He finds himself empty with the kind of feeling of fill me up, I’m missing something here" Severus' thoughts and desires of Lily whilst he's protecting her son. Severus/Lily, unrequited love.
He had grown up in a house of no love; his father hitting him with every mistake he made. They say hopes and dreams die when reality is worse than you could possibly imagine. Five times it was different; Five Times Sirius Black Knew Love Was Real.
“This is just to practice Hermione, okay?” She could hardly say Ginny hadn’t warned her but love lost in rehearsals seems as real as the thing. Femmeslash HermionexGinny.
Fragile objects make shattered shards. Pick yourself up just to throw yourself down. End the nights of confusion finally, let’s see if the dead really do meet up after it all.
Lily and James at their Graduation Ball, young and in love. "He was surrounded, engulfed by her beauty. The colours of her soul dancing in the darkness behind his eyelids."