Author's Note: This is a series of drabbles written in response to Louise Foxhall's Skittles challenge. Each of the seven drabbles features one of the colors of the rainbow. My pairing is Severus/Lily.
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~Violet~
I peek through the hole in the fence. Two little girls are playing in the grey-white remnants of the March snow. One of them forms hard, ice-crusted snowballs out of the half-melted snow and throws them moodily at the bare tree trunks. But the other - a girl with hair like a flame - shapes the snow into glittering castles, far more beautiful than the dirty snow should have allowed. Magic. My own magic reaches out to her, and a delicate violet flower bursts up through the snow. She glances at it for a moment in surprise. Then she smiles and picks the impossible flower.