it's like they have forever at their very fingertips. or, the next generation in 33 ways

she's broken and torn to pieces and she's running, like she always is./ next-gen character-centric per chapter, for why the caged bird sings's globetrotter drabble challenge; one: lily; two: dominique; three: lucy; four: molly; five: albus

"I don't always know what's going on," he says carefully. "Me, either, James." / Dominique and James, and the aftermath of Fred's death.

"Lucy, I can't. I can't do this to you. You're getting married for Christ's sake." / lysander and lucy and lorcan, colliding.

"I love you," he whispered, but it felt fake, just like always. / unrequited TeddyLily

"Why don't you just tell her you love her so you don't have to keep telling me about it?" / Molly and Lysander need some help from their siblings to realize what's really going on between them.

She thinks, maybe they shouldn't have gone swimming in the Black Lake last June after she broke up with Ron. Maybe then they would not have gotten caught out after hours. Maybe she wouldn't have made a joke about it being his fault and maybe he would have kept his fists to himself. / Lavender, struggling to keep her head up.

James is just an architect and she is just the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. /JamesII/OC

Her eyes are the color of the night sky- lucylorcan

and sin drips off her lips as you kiss them, but that doesn't really matter anymore, does it? /or, next-gen cousincest drabbles.

Maybe it's because she's read Oedipus too many times that she can't be bothered with morals or whatever when she throws herself at him. /because grief makes people do crazy things/ ROSE&JAMES

"Lily, why are we doing this?" / She can't leave him in the dust again; can't leave him to pick up the pieces of the glass she shatters every single time. / LilyTeddy, crashing together, again and again.

"It's your fault that you miss me, and it's your fault I left." / "What are we?" / jamesdominiquescorpius, colliding, breaking, and falling together.

two seperate worlds, two people different as day and night. but when they meet, both worlds stop. daphne/fred, freeverse, for mew and morghen's weird pairings competition 2012.

so what she settles for ice? rose/astoria, and credit for the pairing goes to mew and mor.

and maybe they could stand each other for a little while longer. fang/sorting hat, credit to mew and morghen.

and they torture her in the night, the demons, so she turns to him, only him. lucy/louis

you never realized he was your knight in shining armor. ron/hermione, through the years

because sometimes, people like the wrong people more than they should. draco/lilyii

lily burns a warpath right through teddy's heart, some days.