Hogwarts was not what Severus expected, and graduating from it even less so. Lily once told him that nothing would ever live up to his expectations. This time, he decided she was right.
Almost everyone at Hogwarts wants to be Sirius Black—charming, popular, heir to a noble name and blessed with a handsome face. Except Sirius Black. Trapped between who he is and who he's expected to be, he finds an unlikely escape in an anonymous correspondence that leads him to someone he would never expect. Words are easy—change is hard. Can he prove he's more than who he's been?
Sirius had thought he remembered everything when he escaped Azkaban. But how could he be sure when he didn't know what's forgotten? And what would he do when forced to confront something buried for so long? —A canon-divergence expansion of Ghosts of the Forgotten
Shortly after his duel with Bellatrix, Sirius wakes up in the past; Some things are exactly as he remembers, but others are eerily different. Regulus is alive. Lily and Snape are friends. As Sirius struggles to make sense of shifting memories and hidden motives, one question haunts him: Has the timeline changed, or has he been dropped into a world that was never his to begin with?
In a war-torn world where love and hate intertwine, they are trapped in the remnants of a fragile connection neither dares to fully explore. Their shared history, the weight of grief, circumstance, and the war drive them apart, creating a rift that neither can bridge. SB/SS, RL/SS