Disclaimer: Done? Yes. Mine? Not by a long shot!
Epilogue
If only it had been so simple. If only life were perfect, and nothing could go amiss. If only secrets could be revealed and love could really conquer all. If only fairy tales were real, and one night could change an entire world for good. Sometimes, things like this do happen, but more often, they fall apart too quickly, and bruise the heart, the body, the mind and the spirit, all faith destroyed.
They did make it work, at least for the rest of Mel's sixth year. She went to him nearly every night, and they used one another to forgive the world, and forget what it had done to them. Severus could begin to truly heal from the things he had done and learned how to love another, and Mel could forget her past, and what it had almost done to her future. She learned that love was real, and not just some made up emotion. They learned that it was okay to feel, and that emotion was not weakness. They were each other's strength, and it seemed like they were untouchable if they had one another.
But Mel's mother had other plans. And thanks to a House elf gone spy, she found out about Mel and Severus, and could implement those schemes. Unwilling to see her daughter happy, when she found out about the affair, she shipped Melissa off to America to live with her cousin, and finish her schooling there, at the Salem Academy of Magic.
Heartbroken, Mel reverted to her normal reclusive self, trying desperately to keep in contact with her lover. Severus never got her letters. They were always intercepted. It didn't take long for the two Slytherins to get on with their daily lives away from one another, but the heartache was there for a teen-aged girl who found and lost her first love in just a few months, and for a deeply scarred man who had finally begun to heal.
Two reclusive souls, two broken hearts, one shattered love.
Not all fairy tales last forever. And they don't always have happy endings.
(A/N) Oh, I'm so mean… How dare I end my story with a short epilogue and a potential cliffhanger? Well, for now, content yourselves with my other story, if you would like to, and maybe I'll bring Miss Scott back for a reunion… If you're all really good…
Happy reading, especially for you Schlegel!
Love always,
Amber Moons