One-thousand nine-hundred and eighty-six days after the Battle of Hogwarts, Draco finds himself at the kitchen table of an Order safehouse, gripping a tumbler of firewhiskey in his white knuckles.He wasn't sure how it happened, but something changed that night between him and Hermione Granger. Somehow, between the heavy stench of alcohol and the perfume of sugar milk; it happened.

Everyone's got a secret. Some are just... darker than others. Katherine Creswell is going into her 6th year at Hogwarts and she can feel that something is different. There was talk that Hogwarts was no longer safe, that it could no longer protect the students within. From the state, she finds herself drawn to the illusive and arrogant Draco Malfoy, who seemed shattered, broken.