Disclaimer: I do not own the world of Harry Potter. This is a response to the 7 Songs, 7 Drabbles, 7 Days challenge by LoopyandLovely.

Made One Wish For A Permanent Kiss That Would Echo Through These Bones Like Arsenic. I Can Figure Out The Point of Anything, Just Not As Quick As I Can Mess Up My Life. With All My Dreams Hooked to Hospital Machines, I Think 'Let's Try Redefining Beautiful'.

(Point of Extinction- Motion City Soundtrack)

He'd been dying. Of that he was sure of.

Which was why he couldn't explain what he was doing, staring up at a pair of bright blue eyes. However, a halo of light made it hard to really see.

Perhaps he was dead. Perhaps this was... dare he say it... heaven. After all that face, that face was too pretty, too sweet, too kind; smiling at him like no on ever did, not at him.

But then, why did he feel his body; why did it ache? Why was that face so familiar?

"You're awake... I'm glad," a familiar sing-song voice whispered, as he felt the feather-light brush of lips on his cheek. Severus thought, surely then, that he must be dead. However, he could still feel the warmth left behind by the sweet, tender and unexpected kiss. "I'll go inform the Healer, I'll be back!" she promised, before skipping away.

Severus stared wide-eyed at the ceiling as his heart-rate increased.

He was alive.

FIN

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