As the dust settles following the Battle of Hogwarts, Draco's confidence, belief system, and world are shattered. In an attempt to mend his broken pieces, he turns to vials that take the pain away. But once the high's are no longer so high and the lows get so much lower, Draco has to start a journey of healing and redemption that often hurts more than it helps.

After Hermione left her post-Hogwarts education, she never expected to run into Draco Malfoy in South America on her holiday. But she did. She never expected to fall in love with him during that holiday. But she did. She never in a million years expected to return to London to the Prophet announcing his engagement to Astoria Greengrass. But... she did.

Hermione felt the pounding in her ears again. She would see him for the first time since the Great Hall, gaunt and stricken at the Slytherin table with his mother clutching his arm. She hadn't meant to look for him. Not in the corridors, not beneath the white sheets of the fallen, not on the way to the Chamber of Secrets with Ron, but she was a stupid girl.