Disclaimer: Harry Potter isn't mine.

Severus' POV

It doesn't seem real at first, but then it hits you all at once. It's really over. He won't be coming to your rooms tonight, like he usually does, giving you that sheepish grin that always makes you want ravish him. He won't be ambushing you in the hallways, pulling you into alcoves and kissing you senseless, then sending you off to teach with a horribly uncharacteristic grin on your face. He won't be doing anything like that, because he left you. You always expected Remus would leave you eventually, but not like this. Not for him. For all your anticipation of loss, it still hurts. It's just salt in the wound that Sirius Black, even after twelve years in Azkaban, is still handsomer than you. Of course, there's no point in crying; it's not what you want anyway. What you want is revenge. And you get it. A single conversation, carefully staged, with that brat Malfoy nearby, and his secret is out. He won't be able to stay. You'll never have to see him again.