SEQUEL to The Power of Pain. Not a stand alone fic. Love is not a victory march. A tale of how Always becomes Forever. What happens when one remembers but chooses to forget. While the other refuses to forget what they remember. The battle has just begun, one is ready for all out war, the other ready to be taken out alive.

Five years, it had been five years since the battle for Hogwarts. Five years for the students who suffered that day to move on with their lives. To love, to laugh, to marry. Five years since that fateful day that left the brightest witch of their age confined to a bed at St. Mungo's spell damage ward.