This is for solemnly swear up to no good's 100 drabbles 50 days challenge. Prompt one, love!
Lily Evans was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. Severus Snape watched as she laughed. Her bright green eyes light up and her adorable little nose scrunched. He found himself laughing with her.
He still couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that the beautiful woman so full of life was dead. She had been everything to him and he had ruined it.
He watched again as she was still laughing in the photograph. How different would his life be if he had never called her a mudblood? Would he be the one who had married Lily? Would she have fallen as much in love with him as he was in love with her?
A strange thought occurred to him. Would they have had children? Snape pictured a little girl who looked just like Lily being chased around a grassy yard by a boy a few years younger with the same bright red hair and beautiful green eyes as his mother and sister. Lily was sitting in the background with him and they were laughing at their little one's antics.
He looked back down at the picture and though bitterly. She would never have given Potter another look if he hadn't betrayed her. He never would have become Death Eater either because when Lily was around he had more to live for. If he hadn't made that fatal mistake out of anger, Lily would still be alive.
Although the Dark Lord may still be alive also and where would they be without Potter to come and saw them all. Life is a fickle thing and Snape knew that they would never know because as much as he wanted to, he could never go back.
A sudden knock on his office door drew him out of his wonderings and back into the real world. He quickly stowed the picture in his desk and told them to come in.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Potter. What do you want?" Snape said with acid in his voice.
"Professor Dumbledore said to give you this." He held out a letter.
"Harry Potter, Boy who Lived, Basilisk slayer, Triwizard Champion and Mail carrier." Snape sneered. He could feel how much Harry wanted to curse him but he had more self control that his father did and simply walked away.
Snape tore open the letter.
Dear Severus,
Harry is having the dreams of Voldemort again. I am worried that the bond is getting stronger. You must begin Occulemency lessons with him. Teach him how to shut the bond off but also find out what Voldemort is telling or showing him in the dreams. I have a feeling that Harry isn't telling me everything.
Sincerely,
Albus Percival Wulfric Brain Dumbledore
Of course, Potter wasn't telling them everything. If he was then there wouldn't be as big of a chance he would get to be the hero. That boy kept putting himself in danger because he needs the spotlight and is endangering what his mother did for him.
Snape decided that he and Lily wouldn't have had children. All they did was mess things up and cause disasters.
Lily would still be alive no matter what if that damn kid of hers hadn't been born. He thought.
Of course, if he hadn't told the Dark Lord of the prophecy, Lily would be alive too. Maybe she would still be alive if he had heard the entire prophecy. Snape slammed his fist on the table. Anyway you laid the cards; he was responsible for the death of the only person he had ever truly loved.
