Title: Sweet Contentment
Author: Corinne Cassandra Valard
Summary: Severus contemplates suicide.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Severus Snape, Lily Potter, Dumbledore, and all other Harry Potter affiliated names and places belong to J. K. Rowling.
Severus Snape stared melancholically at the potion ingredients on his shelves.
It would be so easy, he thought morbidly. It could be so easy to make a poison.
He had these spells of depression occasionally, especially when it was storming, and when he was alone, but rarely did his thoughts stray to taking his own life. He had considered suicide during school, but Lily had talked him out of it. Lily, his beautiful Lily, but not his at all. And now she was gone. He had considered suicide when he had lost Lily, but Dumbledore had talked him out of it. Where was Lily? Where was Dumbledore to save him now? They were dead and gone.
Gone to the 'next great adventure' he thought sardonically.
Severus knew he shouldn't do it, and he knew that he probably wouldn't. He had promised Dumbledore. He had responsibilities, to the other professors, to his students, to Lily's son. But why shouldn't he? Dumbledore was gone, his promises were empty. None of his students, or the other professors had ever cared much about him, they wouldn't miss him. The only person he had ever loved had been dead for twenty years. Her son was not his, what responsibility did he have to that ungrateful brat? What reason did he have to live? Not much, that he could see.
Severus reached for a phial. He would show them, show them all. He was not a coward, they said he was, that he would never go through with it, but he would show them. His sleeve bunched as he reached up on the shelf, revealing the dark mark tattooed on his skin. Another reason to take his life. Not only was his life pointless, it was evil. He didn't deserve to live. The things he had done, the murders, and betrayals. He should just remove his horrid self from the world.
He made his decision there and then and opened the bottle of poison, and took a long swig of it. It was surprisingly sweet. That was his last thought, that death was sweet.
The body of Severus Snape was found the next day, a glass phial clutched in cold his hand, the remnants of the liquid spilled on the floor and an oddly contented smile on his face.
Fini
Author: Corinne Cassandra Valard
Summary: Severus contemplates suicide.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Severus Snape, Lily Potter, Dumbledore, and all other Harry Potter affiliated names and places belong to J. K. Rowling.
Severus Snape stared melancholically at the potion ingredients on his shelves.
It would be so easy, he thought morbidly. It could be so easy to make a poison.
He had these spells of depression occasionally, especially when it was storming, and when he was alone, but rarely did his thoughts stray to taking his own life. He had considered suicide during school, but Lily had talked him out of it. Lily, his beautiful Lily, but not his at all. And now she was gone. He had considered suicide when he had lost Lily, but Dumbledore had talked him out of it. Where was Lily? Where was Dumbledore to save him now? They were dead and gone.
Gone to the 'next great adventure' he thought sardonically.
Severus knew he shouldn't do it, and he knew that he probably wouldn't. He had promised Dumbledore. He had responsibilities, to the other professors, to his students, to Lily's son. But why shouldn't he? Dumbledore was gone, his promises were empty. None of his students, or the other professors had ever cared much about him, they wouldn't miss him. The only person he had ever loved had been dead for twenty years. Her son was not his, what responsibility did he have to that ungrateful brat? What reason did he have to live? Not much, that he could see.
Severus reached for a phial. He would show them, show them all. He was not a coward, they said he was, that he would never go through with it, but he would show them. His sleeve bunched as he reached up on the shelf, revealing the dark mark tattooed on his skin. Another reason to take his life. Not only was his life pointless, it was evil. He didn't deserve to live. The things he had done, the murders, and betrayals. He should just remove his horrid self from the world.
He made his decision there and then and opened the bottle of poison, and took a long swig of it. It was surprisingly sweet. That was his last thought, that death was sweet.
The body of Severus Snape was found the next day, a glass phial clutched in cold his hand, the remnants of the liquid spilled on the floor and an oddly contented smile on his face.
Fini