Avada Kedavra Eyes Author: _ky_ Rating: PG A/N: Written for my 30_somthings Lyrics table, Prompt #13: "See these eyes so green I could stare for a thousand years." Characters: Sirius Black (Remus Lupin, Harry Potter) Rating: PG Disclaimer: I don’t own these characters. All characters you recognize are property of JK Rowling, Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Inc., Warner Bros., et cetera et cetera. Critiques: Why yes, thank you. (And please, do try to be that polite as well. *grin*)
Summary: Everyone always told Harry that he had his mother's eyes. Unfortunately, nobody thought to warn his godfather before they met for the first time.
)( AVADA KEDAVRA EYES )(
Sirius remembered the first time he saw his Harry.
He saw him first as a Grim – but that moment in the park didn’t count – because he couldn’t recognize colors very well in his Animagus form.
No, it was much later than that when he first truly saw Harry; when he was standing in the shack, with Moony in his arms, and the terrified children all pointing their wands. He felt Remus shaking, or perhaps he was, but he looked over his friend’s shoulder and beheld his godson for the first time. He was pierced with eyes so green that he could have simply stood there and stared, and shook, for a thousand years.
Young Harry, with his mother’s eyes in his father’s face. Sirius’s chest clenched; it felt as though someone had reached their hand into him and was squeezing his heart. If Moony hadn’t been holding him, he very well may have collapsed. Of course, he realized, Remus probably understood what a shock the boy would be to him.
James used to say that Lily Evans had Avada Kedavra eyes, because every time she looked at him, he just wanted to die. Sirius didn’t quite understand until that moment, when those same Avada Kedavra eyes stared hatred at him, named him murderer with a glare.
He simply wanted to die.
Or stare at them for a thousand years, because they were all that was left of Lily and James.