Set nearly a decade after HPDH. Stuck in a deteriorating marriage, Hermione makes a binding wager with an unlikely ally who might just turn out to be so much more. Sometimes the good guys wear green. Hurt/Comfort/Romance. Please read AN for trigger warnings.

When healers can't recover her parents' memories and the aftermath of the war begins to take its toll, Hermione sets out on a quest to achieve the impossible and get back all that she's lost. The coming year will prove difficult and more dangerous than she could ever have imagined, but with a tenacious dragon tamer at her side maybe the cosmos will bend to her challenge.