3 parts Ongoing MatureAfter the war, Hermione Granger refuses to let death have the final say. Saving Severus Snape from the brink was only the beginning. When she discovers a way to retrieve Sirius Black from beyond the Veil, she does so without hesitation. But survival is not the same as healing.
Now, burdened with the weight of their second chances, Hermione finds herself living with two infuriating, brilliant, and deeply damaged men, both haunted by their own ghosts, both determined not to need each other. Severus is bitter that he's been dragged back into the world, Sirius is furious at the time he's lost, and Hermione is sinking beneath the weight of everything she cannot fix.
As Sirius and Severus navigate the tangle of their shared history, resentments, regrets, and the slow, begrudging warmth of something more, they begin to see what Hermione cannot: she is suffering. And no one is coming to save her.
If they are to build something new from the wreckage, they must first learn to fight for it.
A story of trauma, healing, and the love that can be found when all the walls come down.