˗ˏˋ 𝓢͟𝐄͟𝐕͟𝐄𝐑𝐔𝐒 𝓢𝐍𝐀𝐏𝐄 .ᐟ ´ˎ˗

⠀⠀ shooting stars never fly for me. my heart’s on mars, kinda hard to see. but you know, you know, I’ll see you again. ⠀⠀

@LilyLoveEvans — children ‘again’. It had already happened once. “Do you want to go see him?” Severus asked. “Quietly, we can sit with Harry while he sleeps…”

@LilyLoveEvans — hair, stroking her back with steady hands. “I’m so sorry, Lily. I won’t let anyone take your children again. I swear it on my life.” The words leaving his mouth, while firm with conviction, left him feeling so insurmountably guilty. ‘Again’. I won’t let anyone take your —

ㅤㅤ 𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝟑𝟎 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎 – 𝟑𝟏 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟏 ㅤ

@LilyLoveEvans — hoarse with sleep. To punctuate his point he let a hand fall to her stomach. Harry was safe in bed with his guard dog, and their baby was but a formation of cells in her womb. Neither of them were in danger. “Breathe, my love.”

@LilyLoveEvans — his brain. With gentle hands, Severus pulled Lily in against himself- partly trying to embrace her and partly trying to restrain her. “Lily, Lils-… Harry is safe, the baby is safe,” he tried to say over her shouts while maintaining some level of soothing calmness, his voice —

@LilyLoveEvans — into the warmth of his neck, Severus curled around Lily like a protective cocoon and closed his eyes. “It is not a dream, my darling Lily,” he whispered in the darkness. “I would bring you home to me in any life.”

@LilyLoveEvans — wait. Their month of peace was very nearly over. Soon they would need to decide what to do, which risks to take. Unwilling to ruin Lily’s innocent happiness, Severus betrayed nothing of his troubled thoughts. They would figure all of it out tomorrow. With her face pressed —

@LilyLoveEvans — overcome with the desire to meet them. Maybe they would be born with the sweet disposition of their mother. Perhaps they would love fast quips and sarcastic humor as Severus did. It didn’t really matter who they turned out to be. Severus already loved them.

@LilyLoveEvans — raise these little carbon copies, hmm? I fear we got lucky with Harry. Any true offspring of mine are no doubt to be hellions.” Severus’ hand stroked across Lily’s belly, unable to feel anything changed within her but knowing it was there all the same. All at once, he was —

@LilyLoveEvans — to picture it. Stroking a calloused hand across her bare arm, Severus murmured, “You have always been my family, Lily Evans. Ever since we were little ourselves.”

@LilyLoveEvans — kiss upon kiss to her rosy lips, “how many children do you 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕?” One child with his garish looks and biting wit was a heavy concept enough for the rest of the world- ‘little boys and girls’ worth of it would be too much for anyone. He chuckled, low in his throat, trying —

@LilyLoveEvans — mattered- how much had been at stake. Harry was protected and his mother was returned to him. It was a fever dream, this life. “Sometimes I think we’re still playing,” he whispered, smiling almost solemnly in the darkness.

@LilyLoveEvans — he’d found her dead on the floor in Godric’s Hollow, he wasn’t even sure that taking Harry and running was the right thing to do. Everything he touched seemed to ruin- he couldn’t afford condemning that sweet little boy to the same fate. Now he knew how much that choice —