Drabble: Lifetime
Prompt: Nostalgia
Title: Lifetime
Author: honourweasley12
Characters/Ship: Arthur/Molly
Rating/Warning: G
Word Count: 500
The sun is just starting to rise as you stifle a yawn, the tragedy of the past few days and the hard work over the previous weeks taking its toll on your sleeping habits. The heightened sense of awareness that is now second nature makes it difficult to truly rest. You fear for your family's safety constantly, especially the son who's abandoned you.
You momentarily push the disturbing thoughts away as you pad around your kitchen. You have something better to focus on-your eldest is getting married, and soon your home will be alive with activity.
There are so many details to worry about in order to make this day perfect for your son and daughter-in-law. As you begin gathering flowers and ribbons for the last of the centrepieces, you happen to glance out the window and see the man that has always been by your side, through everything.
Your lips form a smile as you stop to watch him. His tall, lanky form stands out against the dawn, the enthusiastic curiosity you hold dear ever present as he examines something in the garden's grass, where the rows of chairs soon will sit. He's always been beautiful in your eyes, and though his lovely ginger hair has thinned over time, it serves as a reminder of your wonderful years together.
You'll never forget the way he looked at you when you were bonded for life, like all of his dreams had come true. Strange as it may seem, your wedding was perfect, even if it wasn't how you imagined it.
Though you've been around magic your entire life, you felt a power that day unlike anything else you'd ever felt before. The joy, that sense of pure love, flowed through you when you made the vow to be with him for the rest of your life. When you realized he was your husband and you were his wife; that you would raise a family and grow old together.
How quickly the time had passed.
As you continue to ready the decorations, you let out a quiet laugh at the lavishness of this wedding compared to your own elopement. But then again, isn't that what you always wanted for your children, to give them the things you couldn't have? You were so in love and the world seemed so bleak-you did what you could to be happy, just like they are.
That's the only common element, you think grimly. Your own marriage and now your son's will be during the gloomiest of times, the blinding brightness of love cutting through the darkness.
You hear the creak of the door, and familiar arms wrap around your waist. You lean back and rest your head against his shoulder. It feels the same as it did when you were eighteen, and you know this will hold true when you're eighty.
That is the wish you have for your son and his bride-a lifetime full of love, just like you and yours.
Title: Lifetime
Author: honourweasley12
Characters/Ship: Arthur/Molly
Rating/Warning: G
Word Count: 500
The sun is just starting to rise as you stifle a yawn, the tragedy of the past few days and the hard work over the previous weeks taking its toll on your sleeping habits. The heightened sense of awareness that is now second nature makes it difficult to truly rest. You fear for your family's safety constantly, especially the son who's abandoned you.
You momentarily push the disturbing thoughts away as you pad around your kitchen. You have something better to focus on-your eldest is getting married, and soon your home will be alive with activity.
There are so many details to worry about in order to make this day perfect for your son and daughter-in-law. As you begin gathering flowers and ribbons for the last of the centrepieces, you happen to glance out the window and see the man that has always been by your side, through everything.
Your lips form a smile as you stop to watch him. His tall, lanky form stands out against the dawn, the enthusiastic curiosity you hold dear ever present as he examines something in the garden's grass, where the rows of chairs soon will sit. He's always been beautiful in your eyes, and though his lovely ginger hair has thinned over time, it serves as a reminder of your wonderful years together.
You'll never forget the way he looked at you when you were bonded for life, like all of his dreams had come true. Strange as it may seem, your wedding was perfect, even if it wasn't how you imagined it.
Though you've been around magic your entire life, you felt a power that day unlike anything else you'd ever felt before. The joy, that sense of pure love, flowed through you when you made the vow to be with him for the rest of your life. When you realized he was your husband and you were his wife; that you would raise a family and grow old together.
How quickly the time had passed.
As you continue to ready the decorations, you let out a quiet laugh at the lavishness of this wedding compared to your own elopement. But then again, isn't that what you always wanted for your children, to give them the things you couldn't have? You were so in love and the world seemed so bleak-you did what you could to be happy, just like they are.
That's the only common element, you think grimly. Your own marriage and now your son's will be during the gloomiest of times, the blinding brightness of love cutting through the darkness.
You hear the creak of the door, and familiar arms wrap around your waist. You lean back and rest your head against his shoulder. It feels the same as it did when you were eighteen, and you know this will hold true when you're eighty.
That is the wish you have for your son and his bride-a lifetime full of love, just like you and yours.