Shifting again, she picked up the scissors – she preferred the muggle methods for these things – and began to cut out a slightly irregular and lopsided heart. With a lopsided grin herself, she began to write. A deviantArt contest submission

Lily Potter had thought she understood. But as she watches a stone man break - as she watches a stone man bleed,and cry. For her, for her son, and for what was right, she realizes she knows nothing of the measure of a man, and nothing of Severus Snape...

When Severus becomes sick in the middle of what should have been Harry Potter's 7th year he is sure no one will care for him. After all the staff made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with a death eater, and Albus's murderer.