I am so very glad you liked this so much (and most grateful you said so, on your LJ and elsewhere; thanks!). Such handsome compliments! (*gorges happily*)
I was a bit apprehensive, writing something for you that was totally smut-free, but since I couldn't compete in that area, I thought I'd go for a gennish fic. So I'm doubly glad it pleased you. The hitting your history kink was just a bit of luck: I wanted a refuge for Severus, and we'd been to St Cross last northern summer, so I had photos and memories to draw on, as well as the information on their website. It seemed so suitable, giving him privacy and agency, unlike most retirement homes.
Sometimes when writing post-war HPfic I like to think that things may have improved for the wizarding world, so I very much liked depicting a newly peaceful (and less frightened) world in little, in Hermione's relationship with the Malfoys.
I don't know whether I'll be writing a follow-up to this fic (I'm really bad at that, and so far have no plot notions for it at all), but if I do, it'll have to be called, obviously, Fly Away Home.