Bloody Beautiful-Bloody Love (Book 4-George Weasley Love Story)

Chapter 65

Kat's POV:

I shot up from my position amongst the flowers and found myself face to face to a man that I hadn't seen since the Battle of Hogwarts. Yet, he isn't the same man. I can see in his eyes and on his face a lightness that I had never seen while he was alive. A lightness I assumed he had lost long ago in his childhood, along with his childhood innocence and wonder. I also see something else that I had never seen on the man's face when he lived.

Upon the face of Severus Tobias Snape lies not a sneer, or unimpressed look but a smile. A true smile that remains on his face as he watches me take a few steps closer to him before gently touching his arm. It feels as if he's really in front of me but that's impossible. He's dead, and I'm......well I wasn't dead a few moments ago I know.

"Severus? You're dead." (K)

"Yes, for several years now I believe but I thought it best to be the one to meet you here. Though a Mr. Weasley nearly fought me for it." (S)

"Oh my...no........Houdini's wand am I dead? This will kill George, and what about little Fred and our daughter, and Viktor and Scar and everyone else. I can't be dead Severus." (K)

"You aren't......not yet anyway. You have but a few moments before you decide to wake up or not." (S)

"Before I decide? It's.......it's my choice whether to wake up or not?" (K)

"Of course. It is a choice than not many of us get, I would choose wisely Katherine." (S)

"What......what's it like Severus?" (K)|

"It is not something that can be described easily Katherine, not with words as you currently understand them. Pain doesn't exist here, nor does fear." (S)

"No pain or fear, that's something I have not felt in many years. I could stay though if I wanted?" (K)

"Yes, though you would not be seeing your children again for some time, nor would you be seeing Mr. Weasley for some time. They have some time before it is their time." (S)

I don't respond as I think about how peaceful everything is right now. I try to become fearful of staying but I can't. I'm literally not able to become frightened at the idea of staying here. I feel a small smile grace my face as I look back at my friend and it's then that I see how different he looks physically. He looks younger and happier than I've ever seen him look. A version of Severus that I imagined could have once existed if life had been kinder to him.

"You look good Severus." (K)

"As do you Katherine, especially for a witch that has fought in a war and born two children." (S)

"You forgot tortured, separated from my loved ones, and left to bury the ones we lost." (K)

"Well I am sure that all of those things led you to where you are now. A mother and a wife, and a successful Beast Vet in the magical world. Mr. Weasley must be in his own heaven with you by side each day." (S)

"Yeah.....speaking of which, why are you still here and not with him and my niece and nephew Kat?" (F)

"Fred?!?" (K)

I turned around just in time to see my long deceased brother-in-law smiling with a twinkle of mischief in his eyes. I hear him laugh as I rush towards him for a hug, feeling a few tears leak from my eyes as I hear his laugh, always a bit lower than George's. It's a laugh that I didn't expect to hear ever again until I died.

"You shouldn't stay here Kat. George......he needs you. Little Fred and your daughter will need you too. He can't lose you too Kat. He really wouldn't be the same if he lost you too." (F)