Memory is a funny thing. "Nobody volunteers to be a volunteer, Snicket. They drag us away by our ankles."

Gamora prefers the nightmares that solidify. [Post-movie.]

The thing is, he thinks he might owe Drax an apology. The other thing is, he doesn't do apologies. [Post-movie.]

No matter which thing he worries about, it never quite feels right. Sirius Black has escaped and Remus is terrified that he's going to be an awful teacher; there are lessons to plan and Remus wants to curl up under his desk and scream. And everything about Hogwarts takes him back to something. (Or: Remus Lupin is having a very strange week.)

Friendship is a decision. A way to spend time that they all know is limited. It's a choice to make, he's learned, and plenty of them don't. "So the marks on your bucket, are they kills, or missions, or what?" / / Waxer and Boil, from pre-canon up to Innocents of Ryloth. Rated for violence. Warnings listed within.

Post-Zurich. Spoiler warning. Herc ponders the significance of labels. Arthur slips on wet pavement.

[Post-Zurich. Spoiler warning.] Carolyn and Arthur have a difficult conversation. It takes a few years to finish.

As long as everyone else believes you're absolutely fine, you're absolutely fine. (Or: Douglas and Carolyn have a conversation. About Herc. And Douglas.) / Set sometime before the finale.

Carolyn considers her options. Post-Zurich. Major spoilers.

"It probably won't kill me." In the pause that follows this proclamation, and in the interest of open communication between friends, she adds, "Right away." [Post-movie.]

Post-movie. Groot remembers something important.

The sick feeling never really goes away. It spikes and it wanes and during the waning periods it becomes a background noise that you learn to live with. When it spikes, you take your guns apart, one by one or first-step-by-first-step, until it starts to die down. [For an anon who prompted Rocket dealing with OCD. Warnings inside.]