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Mary McDonald was obliviated in the middle of the war. They hadn’t the resources or money to even try to get her memory back, so they tried to do her the greatest kindness they could; They sent her to the muggle world with the hopes that she could survive. But faces kept coming to her in dreams, sometimes blurry, sometimes not. The eyes of the faces are always the same though. She can feel that they are beloved to her, or were at some point. And in everyone one of her dreams is a girl with flaming red hair and the prettiest green eyes. This one, she decides-this one was the most beloved of all.
One day, soon after Padfoot died, Remus Lupin is walking around the muggle world. He has been so lonely, so so lonely after all his friends have left him. He needed a reprieve, to get out of the house, if only for a hour. He wondered in muggle London until he stumbled upon an art gallery. He always has loved art, it’s one of the reasons he got along with Lily so well; she wanted to be a painter after all. As soon as he walks into the gallery, he freezes. His spectacles that were previously in his hand drop to the floor. His body wanted to do the same. There in the gallery staring back at him are all the ghosts he has walked with. There was James with his bright eyes and always messy hair. There was Peter with a round face and an innocence he only had before his late teens. There was Marlene her eyeliner smudged as it always was. There was Dorcas with her eyebrow piercing and a glint in her eye that reminded everyone why she was a Slytherin. There was Sirius. His dearest, beloved Sirius. But most of all there was Lily. They had been best friends before that horrible night that tore everything apart. The two of them sharing secrets they thought no one else could understand. She was his dearest friend. His closest confidant. But they were all up there, on the wall. And he was still down here below. Yes, he was on the floor now, collapsed in a puddle of limbs. Maybe this is where he would always stay: with his friends in the sky and him on the cursed earth. He could only hope to join them when his fight was done. Maybe it would be sooner than he hoped.