In a life of ninety-four years, there are a great many things that Raoul de Chagny has forgotten. But there are a great many more that he remembers, and mostly they are people who have meant the world to him. Christine Daaé hopping in and out of his timeline is just one part. A follow-up to 'make our sun stand still', 'long love's day', and 'our time devour'

WWI AU. Raoul comes home from the war, but he is not the man he was before. Christine thinks on all that has been, and has come to be

Modern AU. 5 times Christine caught Erik singing 1 time he sang for her. Part of the Tinder 'verse

Selkie AU. A selkie comes ashore, brought by a longing in her heart, and saves the life of a land man shipwrecked in a storm. Sorelli/Philippe.

1966. Sorelli remembers war, and loving Erik and Philippe both. She visits the graveyard, and doesn't regret a thing. 1957. Nearing the end of his life, Erik remembers all those years before, loving Sorelli and losing Philippe. Irish History AU. Companion piece to 'The Dreaming of Philippe de Chagny' and 'For Love and the Voice on the Wind'. Philippe/Sorelli/Erik. Sorelli/Erik. R/C

He wakes from a long illness, and there are blanks in his memory he cannot fill. Mostly, he misses Philippe. Erik/Philippe. 2nd Person POV. Background R/C. Unspecified setting

1966. Christine looks back on two wars, and a lifetime of loving Raoul. A companion piece to 'The Dreaming of Philippe de Chagny'.

27 March 1921. Philippe de Chagny, Irish Republican, sits at his brother's bedside, and thinks of how he has come to be here. 01 March 1965, Raoul de Chagny stands in a graveyard at a much-delayed funeral, and remembers. Irish War of Independence AU. Philippe/Erik/Sorelli. Philippe/Sorelli. Philippe/Erik. Raoul/Christine

Western AU. Sometime after Erik's death, Christine remembers moments of intimacy with him. E/C. Pharoga. Christine/Erik/Daroga

Somewhere in France, 1918. It is a year since Erik died, and Faisal remembers all that has happened. (Christine/Daroga, past Christine/Erik/Daroga)

Modern Irish AU. Last year, Christine and Sorelli spent Christmas in Maynooth. This year they are in Connemara, and it is soft, and sweet, and they only wonder if Philippe will come. Christine/Sorelli. Christine/Sorelli/Philippe. An Entry for the Phantom Christmas One-Shot Challenge.

Christmas 1917, a casualty clearing station somewhere in France. And Christine Daaé and her fiancé are at the bedside of their dying ex-lover.

Christine travels through time and loves both Erik and Sorelli, and Erik is the one who stays in the present, and loves her even in her absence. A companion piece to long love's day.

Modern AU. Four times Erik has visited a church, to breathe, and to think. Part of the Tinder 'verse

Modern AU. Christine and Erik have been together thirty-six years when they spend a month in Connemara, and it is quiet, and gentle, and full of the love they have shared with each other. Part of the Tinder 'verse

Modern AU. Erik and Christine and memories of Halloween. Part of the Tinder 'verse

Modern AU. Erik and Christine, and snapshots of the days leading up to their first Halloween together

A year after the events of 'Soft Place to Fall', Erik and Christine welcome their son.

1970. Philippe dies 28 years after the operation that saved his life, and as Sorelli learns to live in a world without him, the greatest relief she can find is in writing the memories of the time they had together. (a follow-up to An Ever-Fixéd Mark, Alters Not, and To the Marriage of True Minds)

Christine is 5 the first time she goes into the past, 6 the first time she meets Sorelli in the year 1920. Her best friend is in the past, all her pasts and futures exist at once, and there is so much grief but so much love too, and she loves a girl with deep dark eyes who lived before she was born. Companion to 'make our sun stand still'. Christine/Sorelli. Philippe/Sorelli. E/C

1920 - Sorelli is six when she first meets Christine. It is not strange for the other girl to be a time traveller. 1933 - she tries to disentangle her feelings of love for Christine. 1934 - she meets Philippe de Chagny. 1938 - things start to fall apart. 1939 and 1945 and a world in between and before as she wrestles with what's in her heart. Sorelli/Christine. Sorelli/Philippe

1942, Philippe and Sorelli, recovering from his illness and loving each other. A short follow-up to 'An Ever-Fixéd Mark' and 'Alters Not'

1942, Midhurst Sanatorium, and the eve of a major operation on his chest causes Philippe to reflect on his feelings for Sorelli, while he waits for her to visit.

1942, and when Sorelli visits Philippe in the Midhurst Sanatorium on the eve of a major operation that risks his life almost as much as it promises to save it, she wrestles with how to tell him of her feelings.

Modern AU. An almost four-year engagement, and now they are down to the last four months before their wedding. Erik is recovering from major surgery, and Christine is organising the move to their new house. Part of the Tinder 'verse

Modern AU. It is Christine's second summer away in Portugal, and at home Erik feels like he's coming apart without her.

Modern AU, part of the Tinder 'verse. Their third summer together, and Christine is researching her thesis in Portugal. Erik can't bear being without her, so he goes on an adventure to Connemara and has feelings and philosophises and composes.

Modern AU. Erik and Christine and their friends, of music and melancholy and dancing beneath the Perseids. Part of the Tinder 'verse

Modern Irish AU. For the sake of his health, Christine decides she and Erik should move to Connemara. They play music and sketch and love each other quietly by the ocean

Erik reads a romance memoir, falls asleep with Christine at his side, and dreams of having a whole face, and an alternative first meeting. Modern AU. A short sequel to Tinder Date.

In the summer of 1884, Christine Daaé leaves New Orleans for Wyoming, to marry Erik, a man she knows only through letters. Together they must navigate the waters of a relationship with a stranger, while the town of Contention lives up to its troubled name.

Carlotta opens her door to the Daaé girl in need of help, and there are echoes of a girl from long ago, and how she grew to be who she is now

Ireland, 1920. An unfortunate incident forces Erik to run, but everywhere he goes there are people who appreciate his situation, and who will help him get messages to Nadir in Dublin.

Three glimpses of a world where Erik and Nadir are rodeo cowboys in the 1980s

It is a year since they became involved, when Erik asks if the Daroga wishes to see his face.

Knowing it will be a difficult journey for him, Christine and Erik follow Raoul to America. But Christine is keeping a secret of her own, one she dare not tell Erik about until they are far enough away that they can't turn around.

They move to Norway after what happened, but Raoul needs movement, while Christine needs stillness.

Erik goes to great lengths when he is getting ready to go out with the Daroga

Raoul is six and he's not a tiny boy anymore, but sometimes he has bad dreams and when that happens he likes to sleep with his brother, or one of his sisters, and they make all the bad dreams go away.

Carlotta has been with many women in her time, and it is frequently pleasant to remember them, but she never expected she would lie down for the prim ballet mistress.

Western AU. Their son grows tall and proud. There is something of his mother in his fingers, and of his father in his features, and of the godfather he never knew in his music. He follows the path of those who went before, and is never alone. Charoga. Past Christine/Erik/Daroga

Western AU. Erik dies, and leaves Emir and Christine behind. And as they grieve they learn to love each other for who they are, and not only for Erik having loved them both. Charoga. Pharoga. Christine/Erik/Daroga

Erik roams the West and plays music and has two great loves in his life, and the greatest thing is that he loves them both at once, and they each love him all the more for it. Western AU. Pharoga. E/C. E/C/D

She might have kissed him at any time in ten years of knowing him, but she kisses him now, and the past and future stretch before them. Western AU. Christine/Daroga. Christine/Erik/Daroga

The events of September 1917 permanently affected the De Chagny family. Letters, telegrams, worry, and hope are all part of life for them, and the war marches inevitably on.

On the eve of their thirty-fourth anniversary, as she waits for Erik to come home, Christine goes through the mementoes she's kept, and remembers.

He has been on the island for twenty years. She has only arrived, cast away with her father until their little boat fetched up here. But her father died and now Christine is alone with the island's existing resident. It is easier to not remember her past life, as she learns to survive, and learns Erik, and he learns her in turn.

It is a year since the night beneath the opera, and Christine receives a telegram that Erik is dying. She goes to see him one last time.

Modern AU. Erik and Christine's daughter, Clíodhna, wanders through the campus where her parents are lecturers, thinks about her family and finds inspiration.

Modern AU. Erik could not make it to Christine's actual doctoral graduation, so they decide to stage their own, with a little help from their friends.

May 1912. The Daroga and Erik have considered themselves married for thirty years, and so they have a get-together with their friends.

May 1882. It is not-quite-a-wedding because they are not allowed one, but it is real enough to them and the Daroga is anxious.

Philippe De Chagny has always prided himself on being a composed man, and on never doing anything in haste. Then Sorelli comes to him one night with news, and the world as he knows it is turned on its head

Modern AU. Fifteen Christmases that Erik has after he meets Christine. A belated entry to Not A Ghost3's Phantom Christmas One-Shot Challenge

Christmas, 1918. The war is over, and surrounded by her family, Christine has time to reflect.

Modern AU. Erik and Christine have been together for nine years, but the comfortable life they've made for themselves is about to change forever.

August 1881. It's been days since Erik was shot, and sleep has been in short supply. But when he wakes, the worry fades away.

The Daroga and Erik, and soulmate timers counting down to when they will part.

Sometimes it's useful to be able to hear your soulmate's heartbeat in the back of your mind. Other times, when your about to go on-stage, it's a frustrating distraction

An injured Erik wakes up in an unfamiliar room

Christine and Erik and an escape from gunfire

A collection of ficlets which are not substantial enough to be fics in their own right. Also extracts from some existing 'verses of mine. 48th piece - After Digging Up Bones, Christine and Erik come to a decision

Modern AU. Erik and Christine, and the places they find each other in.

Erik and Christine on his birthday. Modern AU

In the Spring of 1882, Raoul vowed to protect Erik and Christine's son. In November 1918, the war ends, and he goes down beneath the Opera House to visit a lonely grave.

When Sorelli is asked by Christine to serve as witness at a small wedding, she never imagines it will bring her into contact with the Persian, and lead to so much more. Sexual references

Christine and the Daroga are preparing Erik's body when they find his tattoos, and it's too much.

Christine Daaé is a chorus girl at the Palais Garnier. Erik Delacroix is a composer and conductor of the Garnier orchestra. When he hears her singing to herself he is spellbound, and decides to give her lessons, if she will accept. She agrees, and slowly lessons turn to friendship turn to love.

Christine is rushing to get ready for a lesson, but Carlotta looks after her. Sickfic

Christine has thought a great deal about Erik's hands, fantasised and dreamt about them. And a date that turns into their first time proves that those hands are all she suspected and more. Modern AU, sequel to Tinder Date

Pharoga Western AU. Fahim is a lawman charged with bringing in Erik. He unexpectedly falls in love, but before they can be together he is badly wounded and other forces come into play. The question is who shot him? And why? Who is the next target? And what will Erik do?

When Raoul is 18, Philippe decides to send him to America for a year before he devotes himself to the Navy, to "have an experience." On the voyage, he befriends a handsome young palaeontologist, and despite his scepticism about the bones of ancient creatures, friendship leads to more than he ever bargained for.

Afterwards, Erik and the Daroga will blame the wine for their activities. For now, they simply kiss and enjoy themselves.

Erik fell ill after sending Christine and Raoul away, and before he could recover the Daroga brought him to a farm in the country.

Nadir convinces Erik to download Tinder, and he matches with a pretty girl named Christine. And before he knows it, a first date leads to more.

The Daroga develops a cough after Erik comes to him and says he is dying. He puts it down to almost drowning in the torture chamber, but the weeks pass and he remembers an old story his grandmother told him, of sufferers of unrequited love coughing up flower petals.

Erik is gravely ill, and has something important to say to the Daroga.

One always hears the echo of their soulmate's heartbeat, and can only recognize them by feeling the person's pulse match up with the rhythm in their head. Erik never heard the echo until he was in his thirties. Christine has heard it for as long as she remembers.

(Wraiths of Wandering AU) Marguerite Dupuis, née De Chagny, considers her husband and their life together.

New Year's Eve, 1918. Marguerite De Chagny remembers this night one year earlier, and thinks about all that has changed. Sequel to Wraiths of Wandering.

Erik and the Daroga are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the night they got together, and kissing leads to much more.

Modern AU. Christine and Raoul have had a fight, but they still need to decorate for Christmas, and Christine is keeping a secret that she will only tell when Christmas morning comes.

Christmas is coming and Christine feels she should get a gift for the Angel of Music. **Entry for the 2nd annual Phantom Christmas One-Shot Contest.**

France 1917. Konstin Daaé, the son of Christine and Erik, is badly wounded fighting on the Western Front. His best friend and lover, Antoine De Chagny, is wounded saving him. Antoine's sister, Marguerite, is nursing in the hospital to which they are brought, but she has her own struggles. And back in Paris, Christine waits desperately for news.

While in the supermarket on Christmas Eve, Christine meets her old lover, and it reinforces all of her love for her husband. Modern AU.

Erik has been dead for more than a year, and this is the first Christmas Eve that Christine has with her baby son.

As Erik sleeps beside her, Christine contemplates his collection of tattoos. (Rating for reference to past drug use)

They told Sorelli that Philippe had drowned. But here he is standing before her.

They have been married for four months, and still Erik asks for Christine's permission when he wishes to be intimate.

Erik was in pain, but Christine massaged it away, and her arms around him are all he knows.

Not long after burying Erik, Christine goes for a walk and is joined by someone unexpected.

There are many different worlds, all existing simultaneously, and in each world the end result is different. (Multiverse. Includes Pharoga, E/C, R/C, Philippe/Sorelli, Christine/Sorelli)

Modern AU. Erik is hospitalized and seriously ill, and with the help of the hospital chaplain, Christine marries him while she still has the chance.

Erik gets shot and is badly wounded, but the presence of Christine is a comfort to him. Inspired by drawnby27emily's art

Christine and the Daroga drink tea after burying Erik.

A person is born with the last words their soulmate will ever speak to them tattooed on their arm. Christine Daaé has words written on both of her arms.

Erik struggles with morphine withdrawal and Nadir is there to take care of him. Post-Kay AU

The Daroga struggles to coach Erik in the matter of courting. Later, Christine asks him about it.

The Daroga takes care of Erik at his death. Kay AU.

Erik and Christine, holding each other close. He is overwhelmed by her love for him, and she is infinitely gentle.

Sorelli struggles to cope after Philippe's death, and contemplates their time together. (Sorelli/Philippe)

Modern AU. Christine is a librarian attentive to her work, and so she notices when sections of books start disappearing at night then mysteriously re-appearing weeks later. One night, she decides to confront the mysterious borrower.

They have an agreement whereby he meets her in her dressing room after her performances. And what happens there is only between them. (Philippe/Sorelli, NSFW)

When Christine and Erik first met, a timer appeared on their wrist counting down to the moment they would lose each other. Now they lie in bed beside each other, and there is only a week left

In Persia, Nadir tends to a gravely injured Erik, and remembers and worries and prays. Erik drifts caught between the worlds of waking and unconsciousness.

(Spoilers for The Doctor Falls). The Doctor stares at a burning, hologram sky, and wishes for stars.

Kay!verse AU. Christine and Erik are together for five months before his death. The pain is overwhelming, and in the weeks afterwards she receives some unexpected news. And, with the help of her friends, as she comes to terms with it and all that it means, she finds hope in the darkness.

Percy and Marguerite are intimate on the yacht at the end.

When Erik has nightmares, the Daroga will soothe him.

The Daroga wakes, and in the starlight contemplates Erik sleeping next to him.

Sometimes, when Erik has nightmares, Christine is there and she'll look after him.

Erik can't sleep because he can feel the melancholia coming on, so he asked the Persian to dance with him.

Christine contemplates her marriage to Raoul, post Kay!canon

La Sorelli contemplates how her feelings have changed for Comte Philippe.

Christine nurses her daughter, and considers her face.

Christine surprises Erik with a kiss as they walk down the street at night. Second-Place for the Phantom's Valentine One-Shot Contest

He is not who they think he is, a muddle of stories and lies, wrapped in an opera cloak and mask that are not his own but could be. But Charles de Chagny, all of 22 years old, craves to be closer to that past which is out of his reach. (Post Kay canon)

The Daroga and Christine meet, because something must be done about Erik. (Rated for reference to Drug Use)

Christine contemplates Erik, and the nature of his laugh.

Erik joins Christine in her dressing room after she performs, as is his tradition, and she knows what to expect at these times. (Rated for references to drug use.)

Christine and Erik are both drawn to each other, though neither can wholly understand why.

The Daroga soothes an anxious Erik at the premiere of his latest opera.

Erik lies heavy in Christine's arms, and though he longs to kiss her, he has not the energy to move. (Rated for referenced drug use)

The Daroga, and Erik, and a lifetime of falling together and falling apart.

Agelast - A person who never laughs (Pre-LeRoux canon)

She knows the cold weather is making Erik suffer, and she also knows her husband's pride refuses to let him admit that, and so Christine must take matters into her own hands.

A mildly inebriated Christine contemplates her husband and his music.

The smell of the rain brings back many memories for Erik, and leads him to wonder how life might be if he had been like any other man.

Christine watches the snow falling outside, and considers Christmases past, present, and future. (Post-LeRoux, voted best R/C story in the "A Very Phantom Christmas One-Shot Contest")

Christine considers the man she has bound herself to, and how he is so very different from Raoul. (LeRoux-based, AU)

Raoul's bullet clips Erik's ribs, and he must tend to his wound alone.

Lygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

Erik, the Daroga, and a chess game charged with the things left unsaid. (Pharoga, pre-slash)

In the stillness of the night the Daroga contemplates the man sleeping beside him, and wonders why it had to be him.

He fears that he does not /satisfy/ her in just the way he should.

Erik sees her from the shadows when nobody else does, and the feelings inside of him are wrong but he is helpless to do anything about that. (Modern AU)

How can he be feeling such things? It is wrong, unnatural, downright impossible, and yet so very, very true. (Erik about Christine)

He sends her away, sends her away as he knows he should, but she returns to check on him one last time. (LeRoux canon)

Erik stumbles in the door looking half-drowned.

Christine knows that she is invisible to everyone around her. Everyone, that is, except for the Angel of Music.

In a world of half-frozen peace there is only them, only this.

Erik spends the duration of Christine's pregnancy worrying that the child will look like him.

Anatole is handsome, intelligent, talented, and popular, and, through Erik's eyes, is loved in a way that he never was.

Christine tells Erik her news and he has a meltdown.

After the end Raoul and Christine are both haunted by all that happened, but at least they have each other.

For as long as Erik can remember caring about such things, he has thought there was a part of him missing. To discover that he is not alone, that there are other people like him, is more than he ever expected. (Asexual Erik, Modern Day AU, Pharoga)

She is all he needs, and when she holds him close nothing can harm him.

Christine and Erik have not been married long when they start to notice each other's irritating habits.

The Daroga studies Erik's palm, and contemplate the life they have had together.

Christine returns to Erik sooner than she was supposed to, and in a wedding officiated only by the Daroga they pledge themselves to each other in the house beneath the Opera.

Erik spends all day at his music and it is only when he is too exhausted to go on that he remembers he has a wife.

There is only them, together on the roof in each other's arms, and amidst soft kisses and slow dancing that is all they need.

If Christine could she would hold onto Erik forever and with each breath whisper her love.

The guards shot during 'Don Juan Triumphant', and Christine is haunted by the memory of it.

Erik's rest is disturbed by his son, and Christine hopes that they still have many long years ahead of them.

Christine contemplates Erik playing his music.

With her rosary beads and candles, Christine remembers some of those who have been lost. (Post-canon fic)

The Daroga experiences a nighttime visitation.

There is something of his father in his jaw, of his mother in his nose, and he has her curls but not her voice, and his father was no musician, but yet his fingers belong on piano keys. And Guillaume, Comte de Chagny stands alone in the dressing room that once hers and contemplates the ghosts that have woven him together.

He goes to every trouble to ensure that her birthday is special. And it is, but not just for the reasons he thinks.

He knows little, but that she is here and it is peaceful even through the pain. A Phantom Halloween fic, featuring Dark!Christine.

Christine has her own tried and tested methods to persuade Erik to join her in their bed, even if he does not realise that is what she is doing.

The unmasking is an accidental one, but it reveals so much more than his face.

Erik has his own bed, and Christine has hers, and it is as simple as that. As far as he is concerned. Christine, however, has her own ideas on the subject, and frankly considers Erik to be ridiculous.

They both come to the realisation of their feelings in different ways.

Sometimes, it is necessary to take matters into one's own hands.

Erik's reaction to the news of Christine being pregnant.

Fifteen years of marriage has impacted on both of them, but their love only burns brighter.

Christine leaves Erik alone in order to attend a wedding and returns with a plan.

"The stars look especially lovely tonight."

It is evident that she is lying to him over the matter of his face, and so he decides that he must present her with the question of a kiss.

Christine drinks too much champagne. Erik must look after her. And occasionally, Erik likes to take a drink too.

Even when his mind refuses to settle, he can find comfort in her voice.

Erik is enamoured with Christine's curls, and though she does not understand it she does not object.

Christine and Erik, together in bed at the end of the day.

Erik occasionally ambushes the Daroga in search of affection and, ah, other things in his wandering of the Shah's palace.

The managers have disobeyed him yet again, and Erik is angry.

Christine, lost in daydreams, is surprised into kissing Erik when he snaps her back to herself.

Erik and a history of sleep.

All was going well with their love-making, until suddenly it wasn't, and Christine is, suffice to say, less than impressed.

It is the simple things in life that help one to feel young again, like watching the object of one's affections going about her normal day in the Opera House.

Christine and Erik have both had other lovers in the past...

An overwrought Erik is drugged to sleep, and the Daroga is there to take care of him when the nightmares come.

It has been three years, and both Raoul and Christine are haunted by the events that took place below the Opéra House. (LeRoux 'verse, E/C Friendly).

It is at Christine's insistence that Erik reluctantly joins her for a walk on the beach, and it proves more enjoyable than he expected.

The Daroga attempts to teach Erik how to woo a woman.

Christine overhears the ballet girls discussing various, ah, /indecencies/, and as she considers them when her fiancé sleeps beside her, she becomes terribly curious. [Mild Sexual References]

Christine gets a mask of her own for reasons of her own, and Erik is horrified

It is a quiet night on the Rue de Rivoli when Erik unexpectedly knocks on the door in need of a friend.

Erik has a list of reasons to prove his hypothesis that Christine is an angel. Christine has her own list to refute this

Christine hauls Erik up to the Opera house roof for a picnic.

Christine hates to see Erik cold, even when he is sleeping on the couch.

Having broken his addiction to morphine, Erik still craves it from time to time but Christine helps him through it.

Erik finishes composing 'Don Juan Triumphant' and it leaves him shattered, but Christine is there and maybe everything will be all right after all. (Pre-Relationship)

It is a year since Erik's death, and Christine reflects on that night, what was and is, and what might have been. (Kay AU)

Erik and Christine and walking on the beach.

He would explore every inch of her, if given the chance. And she would do the same to him, map him and imprint him on her memory, if he were not so very afraid of what she might think of him.

He beckons her to him, warm and soft from her bath, and her hands wander.

Molly has an anxiety attack at Scotland Yard, and the person she least expects invites her to tea.

He doesn't recall what he said last night, but he must have said something because Christine is upset.

With the morphine, he cannot take her as he would like to. But he can give her this.

He sleeps beside her, peaceful for once, unaware of the thoughts wending through her mind.

She is gone, and all he can do is sit and drink wine, so very heavy and numb.

It is to be a quiet night on the Rue de Rivoli. At least, that is the plan until there comes the frantic knocking on the door, and Darius lets in a blood-stained Vicomte and Opera Ghost. Swathed in candlelight, the Daroga is left with a tumbling mass of regrets and wishes in his head, the clock endlessly ticking down to the end.

A year after she leaves Erik for the last time, Christine holds her son in her arms and wonders. (Kay!verse)

(Femlock) Cumbria 2001. As foot and mouth disease ravages the UK countryside, it's all Sherlock Holmes can do not to lose her grip on logic and sanity in an atmosphere of dread. Quarantined to a dairy farm with Irene Adler with the countryside going up in flames around them, hope is such a very tenuous thing. Warnings for animal slaughter, self-harm and references to past drug use.

She knows how it happened, how they came to be, but understanding is much more difficult. It is easier to simply glory in the beauty of it. (Femlock AU)

In the month between Erik's death and her marriage to Raoul, Christine visits Nadir, desperate to know so many things. (Kay!verse)

Erik's sent Christine away, and it was the right thing to do, but everything is his fault and he can't breathe and it might be a relief to just let go. (TW for panic attacks, anxiety, suicide ideation and creative uses of language. Kay!verse.)

She is here, so soft and warm. Then the world tilts and she slips away and he can't breathe. Erik is dying. And try as he may, but there is nothing that Nadir can do about that. (Kay!verse)

The term rolls off Sherlock's tongue and catches him by surprise. But it's true nonetheless, and none of the other words just quite fit.

On an overcast London day, Sally sees something in Sherlock that cuts her to the core and the pieces start to fall into place.

Christine wakes to find herself alone in bed. Which is a pity when she's so comfortable and only wants a cuddle.

Erik contemplates the ring that Christine put on his finger, and how remarkable it is for one such as him.

(His Last Vow Adlock AU) All the things that she could - should - say clog her throat and she is so helpless to do anything except sit here, with his hand so still in hers. It's all the fault of sentiment. She always knew he was right about it

It would appear that orange hair, a ridiculous facial scar, and a tailored red suit are not just as inconspicuous at a black-tie human party as he might have hoped.

He wears two mementos of her on his watch chain. What has she done to him?

(Femlock Femslash) All they need is each other, in these quiet moments that they wish they could keep forever. (Written for a Tumblr prompt.)

Dark!fic. The kindest thing that she could do was to cut his love for her out of him.

Some nights, Christine lies awake beside Raoul and contemplates the night she spent with Erik, and question of a child. (Kay!verse)

John is here, and there's no logical reason to cry but he's crying anyway, and he's not sure how they got here but it's enough for him that they did.

He strongly suspects that he's not going to survive this year, and frankly he doesn't feel bad about that.

He can't say Christmas has ever been a big deal for him, but if it makes John happy...

They have each other, and after everything that is more than enough.

The sheer futility of it all is overwhelming, and she has to wonder what the point is anymore.

He is here and yet he fades under the light.

Erik has a nightmare, full of death and murder, including his own. (Kay!canon)

His name a whispered prayer and there is no need for anything more.

Sometimes he plays no particular composition, and the world it weaves around her is beautiful.

Cuddling against Christine when he can't sleep really is the finest thing.

Nadir keeps a vigil by Erik's sickbed, and wishes that things could be different. (Kay!verse)

They need each other to get through the nightmares of the night.

Music is all he needs in this world.

How can Erik be really dead? It's impossible. A lie. And yet, Christine knows it's true. (Kay!verse)

They can't all three dance. And there are so many things he longs to say.

"Left to herself she was inclined to huddle in front of the fire, staring at the flickering coals and moving the beads of her rosary restlessly through her fingers." - Susan Kay, 'Phantom'. The restlessness of her fingers merely reflected the restlessness in her thoughts, and the longing to have done things differently.

The weariness of existence crushes him and all he wants is to stop being, just for a little while.

"She was so deeply drugged with chloral that most of the time she was quite insensible of my presence" - Susan Kay, 'Phantom'. The chloral allows Christine to forget. Her dreams are more comforting anyway. At least there she still has Erik. (Kay!verse)

She arrived the night before, and stayed with him through to the end. Kay!verse.

Mister Crepsley sleeptalks, and it can cause quite the shock.

A collection of ficlets written for a Tumblr music-inspired fic meme.

Once upon a time, Sherlock would have scoffed at the idea of watching Les Mis. This time, however, it gives him serious cause to ponder.

Storms, cold and tiredness all make Sherlock's joints ache.

A series of one-shots centering around the vampires of Baker Street and their friends.

When they meet again at the Mountain after so many years, the memories of when they were together come rushing back.

A quiet moment in 221b without any fuss or drama.

For all of their difficult nights, there were glittering ones too.

His heart aches, body remembering the feel of hers at the end. (post-'Vampire Prince')

It is one night, but it is one precious night.

Seba wakes, and wonders where the three Hunters are now. Have they been successful? Or have things taken a turn for the worst? (Post-Killers of the Dawn).

"Were it not for your wounds, I would even hazard a guess that you could do it with one arm tied behind your back." - 'Trials of Death' Hours before Darren's fourth Trial, Larten succumbs to worry.

Both of them will be haunted to the end with the way things were.

Snapshots into the lives of John and Sherlock as a couple.

It is beyond their nature to love as humans do.

Scotland Yard's Charity Fundraising Fancy Dress Party was a fun time for all involved, with as much fun before as during.

New York, 1914. "I'm sure you're fit to go to Michigan." Sherlock is exhausted, and John is so done with everything. On top of that, their old enemy of foot and mouth disease has struck again. Where will it ever end?

The two months that pass between release from hospital and taking cases are hardly dull.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson had many adventures and mishaps throughout their time in the west, and indeed afterwards too. This is just some of them.

With Sherlock finally home from hospital, John reflects on the strain of the last six weeks. A Resuscitation Series fic.

Sometimes, Serafina muses on the question of what could have happened if things had turned out differently.

It's loneliness and adventure and uncertainty too.

For days and days, Sherlock fades in and out.

What will do for other people won't do for him. (Warning: Suicidal Ideation so stay back if that will trigger you.)

Would it matter to them?

John has all together too many thoughts as he sits by Sherlock's bedside.

It is Mrs Hudson who marshals Mycroft into order.

Mycroft can't bring himself to call their parents. Not yet.

Sergeant Sally Donovan is haunted by helping to save Sherlock Holmes' life.

DI Greg Lestrade has done many things, but he's never figured on trying to save Sherlock Holmes' life.

Arizona, 1879. A string of murders in opium dens lead to a doctor and a detective meeting each other.

It's an evening for rest

A good fight for his life would be wonderful now, would ease some of the tension that seems to have been hanging over them the last few days.

Gus' thoughts as his death approaches.

She always remembers how the first flash of love tasted.

Here I am, armour in pieces, wearing tracklines like a second skin. (Warning for references to self-harm and drug use.)

There are many possible outcomes to that night in Magnussen's office.

Wyoming, 1892. Sherlock is late coming back from town. John has time to think.

Sirius loved storms. Until Azkaban

Arizona, 1885. In one night, the life John Watson has managed to adjust to is shattered. And all it takes is a knock on the door.

Remus wishes that Sirius could have known Teddy.

There is a letter from an apiologist, and a birthday card from Scotland Yard.

She knows that she can never own his heart.

Night time is the worst

New Year's in Grimmauld Place

Remus Lupin is haunted by what happened in the Department of Mysteries.

The Firewhisky brings both guilt and memories

What they had Before was special, what they have now is even more so.

London 2025 is really the best Christmas that Irene and Janine have

Remus doesn't sleep that night. Or the next.

If he'd known it would be the last time . . .

It takes a long time for things to even begin to normalise between them.

His thoughts on Before don't matter now, no matter how many of them manage to possess his mind.

His mind is a conglomeration of feelings

Arizona, 1883/1884. John goes to the post office and telegrams Mycroft with the news, adding that he expects Sherlock to return any day, that he's likely just had to take a longer route home than expected. And John can almost believe that it's true.

Arizona, 1882. For the first time in three years, Sherlock Holmes comes home.

Tonight is the night that it ends. Forces have been rallied. The slayers may think they're in the right, but it's the vampires who protect this city from so much other danger. (Sequel to The Change.)

It's vaguely steampunk, vaguely Victorian, and very, very sexy.

John can see the black mood creeping in.

Arizona, 1889. He's never been one for melancholy (well, not much of it) yet he finds it getting to him, encroaching on his orderly mind, silence broken only by hoof beats on the well-beaten dirt trail.

(Formerly 'Aftosa') Arizona, 1886. "Blood stained hands. Crackling flames stretching towards the sky. Acrid smell of hide and hair as the flames eat their way through carcasses piled high." An outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Gunman in the night. Far too many memories best left forgotten. Sherlock Holmes regrets ever wishing for something more exciting than cattle rustlers.

It's Paris where she meets the Woman.

*Warning for references to self-harm* It's not the boredom that bothers him most. Never has been.

He doesn't speak, doesn't release any of the words building like a knot inside his chest, the tenderness and longing and, yes, love, of one sort or another.

Sherlock Holmes really likes kissing

*Warning: Self-Harm References* John would worry, if he knew, but he doesn't understand. No one understands.

The scotch is rich, smooth on John's tongue but biting as he swallows each sip. The sitting room seems soft, almost faded, a blur on the inconsequential details that he's so familiar with. Except for Sherlock, but Sherlock has always been far more than could possibly be explained.

*Prequel to 'Late Nights in Baker Street'* The bomb explodes at the pool, and shots are fired. Sherlock will likely die, unless John does the one thing that he can.

(post-Pervasive Quietness, pre-The Agonising Calm Following A Battle) But surely he's still alive. Surely he'll pull through, no matter how bad he looked in the ambulance. (Wouldn't be the first time that he did the impossible.)

There are multitudinous ways in which it could end.

He knows that a reflection is nothing more than a shiny surface presenting an image of what is directly in front of it, yets finds himself captivated by his own image. Especially in his two years Away.

Frankly, the elder Holmes' have always loved going away.

One four word phrase Lestrade wishes he could forget. And one five word phrase he never wants to forget.

*Warning: Self-Harm references.* He lies in bed and hides on the world, struggling not to tear apart the skin that doesn't seem to fit him.

(post-Unknown Variables, pre-The East Wind) Three different nightmares plague John, each unique in its own way.

Seven minutes to daylight. A dead slayer and an injured Sherlock. What's a vampire got to do around here to get back to Baker Street?

Both John and Sherlock are covered in scars of varying origins, but each scar holds a similar meaning.

John tries to keep Sherlock conscious after he's been shot on a case.

*Let's Write Sherlock Challenge 12* With the country on the brink of civil war, the sight of cordite and a rifle sitting on the kitchen table is enough to fill John with dread.

One way that it could possibly end

Lying in bed, John reflects on all of the pain that he's caused Sherlock in the past.

*Based on a prompt that I've seen on Tumblr* John swings by Baker Street one evening all dressed up for a date, and some things unknown for so long are revealed.

*HLV Spoilers* (post-Unknown Variables) "The east wind takes us all in the end." - Sherlock Holmes. The time between the plane taking off and landing again.

*TSOT Spoilers* (pre-Battle Scarred and Weary). The waltz did not come easily.

*TSOT Spoilers* (post-Compositional Difficulties, pre-Pervasive Quietness) "I mean, who leaves a wedding early? So sad." - Mrs Hudson

*HLV Spoilers* (post-The Agonising Calm Following a Battle (though that doesn't need to be read first) pre-Questions Unanswerable). The first word which causes so much confusion, and concern.

*TSOT Spoilers* (Set pre-The Agonising Calm After a Battle, post-Battle Scarred and Weary) The hollowness left in Baker Street seeps into everything.

*HLV Spoilers* (post-Some Value in Sentimentality (Perhaps)) The questions keep coming back, time and time again

*HLV Spoilers* (post-Questions Unanswerable, pre-Unknown Variables) His own thoughts, that second time.

*HLV Spoilers* (post-Consciousness Regained, pre-Some Value in Sentimentality (Perhaps)) Those long hours the second time he finds himself maintaining a bedside vigil in a week.

*HLV Spoilers* (post-Pervasive Quietness, pre-Questions Unanswerable) The hours unseen between miraculous resuscitation and waking.