Its been a long time since i read this fic and im in a different place now but after re reading it i thought id try another chapter to see if it goes okay. Obviously for this fic nape never died in deathly hallows. also Ebony Starstorm you poem was beautiful im only sorry i didn't read it sooner.

Exactly 10 years later

Severus POV

Irony the doctor was telling me I had what she had though mines incurable I don't have the choice of treatment its gone to far. That okay though. Maybe now I will be able to join her but then again I wasn't as pure as she was.

Its amazing though this time I never forgot i remember when she used to sit in my arms and I could feel her shudder. Never once did I realise how much pain came with it. She had covered me from that. I wish she would of let me know.

Minevera come to me a few times a day im still in my room at Hogwarts. She doesn't want me to die alone. Funny I don't feel alone I feel her when my cough i feel her whisper comfort. Then I reprimand myself she wouldn't have stayed she was to brave to strong to become a ghost. But still i can feel her.

As my life of a teacher and my life of a spy the one thing i know is happiness is fleeting the times you don't realise are the best of your life. Its cliché and i would never tell anyone this but it true

She taught me to still believe. So many times that i wanted to kill myself but i knew that would of been a waste to her memory and i know she cared for me.

The pain at night is unbearable how did she keep so quiet. I dreamed of her last night she was so alive she smiled and said its okay. She resited a muggle poem

"Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush.

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there. I did not die"

I wish I could of stayed in that dream instead I woke up being sick the pain caused this numbing sensation and I couldn't move and so i though of her and the pain couldn't touch me. From now i will think of her to get me though the pain.

Minevera POV

Ive seen so much though my life but Severus snape always astounded me he always came of calm and aloof of as hard ass were moments as a child I saw him love. He loved one of my own house. He loved lily but whilst at the time I truely believed he would never love again until i found him that night.

He was clutching a note I approached him as he was in a ball crying and i crouched beside him he looked at me tears rolling down his eyes. "I loved her back." I knelt beside him and said " Severus if this is to much if Hermione was too much like Lilly we can get someone else." He turned at me then with a sad smile. "Lilly was my soul mate Minevra but Hermione was my heart my soul and my being."

I wondered what he meant until one day i heard him counselling a student. "you may be sad that dorstoff has a new partner but you are important you have known each other since children and that bond never goes away."

He then surprised me by saying. "The ancient Greeks used to believe that are soul are now split in two and that the two parts create one people. Now let me tell you a secret. Soul mates aren't lovers like most people believe there just the other part of the person both sides of a coin they have a friendship that is stronger than anything can kill even death wont stop that part but when your sol mate someone that has their heart the soul mate must move aside and be happy for if there happy so will there eternal friend. Dont worry because the day you have someone who hold your heart soul and true love you will become complete."

As a professor I never heard of something so poetic and sad. When he said he loved Hermione I though that he was just i grief and that it was a misplaced infatuation. After he calm the student i followed him to her grave. It had been 5 years and her grave was full of flowers and life as it had been the day she was buried. I watched from afar as he placed anoth flower on her grave. I admit i followed him dor a while every night he would return. Every night he would talk to her thinking he was alone. No matter what the weather he returned. I know they where never lovers in this life I trust he would never be in appropriate with a student but his love to me was clear. Never in my life had is en such devotion. I wish people could see what i saw from then on but most talked about the bat of the dunegeon the ogre that didn't know how to love. The truth is I had met someone that loved as much as Severus snape.

Severus POV

I know I haven't got long left and im okay with it Minevra looks sad evertime she vists i know Hermione hated that look and I know why know. Funny she still keeps teaching me things. My hands are tired I'm going to sleep now.

It was three days before anybody found Severus Snapes body. As Mineva cleared his room she found a note.

Minevra If you are reading this then i am dead Hermione granger left a note for me and now i want to write one for her. Her wishes were in a hundred years someone would fine it and acknowledge what I done in the war. She wanted my effort to be noticed however i never wanted stature or people to understand but i wish they understood her. She was able to give her whole being to everyone that she met. The world praises Harry potter but she was the brain and heart behind the operation she fough the dark magic when she knew she had cancer and she fought even more to protect her friends. The many years she struggle but didn't let anyone know. Her intellect knew no bouts her courage new no fear and her love was endless to any that wanted it even to an old fool like me she could see into everybody and find a goodness even they had forgot.

The war against voldermort was a hard battle and may people who should of been honour have been forgot she has been forgot and that is unfair Harry potter didn't killed Voldermort on his own. Hermione Jane Granger was the brain or the golen trio the world should never forget.

Now Minevra please look after these notes and when the time is right place them together so that in 90 years they can be read together and know that in that one moment to lovers who never got a chance to be together in life has that moment in death

S/S

Okay so was this okay or rubbish i wrote it pretty late in the night.