"This woman was not meant to be in space, and the guy in charge, with his high-pitched yells of terror, was not cut out to be leading this adventure. Rick was meant to be in charge. Rick, the Adventure Sphere." Written for Rick-Fanclub's contest.

Of course it was impossible to pretend that Luke hadn't been absent from London for seven years, but the ease with which he settled in, still Layton's apprentice and now a university student besides, made time seem like a simple flight of fancy.

Possible pre-movie. Gifts with no sender keep arriving at the La Bouff estate for Lottie. There is a motive behind them, but the voodoo spirit Mademoiselle Charlotte has grander ideas for her lookalike-- and the Shadow Man on a string.

To make a pact in voodoo, a few drops of blood is all that’s needed. Charlotte was oblivious to doing anything except cutting her finger while looking for her cat in a dusty old emporium...but no one could miss the sudden misfortunes of Tiana and Naveen.

Facilier thinks himself a puppet master; Naveen, Lawrence, Charlotte, and Big Daddy La Bouff are his voodoo puppets. On the night before Mardi Gras, Facilier decides to put on a small play for his Friends, with stage directions from his Tarot cards.

Undoubtedly, sharing Sunday brunch with Daniel was entertaining. And Vlad was equally assured – despite the glare he was receiving across the table – that he had ways to convince a skeptical Daniel of the appeal of vampires in the same sitting.

Vlad thought that it was truly a shame to allow grief and a photograph to waste away a powerful young halfa, but Daniel seemed unable to believe him.

- "Dude, did he just call you Danny back there?" Vlad abandons the usual nicknames - Daniel, dear boy, Little Badger - in what seems to be one of the first times in memory. Set during the ep. Eye for an Eye.