Harry Potter drabble: Blood
Disclaimer: JK Rowling magicked Lily, Severus, and the world they reside in with wand that spouts ink.
Author's Note: prompt taken from spn_30snapshots theme 1, Elemental.
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"You're bleeding!"
Severus twitched the fabric of his robes lower on his arm. "Don't worry about it, Lily."
Lily reached for his arm anyway, but then froze, her hands hanging several inches above and away from him.
"Yes," Severus said, "you don't want to soil your wedding dress."
Lily looked up, into Severus' eyes.
After a moment she closed her hands around Severus' cold one and redirected her eyes to them. Her hands clasped his like two arms around a body. Severus never allowed her to hug him, but he sometimes looked at her with a dog's eyes.
"I'm not staying," Severus said.
Lily nodded, thinking of the tunnels she had found in his eyes. "I'm sorry." She let go of Severus' hand.
"I'm sorry," Severus said, disappearing in a swirl of dark robes, thinking about vows, blood smearing white fabric and rising over ink, and what his life could be in an alternate universe in which he wasn't a superb Occlumens.