X-Men: First Class. "You miss him, don't you?" :: Charles/Erik/Raven

Everyone's allowed a night off from time to time.

A thrown stone can cause ripples in the water. All it takes is a slightly different angle for those ripples to go in a completely different direction.

What it says on the tin.

The truth, the lies, the in-between / the hate, the love, the waking dream.

X-Factor (v3). A (not-so-quiet) moment or two in the aftermath of a mission. :: Rictor/Shatterstar

A conversation in a garden about the past, the present, and what the future might hold. [Based on Stealing Fire, by Jo Graham.]

Most of the time all she cares about is surviving. Sometimes she wants more. :: Harry/Hermione/Severus

Callousness is like shattered glass / And like shattered dreams on the floor / Depression sets in to devour all hope / And makes you scream for more. :: Percy/Neville

Buffy's done baking.

The problem with living is that sometimes there are pieces of a broken life that have to be picked up and put back together. But what do you do when the puzzle has pieces missing? What do you when a life can't simply go back to the way it was? You learn. You change. You live. Or you don't. Simple as that. Those are the only options.

Shepard thought it was her imagination at first.

If Thane wanted to push her away, he was going to have to try a lot harder than that. She'd never been the type to let someone else make decisions about her life just because they wanted to protect her. [Coraline Shepard: Colonist, Ruthless, Sentinel]

While camped at the hill of Erech, Gimli cannot rest.

Not long after he started working with Hera, Kanan learned an important lesson.

Frodo stumbled across the small box full of papers on one of his bad days. (past Bilbo/Thorin)

Once upon a time, there were two sarcastic kids in love.

X-Factor (v3). Rictor woke up to the sound of something exploding downstairs.

"[T]o know that we will have long years of peace, and that you will be Sybil after me is important. And good."

At some point, she was going to have to put the past behind her. [Coraline Shepard: Colonist, Ruthless, Sentinel] :: F!Shep/Thane, past F!Shep/Kaidan