Tonight, I die.

After one hundred and fifteen years of my heart beating steadily in my chest

Beating through the betrayal and anguish

Through the laughter and joy

It will stop tonight.

I don't want to go.

The poison that throbs in time with the marching beat

This is to be my final battle.

Please don't make me go.

The stupidity of my youth resurfaced as I placed the ring on my finger.

I'd hoped to see them again

Right my wrongs and apologise to her

The blinding pain

Cursed, just like my heart.

Will I ever truly know what is right and what is wrong?

The love I still feel for him is wrong.

Though is it?

For I just yearn to be back in my room, spending hours in his company.

My first and only love.

The last truly painful betrayal.

I never did kiss him, like I wanted to.

The hate I felt for her, my vacantly sweet Ariana.

That was wrong.

Her innocent face, frozen in green.

Which one? Oh Merlin... Did I?

The moment that lost me not only a sister, but a brother.

I never did find out which curse hit first.

The decades I've wasted, never apologising to my brother.

Wrong.

He has been close by, yet I never tried.

I'll die with him still hating me.

I never get the honour of his forgiveness.

The path I have set a young man on, which can only end with his death.

Wrong, but unavoidable.

I still have a chance to make it right.

Don't make me go

You can still make things right, brother. Come with me.

Dear sweet Ariana.

"Severus, please."

The green approaches.

Is this how you felt, sister?

I am flying

I am free

Those wrongs can be righted after all.

All the things I never did

I'll do in the after.