Prophecy
Pairing: Snuna
Universe: Canon-compliant to just before end of DH
Rating: K
"Your heart will break beneath a summer sky," she whispers, "Will break again when the veil is thin, but under grey clouds will you know the end of hope."
The girl clutches his arm and says it their first day of school, and Severus stares at her in horrified alarm. He's never heard a prophecy before; had thought that Seers couldn't possibly be a real thing; but he can hear the echo of another world in her voice - can taste the unfamiliar magic thick upon the air.
The girl blinks owlishly at him before she turns away without another word, leaving Severus standing alone on the station platform. He has to jog to catch up with the other first years, following Lily's bright flash of hair into a boat.
OOOOO
He thinks his heart might break as the hat cries, 'Gryffindor', as he sees the rueful smile Lily shoots him, but he looks at the ceiling and somehow its deep blackness speckled with stars is somehow comforting.
OOOOO
He thinks for a moment that it might have broken when he sees Lily blush as Remus Lupin's arm brushes hers, but then he recognises the emotion that seeps through him as hatred. Lupin is thick as thieves with Potter and Black and snivelling little Pettigrew, and he resolves then and there to find out just what it is they all get up to when they go sneaking around the castle once a month.
OOOOO
He's incandescent with fury, feels it burning white-hot beneath his skin, and the word leaves his mouth before he realises what he's saying. Lily flinches as though he's slapped her, and he barely notices Potter moving to hex him again as he recognises the hurt in her eyes. He glances upwards at the bright, cloudless blue that arches above him, and thinks, Ah, there it is.
OOOOO
When he hears that she's dead he feels as though he too has died. All Hallow's Eve, and the veil is thin indeed.
OOOOO
The boy's eyes are just like hers, and Severus feels his heart twist inside him, too broken to break again. Hope. The memory stirs inside him: Under grey clouds will you know the end of hope. Lily's son will live, because Severus is not yet quite bereft of hope.
OOOOO
'Please, Severus,' Albus says, and though he wonders if this is it, Severus's eyes find the cloudless night over Albus's shoulder before he casts the curse. No end in sight.
OOOOO
The poison is quick, and the Potter boy is there, and as life leaves him he offers the memories, staring into eyes that are so very green. Hope, until the end. Hope of being a better man.
OOOOO
'Professor - Severus. Wake up, Severus.'
The voice is a sing-song chime, and he feels the hurt spread across his body. Not yet dead? Severus opens his eyes and stares into grey clouds. Hope, he realises. An end: a realisation.
She smiles at him, and her grey eyes shimmer.
A/N: It's short, and, I hope, kind of sweet? Ish? This was written for darling May8699 who wanted Snunain the potions lab and I just couldn't so we ended up with this...
Next up, Harvati.
