Professor Snape was dead, Severus was alone. He did not mind. He was adrift, unmoored. He walked up and down the high street for hours, not even getting suspicious looks. This was not an area where grown men in funny clothes walking up and down high street aimlessly in the middle of the day got funny looks. This was not the kind of place where people looked at each other at all.

Always constructed around Lily, always overshadowed by other things and people, their tentative relationship offers only a very transitory shelter. A series of ten drabbles. Complete.

Oneshot. Ginny wanders the corridors of Hogwarts, contemplating her love - a person she would never have expected to fall in love with her. He seemed too different, too proud, too reserved, too cold...