It doesn't come out. Of course it doesn't, it couldn't. His mother is dead and the look on his face would have been better suited for someone dragged behind a car to Tesco instead of driving there, and she can't make this be about that. For all the conversations she'd imagined them having, that apology, or the demand for one anyway, played a central role. He had thrown her off, appearing like this, the grudge she was inclined to stoke on occasion suddenly foisted to the backburner. His question had stoked a fire she was trying to keep cold.
It was too difficult to see him this sad. Anger didn't stand a chance - at least, not with Lily Evans, not right now.
"You came back," was what came out in place of that single demand that she felt she had all the right in the world to make. She had expected him to turn and disappear and that he hadn't made her chest tighten unexpectedly. If they had been normal people she would have hugged him - if she had been a normal person she wouldn't have said something as silly as that.
"No," Lily tacked on abruptly. "I don't want anything else." Blindly she reached for the nearest wine bottle on the shelf beside her, her eyes narrowing just slightly at the corners as she watched his face while she did so.
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It doesn't come out. Of course it doesn't, it couldn't. His mother is dead and the look on his face would have been better suited for someone dragged behind a car to Tesco instead of driving there, and she can't make this be about that. For all the conversations she'd imagined them having, that apology, or the demand for one anyway, played a central role. He had thrown her off, appearing like this, the grudge she was inclined to stoke on occasion suddenly foisted to the backburner. His question had stoked a fire she was trying to keep cold.
It was too difficult to see him this sad. Anger didn't stand a chance - at least, not with Lily Evans, not right now.
"You came back," was what came out in place of that single demand that she felt she had all the right in the world to make. She had expected him to turn and disappear and that he hadn't made her chest tighten unexpectedly. If they had been normal people she would have hugged him - if she had been a normal person she wouldn't have said something as silly as that.
"No," Lily tacked on abruptly. "I don't want anything else." Blindly she reached for the nearest wine bottle on the shelf beside her, her eyes narrowing just slightly at the corners as she watched his face while she did so.