"I didn't say that," Lily replied. "I said our families would kill us--that's true. It shouldn't happen, but if it's not you I don't think it will ever be anyone." She had spent the last several years trying, and failing, to move on. No one had ever been good enough because they weren't him. Long term commitment wasn't an option. She'd resigned herself to never marrying, never having a family, but that was when she'd believed Scorpius didn't feel the same way. Now that changed things, but it didn't make it any easier. "I love you and I want to be with you," she said finally. "It's telling them that's the hard part."