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#James remembered all the times Regulus called him 'my sun' and 'sunshin' and he KNEW
xysidhe · 2 years
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On the topic of Regulus' patronus, since I won't let this die until I see it in a fic even if I have to write it myself.
Regulus: Why can't I get this bloody charm to work
Remus: Happy thoughts, Reg. Happy thoughts.
Regulus: What part of my upbringing gave you the illusion I have those?
Remus: Happy. Thoughts
Peter: Think like that fairy! Tonker Bells!
Remus: Tinker Bell. Purebloods.
Regulus: Could you two stop arguing over muggle cartoons so I can focus!
Regulus: Expecto Patronum!
Sirius: Bloody hell Reggie, is that a lion?
Regulus: Oh.
James: Oh.
Remus: He's beautiful Reg, what are you going to name him?
Regulus: Helios
Sirius: You're going to name your patronus after the sun?
Regulus: It keeps to the family theme doesn't it?
Sirius: Mother would have a fit. Looks like both her sons are more Gryffindor than Black. This is bloody brilliant! Told you Reggie, you should've been sorted into Gryffindor!
James: I think his patronus is perfect for him.
Regulus: I think so too.
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futurewriter2000 · 5 years
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Anomie - pt. 3
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I know I messed up. I always mess up but it's not that I want to. I want to do the opposite. Not mess up but that, for me, is clearly impossible.
I always disrespect my family. I always did but I have loved my younger sister and brother and I didn't want them to be left there. But that night I wasn't thinking. I just wasn't. So I left.
My brother and sister bonded more strongly when I left but they also bonded against me that was why everything was so much more complicated when it came to my family. Everybody just hated everybody.
But Regulus doesn't talk and I need to know where my sister is. She has been there for us, she has been there to take the fault for what I or Regulus did and she has been there for Regulus after I left. She has been there, even though we weren't talking. She was.
It was my turn to be there for her. She was different than the other girls . Maybe because of what mother did to her as a child but she still tried to be as normal as she could. But I can't bare her being out there, somewhere, alone in the world. I just can't sleep without knowing if she is safe or if she isn't safe. Is she safe? I had James. She had nobody. Not since I left.
I've been promising myself all year I'll go find her. I promised- I'm determined to find her after I graduate. Remus tried to stuck his nose where it didn't belong. My sister is not his problem but he tries making it. And whenJames sees Remus trying to help, he does the same. It's just peter who just kind of hangs there, observing. Maybe because he really doesn't kniw how to help.
"I can come with you, mate." James tapped my shoulder as I kept packing my trunk. "You and me. Me and you. Potter and Black. Prongs and Padfoot. The unforgettable adventures." James counted on, trying to cheer me up but I could only smile at him. Weakly? - Hell, it was barely a smile.
It was just... The moment has finally come and I don't know where to start. Regulus probably knew where you were but he wasn't talking to me. He just wasn't.
"You know..." I suddenly felt the need to speak. "When we were all kids, we had the time of our lives."I continued to say as I packed my toilette." She was so cheerful- my sister I mean. She was this ray of sunshine always laughing and chasing the sun."I turned around with a smile, each and every one of them was listening to me." But one day when when I was seven, she was six, we were having lunch and after it my mom ordered my sister to clean the whole house. Do you imagine a six year old cleaning the whole place?" I now walked forward. "I still remember trying to help her but every time I walked closer to her as she scrubbed the floor on her knees, she looked at me with pleading eyes and sayin 'Sirius. Don't. She' s going to be furious.' and so I stayed away. And Regulus stayed away but my sister scrubbed the floor like some sort of house elf." I could feel the sorrow and the guilt, maybe the whole emotion of regret coming up my throat and coming out in liquid." I was watching her from upstairs and I remember my dad was out of town that day and mother threatened us all ifnwe tell what she did, she'll punish us worse. And all of a sudden as I watched them from up stairs, my mother stood up and she told my sister to go to her study. And they left. " I brushed away the wetness of my cheek." And my sister wasn't the same after she left her study. She was never the same since then." I finally turned around and smiled.
"Pads-" James started but I just over sounded him with my laugh.
"You know maybe if I did something. Maybe if I was there sooner or just be there she'd still be the cheerful younger sister I grew up with. Maybe if I didn't just watch because I was terrified and actually do something about my mother beating my little sister... Maybe she would be here and maybe she would be a Gryffindor and my best friend-"
"You couldn't have known. You were just-"
"A kid!" I seemed to lose patience. "SHE WAS A KID! I was supposed to be her older brother and I wasn't there when she needed me and Merlin knows that I'll do everything in my power to help her." I was still determined. More than ever. I needed to find her. I needed to be there for her at least once. At least make her feel like she is jot alone. Once.
"Your mother beated her?" I heard Remus wondered. I look up to see his eyes confused more than ever. As if he cared-of course it was Remus. He always cared for everybody.
"Yeah." I sat on the night stand behind me. The same night stand that kept me compaby for the last 7 years but I honestly appreciated it just now. What a metaphore, huh? It almost makes me giggle but cry at the same time. "My sister was always the last to finish lunch. And my mom loved hitting her-as if there was some kind of pleasure she got from hitting my little sister. But she said the one who finishes last, get the smack on the hand by the whip." I forced another smile but couldn't help the tears to fall from my cheeks." My dad toleratednit once, twice, three times maybe but the fourth time he snapped saying to stop hitting my little sister. He was so angry-I have never seen him that furious at my mother but my mother got scared. She envied my little sister since then, only torturing her when he wasn't around.. " I continued to pour it out of me. It just came out." And I sat there... Watching it happen. "
And they were quiet again. I couldn't say more. My dad adored her. Like she was his princess and he'd snap if he knew what mother ever did to her. Maybe he wouldneven kill my mother because of it. That study... I think none of us could forget that study.
"FUCK!" everything was on the ground now. Of course it was. Sirius and his temper. Typical of me.
I looked up. James was watching me worriedly but Remus-Remus was just staring at the ground, lost in his own thoughts.
He knew something. I was sure of it.
"Moony?" I asked him. "What's on your mind?"
He looked up.
Tell me or not tell me. I knew him well enough that he thought this over and over again.
"Nothing." he lied. Of course, he lied. I knewbit. I don't how because with Remus, you never knew when he was lying but now, either was it my anger and clearity or that his guardbwas down, but I knew it in that exact moment he was lying.
"Are you hiding something from me, Remus?" he looked at me seriously this time. Perhaps because I barely called him by his name. The nicknaming became a habit but not at times like this.
Tell him or not tell him. Again. Same stare.
"I just- I used to hang out with your sister for a while and she never struck me as being that traumatized." he admitted and I stared.
"What do you mean you hung out with her?" my voice came out attacking him.
"Talking-I don't know Sirius!" he snapped as well. "I stopped talking after a while because of you?."
"Why?" I wondered. Why because of me?
"Because you weren't even talking to her-I don't know because you don't like your family."
"Regulus and (y/n) were never disliked in my case. I care for them both." I started to get agitated but he just wouldn't stop his stubborn arse.
"You say one thing but your actions say the other." He struck at me.
I stopped talking. What was that supposed to mean? 
“You know what, Remus. I don’t have time for your smartarse retors so why don’t you go fuck yourself.” I snapped and grabbed my bag, storming out of the room. 
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jilyarchive · 7 years
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Jily Fic Masterposts: Survival AU
These involve grown up James and Lily, usually with Harry in the picture, as a very happy family! Some fics have James and Lily surviving the war and Voldemorts attack, while others work within an alternate universe where there was no war - leaving them free to grow old together with no interference from canon. Check out our Everybody Lives AU Intro Fics for more fics like the following!
(Enough Misadventures) To Last A Lifetime, T, one shot - "An hour ago you drank half a bottle of my Memory Mixture and then shouted to me that we need better orange juice." James is an idiot who drinks things without remembering that he's married to a potion maker.
when the tide comes in (we’ll go out with it), T, one shot - au where they (all) live.
The Flip Side, G, 6 chapters, complete - What if the Potters had found themselves on the flip side of the prophecy, and Neville had been The Chosen One? They might have had their chance at happily ever after.
no one can hurt you now, M, one shot - James Potter never thought he’d be 23 years old and still in hiding.
loving him was burning red, T, one shot - when you graduate hogwarts, you’re both excited, and terrified. somehow seventeen, doesn’t feel as old as it did, back when you were eleven, and brand new to this magical world. for your fifteenth birthday, james gave you a necklace, but for this one, he gives you a ring.
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, T, one shot - He has never slept in anything larger than a twin sized mattress, there has never been a need.
James, King of the Text, T, one shot - James learns how to text. Sort of.
Through The Sun And The Rain, G, 3 chapters [WIP] - A set of 'everybody lives fix it' drabbles where Voldemort was killed by a set of competent wizards, and James and Lily continue to live and raise Harry. These drabbles follow the lives of James, Lily, Harry, Remus, Sirius and Peter through their lives.
In Another Life, G, one shot - In another universe Halloween 1981 went differently.
Mischief Managed--or, The Marauders Ride Again, G, 2 chapters [WIP] - An alternate universe in which James and Lily survive and Harry grows up as he was intended to: with his every effort inspired and encouraged by the Marauders.
Earned Our Peace, G, one shot - Lily wonders if James misses it when he doesn't go sometimes- running during the full moon with his friends.  But she can't say she regrets the nights he chooses her arms, and their bed.
Keep Me on My Feet, T, one shot - The Longbottoms were attacked on October 31st. Peter has been found out. The Potters need a new hiding spot, but when Dumbledore suggests they go to the Dursley's Lily is hesitant. She hasn't seen her sister in years and her and James are struggling to deal with the death that surrounds them. But it doesn't look like they have another choice.
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Crush, G, one shot - James Potter has a huge crush on Lily Evans. Will it turn into something more?
Sick For Christmas, K+, one shot - James and Lily survive. It's Christmas and Harry is home for the holidays. James and Lily have made plans to spend Christmas as a family with Sirius and Remus. But when Harry gets sick, causing the plans to come to a halt, James and Lily make the best of it.
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Unstoppable, K, one shot - In which Harry learns to play Quidditch with his dad and partner in crime.
Number 2, K+, one shot - The war is over, James and Lily survived. A little fluffy story about how they decided to have a second child.
If One Had Lived, T, 2 chapters [WIP] - What it might be like if only one of Harry's parents had survived. A sort of bittersweet description of Harry's first time at Platform 9 3/4 with both parents.
Season Ticket, K, one shot - Children grow up, the giddy excitement of youth fades, and some traditions don’t last forever.
Trick-or-Treating, G, one shot - They lived!AU
Halloween Night, G, one shot - This story takes place on Halloween.
Untitled, G, one shot -Where James is a professional Quidditch player and he’s playing at the World Cup.
Sunshine in My Eyes, M, 7 chapters, complete - Mr. and Mrs. Evans are killed when Lily’s only a girl, and she’s supposed to go to a home with her sister. Instead, a relative they didn’t know they had comes to collect them, and introduces Lily to manners, magic, and a life that’s just the slightest bit different from the life she was supposed to live.
The Internship, T, one shot - Lily Evans hadn’t assumed that she’d be two months into her internship and still be acting as a personal servant to the editor of the newspaper while simultaneously shagging the intern of the art director downstairs. Life was funny in that way.
The Littlest Feet, T, 2 chapters [WIP] - Harry gets his hands on some magic markers. It doesn't end well.
Green Light, T, one shot - James and Lily (and Harry) survive October 31st, 1981.
Heroes, K, one shot - "'She looks like a Puffskein,' repeated Harry, one of his front teeth missing as he beamed at his Dad. 'I like Puffskeins.'" In which Harry has a secret and James listens.
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I'm Feeling the Love of You, E, one shot - James and Lily have a cosy night in before Harry returns from Hogwarts for Christmas.
Legacy, K, one shot - "He always knew this day would come, right from the first toy broom at age one ..." The famous Mr Potter attends his son's first professional Quidditch match.
The Family Album, K, one shot - Snapshots from the life of a happy family. AU, sadly.
Untitled, G, one shot - AU where Lily and James don’t die and Harry, who is twelve, brings Ron and Hermione to his house in London.
Diana Marlene, G, one shot - “Are you sure?”  Lily nodded, beaming.
Names, G, one shot - Lily and James having a bunch of babies and arguing about names 
And All The Sky’s Alight With Color, K, one shot - Lily’s father taught her to drive in a Cokeworth parking lot, illegally, when she was 14. To her, driving has always felt like flying - and now, years later, she’s teaching Harry to drive that very same car.
The Hogwarts Express Again, G, one shot - A drabble for jilytober in which James and Lily drop Harry off at the Hogwarts express.
a sleepless night, G, one shot - Every so often James Potter wakes up from the same nightmare.
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