The Unforgivable slip-up (Severus)

[Lily Rose Evans]

Lily was wondering the grounds looking for her boyfriend. He promised that he'd wait for her out there because she had been talking to Professor McGonagall after class about their transfiguration homework. Her mind was still on the homework, but she kept her eyes peeled for Severus so she could push the homework out of her mind when he showed up. While walking, Lily started to hear a commotion up ahead, at the tree she usually met Severus at. She heard shouting and laughing and knew immediately what was going on. She ran over to where her boyfriend was floating upside down and Potter and Black were cursing him.
"Potter! Black! Stop being arses and let him go!" Lily was pretty fed up with the marauders messing with Snape. "I know you guys are jealous of our relationship, but that's no reason to take it out on him." She snarled, pulling out her wand on the off chance that they wouldn't let him go. They laughed and released him, watching him slump to the ground surrounded by the laughter of their adoring fans. Lily ran over to Severus, "hey, are you alright?" She brushed his hair out of his face and offered her hand to help him stand.


((This is gonna end up being the break-up scene, similar to in the book with the whole calling her mudblood stuff because he's so pissed off at the marauders))

[Severus Tobias Snape]

Oh. This was not going like he really hoped it would. He was going to be with the one he loved today, and he was waiting, when those idiot Marauders found him. Of course, being who he was, he told them to go away. But they wouldn't. Wouldn't be fun, they said. Or at least Potter and Black said, as Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew hung in the back quiet, not stopping their friends. Peter was laughing, and encouraging it even, but Lupin did nothing, though he looked a bit sorry. If he really was sorry, he would stop them.

And it got worse. Lily had come, and stood up for him. It wasn't that which was bad, Lovely Lily coming to his rescue, but the fact she had managed to get them to drop him, and their laughs, it was embarrassing! A girl fighting his battles. He could've gotten out of it himself. She didn't have to do that. And in front of those guys. It would just encourage them to do it again.

"I don't need your help, mudblood," Severus spat, angry mostly at the Marauders, and feeling mad that she had to come to his rescue. However, as soon as he said it, James flicked his wand at Severus, before pinning him to a wall, running up to him, holding his wand against his throat.

"Apologize to Evans, now," James growled. Severus spat in James's face.

"Leave me alone, Potter," Severus spat at James. Remus was behind James, and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Come on, your getting a little too angry," Remus said calmly, pulling James back. James fought against Remus, but turned back, and walked away, as Remus had told them too. James's face was red, but they walked away.

"Some boyfriend she's got," James spat. The whole thing with Potter and telling him to apologize had happened so quickly he had barely time to realize what he had even said. Severus's eyes widened when he realized, turning towards Lily.

"Lily, I-I'm sorry," Severus said quickly, ignoring the Marauders' retreat.

[Lily Rose Evans]

Lily was so worried about him, she knew he hated the marauders and hated when she helped him, but she couldn't stand to see him hanging up there. And though James and that girlfriend of his were still together, she knew he held that soft spot for her and she could get him to stop hurting her boyfriend so much sooner than Severus could. All she cared about was him being okay. Her worry shone in her eyes when she knelt next to him, hoping he was alright from their cruelty. Her eyes slowly widened in surprise and then anger when he spat at her. She stood up, mouth agape, trying to figure out what the heck happened.

She almost laughed when James got involved, he cared more than Severus did. She hoped that Remus would stop him soon, though, it wasn't his fight, and honestly, he could never fix it anyway. She turned to storm off, completely ignoring Severus when he turned to her and apologized. "Severus, you know what, I'm not interested in your apology." She couldn't believe he would do something like that. Actually, she could. She knew he never stopped hanging out with those death eater friends of his, it was their fault he was like this. He could've been such a great guy, he could've joined the Order with her, but not like this.

[Severus Tobias Snape]

Severus was extremely upset. He felt like a complete and utter idiot. He didn't mean it. It was just in the heat of passion that he lashed out on her and not the one who deserved it. Severus ran after her, not wanting to give up, and let her go, due to the strength of his emotions towards her, and just how much he did care for her, despite him and his Death Eater connections.

"Lily! Please, I didn't mean it. I-I was just angry, and... lashed out. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry," Severus said following her. He truly was quite sorry, and didn't mean it, telling the truth one hundred percent. He could feel his own heart breaking because of what he had just said. True, his temper was still higher than it should be when trying to reason with someone, especially one as stubborn as Lily, but he was angry at Potter, and he had to separate that from Lily, which Sev was terrible at doing, as his emotion was one thing he didn't really know how to differentiate. If he lost her... he wouldn't be able to deal with it. He'd have to bury it, and with it, would come other emotions, and they would be in complete check, so nothing like this would ever happen. In fact... even if she came back to him... he would do that so he would never hurt her again. Bury his emotions, so he wouldn't hurt her ever again.

[Lily Rose Evans]

Lily was angry. More angry than she had ever been. Severus was such a wonderful person sometimes, but right then he was all she was afraid he would become. Severus Snape, the soon to be death eater. The man who hated all those without pure blood. Despite his being a halfblood. She loved him but she couldn't stand this side of him. "Severus, I've been afraid of this for a year now. I've known, always known, that this would happen. You haven't changed one bit. I told you that you shouldn't hang out with those Slytherins. They're not good people, they want to be death eaters! And what do you do. You hang out with them, you become close to them, and you insult your girlfriend in the same way they would. All because she saved your arse from the marauders, because she knew that they listened to her!"

She turned away, hiding the tears that glistened in her eyes. "I loved you, you arse! I fell in love with you, despite your stupid faults, and what do you do? You call me mudblood. I don't care if anyone calls me mudblood. But I do care if my goddamn boyfriend does!" She turned back to him and glared, fire blazing in her eyes, "maybe I should have chosen James. Even with that girlfriend of his, he still cares. You obviously don't."

[Severus Tobias Snape]

Sev's face was extremely down, like he had just shot himself in the heart, and hey! That's just how he felt. Sev wanted things to go back to how they were before. Well, just moments before, before he called her a... You-know-what. Those... Death Eater wannabes he hung out with because they were the few who seemed to understand his hate for his father and all those like that. Even Lily's sister was... A word that rhymed with witch. At least to Sev he viewed it like that. Muggles were the ones who hurt his mother, who made her cry, and Lily was the only exception in Sev's mind. All those he met were wicked, and deserved to be ruled over, besides Lily, raised by her family, muggles, whom Sev did not like much, though they were better than other muggles and could tolerate them for Lily.

"I'll change! I'll... I'll do anything for you. Without you... They're the only ones who understand me, what I've been through. Mari and Vinny don't even understand it, but Avery and Mucilber do! They see it!" He was trying to have her see his view, to see why he had to hang with his DE wannabe friends, why they were the only ones that understood him. She knee about his parents, and how his father treated him, and how her sister was (though she seemed to like her, actually, but he didn't think of that right now, a bit too much emotion clouding his logic).

"I love you. I really do. I think you are the most fantastic person in the world. It was just an accident. I won't ever do it again. I promise," Sev said keeping up next to Lily, though his patience was running a little thin.