Title: Wondrous Paradise
Prompt: 'frightened' (kind of) for
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Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Bellatrix/Andromeda
Rating: PG
Word count: 250
Summary: What if Andromeda had never run away from home?
Years ago, Andromeda had made a choice. One day, she had simply walked out of her family house and never looked back. She'd married Ted Tonks and had a beautiful baby daughter. Her life had become a little easier, and a lot happier.
However, as we all know, the universe we live in is not the only one. There are, perhaps, a million. All we know is that in one of them, Andromeda chose differently.
)O(
She is strolling, a basket of flowers in her hand. Her face is bright: laughing, smiling. In her other hand, she grips the palm of another beautiful woman, a woman who looks astoundingly like her. They are skipping through a meadow which is positively overflowing with daisies, sunflowers, narcissi...
On the horizon, the sun is majestically setting, letting loose all the burning reds you could ever dream of. Near it, a rainbow stretches across the heavens, not caring that it's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Birds are twittering sweetly. A brook babbles pleasantly. Crickets are chirping so delightfully you would gladly take one home and listen to it all day.
Andromeda and Bellatrix skip off into the wondrous paradise. Their hands are gripping each other so tightly, their fingers have gone white. But it's all right. Because at least they still have something to hold on to.
)O(
In one of the dank cells of Azkaban, Andromeda stirs. As another Dementor sweeps towards her, she whimpers and clenches her eyes even more tightly.
)O(
Fin