AN: This is the first of three letters from different characters from the HP books, each exploring the effects of a Marriage Law (I'm assuming by now you all know the constraints of the Marriage Law, if not, where the hell have you been?). The letters are each from one of a couple to the other, I had specific ones in mind but I haven't named them, just apply them to whoever seems right to you.

Disclaimer: Tragically I don't own Harry Potter. More tragically, I don't own Professor Snape either =[

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Part One.

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"Do you remember those faraway days when we first loved? They were our days in the sun, we were but children - two dancing sunbeams on the water. We thought we knew then what love was but that was before the world splintered. The only way to appreciate the depth of a sea is to drown in it, and we swam so far out, but always returned to the sand and the spray.
"The world has changed. The waters are choppy and I am drowning. The Ministry thinks they can take me, lay me out on the sand and sell me on, good as new. Soon I shall be sent to the cattle market, to be bidded on and bargained for by everyone that ticks the right boxes - but no ticky-boxes can encompass true love. You won't be there, you won't be allowed, because love is nothing when Muggle Intergration is key.
"I will not allow myself to be dessicated like a sponge, cast upon the shore. I could not betray either of us like that. I can feel them coming for me, steaming over the horizon, but they will not find me. I will dive deep to the uncharted depths of our ocean, live forever in that last dizzying moment where our love fills my lungs like saltwater. Deep, deep, amongst the sand and the pearls I will wait for you.
"Goodbye, always.
x"