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Twenty-six days after the war, everyone seems to know what to do with themselves. Everyone except Draco Malfoy. He has no reason to return to Malfoy Manor, nowhere he actually wants to call home, and far too many memories that follow him wherever he goes. So when Y/N finds him lingering in the ruins of Hogwarts long after everyone else has left, she recognizes something in him that most people don’t. Her father had been a Death Eater too. She knows what it means to survive a war and still feel like you’re paying for it. What starts as an offer of a spare room becomes something neither of them quite knows how to define. Draco is difficult to reach, prone to disappearing into himself and haunted by things he refuses to explain. Yet somehow, Y/N becomes the person he keeps finding his way back to. And the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to tell whether she’s helping him find his way home—or becoming the only place he feels safe enough to stay.