The war is over. This is a time for new beginnings. This is the time for redemption. When Draco Malfoy receives his letter, he knows he has to go back. Draco Malfoy goes back to Hogwarts, seeing it as a second chance, willing to undo the harm he's done over the years. He meets Stiorra Roper again, the girl he once loved intensely and passionately, and now more than ever does the boy wish he could go back in time and choose a different path. Will Stiorra ever forgive him? Will he ever get a second chance? Is a year enough to redeem himself? Draco Malfoy learns what true love is, and friendships he never thought were possible surprisingly come his way. Disclaimer: some chapters contain s*x scenes, read at your own risks. AND: I do not own the characters apart from Stiorra Roper and her story that I made up from scratch. (ranked #79 out of 20,5k stories on #different on the 13.12.2020) (#2 on #sisterandbrother on the 22.01.2021 and #1 on the 25.01.2021)

My dear draco, I never planned to fall for you. You were never meant to be the place I felt safest. And yet - somewhere between the fights, the silence, the nights that broke us open - you became home. I see you when you pretend to be cruel. I see the weight you carry when you think no one is looking. And I love you not despite the darkness in you, but because I recognize it. You challenge me. You frighten me. You make me feel more alive than I ever meant to be. If loving you is a mistake, then it is one I choose - again and again. Because even in the chaos, even when the world burns around us, I know this much: I would find you in every lifetime. I would fight you in every one of them. And I would still fall - every time. - Alma