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Lauren curled her lip. "What? Are you like, retarded?"
"Yes," I said, unironically. "I have autism."
The chatter of those sitting at our lunch table suddenly died and they stared at me with varying levels of discomfort.
Jessica laughed nervously. "You’re joking, right?"
I turned to her, staring somewhere above her shoulder. "No."
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In one universe, James is honest, and he asks Lily to marry him in 1979. They love each other, sure, but James knows it's worse than that. Deep down, it’s just that they are desperate to live - to live before they die. And so, James smiles when Lily cries and promises “forever,” when he kisses her and Sirius whoops and snaps a photograph, everytime he knows that she can’t keep that promise. He’s right, they don’t get forever. They don’t even get three years.
In another universe, James acts similarly, and yet, he is so, so different. He knows Sirius Black long before they meet by chance again on the Hogwarts train, and he keeps a horrible secret. When Lily asks him if he wants to marry her in 1978, James knows this might just be because she just feels so, so alone, because she is aching from the absence of her sister, of another boy with dark hair, absolutely brilliant at potions, who used to be such an impossibly unshakable presence in her - their, he supposes, really - life. He must stay silent for too long because she laughs it off awkwardly and tells him to think about it with a wink. He sits every Sunday evening in the Janus Thickley ward, and he thinks about it.
Part 5 of Oblivion-verse!
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- Part 5 of Oblivion-verse
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17 Aug 2025
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In one universe, Remus sees very well, but he says nothing. Not about himself until Albus Dumbledore is standing on his doorstep, not about Sirius and James until they almost kill Snape, not about Peter as he begins to drift ever so subtly away. In another universe, Severus Snape is not on the train to Hogwarts, Lily refuses to talk about it, her sister is missing, and Remus tries very hard not to think about what all that could mean. Well, that is, until he receives a letter.
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Sequel to Oblivion, Occlusion, etc., which you might want to read for context/characterizations.
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- Part 4 of Oblivion-verse
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12 Aug 2025
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In one universe, Petunia and Severus made mistakes, leading to the pain of a child who never deserved it. In another universe, Petunia and Severus made a different, perhaps milder misstep; Petunia walked away lighter, unburdened by her family, her extraordinary sister, and magic, and Severus walked away determined to escape a war he'd die in, his lips burning from the light kiss she pressed to them. But, how do you really escape a war? A brunette muggle girl contemplated the weather, a black-haired halfblood sat for an admissions interview, and a blond pureblood sighed as he walked to the ministry of magic.
The logistics of Petunia's and Severus's disappearances, described via two disjoint POVs from the aftermath of Oblivion/Occlusion (which probably won’t make sense without reading the previous parts of the series).
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- Part 3 of Oblivion-verse
Bookmarked by Mary863
11 Aug 2025
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In one universe, Severus spends weeks, months, years trying to apologize to Lily after the incident in their fifth year. Every failed attempt just forces him deeper into an anguished pool of anger, regret, and fear, which leads to an escalating series of bad decisions. In another universe, Severus obliviates Lily's sister.
Sequel to Oblivion! (The premise and the characterizations will probably be more compelling after reading the previous part.)
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There's cover art now! : https://at.tumblr.com/theordinalrabbit/i-just-had-the-oddest-sense-that-i-knew-you/6epao7pz4p2j
+ thank you so much for 100 kudos on Oblivion! <3
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- Part 2 of Oblivion-verse
Bookmarked by Mary863
11 Aug 2025