James Potter (reformedprat) wrote in toboldlyrpg, @ 2017-08-13 13:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! enterprise, - medical bay, ^ log, james potter | harry potter, lily potter | harry potter |
JULY 23RD (226207.23) JAMES & LILY POTTER Reunion and talking about things OUtside medical | death talk COMPLETE LOG |
The words were glaring at her up from the PADD. She and James were dead in Harry's future. She didn't know what that meant, when they died or anything else. Hell, she didn't even know moments before that she had a son. That part was easier to accept. She wanted children. She wanted to have a family with James, a few kids, she wanted them to grow up safe and sound. All of those dreams felt like they were flying away from her in the fleeting seconds between messages on a piece of technology. Some of it felt real, some of it felt like it was still a dream. Lily wanted so badly to believe everything she was reading was true, but how could it be? Lily was sitting just outside of where medical was on the floor with her legs pulled up towards her when she heard footsteps coming towards her. It was when she actually saw his feet was when she felt the threat of tears. Swallowing all she could manage with a small shrug when she looked up at him. James knelt in front of his wife, pushing away all his own feelings about what Harry had just told them both as he pulled her into his arms. He wanted, desperately, to comfort her, but he didn’t know how to do it with words. What was there to say when they’d just found out that they weren’t alive in Harry’s time. Granted, they’d have been, well, older if they had lived that long, but it was still young, especially for a witch or wizard. Harry hadn’t said when, exactly, or how and maybe he should have questioned him, but finding Lily had felt more important than anything, especially in the wake of this news. He hadn’t even seen her yet and here she was wrapping her head all of this. Now he was here, with her, and he still didn’t know quite what to say. Leaning into her husband she still managed to keep it somewhat together, his strength gave her the strength she needed. She hadn't even been here an hour, and everything in her world felt like it was upside down, backward, falling apart and together at the same time. "I don't think the two of us making a spectacle of ourselves outside of their heal-medical area is going to go over well," she finally said with a hint of humor laced with sadness. James smiled softly at her as he brushed a thumb gently over her cheeks. “Love, you know I’ve made a far bigger spectacle of myself than this,” he quipped back. “They’re just going to have to get used to it with me around.” He didn’t know if they were going to talk about the hippogriff in the room or if what she needed was to think about something else for a bit. Either way, he thought they should probably get out of this corridor, so he stood after a moment and held out his hand to help her up. “Please tell me they were sensible and put you in my quarters with me,” he said. It seemed ridiculous to think that they wouldn’t house a husband and wife together. Wiping away a threatening tear she laughed slightly "true, and I imagine while you've been here you've made a spectacle of yourself already, especially given Sirius and Peter are both here too." She said as she started to feel a little bit better. At his question, she frowned again. "No, they've put me with a Lissa Dragomir and a Hannah Abbott in D31. I was informed we could request and be moved within a week, but we'll have to talk to the Traveler Liaisons." Lily knew her husband wasn't going to like, especially because it didn't make a lot of sense. “Seriously?” James looked shocked at that. “They didn’t put us together?” That sounded ridiculous to him. Who wouldn’t automatically put a husband and wife in the same room? “Tell me you’re joking.” Saying he didn’t like the situation was an understatement, especially on top of what they’d both just found out. “Well, the hell with that,” he decided quickly. “We’ll go to my quarters or you, but there’s no way I’m letting you out of my sight, at least not for tonight.” “They didn’t put us together,” she confirmed. Lily didn’t have an answer as to why they weren’t put together or why they had to request and wait a week. They were already married, she would have assumed they’d be living together but she also never thought she’d be on a spaceship in her life. Slowly moving so they could stand up she smiled softly. “Come on, show me where they put you,” Lily wanted to talk about their son and the fact that they apparently are dead but didn’t want to do that in a public place. James couldn’t help grinning at that little show of bossiness. It was one of the things he loved about her and he held her hand, slipping that arm around her shoulders a moment later as he guided her towards the turbolift that would take them to his quarters. “I’ll show you the observation lounge later,” he told her. “Wait until you see the view. And then there’s Deck 5 and the holodeck. This ship is brilliant, Lils,” he said, partly in an attempt to distract her from more serious things for a moment. There was so much to see, and the ship was a little overwhelming for her at the moment, so she focused on James, and some of the feelings of being overwhelmed tapered down. "A holodeck?" She asked that one stopped her, even though the lift itself was rather impressive given the technology. “Yeah, its this cool place where they can use their computer to make any place you can think of. They could turn it into Hogmeade or whatever we wanted. It's bloody fantastic!” "Turn it into Hogsmeade? With the shops and everything? How real is all of it? Can you feel things, or do they also somehow bring the smell?" Okay, it was a lot easier to focus on some sort of holodeck. “You can!” he said excitedly, having tried it out once. “You can feel things, smell them, taste them. It seems completely real when you’re there, like you’re really in whatever place it’s made to look like.” He didn’t exactly understand how the thing worked, but he could describe enough to one of the people who did and they could program it for them. He bet it could do Hogsmeade for them, too, even if he hadn’t tried it yet. Smiling softly she knew she’d want to check it out soon, but there were other pressing things on her mind. She waited a minute as they walked down another long corridor towards his quarters. “We have a son.” She stated as the strange conversation came flooding back to her, okay, so the other questions had been an attempt to distract her, and it wasn’t working. “We have a son,” he repeated. He thought it was brilliant, but it had certainly thrown him for a loop and he didn’t blame Lily for needing a minute to wrap her head around it. Especially given they’d just found out they had a son they hadn’t been able to be there for at some point. It was a hard thing to adjust to for both of them. "And we die," that was the part that was bothering her more. She barely had time to get used to the idea that they were going to have a son, or well, had one, and the next thing she knows is that she and James are both dead, but nothing else. "I just... I want to know, but I'm not sure I do. I think we need to know what happens to us, James." “Me, too,” he agreed. As much as it was probably a bad idea to know too much, he needed to know more about what happened to them. When, how, did Sirius and Pete know? Where they dead, too. “Harry didn't seem keen to be talking about it, but I think we deserve some more answers.” Slowing their steps, he turned toward her and pressed a kiss to her forehead. “We’ll get through this, love. I'm not sure how right now, but we will.” "Need to know," she repeated. "I can understand why he doesn't want to talk about it, but I'm not sure we should hear it from someone else. There are other people who would know, but I don't know if we should try and learn from them, or get Harry to talk to us." Lily felt like a horrible mother, but the truth was, was that she had no experience. "Come on, show me your quarters, we can figure out what happens to us later." “I don't even know who else knows,” he admitted. “Sirius and Pete are from about the same time as us and I've spent loads of time with Sirius but he never said anything. I'd imagine Ginny knows, but you're right. This should come from Harry.” He didn't know if saying that made him a bad father or not; the last thing he wanted was to cause his son pain, but he'd chosen to tell them about their deaths and he had to know there would be questions following that. Nodding his head, he guided her down the last stretch of corridor to the quarters he called his. He supposed their answers could wait a little while and he was all too happy to give Lily the tour of his bedroom. For him, two weeks had been two weeks too long. |