Authors Note: I'm sure that whatever happens to Severus in Book 7 it will be to declare his innocence. It been I think 2 years since I last posted a real fiction. I am most grateful to anyone who reads this fic. I figure I can't continue it so I will just tie it up and end it on a bittersweet note. I love you Severus. (I also apologize for any inconsistencies between canon and fandom or any errors in the timeline…just consider this as Alternate Universe please)
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And the Rain Came Tumbling Down: Epilogue
Severus held on to the picture the dust glazed over the constantly smiling Eridani and a younger smirking version of himself. He could not, for all the wealth in the world, remember where the picture was taken.
So many unfortunate things had transpired from the time that picture was taken to the present.
Severus wondered where his friend had disappeared to? Did she ever marry and have children? Or did she die in the war?
Severus shook his head and chided himself for feeling sentimental. He had half the mind the burn the picture up into cinders, but the other half, the small part that Eridani had embedded inside of him, the memories that mingled within his mind would not allow him to burn the last remnant of his friend.
He opened an old potions book, one of his favorites, and slipped the picture inside of it like a quasi-bookmark.
He remembered that night He fled to join Voldemort in the peak of the war, Eridani had seen the light, the truth. He was blinded by his own selfish desires; she had joined the Order of the Phoenix.
The wind blew hard and the rain beat across Eridani's face as Severus tried to convince to join him. She wouldn't hear any of it; she waved the wand the very
one he taught her how to use.
" You have 30 seconds to leave or I will not hesitate to kill you!!" She shouted at him through the billowing rain.
He remembered fixing her a cold stare, he knew she was bluffing she couldn't do it. He couldn't tell whether she was crying or if it was the rain streaming down her face.
He simply raised his wand and disaperated and Eridani was lost to him forever in a wet warping vortex never to see her again.
He could ask Dumbledore he would know what happened to her, but Severus almost felt too embarrassed to ask him about it. To conjure up old memories that should have been buried long ago.
He found it odd however to find the picture now after all these years, the idea that it was even in his possession was an odd coincidence.
Severus smiled, there are no such things as coincidence at least not in his life.
He looked outside his window it was raining, pure droplets of water clean and beautiful. He wondered if he could ever truly be redeemed for what he did if he could ever be as pure as the raindrops tumbling from the sky.
A soft knock came from his door. Severus cocked his eyebrow and turned his attention to the door.
He carefully opened the door and…
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.
I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called "Yellow."
So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all "Yellow."
Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
You know, you know I love you so,
You know I love you so.
I swam across,
I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
Cos you were all "Yellow,"
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all "Yellow."
Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
And you know for you,
I'd bleed myself dry for you,
I'd bleed myself dry.
It's true, look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine.
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And all the things that you do.
Yellow (Taken from "Parachutes") Coldplay
bows as the curtain drops