sometimes they took things a little to far. (or: that time Padfoot ate James's homework.)
Morning comes slowly, inching through the window one sun ray at a time. She greets it warmly with her head tilted back and all limbs stretched across her bed like a starfish. Belle imagines that she's regrowing, and it makes her laugh for some reason she doesn't quite understand. (nomemories!belle)
"You told me you wanted to die, but that you wouldn't beg." (after a mission gone wrong, Clint helps put her back together again.)
"My uncle Ivan take me from orphanage. He says better times here." high school AU, warning for abuse
You see, she is Natasha. Shrunken and deaged and transformed into a child. She doesn't recognize any of them, shrinking back in terror from the man dressed like America who tries to coax her closer. The man with the bow and loud movements makes her shrink away, the way he watches her with heavy eyes. She flinches from the roars of the beast tearing apart the hell. deaged!natasha
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality." University AU
"Was there any other outcome?" He asks her, his voice sounding plastic through the mask. "Did you really hope to defy me?"
Jade West is merely a catastrophe. :a character study
AU She remembers that time she went running through the woods and finding her reflection. "I went through time. And I changed things. Could I change reality?" Sequel to Emma Frost
"I don't think I really belong there." Susan laughs sharply, spinning around so her skirt flares out dangerously. "Then make yourself belong. Simple."
AU: Lilac Potter locks her door and spends the night waiting for monsters to come. (companion to mourned childhood) (abuse)
Lilac Potter and Severus Snape were never meant to be anything. (She's at her breaking point and she's never looked stronger.) A/U (abuse)
She was pretty in a quiet sort of way, the way that usually left guys out of breath. /AU, If Violet was dead and Tate wasn't.
She was meant to be a child bride and he was meant to drown in that fish pond. They both have horrible childhoods and face unsteady futures that are filled with broken glass and rusted nails. (or: how they connect over and over again.) AU (rated for abuse, cutting and suicide attempt.)
(takes place in fourth book) An alternate story line in which Ron is a Slytherin, Pansy is a Gryffindor and Harry is a Ravenclaw. All Harry wants to do is not die, and maybe knock Malfoy off his golden throne. Hermione and Dumbledore bashing. AU!
Rumplestiltskin was the one to cast the curse. Emma never gave up Henry. AU
"These are like battle scars, you know?" His expression is so tortured it burns her. She swallows a sob. "They represent all your pain. Everything you feel is marking you, but it's time to stop." (four moments)
The wedding was a nightmare; Lily Evans came to the conclusion as she leaned against the brick wall of the church.
The sky was void of stars, it seemed. / Molly and Arthur grieve for their losses.
river never went to the academy. (how things went different, and how things never changed.)