It starts at Slughorn's first party at the end of the first month of their first term and it's because Harry, miraculously, comes out first in Potions. Hermione is hellbent on a crusade for justice, and she's taking Tom with her whether he likes it or not. / Tomione, No Time-Travel, Golden Trio Era

It's difficult, she finds, trying to swallow that resentment that had built up in the four-hundred something days that have gone by without a single word from him. She sinks into it, doesn't think. For once in her life she doesn't fucking think. "Your tie. Take it off." / tomione, no time-travel

He takes after an uncle he's never met. [klaus/caroline, elijah/hayley, rebekah, ensemble.]

She leans in close, suckles on his earlobe. "You couldn't ruin me if you tried." klaus/rebekah/stefan in the 20's.

So they bury Katherine, and life goes on. / klaus/caroline, bonnie, elena, katherine, tyler. POST 5x11

Maybe she wanted to see the sun set one last time. Maybe she wanted to see one last sunrise. / or, Caroline leaves town.

"Our brother's a vampire and you wake the dead. There, I said it. Nobody's running for the hills. Nobody's coming at us with pitchforks." "It's the 21st century, Bekah. They'd use rifles." — or, the one where Rebekah exploits mug tricks for extra tips, Klaus is a passive-mostly-aggressive piemaker, and Caroline just wants to know why Klaus refuses to touch her. PUSHING DAISIES AU.

And it's cool, you know, they dance. Decade dances, the ones with romantic music tangling in her hairspray curls, silk fingers warming inside his calloused hands, ornate necklaces, perfect little pocket squares, arms bumping, hips swaying. Barely touching.

"Let's rule the world," Katherine says, and scribbles a date in her Filofax in permanent red. / katherine, caroline, rebekah, with some klaroline & koroline.

"No, no, no," Stefan says, and he's clutching her closer. Remember this, he whispers into her hair. Remember this, remember this.

"Pull the trigger," he says. He's not on his knees, but he might as well be praying. [klaus/caroline, tyler, stefan, bonnie, elena, damon]

Rebekah sneaks out of a press conference one day, leaving Finn furious, Elijah amused, Stefan bored, and him with all the questions. They hound, they squabble for their turn, they gnash at scraps, they turn their noses up at his weary, pre-approved answers. They ask about Caroline. Christ, he needs a drink. — rival musician au, FOR MELISSA

"You feed or you die. You're hungry, I can hear it rushing in your veins, I can smell it in the sweat trickling down your back. You feed or you die—and it won't be starvation that takes you." It will be me, she doesn't say. And she doesn't smile. [GENDERSWAP]

It's not his duty to linger, but he does. "I wonder how much of the world you've seen."

"You speak of souls as though we actually had one." Rebekah, Elijah, and their plight to get their brothers back from the Other Side while Klaus remains steadfastly against all of it. [klaus/caroline, elijah/rebekah, originals love, silas] FOR ANNE.

There is a girl on the train, and she looks hungry.

"But you were always there," he continues as if she hadn't finally spoken. "In my sheets. Do you know how languorous you smell? How you linger? I was walking around 445 Lafayette Street one evening and when I looked up I saw the city as you saw it. Everything was on fire." AU/AH

"You're going to kill me?" Except it doesn't sound like a question. [klaus/caroline, rebekah, elijah]