Authors Note: This is my first songfic Rascal Flatts: Words I Couldn't Say.
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Severus lay in bed one night thinking of all the regrets he had with his life. Killing Dumbledore...Why did he have to go along with the old fools strategy anyway?
But the thing he regretted the most with his life were all the mistakes he had made with Lilly. A tear rolled down his cheek.
'Lilly.' He whispered to the ceiling. He sat up and took the picture of Lilly off his bedside bureau and looked at it. Her red hair was blowing in the breeze and her smile lit up the entire room.
In a book- in a box- in the closet
In a line- in a song I once heard
In a moment on a front porch late one June
In a breath inside a whisper beneath the moon
He remembered that day clearly. He almost told her he loved her, but he being the coward he was didn't. There it was at the tip of my fingers
There it was on the tip of my tongue
There you were and I had never been that far
There it was the whole world wrapped inside my arms
And I let it all slip away
Severus remembered the day that came after it. He called her a mudblood. They never spoke after that again… Why did he do what he did. Vengeance was NOT the key. If only he knew that then. But she was gone. It was too late.
What do I do now that you're gone
No backup plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldnt say
'Lilly I love you.' Severus said aloud. It took him by surprise. He had never spoken those three words before in his entire life. I. Love. You. Tears cascaded off his cheeks onto the picture of Lilly. There's a rain that will never stop fallin
There a wall that I tried to take down
What I should have said just wouldn't pass my lips
So I held back and now we've come to this
And it too late nowWhat do I do now that your gone
No back up plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldnt say
If he had told her she might have still been here. Harry might have been their child. The thought intrigued him and startled him in equal measure.
What do I do now that your gone
No back up plan no second chance
And no one else to blame
All I can hear in the silence that remains
Are the words I couldnt say
He was alone, but he had a job to do. He knew what was left to do.
'Lilly I promise.' He vowed and then kissed the forehead of the smiling green eyed, red haired witch in the picture.