a year later, a lifetime apart | incomplete (original) (raw)

Who: Lily Evans (charmedlikefire) & Severus Snape (vialart)
What: The first civil meeting after the Fifth Year Incident.
When: Beginning of their seventh year.
Where: On the Hogwarts Express.
Verse: Canon

Rating: G/PG

It wasn't often that Lily Evans was left alone. Usually she had a group of friends surrounding her, of Gryffindors and Ravenclaws and sometimes Hufflepuffs, or Potter and Black bothering her or a load of first years coming up and asking her what it was like to know both Potter and Black.

Her answer was always the same.

"Wretched."

Today, however, her friends had wandered off after the lunch trolley and Potter and Black were nowhere to be seen, thank Merlin. Which left Lily Evans sitting in her train compartment all by herself and casually reading through a wizarding magazine that Alice had left out on the seat.

It wasn't often that Lily Evans was left alone. But on the rare occasions she was, she found that she enjoyed it quite a bit.