Title: Filing System
Author: red_day_dawning
Challenge: #214 - memories
Word count: 100
Rating: G
Warning: Character death (past; off-screen)
Disclaimer: JKR owns the HP settings and characters.
He replaced the bottle on the shelf, lined correctly with the others. Filed alphabetically, on the shelf for the appropriate year.
This was the year when... Severus thought.
They were all there, all accounted for; Lily, James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew. Dumbledore. Lucius. Draco. Harry Potter and his two best friends. And Lupin. Most of all, Lupin.
Memories could only drag him down, murky underdepths. Severus functioned more efficiently without them; they were without practical use. Remembering brought pain. Loss and pain. And if he filed Lupin under "L" for love, there was no-one to know or guess.