Fan Fiction ❯ Everlasting Sacrifice ❯ Everlasting Sacrifice ( Chapter 1 )

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Everlasting Sacrifice

My Last Breath

Hold onto me love

You know I can't stay long

All I wanted to say was I love you

And I'm not afraid

Can you hear me?

Can you feel me in your arms...?

It was time to fight. Voldemort the Dark Lord must pay and suffer for all he has done these past few years.

"Who will challenge me?" he asked a taunt towards the gathered battlers of the light against his army of Death Eaters. I stood by Lily as the battle began. Severus was on the opposite side, to keep up the illusion that he was fighting for the Dark Lord, but he really was just a clever spy.

"I will," I called out, stepping forward.

"Of course, the little girl who has caused me that much trouble and then some. I must inform you that I have found a weakness in your attacks and the like, and you will pay for trying to stop me," he boasted. A ministry official in the back murmured that he would be happy if we killed each other off. I smiled.

"Well, aren't we the cocky little villain!" I said, and drew into my elemental power of Water, under the Neptune planet. That should be fine for now, but I have a backup plan, just in case this time he puts up a fight.

"Well, let's begin child. AVADA KEDAVRA!" he shouted, aiming at me.

"Yes, to begin. Mawate Umi!" I yelled, and easily blocked the death curse. As a dragon, I could have let it hit me and it still would have done nothing, but I decided not to let him know the full extent of dragons just yet.

"Clever girl," he said.

"You should know my modern magics can easily overcome your little death curse!" I yelled over the sounds. I was ready to win. I knew that I could.

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts of you?

Sweet rapture and light it ends here tonight…

"Die woman!" he shouted, sending out another spell. The battle had begun around us as well. I dodged the spell while observing my friends. Lily and Severus were caught between a rock and a hard place, sort of, right in front of each other. They were working out some way to help each other, but then Lily just decided to run after another death eater. I countered with a spell of Neptune storms, and considered changing my element and changing the weather. I jumped back a few steps and muttered some dragon tongue. Rain clouds blanketed the sky as I changed into a more watery icy kind of person. I was more than ready now.

"Water, envelope my enemies, wash the dirt and grime of evil and heal old wounds… Drowning Funnel!" I shouted and double jets of water shot out when I waved my arms forward.

I'll miss the winter

A world of fragile things

Look for me in the white forest hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)…

Both sides were backing into their original positions, but the Dark Lord and I battled fiercely as we both did whenever we had crossed paths in the future. I hated him more than anything. I looked and saw Severus stuck on our side, not exactly knowing where to go. Lily looked worried too.

I know you hear me

I can taste it in your tears…

"Well, it seems now I must exploit your weakness child, for you have angered me for the last time. The fact that you care has always been your undoing and it will be someone's death tonight. I'll make sure of that. I will not leave this battle unless I myself have fallen," the Dark Lord boasted once again, and aimed his wand. I thought it was aimed at me…

Holding my last breath

Safe inside my self…

He began to speak a slow spell; I couldn't understand it at all…

Are all my thoughts of you?

Sweet rapture and light it ends here tonight…

A sword of some sort shot out, and time seemed to slow.

"Missed me!" I said.

"Who said I was aiming for you?" he asked, and I looked at the sword as it was being hurtled towards SEVERUS!!! I ran to intercept it.

Closing your eyes to disappear

I ran right in front of the blade

You pray your dreams will leave you here

It struck me in the stomach, and I began to fall to the ground

But still you wake and know the truth

NO one's there…

"NOOO!" Severus cried, and Voldemort laughed and left me to die, left the school grounds. Severus came and engulfed me in his arms. They were warm, and I felt cold.

"Severus? Are you there?" I asked as my sight faded.

Say goodnight

"I'm here my love," he murmured, and pressed his forehead up against mine.

"Goodbye love," I whispered as he gripped my hand.

Don't be afraid

"You can't die!" Lily cried as she rushed forward with everyone else.

"Please don't fear this. It's… okay… I'm… ready… I die… how I… want to die… Severus, I love you…" I said as I faded in and out of reality and time…

Calling me calling me back as you fade to black

I could hear him call my name and then I could hear everyone's and sense their tears, I felt Severus's on my face. My breaths missed beats, and I grew colder and colder. I coughed up blood.

"Severus, I'm sorry," I murmured and I felt no more…

~1 Week later~ 3rd person~

~Say goodnight

Holding my last breath

A funeral, a man in black, crying as a casket is set into the deep earth. The tombstone reads, `Katherine Anne Forest Snape, loving wife, loving friend, loving sister'

~2 weeks after that~

~Don't be afraid

Safe inside myself

Severus stands before a sink, a knife in his hand. He cannot take his own life, but has made a decision to live out what his wife wanted, not out of sorrow, but out of remembrance… He takes his long braid and cuts it off, leaving it shoulder length.

A man in black stands before a tombstone, he drops the cut hair, which is wrapped around a red rose at the foot of the tombstone.

"I shall never love another like you again, my wife," he says, and turns and walks away.

Severus stands before a trial, and is acquitted of all charges. He returns home, and begins a resume letter.

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