The war is over. The dust has settled. The only thing left is to try to get by as well as one can. These are the words of the defeated, of the weak. The survivors, those who were strong, have no need of words, they are still standing in hell, resisting the madness. Alone if fate demands it of them. Fate has other plans. Sequel to A Break in Routine

Every family has a routine. What's normal, what's right, it gives a child that day to day security. It's those moments when routine is ripped away that shape the kind of man a child grows to be. Severus was hewn, a painful, arduous task of cutting away.