Ever since third year, we'd planned to get a flat together. I don't think any of us had really thought about life after Hogwarts before that. Well - we'd thought about it, of course. But not as something that would happen to us. That June, we finally realized.
It was the week before NEWTs, and Scorpius was once again nowhere to be found. They'd spent every day this past month revising together - holed up in the library from the moment classes let out until the moment Madam Pince kicked them out for the night with a scowl. But on Wednesday, he'd just... disappeared.
The first snow of the year is falling, and it's time for the Potter/Weasley cousins' annual snowball fight. But this time, Rose isn't up for it.
He'd told her he'd liked her gift, of course, but it was still a little hard to believe him. A fanfic for the fanfic "When a Lioness Fights." Takes place a few days after Christmas, towards the end of the break. So, around chapter 27.
The war has ended and everybody's celebrating. But the war has scarred them, and it's hard to see a way forward.