"I hope you'll live to enjoy the better times then."
"I won't." Snape drank again. He gagged. He rammed the cork back into the bottle and dropped the bottle on the floor. "It will be worth it."
"You keep believing."
I should have known it was you, atdelphi. I should have known you would take me into this world, and turn my heart inside out, and make it so real. Even their coupling, grubby and a little seedy, was perfect. The characters' voices ring so true. It is heartbreaking and so very sad, knowing that he was so alone. But you gave me a little peace in imagining that a man like Aberforth could have given Severus some small measure of comfort. Brava, as always, Brava!