Just a Dream, a harry potter fanfic

AN// This one is pretty AU. Includes HG/SS relationship while HG is still a student. If you haven't heard this song, you should check it out, it's called Just a Dream by Carrie Underwood.

It was two weeks after the day she turned eighteen
All dressed in whiteGoing to the church that night
She had his box of letters in the passenger seat
Sixpence in a shoe, something borrowed, something blue

She walked down the path, tears fresh on her face, headed to the one place that she never dreamed that she'd be going at the tender age of nineteen, remembering that day almost exactly one year ago.

/flashback/

She rushed to the church that he'd directed her to in his last note. She got there just before seven and stepped up to the doors. They opened wide to allow her entrance and…

/end flashback/

And when the church doors opened up wide
She put her veil downTrying to hide the tears
Oh she just couldn't believe it
She heard trumpets from the military band
And the flowers fell out of her hands

She stepped through the doors and all the heads in the chapel turned toward her, some with pity in their eyes, some cold and unforgiving. Their relationship had never been fully accepted by many except for those who loved them most, and the few that understood the power of love, even if they didn't understand the bubbly warm girl falling in love with the cold and sometimes down right mean, potions master.

Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go?
I was counting on forever, now I'll never know
I can't even breathe
It's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

She walked carefully to the front of the chapel, the eyes of the congregation followed her every step. When she came to stand in front of the ebony casket, she closed her eyes and laid a hand softly against his cheek. Tears poured freely down her face and she looked one last time at her husband, the man who had found his way into her heart without even trying.

The preacher man said let us bow our heads and pray
Lord please lift his soul, and heal this hurt
Then the congregation all stood up and sang the saddest song that she ever heard
Then they handed her a folded up flag
And she held on to all she had left of him
Oh, and what could have been
And then the guards rang one last shot
And it felt like a bullet in her heart

As the last sparks fell from the last wands, her heart sank. She knew this was the last time she would see the face of the man that she'd spent the last four years loving with all her heart and soul. Never again would she see the smiles that he only let come to the surface when they were alone. She would never look up from a book to find him sitting across from her, content to simply stare at her. Her beloved was gone forever.

Her chest ached as she stood beside the casket as it was lowered into the ground. She threw a bouquet of purple tulips that were so dark they were almost black onto the casket. Her closest friends gathered around her and each tossed a white tulip down to surround the ones she had placed there.

Only then, looking down at Severus' favorite flowers covering his casket, did she break. Molly Weasley was the one to catch her when she fell, stopping her from falling into the grave on top of the casket. Hermione gasped for breath, sobbing loudly, as the pile of dirt behind the grave was lifted and placed on top of her husband, entombing him forever in the red earth.

She collapsed to her knees in front of the mound of earth and cried out,

Oh, Baby why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go?
I was counting on forever, now I'll never know
Oh, now I'll never knowIt's like I'm looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to meThis is just a dream

Oh, this is just a dream
Just a dream