Collection Journeys
10. wasn't always
Contrary to popular belief, Lily wasn't Severus' first and only love. But the first one had been unrequited in a painful way.
He couldn't even look at Petunia Evans without her scorning glare burning into his mind and his heart. And whenever she did that and flounced off, blonde hair bouncing behind her, little Lily would be there smiling gently and saying not to worry.
And he grew to love that smile, those green eyes and that soft hand. He began to hate the hair he'd once thought was the colour of the sun, that tall statue he'd once thought could see over all the black coal on the streets. But before that, when the red hair had reminded him of all the burns from the poker on his mother's body and the green eyes reminded him of all the money his good for nothing father floundered and the blond hair and the tall girl it belonged to was like an angel that would rescue him.
He'd been so naïve to think that. He was used to her glaring now, but the first time she'd glared like that had broken his little child heart.
He fell in love with Lily after because she'd picked up the pieces of it.