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The phoenix

My first ever @jilymicrofics | November prompt #6 Charge | Words: 990

'Mum, it's starting!' 

'Coming darling,' Lily replies as she tears open the bag of microwave popcorn and empties it into a bowl.

The familiar opening theme of F1 drifts into the kitchen. 

'You'll miss him!' Harry complains.

Lily knows she won't. James was fourth in the championship last year, meaning there are sixteen other drivers to be displayed before him - and Lily is already making her way to the living room. 

'There he is!' Harry jumps up from his regular spot on the floor - right in front of the television - and points at the screen eagerly.

'There he is,' Lily agrees, looking at her husband in all Ferrari rosso. 

James had worked hard to get to wear those colours, and yet... Lily misses the time he drove for Williams. She immediately hears James' voice in her head: "Lily, there was no team I'd rather win championships with than Williams."

In the end, it was Ferrari that had been able to help James clench the world title - more than once.

Lily hands her son the bowl of popcorn and takes a seat next to him. When in Rome, and all that.

As the cars drive around on the formation lap, the screen shifts to the Ferrari pitwall, where Sirius is talking into his headphones - presumably to James.

Their friendship has gotten a lot of media attention ever since Netflix launched Drive to Survive. "#Never see one without the other" "Five things we learned about Potter from Black's wedding speech." "The Potter-and-Black double act through the years."

'The question is,' Ludo Bagman asks, 'now that James Potter is going to McLaren, will Black remain with Ferrari, or follow the man who is not just his colleague, but also his best friend?'

'Follow Potter to McLaren, surely,' Hooch answers.

She's right, of course, though Hooch isn't to know that.

The three time world champion, kicked out and replaced by the ever hungry Jones. Just like that... What is it they say on Drive to Survive again? You're only as good as your last race. Of course Sirius isn't going to keep working for Ferrari after they terminated James' contract.

The cars are all lined up now.

'IT'S LIGHTS OUT -' Bagman bellows.

'AND AWAY WE GO!' Harry joins in.

Lily feels her heart hammer in her chest. It doesn't matter how many times she has watched these race starts, they still make her nervous. 

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you guys can NOT abbreviate "tis the damn season" as TTDS bc my dumb ass was reading these posts like "the tortured doets separtment"

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SPIRK, MY LOVE!!!!!

“… it felt as though a cold draft had entered the room when the door opened, and his shining moment had popped like a soap bubble.” HP7 - The Will of Albus Dumbledore 

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(book scene) Harry: You didn’t have to get me anything. Ginny: I didn’t know what would be useful. Nothing too big, because you wouldn’t be able to take it with you. So then I thought, I’d like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you meet some Veela when you’re off doing whatever you’re doing. Harry: I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest. Ginny: There’s the silver lining I’ve been looking for.

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STUDIO GHIBLI + NIGHT SKY

oresteia, robert icke / from the nebraska plant, the mountain goats / jayme ringleb, from “a little learning” / black sails / blue nights, joan didion / pentimento definition / myers’ psychology for the ap® course, c. nathan dewall and david meyers / pink, sylvie baumgartel / perforated heart, eric bogosian

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the dash is in tatters. please say something nice to the person you reblog this from. it's so sad to see you all so sad

not normal about orpheus and eurydice. you loved someone so much it opened the stones of the underworld. so much that death had to listen. so much that everything stopped for your love. so much that you turned around. so much that even when you did wrong. she forgave you.