AU. A world where Voldemort and his Death Eaters have won the Wizarding War and the Order of the Phoenix are forced to go into hiding in France to build their resistance.Hermione Granger is sent to England to help infiltrate Voldemort's ranks but finds herself tangled with Harry Potter, a promising ascendant in Voldemort's young elite army who's questioning his true loyalty.

Severus hadn't expected this. Hadn't expected the fulfilment of the prophecy, the fall of Lord Voldemort, and certainly not Lily returning to his life. But, as time drags on they learn that war has a cost that demands to be paid. A price of blood, of lives, of family, and not all of them can be spared.

On his way home a man whose name can hardly be called a mystery around these parts encounters three people at three very different stages in their lives, his own in many ways connected to each of them. All the paths he treads, however, always and without exception lead him back to one fixed point: the place where he belongs, the place he calls home.

Everyone said they were the least romantic couple in the world. A love story: HarryHermione.