The cold, bitter wind bit into him, a reminder of what a ghost town the place had become. And he realized that he had been pushed too far.

He wasn't going to admit that he needed this. That they both lived for this. Songfic to Nine Inch Nail's Closer.

Sirius/Snape

At the end of the trio's third year, one artifact remains behind, awaiting shipment back to the ministry. The one thing that could fix his life. It wouldn't be that difficult to go back and manipulate things into working, would it? A few well placed words here, a few slights about James Potter there, and he could make her see who the better choice was, coudn't he? He had the chance to fix his life, he wasn't going to just throw it away.
But a few words linger his head - Que Sera Sera

The first thing that they taught you in the Auror Academy was not to fall in love. And if you do, make sure it's with someone on your side. But you'd been foolish enough to fall for him, the master manipuator. And he used you. You were foolish enough to fall in love, but then again, love makes fools of us all.

Moody/Snape.

There is a gland in the brain-not quite in the brain, but surrounded by it, called the pineal gland, that, in the second before death, lets forth a torrent of dimethyltryptamine, a mind altering substance believed to make the transistion into death painless for the mind.

He liked the pretty colors, the red, the gold, but most of all, the green. The green just like her eyes. It was safe. It was warm. It was secure. And for the first time in longer than he could remember, he was happy.

Insuferrable know-it-all was what he called her. He mocked her, tormented her, and refused to accept anything less than perfection from her. She could see now, while frozen in fear, just what he was attempting to achieve. And she realized that ignorance was in fact bliss.

There was an ephemeral glimpse of heaven, wherein he could wak through the gates of paradise.

Snape likes who? Who's madly in love with that? A love quadrangle of epic proportions.

Every girl dreams about their wedding day, right? But no one thinks of that moment on the precipice when they decide whether or not they want to go through with it. After all, what if he really doesn't love you? What if he dies? What if you wake up tomorrow and decide you really don't want this?

But she made a promise to him when she said she'd get married. And Hermione Granger doesn't break promises.

You haven't slept in so long. But this could have been avoided. You're not dead, you're not a live, you're not undead, you merely exist. Even the undead sleep eventually.

He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. - John 19:30

It was over. They couldn't believe in their safe little world of pretend anymore.

He cried out in a loud voice Eli Eli Lema  Sabachthani. Which is translated 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" -Matthew 27:46/Mark  15:34

He stands alone on the battlefied, forsaken, alone.

And he turned to him and said 'Truly I say to you, today you shall be with me in paradise.' ~Luke 23:43

The Dark Lord has never made a promise he could not keep.

Part two of the Seven Words series.