All grief, Thranduil knows, is the same at the bottom: but he also knows that it is lived in very different ways. He will have to wait and see how Tauriel bears hers.

Tauriel finds her king in the treasure hall of Erebor with a box full of white gems in his hands. They are more alike than she thinks, but perhaps it has always been that way.

When first they meet, Tauriel mistakes her king for a ghost: not that she's entirely wrong, of course, but the beginning of her history with Thranduil is not exactly a warm memory. (Thranduil may think otherwise, but naturally that is something she will never ask him.)

To Anna, it seemed simple enough on paper: answer the summons, appear before the king's court, tell the truth as best as she remembered it, go back home, and never visit the Southern Isles again. But, of course, a princess is only as good as the challenges she can meet. And with a sorceress as its queen, Arendelle may be in for several.

His brothers may have stopped pretending that he was invisible, but some days Hans can't quite be sure. A series of related incidents, past to post-movie. (Or, "In which several questions about the childhood of a certain prince are answered, and many more are asked.")

There are many things that Pitch Black always knows: who he was in his first life is not one of them, but that is no business of ours anyway. A short character piece of sorts.

Even after all the years she's known him for, there will still be these fragile little in-between moments where Korra just has to stop and stare.

And as the boat carried her away from one new home towards an old one, Korra thought that maybe there were a few things she hadn't lost yet. Spoilers for the Season Finale.

Of course, it was probably a silly question on Korra's part. A father like his would've thought the healing arts were a waste of time, though it was certainly serving a good purpose now: not that he would want to go on after this, but she could try. Spoilers for the Season Finale.

Tarrlok has always had something of a talent for manipulation, of course. Spoilers for Episode Eight.

Korra thinks it's probably time to admit that she has no real idea what she's doing with this whole Avatar thing. But, well, that's alright. Spoilers for Episode Seven.

Compared to the councilman's gift basket, of course, one little rose wasn't very much, but it was what he could give her. That was enough: Bolin, Korra, and a missing scene from Episode Four.

Somewhere between her prolonged Valentino phase and her shorter but more impassioned Barrymore one, Ivy finds just enough time to notice somebody else. Ivy, Viktor, silliness.

Very likely she was going to chatter on like that for the whole morning, and very likely the five minutes of quiet he was wishing for would never come. But meanwhile, the Little Daisy's oil furnace was in need of fixing.

People do not give it credence that a nineteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the summertime, to pursue a band of outlaws and clear her brother's name: but it did happen. Mattie, LaBoeuf, Rooster.

It was fitting, really, that before things reached their conclusion I should wake up to find him sitting by the foot of my bed once again. After all, he was incorrigible. Mattie, LaBoeuf.

Freckle was doubtful at first, when Cousin Rocky told him that the lumpy little thing he called a cocoon was going to become a butterfly. Rocky had, after all, also told him that blue butterflies were carnivorous and liked to bite people's noses off.

She decides, early on, that she'll not be daunted by something so minor as a few silent death threats from him: Ivy Pepper, Viktor Vasko, and the history between them.

Orihime questions the nature of Hueco Mundo's moonlight. Ulquiorra is less than willing to answer. Request fic, hints of Ulquihime

Or: Five Things Takashi Morinozuka Did Not Need to Say, and One Thing That He Did. Spoilers for the manga, Mori/Haruhi.

He had, Kid reasoned, four viable explanations for the sight in front of him; and it didn't seem wise to question an angel's presence without first considering them all. Spoilers through manga chapter 65, Kid/Maka in however light you'd like to see it.

He may be a god in human form, but that human form feels so very fragile right now. Spoilers for Sozin's Comet.

The lack of one does not necessarily ensure the presence of the other. Bella contemplates her choice.

There are seven chakras within every being, and seven things that block them. But what are the keys that open them? Seven lessons that Toph has taught Aang, because love makes us learn. Taang drabble series. EDIT: spoilers for 312.

For most people, getting into a fight with thugs in a restaurant would be a bad first, and last, date. Luckily, Toph and Aang aren't most people.

His wife's question shocked him, of course: but in retrospect, it had needed asking. TaangKataang one shot.

Toph had always hated being small....

As odd as it was, she thought that she remembered him from somewhere, even if her own mind refused to cooperate. A requested SokkaAzula, rated for character death.

Sleepless one night, Katara is struck by how very small Aang's hands are... considering the responsibility they hold. Kataang, as requested.

Well, it certainly wasn't the most romantic of proposals. But it was one they would both remember for the rest of their lives. Zutara, of course.

And to think that there was a time, before I knew you, when I thought I was the tough one. An angsty SokkaSuki one shot.

Because I have writers block with my multichapter fic. Toph and Aang bring back some memories, and learn something new along the way. Taang oneshot.

Sokka has his own way of helping his daughter deal with boy troubles, it would seem.

For now, though, her child's heartbeat was hers to contemplate. Future fic, oneshot with flavors of Taang.

In the aftermath of Ba Sing Se's fall, everyone keeps moving forwards. And they keep moving forward because that is all they know how to do...in spite of the twists that the past likes to throw their way. Taang, Zutara, Sukka.