This was a beautiful one-shot. Absolutely beautiful and poignant. I loved the unique style you wrote it in. You really are a great one-shot writer.

This was such a moving tribute to Severus's relationship with Lily. As he lay dying - there's a nod to Faulkner for you! - I can imagine how surreal it was to see Lily's eyes as Harry leaned over him. Then, moments later, the real thing.

I don't pity him dying. Really, I think it's usually worse for those left behind. Who wants to wake up the next morning and face the destruction? Like at the end of "Alas, Babylon," where Randy stands looking at the horizon, then turns to face the "thousand-year night."

Severus already went through his own private hell for almost forty years; I'm sure it was a relief to him to finally be with his Lily at the end.

All rignt... I'm going to cry... Right now on my desk ! Poor severus... Fate is too cruel with him ! I'm struggling to get back to my senses to find rationnal things to say about this beautiful OS... and to find the english words to convey my feelings. A quite difficult task in this case.I love the way you altern snape's thoughts and Lily's words. The parenthesis and the italics give great strength to the whole thing. The student of literature in me suggests that it is a very clever use of understatement. Lily's words are the core of this text but you makes them seem harmless because of the presentation. Consequence: the dialog between the snape of the present and the lily of the past becomes alive (can you say that in english ?) You can really hear the different charachter's voices. It is probably the major strength of this text. I also quite like the ending. You're right it is hopeful (but it nonetheless makes me sad because I know it can't really happen. And even if it happens... well... James Potter is also in paradise, isn't he ? ;) ). It is also striking to finish with a sentence without a verb. You are really under the impression that you are facing severus' vision. It was a great work and as you see I'm not the one for summary ! By the way I also wanted to ask you if you would allow me to translate some of your works in French ?

i loved it. it was very well written. it sounds like some struggle in Serverus' soul that really would have happened. very good.

Nice story! I love the whole Snape/Lily relationship (a few hours ago I posted a short oneshot called Promises about this pairing).

Good job!
- Gaby

wow... you really bring Lily and Sev's emotion to life. I'm a big SevLily fan, so I automatically knew I'd like this piece... who knew I'd end up loving it? :)

Aah, sweet!