Literatti: Fiction By Deslea

This story (4200 words) does end up as a hot First War Bellatrix/Tom encounter, but there are some really interesting bits along the way about the nature of Death Eater ritual and the grooming techniques Tom employed to secure his followers. It's one of my personal favourites. Read it here

"Krycek and Marita were another pair of Us Against The World types, but they were better people together than apart. Krycek without Marita was a loose cannon, but with her, he started to embrace the bigger picture of preventing colonisation. And frankly, I had much more sympathy for them working on the inside, even doing bad things along the way, than Mulder and Scully going on with their lives in the FBI once they knew about the conspiracy to obliterate the whole world as we knew it."

Ratings are roughly equivalent to those used by the Motion Picture Association of America.

G: General audiences.
PG: Parental Guidance. Adult concepts and dilemmas, but without graphic detail.
M (or R): Mature audience. Adult concepts and dilemmas, anti-social attitudes, people doing the wrong thing and not necessarily feeling guilty about it. Also includes low-level sexual content (a few soft-focus paragraphs with little or no direct discussion of body parts). Most of my work is M.
NC-17: No children 17 or under. May contain explicit and extended descriptions of sexual activity, brief but graphic sexual descriptions, or graphic violence. A couple of my works contain rape scenes; these are graphic but not sexualised, and are appropriately marked with content warnings.
Trigger/Content Warnings: I take a conservative approach to triggers and will generally warn for anything that might trigger reader trauma to do with violence, self-harm, or grief. If the term "dark themes" is used, this may mean too many dark themes to mention, a dark theme that I don't want to reveal because it's a plot twist, or a vague dark feel that doesn't have a more precise description. Caveat lector.