Tom Riddle fled Death. Ignotus Peverell hid until he reached a great age and greeted Death as an old friend. Others... hailed Death and demanded to be removed from the gene pool post-haste.

It was a good thing the new scientist, Dr. Harry Evans, was working out so well. Because nothing else was going Fury's way. And that was before Loki made off with the Tesseract and some of his people. Maybe AU to Mortem Cantor by Kyandua.

Book 4 showed Voldemort giving Wormtail a fully-functional silver arm. So why would a certain paranoid old wizard settle for a mere wooden peg leg? AU GoF One-shot.