How many days has it been? My body aches as if I had been running on a marsh on a rainy day. My legs barely can stand as I feel the pieces of my heart shatter once again at my loss. Not pieces of a broken glass shattered on a wooden floor, but pieces of sand falling from a cupped hand. Slowly sliding down to the rest, melting into a sea of sand creating new groups of it. Swirling with the ocean water as it breaks on the shore. The water taking some of those pieces and bringing them into the depths of the ocean. I can see them, each individual piece of my heart as I stand in on the grass by the Black Lake. The pieces try to stay together, but the sea is stubbornly sweeping them into the mass. A voice in the distance brings me back to why I am standing here again after so many years. A funeral procession is on its way to the front row of seats. I stare resolutely at the skyline meeting the glassy glare of the lake. The muscle in my cheek hardly moves as I close my eyes and let the words wash through me and land on what was the spot that my heart had been. Maybe if I just stood here, where the magic of Hogwarts could comfort me, I can imagine that the pieces of my heart may heal in time. I knew though, that soon reality would break me and start to rebuild me, but until then I will stand by the shore of the Black Lake with its magic drumming in my veins as I stare blankly into its abyss. Someone pulls me into a hug, but my eyes do not stray from their point of interest. I don't say a word at all that day even when I get home and climb the stairs to my bedroom. No words need to be said as I turn my attention to the portrait on the left side of the room. He is awake. I can see him reading a heavy tome as my lip trembles. I stare at him for a long time before I drift to sleep with his name escaping my lips as I succumb to sleep. "Severus."
~ The End
Author's note: This just came to me as I was reading another lovely story and I thought I would share it. It is a one shot and it is complete. Please let me know what you think😊 xoxo