The piece of her that had been removed so painfully was now sewn back on haphazardly but it was back, it was working, it was something. She knew they'd probably never have again what they did once, but she would take what she could get.

"Mmhmmm." Lily took a drink of her own before setting the glass behind her on the bench so that it wouldn't tip over in the grass. When Severus spoke she listened closely, shifting a bit so that she could rest her arms on her knees and then her cheek atop that, head turned toward him to look at him even though Severus was looking away from her. Searching his profile.

"I'm not going to say that it's okay because it's not," she said at length, quiet. She continued right afterward though, not leaving a gap long enough for any thought spiraling to happen. "But I do accept your apology, and thank you for it."

There was a pause then, a rather long one, and now it was Lily that looked away, out across the lawn. "I missed you."