SWEDISHA/N: I was quite fascinated by how many that LOVED Lily as I wrote "The Only Words" (James/Lily, check it out if you're into that pairing). As a tribute, or as a analysis, I wrote this three chaptered fic with a prologue and an epilouge. Expect one Lily but so many different loves for her. From me, to you, I present The Lily Trilogy.

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The Lily Trilogy
By: Lumos Maximum

Prolouge (Severus/Lily)
1. -/Lily
2.-/Lily
3.-/Lily
(-/Lily) Epilouge

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Dusty Dreaming
Her halo will shine, illuminating my darkness, and I will subsist only for her love.

Lily Evans hauled her feet up onto the compartment seats, stomping hard. Little dust flew out the seat, invisible to the causal eye but eleven year old Severus Snape always kept his eyes towards Lily with such intensity that he saw more than the dust swirl around the girl. He could not explain it, because no eleven year olds could, but he could see the magic around her too. Today, as the Hogwarts Express made its way towards their new home they were both worrying; him of losing her to other houses than his own – and secretly worrying about why he didn't care where he would end up as long as they were together – and she worried of never being enough.

"What if nobody likes me – or if I am so horrible with magic that they'll send me home?" Lily asked worried. She was hugging her legs, resting her chin on her knees and watched him with big eyes that shone in emerald green.

"You'll be great," Severus said softly, still observing her being covered by small dust flakes. "They won't send you home," he assured her. "Besides, I doubt that you'll be lousy. You did levitate the playground before we left, and that was wand less magic."

"I did levitate that," Lily said with a small smile. She wrinkled her nose towards him and laughed. "Thanks, Sev, I think I feel better now."

"Anytime," Severus promised, remembering how he secretly joined his magic with hers to help her levitate the playground so she would be soothed and suffered a pounding headache from the effort it took him.

Lily held her eyes plastered on him and he played with his fingers out of nervous habit, the intensity of her gaze scaring and intriguing him. "I love you," Lily said to him blankly and she grinned. "Do you love me back?"

Severus was taken aback and hesitated as he replied, "I guess, I mean, we are friends, aren't we?"

"The best," Lily said matter-of-factly. "I think that's enough to love –," the girl paused, unsure of what the word love meant. She drew a heart in the air and wrote their initials in it, it was invisible but he was sure she envisioned it as vividly as she always saw things. "It feels enough at least."

"Okay," Severus said quietly to his hands and then met her eyes again. "Then I love you."

And he felt a knot in his stomach tighten as he watched her shine towards him; she was amazing and he knew that he was never going to be the only one who loved her.

He just wished that he was the only one she would love back.

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