#the prophets intervened or some shit idk

[scifiisforgirlsgaystheys]

Bashir and Garak should have raised Janeway and Paris’s lizard babies.

I will not be taking any constructive criticism at this time.

Thank you.

[severusdefender]

Back on my '2 Gryffs & a Slyth Walk Into a Traincar AU' Bullshit again (lol)

So like, I just figured that the mystery of Lily’s Empty Grave could be an interesting adventure that might drag former AU friends Remus and Severus back together before realizing that Lily is alive again.

Remus happens to be eking out a temporary living in or nearby Godric’s Hollow, where Lily was buried next to James (which Remus was left wondering if she had iced him [Remus] out in the end too bc he was left way outta the loop, those Daily Prophet rumors be strong despite being total lies). And I already HC that Severus visits the grave periodically to not only mourn but hate himself, expert multitasker that he is.

But Severus visits the grave again, not at his usual time, because he got a mysterious package (idk, like a box of Lily’s things? Addressed to “Severus Snape or Remus Lupin, in the Event of my Untimely Demise” which was never sent until Something got involved) handdelivered by a strangely normal man (Lily’s FaeDad) before he just… Fooshes away quietly like Batman, unnerving Severus.

And then they both run into each other, and there’s no buffer here, just… Raw, old hurts and bad blood and what could’ve (spoiler: will be, but not yet) been. It’s barely civil, and shows signs of devolving into a loud fight (because Severus would still token fight back at least, but not like he hates Remus or anything), but the first time they’ve spoken in a long time for them. But then something’s amiss, the mud that had barely filled in the over the broken bits of the coffin gets stepped on, and the ground just collapses. 

Can’t really decide who falling into the grave would be better, Remus or Severus. If Remus falls in, Severus is Still Concerned for his (former) friend, like he’s afraid that the man’s broken an ankle or leg and post-1stWar!Severus out of his scripted comfort zone is always good. But if it’s Severus who falls in, and Remus has a moment where he’s immediately concerned for the former friend, before catching himself as he’s pulling Severus outta the grave. And Severus notices it spark and immediately ebb away and it’s extremely bittersweet on both sides because these morons are affection-starved af, but both pretend that the other didn’t see anything regardless of who falls in. Thoughts?

Then they realize that the Grave is Empty, and that the enchantments on the coffin have been destroyed (& Lily’s wand is missing, another detail Sev later brings up). And suddenly it’s just this mystery that the both of them have to solve together, who stole their friend’s body and for what (probably dark) purpose? 

Shipping Ahead: Watch as Remus and Severus, old former friends who ended badly, get prickly with one another, but are forced to work together because they can’t/don’t trust the Wizarding authorities or public with this at all. And then the Mutual P I N I N G starts on top of their complicated baggage and raw hurt and everything just hurts so GOOD.

X'3

All the while, a distressed and confused FaeLily is wandering the English countryside & towns like a strange, magical hobo with amnesia, leaving small ripples of chaos in her wake, trying to figure out wtf is going on, how to get a grip on her magical superpowers and helping literally every distressed child she sees like some wrathful Fairy Godmother ripped from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, because Fae and Fae logic. Maybe some accidental curse-breaking and sorta Eldritch horror-type adventures, but generally let’s explore some of the magic that’s in the Muggle World because I think the Wizard-centric Ideology is dumb and needs to go lol.

Maybe like, her FaeDad acts like a… Detached trickster mentor figure? He’s pretty hands-off for the most part, and doesn’t intervene unless dragged in or invoked directly (which FaeLily doesn’t remember rn, both while “Dead” and Alive both times). But his motives are pretty ambiguous and he isn’t a fuzzy figure either, but resurrected Lily is still an interesting investment, so he’s… Watching his kid (despite being an adult, he’s a Fae, she’s YOUNG in comparison) find her feet without his help, while occasionally trying to herd her toward where Harry would be.

(Or maybe uses her like a strategic catspaw to deal with some of his local enemies/nuisances in the Fae/Magical realm without her knowing? Some sort of longgame probably in the works.)

But consider, in this way, Lily’s learning to be “Fae,” while wandering on her own, having occasional nightmares of her former life and some of the inbetween time wherever tf she spent “being Dead.” Her logic and actions are driven by survival and impulse, along with her need to find out what happened to her and who even IS her? She drifts away from human societal norms and moral-paradigms, making her own decisions and observations of this strange and unfamiliar world around her. 

Maybe toss in some international evil wizards too, like, okay so Voldemort’s Civil War that he started might have started to build at least a little traction outside the UK? Not a lot, mind you, but perhaps some like former Grindelwalder-esque peeps who went to ground, because racist rich people tend to flock together? And Voldemort would’ve probably been seen as a good bludgeon that some arrogant douche probably thought they could easily remove when he was done sacking the country, or a weapon-ally-of-convenience to point at their enemies in the name of their cause.

Separately, FaeLily and the Snupin Detectives clash with these wizards, who are doing a Plot, which I haven’t quite sussed out what exactly, but it’s probably bad for everybody in the future, though. Thoughts?

Anyways, back to detectives Remus & Severus! But for a while, just keep barely missing her once they finally get on the trail. In the meantime, OH HOW THEY PINE! THE BAGGAGE! THE DRAMA! THE S U F F E R I N G~! The moments of accidental fluff and bittersweet remembrance of good times, both Remus’ & Sev’s self-hatred, their regrets, the misunderstandings, the old chemistry sparking to life again, THE GUILT over accidental fluffy moments. And alllllll that Mutual Self-Denial. Delicious.

Severus is still concerned over his friend’s apparent dedication to not bothering his still-alive and (possibly? Sev doesn’t know really) not-shitty father, Lyall Lupin, that Remus would rather suffer and be in danger and a possible danger to others in a roulette of circumstance instead. Remus is trying to keep himself from trying to unravel whatever tf is going on with Severus, because he’s like, not entirely sure of Sev’s loyalties, or that Severus flipped because Dumbledore didn’t tell Remus shit for some reason (security?) and Severus isn’t expositing for shit. Just give me these two broken-hearted and damaged morons trying so hard to pretend they don’t care and fail, but deny it up and down until FaeLily decides that she ships it and decides to intervene later.

Then suddenly their dealing with more bad magic-users and strange occurrences, all the while on the trail of… Something (FaeLily). But the tension is growing between them, and they’re still not communicating very well either (also poverty, because poverty sucks, also I’m really down for the HC that Severus owes Lucius money for a loan he took for his Mastery from TAB). Then Remus & Sev finally stumble into some misadventure, expecting to find a thief or another wizard criminal or Plot involving their friend’s corpse for a ritual of some kind or worse.

But then they come face to face with FaeLily, who doesn’t know who the fuck-diddley they are, alive. What a twist~

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That’s very interesting esp with the inclusion of Lily’s Fae father. I think Severus should fall in  just for the horror of thinking he was lying on his dead best friend’s body but there’s nothing. Maybe the plot could have something to do with wizards trying to steal Fae magic to subjugate the world