Albus Dumbledore is seventeen, arrogant, ambitious and on top of the universe. He's just fresh out of Hogwarts when a lightning bolt of fate smacks the genius down to Earth again and now he's gone from having the world at his feet to only going as far as his front door. Returning to his hated little village to take care of a family whom barely knows him, things are tense but holding together until another lightning bolt named Tragedy strikes. Weighed down with guilt and grief and utterly alone, Albus flees as far away from his past as he possibly can but instead, runs straight into another puzzle, although this time if he doesn't put this one together there can be more than one life lost. Luckily he has help, and if fate wills it...perhaps he'll come out of this alive, and not so alone. Albus/OC, Grindeldore, Slightly AU (I think), Slash
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