The Spare Princess

{Half-blood servant Walden Macnair has had a faulty prize thrown into his lap; the frail society daughter, Evangeline Prince. The courtship and marriage of a half-blood monster and the fragile, pureblood princess who wasn't good enough for anyone else.}

(Chapter One: A Kitten for the Manticore)

It was at the engagement ball of her ( Read more... )

In Pieces
{three conversations between tom riddle and death. 'i cast aside what is weak, it is not worthy of me.'}

He stands over the bodies and is not sure if he regrets. And a woman walks into the room and he raises his wand again without a thought. The same deathly green flashes a fourth time, flooding the room, but the figure remains upright, ( Read more... )

Defy

{sirius, marlene, and the motorbike: defying death, gravity, and muggle traffic laws. after all, better to jump than to fall}

Sirius lets Marlene drive his motorbike, just the one time, and regrets it.

She keeps to the road, ignoring his instructions on how to activate the flying charms on the bike. She keeps to the road, weaving through muggle ( Read more... )

1000
{we build our own heaven of a thousand little joys. one-thousand word vignettes on heaven and happy moments for the first order of the phoenix}

She’s one two three four fingers old and Martin is her world. It’s magic, how her legs seem to lengthen; she can always catch him, even when he says he’d run like it was the devil on his heels and not ( Read more... )

For Now

{the phoenixes know nothing if not how to say goodbye. seven farewells that were and weren't}

It’s Maggie’s idea, the memory spheres, the goodbyes. Funny, really. She’ll die a few days after she brings the cardboard box filled with crystal spheres to the Order meeting, die without ever having recorded one of her own. A lot of people will ( Read more... )

Finding Silver

{there are a lot of silver linings to be had. percy's just trying to find his}

NOTE: This piece is not related to my other Percy-fics. I know a lot of my pieces tend to interweave and/or take place in the same sort of 'universe', if you know what I mean, but this one is entirely separate! I wanted to play around with some of JKR's post ( Read more... )

Cauterize got plagiarized. Not only did this person attempt to pass my work off as their own, but absolutely butchered it in the process, either trying to make it less obvious that it was stolen or attempting to 'fix' it. I don't understand why people do this. How can you be proud of something you stole?

As of this posting, it hasn't been taken ( Read more... )

 I Ask Only This
{My little dove, she croons to her baby, it can be repaired. Barty Crouch's mother picks up the pieces.}

This isn’t the life intended for her. Eleanor had been young and bright and beautiful once, in love with a clever, brave young man, and the whole world had been set down before them. And then there was an accident, and then there ( Read more... )

Light As She Goes

{Not many will find her name on any memorial, not many will remember. She's just a nameless, anonymous casualty, but even in her last moments, Lisa Turpin can't regret.}

Her name, whatever it is (she can’t remember it at this point, and the time she could spend casting around for it would be wasted, and she hasn’t any to spare), ( Read more... )

When the Free Summer Comes

{The empty spaces, the quiet where there should be voices are like scars, too, ugly rents of malformed healing, and they're more painful than the ones she wears inlaid in her flesh.}

Lavender Brown is unashamed of the scars that rip down her back from the column of her neck to the flare of her hip.
She knows she would have ( Read more... )