*I don't own Harry Potter (cry)*
"Oy, Lils, guess what?"
Lily brought her head up from a book to see Mary racing towards her from across the common room. "What, Mary?"
Mary's smile faded slightly at the wobbly tone in Lily's voice. She was still upset about the incident with Severus, earlier that day. "Lily, Severus is outside the dorm, he's threatening to sleep out there if you don't go talk to him."
Lily blanched. She was torn with emotions. On one hand, she really did want to hear what Severus had to say, on the other, well, she couldn't forgive him. Not for all the things he had done to her. Lily sighed. "Fine. I'll go."
Mary looked surprised. She had been expecting Lily to turn down the offer. But she had underestimated the friendship Lily and Severus had had.
Lily got up and walked out of the portrait hole, cloak swishing behind her. The back of the portrait closed with a hollow Bang!
A once friendly face met Lily's eyes.
"I'm sorry."
"I'm not interested."
"I'm sorry!"
"Save your breath."
Severus opened his mouth again, but Lily cut him off.
"I only came out because Mary told me you were threatening to sleep here."
"I was. I would have done. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Hate clouded Lily's eyes. "Slipped out?" There was no pity in her voice. "It's too late." She was done. Done, defending Severus at her own expense. Done arguing with him about every little thing. Done trying to convince him to change his ways.
"I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends- you see, you don't even deny it! You don't even deny that's what you're all aiming to be! You can't wait to join You-Know-Who, can you?"
Severus almost defended himself, then closed his mouth.
"I can't pretend anymore. You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine." And Lily's heart shattered. There was something about pretending, pretending gave her hope that maybe Severus could turn out okay. Now the time for pretending was done.
"No- listen, I didn't mean-"
But Lily had steeled her resolve. She had no pity for the Slytherin boy anymore.
"-to call me Mudblood? But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?"
Again, Severus tried to speak, but Lily didn't want to hear it. She gave him one last look of contempt, and turned her back on the boy who, this morning, was her best friend. Now, he was nothing to her but a budding Death Eater.
Lily climbed back through the portrait hole, and flew up into her dorm. Only Alyssa and Marlene were in there- both purebloods, and Lily didn't feel like talking to them right now. So she just lay face down on her bed, and sobbed to her heart's content. And the other girls let her cry, without disturbing her. And none of the other Gryffindor girls knew it, but Lily's heart was shattering, and somewhere in the dungeons, a Slytherin boy's heart was shattering to.
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