Fated Sidestories

SnowyScales

Sky Mother

Lily Evans believed in marrying the person you fell in love with, not the person your Words said you should. She certainly did not have a good impression of her soulmate, with the bright green Hey, baby, how about you dump this loser and date me instead? written on her skin. (James wondered what he was going to say, with his How about you get lost.)

She always envied Severus for being a Blank. He didn't have the entire world pressuring him to get together with the one who spoke his Words. (Severus Snape wasn't a Blank. He found his soulmate in a little girl with bright green eyes and bright red hair, whose Hi, I'm Lily, who are you? were written on his wrist in bright orange. He hid his Words, because while Lily Evans might have been his soulmate… he was unfortunately not hers.)

(If he had been, his reply on her skin would have been in purple.)

The idea that James Potter was her soulmate disgusted her. How could she be soulmates with that insufferable smug bullying toe-rag? She spent her time quite happily ignoring him and spending time mediating between Severus and her friend Alice. With Severus being extremely introverted and Alice being extremely extroverted, they tended to get into quite a few fight. But she always felt somewhat at peace when they were near.

When Severus called her "mudblood" and cursed at her for trying to help him… something inside her seemed to shatter. She spent days after crying until she puked. (It wasn't the crying that made her vomit.)

When her seventh year started, something about James Potter had changed. He was more studious, and played less cruel pranks, and no longer acted like a bully.

Something inside of her said, quietly burning, 'Ah, yes, finally. This one is worthy.'

She started spending more time with him and his friends. After a while, she felt like she was with family. Like several great holes in her being had been filled.

James swept her off her feet with all the suddenness of a lightning bolt; while Sirius was like a storm, forever messy and leaving chaos and destruction in his wake wherever he went; and Remus was a calming voice of reason in the quest to curb the exuberance of James and Sirius.

Lily never liked Peter, though. He had always seemed sneaky, slimy, and untrue to her – even though he had never acted in any suspicious way. There was just something about him that she intrinsically hated.

Lily Potter died wreathed in orange flames, protecting the life of a son she loved near to distraction, a son who was also wreathed in orange flame.


so, Lily as a Sky, Severus as a Cloud, James as a Lightning, Sirius as a Storm, Remus as a Rain, Peter is a Mist, and Alice Longbottom as a Sun. Lily never trusted Peter enough to bond him as a Guardian, and her bond with Severus was severed in 5th year.