Kerosene Kisses and Gasoline Dreams

In med school, he was taught to never give up. No patient is so far gone you can just throw your arms in the air and walk away. No one deserves your half assed treatment, everyone deserves your absolute best. And if there was an absolute best, it would be Severus Snape.

But he holds his breath every day. Wondering if this is it, if this is all he is meant for. A genius surgeon wasting away in an OR with no life waiting for him back home. The only person he has every given up on was himself, in his own happiness. He lays awake at night hoping for change, a miraculous solution that fixes everything handed on a silver platter by morning.

That doesn't happen. He doesn't find peace in life.

But in an over energetic EMT, a paramedic with so much love he has enough for Severus too.