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severus rarely ran into lily after graduating hogwarts, despite exhaustive efforts on his part. he wouldn’t say that he stalked her, rather that he put himself in places that she might frequent and hoped beyond logic that he had chosen the correct place and time combination to find her. one day, when the sun was shining, he caught her at a muggle coffee shop completely alone.
he couldn’t go up to her casually in a place like this, not with how their relationship ended, not when all he could feel was the longing deep in his chest and the regret pulsing with every breath. mudblood. he was an idiot. more than that, scum, to say that word to his best friend. he would never regret anything more in his life. he watched her from a corner table until she got her drink and walked out before whispering aloud,
“i’m sorry.”