Who: Lily & James Where: An abandoned house in Surrey When: Evening, after they check on their families Rating: TBD
After the explosion, Lily hadn't thought it could get much worse. Logically, she knew that wasn't the case. She'd been hoping against hope and clinging to a false sense of security that everything would work out anyway, because it kept her going. For the past few hours, she'd been keeping a constant chant going in her head, listing the names of people she knew were safe for now... trying to remind herself that at least her parents and her sister had survived. But then she thought further, to the people she loved just as much as her family. James' mum, Marlene's family.. they were gone. Marlene's little nephew had made it, and Lily was holding him, cradled in her arms while he slept... the rest of the McKinnons hadn't been so lucky.
Lily stifled back a sob, not wanting to wake the baby in her arms, but she couldn't stop the tears from rolling down her cheeks. James and Sirius weren't in the room at the moment, so she wasn't as careful about holding back her guard as she had been all day. They both had enough grief of their own to deal with, and she needed to be strong for them. It seemed like that was the only thing left she could do.