In the autumn of 1940, Bucky is killed protecting Steve from a homophobic hate crime. Before long, a man shows up at Steve's front door with a strange story and an offer: he'll show him how to get in to the Underworld so he can bring Bucky back.
(Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes. Pre-serum Steve Rogers. Ancient Greek religion/lore crossover/fusion.)
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They can outlive war. They can outlive anything.
(A collage of moments. A relationship pieced together. The birth and death of a constellation.)
Inspired by Halsey's "Young God"
The Anuket Recovery Collective tries to be discreet.
Their location is just another McMansion buried in the California suburbs.
The sign outside doesn't use the word "eating disorders."
After torpedoing her GPA at UC Berkeley and crash-landing in the ER, Hannah is placed on academic probation and pressured into treatment. The problem is, she's pretty sure she isn't actually sick.
Jess' sons are all off at college now, and her tumultuous modeling career is decades behind her. All that seems to be left are her flaws, and the war she's waged against them since childhood.
If Zoe's parents hadn't found the birth control pills, they might never have figured out their vanishing daughter's second life. But now, she's actually... okay, maybe.
Kai is beyond ready for his surgery, and the excruciating wait for medical clearance is not made easier by the fact that he's the only guy, and only Black patient, in Res.
Everyone in Razia's orbit assumes that, as a registered nurse and new mom, she should "know better." And what sort of mother doesn't do everything to return to her baby?
After 14 years stuck in a revolving door of hospitalization and relapse, Belen is headed for another rematch with her insurance company. If they drop her again, she might be out of options.
Nicole's first year anniversary as a staff therapist is approaching. So is her wedding. Her fiance is losing patience, but she can't help but see herself in one of her most vulnerable clients.
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Cometh thy moon, for I am yours.
Under thine light, to you I'm bound.
They hide their children and bare their doors
When they hear that gnashing sound.
None shall be safe from what lurks in the night.
All will fear this cursed plight.
None will escape the moon's true terror.
For I am he. I am Fenrir.
For Unwritten Curse's Anti-Protagonist Challenge
Wretched banner by me
Six wrongdoers. Six social spheres. Six stories.
One horrible vice principal (hem hem!)
Eight hours stuck in a room together.
Ladies and gentlemen, detention is now in session.
A Breakfast Club-inspired modern AU.
1st place in down-in-flames's Modern AU Challenge
& dreamshadow's Trapped Together Challenge
Fly away. Please don't go.
Second Place in the Make TreacleTart Cry Challenge.
Don't make a noise,
don't leave the room until I come back from the dead for you.
-- You Are Jeff, Richard Siken
(For the Make TreacleTart Cry challenge)
Elenia@TDA made this delightful banner!
Hogwarts was a place where dreams were supposed to be realized. Where students were encouraged to dream of all they could be. But in a time where war made monsters of them all, there was no place for dreaming. Follow the girls of Gryffindor as they come face-to-face with their own demons. Are they strong enough to face the shadows or will they be consumed?
He was a skinny, abused eleven year old with stringy black hair eagerly awaiting the day he could escape from his family and Cokesworth.
She was a grey eyed nineteen year old who arrived in Cokesworth trying to put the horrors of her past behind her.
Each one had secrets which they dared not reveal.
Yet fate decided that their destinies would meet at a crossroad.
More than likely, story is abandoned.
Written for The Great Collab of 2018-2019!
When Becca is offered a job at Hargraves Industries, she feels like it'll be a turning point in her life. Little does she know just how far she'll go to reach her dreams.
A Christmas tale of a Diagon Alley shopkeeper, his junk shop of second-hand goods, his customers down on their luck, an old man who dies alone, an assistant who makes a difference, and an unexpected Christmas gift.
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With a grim smile she realized that Lucy Weasley could never do something like this, but Lucy Jones was more than capable.
For you-make-me-wander's 'Take a Wizard to Work Day' Challenge
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When you have no family no one cares if you’re putting your life at risk to save the human race. Plucked from an orphanage at the age of ten and placed into a mysterious institution, Valencia is trained to fight and kill those who are more powerful and mysterious than any human could fathom. When a hunt goes wrong, and Valencia is forced to choose between her home and her humanity, her entire world view comes into question.
Magic is a gift. A tool to change the world. But the wizarding world has fallen into a new age of darkness and fear, walling itself away. Scorpius Malfoy tried to fight that once, and lost.
Maybe he can’t change the wizarding world. But the Muggle world is full of evils that can be undone by one man and his wand. At whatever cost.
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“So,” said Harry, “the diary. . .the ring. . The cup, the locket, the snake. . . and something that was once Ravenclaw’s or Gryffindor’s.“
“An admirably succinct and accurate summary, yes,” said Dumbledore, bowing his head. (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, p. 507, American Edition.)
Six items-famed for being the vessels of Voldemort’s soul. Set in eight vignettes across ten centuries, this is their stories before their fates were sealed.
Trystan Scabior has a secret... a famous Pureblood father that cannot be named.
Characters: Scabior (the Snatcher) and Aurora Sinistra (Hogwarts Astronomy Professor).
Four people's reactions to the funeral of Lily and James Potter: Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape and Sirius Black.
More than a hundred years ago, a poor young couple inadvertantly started a dance that would capture the world... the Argentine Tango.
A street vendor selling roses in Buenos Aires, Argentina remembers it well.
A series of one-shots in which Neil Callaghan counsels various characters from our individual stories. These stories will generally be AU from the stories they relate to and the tone of them may vary, with some probably being more serious than others.
That beacon of light was gone, and my world was being plunged into darkness.
It was gone.
It is ironic that in a country founded by religious refugees, shows of one religion can make you a target.
1st in Heliotrope's Flash Fiction Contest
March 16th, 1980: Remus Lupin is waiting for the full moon, alone in the mountains of the Lake District.
(He's not dreaming of Sirius, or of martyrdom, and the anger's just the wolf clawing at him, impatient to be out.)
we were not made to flourish.
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Harper gets an unexpected package.
Written in 2004.
Banner by 1917farmgirl.
She fights for a world she hates as much as it hates her. It never stops; not until the world of magic burns to ashes to be reborn, or destroys Lily Evans and all caught in her wake. From Hogwarts to the defeat of Voldemort, the rise of the bright young friends, allies, and enemies of the Order of the Phoenix - and how each and every one of them fell
Lovely banner from Draco_Luva @ TDA!