**This is a slow burn** We're all running from something and we all have secrets, but what happens when the past catches up to you? Juniper Bane is 20 years old and hiding out at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; to get away from a dangerous wizard that is part of her past. Enter the stone-cold, cruel, and belittling Potions teacher who catches Juniper's eye. Both carry secrets and pain far greater than themselves, will they be able to finally let go of the past and destroy what has been hurting them for all these years and learn how to love again or will the darkness win and take them with it? We all make choices but in the end, our choices make us. * All Harry Potter characters, settings, and descriptions belong to their rightful owners, I do not own them nor wish to make revenue off these ideas. OC's are mine*