In which Rory cries, Rory dreams, and Rory drowns. Spoilers for The Madness Underneath.

Andrea Bendal learns what it feels like to have a crush on someone in her 1st year. 2nd year, she learns just how much it can hurt when said someone has his fingers laced with another girl's. She learns how to resist the urge to carry the world on her shoulders her 4th year, and in her 5th, how to kiss a boy who tastes like flying.

There are many things that Lyn Reynolds, Slytherin, can handle, no problem. An assignment on the Patronus Charm? Okay. Her Professor pairing her together with Albus Potter for said project? Fine. But after she manages to produce her patronus and starts having repeated nightmares, her relationship with her best friend is strained and everything starts to be... not fine.

Damn time. Time was the spinning gear at the center of everything, controlling the crossing and uncrossing of the stars, the loving and unloving of people, the beginning and ending of sagas. A Clint/Natasha fic on their love, their time, and their ledgers.