A/N: Thank you all very much for your reviews! This flavor is another suggested by Zoya (see, you guys should make some suggestions because I do use them). I hope all of you had a nice Halloween!

Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans

eight: lemon

He loves her because she can hate him.

Their relationship is not about the chase – it never really was. It was about the anger that flashed in her every word, every action, every whirl of crimson through the air when he was near; it was about the way her face twisted into that indescribable expression whenever she felt that intense hatred towards him.

It was about her ability to see his flaws, her courage in exhibiting them; maybe it still is.

She is nothing like the other girls – their significance vanished when they did. She is like lemon: sour and real and not always pleasant and, above all, absolutely impossible to erase.

He revels in those qualities because she's Lily Evans and she can see that he's not perfection and she can tear him out of the spotlight when she thinks he doesn't deserve it and she may be the only one who really can and he loves her for it.