a/n- thank you for all the wonderful reviews! you guys make checking my email every morning feel like christmas. this song was suggested by Pebbles827- i'm sorry it's not marlene/sirius or rose/scorpius, but i had this thought for this song and had to go with it. also, thanks to Heimarmene for leaving one of the sweetest reviews in the world! more song and pairing suggestions are always appreciated.

happy reading! vi

Title: Chosen Your Team

Pairing: Lily, Severus

Song: Back to December, Taylor Swift

Words: 366

"Hey, Lily," Severus Snape said, giving the redheaded girl the biggest smile he could possibly muster.

"Hi, Sev-Snape," Lily Evans replied, trying not to care about the way his face dropped when she corrected herself midsentence. Her arms were crossed over her chest, and she had shifted all of her weight onto one of her legs.

"Did you get your exam results back?"

"Yes," Lily said shortly.

"How did they go?" he asked, his eyes not moving from hers.

"Fine," she said. She turned her eyes to the park in the distance. Severus followed her gaze, not knowing what else to do.

"How's Petunia?" he asked after a pause.

"She's fine," Lily said. The two of them stood there in an awkward silence for a while.

"Look, Lily," Severus said finally, "I'm sorry."

"I know," she said quietly.

"Does that mean-" His hopeful voice stopped abruptly when he saw the look on her face.

"No, Sev," she said. "It's never going to be the way it was."

"Why not?" Severus cried, throwing his arms up in the air out of frustration. "Bloody hell, Lily, if I could go back and take back what I said, you know I would!"

"But you can't," Lily whispered, turning to face him again. "And it's not just that. I could forgive you for calling me a mudblood. You were furious."

"Then why?" Severus asked, his voice cracking slightly.

"Because," Lily snapped as her patience ran thin, "you're fighting for the wrong side! Don't try and tell me that those friends of yours aren't twisted! Merlin, just look at what they did to Mary MacDonald! But you can't see it! You're in too deep!"

"But-"

"That's what I'll never be able to forgive you for, Severus," she continued, her face red. "I refuse to forgive you for being sucked in so far that you've been blinded by hate."

"Lily, I-"

"No, Snape," she said sharply. "I've chosen my team, and you've chosen yours."

Severus watched as his best friend, whose friendship he had managed to destroy, turned her back on him and walked away.

If only she knew, he thought, that the only team he was truly fighting for was hers.