He's Worth It (Chp. 50 Spoilers)

"You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about."

Well, it's done!  It was a mammoth of a chapter, but it is finally posted!  I'm really excited and I know that you are (hopefully) going to love it!  Or you've read it already and you did love it (again, I hope).  I had a lot of fun writing it.

Cado was particularly intriguing.  Do you ever have characters that just speak to you and connect with you easier than all the others?  That's what he was like for me.  As I was in the process of creating him, he obviously had to have a reason for turning into a murderer, and he simply told me his story. All I had to do was write it down.  I love characters like that.  The whole chapters actually just ended up flowing out.  I'd started it about six different times and scrapped every single one of them, but I sat down and ended up writing all 15,000+ words in a day.  (That's what White Tea does for you!)  Anyway, definitely don't forget about Cado, Caradoc, and Waverly.  They are going to play larger roles as time goes on.

Writing this story, I'm beginning to realize that to have a 'good' James/Lily story, you really have to have a lot of other people involved, you know?  Their lives were so focused on the big picture that the story would be flat if you only talked about Lily, James, and their closest friends, which is why I am loving the Amelia/Cado and Caradoc/Waverly subplots.  They're very different from each other, but they are equally fun to write. 

I especially liked the part where Cado talks about not everyone having a happy ending, because it's so true.  We only really hear about James and Lily, who are tragedies in themselves, but at least they found love, which made it all worthwhile.  But some of the people obviously did not find that love, or they had it and lost it in the end, and I don't want to get super angsty, but I also think that you can't tell a true war story without a lot of pain and loss.

Anyway, I hope you liked the chapter!  I would love to hear if you have any guesses about what might happen to Amelia from here and what the mission is that Cado is planning.  I'll tell you that you'll recognize one of his fellow-assassins. and that there will eventually be four of them total working together for C.W. Umbridge.  So tell me what your thoughts are!

Also, did you notice all the sets of brothers in this chapter?  Gideon and Fabian, Cado and Caradoc, Sirius and Regulus.  I was considering naming the chapter Brotherly Love, but I wanted the title to relate to James and Lily instead, since the major event of the chapter was the last scene with the two of them.  But you did get the reference to troll blood, didn't you?  I hope so.  I know it's been forever.  In case you didn't, Lily and James got detention together back in their 5th year, and had to spend it cleaning out Slughorn's store closet.  James accidentally knocked over a barrel of troll blood and covered them both with it.  It was that night that Lily first agreed to be friends with James if he left Severus alone.

So, drop a review on ff.n and leave me a comment here!  I want to hear all of your thoughts!

Love Always,

Kayla