AU. After the war, Severus has resumed his life as best he could, taking back his position as potions professor at Hogwarts and Head of Slytherin. Everything is monotonously normal and dull, until a mysterious person saves his life from what he fears most. Now, Severus has a purpose again: discovering who his saviour is, and give him a sever tongue-lashing.

Dying a slow, painful death, Severus Snape had one last trick tucked in his breast pocket. It's 2012, and the world believes Snape is gone, having buried, prosecuted, pardoned, and honoured him. Healer Hermione Granger's curiosity is piqued when Lucius Malfoy takes an unnatural interest in the portrait hanging in Headmistress McGonagall's office. Time turner story, not that kind

Hermione's 22nd birthday is weeks away, and she must be willingly engaged to a pureblood by then or be forced to accept the first eligible pureblood who requests her. Marriage Law. Not quite canon. M for future sexual content. Forecast 35 chapters.

About a year before that fateful Halloween, Sirius met Rose Evans, Lily's muggle cousin. It wasn't supposed to last, and it didn't. Except that he just found a letter in the ashes of the Potter household, and it might change everything ( as soon as he finds out exactly what happened with Wormtail ).