The word cuts, cruel and thick, each of the three syllables deeper than the last. Loki returns to Asgard and sentiment still wounds. Pre-TTDW.

All that Dorcas will be remembered for is this. “That’s Dorcas Meadowes, Voldemort killed her personally.” A life thrown down for others is the legacy she left behind in eight words on printed paper.

Tsukino Usagi dies before she ever awakens but the Dark Kingdom still rises. In the ruin of everything that should have been, Sailor Venus gathers together a team of broken guardians. Without their princess, can the sailor senshi defeat the enemy that has followed them from their terrible past?

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. The last days of Fabian Prewett and Dorcas Meadowes. Dorcas/Fabian with hints of unrequited Dorcas/Regulus.

She thinks of magic, not the warped, rotted thing she calls forth from her fingertips with the feeble hope of doing some good but the magic of adventure and love. Magic long gone from the world.

They lived two lives entwined but apart; a love story that wasn't. First War One Shot. Unrequited.

Dorcas Meadowes did not want to die. They will say afterwards when they bury her that she accepted death, that she went quietly to the black but this is a lie. It is of no honor to her name nor any comfort to those who loved her.