Thank you so much, mystery author. :) This is really brilliant. Your writing is beautifully vivid and rich. This reads like a full novel. The world and the descriptions completely drew me in. Thank you for this interesting, unique, and rounded characterization of Peter. I really, really, really adored the references to nothing. I loved that Peter could focus on that and that someone knew he was talented at something. He is unusually wise for how we generally get to see him, yet he retains his pragmatism and is still trapped in this world and social circles and time. I felt for Severus losing Lily and then Peter to this divide. Oh, oh, I also loved the subtle ways you implied that Severus saw or felt Peter as Wormtail. You built their friendship, and then being lovers, in a wonderfully realistic way.
The ending is just what it should be.
And this... "And what if you don’t get a chance and you spend all your life hiding and pretending to be something you’re not, and no one ever sees anything?"
The use of what we know in canon all through this was great--subtle, adding to the impact of the story without beating us over the head with it.