The glass was cold to the touch, damp. Fingerprints were left behind; dust clinging to cracked fingertips. Particles sparkled in the lowlight, stirred by the breaths that fogged up the glass; dry lips almost touching the cold, reflective surface.
Eyes; cold, dark; unblinking. Pale cheeks; flushing garishly.
'Lily.'
breathed against the glass; reverently, pleadingly.
A hand, reaching out; stroking; remembering soft, warm skin; touching hard, cold glass.
'Lily.'
'Lily.'
'Lily.'
Drowning, suffocating; hard, cold glass; cold, damp, darkness. Salt trailing over lips; touching, exploding on the tongue.
'Lily.'
Fingers clenching on air; around the cold, cold golden frame; twisting between strands of lank, dark hair; pulling, stretching; pulling, stretching. Stinging, pulsing; everything is stinging, pulsing.
Green, green eyes; looking down, away.
'Lily, please…'
broken.
.
A gasp. trembling, short breaths; dark hair clinging to pallid skin; plastered, glued in place by the damp. Fingers, trembling; shaking as they reach out; blindly, searchingly until they are curled around a wooden stick.
Slowly, slowly darkness is creeping away to hide in the cracks; a dim light; soft, illuminating, spreading. Eyes; cold, dark; blinking rapidly. Pale lips; trembling, sucking in air; air that gets stuck, winding around the trachea; tight, tight, tight.
Head bending; dark hair falling, trailing down pale cheeks, a bony collarbone. Shoulders curling down; ears scratching against the worn cloth stretched over skin, over meat, over bones.
Dull, pulsing; heavy.
'Severus?'
Inquiring, demanding.
Green light flickering, small sparks dancing; wood crackling.
Shoulders tensing; curling tighter; easing. Head lifting; dark hair slipping down slopes and hollows.
'Yes?'
drawn out, gravelly; unused.
'Could you come to my office in thirty minutes?' pause. 'Harry had a nightmare. It's time.'
The green has faded before he has the time to answer.
.
One button. Two buttons. Three buttons.
Shoulders lowering; spine straightening.
Eyes; cold, dark, blank.
bang.
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A/N: I used to have an account here several years ago, but I can't remember the password/email to that one, so I created a new one. It has been years since I wrote anything creative, and this was my attempt at experiment with writing again. I want to apologise for any grammatical/spelling mistakes, as English is not my first language. I have gone through the document a couple of times, but might have missed something.
Hope you enjoyed this little experimental piece.