It was amazing, how one color could be a source of bliss and happiness, yet at the same time a source of pain and regret. Following a discussion with Dumbledore in the afterlife, Severus Snape is given a chance to return and face those regrets. Severus x Lily. A rewrite/retooling of "Tempus Vita"

Dying with those wonderful green eyes filling his vision, Severus Snape travels to the afterlife to be given an offer by Dumbledore: a chance to return to his tortured past to have a second opportunity at life. Awakening at the moment of his worst memory, can Sev conquer his teenage demons to become the bravest man ever known by the one he TRULY cared for, Lily Evans?