Severus begins to recieve letter from a depressed student. Who she is, he does not know. Does he write back to her, and saves her life? Or does he resort to shunning every one out of his life?

The last year of the war wears Severus down to a shell of a human. After the war, he is put on trial and subsequent parole. When a trial witness turns neighbor, how will they change his life?

This is a story about our beloved Half-Blood Prince, Severus Snape. Specifically, this is a story about a girl named Sophie who changes the fate of the Half-Blood Prince. //TW: Language, Sexual Activity