This was beautiful - made me weepy, dammit! I adored the portraits; not only what each one brought to Severus, but their own interactions as well - how they all kind of rallied for Severus and found their own bits of peace as well. Gellert and Albus - oh. Tobias - so wonderfully realized here. Regulus and Sirius, finding each other again after so long - the whole theme of reconciliation and recovery permeates every line, and when Snape is the one to propose to Harry - well, you had me right from the beginning, but that made it perfect. Wonderful, wonderful work. :)