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Part 2

Now, I don't want to lose you
but I don't want to use you
just to have somebody by my side.
And I don't want to hate you,
I don't want to take you
but I don't want to be the one to cry.

And that don't really matter to anyone anymore.
But like a fool I keep losing my place
and I keep seeing you walk through that door.

But there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough.

Now, I could never change you
I don't want to blame you.
Baby, you don't have to take the fall.
Yes, I may have hurt you, but I did not desert you.
Maybe I just want to have it all.

It makes a sound like thunder
it makes me feel like rain.
And like a fool who will never see the truth,
I keep thinking something's gonna change.

But there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.
There's a reason why people don't stay where they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough.


And there's no way home
when it's late at night and you're all alone.
Are there things that you wanted to say?
And do you feel me beside you in your bed,
there beside you, where I used to lay?

And there's a danger in loving somebody too much,
and it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch.
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are.
Baby, sometimes, love just ain't enough.

Baby, sometimes, love... it just ain't enough.

Severus watched Hermione from behind as she fixed her hair. She was thin from stress and forgetting to eat. Severus had tried to tell her to eat more, but she never listened to him.

She adjusted her clothing now, the black silk shirt of his hanging off of her. She paused for a moment, looking straight at him and turned around. Severus smiled warmly at her. She merely looked away and walked passed him. She had been so distant and sad lately. How he wished he could take that away from her. It was unlike her to be so distraught.

"Hermione, please speak to me. You never keep secrets from me…" He pleaded, kneeling down in front of her. She let her hands fall down in front of her, her eyes tearing up.

"Leave me alone. Just leave me alone." She said shaking her head. She closed her eyes, sinking to the floor, her wedding ring glinting in the dim firelight.

Severus bit his lip, keeping his hands off of her.

"Please…" He whispered.

She shook her head again and got up, running from the room leaving Severus alone. He stood up, at a loss for what he should do. He entertained the thought of running after her, but if she was upset with him, he didn't want to push her. He knew better than to push her. He wandered into the room and sat on the bed.

Why was she so upset with him? He would find out when she came back.

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The door closed and Severus looked up to see Hermione walk into the room slowly and look around. Her eyes rested where he was sitting but moved away quickly. She instead went to stand in front of the full length mirror in their bedroom. She stared at herself for a while with such grief that it broke his heart.

She took her hair out of the bun and let it fall at her shoulders. She looked so unhealthy. He stood and walked to her, watching her silently. She watched her eyes trail down her own body. After a moment, she took his shirt off and let it fall to the floor. She was too thin. Severus wanted to shake her so badly. Do anything to get it into her head that she needed to take care of herself. But she wouldn't even look at him. He turned away and went to the bed again, looking at the in-table next to it. A small bit of folded parchment sat there. He reached to open it but his hand passed through it. Severus took a step back, blinking.

What the hell?

He tried again but with the same result. This couldn't be.

He looked at Hermione again. She was naked now, her hands running over the jutting curves of her hips. Tears were in her eyes again, lip trembling.

"What's going on here?" He whispered angrily, confusion written all over his face. He crossed to her again. She said nothing.

"Hermione…?" He whispered again.

She closed her eyes, covering her ears. Tears slipped down her cheeks in a flood, her shoulders shaking.

When she opened her eyes, she looked straight at the mirror, not seeing him. Not hearing him. Not know he was there.

He realized at that moment that he was dead. She was grieving for him. She couldn't hear him. She wasn't ignoring him.

She turned from the mirror and lay down on the bed, her hand reaching for his wand. He looked in his pocket for it, still skeptical.

"If love isn't real, what do I feel? I'm sorry, Severus…so sorry…"

Severus looked at her again. She had turned it upon herself.

"NOOOOOOOOO!"

Severus ran forward.

"Avada Kedavra…" A green flash of light burst in the room and Severus covered his eyes. When he looked again, she was gone. He touched her face, his hands trembling. She didn't stir.

Please no.

No breath.

Please no.

"Severus?" He spun around and behind his angel. She smiled tearfully at him.

She no longer looked unhealthy. She looked like she did the day he had left to the deatheaters meeting.

The two embraced. On the table, the picture of their wedding day began to move again. Never again would they be parted.