's a part of her that almost feels annoyed that it seems everyone is treating her like a fainting figure made of cracked glass but that's not Harry's fault - it's understandable, she thinks, that they'd do it.

[thebreakingwave]

"So, well, that's where we're at. The war's over, my job is done, and I was an Auror when this place took me. It's not ideal, but it's not all that bad. Not really." When being kidnapped by a ship that will likely end up killing or driving them all mad isn't 'bad', it's fair to suggest that Harry might have a skewed perspective.