Hermione grabbed his left arm and rolled up the sleeve to expose the faded Dark Mark, "Are you truly loyal to him Severus, or are you loyal to the man who allowed Lily to be murdered?" He tensed up at his former love's name, and if Hermione hadn't been holding onto him, she wouldn't have noticed. She smiled before he could say anything. "He was never meant to be like this, we were never after power. We just wanted to be together, forever. It seemed though that people were constantly trying to tear us apart, including the man who claims to be on the side of the light but had more darkness in him at the time than me and Tom." Sadness overcame her as she traced the mark's outline, "We may have killed people, but it was never for fun. It was necessary, never let a body go to waste. He never would have turned out this way if I had been with him, I was never one to believe in prophecies in the first place. Like the one that led him to walking the earth as if he was a common parasite," she paused for a moment as tears gathered in her eyes, looking to Severus who stared at her as if making up something in his head. "We were never meant to be apart for this long, we always lost our minds a little bit if we were even apart for a day."