Amortentia

by TheNextFolchart

He noticed her beauty from all the way across the train station. / How Sirius and Marlene found, loved, and lost each other - in only 100 chapters. Written primarily for the "100 Prompts, 100 Drabbles, 100 Words Or Less Challenge" on HPFC. Dedicated to Safari (wouldtheywriteasongforyou). [Word Count: 9,839]

84. Maybe

LXXXIV. Maybe

Marlene didn't buy it. "You never contacted me. Not in nine years."

"I didn't know what to say."

"Must not have wanted to talk to me very much, then."

"I wanted to apologize. I wanted to - "

"But you didn't." She had her hands in her hair. "Merlin, Sirius, d'you know what I went through? Being away from you was torture. The worst kind of withdrawal. And I kept waiting for it to get better, for the amortentia to wear off, and it never did. So I started to think - maybe I did love you."

"Maybe you do," he said quietly.