10_letters prompt: forever.
Who: Adam Weasley
Recipient: Grace Rosier Crouch
HP Beyond Timeline
Note: Grace would be the only one to see this letter unless she decided to show it someone else.
Prompt: 10_letters 10 Forever.
Dear Grace,
I know I was just a small boy when everything initially unraveled with you and Mr. Crouch. It took me years to understand what Emma Grace immediately grasped and what Barty might not have ever fully understood. You’re not in love with your husband the way you perceive a wife ought to be. Sure, he’s not a bad man and he’s not done wrong by you ever, but he’s not the man who can anticipate your every breathe be it of sorrow or of pleasure. He’s not the man who calls you Gracie with such adoration that it’s obvious he’d do anything to see you smile.
Mr. Crouch never left you wanting or in need, he would not have let you get lost or feel inadequate but it is beyond his ability to give you everything you need and deserve. Try as he might, he cannot be Evan nor can he love you like Evan. This fact might be beyond my father in law’s comprehension but it was important for me to explain to you that it is not beyond mine. The way I will always treat your daughter will reflect this, until the day I die.
I know that you have grown accustomed to functioning in sheer misery and each time I think of that grief pulls at me from many directions. I wonder if Mr. Crouch simply cannot see this or if he just doesn’t know how to change it. I do know this, Grace. You are a good wife. You cannot love your husband fully and that is no fault of your own. The way I see it, it is more of a fault of Mr. Crouch’s that he cannot love you enough to see what you have done for his happiness. The way that Evan behaves in all of this, the way he treats Barty with respect and friendship while watching Barty deprive his true love shows such strength. It embarrasses me to admit that I’m not sure I could ever match it.
Your daughter Emma Grace is my light in this world, Grace. She is my sense of tomorrow, my sense of hope and of sorrow, of joy and of hardship. I know that should she ever die I would not want to go on. Should she ever die I would gladly let a dementor kiss me to ease the pain, I would gladly become a Monk or even cause my own death. Without her there would be no life in me. I imagine this is how you felt when it appeared that Evan was dead. To find another man who wanted to love you like Mr. Crouch must have felt like a hot shower, like an analgesic to soothe the pain of being without Evan. You had beautiful children, a decent life together. Still it was without true love, the kind you had once found, the kind I have in your daughter. I can’t understand how Mr. Crouch thinks, I honestly can’t. I see that are you miserable and it hurts. I’ve thought about it so much, and I cannot understand how someone loves you can’t understand that you need Evan, you don’t want to hurt anyone but he is who you need. I love Emma Grace so much that I have consciously come to the decision that should we ever be in this situation I would encourage her to be with the man she needs, to do what makes her happy. It would be hard to be without her, but it would be worse to see her unhappy, especially if the reasons were so clear and easy to change.
I never think of you as anything but remarkable, Grace. I guess I just wanted you to know that.
Respectfully and with love,
Your son in law.
Adam Ginevro Weasley.
Recipient: Grace Rosier Crouch
HP Beyond Timeline
Note: Grace would be the only one to see this letter unless she decided to show it someone else.
Prompt: 10_letters 10 Forever.
Dear Grace,
I know I was just a small boy when everything initially unraveled with you and Mr. Crouch. It took me years to understand what Emma Grace immediately grasped and what Barty might not have ever fully understood. You’re not in love with your husband the way you perceive a wife ought to be. Sure, he’s not a bad man and he’s not done wrong by you ever, but he’s not the man who can anticipate your every breathe be it of sorrow or of pleasure. He’s not the man who calls you Gracie with such adoration that it’s obvious he’d do anything to see you smile.
Mr. Crouch never left you wanting or in need, he would not have let you get lost or feel inadequate but it is beyond his ability to give you everything you need and deserve. Try as he might, he cannot be Evan nor can he love you like Evan. This fact might be beyond my father in law’s comprehension but it was important for me to explain to you that it is not beyond mine. The way I will always treat your daughter will reflect this, until the day I die.
I know that you have grown accustomed to functioning in sheer misery and each time I think of that grief pulls at me from many directions. I wonder if Mr. Crouch simply cannot see this or if he just doesn’t know how to change it. I do know this, Grace. You are a good wife. You cannot love your husband fully and that is no fault of your own. The way I see it, it is more of a fault of Mr. Crouch’s that he cannot love you enough to see what you have done for his happiness. The way that Evan behaves in all of this, the way he treats Barty with respect and friendship while watching Barty deprive his true love shows such strength. It embarrasses me to admit that I’m not sure I could ever match it.
Your daughter Emma Grace is my light in this world, Grace. She is my sense of tomorrow, my sense of hope and of sorrow, of joy and of hardship. I know that should she ever die I would not want to go on. Should she ever die I would gladly let a dementor kiss me to ease the pain, I would gladly become a Monk or even cause my own death. Without her there would be no life in me. I imagine this is how you felt when it appeared that Evan was dead. To find another man who wanted to love you like Mr. Crouch must have felt like a hot shower, like an analgesic to soothe the pain of being without Evan. You had beautiful children, a decent life together. Still it was without true love, the kind you had once found, the kind I have in your daughter. I can’t understand how Mr. Crouch thinks, I honestly can’t. I see that are you miserable and it hurts. I’ve thought about it so much, and I cannot understand how someone loves you can’t understand that you need Evan, you don’t want to hurt anyone but he is who you need. I love Emma Grace so much that I have consciously come to the decision that should we ever be in this situation I would encourage her to be with the man she needs, to do what makes her happy. It would be hard to be without her, but it would be worse to see her unhappy, especially if the reasons were so clear and easy to change.
I never think of you as anything but remarkable, Grace. I guess I just wanted you to know that.
Respectfully and with love,
Your son in law.
Adam Ginevro Weasley.