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✨GC With No Name✨
Sirius: Hey guys, wAnNa hang out today? Me, Remus, Dorcas, and Marlene we’re gonna head to the park or something
Mary: Sure, sounds fun!
Jade: Me and Logan are in
Alice: Frank is still out on a Mission but should be back soon. I’ll see if he wants to go when he gets back
Sirius: Are you coming Pete?
Peter: I can’t today, sorry
Marlene: Laaaaameee
Lily: Sorry Siri, me and James can’t make it
Sirius: You guys get married and now you got no time for fun?
Lily: We’d love to come but we’re visiting James’ parents today. They haven’t been feeling well since the wedding
Dorcas: I thought the healer said they were fine at there appointment on Tuesday?
Lily: They did, but their health, Fleamonts especially, has been acting up again.
We’re gonna go visit them while the healer is over and take them in again if the healer thinks it’s needed
Sirius: Do you guys want me to come with you, see if there okay?
James: I’m sure Mum would love that Pads, but until we know what’s wrong the healer we called this morning said the less interaction the best
I’ll keep you updated
Marlene: Hope they both feel better soon!
Mary: Same, sending love to you two and your parents James!
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James and Lily walked into the Potter Manor, hand in hand as Lily could tell James needed that bit of comfort right now.
“Mum, Dad we’re here!” James called out, setting down his coat and looking in the living room.
Euphemia and Fleamont were sitting at the table together, a tall, brunette man was examining the pair.
“Hello James, and you Aswell Lily, dear.” Effie greeted, sounding off, not like her usual self.
“How you feeling Mum?” James asked, letting go of Lily’s hand and trying to walk over, but the man stopped him.
James was confused, but Effie just gave him another smile, and he was already feeling his stomach drop. He didn’t have a good feeling of this at all, and he just hoped his gut instincts were wrong.
“What’s wrong with them, Monsieur…” Lily started to ask the healer, but didn’t know his name.
“John, just call me John.” He said with a sigh, standing up and motioning for the young couple to come into the front room.
“How bad is it..?” James asked as soon as they were out of earshot. He really wanted to hope deep down it wasn’t bad, but he kept the mindset of expecting the worst.
“Do you happen to know if you parents have come into contact with Peruvian Vipertooth lately?” John asked both of them, accioing his clipboard over with a quick flick of his wand.
“Um… I’m not sure what that is.”
“It’s a type of Dragon.” Lily told him softly, holding his hand again.
“Well uh.. no, I don’t believe so? But even if I didn’t I wouldn’t be sure. Rather then the wedding and going to Mungos earlier in the week, they haven’t left the Manor rather then for a one day trip I think I heard Mum talking about. Why?”
John gave another sigh, looking back to Effie and Fleamont and to the couple again. “Im surprised they hadn’t been diagnosed when they came in earlier the week with how much it’s already spread, but it seems your parents have a condition called Dragon Pox.”
Lily let out a long and quiet gasp, and covered one hand to her mouth. She had tried to stop it as soon as it came out, but was failing poorly. Well what’s that?” James asked, worried, never have hearing of the condition before.
“Dragon Pox is a disease, a contagious dangerous disease that causes rashes and/or irration to the skin making it green and purple. That is the main symptom both your parents are showing.”
James looked up at his parents and tried to make his way back over, but John stopped him. “I’m sorry Mr. Potter but I’m afraid you can’t go over there.”
“What do you mean?” James said, many emotions coming over him and his anger starting to show. “I need to go check on them and make sure there okay!”
“James,” Lily said, grabbing his hand and calming his down again.
“Dragon Pox like I said is very contagious, but.. is also fatal.”
“Fatal?!” James yelled, worry and that tinge over anger still in his tone.
“It’s not safe for you to be around your parents right now to up close, but I also recommend you now not stay near others for awhile till we can get all four of you properly tested since you’ve been exposed. I would have let you know this earlier but I got here just a bit before you did to see.”
“Are you going to admit them into St Mungos?” Lily asked, rubbing James’s knuckles with her fingers trying to calm and sooth him.
“They will need to be taken into care as soon as possible given how far their symptoms are sitting in.”
James wasn’t sure what to say now, and felt as if he was gonna be sick. His fathers health hadn’t been the best for awhile sure, but both of them getting sick all a sudden was so much and he truly had the feeling of thinking he was gonna lose his parents. He had always had thoughts of being sad when thinking what he would do if his parents had even passed when he was a kid given there age, but now he could actually be losing them and it was the worst feeling in the world.
“We can take them in, get you all tested and then we’ll go from there and do the best we can..” John said, trying the best he could to give the two some light and hope in the situation.
They both nodded and followed the John as they prepared to head out to Mungos, but there was an unspoken agreement of feelings about the situation between the two, and they felt little of that hope at all.
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2 Days Later
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“You boys don’t have to stay here, you need to go home and rest.” Effie said, speaking to the boys through the glass wall that separated them from the older couple in the room.
“Mum I already told you, I’m staying the night and nothing you say will change that.” James said, leaning against the wall.
“Yeah, and I’ll try and stay for as long as I can before me and Remus have to go..” Sirius said with a smile, trying to keep strong.
In a matter of only two days, Effie and Fleamont condition got worse. The extensive treatments and care they were given wasn’t working, and the Healers said there wasn’t much they could do now. The healers told them it would be best to get their goodbyes and anything they wanted to say out now as John wasn’t sure how the two would do through the night.
Remus and Sirius had driven over in the morning and spent the whole day with Effie and Fleamont, and seeing Sirisu give his goodbyes was something James couldn’t bare to think he would have to do.
Eventually, Remus and Sirius had to go since they had stuff going on the next morning the Order wouldn’t let them skip (“Inconsiderate Bastards” Sirius had said along with a series of swears, to which Effie scolded him for even in her current state.)
It was 11 at night, and it was just James, Lily, and his parents. James knew he would have to give his goodbyes, he just didn’t know how. His parents were his everything, and he wasn’t ready to let go.
“You looked so cute in your old Jumpers I would knit you…” Effie said, smiling as James scrolled through old photo memories with her.
“I was an ugly baby…” James laughed a bit.
“I mean.. can’t argue with that.” Effie said sarcastically. James looked to her offended and Effie just have a weak laughed, and laid on her side, looking quite tired. “I’m kidding dear, don’t worry.”
“I mean… we’re you?” Fleamont added weakly, giving a small chuckle himself. They all laughed and scrolled through more photos before Lily eventually tapped James on the shoulder.
“James, can we talk?” She asked.
James looked to his parents then back at her and nodded. “I’ll be right back Mum and Dad…”
James slowly walked I’m away from the glass wall and leaned against the normal wall of the hallways they stood in. “What’s up.”
“James,” Lily started, grabbing his hand. “I know this is hard and I know you don’t want to, but you gotta say your goodbyes and get this all out…”
James sighed and looked away from her, but she pulled him back and gave him a serious look. “James, it’s hard I know, I promise I do I felt the same way with my Dad when he passed, but if you don’t say your goodbyes now you are gonna regret it.”
James sniffed a bit, his throat going dry and his eyes starting to water and he shook his head in denial. “Lily I can’t do this.. I-I can’t.. I’m not ready to say goodbye I can’t…”
She cupped his face in her hand and wiped the tears off his cheek, giving him a few kisses. “James, I know you don’t want to to this, and It’s gonna suck, it’ll really, really suck and probably be one of the hardest things you’ve ever done, but this could be your last chance of saying goodbye…”
James stood in silence, millions of thoughts raking his head as he had to come to his senses of the situation.
He took a deep breath, and nodded, wiping his remaining tears away, pulling away from the hug. “Your right… your right and I will.. I’m ready now.”
“You sure?” She asked
“No, but I know I need to..”
She frowned, and gave his hand a tight squeeze as she grabbed it and they walked back to the room.
As they approached, reality hit James, and it hit hard. He looked at them and for the first time realized how miserable and I’ll his parents looked in their current state. He felt his throat get tight, painful to a point and how his legs wanted to shake and make him collapse, yet didn’t move at all.
“I wanna go in, and talk to them…” James said, firmly.
“Jamie we can’t,” Lily started, but James shook his head and cut her off.
“Lily, I’m not gonna say goodbye to my parents and have our possible last interaction be through a glass wall.
She opened her mouth to say something, but sighed and nodded her head. “Alright… Alright let me go ask John…”
After much back and fourth, convincing, and straight up pleading, John let James enter the room. He put on his mask and wore a certain protection charm, and slowly walked over to his parents.
“James what are you doing in her?!” Euphemia scowled, trying to sit up.
“Mamma stop, lay back down.” James said, quickly walking over and tucking her back in. “You need to rest and stay in bed.
“You shouldn’t be in here, Josh said we can’t be around others, it’ll spread. And I especially don’t wanna give this to you my boy..”
“It’s John, Mum.” James told her, ignoring everything else. “How are.. you guys feeling.”
“Well better now that I can actually see my boy and not through that damned glass.” Fleamont said, crossing his arms.
James couldn’t help but let out a small laugh. “Well, that’s good then i guess Pops..”
There was a silence in the room, and James didn’t dare try and break it for a long time, hoping his Dad would crack a joke or his Mum would try and start up conversation like she always does, but they didn’t. James took a long, shaky breath and opened his mouth.
“I uh… I just want you guys to know I love you guys… so much. Like uh… sooo much.” James told them, his throat getting tighter and tears beginning to form in his eyes.
Effie gave him a soft, sad smile, and patted on her bed for him to sit. He slowly walked over and sat next to her, taking her hand when she reached out to him.
“My boy, your Father and I love you, so much and we are so proud of the man you have become.” He looked over to his dad and he nodded in agreement. “You have been the best thing that has ever come into our lives, and we have been so lucky to have you my boy. You have grown and changed so much, and we couldn’t be more proud of the man you have become. You have a lovely wife, and lovely home, lovely friends, and a lovely second family you found in them. I don’t know what else you will do in your life my boy, but I know it’ll be just as wonderful as everything else.”
What she was saying wasn’t making the most of sense, as towards the end she was rambling and just saying encouragements, but it still was his push over and the tears began to fall. He couldn’t stop the loud sob that escaped his mouth, and the tears fell onto his mother’s blanket.
“My boy,” Effie said wiping the tears from his cheek. “You are going to be just fine…”
Fleamont nodded as well, and looked over to the doorway. There stood one of the Blonde Healers he had seen earlier. “Sorry to interrupt, but I need to take Mr. Potter.”
This was it, James thought, this was his last chance to say goodbye. He stood up, and walked over to his Dad who was already being helped up by the Healer.
“Sir-“ she started, but James didn’t care
He pulled his Dad into a hug, careful not to squeeze tight, and cried into his shoulder. Fleamont hugged back after a minute and ruffled his sons hair.
“I love you so much, old man..”
Fleamont laughed and patted his son on the back. “I love you to son, I love you to…”
James pulled back after the Healer said they had to go, and James stood up straight and wiped his tears.
“Goodbye Dad…”
Fleamont frowned and pulled his son in, one last time. Reality of seeing his son having to say goodbye to him hitting him to. Fleamont kissed the top his his head and ruffled his hair one last time. “You’re gonna be just fine on your own my boy..”
They walked out of the room, and Lily entered. She quickly moved into to hug and hold her husband as he now cried into her shoulder. He didn’t wanna believe he had just said goodbye, that that could be one of their last interactions, last I love yous, last hug. He needed his Dad in his life, and now he already felt long gone and pulled away from him.
“I know, I know…” Lily said softly, holding him in her arms and kissing his cheek time to time, rubbing his back and giving small encouragements.
Suddenly, he heard John curse and the Blonde lady yelling, and John with 3 healers entered the room.
“What’s going on?” Lily asked, them being pushed away from the room by one of the new healers.
“Ma’am we need you in your Husband to get out, now please.”
James quickly let go of Lily and spun around to look at his Mother. John and a tall dark skinned healer were now surrounding Euphemia, and James felt his heart drop.
“W-What’s wrong with her!” James yelled, trying to walk over to his Mother. He was pushed again by the healer and Lily had to step in the middle of them, James doing everything in his power to get over there.
“Please, we need you both out. Just let us do our job.” The healer said again, pushing James and Lily out, and shutting the door, the glass going tinted and not able to be seen through.
“Wait stop let me back in!” James yelled desperately hitting the door.
“James…” Lily stuttered, her voice blocked by tears in her eyes now.
“I haven’t gotten to say goodbye to her, I haven’t gotten to give her a final hug, I haven’t gotten to say goodbye!”
He kept yelling that until a Healer form another room came over to help Lily try and calm him down.
By the time they were let back into the room, and all the Aurora had clear out except John, James never got to say his final goodbye.
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Hehe I cried making this so enjoy some pain </3
The second half of MEIS ain’t here with much fluff sorry guys 🤷🏼♀️
