French is the language of love, so isn't it right that some nuances to the language fit certain characters? One is pre-canon, three are au's, Cowritten with two wonderful people credited inside.

The battle is done. Neferet is not dead, but she is unconscious. Kalona is charged with watching her until she wakes. When she wakes with no recollection of who she is, what she's done, or why she turned to Darkness, can she discover a better side to the world, or will her slowly-returning memories force her back to the life she knows, or Darkness and pain?

AU Redeemed. Spoilers up to the first two-ish chapters. Lost in her own guilt, Zoey seals herself away, and both she and Stark suffer for it. Yeah, officer, I realize that Zoey thinks she's an island," he said desperately, "but she's not. Killing her is—well, it's gonna kill me too," he said sadly, looking older than he was. "And I just want to talk to her."

Loren Blake, however we know him. The liar, the poet and the man tells his own story. "The day he made the change, he was awarded the title of Vampyre Poet Laureate, both the youngest and the first ever male, and he didn't feel a thing. The spewed him sonnets of empty words. He just felt cold, and he shared that with the only kindred spirit he knew"

It's an old story William's mum used to tell him, but it rings true for him too. "In days of old, before the earth, the sun and moon were lovers. Then, the earth intervened, split them, and took the sun away. He couldn't go on, knowing his every moment was one less for her, every night, he dove from the horizon that she might live. He never saw her, but he knew that she was okay...