When sixteen year old Simon Gilbert is found murdered surrounded by more blood that doesn't belong to him than blood that does, Beckett and her team are left stumped as to how the killer could've survived, but what they discover when they dig deeper into the case is a string of lies, cover ups and false leads... and all the while an old enemy waits in the shadows .:Future Fic:.

"So they sat there, the writer and the detective, enveloped in each other's arms, desperately trying to avoid thinking about what could've happened and trying to focus on what did. Neither one spoke, there was nothing left to say, both were just glad that the other was there, both were glad that they were still alive." /- In every incident, there is always an aftermath.

"Are you hitting on me?" Lily asked cautiously, her brow furrowing. "Maybe," Scorpius said, leaning forward and putting his finger underneath her chin and tipping her head backwards, "so what if I am?"

"Have you ever defied your parents Lucy?" Lorcan asked curiously, wrapping his strong arms around her to prevent her from any escapades she might want to venture on. Lucy looked up at him sheepishly, "No."

"It's strange what losing one's family can do to a person." - Hermione doesn't judge people on what they have done in the past. *femmeslash*

"All she sees when she turns out the lights is shadows on her wall; shadows that warp themselves into images of her friends and her family who had been lost to the war. It is as if they keep coming back to haunt her, to remind her of what a terrible job she did of protecting them." .:For Kelly:.

Now that Rose and Hugo are out of the house until Christmas, Ron and Hermione are determined to make the best of a bad situation. .:For Ash:.

He acts as if nothing is wrong, but you see straight through it. You can see his pain, his grief over his mother's recent death, it takes all of your self-restraint not to wrap him up in your arms and kiss the pain away .:For Laura:.

Maybe all she had needed was to talk to somebody and that somebody just happened to be her old Quidditch teammate who knew what she'd been through just by looking at her. They had helped each other tonight and maybe, just maybe, they could help each other heal .:For Karyn:.

"It's the same every night. She lies in her bed staring blankly up at the ceiling, barely blinking, never stirring. - Breathe in, breathe out"

After Voldemort defeats Harry Potter, the death eaters split the continent of Great Britain right down the middle, separating the Wizarding World from one another, but in a war there is always hope and more often than not, that hope comes in the form of love, courage and sacrifice. We often call the wielders of those traits 'heroes' .:For Gamma:.

"He was like the sheet music and you were the piano keys, two essential parts in making the piano play and now you're like the broken strings on a violin that aren't good for anything. You need him to function and now, he doesn't want you and it hurts. But what hurts the most is the knowledge that he blames you for his situation."

The beeps on the machine are becoming less frequent. Your throat constricts because you now know that he's going to die. Nobody can sense death coming better than the person that's dying. - /Barty has always cared, he just has a different way of showing it

... and i can't change, even if i tried, even if i wanted to... .:Slash & Femmeslash drabbles:. i. RemusSirius, ii. AlbusScorpius, iii. TeddyJamesII, iv. ParvatiLavender

"Javi?" Ryan asks, "Javi what is it." Esposito whispers a thank you into the receiver and hangs up the call, swallowing thickly he looks with pained eyes at the three people standing before him, his eyes averted from Castle's. "It's Beckett," he whispers... and the world crumbles down around him. / - AU Post-Ep for 6x17

Rose Weasley; popular, pretty and outgoing. Scorpius Malfoy; obnoxious, loud and arrogant until, suddenly, he wasn't. A Malfoy without arrogance is like a bird without wings and Rose has always been too nosy for her own good.

It's better not to touch, because snakes attack, and when they attack they almost always kill. .:AU:.

but there is a scream, and you fall right then and there .:Companion to "Two Halves of a Whole" by Forever Siriusly Sirius:.

"I'm there when you get the news. I watch you as you read the little slip of paper that your mother's owl has delivered to you, I had to convince you not to throw it out just moments ago, and I can't tell from the look of disbelief on your face if you're glad that I did so in the first place. "

He lies in bed, staring up at the ceiling with a blank expression on his face. He doesn't stir, he doesn't move a single muscle. He only gazes longingly at the endless expanse of darkness above him. .:For Ami:.