Name: Sab

House: Ravenclaw

Task: Triple threat june

Prompt: "Did you really think you'd get away with it?"

Title: Love, Lily xo

Summary: Lily writes a letter to mourn her friendship.

Genre: Friendship

Characters: Lily Evans P., Severus. s.

Word count: 530

Dear Severus,

I shouldn't be writing. When you receive this, maybe you'll be happy, you'll be glad that I wrote but you'll know afterwards that I shouldn't be writing. But I figured I owed you at least this much. I felt that I could at least try and write to you. You know the funny thing about writing, it's that it's much harder to argue with someone, to contradict someone, to forgive someone. I couldn't risk seeing you and having you convince me that you didn't mean it, because I know you did.

When you came to the Gryffindor common room yesterday, I almost wanted to forgive you again, try to make up once again, but you and I both know this would be happening again only a bit later.

But don't get me wrong, your friendship was one of the most wonderful things I had in my life. When you came and talked to me, explained everything to me, accepted me it was one of the best days of my life and so many happy moments are filled with you. I will treasure them for the rest of my life and until I'm an old grandma and the memories start to slip away, I will remember.

Like I told you, I didn't want to disappear last night. You know I'm a very forgiving person, I've forgiven Petunia so many times though you tried to convince me not to, to be less kind. I forgave you so many times too, for what happened to Marlene, then what happened to Mary, then your books I found, then what I heard you say. It was so, so difficult this time round though.

Did you really think you'd get away with it?

I ask you honestly. Please don't reply to me, but let me believe that you actually thought the question through. When that word came out of your mouth, it seemed to be naturally their already. After all, you had already thrown it at so many other people so one more shot was just normal. It was just coming wasn't it? And it broke my heart. Shattered it. It threatened to erase all those memories I told you of but I held onto them because somewhere deep inside I still hope.

Well, I hope you will truly understand that your error is not just towards me, but towards every other person you've treated like me. However, I have almost no hope left for you and me, barely more than a droplet, a tear perhaps, buried deep, deep down, so deep that you will probably have to mend the error of your ways before I could even start to think about it. And it saddens me so, so much that this is the way that we ended, but friends don't work like that. Maybe we hadn't even been friends for a long time.

Anyway, this time you won't get away with it, and I hope you learn from what has happened. I know I've learnt a lot.

So dear Severus, you've finally found the limit of my forgiveness but it was truly wonderful being your friend, I will cherish it.

Love,

Lily xo