Title: Always
Character(s): Severus Snape
Pairing(s): Severus/Lily
Rating: G
Warning(s): None.
Challenge(s): Always
Word count: 100
Author's notes: Snape's death scene made lyrical and OTP-saturated. Promise to participate more!

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He remembers this, when all other memories fell away to the gaping mouth of Dementors and two decades of darkness and, now, ( Read more... )

Title: Manual
Character(s): Salazar Slytherin 
Rating: G
Warning(s): Blatant self-interpretation of the Founders.
Challenge(s): Manual
Word count: 100

There are no manuals for greatness, Salazar knows this, sitting in the dark parlor, raking hands through his dark hair. Frustration does not come easily, not to him, but to be chased out of his own school ( Read more... )

Title: Midnight
Character(s): Snape
Rating: G
Warning(s): Angst, excessive imagery, questionable use of 2nd person
Challenge(s): #132 - Midnight by the lake
Word count: 100
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The fact that you have done right by her lends no warmth to the chill of the winter wind blowing across Hogwarts nor to the colder freeze of death and a world unforgiving. Frost ( Read more... )

Title: Map
Character(s): Tom Riddle
Rating: G
Challenge(s): Map
Word count: 100

Tom Riddle doesn't believe in maps, never had respect for the slanderous lines depicting geography and direction, never considered the higher authority which deigns to give him bearing.

When the sea-salt spray washes over him and two other, more forgettable kids, the map says ( Read more... )

Title: Card
Characters: Three generations of Malfoys
Rating: G
Challenge(s): Card
Word count: 100
Author's notes: Another post. Advanced happy father’s day!

Lucius didn’t quite know what to make of it, this thing that had muggle-store-bought written all over it, cheap grassgreen and silver details, with a proud magical touch of starglitter- ( Read more... )

Title: Curse
Characters/Pairing: Lucius, Narcissa
Rating: G
Challenge(s): Curse
Word count: 100
Author's notes: Joined and posted immediately. Hope that's okay.

“It’s not a curse.”

Lucius stares, eyes abandoning the moving sepia imprints of a family whole, sees Narcissa, still beautiful under the siege of age and hardship. Her eyes were hard, ( Read more... )