First fic in ages! Hopefully this'll start me writing again, since it is actually a multichapter project! I'm actually very excited, and that hasn't happened in regards to fanfiction for a long time.

( The Road Not Taken: Chapter 1: Sirius and Regulus )

My Thanksgiving with my family was really nice, and I felt like writing a nicer, less angsty piece as a result of it. So, voila :)

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The night of the fire, Sarah walks away. She lets her feet carry her away, far away from sin and heartbreak and lost friends, from death and ruin and blood. She embraces the darkness around her and in the surrounding emptiness can let herself believe, even if only for a moment, that this is a normal night.

But it can never be longer for a ( Read more... )

            It was the little things that nagged at her, miniscule thorns that had managed to work themselves into her side and refused to be removed. The strangest thing was, these thorns were all things that were utterly stupid, like that she had borrowed Andromeda’s favorite quill and forgotten to return it.

Andromeda would have ( Read more... )

One of those '20 things about...' fics. Yeah, I know. But I do like it!

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She always envied Mary for possessing the ability to be content with life without power. She always secretly wanted that, the simple enjoyment of life itself, and sometimes thought that perhaps it was another, maybe even a surer, pathway to happiness than the one she was ( Read more... )

Title: Precipice
Summary: Sometimes things return to normal for her. Pippa in the Realms, oneshot.

There are times when things return to normal for her.

Sometimes she blinks and feels as if she is waking up. Her eyes swiftly turn violet again, a soft, sweet smile works its way onto her lips and brightness intrudes in her heart. She sees the lightness ( Read more... )

            “When will he come back?” her son always asks her, when they’re on board the ship. She knows who he’s talking about, naturally, and although she can’t blame him for being curious, sometimes she wishes he could understand that she is just as impatient as he is.

But she always swallows this comeback that immediately comes ( Read more... )

Once, she and Remus kissed.

It wasn’t a long kiss, or a particularly passionate one, and it did happen before she remotely liked James, let alone dating him, but for some reason she never mentioned it to him, and neither did Remus.

They were studying in the library together, looking over ancient texts of Goblin Wars, when he leaned over to ( Read more... )

When I look inside my heart
There's just devils and dust

- Bruce Springsteen

When the world dies, what’s left?

She would be gone, certainly. She’s always been the strong one, but maybe the strong are the ones that burn the quickest, all that passion consumed by literal flames. She wouldn’t be there to see a new ( Read more... )