"Once upon a time, I fell in love with the wrong person."

He gazed across the large expanse of water, eyes unseeing, as he tried to make sense of the situation he had found himself in.

She ran through the crowded corridors of Hogwarts, trying to ignore the atrocities that were going on around her. A flash of green light passes far too close to her for comfort, leaving behind a turquoise after image every time she blinked. Title taken from a Winston Churchill quote.

"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves." - Federico García Lorca

"Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark." - Bryce Courtenay

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up." - Neil Gaiman Individual pairings and warnings inside. Title taken from a Marilyn Monroe quote.

1. (Lorcan/Lucy); 2.(Charlie/Tonks - Friendship); 3. It wasn't like anyone had to know. (Pansy/Hermione - Gen)

He had never been more willing to admit that he had been wrong. I've labelled it under romance, but it's more implied than anything else.

Going under some re-writes. She is tasked with researching his short life; she doesn't expect it to be anything more than a job - never has she been more wrong.

"There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye." – Jeff Thomas

She walked aimlessly through the abandoned halls of Grimmauld Place, the eerie silence only interrupted by the echoing of her footsteps. She hadn't been able to sleep that night – the third night in a row – and she was beginning to feel claustrophobic cramped in her out-dated room left alone with her thoughts.

The shattering of glass; maniacal laughter; the impact of a misfired spell against the castle wall; it all left him confused and disoriented. An AU after the Battle of Hogwarts.

A brief exploration of the relationships between Cygnus Black and his daughters.

The world is always moving. Always changing. It was beautiful and wonderful and so very interesting, but it was not forever. All things must end. You can cling on to the past until there is nothing left, or you can embrace the change and see what is in store for you next.

A very brief look at the Halloween of 1981; slight implications of one-sided Voldemort/Lily.

There were very few things that truly frightened him. The Great Hall shrouded in flames; Armando Dippet's ire; Herbert Beery's twisted glare on his horribly disfigured face. These things didn't even come close.

He was clearly insane, watching her in her kitchen like that. But then again, no one was forcing her to talk to him. Maybe she wasn't exactly normal either.

Their breakup wasn't much shorter than their relationship. It still hurt, though.

A gift doesn't have to be expensive to be valuable. It doesn't have to be perfect or extravagant or even wanted at the time. But sometimes a gift can come when you least expect it, and from someone who is practically a stranger, and mean the world to you. Because it was what you needed in that moment. It gave you hope. It told you that you weren't alone.

The most serious conversations, Bill finds, are easiest to have late at night.