cigarette daydream || james potter

"𝑐𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛,"

Estella Lupin has always known what it means to live beside something dangerous-and to love it anyway. After a childhood marked by a harrowing attack she barely survived, she builds her life around one certainty: protecting her younger brother, Remus, at any cost.

At Hogwarts, that instinct only sharpens. While Remus finds unexpected belonging in the Marauders-boys who offer him laughter, loyalty, and a freedom Estella couldn't give him-she is left wrestling with a quieter, more complicated ache: jealousy, fear, and the sense that she is being replaced in the one role she has never questioned.

To the outside world, Estella and James Potter are a disaster waiting to happen. Their clashes are sharp, relentless, and impossible to ignore-equal parts rivalry and provocation, each determined not to yield an inch. But beneath the friction lies something neither of them is willing to name: a connection that builds in the spaces between arguments, in the silences after impact, in the moments where neither of them walks away quite fast enough.

As war creeps closer beyond Hogwarts' walls, rivalry becomes harder to sustain-and even harder to hide. Because some bonds aren't chosen. They're recognised. And once seen clearly, they refuse to be undone.

REWRITE

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