2004: Since his release from Azkaban the previous year, Lucius Malfoy has lived alone at Malfoy Manor, where Ministerial Aide, Hermione Granger, is assigned to search for an infamous, banned book of dark magic lost for centuries. Can what begins with the search for a lost book become a deeper search for mutual healing and understanding?

"It's Wiltshire in December. And it is, most unexpectedly, your home." Drabble. POV 2nd Person.

After the Battle of Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy sits in the Great Hall and falls in love with his wife.

"The room maintained a palpable cloud of muffled quiet, interrupted only by the crackle of the fire, the occasional cry of a peacock from the lawns or a fox from the woods beyond. It was to this room, late in the afternoon, on a cold day in December, that Abraxas summoned his ten-year-old son, Lucius." What is the thing that scares you most in the world? One shot.

"Her name feels luminous on your lips. You love her, even as you wait for her to say goodbye." After the Battle of Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy falls in love with his wife.

In 2002, Hermione Granger is an employee of the Ministry of Magic, required to supervise the administrative details of Lucius Malfoy's limited post-war freedom. In 1971, Lucius Malfoy is a sixth-year student at Hogwarts, when he begins to have strange and unsettling experiences. A connection is forged between them.

An attempt at communication and understanding, in a dark, damp yard, outside a party. (Set post episode 1.6, in the context of episode 1.5.). Characters: Lindsay Weir, Daniel Desario. Warning: casual drug use.