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Lily Evans ([info]emerald_eyes) wrote in [info]beyondthepages,
@ 2010-04-02 18:42:00

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Entry tags:!complete, 2023 09, dorcas meadowes, lily evans

RP: Explanations
Characters: Lily, Dorcas
Time/Date: September 2, 2023
Location: Near St Mungo's
Warnings/Rating: None
Summary: Lily tries to explain
Status: Complete



Lily closed her eyes and closed the journal, and belatedly wondered how Cas had even gotten one. It didn't seem terribly relevant at the moment though; maybe she'd borrowed someone's. Leaving a note for Harry (or Jamie or Ginny) to let whoever found it know where she was going and what was going on, Lily gathered up a few things she thought she might need - a small sack of galleons and some food, as well as a set of Muggle clothes.

With everything else on her mind, she didn't think of the sense (or lack thereof) behind the things she gathered.

Once she had everything, she apparated to a place near the hospital and glanced around. Shifting the bag on her arm, she slipped her wand up her sleeve as she looked around for alleys near the hospital - or Dorcas herself.

"Cas?" she called softly when she saw someone who resembled her friend.


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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 03:57 am UTC (link)
"You'll have to come; who else will ensure that I don't get myself arrested for giving a bad show?" She teased. "He's a good man, eh? Well, I'll try to be nice to his underlings, then. Really. "

Taking a sip of her water, Cas settled back against the seat. "Who else is here?"

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 04:02 am UTC (link)
Lily nodded her agreement; she had no problem accompanying her friend. It would help keep her mind off of LilyLuna. "I'm sure they'll appreciate your efforts," Lily teased gently.

"Aside from those I mentioned already ..." Lily looked thoughtful. "There was a young girl, Ariana Dumbledore. Professor Dumbledore's younger sister." She hesitated again and realized her next bit of news probably wouldn't go over well, because Cas didn't know.

"I'm moving in with Severus, tomorrow," she said. "He ... he wound up spying on the Death Eaters for the Order. Harry - my son - cleared his name once the war was over."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 04:07 am UTC (link)
"They'd do well to! D'you realize what an effort it takes to keep myself in line? Honestly, it's a wonder I survived as long as I did. However long that ended up being. Sometime before you, I suppose." Dead. That was never going to get old. Cas supposed that was the shock setting in.

The shock that was quickly displaced by Lily's announcement. "I ... you're ... he's ... what? Since when? That Harry you mentioned is your son? How old is he? Who raised him? You're moving in with Severus? Does --- right, he doesn't need to. Well. at least there's some ... good ... in this?"

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 04:36 am UTC (link)
Lily smiled gently. "It's ... a bit of a long story, I suppose, but after James came back at ... at sixteen." She shook her head. "I couldn't ... we're not going to work, not with him that young and a five year gap." Lily dropped her eyes. "At least he doesn't remember, so he's not likely to be haunted by memories of us.

"Anyway, I was staying with Harry - he's forty-three, all grown up - and he's living in the house in Godric's Hollow. The one James and I lived in. So ..." She trailed off, trusting Cas to understand.

"Tuney raised Harry, but he turned out all right despite her. Love, he was hunted all through school by Voldemort's followers, then Voldemort himself after Voldemort's body was restored. He had a hard time of it before he managed to bring him down in '98."

Lily shrugged slightly. "It's ... a complicated situation, this coming back thing. We just have to try to make the best of it."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 04:47 am UTC (link)
"Well ... alright then. I suppose if you're happy, that's ace; compared to some other news, this is actually fairly easy to understand. I can't believe he worked against You Know Who, though. I never would have expected it from him," Cas said, not unkindly. "As for your son, who is older than you and I put together, the poor dear! That's a terrible way to have come up. It was bad enough fighting at eighteen; I can't imagine starting in the middle of schooling."

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 04:51 am UTC (link)
If she was happy. Lily still had moments when she wondered if she'd ever truly be happy again. But she was coping, distracting herself with this, that, and the other thing. "It's ... he's helping. Just by being around and remembering me." A half-smile quirked her lips. "Though now I've got you to remember me, too."

Lily nodded. "He did well though. He had a good support network. Molly's youngest son was one of his best mates, and they had a Muggleborn witch." She paused. "Frank and Alice's boy, too, was part of their group of friends. He's actually a professor at the school now. Harry's the head of Aurors, if you can even believe that."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 04:56 am UTC (link)
"And I remember most of you too! I'm from July of 1980, so, there's not too much I don't know about. Maybe a year or so that you have to fill me in on, but even then, it's only part of a year, because I'm dead sometime in there."

"Are Frank and Alice here too? In some form? And, that's ace! At least he had good friends. Lily, I am completely unsurprised that your son grew up to be the head of the Aurors. With you and James for parents, how could he grow up to be anything less than marvelous?"

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 05:01 am UTC (link)
July of 1980. She had to laugh a little. "So just before Harry was born. He was born at the end of the month. James and I were killed on Halloween of 1981."

Lily shook her head. "They ... ah." She shifted uncomfortably. "The Lestranges and a few of their friends tortured the Longbottoms. They ... they're in a permanent ward, in the hospital. Completely out of their minds. No recognition of anything, and no hope of a reversal or cure, from what Harry's told me."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 05:10 am UTC (link)
"So, I did get to see him as a baby? At some point?" Cas asked. Mentally, she swore at the bad timing of whatever had brought her here. "Halloween of 1981 ... good Lord, Lily. Good Lord."

Cas squirmed uncomfortably in her seat. "A permanent ward? My god. Frank and Alice on a permanent ward with no hope of recover. Alice was pregnant too; what happened to her son between his parents being tortured and meeting Harry?"

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 05:18 am UTC (link)
"You did," Lily assured her with a soft smile. "We snuck him out for a bit to show him around the Order before we were shuffled back into hiding." She nodded slightly, sadly. "We were ... foolish. Cocky. Neither of us had our wands when he came in, but ... I'm not sure it would have made any difference if we'd had them."

Though at least she could have gotten away. There wouldn't have been a hope for James, but... well, it didn't matter, now. It was over.

"Neville. Augusta raised him. Poor dear had such confidence problems his first few years, but Harry said he really came into his own near the end. I don't blame him a bit; I think I might've had nightmares if she'd raised me."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 05:35 am UTC (link)
"It likely wouldn't've. He seemed indestructible. Nothing ever did any damage." Cas tried not to think about her friends' last moments, or Alice and Frank's ghastly fate. Her mind drifted back to the alleyway, and she briefly pondered her own demise at the hands of whomever. It wasn't a pleasant thought, but at least it hadn't been a run in with the toaster or a cauldron; that would have simply been embarrassing.

"From the name alone, I'd have nightmares if she'd raised me. Poor Neville."

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 05:51 am UTC (link)
She chuckled softly before she leaned back in her chair. It was amazing, honestly, to have Cas around. She still had to go check in on LilyLu and see if there were changes, and finish packing to move her things to Sev. She wanted to make dinner for Harry and Jamie - she couldn't imagine Ginny was coming home until Lily was better.

"Things got better, after Voldemort fell. It's been quiet, up until recently ..." Lily wondered - and worried - that the world had gotten a little soft. But if the returning trend kept up, they were getting a lot of first-war soldiers into the mix.

People who knew. People who could fight. People who could teach.

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 06:00 am UTC (link)
"The Wizarding World? Quiet? Has that even ever happened before?" Cas joked. "We've always got something wrong. Surely, the damn goblins have to be at war again. It'd only be their ... 447th time. I'm sure they have lots of new ways to get at each other! Or, if not a goblin war, there has to be some nutter running about proclaiming that the resurrection of the dead is a sign of the apocalypse or something along those lines. We're the Wizarding World; something's always supposed to be afoot."

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 06:05 am UTC (link)
Lily grinned. "Well, nothing yet. Harry said it's been fairly quiet since the end of the war, once they got the Death Eaters all rounded up. Just the normal rush of criminals and thugs and normal crimes, but no rampaging dark lords or anything of that sort."

Granted, now they'd have a werewolf problem, not to mention whatever else came back from the dead.

Sighing softly, she half-closed her eyes before she shook her head. "It does seem like a fair bit of the Order's coming back though; maybe that's a sign of something."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 01:54 pm UTC (link)
"Well, if it is, at least most of us will be here. We'll have to wait for the boys, but they're still here. And whoever else died that I don't know about. Between our Order, and the Order that your son and his friends were part of, we should be able to take anything that comes at us. Hopefully."

Cas took a sip of her water, then asked "What are we doing about jobs and money?"

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 02:45 pm UTC (link)
"The Ministry has a little fund set up, employment aid and the like. Or they're working on it. I was one of the first ones back, so I was lucky I had Harry to fall back on. Whatever you had in your vault should still be there," she suggested. "I've got a few applications out to places in Diagon. Bookstores and apothecaries and the like. I'm going to be brushing up on potions and charms and hopefully venturing somewhere down that route once I'm up to speed. Sev mentioned opening an apothecary; if he follows through with that, I imagine I'll be working for him."

Lily looked thoughtful. "There's certainly no harm in heading back to the hospital, explaining that you used to work there, and ... seeing if they can catch you up and you can get something like your old job back."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 03:19 pm UTC (link)
"It's worth a try, I suppose. I mean, I'm sure my records are still there and I've got my ID card if that fails. What's the worst they can tell me? No?" Cas didn't want to consider that possibility; she loved her job, and what more, was good at it. It had been the only career she could seriously think about from the time she was eight. She'd rather live destitute than go into retail, even if it was books. She had worked too hard to simply give up on it, even if it meant going back through basic training.

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 03:30 pm UTC (link)
"I'm sure they'll let you in. Possibly after a few months of retraining - a lot happened in forty years. They've made amazing advances in potions and there's even one for werewolves, to help them keep their minds on the full moon. I'm going to give it a go and see if I can learn to make it, though it's difficult. Or so they say."

She shook her head. "Besides, I'm sure they still need people willing to work in that ward, right? The Ministry's being very good about trying to make the transitions easier for ... for people like us. The formerly deceased."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 03:43 pm UTC (link)
"Formerly deceased ... too bad I didn't have aspirations to be a zombie; this would have been close to a success," Cas grinned half-heartedly. "But what about this potion? Difficult or not, it sounds like a pretty major bump in quality of life for those with lycanthropy. Theoretically, it sounds like it could reduce virtually all self-inflicted injuries as you'd be ... well ... you!"

Cas sighed. "Oh Merlin, Lily, I hope they'll let me in. "

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 03:46 pm UTC (link)
She nodded. "There's a werewolf at the school who's been on it, and ... well, of course ..." she trailed off. It wasn't incredibly likely that Dorcas knew about Remus, was it? But it wasn't a secret, anymore, was it? "Remus, is ... he had it this past full. He said it really did make a difference."

Reaching out, she squeezed Cas' hand again. "I'm sure they will, love. It might take a bit, but I'm sure they'll let you in again and you can be queen of the ward once more," she teased lightly.

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 04:06 pm UTC (link)
"Ahh. Well, that's ace then!" Cas couldn't remember if she had ever been outright informed of Remus's status, but after spending two years on the Lycanthropy ward, she had begun to suspect it.

"Queen of the ward ... they'd best let me in. A queen without her kingdom is not a pretty sight," she joked.

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 04:13 pm UTC (link)
"And I'm sure they'd fear your wrath entirely too much not to let you in," she quipped in return, a smile tugging at her lips.

Finishing up her tea, she half-closed her eyes and tried not to think about how busy this weekend was going to be. "Whenever you're ready," Lily offered. "We can head over and get the balls rolling to get you set up."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 04:44 pm UTC (link)
"Damn straight! I am a terrifying and imposing and mildly disorganized force!" Cas cracked, giggling.

Draining the last of her water, Cas placed the glass back down on the table. "Alright, let's go see the future. " She paused. "Is it bad form to visit your own grave?"

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 04:56 pm UTC (link)
"Honestly ... I don't know. I haven't gone to see mine," she admitted. "I know where it is, I simply ... haven't had it in me to go poke at it." She tilted her head. "But I'll go see yours with you if you want. I'm sure someone in the Ministry has a record of ... where you were buried."

Good lord, that was morbid. Lily shook her head slightly as she pushed back from the table. They could likely just pop over to the Ministry from one of the alleyways nearby.

After taking care of the bill, she smiled over to Cas. "Let's be on our way then."

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Cas grinned at Lily. "I'll owe you for dinner later. "

The thought of seeing her own grave both disturbed and amused Cas. On one hand, it cemented the notion that she was, at one point, dead. Being dead was not quite something she had yet come to terms with, let alone that some form of her was two meters underground. On the other, at this point in time, she was weirdly gloriously alive and young. There was no war and her particular fate had been, for the time being, circumvented. She was free to poke fun at the choice of epitaph, talk to her dead self, and marvel at the wondrous blue sky of being alive. It also left her free to find someone who remembered her funeral, and ensure her last wishes for butterbeer and firewhiskey all around had been followed.

"After you," she said. "I'd simply get us lost. "

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[info]emerald_eyes
2010-04-03 05:46 pm UTC (link)
"Surely you know where the Ministry is? It hasn't moved," Lily teased lightly. "Thought we'd just apparate there," she explained. "Then, once I get you in I will leave you in their capable hands. I'm not sure how streamlined the process has become, but it shouldn't take more than a few hours. I've got to go check on Harry and Lily and finish packing up my things, but once they're done with you, I can come get you and we'll go from there. Figure out where they're putting you up and all that."

She did feel sort of bad for 'ditching' Dorcas, but once she got through the Ministry's doors, there wouldn't be much for Lily to do but sit and wait, and she did have things to do today.

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[info]dorcas_m
2010-04-03 07:44 pm UTC (link)
"Lily, I suspect I could get lost in Hogsmeade at this point; it took me an embarrassing length of time to realize where I was. Apparating seems to be the best solution. " Cas wasn't wild about spending the next few hours with some Ministry employee, but it wasn't like she had other options at her disposal. Besides, Lily had things to do, and everyone else was either too young or still dead; there was no one else to talk to.

"Sounds good. Here's hoping all goes well,"

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