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Took me two years to finish this one and just in time for Lovers Day💘

All the places I found you

"All they had were moments. Small, elusive fragments of time and chance. When she was with him in these fraught, livewire moments, the war blurred into something indistinguishable, a mere outline of a reality she could choose to leave behind. All the heat and energy of living started and ended with his body on her, in her, and before she could even begin to rationalise any of it, he would touch her in a way that would tip her back into madness all over again."

A lovely piece of cover art for my fic Memoriae by the talented knickersandkneazles!

And yet he knew, because such Big Things had happened between them, things he could not even name, things so vast, so terrible and complete in their desolation, things like loss, betrayal, grief and death, that this was the most natural place in the world for them both to be. He remembered the look in Granger’s eyes at the end of his hearing all those years ago, the rush of freedom that greeted him like air, and knew then that amidst the pity, anger and that searing, shimmering hope, there was also understanding. Understanding that neither of them had to say a word to know what had to be done, to know that at the end of their story was always forgiveness.

The end, and maybe the beginning.

"War did this to people, Hermione realised as she slipped her knickers down her legs before flinging them aside. War sunk its fingers into time and promised to take it from them at any moment. And Malfoy knew this, perhaps better than anybody."

War and Sex: Part Two