It is 3 o'clock in the morning and all is silent inside the Burrow. The family clock rests in the kitchen — all hands pointing towards 'Home,' save two. Post-War, Percy and George share a drink and laugh at each other, much to Molly's confusion.

It is suffocating him, mocking him, crushing his warm, beating heart — and Tom hates it all. No one will ever come for him. No one will ever come for a dark, peculiar boy like him.

Lily visits the grave of an old friend. AU First War.