The Sides We Keep

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Series Begun:
2025-03-31
Series Updated:
2026-10-10
Description:

In a world that demands perfect masks and absolute loyalty, some truths are too dangerous to speak aloud.

Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy have loved each other in secret for years. With Narcissa’s quiet, fierce complicity, they have built a fragile private life in the narrow spaces the pureblood world allows men like them. It is a life of careful silences, of stolen nights, of mutual protection against a society that would destroy them for what they are.

When Severus is forced under Veritaserum by the Order of the Phoenix, those carefully guarded truths are dragged into the light. The projection of their intimacy shatters the already fragile trust around him, leaving Severus exposed, retraumatised, and once again teetering on the edge of the darkness he has spent years trying to survive.

The Side We Keep follows the aftermath of that exposure, the long, uneven work of recovery and the time before it even happened.

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