The war is over. Voldemort is dead, but his shadow remains. A wicked curse binds two souls in the roles of beast and prey. Subject to its cruel demands, they stand on the verge death. Will they ever escape, or will they be consumed?

He thought himself brave. He thought himself strong. And then he saw the monster in the house on Spinner's End. The summer after fifth year, a horrific incident shatters James's worldview. Disillusioned and painfully aware of the glass bubble he'd been living in, he begins to reassess his black and white judgement of the world, of himself, and of the boy he called Snivellus.

Snape has a fit and gets a hug.

An evening at Hogwarts. Marauders' fifth year. Snape holds Lupin at wandpoint. The werewolf has suddenly accosted him in an empty hallway. Snape suspects ambush.

Inspired by Remember Remember by: Suite Sambo. After a head injury resulting in amnesia, Ginny has spent the past 3.5 years living as a stranger among Harry and their three children. With all avenues of treatment exhausted, the Potters have come to accept that the Ginny they knew is gone for good. Then one day out of the blue, the fog clears and the old Ginny comes through.

After a brutal Death Eater meeting leaves Severus half dead, Lucius helps his friend recover, pouring potions into his mouth and holding him as he screams. Incensed by Severus's horrific injuries, Narcissa rips off her façade of happy Death-Eater's-Wife and adds a complication to their already danger-ridden lives.

Inspired by Second Chances Reality: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo by krosi. Snape suffers the consequences of Harry's wand play and endures the fear no parent ever wants to feel.

A turmoiled Harry accosts Snape in the hallway to give him a gift. A skeptical Snape reacts badly to secrets revealed.