A/N: This was inspired by a youtube clip I just saw. It had nothing to do with Harry Potter but I felt like I should get it out of my system. I hope you see this like I do.

Albus Potter sat amongst the ashes. The room looked just as it did nineteen years earlier. Everything was neat and orderly, yet he got the feeling that it had been left in a hurry. A single tear slid down his face as he began to understand. He knew war was not all heroic deeds with a happy ending. War was cruel, but only now did it get through to him. Sacrifices of the highest kind had been paid. Life was cruel.

A faded and sooty letter lay beside him on the floor of the fireplace;

To You,

So I'm sure that you'll never get to read this, in fact this letter is more for myself than for you. Life's pretty good right now. But I miss you. A lot. Remember when we used to sit in the park, and see how high we could jump? Yeah, I guess it was childish, but there was you and me. I wonder if you still think of me, sometimes. I think of you. All the time. I used to just lie on my bed and wish you would come on knock on my door. Tell me you forgive me and maybe every thing would be alright.

All those secrets we shared, all our dreams, everything we used to plan. Gone.

But life's not like that and I try and I try to move on but I end up remembering you. Is it bad, to wish I could just rewind my life and live in the past, stuck on repeat until my wishes comes true. You're different now. You're cold and I try not to think of you like that. I think of the times we-

We used to sit in silence so deep I could hear your heartbeat. My heart used to beat for you. Now, I don't know why it's still beating, because I don't have you any more.

Sometimes I used to apparate to your house and sit outside. I would get the weird urge to go and knock on your door. That's stupid though, because I know you wouldn't answer me.

I take back everything I said. Every word that I didn't mean. I still wonder, would you be with me if I hadn't said it? Maybe you'd be with me right now.

It's been a long time since we were best friends. It hurt to watch you laugh. Knowing you'd never laugh with me again.

I got to watch you fall in love. You didn't realise my heart was breaking. Or maybe you didn't care. You tore it out that night, it was yours all along. Now it's in pieces, but after all this time, it still belongs to you.

You didn't fall in love with me. Why didn't you? Maybe you'd still-

I know you're happy with him. The one I hated.

Why? Why not me?

All these years spent without you and still I can't go without thinking about you for longer than five minutes. Last week I cried myself to sleep over you.

Do you know I still have nightmares? Of that night...

I lied before. Life's pretty damn shit. I have nothing to live for. I'd give everything for you to be mine. To laugh with me once again. I'd give my life to see you again. Even if you didn't talk to me. A few minutes of your time and I'd die happy.

Merlin, why didn't you love me? You were my life. And now you're gone.

I'm going to go and burn this letter now. Just know this;

Lily Evans, I love you with everything I have.

Now, and Forever.

Severus Snape.