Severus looked down and then back up at her and he didn't want to feel sadness when he was with her and he wouldn't it was in the past and that was where it was meant to stay. He cupped her chin and looked at her. "That was in the past a bad past but you are my present and future and nothing will change that," he said. He kissed her nose and smiled.
He wished he could erase everything that had happened in the last twenty years but he couldn't and maybe he shouldn't. Because thats what had made him who he was and he wouldn't change that for the world either. Because it had brought him to Elfa.