There's something more than Mei's sweet, flowery perfume in the air. There must be. Something even a MANTIS can't shrug off. That's the only possible explanation for the heavy anticipation that frames her thoughts, the soft, squirming heat that fills her the longer she holds Kiana close, the devastating fragility of Mei's sunset eyes tracing her jawline.

"I don't love you, onna," Ulquiorra says, staring into the emptiness outside the window of her cell. "I don't know how. I wouldn't, even if I could. Why do you persist with this foolishness?"

"Walk with me?" Her tone is inviting. Like the edge of a cliff. / There are daughters of men called Lilith, too, and demons have never been able to resist irony.

Living might not be the best revenge, but it's close. [Post-TDOTL. Darquesse-centric]

You will remember me for centuries. [the almost-journal of a Guardian, across the reaches of space, the horrors of war, and the silences in between. chapter five: utilitarianism]

"Ban. KAI." It takes Yoruichi's fall—broken, battered, and no longer breathing—for Ichigo to realise he's never truly known Urahara at all. (A sequel, of sorts, to Avarice, though reading it first is not necessary).

"I'm pregnant. Suzaku doesn't know. I'm going to die in six hours. And I don't know what to do." Eighteen years after the Zero Requiem, Leloucia vi Britannia's final message has been uncovered.

"Exactly why are we together again?" "Because I'm prettier than Draco?" "Do you always have to bring that up? We were both drunk!" When Charlie Weasley brought his fiancé to meet his family, she didn't expect to find out his sister was dating a former Death Eater. AU, H/G.

Voldemort isn't a man. Ginny Weasley died in the Chamber. Twin divergences, though insignificant compared to the infinite majesty of the universe, spell a destiny irrevocably altered. Watch as Harry's life, the lives of those around him, and eventually the fate of Magical Britain herself are affected by his slowly-growing relationship with a female Tom Riddle.

Because life isn't always full of chocolate and butterfly kisses and chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

"Someone unattainable, then?" she deduces; her mind is like a diamond, all glinting brilliance and sharp edges. "Not the Weasley girl?" He laughs uncomfortably. "In another life, perhaps." Harry, Daphne, and the difference between what is fated and what simply is.

It took Ichigo three days of single combat to achieve Bankai. Urahara earned his after five minutes of conversation – and a piece of his best friend's soul. (A prequel to Avarice and Oblivion, but can be read separately)

Eren and Annie are a natural disaster; terrifying, devastating, as inevitable as death and all the more beautiful for it. Theirs is a love like Icarus - it might all end in tears and screaming, but oh, the flight. [Modern!Police!AU]

In which Eren obtains Annie's phone number, and—within the space of twelve hours—manages to convince her to have lunch with him the next day. A story mostly told by the transcripts of text messages, bad jokes, and, in the end, a strategically-applied pillow to the face. University AU.

Steel in the hand, and blood on the blade; now your death is surely made. Urahara's Bankai is a terrifying thing. (A character study, of sorts).

The one you love last is the one you love most.

"I haven't punished you for what you did to me, yet," he whispered, breath caressing the other side of her cheek as he leaned in too close yet not close enough. "I still have the scars." Rose, Scorpius, and the blurred line between love and hate.

They, who were once and will one day be Harry and Ginny, from the beginning to the end of time.

"She sits down, arms clasped around her body in a mockery of the way he held her, and tries to ignore the way the silence sounds like betrayal." Scorpius, Rose, and what happens when you love someone you can never have.

"We did it, Gin. We did it," Harry said, and only then did Ginny start to weep, tears rolling down her face as she sobbed, her whole body shaking with a grief as vast and as ancient as the stars.