Sometimes words don't need to be spoken. You both know the words that are about to be said; that they will hurt, that they are unnecessary, or that they just aren't true. Sometimes, you say them anyway. /Warnings and pairings inside./

Regulus Black

Tom Riddle was not always the Dark Lord. Not even close. This is a small piece of his story before he became Lord Voldemort.

The origin of Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, as told through a bedtime story.

A letter between acquaintances (I'll write a proper - though not necessarily better - summary when I get back.

They'd tossed it away as if it were junk, but he reached for it as though it were treasure.

'When everything else goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.' Jim Butcher. A collection of one-shots all centered around the Weasley family. All individual characters and warnings are inside.

This is the story of a young witch during the London Tornado of 1091. The storm had been raging for days, forcing many to take shelter indoors. If people were forced to leave their homes they did so briefly, hurrying to their destinations and arriving drenched and shivering.

"Daddy I want to be a pirate when I grow up. I want to be a Quidditch Player... an Auror..." It's the decisions we made that get us to where we are today. We just have to trust that they're the right ones.

Life isn't a fairytale. Sometimes things happen and you're left hurting and alone. Sometimes it's because of a decision you had no part in, and the people that were supposed to be there for you... weren't. And you were left alone in the night.

"Pay attention! This is not a joke! This is not a game you are playing with those blood traitors you insist upon interacting with. This is your last chance to make this family proud."

It wasn't a promise that he would ever remember, but it was one that he would adhere to none-the-less. He could never forgive his brother for what happened after; he could never forgive himself, either.

A collection of drabbles for the Valentine's Day Drabble competition on HPFC. 20 different pairings, as close to chronological order as I could get it. Individual pairings are inside. (Title shamelessly taken from the song of the same name by Alex Day.)

By all accounts they should hate each other. Maybe they would have, if things had happened differently. But they didn't.

It wasn't traditional - and it was by no means a fairy tale - but it was theirs. And it was perfect.

'I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.' - Eric Roth

Sometimes it's not easy to admit the truth to yourself, even if it's obvious for everyone else to see.

She should have seen the warning signs, really. They weren't hard to miss. Except... Well, except that she had missed them. Every. Single. One. A small insight into James and Lily's relationship over the years; Lily's point of view.

She'd been there for hours already, trying to think of what exactly to write... She just wanted to make sense of this – to understand... It didn't seem fair that her sister found it so easy to abandon her. And it didn't. Make. Sense.

"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, worth saving." – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Ron just after he leaves Harry and Hermione in Deathly Hallows.