— the wind comes and it takes too much.

— she tells him the truth. it sets her free. it breaks him.

— the earth keeps turning.

— petunia can't shake the remnants of her sister.

— it doesn't matter in the end. / for valentina

— you long for the things you can't have. / for shay

— the lives and times of four boys that became brothers. / or, how remus lupin became moony. / for sienna. i love you.

— she says he'll be back.

— she can't speak human language, but they expect her to anyway.

— magic was a language to be learned, a language to be mastered.

— severus snape is living on borrowed time.

— "i thought i should do it myself. it wouldn't be satisfying otherwise."

— kaz can absolutely attest to the fact that jesper fahey is clinically insane.

— kaz is never drinking with people again.

— luke watches. it drives him mad.

— or, the different worlds we could have lived in. bellatrix lestrange, through a variety of AUs. / drabble collection / for shay

— Something is going on with the undead. Olympus Agency's Special Agent Nico di Angelo absolutely intends to find out what it is, and thus finds himself at the generic Riverside High School trying not to drown in a bigger mystery than he signed up for. / nico x will, au

— freedom is a right, not a prize / poetry

— alliances are bad ideas. tom knows he'll regret his choice later, but perhaps he's allowed to be impulsive: after all, he'll either be dead or a murderer by the end of this.

— or, how molly prewett became molly weasley.

— new york is not an entirely happy place. a series of vignettes showing the less dreamy side of the city. / drabble collection

— perhaps it is only the heroes that reach the lowest point, absolute zero. perhaps draco is lucky, then, because he is not a hero.

— they think she is glass: fragile, weak. they do not realize that broken glass cuts deep. / for shay

— i watch, from the dark shadows, the understated, the stillness, the silence. / poetry

— padma sees the headlines and tries to feel something other than relief. she cannot. she supposes it makes her a bad person. she does not care.

— ginny will settle for blood any way she can get it.

— tom is going to be a god. tom is going to own the heavens.

— kaz and inej breathe the same air and they live the same dare.

— because sometimes dreams take us to different places. / to whom it may concern, this is my last PJO fic. details inside. / for dee and di

— shards pierce your skin; ashamedly, i love it.

— you are bright, too / the stars watch over five lost demigods

— there's a fine line between a sister and a friend.

— they stay that way for a while.

— my monster calls me and tells me about you.

— draco is a merman. there's a pretty boy who washes up on the beach with a very pretty set of legs, and then he's not anymore.

— it doesn't really matter, anyway. they consume each other.

— they scorn the darkness because they cannot see.

— et tu, brute? / miscellaneous instances of unexpected backstabs and betrayals

— let's be real. we all hated that 'double wedding' crap. not for olicity fans. / 6x08 - 6x09 fix-it fic.

— dudley wishes he could have this everyday, and unfortunately, it's not that simple.

— (v.) italian; sing. "what d'you mean, a school choir?"

— aren't pretenses just so lucius?

— "you know, someone told me once that life is like leaving your footprints in the sands of time...and i realize now — how do you do that if you're not walking? this — it's kind of like that, isn't it?"

— isn't this that kind of thing, a heavenly sin?

— (n.) french; stars / that night, the stars in the sky seem to shine a little bit brighter.

— and maybe those holes in their hearts close up, just the tiniest fraction.

— "he will be our greatness, our little king."

— (n.) spanish; bitter. / so, they're waiting and they're bitter and crying and maybe she's gone, but they're here, and maybe they wouldn't have it any other way.

— she is a shadow, and she is peter pan, ripping her away from what she is attached to.

— tell me, honey, what's going on in that head of yours? / draco x harry

— "you're getting sicker —" / "and that's why i have to fight. i want myself to mean something." / for dee

— they like to say she is a bastard child / dark!piper, au

— "forgotten me already?"

— there is something about deluding yourself that makes things charming, isn't it?

— "knights? oh, they're not always men, and they're not always wearing armor." / molly weasley (for the QLFC round 13, for jill)

— "i do." / ted x andromeda {standing in silence}

— "who are you waiting for?" / "everyone and no one. because no one's coming."

— because, darling, you are asking all of the wrong questions / annabeth chase {of hubris and fatality}

— albus thinks but he does not say a word.

— petunia dursley is feeling nostalgic today.

— "so what do you want, hermione?" / "i don't know."

— in her mind's eye she sees fantasies, of upturned noses and cruel eyes and blood dripping from her throne, and this man will give them to her.

— and quirinus is no exception / quirinus quirrell and tom riddle, au (for the golden snitch 'the snitch cup')

— well, it's not as if blaise is going to tell / (for the golden snitch 'the swear jar')

— for it is our throne and our kingdom and our insanity / dark!jiper, unrelated, nonlinear, and completely nonsensical (formerly called throne)

— this is how they live / the aphrodite cabin

— nighttime? that's something different / flobberworms (for the golden snitch 'world vegan day')

— the question is, how real are you? / albus dumbledore, poetry (for the golden snitch 'mexican day of the dead')

— they're said to let the air in / draco and new starts (for the hogwarts forum, challenge #7)

— she was a good girl / annabeth chase, {dark!percabeth}

— is this love? / calypso x leo {up in flames}

— maybe it is destiny / percy x annabeth

— what's done is done / draco and kingsley (for the golden snitch 'trick or treat')

— is there a point to this madness? / various instances with dementors, written for the ilvermorny forum weekly challenge #9

— we would have to put out the flames / the gods

— but they intend to be limited for as much as they can and burn bright and long / hermione, ron, and ginny, salem witch trials!au (for 'the great school bake off' on the golden snitch)

— he writes, and he dedicates them all / draco, after everything

— but he is something else entirely (and she is someone else entirely) / luke x thalia, poetry

— we are opposites. we are infinite / draco x harry, poetry

— on second thought, i want to hear you say you're sorry / percy and nico, poetry

he grew up hearing the word. makes sense he'd use it in the centuries to come / the story behind rumplestiltskin's iconic catchphrase. a collection of drabbles, all ending in the word "dearie."

"i regret everything." draco is not brave enough to speak the words — he is a slytherin, after all, and they are not brave / draco x harry

— in the night he whispers in her ears; come morning she asks him not to speak / percabeth

— when she can bear it no longer, katie fills it with his screams.

her name is snow — she gives regina frostbite / regina reminisces.

— did you think i wouldn't? / solangelo

please don't fade out on me / nico fades in more ways than one.

they can pretend it's real, because it's what they do. jiper.

and all that remains of her presence is the lingering flowery scent of hibiscus / poseidon's grasping at straws and falling in love

but i can't seem to let this go / calypso and the crumblings of her heart.

he has already let those eyes of emerald get away from him once. and he'll be damned if he lets them again. severus snape's dying moments.

the blond haired boy is veritably the most cheerful and compassionate person you will ever meet. he wears his heart on his sleeve. emotions are his strength. and then he learns his lesson / draco malfoy and the intricacies of feelings.

better the queen than the king, darling / she whispers to the coffin: "family."/ but of course you're in elysium and it's supposed to be all sunshine and rainbows and happiness and heroics, so you paste on a smile / luke, thalia, and the blank pages of their story. collection of thaluke angst. poetry and drabbles. (previously 'what wasn't real')

and as she watches the carriage bound away, cora vows that someday, she will make them kneel.

so, what is choice, really?

stay down, coming up won't give you a crown / in this world, you're your own opponent / she might be out of tartarus, but she can't stop falling / annabeth and her demons

when clove's name is reaped she is acutely aware that she has been handed a death sentence / she's got a four percent chance of winning and she is going to take it for all it's worth. / or, in which clove knows better but can't help herself.

they are, quite literally, star-crossed lovers. / "tell the sun and the stars hello for me." / zoë and bob - separated by the stars and the sky.

thalia dreams of him - of family, of promises, and of tears / he tries to pretend he doesn't remember that he promised but he remembers all too well / luke, thalia, and their promises and dreams.

"all's fair in love and war" / she is love; he is war. it should be fair then, shouldn't it? / aphrodite, ares, hephaestus and the confusion ensuing.

weaving his webs, his intricate webs, silken but strong. [mommy wouldn't be proud of you my darling] annabeth hates spiders but she still managed to fall in love with one. luke, annabeth, and the webs that tie them together.

"I mean, really, Annabeth, Percy's not that impressive." When Piper challenges how impressive Percy really is, Annabeth's got something to say about it. 300-word drabble about Piper thinking Percy's unimpressive.

"It—hic—seems like—hic—nobody—hic—gives a—hic—shit!" you've broken into those hiccuping sobs that kind of rack through your whole body and they won't stop, you can't stop crying, and you sob deeper into his shoulder. "You know," he starts, "we all have different ways of giving shits." Piper after Leo's death finds comfort in an unlikely friend. One-shot.

Annabeth was not wearing blue that day because Percy had casually told her in the library that it was his favorite color when they were working on that history project, thank you very much. Mortal AU. One-shot.

When she looks in the mirror, she sees someone broken — and she's going to do everything she can to change that. 500-word Piper drabble about insecurities after war.

In which Piper knows what she can't have - rather, who she can't have. One-shot.