1 – 14 of 14 Works in parenting
Summary
A year after the war, Harry and Draco return for their eighth year. Draco is trying to keep his head down and rebuild what little remains of his life, navigating a world that hates him. Harry is trying to move on in a world without the fear of death around every corner. When they become roommates, their old rivalry has to be put aside and a strange new connection begins to form that will dramatically change the course of their lives.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
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- 169,897
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- Completed
Summary
Life has changed a lot for Harry Potter since the war. Finding himself in the care of Teddy Lupin, understanding who he is and how he fits into this world, and discovering what that means for him when the situation turns to the one and only: Draco Malfoy.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 130,742
- Status:
- Completed
strength of heart (tenderness of the soul) by marroniere_m
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
18 Feb 2024
Summary
In 0 ABY, Thrawn returns to the Chiss Ascendancy, weary, injured, disappointed. To save the Ascendancy once again, he has to confront his own demons first. On the way he finds things he has never expected to find.
In 4 ABY, as the civil war is raging, Thrawn faces a choice between the family he has built together with Eli Vanto—and the thing he once thought was the sole reason for his existence. Protecting his people.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 255,623
- Status:
- Completed
Only the Parent You Will Be by Whatthenshallwesay
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, The Mandalorian (TV)
15 Aug 2023
Summary
In the middle of a crowded market, Hera Syndulla and Din Djarin's children call to each other. It's not every day you find a fellow parent raising a Force-sensitive kid.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 131,441
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Changing the future doesn't necessarily make things better. It just makes things different.
Journey of the Whills is a story that began with Re-Entry (found here: http://archiveofourown.org/series/10129; see series description). It's an on-going work that has not been abandoned; updates are forthcoming.
Anthology containing:
Prologue
Prologue for Re-Entry: Journey of the Whills.
Beginning Anew
Returning home is both deceptively easy and hard to do.
Circle Shift
The thing about circles is that they are not inert objects; it’s not in their nature.
Trader (By Birth and Blood)
She is Aika Jai Tano'bi, and she has just fallen in love twice over.
Tempered Grace
Adversity is a hammer upon the spirit.
Thick Skin, Loud Voice
She's just volunteered to become a Sith Hunter.
She's got to be crazy.
Feel the Sun from Both Sides
Jedi are supposed to be patient. She can do patient—she can and will do anything to keep from being sent back to the dumpsters. Sleeping in a real bed—having food available all the time—is a habit that Tahl is getting used to pretty fast.
Direction of the Wind, Part I
Obi-Wan and Anakin get used to dealing with each other without their respective buffers; a Queen pays a visit, as does a Senator, and Bant gets to be devious.
Re-Entry Official Timeline
This is the official timeline for Re-Entry and Journey of the Whills, which will be updated as Whills progresses. It combines a lot of actual Star Wars canon dates as it integrates with this particular alternate universe. Some dates appear fudged because I had to invent a calendar for the characters living inside the universe. Using pre-BBY dates is not actually a useful system if you live there.
Also, some characters' listed canon ages are WRONG WRONG WRONG. I have taken liberties when appropriate.
The timeline lists events by date and by story (Look for the [xxxx])
Direction of the Wind, Part II
"To be honest, Chancellor Valorum, I never thought I would come under literal fire while serving you.”
“I didn’t think I was worth assassinating, myself.”
Interlude I
The Jedi Temple is full of secrets.
Kerri Chewgra Ji
Tholatin and Qui-Gon Jinn have an uncomfortable shared history. Padawan Raallandirr finds it all interesting, infuriating, and baffling.
Also, there are Chiss.
Background Radiation
“You’re the Initiate who dreamed about fire in the sky and massive devastation. I wanted you as my Padawan in the worst way.”
Important things can happen in places you'd never think to look.
A Drop of Fire - Part I
There are days that can bring about events that will change everything about the future.
What no one mentions is that those days start out just like any other.
A Drop of Fire - Part II
“You’ve allied yourself with Sidious?”
“Not necessarily an alliance. More of a…passing acquaintance."
A Drop of Fire - Part III
"Their rage supplies them with weapons." --Virgil
A Drop of Fire - Part IV
“You have no idea how much I do not want this! Damn him, and you, for putting me in this position!”
Fallout
"This is where I leave you, for now, though not for any ominous reason."
Shadows - Part I
“I do not wish to lose an ally, even a dead one.”
“An ally? What makes you think I am that?”
“Because you hate Sidious as much as I do."Shadows - Part II
Thirty Jedi Shadows think they know what to expect from their new instructor.
Shadows - Part III
"Fear attracts the fearful: the strong, the weak, the innocent, [and especially] the corrupt."
Interlude II
Qui-Gon should have recognized the distraction for what it was.
Impedimenta Part I
Impedimenta: plural, n. Baggage and those things that retard progress. Also see: roadblocks, distractions, politics, and long-lost Jedi.
Impedimenta Part II
“They are so smart, your Padawans. If you did anything right, it was that.”
Resumption
Cats are not the only things good at holding grudges.
Integration Part I
“If you had succeeded in killing Sidious, during your third attempt on his life, what would you have done?”
Integration Part II
All it takes is the right word at the right moment, and thousands of years of truths can be undone.
Integration Part III
“How drunk should I be for this conversation?”
"Manufactured genocidal pandemic.”
“No, I was not yet inebriated enough for that statement.”
Integration Part IV
There is a fine line between educated and jaded.
Integration Part V
“What is it that I need to see?”
Many things, the specter whispered. Then she said, You are going to die.
Fracture
The way of the Whills is a journey of excruciating self-discovery.
Trial
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Clattering Feet
They were all aware that this would be their last time together in this form, this singular group who had joined together to learn blatant insanity at his hands.
Mortis
"Young Skywalker was on the right track, calling this place a wellspring, but it’s more accurate to say that Mortis is a nexus.”
Deadspace
"Am I dead?"
Erratic Oscillation Part I
"Do you remember anything?"
"Just...fragments."
Erratic Oscillation Part II
Names are important, aren't they?
Erratic Oscillation Part III
No true Sith can ever be locked away for long.
Illumination
Serenity was rare for him, but it did not preclude him.
Well of the Dark Side
"It’s the Mortis equivalent to the Chamber of Trial. The only way out is to go forward."
Lost in the Echo Part I
"What else are friends for?"
"Blowing things up, apparently."
Lost in the Echo Part II
“The Sith had this annoying habit of creating traps within their own documents. Sometimes it was subtle, like hypnosis via pattern and word repetition. More often than not, they would use blood magic. You could pick up one of these books with no intention whatsoever of becoming a Sith, and yet…it would convince you.”
“Is that what happened to you? Insatiable need, or rewired ambition?”
Lost in the Echo Part III
“Pretty violent thing to like, though, isn’t it? For a Jedi, I mean.”
“If I judged the value of things by how violent they were, I wouldn’t have any friends to speak of,” Kenobi replied. “The litanies are about war, yes, but they’re also about life, about connection.”
Rex had to give him that one. “Vode an.”
“That is one hell of a pun right now. A double pun, even.”
Lost in the Echo Part IV
"He tried not to think about the others if he could help it; he couldn’t afford to be that consciously depressed.
He rested his right hand on the leather cuff on his left arm, tracing the pattern of the text underneath by memory. Two years, five months, and fifteen days.
He was still no closer to figuring out a way to go home."
Lost in the Echo Part V
“I knew you were still alive when you changed the beacon call for the Temple, you crazy, brazen son of a bitch.”
Obi-Wan gave him a faint smile. “Someone had to do it.”
“I know.” Then and now, his General was such a damned Jedi.
Lost in the Echo Part VI
Everything goes according to plan, except when it doesn't.
Lost in the Echo VII
Tamoeth expected great things from his prisoner. Sidious, Void take him, had waxed too long, too eloquently, about Venge’s potential. If Tamoeth’s Master were still alive, there was no doubt in his mind that Sidious would have flung his cherished Adepts out into deep space just to have the half-made Sith all to himself.
Lost in the Echo VIII
"What did you do that for?"
"For science!"
Allies
Vader wanted allies to help him dethrone Sidious, and he finds something better than he ever expected.
Lylek Squad
Lylek Squad comes together in pieces, but together they are whole.
They are also some of the scariest bastards to ever wield a blaster.
Amalgamate Part I
Everything must coalesce, must merge together, to bring about what is yet to come.
Amalgamate Part II
“I can’t believe you asked him before I had the chance to ask Kix,” Jesse groused.
“What—why the fuck hadn’t you married him already?” Wolffe thundered.
“Beeeecause it wasn’t legal?” Jesse offered in his defense. That was also weird—Click was pretty sure Kix had mentioned that Jesse was dead, but apparently it was Not-Dead day.
Amalgamate Part III
"This is the time for treatise, for essays, for the spirit of the educated being to press words into paper, so that the cusp that we stand upon will not be forgotten.
Write it down. Write it all down, lest it’s forgotten, lest our words and ideals, purposes and truths be twisted by those who come after us.
The time is coming, soon, where the time for writing will be temporarily suspended, because it will be time to act.
We don’t yet know what those actions will be, but it’s coming.
Write it all.”
—Senator Padmé Amidala, 140th session of the Galactic Senate, 5212Honor Thy Fallen and Shout Their Names From The Stars
The first thing Wedge Antilles ever learned about Luke Skywalker is that if the man says he's going to do something, he really is going to do it. It's great except for when it's terrifying, but mostly it's great.
Interlude III
"You can’t hit yourself in an attempt to correct past mistakes. Believe me, I’ve tried. It is both ineffective and unsatisfying."
Splinters
Sometimes, all you have is a collection of moments, splinters from lives that others lived.
That does not make them any less valuable.
Evening Sunset
It’s dumb luck more than anything else when Eve Koh ends up working for Vilmahr Grahrk.
Orphan's War Chant
I always meant to post the translation for this, and then life kind of...happened. (Just: so much horse shit. So. Fucking. Much.)
The chant first appears in RE's Journey of the Whills: Lost in the Echo Part VI: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4624377
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
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- 901,126
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For I Still Live Anthology by saltysarah
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
29 Jun 2022
Summary
Mandalorians on Melidaan merit mayhem.
This series can totally be read in the order of its parts, but if you would like to go as chronologically as possible, where each part falls in the timeline is demarcated in the title and summary. Happy reading <3
Anthology containing:
1 - Tell Me About Despair, Yours, and I Will Tell You Mine
On the way to Korda VI, a minor supplies error forces Jaster Mereel to make an unplanned pitstop on the closest planet, Melida/Daan. That changes everything.
2 - Let the Storm Wash the Plates
The immediate aftermath. Things get worse before they get better.
3 - I Have Pasts Inside Me I Did Not Bury Properly
It's been a year. Things have changed, some even for the better.
AU - yes YES the tiger is out
The past catches up with the present. You can only help someone who wants to be helped.
4 - Open, Plot a Way and Follow
The fallout from Melida/Daan finally reaches Manda’yaim.
This takes place immediately after 2.
0 - you searched for a spring and found a sea
Back on Coruscant, things are far from peaceful. But life must go on, and the Younglings meet a potential ally.
This takes place before 1.
9 - Look for me in the people I've known or loved
Cerasi, Obi, and Nield's developing relationship through the years.
This begins 6 months after 2.
AU - Something of Sweetness and Substance in the Mouth of the World
“The Senate recognises Senator Ben Nasaade of the Young from Melidaan.”
6 - it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do
Children have an unexpected power to bring people together, Mando’ad know this better than anyone. You’d think they’d be more prepared (they really, really weren’t).
This takes place after 4.
0.3 - a love like ours could turn
Kit looked up from where he was teasing Tholme’s naked hip with his lekku and locked eyes with a stunned Reeft. Well, shit.
This takes place a few years into Bant’s Padawanship.
8 - Who is waiting today, waiting without knowing they are waiting?
Sometimes a family is a sad straight dad and his daughter, and the people and places they meet along the way.
This takes place about 8 years after 3.
18 - see the light of the universe
When one family man unexpectedly meets another.
This takes place >10 years after 3.
7 - let there also be hope
Jaster has a bone (or two) to pick with Dooku.
This takes place after 6, early in the gap year between 2 and 3.
0.1 - in a sense we're all winning (we're alive)
Bant discovers that Master Dooku is on Coruscant. Yes, the expert duellist, that Master Dooku. Somehow, that becomes Kit's problem.
This takes place alongside some of the events in 7.
AU - Of Comfort No Man Speak
On the way to Korda VI, a minor supplies error forces Jaster Mereel to make an unplanned pitstop on the closest planet, Melida/Daan. He picks up something unexpected along the way.
5 - though I belong nowhere else
He and the dha'kad'au get off to a rocky start on Manda'yaim.
This begins during 4.
3.1 - hopefully there is a future and we are both allowed in it
Tahl wakes up, only to find that the galaxy’s moved on without her.
This takes place immediately after 3.
0.2 - Mostly, we don't want to harm each other
Kit has a long overdue conversation with Master Kcaj.
This takes place after 3 and before 3.1.
5.1 - There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long
He meets his first Mando'ad Babby.
This takes place shortly after 5.
AU - Our make and making break, are breaking
TCW!Obi meets FiSL!Ben.
In FiSL, this takes place after 18. In TCW, this takes place just before the Rako Hardeen arc.
13 - In Leaving Your Destiny Will Change
In the past 10 years, Jaster has Adopted one jetii and claimed 2 others. He was not expecting to pick up another (and then some).
This takes place more than 2 years after 8.
0.4 - he lived and died, and lives again in memory
Kit and Bant encounter a spot of trouble on the Outer Rim. It’s nothing compared to the trouble awaiting them on Coruscant.
This takes place during 12 and 13.
14 - Love comes quietly, finally
In the wake of Kamino and Mustafar, Khal and Jaster talk relationships.
This takes place immediately after 13.
12 - and the light Blinds me to the light
Komari takes a request from a desperate mother to find her son and bites off more than she can chew.
This takes place 2-3 years after 8 and at the same time as 13.
AU - At last the secret is out
The last of the Sith die at the site of their resurgence, on the beautiful Mid Rim planet of Naboo.
This takes place about 10 years after 'Of Comfort No Man Speak'.
15 - when i walk into a room something dies
Ben returns to Coruscant.
This takes place months after 13.
10 - Our Bodies are Meant to Hold Other Bodies
Cerasi, Ben, and Nield finally have that conversation.
This takes place after 8, shortly after 9 - THIRTEEN.
AU - and-what-if-nothing-remains-after-us
“Please help us, Senator Antilles-Organa. You’re our only hope.”
Bail receives a comm from a gaunt, hollow-eyed child from a planet called Melida/Daan. It changes the course of the universe.
14.1 - the fish-years of a child's life
After Zygerria, Jango comes home.
This takes place in the months after 13.
AU - may you feel the living joy
Savage reminisces...and promptly gets interrupted.
This takes place right after 'At last the secret is out', while on the way to Kamino.
11 - It came out fully formed, ready to run
Ben returns to Manda'yaim.
This takes place in the weeks after 10.
14.2 - of dangerous and noble things
On Mando'ad, Manda'yaim, ad'e, bal allit.
This takes place immediately after 13, and concurrently with the events of 14.1.
AU - Let us prefer the pleasure of the moment
Snippets in the aftermath of TCW!Obi having met FiSL!Ben.
11.1 - There is a crack in everything
Nield goes to Nezra, after.
This takes place in the months after 10.
11.2 - We, who were young and loved each other ignorantly
Rizzo volunteers to have that post-breakup chat with Cerasi.
This takes place in the months after 10.
AU - This life startles you with its foreign tongue
The Haat Mando'ad require legal representation to address the charges levelled against them by the Governor of Galidraan. Cue Obi-Wan Kenobi, a second-year student at the Legislative Youth Programme with a history spottier than Myles's target after shooting practice.
Inspired by Trixree's Legally Blonde Jedi AU.
AU - it's the old greed for a plateful of outer space, that craving for darkness
Ben's first bounty was on Naboo.
This takes place a year or 2 after 'Of Comfort No Man Speak'.
AU - so slip into something light
Pre Viszla arrives on Melida/Daan, looking to recruit zealots for his cause.
14.3 - Of signs and signals great and small
There are some conversations Ben needs to have on Melidaan.
This takes place in the weeks after 13, and alongside some of the events of 14.2.
AU - what is this world? What are these men?
Ben, Maul, and Savage think they are ready for Kamino. Kamino is not ready for them.
This takes place in the weeks after 'At last the secret is out'.
AU - Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your ilfe
The Prince Consort returns with a child.
The years between.
16.1 - it isn't ever delicate to live
Padmé returns to Naboo to conduct an investigation into Palpatine's Estate. She doesn't do it alone.
This takes place during the events of 15 and (the currently unposted) 16.
4.1 - her wounds came from the same source as her power
The meaning of aliit, Clan, and House on Manda’yaim.
This takes place around the same time as 3.
AU - What fortitude the soul contains
Padmé's version of events.
This takes place before and alongside 'This life startles you with its foreign tongue'. Inspired by Trixree's Legally Blonde Jedi AU.
16 - you are lord of a place bounded like a dream
Bail meets his first Mandalorian.
This takes place several months after 13, alongside the events of 15 and 16.1.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 554,488
- Status:
- In-Progress
The Adventures of Farm Boy & Dr. Boyfriend Anthology by almostvirginia
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
24 Aug 2021
Summary
Anthology containing:
Through the Worst of the Winter
Desperate not to spend the rest of his days as a corporate drone, Charlie packs up his life and moves to Pelican Town to start a farm. The only thing is, Stardew Valley is full of distractions: stray puppies, nosy neighbors, monster-infested mines, lurking underground horrors. And then there’s the most dangerous distraction of all—the sweet, shy town doctor, who Charlie can’t seem to stop thinking about.
Harvey came to Pelican Town six years ago with a broken heart, a medical license, and a conviction that his best days were behind him. But when a sunburnt young farmer appears in his clinic one day, he finds himself wondering if his terminal loneliness might be curable, after all.
Who said country life was simple?
Instant Classic
A few weeks before Winter Star, Charlie and Harvey take the kids to the movies. With somewhat mixed results.
The Dew of Dying Stars
“If not a farmer, what did you actually want to be?”
“Oh, you can probably guess that one. I wanted to be a captain in Starfleet. Didn’t have to be the Enterprise, necessarily, as long as I got my own ship.”
“Why on Earth did I go with ‘pilot’? Obviously I should have thought bigger. Maybe I could have been your first officer.”
“It’s not too late. Space travel gets more advanced all the time. There’s hope for us yet, Number One.”Captain Charlie of the Federation flagship Stardew is a lucky son of a bitch, as his first officer constantly reminds him. He has the most beautiful ship in the galaxy; he has the most talented crew in Starfleet; he has a five-year mission stretching before him, full of possibility. The only thing he doesn't have is the thing he wants most: the heart of his Vulcan chief medical officer. Who's been acting very strange lately...
Shelves: Stardew Valley
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 335,001
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
A series of "what if" rewrites of Harry Potter, books 1-7. Cross-posted from tumblr (ink-splotch).
Anthology containing:
boy with a scar
What if Voldemort had chosen the pureblood boy, not the halfblood, as his opponent? This Neville would have had graves to visit, instead of a hospital. He’d still have grown up in his grandmother’s clutches, tut-tutted at, dropped out windows absentmindedly, left to bounce on paving stones.
Let’s tell this story: Alice Longbottom, who was the better at hexing, told Frank to take Neville and run.
the kids who chose themselves
What if Voldemort went after Harry and Neville, and gave no one a chance to die for them? What if both Chosen Ones died as children?
--
There was no prophesied boy, but there was still this--dozens of shadowed young faces refusing to run, even at the very end of the world. Dumbledore looked out at his chess pieces, pawns and queens; his children and his friends; his collateral damage. He had the beginnings of a plan swelling in his chest.It would take them decades to get their hands, quietly, on every Horcrux. Tom Riddle had to think they were secret. He had to think he was safe. It would take them almost decades, but one day he would be mortal again.
These dozens of faces--they were mortal now. Alastor Moody could feel mortality in the aches of old broken bones; Andromeda rewrote her own last name. Remus and Sirius felt empty, gaping holes in the seats around them, and they made crude, expansive, joyous toasts to friends' memories.
When Molly first reached over and held Arthur's hand, they knew this was something that could not last. That was why they held hands, held on, held tight.
no place like home
When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.
The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.
This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.
He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.
the family evans
What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy on her front doorstep, she took him in? Not into the cupboard under the stairs, not into a twisted childhood of tarnished worth and neglect—what if she took him in?
Petunia was jealous, selfish and vicious. We will not pretend she wasn’t. She looked at that boy on her doorstep and thought about her Dudders, barely a month older than this boy. She looked at his eyes and her stomach turned over and over. (Severus Snape saved Harry’s life for his eyes. Let’s have Petunia save it despite them).
Let’s tell a story where Petunia Dursley found a baby boy on her doorstep and hated his eyes—she hated them. She took him in and fed him and changed him and got him his shots, and she hated his eyes up until the day she looked at the boy and saw her nephew, not her sister’s shadow. When Harry was two and Vernon Dursley bought Dudley a toy car and Harry a fast food meal with a toy with parts he could choke on Petunia packed her things and got a divorce.
the heir of something or other
When kids in the Slytherin Common Room tossed jeers at the pudgy feet of Millicent Bulstrode, Harry rose up to do something about it. This Harry, now one of Snape’s own, got fewer House points lost but many more detentions– it had never been the colors on his hem that Severus hated.
This was not wishing Harry an easy path. This was not wishing the boy a warm House. This was Harry, three weeks in, sleep deprived and considering running away and going back to Privet Drive. This was Harry in the back of Potions class, blank-faced under Snape’s disdain the way he’d perfected under the Dursleys’s torments.
When Quirrell shouted “troll in the dungeons, thought you ought to know,” and Harry overheard that there was a girl in the bathroom crying, he still ran off to make sure she got out okay. He hesitated first, at the back of the little pack of Slytherin first years (at the back so that no one could get behind him)– he hesitated.
And Millicent Bulstrode, who could never quite keep her tummy tucked in enough, could never brush all the cat hair off her robes, never quite keep her temper in check, hesitated, too.
he will have power the dark lord knows not
It was Mrs. Figg who suspected first.
She noticed many things, sitting on her side of her fence with her cats chasing butterflies and nuzzling her ankles, Mundungus and the other watchers dropping by for tea now and then.
Mrs. Figg noticed that Petunia was a nosy bit of work with insecurities hanging from her every harsh angle. She noticed when Dudley learned the word MINE-- the whole neighborhood noticed that one. She noticed that Vernon glared at owls.
She noticed that when Petunia gave Harry a truly horrendous haircut one year, it grew back in at a normal rate. Harry was uneven and weird-looking for ages, hiding under beanies when he could.
When Mrs. Figg had Harry over for carefully miserable afternoons of babysitting, she noticed nothing moved that shouldn't. He didn't accidentally make flowers out of fallen leaves, or levitate anything during tantrums, or turn toys funny colors.
Mrs. Figg called up her mother, interrupting the wizarding bridge game she was winning against the nursing home staff, and asked her how she had known, decades back, that her youngest daughter was a squib.
the girl who lived
Harriet Lily Potter was left on the doorstep of 4 Privet Drive. They called her ugly and gave her Dudley's hand-me-downs. They would tell people that she went to a boarding school for troubled young women. Dudley still offered to stick her head in toilets, and she still learned to snap back, "Really, Duds? The poor toilet's never had anything as nasty as your head down it, it might hurt it," and run.
Harry was the kind of girl who came home with scabby knees, who snuck the kitchen shears in the dead of night to snip her dark messy hair short.
She wondered, as she curled up in her cupboard, if Vernon and Petunia would have loved a niece who was pretty instead of scrappy, who had soft hands and never burned the bacon at breakfast.
the girl who lived (again)
Molly tried her best. When Harry had told them, Arthur had asked excitedly, "is this a Muggle thing?" Hermione had hurried out a "no!" and a frantic history of gender diversity in the wizarding world.
"It's just that I'm a girl," Harry had said, and Arthur had nodded and asked her about how telephone booths worked. He would call her by the right pronouns until the day he died at the respectable old age of one hundred and thirty three, and he would make it seem easy.
But Molly had to try. Hermione explained things faster and higher-pitched every time Molly messed up a pronoun. Molly frowned and muttered and put extra potatoes on Harry's plate at breakfast. Harry slept in Ron's room, which didn't bother either of them but which made Hermione scowl.
Harry got boxes of sweets and warm hugs, as Molly chewed things over. For her fifteenth Christmas, the Weasley sweater she would receive would be a bright, friendly, terrible pink.
The next time Harry visited, Molly put her on Ginny's floor to sleep-- for some definition of sleep that involved Hermione hissing threats at three in the morning if Harry and Ginny didn't "shut up about Wronski feints, do you know what time it is."
the last son
On the train platform, Harry suffered a hug from Remus, a hair ruffle from Sirius, and a "don't do anything I wouldn't do" from his mother, and then he ran for the brick wall, cart rattling before him. The snowy owl they'd gotten him hooted softly in protest. Harry had named her Ororo after the Muggle comic books his mother had introduced him to. Lily took Harry to the comic store every time he sat through a whole visit with his aunt, uncle, and cousin and didn't kick anybody unless they kicked him first.
Bill tried to wipe some dirt off a dodging Ron's nose. Ginny complained loudly about being left behind. Fred and George ran off to see Lee Jordan's spider. People watched the Weasleys from all directions--they were hard to miss--and Ron's shoulders slowly rose up and up to his reddening ears. He missed the big empty orchards behind the Burrow already.
Ron was one of the last people on the train. He slid past staring eyes and finally stepped himself into an almost unoccupied compartment-- there was just one small boy tucked in there. He had messy dark hair, slightly askew round glasses, and a comic book held up in front of his nose.
"Is it okay if I sit here?" said Ron. "Everywhere else is full."
the brightest witch of her age
When Hermione Jean Granger was one year old her parents died in a car crash. She knew all about it because she asked a lot of questions and her aunt and uncle believed in answering them.
Why is the sky blue, auntie? Why are b's and d's like in the mirror? Where do songs come from? Why did Jenny Hopkins call me a--?
Her father had accelerated into a green light, like you were supposed to. (By the time she was eight, Hermione had the driver's rulebook memorized). A truck driver, going the opposite way, hadn't stopped at a red.
Hermione had been strapped in a car seat in the back, her aunt and uncle told her. She hadn't been hurt at all except for the scar that stood out, jagged, on her forehead.
As Hermione grew up into a gangly, bushy-haired, buck-toothed wonder, she thought she could remember it-- a glaring green light, a rush of cold air.
baby birds and other adventures
Harry did not know this and would not know this until Mrs. Granger mentioned it casually over a Christmas dinner years and years later-- but she and Mr. Granger reported the Dursleys for child abuse and neglect, over and over.
The reports got lost-- minds scrubbed down, papers vanished-- but they kept calling in reports. They considered kidnapping. They couldn't imagine why the wizarding world might want to keep their chosen one somewhere so toxic, why they might want to keep this underfed child and his messy hair with those people.
"My mother left me a blood protection spell," said Harry, whose scar had not ached in years. He poked at his mashed potatoes under the focused attention of Mrs. Granger's stern little forehead wrinkle. "I had to live with family, blood family."
"Then they should have made them treat you right," Mrs. Granger said, as though it was that simple.
Mr. Granger gave Harry another helping of peas.
the family potter
Lily remembered her sister, how there had been a time she was curious and delighted about magic, before it slowly sank in that she could look and not touch.
The last thing Petunia had said to Lily before she died was a chilly goodbye, ending a holiday dinner where they'd had a shrieking row in the entryway. Petunia had said 'freak' and Lily had hissed 'better than this, better than this being my whole fucking world, Tune, do you even see yourself, are you happy--'
And now here was Dudley Vernon Dursley fussing himself to sleep as Lily walked the halls of the Godric's Hollow house. His tiny soft hands with their tiny soft fingernails curled under her chin, the same way Harry's always had.
She passed James, who was gently bouncing his way up the hall the opposite way. "I think he's asleep," James mouthed over Harry's tousled head. His hair was the same mess, his head bent down as he peered at his sleeping son.
Lily stopped where she stood, her nephew heavy on her chest, her husband smiling, her sister buried. "James," she said. "How are we going to do this?"
perfectly normal, thank you very much
When the letter arrives, Lily is almost as excited as Petunia. She writes Albus Dumbledore to ask if she can go too, and if she cries a little when the answer comes back no she doesn't tell anyone. Lily waves from the train platform, writes diligently, and listens with excitement whenever her big sister deigns to share stories of magic.
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Anonymous asked for "what if Petunia was a witch and Lily a Muggle?"the family potter [podfic]
When Harry was eleven years old, his Hogwarts letter came by owl. He'd been accidentally blowing windows open and lighting cauliflower on fire for years. James took Harry to go get his wand at Ollivanders, and Lily took Dudley to the Owl Emporium where he tried to convince her they should build an aviary in the backyard. They came home with a fat black cat who hissed at everyone. Dudley named him Spooks, and Lily called him Monster.
"Did you have to?" said James. "That is the meanest beast I've ever met, and I've known Remus unmedicated on full moons and a pubescent Sirius thwarted in love."
Lily, who had ink on her cheek and a ballpoint pen stuck behind her ear, waved vaguely at the living room without looking up from her arrest report. Dudley was asleep in an armchair. The cat sprawled across his lap. Both its front paws were wrapped around Dudley's arm as it cleaned his wrist with aggressive fondness.
"Alright," said James. "Yeah, you had to."
a life of smoke and silvered glass
Albus Dumbledore rose to his feet, smiling at them in that way of his, like he knew something you didn't and he was proud of you for it. "Friends," he began.
The door thudded open and the Marauders burst in, late and pink-cheeked with cold. The headmaster smiled at them, too, and Sirius gave a cheery little salute back.
Severus sunk lower in his chair, staring witheringly over his butterbeer. "You told Potter about it, too?"
"He might as well put all that energy to good use," said Lily. "And, to be accurate, I told Remus."
"But Potter, really?" said Severus.
"He and Black cooked up a jinx that gives you a boil every time you say a slur to a Muggleborn," said Lily. "It was either invite them to Alice's war club or bake them cookies, and I know where my skills lie."
Severus sniffed. "Don't come crying to me if he tugs your pigtails."
"Come crying to me if he pulls yours, and I'll deck him," said Lily.
(Slight AU in which Severus apologizes, tries harder, and stays friends with Lily)
yer a wizard, dudley
Harry Potter spent his eleventh birthday in a cabin on a tiny rock in the middle of the sea, listening to his cousin snore on the couch.
When a knock sounded on the wind-swept, rain-drenched door, it was not a giant fist (or a half-giant's fist). It was a short sharp rap that sounded once, twice, three times before Minerva McGonagall simply charmed the lock open and stepped inside.
"Apologies," Minerva said crisply, as Vernon raced out brandishing his rifle and Petunia pulled Dudley up off the couch and behind her. "I wasn't sure you could hear me over the weather.” The rain fell down behind the professor in a roar. She was perfectly dry.
Minerva fished in her pocket without looking, because the only things allowed in her pockets were only ever exactly what she needed. “I've come to deliver this," she said, pulling out a letter and handing it to Harry, who was cross-legged on the floor, "because our owl post seems to have been unable to get through.”
“And I've come to deliver this," she added, pulling out a second letter, "because Hogwarts by-laws require a professor to hand-deliver acceptance letters to Muggleborn families for their explanation and comfort."
a snake in the den
you know what would have been great? if ron got sorted into slytherin.
imagine– we have this kid on the train, the first friend harry meets, with his corned beef sandwiches and smudged nose. ron is eleven years old and he wants gryffindor, because he’s a weasley and that’s what always happens. but it doesn’t happen.
what a way to redeem slytherin house– or, god, at least complicate it. because ron is petty. he is mean and sharp and ambitious and jealous– and he is loyal to the ends of the earth. he is all those things, and he is and always has been good.
potter becomes before weasley in the alphabet, so harry says not slytherin please and gets told might as well be gryffindor. percy and fred and george are all sitting there in red and gold, ruffling the already-ruffled hair of the boy who lived, smug, and then ron sits down and the hat spits out slytherin!
neither red nor gold
When news had come home that Bill had gotten Ravenclaw, Arthur and Molly had shared a look but sent Bill a congratulatory letter and some newly knitted blue mittens. “He was always too smart for me,” Arthur had said, and Molly had hummed.
“Hufflepuff, it’s a… nice… House,” Molly had said the next year, searching in her knitting basket for a shade of yellow she didn’t dislike too badly while Arthur looked over the friendly little missive from Pomona Sprout. How had she ended up with so many ugly threads? They must have been gifts; she wouldn’t have bought this pastel mustard skein, even at a 90% discount.
“You know,” said Arthur, later, as they watched the Express carry Percy away to his first year at Hogwarts. “I don’t think Perce is gonna be the one to break the streak.”
“So it’s a streak, is it?” Molly said, keeping an eye on the twins, who were chasing pigeons she was hoping they wouldn’t manage to catch. It was making Ginny’s day, though, the little girl covering her laughter with her fists, so she wasn’t stopping them yet.
“I think it is now,” he said.
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(What if none of the Weasley children were Sorted Gryffindor?)Shelves: Harry Potter
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Summary
Anthology containing:
Divided We Stand
Derek is being pressured by his family to pick a mate, and somehow stumbles into a choice that they didn't expect and aren't sure they approve of....
United We Mend
Sequel to Divided We Stand. Six months have gone by, Stiles is slowly recovering from his injuries, and the Searching Ceremony is about to happen. This time it's Cora who brings someone home, but he might not be what he seems...
Together We Build
Everything has settled down after the last Searching Ceremony. Stiles decides to tackle a cold case that his father gives him - a 10 year old murder caused by a rejected werewolf bite. Meanwhile, Derek is trying to solve an even bigger mystery - what's going on between Uncle Peter and Sheriff Stilinski, and how much does he have to worry about it?
Forever We Strive
When Peter and Sheriff Stilinski decide to adopt a child, they meet a little girl named Malia, whose parents were murdered. But when Stiles starts looking into who killed them, he finds a lot of unanswered questions.
Tomorrow We Thrive
A prominent alpha is murdered on the eve of Stiles and Derek's wedding, throwing a wrench into a years' worth of planning. With a hundred suspects and a surplus of possible motives, Stiles focuses on the mysterious Gévaudan Society and their possible connection to a missing teenager whose father is a well-known anti-werewolf activist.
Shelves: Teen Wolf
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After breaking up with Ginny, Harry heads to Hogwarts to teach for a change of pace. He loves it. There's lots of time to spend with his kids, friends, and family. It's everything he could have hoped for, only he wasn't expecting Draco Malfoy. He wasn't expecting to fall in love with him, either.
- Part 1 of Growing Deep
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- Words:
- 68,259
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- Completed
Summary
When Tony Stark was seventeen years old, he built his first AI. On that day, he ceased to be his father's creation, and became a creating force in his own right.
That one act likely saved his life, and not always in the most obvious ways.
Anthology containing:
The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation
Curiosity Changes Everything
Bedtime Stories and Nightmares
Stories Told With Silence
Rescue Missions and Mistaken Identities
The Monster In the Closet
Fairy Tales and Clockwork Hearts
Weekend at Barton's
You or Someone Like You
Meet the PierosShelves: Marvel Comics
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- 519,688
- Status:
- In-Progress
All the Roofs of Uncertainty by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
19 Dec 2015
Summary
For all the blood on his hands, Red Hood was never just a villain. And Nightwing never gives up on family, not for good.
(Or: The one where Dick bleeds a lot and Jason argues with everybody.)
Shelves: DC Comics
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- 73,372
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- Completed
My Big Fat Pureblood Wedding Anthology by QueenyMidas
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Sep 2013
Summary
Anthology containing:
My Big Fat Pureblood Wedding
Chaos ensues after Harry proposes to Draco on their three-year anniversary. The two must plan a wedding around their fighting friends, warring families, and each other's stubbornness. EWE, post-war, disregarding Remus, Sirius, and Colin's deaths and the fact that gay marriage is not legal in the UK. Rated M for later chapters.
Labor of Love
After their beautiful wedding, Draco supposes he has to hold up his end of the bargain on the topic of ‘offspring’. After years of convincing from Harry and years of pressure from Lucius, it looks as if the Malfoy-Potter family will be welcoming a bundle of joy. On top of that, their friends seem to be going through struggles of their own. Their dysfunctional family seems to be being tested once again, leaving many to wonder if it can weather the storm. EWE, disregarding Sirius, Remus, and Colin Creevey’s deaths
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- Archive of Our Own
- Words:
- 309,767
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Anthology containing:
Going For Gold by lowlifetheory
Derek's Gold by lowlifetheory
The Groom's Man by lowlifetheory
Golden Nuggets by lowlifetheory
Shelves: Teen Wolf
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- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 65,484