@jilychallenge | Partner: @flowersgrowback | January 2023: Firsts, Promises and New Beginnings
Prompt: First date - “I want you so bad it hurts” / “Promise you’ll see me again?”
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All and all can only fall (with a crashing but meaningless blow)
Lily Evans is not a religious person. Her faith in a God long ago discarded, scattered to the winds.
James Potter makes her want to have faith. He has helped her rediscover goodness in the world, in people, with random acts of kindness and delicate kneading away of pain and tension held on her shoulders.
If she is Atlas, holding the weight of a world which does not want her, in any capacity, then he is Hercules, offering to help carry a burden, trying to aid her. He could be her God.