Author: hkpadfoot
Rating: G
Summary: When the dust settles, he understands.
Dust
It's when the dust starts to settle that Fear's icy clutch grips his heart. When green eyes and unspoken horrors spring upon him suddenly, the short time they had whirling before his eyes and parts of him began to quietly prepare for what he had tried so hard to separate himself from.
It's when the dust starts to settle that he feels his hand going to the poison he started to carry around once they got too close, the one with no antidote. When he realizes he's not being melodramatic, realizes how the boy has become a man, how he's destroyed Severus' idea of his life.
It's when the dust starts to settle that he realizes that part of him doesn't want the dust to settle, in case the corpse has a mess of black hair.
When he understands he's in love with Harry.
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