Until death do us part

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Staring at his now dead wife being removed from the scene his world seemed to crumble like the foundations of his house. The crying child just now one jutting his lip out quivering. The thought of his mother's blonde hair only being young she felt almost like a distant memory. A thought in the back of his mind a face that would only be remembered through pictures and retelling of stories.

James looked around he didn't knew what to expect was this a cruel prank to make others laugh because he truest didn't know if a fake smile and one of his known contagious laughter could fix this one. He felt sick the thought of being this alone hadn't hit him yet. He wasn't going to be physically alone of course but in his mind the dangerous place it was the place were she belonged now as a memory. His heart hurt not like in the movies it was in actual pain he felt like it may never again be safe and healed from this searing pain.

Dropping to his knees he had hardly felt Harry being careful taken from him and two sets of arms being around him. Those sets of arms not stopping his skin from being burned off. The pure torture of his cries would stop anyone in there tracks but the truth was he hadn't even heard it. The people seemingly holding him together belonged to his brothers who had shared a look of pain. Not from there life long friend that they had lost a fellow marauder not from their sister that was lying dead eyes still open in fear of death and what would not just happen to her but the people she loved but for what would happen to her true love her first and only love that was screaming a pain that could only be told as horror. The three boys that were holding each other together but two that were not only frightened for their lives and the threat but for there other marauder that may not recover..... ever.

But be a shell a hole, a dark hole of the person he used to be the one that was with her.

The last memory of her was her staring eyes looking at him. Not her wrinkled aged skin. Ones that showed smile lines and those blue eyes that his son had their son. One that would be passed down to more generations because the whole world deserved to see those gleaming eyes that he had always lost himself in.

He had demanded even in a joking way at the time but, with full seriousness behind this facade. He demanded he was to go first because he couldn't live in a world where she did not belong. Where her beauty did not grace the world. She has argued that she could not either. But he was born first so he has known a world without her and that simply wasn't fair.

He began to laugh a cruel laugh. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin both turned to their friend in shock the pain on his face was gone the redness remained.

'You win' and then with what all fatal crashes do after the impact and the relief even for a second that you yourself are alive. You burn.

Because Brie had lived a life with James Potter a full life. For she had never not been on this planet alone. But James was only twenty one years old he has many more years to live. She died knowing that only twenty minutes before she had heard that truth those three cursed words. Some people say without thought. Some say in vain. But James Potter lived through those words and had never  had a reason to say them to her untruthfully.

'I love you'

But he no, he wouldn't hear those words flow like a stream out of her mouth again.

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Not until deaths sweet embrace would those words dripping like honey from her lips. Would he hear them again.

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