Collection Journeys
2. thunder at the door
Lily closes her eyes, but the insistent knocking on the door forces them open again.
'It's Snape.' Dorcas' lip curls in disgust as she peeks out. 'Can't he take a hint and go?'
Lily wished he would as well. She didn't want to talk to him right then – and she wondered if she would again. He'd hurt her this time. Personally. And it felt like an even greater betrayal because of how close they'd always been.
I'm nothing but an object to him…
'You're crying,' Dorcas said in alarm.
'I'm not.' Lily dabbed her eyes.
The knocks came again. More insistent. Almost like thunder, she reminisced. She'd always liked the sound of thunder, for some reason.
Petunia had always been scared of it, but Lily – Lily always thought of it as a desperate man knocking on her door.
But that man wasn't supposed to be Severus. And not like this.
'Maybe if I tell him to go away, he will.'
But she doesn't want to, because it still hurts and she's sure she'll say something irrevocable if she does.
'Tch, that guy's a pain. I'm going to hex him.' And she goes.
But when the knocking doesn't stop, Lily gets up as well.