After Ares (смешанная)

"I remembered it being difficult, when everything was still happening. Now it was over and you’d think it would be easier. But at least in the present, I knew it was real. Now it was the past and I didn’t know anymore what was real. Was it the future? Was it all me? If it was truly over, was I too?"
Following canon as loosely as possible, this is Draco a month after Voldemort's death, incapable of feeling at ease in Malfoy Manor. This is Draco leaving to find himself far away from the past. This is Draco returning to Hogwarts years later to meet someone who finally sees him for who he wants to become, not for who he used to be. This is Draco, not entirely making it back into the present-tense of life, but bringing life back into the present-tense, struggling, but brave.