AO

The war was supposed to bring everyone together. Instead, it tore you apart. By the time seventh year ends, the once inseparable Slytherin group has become nothing more than strangers sharing the same common room. Pansy buries herself in survival. Astoria and Daphne keep their distance. Theodore, Lorenzo, and Blaise stop reaching out altogether. And Draco Malfoy—the boy who once swore he'd spend forever at her side—can barely look at her anymore. No one tells you why you’re suddenly alone. No one notices you’re slowly falling apart. So you stops trying to be noticed. When the Battle of Hogwarts begins, you walks into the castle expecting only one thing—to survive long enough to protect the people who abandoned her anyway. But fate has other plans. A curse meant for someone else collides with you, tearing through you with enough force to leave her moments from death. As the battle rages around you, everyone believes she's another casualty of the war. Everyone... Except one remaining Death Eater. Before anyone can reach you, you disappears. Hidden away while the wizarding world celebrates Voldemort's defeat, she's kept alive for one cruel purpose: revenge. Broken, tortured, and barely clinging to life, she spends months wondering why no one came for her... why the people she loved never looked hard enough. Back at Hogwarts, Draco can't escape the memory of watching your fall. Guilt consumes him as he realizes too late that pushing her away was the greatest mistake of his life. The friends who once ignored her are forced to confront the truth—that while they were busy surviving the war, you had been surviving something far worse. When whispers begin to surface that one prisoner may have escaped the final battle alive, hope ignites where grief once settled. Finding you is only the beginning. Because the girl they rescue is no longer the one they left behind. You flinches from every touch. You trust no one.