Book 1: Nepenthe
Book 2: Halcyon
For those that survived the war and carried on, happiness was waiting for them just around the corner, they simply had to find it. For James Potter, it took a wrong turn to end him in the right place where he met Ren...
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Just when Renata believed that the night had already come to a perfect end with the two of them sharing in several dances after having a private dinner, she soon discovered that the night was still not over. As she sat beside James in the booth, sharing in some dessert of ice cream with plenty of topics, she watched as James pulled out a mirror from the pocket of his invisibility cloak.
"Do you need to freshen up a bit?" she asked, half joking, half confused as to why he was carrying around a mirror. With a laugh, James decided to let the mirror itself answer her question as he turned it to face her. She glanced at her reflection for a couple of seconds, before she watched as the glass seemed to be morphing before her very eyes and then shortly after, Sirius appeared. Suddenly, she jumped, nearly dropping the mirror from her hand as she certainly didn't expect him to appear and it seemed that James had anticipated her reaction as he swiftly caught the mirror before it fell.
He held it up and greeted Sirius with a smile while Renata leaned over to see the interaction between the two.
"I'm going to hope that she was just surprised by the magic behind this mirror and that she wasn't that frightened of my face," Sirius' voice echoed into the restaurant, " anyways, did she say yes?"
James' chest puffed out proudly, sitting a little straighter and lifting his chin up high. "She said sì!"
"See what?"
Clapping her hand over her face quietly, Renata could definitely see why James and Sirius definitely considered themselves to be brothers, sometimes, they were too much like one another. But it brought a smile to Renata's face as she stifled a laugh before taking the mirror gently from James' hand. Holding up her left hand, she showed Sirius that she was indeed wearing the ring, to give him his answer.
"I said yes," she said, only to be drowned out seconds later as Sirius let out a high-pitch scream of joy. His usual suave demeanour diminished before their very eyes as he became a sobbing, blubbery mess in such a short period of time. And while Sirius' dramatics sometimes rubbed off on other people he was around, he was proving right then in that very moment as to why he was still the reigning drama queen.
But at the same time, it was incredibly flattering to see how happy Sirius was over the news and after he fanned the tears away with the use of his free hand, he demanded that they get back to the Potter Cottage in order for all of them to celebrate the engagement. At most, Renata was simply anticipating it being Sirius and her brother back at the cottage, but one thing she had come to learn as she was on her way to becoming a Potter, was that they were always full of their surprises.
They left Putney's behind after cleaning everything up to leave the restaurant as it originally was and after, hand in hand, they departed from the place to make their way home. James joked around that he wouldn't be surprised if Sirius had a line of wedding gowns lined up for Renata when she walked through the door as he had been the most eager and enthusiastic when it came to James announcing that he planned on asking her to marry him. It left her wondering just how long James had been planning it and how long Sirius and everyone else had known that were involved in the scavenger hunt.
