Description: Snape about a lost love with a certain pair of unforgettable eyes. Seeing as I called this I'm not putting up a Spoiler Warning. If I could see it and shipped it then it's obvious, right? Also as of August 21 I will no longer put up Spoiler Warnings. I'm sorry, but nothing I put in these will reveal too much, though if you aren't done then take what you like as theory--same can go to those in denial also. Please enjoy and review.

Dedication: To Snape, 'cause I HATE it when your love marries another girl, or guy in this case.

Disclaimer: I don't own Rent, or Harry Potter.

Your Eyes

Severus Snape sneered as he glanced around the Great Hall. The first years could be so annoying. His mind drifted back to his own days at Hogwarts. This was the very room in which he lost both, his best friend and the only girl he ever loved.

'Your eyes, as we said your goodbyes. Can't get them out of my mind,' He thought as the scene replayed in his mind. It was his fifth year. They had just finished their Owls and James Potter and his friends had just finished humiliating him. Nothing unusual. Lily Evans had stepped up to save him, but he didn't want to be saved by her. He wanted to be the one to save him. 'Mudblood' he'd called her. Mudblood. He said it like it was something foul that you didn't want on you. He tried to apologize to her. Lily wouldn't have it. She was stubborn, that was one of the things he loved about her. She was upset, he could tell. She was upset with him, though, this time, not Potter.

The Great Hall filled. The noise snapped him back to the present. The black caught the green. His expression changed, involuntary.

'And I find can't hide from your eyes.'

Once he drew himself away from the boy-who-lived's eyes the rest of him came into view. The Potter was a walking copy of his father. His expression easily returned to his usual sneer.

'The ones that took me by surprise. The night you came into my life.'

His mind began to drift again. He had seen her use magic when she was young. They were only six or seven, but Lily could already use it on purpose. That's what caught Severus' attention. Her eyes were so green, so happy. The opposite of his own. It was Halloween and she was out with her sister. He was sitting on a chair in his front yard; his father would only start yelling at them again if Severus asked to go with the Evans girls. 'Where there's moonlight I see your eyes.'

Severus was snapped back to reality as Harry Potter's name was called for the sorting. The hat sat on the boy's head an unusually long time. What could it be doing? Severus knew the boy would be in Gryfindor. Both his parents had, and his mother was an exceptionally brave woman, even in her Hogwarts days. He was right. The unprepared boy moved to his table, his father would've been proud. Though, he would've been proud if the boy wanted something Quiddich related. The Sorting and Announcements ended. The students dug into their food, the Great Hall filling with noise again. Severus watched the Potter boy, sneering slightly more than usual.

'How'd I let you slip away? I'm longing so to hold you.'

He stood and slipped out of the Great Hall the first second he felt he could. He walked down the empty corridors, suddenly he felt like the same boy he had when this school was his fourteen years ago. Severus stopped once he found the trophy case he wanted. It was held near the Ravenclaw common room; for good reason, every award in this case wasn't for valor or service to the school, but for knowledge, for being the brightest. Lily Evans shinned over many of the trophies. Severus' hand hovered over the glass. "I'd die for one more day, because there's something I should have told you." He whispered to the plaque. "There's something I should have told you. When I looked into your eyes--" he stopped. Why couldn't he say it when she was alive? When she was by his side when every one in her house hated the Slytherins for the mere fact they were Slytherins.

"Why does distance make us wise? You were the one all along, and before you died…I should've told you. I should've told you…" He whispered. He smiled at the case sadly. His reflection caught his eye. "I have always loved you! You can see it in my eyes!" He closed his eyes, leaning his head forward. "Lily…" He whispered, opening his eyes to her shining plaques.