"I was going to ply you with liquor in the hopes we'd become intimate, then tell you that I wasn't prepared for a committed relationship," Severus said quietly, still feeling ashamed of himself, but there was little point in lying about it, "But in truth I'm afraid of it. I cared so much about Evans that I cost her her life in my efforts to covet her. I doubt I'd prove any better if my affections were ever returned. I don't want to feel for someone again, it's too great a responsibility and I'm hardly suited. I'm no one you should fancy. At all."