There Once Was a Beginning and Now There's an End
Prologue
"You don't have to do this alone."
Harry stops as her words cut through the dead quiet of the Forbidden Forest. He knew she would eventually find him; she always did. He had just hopped it would have been after the deed was done.
"I know you like to play the martyr, it's just in you nature, but you don't have to do it alone this time," she continues, slowly making her way to his side. "We can go together." She takes his hand in hers, lacing their fingers together.
Suddenly the world doesn't look so dark and bleak anymore to Harry. Sure he will be leaving all his friends behind, but he gets to see his family and he'll have June with him. June…
"No," he shook his head. "I can't ask you to give up everything for me. You'd be throwing your life away, and I can't let you do that."
No, he wasn't that selfish.
But she smiled. She smiled and he had no idea why. He couldn't even fathom smiling let alone actually doing the deed. Dying wasn't something he wanted to do, but he had accepted that it was his fate. It wasn't June's though, no, she was meant to live a happy life after this miserable war was over and done with. She deserved the best, and he wasn't the best seeing as he'd be dead in the next ten minutes.
"I'm not asking Harry. I'm telling you that you aren't going to be alone, that we are going to face this together whether you secretly like it or not," she said her joke managing to get a partial smile on his face.
There was no dissuading her; she was as stubborn as him in some regards and it was rearing its big fat head. Nothing would stop her now no matter how much Harry wished that something, anything could.
Sighing in defeat Harry held her hand tighter in his and looked her straight in the eye. Green staring into grey.
"I don't want you to do this, but I can't force you not to so no matter what happens… don't let go." He squeezed her hand a little tighter.
"Never."
With that June closed the distance between their lips and proceeded to show Harry just how much she loved in the last kiss they would ever share…