This is written for Jenny, happy birthday! (for next year, I think) I hope you'll like it.
Teddy/Lily with the prompt Friendship Bracelets.
The title is from Victor Hugo quote: "Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus ; après la philosophie, il faut l'action ; la vive force achève ce que l'idée a ébauché."
Thank you to Schermionie for the corrections and for reading everything I write even if she doesn't like it!
They are like friendship bracelets,
strong and colourful,
they come in a pair.
Complementary.
Lily so calculated
yet always the sweetest,
and Teddy always so steady
yet the rougher of the two.
/
They are like friendship bracelets,
he knows that they'll never break
(and, honestly, it pains him.)
they're forever and ever together
(as friends)
-that's what she claims-
he's forever and ever lonely
-that's what he knows-
-that's how he feels-
/
He wants more than those friendship bracelets.
She doesn't.
He tells her, and like his mother before,
he wants something that is forbidden to him,
wrong for him (apparently)
he tries to reason with her, nothing is wrong with love.
/
And he watches her say NO to him repeatedly
she isn't even kind when she says it,
she wants to mark her words
and oh! how they mark
(they are painfully engraved on his heart)
/
Still, they are friends
and it's him she comes to see when she's in pain.
Which happens often,
boy troubles
job troubles
family troubles
Family Troubles.
/
She feels like an outcast,
she admits to him a night.
The Slytherin with Percy as a favourite uncle
feels like a stranger in her family,
she wonders what she can do.
/
You can't choose your family
and there are rules to follow to be a part of such a clan.
it's not like she has a standard to maintain
-but it feels very much like it-
and working with Draco Malfoy kind of breaks it.
/
She nods and (she thinks) she understands
and in the dead of the night she goes away
from him, from them, from everyone.
/
He misses her terribly,
they all miss her terribly
but with time they understand.
(and it's their fault in a way.)
/
It's moping and suffering for Teddy
-he admits that maybe friendship was enough-
because life without her is_
he wonders if he could have stopped her
but he knows he couldn't have.
He writes to her
and, in his dreams,
he goes to look for her wherever she is.
(and she accepts him)
He dreams.
Until he wakes up, and knows what to do.
/
He looks for her, for real
(with the risk for more bruises)
and when he finally finds her
he doesn't give her a choice.
/
With a kiss he cuts the bracelets
and with a kiss his dream comes true.