During the winter of his fifth year, Draco Malfoy falls hopelessly in love with a pureblood heiress while trapped in a snow-covered Romanian estate during a series of political negotiations between old wizarding families. They know from the beginning it cannot last. Draco belongs at Hogwarts. Y/N belongs at Durmstrang. And winter always ends eventually. So when the season is over, they let each other go. Over the next year, Draco slowly learns how to survive the loss of her. Life becomes manageable again. Easier. Normal enough that he eventually stops correcting people when they assume something might happen between him and Astoria Greengrass. Then, at the start of seventh year, Professor McGonagall announces a new transfer student from Durmstrang. And suddenly the girl Draco spent over a year trying to forget is standing in the Great Hall again — just in time to see someone else sitting beside him. “I’m an astronaut. You’re the moon. I stare at you. I sing to you. I circle you.”