At eighteen, Holly Potter is already a war survivor. She lives in silence at Grimmauld Place, drowning in PTSD, depression, and too much alcohol to keep the memories quiet. Recovery is something she attempts in fragments- because no matter how broken she feels, she knows she is all little Teddy Lupin has left in the world. But trauma does not heal neatly. Sometimes, when the weight of it becomes too much, Holly's mind retreats to the only place it remembers feeling remotely safe-early childhood. A raw, psychological coping response born from the years of neglect and abuse she endured at the hands of the Dursleys'. A survival mechanism. A wounded mind trying to find ground it can stand on. She is trying to heal. Trying to stay sober. Trying to be someone Teddy can rely on. Then the sky splits open over New York. The war she thought she survived drags her back in during the Battle of New York, where magic collides with a world of super soldiers and gods. There, Holly meets Steve Rogers then later Bucky Barnes- two men who understand what it means to be remade by war and haunted by what they've done to survive it. This is not a story about chosen ones. This is a story about survivors. About trauma, recovery, found family, and learning how to live when you were never meant to.
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