Hey! I wrote a thing!!
Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Characters: Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis (Harry Potter), Ginny Weasley, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Ernie Macmillan, Zacharias Smith, Luna Lovegood, Terry Boot, Michael Corner, Anthony Goldstein, Mandy Brocklehurst, Theodore Nott Additional Tags: Post-War Hogwarts (8th Year), Slow Burn, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, Hermione Granger-centric, Draco Malfoy Redemption, secret meetings, Emotional Baggage, Cigarettes and Confessions, Minor Theo Nott/Daphne Greengrass, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:
After the war, Hermione returns to Hogwarts for her eighth year not as a hero, but as a girl who can't sleep through the night and has picked up a few bad habits, like sneaking cigarettes in forgotten corners of the castle. She’s not expecting company, least of all from the last people she thought she’d trust … and Draco Malfoy.
Bonded by shared silence, cigarettes, and smoke-thin walls between grief and survival, Hermione begins to realise that maybe healing doesn’t always look like hope. Sometimes it smells like ash, sounds like laughter at midnight, and tastes a little like fire.
A slow-burn romance wrapped in nicotine, guilt, and unlikely friendships.
A war survived, and what comes after.
