Lucy is severely injured after escaping Winkman's goons and she won't make it to Portland Row. There's help to be found somewhere closer, but what else can be found with someone pale, sarcastic and freckled? And what about Lockwood? What will he find? AU from chapter 13 in the Creeping Shadow but still loosely following the storyline.

The dark, the light and all the grey areas in between. Hermione thinks her future is settled - and it is. Just not in the way she thought. Her world is turned upside down and nothing is what she thought it was. Not even herself. Meanwhile, Draco thought he had finally gained control of his own life. Needless to say, he was wrong.