The delicacy of a flower is not to be underestimated, for the most beautiful flower is usually able to hurt one the most, even if the hurt was not meant.

He knelt by her grave and whispered her name, "Francesca," one last time, and lay exactly 6 pink lady flowers, 5 purple tiger lillies, 4 marigolds, 3 licourice vines, 2 5 o' clocks, and 1 red rose on the snow mound covering her burial site.

He stood, and realized what she would want of him then. She would have wanted him not to go on living in sorrow and hate, and to live a full, happy life. Francesca was the only person in the world who knew what was in everyone's best interest, and the only person in the Universe who knew what lie in his own heart.

He had thought that she had taken his heart with her when she was killed. It was awful, and the feeling was more than anguish. Why the only person had to be taken away from him whom he loved with all his heart, he would never know. Oh, he knew how, but not why.

He'd loved her, and walked away from her grave with sadness in his heart and mind, but a clarity in his soul which he had never possessed before.


He sighed and rolled over and punched his pillow again and again in his mad grief. Why did she have to die? Why did she have to leave him on Earth without a clue? Was there a reason she was taken from him?

He had loved Francesca, and she took his heart with her when she died. He sighed in anger and hate, and stood on bare feet to cross his dorm and put on his robes. He fitted on his slippers and headed out. Out of the Common Room, past the prefects, outside, to the lake. She was buried by the lake. She loved it there.

He made it in record time through the heavy white snow on the ground and his feet were chilled by the time he made it to her grave.

Someone had been there before him, judging by the flowers, and the footprints heading back to the castle. He bent down to the rose, and tried to touched it. It pricked his finger, and he let out a guttural, primal cry of anguish and fell to the snow, not wishing to leave her.

After all, she had left him...