Mirror Image

Ok this is really short but I had to write it. Love you all❤️

No TW this time.

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Severus stalked down the hall, frustrated but not too angry to think. That Potter boy was just as annoying as James, it pissed him off. Stupid Harry Potter thinking he was so smart. But who was Snape kidding? He would defend that boy with his life. He found what he was looking for, the mirror or erised. But to his astonishment his greatest wish hadn't changed. He growled. Because deep in the mirror, he saw a healthy Lily, smiling and waving with tears in her eyes. But not just Lily.

Severus Snape saw Lily Potter holding her tiny baby, maybe two years old now? He was giggling and playing with her warm hair, and at her side? James Potter, healthy and smiling as well, not a scratch on his golden skin. Snape gulped. He had loved Lily in a way he thought could only be met with romance. But he had never wanted to hurt her, because she was happy. She was happy with James and Snape loved her too much to cause her pain in any way. So he loved her, but he was happy for her. Tears burned in Snapes eyes as he remembered cradling Lily's broken body, looking down at a James still form, fingers still clutched around his wand in the doorway, prepared to defend his whole reason for existence. He had died for her, and Severus refused to forget it. The tears spilled over and he clutched the oak desk beside the mirror. What he wouldn't give to take their places, to die so they could return, happy and healthy and in love. Snape gasped as the pain hooked his heart, stabbed dead into his soul. His greatest wish, never to come true.