"I will not leave you, Severus." I fear that Harry will have to repeat this many times until it sinks into Severus's (I almost said thick skull) broken heart. After all, they all *have* left him in the end: Lily, his mother probably, Albus, Minerva, Filius, and whom ever else he might have called "friend" - before they abondoned him. That's the experience of a lifetime.

But Harry is nothing if not insistent :) I'm sure he'll get the message through in the end. And then it will be happily-ever-after for both of them. (And I would love to be able to see the expression in Sev's eyes, when he realizes that Harry is true, when he sheds his fear and *knows* that this is true love he is being offered -and when he accepts this truth of love with all his heart.)

((Oh, you always do that to me: I get this flittering feeling in my stomach, my heart squeezes and there is so much of everything tumbling inside of me... And the out come these mushy comments... Huh... See what you do?))

Thank you for another beautiful story. 😄