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A/N: Slightly redone… like?

Everlasting Sacrifice

My Last Breath

It was time to fight. Voldemort the Dark Lord must pay and suffer for all he has done these past few years. He must pay for all the people he has killed! I knew them…so many school mates and

"Who will challenge me?" he asked a taunt towards the gathered battlers of the light against his army of Death Eaters. I stood by Lily as the battle began. Severus was on the opposite side, to keep up the illusion that he was fighting for the Dark Lord, but he really was just a clever spy.

"I will," I called out, stepping forward.

"Of course, it would have to be the little girl who has managed to cause me so much trouble and then some. I must inform you that I have found a weakness in your attacks and the like, and you will pay for trying to stop me," he boasted. A ministry official in the back murmured that he would be happy if we killed each other off. I smiled at that, which was something only a ministry official would say about us.

"Well, aren't we the cocky little villain!" I said, and drew into my elemental power of Water, under the Neptune planet. I was an expert at Alchemy magics. That should be fine for now, but I have a backup plan, just in case this time he puts up a fight.

"Well, let's begin child. AVADA KEDAVRA!" he shouted, aiming at me.

"Yes, let's begin. Mawate Umi!" I yelled, and easily blocked the death curse. As a dragon, I could have let it hit me and it still would have done nothing, but I decided not to let him know the full extent of dragons just yet.

"Clever girl," he said. I allowed myself a smug smile.

"You should know my ancient magics can easily overcome your little death curse!" I yelled over the sounds. I was ready to win; I knew that I could.

"Die woman!" he shouted, sending out another spell. The battle had begun around us as well. I dodged the spell while observing my friends. Lily and Severus were caught between a rock and a hard place, sort of, right in front of each other. They were working out some way to help each other, but then Lily just decided to run after another death eater. I countered with a spell of Neptune storms, and considered changing my element and changing the weather. I jumped back a few steps and muttered some dragon tongue. Rain clouds blanketed the sky as I aligned myself more with Mercury, more like ice. I was more than ready now, I wasn't going to loose.

"Water, engulf my enemies, Drowning Funnel!" I shouted and double jets of water shot out when I waved my arms forward. Voldemort easily managed to shift away from the attack.

Both sides were backing into their original positions, but the Dark Lord and I battled fiercely as we both did whenever we had crossed paths in the future. I hated him more than anything. In all the confusion, I looked and saw Severus had ended up on our side, not exactly knowing where to go. Lily looked worried too.

"It seems I must exploit your weakness child, for you have angered me for the last time. The fact that you care has always been your undoing and it will be someone's death tonight. I'll make sure of that this time. I will not leave this battle unless I myself have fallen," the Dark Lord boasted once again, and aimed his wand. I thought it was aimed at me…

He began to speak a slow spell; I couldn't understand it at all…

A sword of some sort shot out, and time seemed to slow.

"Missed me!" I said with a triumphant grin. It faded in a second…

"Who said I was aiming for you?" he asked, and I looked at the sword as it was being hurtled towards SEVERUS! I ran to intercept it.

I ran right in front of the blade

It struck me in the stomach, and I began to fall to the ground

"NOOO!" Severus cried, and Voldemort laughed and left me to die, left the school grounds. Severus ran forward and engulfed me in his arms. His arms…his arms were so warm, and I felt cold, so very cold.

"Severus? Are you there?" I asked as my sight faded, "I can't see you Severus!" I tasted my own blood in my mouth.

"I'm here my love," he murmured, and pressed his forehead up against mine, "I'm here." There were tears, warm fresh tears… They couldn't save me now though, nothing could.

"Goodbye love," I whispered as he gripped my hand. He held me close against him. I bled onto him, he didn't care…

"You can't die!" Lily cried as she rushed forward with everyone else.

"Please don't fear this. It's… okay… I'm… ready… I die… how I… want to die… Severus, I love you…" I said as I faded in and out of reality and time…

I could hear him call my name and then I could hear everyone's and sense their tears, I felt Severus's on my face. My breaths missed beats, and I grew colder and colder. I coughed up blood and tasted salty tears.

"Severus, I'm sorry," I murmured and I felt no more…

1 Week later 3rd person

At a funeral, there is a man in black, crying as a casket is set into the deep earth. The tombstone reads, 'Katherine Anne Forest Snape, loving wife, loving friend, loving sister'.

2 weeks after that

Severus stands before a sink, a knife in his hand. He cannot take his own life, but he has made a decision to live out the life his wife wanted, not out of sorrow, nor out of regret but out of remembrance… No one can forget her. He takes his long braid and cuts it off, leaving it shoulder length.

A man in black stands before a tombstone, he drops the cut hair, which is wrapped around a red rose at the foot of the tombstone. Against the cold winds the rose remains stationary, a deep blood red rose.

"I shall never love another, my wife," he says wiping the tears falling from his eyes, and turns and walks away.

Severus stands before a trial, and is acquitted of all charges. He doesn't stay to receive any congratulations, threats or disappointments that others might have about him. He returns home, and begins a resume letter.

1½ years since death

Severus approached Professor Dumbledore's desk with a resume, and hands it over to him. Dumbledore takes it, and nods, as if he realizes something new about Severus's love for his wife.

10 years post death

"Where am I?" a voice asks, as a girl looks around a lavishly decorated temple room.

"Who am I?"