Mary and Charles meet one last time for a drink. Innocent. Harmless. No strings attached. What could go wrong? Or: How Mary and Charles's arc should have ended.

June 21,1998. The war is lost. The Boy Who Lived has died. The last remains of a feeble resistance have been crushed. Yet, two fighters remain. It is time for desperate measures. They create a time-turner, but things go awry when they are transported to the year the ascent began with no memory of their momentous objective and strange dreams as the only remnant of a different life.

Severus Snape never meant to survive the war. But when a former student saves his life out of anything but altruistic motives, he has no choice but to return to Hogwarts. Instead of peace and quiet, Cora Thorne awaits him, ready to make his life as miserable as he made hers. Their mutual hatred knows no bounds until something unexpected happens. Snape lives, post-canon, SS/OC