I came home to find my LE/SS Exchange gift had posted.
SQUEES!
Hiding the Truth.
Summary: Pain is a bitter, bitter thing. It is either hot like brands of fire, burning your heart and soul to ashes, or ice-cold, turning you into an emotionless stone. It takes many forms: all of them are like wisps of smoke, undistinguishable from one another, causing more harm by occupying the mind and the soul with their expanse of emotion; creating a void darker than the blackest of black holes.
The tale of Severus Snape and Lily Evans is one filled with pain, and how they chose to let it govern them. One chose to let it burn with a passion, cumulating it into hatred.The other chose to mask it with a façade of normality, letting it eat the heart up from within, never choosing to let it be known that pain had left its mark on the frailty that is called the heart.
Go have a read!