(and when they kiss it's like you're being held underwater - drowning, drowning, suffocating) - NextGen drabbles.
And none of them are perfect, they've got bitter friendships and burning secrets, all these little lies to tell / collection of oneshots, various pairings including requests.
They weren't ever going to be fine. They would fight, they would kiss, they would have their ups and downs - but fine is one thing they would never, ever be. Hogwarts wasn't the sort of place for 'fine' anyway.
Some part of him thinks he loves her, another part tells him he is an idiot and the third part tells him she is one as well; for not loving him back.
He ends up falling for the girl in the library.
"I know a secret Marlene. Somebody fancies you." Unrequited MarleneJames drabbles, featuring Blackinnon.
"Remus Lupin, perfect Gryffindor prefect actually has problems?" she lets out a mock-gasp. "Who knew?"
He sits on his chair, scratching out the properties of the Devil's Snare and sneaks a glance at her, at those ghost-white, pointy cheekbones, her honeydew lashes...that long, ginger-blonde (like gold, he thinks faintly) hair and he doesn't mean to (he would never, ever mean to) but he feels pity.
1978. War is raging and caught amidst in it are several young adults, forced to mature before their time. To make decisions. To choose between life and love. It'll leave some for dead, some shattered beyond repair, but remember: People are naturally good at betraying others. Trust nobody. Don't let them in. Never let them in.
Except she doesn't think she's good enough, has this constant image of oil-painting perfect in her mind that drives her to despair, and you too, because you know that things in life don't always turn out like that, and you know that doesn't mean they're broken, just flawed. Oneshot collection. Various pairings.
"You always have to play the victim, don't you? Everything about you is fake. And don't pretend like you don't try, because you do. You try harder than any of us." NextGen multi-chapter.