So, I probably should have posted this first snippet with the last chapter. Well, whatever, life is spontaneous and full of cool surprises, right! So, let's just say that I thought that it would be better if I did it this way? Okay! Well, enjoy! Please review 'cause it's super important that I get feedback on how the plot's developing. Most of the story's already written but I want the end to wrap up nicely with a good theme or message or overall ending (okay so there really isn't going to be a message to the story...I lied :)) So, Please review!

"Close your eyes, now." He took both her hands and slowly stepped backward as she shut her eyes.

After a few steps he put his arm around her shoulders and turned her to face another direction.

"Alright. Open them."

Lily opened her eyes to see the most beautiful scene of nature imaginable. A small part of the lake had been completely encircled by towering willow trees, their branches and leaves delicately draping into the smooth water. The moon and stars shone through large gaps in the interlaced trees, and tiny balls of light flittered through the trees.

"Fairies." Lily breathed. She turned to James in disbelief. He was smiling so grandly that he was practically glowing like the tiny fairies that wove through the willow branches.

"It's…it's…" Lily simply could not find the words to describe the picturesque sanctuary before her.

"I know." James whispered as he pulled Lily towards him and bent his head so that he could kiss her cheek.

The kiss was quick, but left a sizzling feeling on Lily's face. She felt the blush spreading across her cheeks, and found it reflected on James' face as she looked up.

"Lily I-" But James didn't have the chance to voice all of his feelings, because in the next second, Lily kissed him.

Remus and Selene had walked further into the labyrinth of bookcases, Remus holding the diary and Selene dancing dreamily to the sleepy music issuing from an unseen piano ("I bet there's a music section, then!" Selene had said ecstatically).

"Remus…" Selene looked up at him as they passed an aisle of hovering books, "I really think that we should find the diary's owner."

"What? That's impossible! She's probably dead!" Remus looked at Selene incredulously.

"No, it's not. Anything's possible… And if she is dead, we could give it to a family member or something!" Selene's large blue eyes had a steely look as they bore into Remus's. "This boy was obviously important to her! And she must have been important to him, too!"

"But-Selene-he hid the book in the Room of Requirement! It seems like he didn't want anyone to find out about his relationship with a foreign girl!"

"He didn't destroy it though! He could have set it to fire or ripped it apart! Perhaps the memories were too painful and his heart was filled with pain every time he turned the pages of that book and read his true love's handwriting!"

"Did you ever consider that perhaps she had charmed it so that it could not be destroyed?"

"Have you ever considered that sometimes love makes people do crazy things, and that not everyone plans strategies and perfect spell work when thinking about a person they love? Honestly, Remus, I know that you are one of the smartest students at this school, but I sincerely thought that you would know that sometimes people are guided by their hearts and not by their minds." Selene crossed her arms and frowned.

"Alright! Alright! Say I agree with this delusion of returning the book-how exactly are you planning on tracking this girl down? She lives in a whole different country!" He threw up his hands to punctuate his sentence. A long ribbon of fire sparked from his wand and then vanished in a nonexistent breeze.

And then Selene smiled. "I have my ways." She grabbed Remus's hand and pulled him back down the way they had come, passing the spinning globes of light along the way.

Sev woke up and looked around him, disoriented. He thought back to his colorful dream-one in which he had heard Lily's laughter. In the dream he had been in astronomy class with her. They had both been talking about the position of Jupiter in relation to Mars when, all of a sudden. Lily had vanished into thin air. It was as if she had been sketched by an artist's pen and then painted over in dark paint. Where Lily once stood, there was now simple blackness and night.

He had then peered into his telescope, calling out her name. He had swiveled the scope to look around the grounds, and then caught a glimpse of her flaming hair by the Forbidden Forest. He had focused in on her to see her arm and arm with another boy. She was laughing with him as he talked animately. Severus could not see his face, but he recognized the arrogant mannerisms.

And then he had woken up.

Sev looked down at his watch. Too late.

It was at least 3 hours too late.

In a torrent of fury and sadness he whipped out his wand and spun around, yelling. Flames blazed from the thin wood's tip. The gazebo of roses caught fire and began to burn into a huge inferno of lost love, with Severus Snape at its center.

He stood, head bowed, with a few tiny drops of sparkling water rolling down his cheeks. Fire burned around him as it did inside. Lily was never going to come-she had never even been planning to come. She didn't really love him. He had lost her. No-he had never even had her.

The very idea that she had liked him had all been an illusion from the beginning. She was just leading him on. But what had been her motivation? He didn't know. He didn't care.

All that mattered was that she'd humiliated him in a way that he'd never been humiliated before. The shame was not just external, but internal. He could feel the pain burning him slowly from the inside out. With the Marauders, the pain inflicted never affected his heart, brain or soul. It just turned people against him. But the way that Lily had hurt him-he couldn't even bear to think about her. He felt worthless and meaningless. He was nothing. He was the dead.

And as the wreckage of roses continued to burn around him, as tears rolled down from his black eyes, he looked up to the sky, to the stars, to the heavens-and wished for the revenge. He did not care who rendered it nor in what form it took-he just wanted revenge-pure and sweet. And then his tears hit the ground.

So, What do you think? Pleaze review, it would make me sooo happy that I'd...hmmm...do something totally crazy... I'll get back to you on that. :)