Poor Pansy Parkinson, left out in the cold after the Battle of Hogwarts, suffers illicit affairs, borderline poverty, Draco's arrogance, irritating customers, postwar malaise, and the unnerving attentions of the Boy Who Lived.
Natasha Romanova, Russian spy extraordinaire, is the unstoppable force. Steve Rogers, the freshly unthawed star-spangled man with the plan, is the immovable object. Alternate universe.
Lucius Malfoy, an overcast night, a jail cell in Azkaban. Written in 2005; rewritten and reposted. Companion piece to Tennosei's "Fevered Ice."