'L' for Lily! (thatgingergirl) wrote in throwingstones, @ 2010-02-05 21:59:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! complete, [february 1979], alice longbottom, lily potter |
Who: Alice Longbottom and Lily Evans
When: 5 February, 1979
Where: Fralice's Place, Fralice's Room
What: Ugh. Cuteness. Gross.
Rating: W for WTF DID ALICE GET IMPERIUSED
Status: Completed Log
For the first time in what had to be years, Alice was home from work before seven thirty. But tonight was a secretly big night, so she figured the least she could do was be here before everyone arrived. With a final check on Julia, Alice tested the silencing charms she'd put around the room and locked the door. Julia would be fine. And Caradoc's promised interrogation would be useless because she was so high, but it was probably for the best. Frank wouldn't be too pleased if he found out Alice let Caradoc interrogate his sister, but that was assuming he could remember before he fell asleep again. Still, before everyone showed up, there was something Alice wanted to do, so she headed to the bedroom she shared with Frank where she'd told Lily she could get ready and knocked on the door before coming in. "Hey." She smiled, slipping through the door and closing it once more behind her. Fake wedding dress or not, and flailing with her bright red hair, Lily looked lovely and Alice smiled. "You look great." Lily was regretting the decision to wear a white dress. She was too pale, her hair too red, her eyes too green. Everything just too much! And so she stood in front of the mirror trying to pull her hair back, but it was short and stuck out funny and nothing looked right. Frustrated she let it fall down, framing her face and making her look even paler when contrasted with how bright it seemed today. Glaring at her reflection, Lily tore the hair brush through it again. Hearing the door open, Lily turned quickly around, relief flooding her face when she saw it was Alice and not anyone else. "Hi, thanks," she answered, turning back to the dratted reflection and making a face. "I never should have cut my hair off. It's useless." "It's not useless." Alice laughed, only slightly reminded of how frantic she'd been on her own wedding day. She looked at Lily's reflection from over her shoulder and bit her lip in thought. She wasn't really good with hair. She usually got frustrated with hers halfway through paperwork and threw it up in a messy ponytail. When she had to see her parents, it was left down, and if it was a fancy occasion and she knew her mom would bitch, maybe she curled it. But still, she wanted to help. "I have some pins in the bathroom." She went into the room, rummaged through a drawer or four until she found the hairpins she was looking for. Returning to Lily, Alice stood in front of her and pinned back the pieces that were getting in the way. "There. It looks cleaner." She smiled somewhat mischievously for a second, "And it'll work with what I have to give you." Calming down slightly when Alice brought out the pins, she stood still and kept her eyes trained on the other woman's face while she worked, pinning back locks of hair and checking her work. Turning back to the mirror, Lily examined it, her lips curling slightly upward at the result. "That looks better," she said in a small voice, reaching up and touching it gently. And then Alice's comment registered and she whipped back around, her eyebrows meeting to illustrate her confusion. "Give me? Alice you already gave us your house for the night. You really don't need to give me anything else." Alice would have been only too amused if she'd known that this conversation was practically mirroring the one Frank had had with Greta at her wedding, but alas, she didn't, so instead she brushed Lily's excuses away with a hand wave and slid the sliding mirrored door to her side of things. "I figured you should have something weddingish at your wedding,and no, your dress isn't it." She called from in the closet where she rummaged through shit until she reappeared with a plastic garment bag. "Ha! Found it." She took the bag and walked it over to the bed, placing it there before she unzipped it and carefully removed her veil. She turned back to Lily, the tulle draped across both her arms. "Here, I want you to have it for tonight." First Alice hugged her the other day, and then she demanded Lily wear a dress, and now she was giving her her veil? Lily was half tempted to ask Alice her security question but managed to resist. More from sheer inability to speak than through common sense. For several moments she stood there in silence, her mouth nearly as wide as her eyes, until she finally reached out her hand towards the veil and let her fingers run over the tulle. She was getting married. In an hour or so she was officially getting married. Maybe - just maybe - she could let herself begin to feel like a bride now. "Are you sure?" she asked, not quite understanding how her voice could possibly be any tinier. "Yeah, of course I'm sure." Alice smiled as she watched Lily's shock. "Whether or not you put this together in a few days, you deserve a nice wedding, and well, really, all you need are a few things for a real wedding. A dress, and a veil are two of them, come on." She nodded her head towards the mirror again and once the two were in front of it, Alice fastened the veil into Lily's hair. "You know, all of this is crazy, but part of me wishes my wedding would have been like this. Not all the secrecy, but I threatened to grab Frank and just get married at the Ministry so many times. I mean, I loved my wedding, but there's something exciting about the way you're doing it." What had once been a reflection that had caused Lily frustration was now one that was making her smile, and she tentatively smoothed her hand against it as Alice fussed with the pins. "I know I've seen the pictures and you looked amazing but it's still really hard to imagine that was you dressing up," she confessed, unable to take her eyes off her reflection. Somehow the veil had even made her decidedly unbridal dress look bridal. Which was an accomplishment, all things considered. "It's not something I do often, but I think for my wedding, it was worth it. That, and it was hilarious to see Frank pale when he saw him. I swear, I thought he was going to faint...or ask where the woman he wanted to marry was." Alice laughed and looked at Lily from over her shoulder. "James will do the same." "You think?" she asked, unable to stop from touching the veil and starring at herself in the mirror. It was amazing what the addition of it did, how it made everything seem so much more real and concrete. She was getting married. Over Chinese food. Somehow that wasn't what she'd been picturing in her head when she was little and playing dress up in her mum's clothes. But it made sense. And she did like Chinese. They'd conformed to the times and the condition, and they'd both agreed that this was the best choice. And somehow, despite it all, she still managed to look like a bride with that veil on her head. Turning around, she looked up at Alice and was very proud of herself for not tearing up and making her make up and Alice run. "Yeah, I think." Alice nodded her head and smiled as she got a full view of Lily right in front of her eyes. "You kids..." She laughed and smiled. Part of her wanted to hug Lily, but Alice was pretty sure she'd reached her own-initiated-hug-quota of the week so she just stood there and smiled. "You think you're ready?" "Never more so," she heard herself declaring, finally breaking out into a grin that reached past her eyes and nearly broke her face. Then, before she could talk herself out of it, she pushed herself up beyond what height her heeled shoes gave her and pressed her lips to Alice's cheek. "I can't thank you enough," she whispered before quickly settling back down and slipping away from the mirror, busying herself with the jewelry she'd set out on the dresser. "I should probably wait to put the veil on till right before. Leave some surprise for James," she said, changing the subject as she fastened the locket Alice had given her for Christmas, letting it fall against her chest while she moved onto her earrings. Alice blinked a bit in confusion as she felt Lily's lips against her cheek, because she was pretty sure, Frank excepted, she hadn't been kissed on the cheek by anyone but her parents...and maybe Drunk Julia, but that didn't count. Still, she smiled and watched Lily fluster. "Yeah, definitely surprise him." She nodded in agreement and then smiled even wider when she noticed Lily's necklace. Fuck, this girl was going to remind her she actually had a heart and liked some people. Downstairs, the doorbell was ringing, and their time was coming to a close. "Okay, any last minute requests?" Shaking her head, Lily reached up and plucked out the veil, laying it gently back into its bag. "No. I think we're all set. Everything I need and more," she responded, finally looking back over at Alice with that same stupid smile she'd had a moment earlier, and she was pretty sure it wasn't going to come off for the rest of the night. |