Love is pure, even when nothing else is. But time is slipping, secrets are burning.

Hermione Granger is lonely. Post-war, slugging through her 8th year at Hogwarts, she's struggling with herself. She's questioning her path in life, and is finding it hard to move on. She's also slowly feeling more and more left behind by the people she thought were her best friends. They're essentially moving on without her, and she could never be more jealous. She feels as though they don't know her anymore, especially because they're all in loving relationships, which is something Hermione craves so dearly. She just wants to be seen. But after being paired up for a class assignment, she finds unlikely companionship in the last person she would ever expect to... Draco Malfoy. And maybe she isn't so alone after all.

Adfluo Incordis - 'To be pulled irresistibly towards the heart.' 10 years after the Battle at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger is offered a position at Hogwarts to become the Charms professor. Little did she know, she would run into someone else who is taking up a position... as Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, Draco Malfoy. "There's a rumor within the Slytherin House that Professor Malfoy, fucked almost all the girls in his house." She heard the rumors when they attended school together, but her superior distain for him made all thoughts of what it might be like to sleep with him, vanish. Only to resurface all these years later, when suddenly she was all too aware of how dominating his presence was. "Hermione and Ron aren't together anymore." He couldn't stop the feeling of relief at the tip from Potter. He knew that they ended up together after every thing, but seeing her everyday in the Ministry of Magic... in her beautiful outfits, with her long curly brown hair dancing along her skin. Draco Malfoy had suddenly grasped something he had never experienced. Unending unrequited desire. *Hardcore unapologetic smut* *Trauma bonding*

Regulus Black, the youngest of the two Black brothers, raised to believe in blood-supremacy and follow their parents without question. When Sirius Black is sorted to Gryffindor, all of the pressure is now weighing down on his very small shoulders. Follow Regulus through the first four years of his journey at Hogwarts - making friends, finding love, and making his fair share of enemies as well, all while trying to uphold the Black family legacy and ignoring the doubts that he has about the Dark Lord. This is the story of Regulus Arcturus Black. DISCLAIMER: I do not support her beliefs in the slightest, but I must give character credit to JK Rowling Appropriate CW's will be posted at the beginning of their respective chapters Warning: swearing & mild sexual content (nothing explicit!!)