Prompt: Splash
Rating: PG
Pairings: Severus/Lily
Word Count: 348
Severus collapsed on the floor. The pale body of Lily Evans –not Potter- was lying on her stomach on the floor. Her green eyes were glazed over; her fiery red hair looked dull in the light. A baby was crying in the background, but that did not matter to Severus. Not yet. With a great effort to breathe again, he picked up his dead love off the floor; tears streaked his face as he repeated over and over I'm sorry.
Grief engulfed him. Forever he would mourn for his lost love. His heart ached with pain; a pain he deserved for betraying her. Dumbledore, he thought. The old man said he would protect her!
Anger bubbled and mixed with the guilt and grief. His pale face streaked with tears, silent distressed sobs formed on his lips. He subconsciously glanced at the baby. No, he thought. Oh Lily.
Green, tear streaked eyes were staring at him: red, lightning bolt scar on his forehead.
Unable to stay here any longer with his dead Lily in his arms, he disapparated to meet Dumbledore back in his office at Hogwarts.
"You said you would keep her safe!" Severus bellowed at Dumbledore, not bothering to keep his emotions in check.
"Lily and James put their faith in the wrong person. If you truly loved her, help me protect the boy. Severus, after all this time?" Dumbledore asked gravely.
Casting a patronus in the form of a doe, Severus said quietly, "Always."
He had had enough with the old man, storming out in a bat-like fashion, Severus walked by the lake.
Memories flashed before his eyes; the bullying, that word, the childhood memories ceased, and Severus found himself ankle deep in the lake. Picking up stones, he began to toss them. Splash the pebbles sounded faint in his ears. Eternal mourning…lost…love…Lily…I love you….Always. These thoughts ran incoherently through his mind. Another splash of a pebble and Severus fled. He fled from his grief, his lost love, his anger and guilt, he fled from this world. But he will never escape his undying love.