It's eight years post war. 2006.
Severus has been wandering the world searching for something: a new place, a new life, a new start, could he find what he wanted back where it all began? Hermione has more than physical scars from the war. Although she teaches at Hogwarts, in her off time she lives a quiet life in a Muggle village under an assumed name.
This long fic has many of my favorite elements: an epistolary romance, a post-war Severus who is traumatized but manages to grow and change anyway, and a hurt, damaged Hermione who manages to rise above it with resilience and practicality.
The fic also has some lovely surprises that I won’t spoil, except to say that this is one of the few fics I’ve read where a postwar friendship between Severus and Lucius is believable.
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