Oh my! This is so tragic and wonderful at the same time! You captured the essence of schooltime snily in this fic, how they belong together but Severus can't really accept it, thinks he's unworthy of her. That is something that I saw shining through in the Price's Tale, and you wrote a perfectly fitting extra scene that forshadows the future we know will come - but right now we, like Sev and Lily, want to believe it will all be well. Wonderful story.