Large Print Stories
LAST UPDATED: DECEMBER 2012
Literatti seeks to provide the best accessibility possible to visually-impaired readers. All English-language stories since 2003 are available in large print by appending ?format=largeprint to the URL. Use this by-date listing of stories currently available in large print, or browse the collections and then use the links within the stories themselves, where available.
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Harry Potter
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Garden of Memories
Harry Potter (Lucius/Narcissa)
When the Dark Mark grew stronger in 1994, the Malfoys knew their time of respite was coming to an end. So, they laid the groundwork to protect the most precious thing they had: each other. But even they could not dream how utterly they would lose themselves in the hope of coming out the other side.
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Mark of Cain
Harry Potter (Lucius/Narcissa)
Narcissa had hoped that her arranged marriage would be a loving one. After years of coldness, she discovers a secret that changes everything - for better and for worse.
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Witch Break A Vow
Harry Potter (Astoria/Draco, Astoria/Severus)
A Muggle novelist wrote that God loves to make a good man break a vow. Apparently, he does it to witches, too.
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Folie a Deux (Madness of the Two)
Harry Potter (Bellatrix/Voldemort)
Voldemort rewards his most faithful servant with her greatest wish. It summons memories he'd have rathered stayed buried, and sends them both tripping deeper into madness. The piece is rated NC17 for explicit content, but is mostly a Voldemort character study. Some dark psychological and psychosexual themes.
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Silver Starlight and Golden Wine
Harry Potter (Lucius/Narcissa)
A diligent groom and an untouched bride. Lucius and Narcissa's wedding night, NC17. Standalone prequel to the Blue Vial universe, but quite distinct and not as dark. It can be read on its own.
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Under Your Skin
Harry Potter (Snape/Tonks Vignette, Fluff)
Tonks always wanted to get under Professor Snape's skin. This wasn't what she meant. Just a bit of fluff written for Trick or Treat 2012 on Rarepair Shorts at LiveJournal. Student/teacher flirting (Tonks is seventeen).
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Spoken For
Harry Potter (Lucius/Narcissa, Andromeda/Sirius, Bellatrix/Rodolphus, Frank/Alice, others)
Some children come to Hogwart's already spoken for, meeting their Promised spouses there for the very first time. How do these betrothed children make sense of their world? Arranged marriage, Pureblood society.
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The Blue Vial and Of Vials Blue and Shades of Grey
Harry Potter (Lucius/Tonks, Remus/Tonks, Lucius/Narcissa Angst)
In The Blue Vial, Lucius is instructed by Voldemort to make a sex slave of his captive, and gives Tonks a choice between two vials in a bid to save them both. The red vial is for an easy death; the blue vial is to endure. Tonks' choice has repercussions that outlast the war, and ripple through both their marriages for the rest of their lives. In Of Vials Blue, a companion story from Narcissa's point of view, Narcissa knows there is another woman. But when she learns who and why, she must make hard choices to bring them all through a hell of someone else's making. A journey of silent dignity and selflessness. Content warning for rape, Stockholm Syndrome, identification/sympathy with abuser, messed-up responses to trauma, and disturbing material generally. Mature. See also Silver Starlight and Golden Wine, a standalone prequel depicting Lucius and Narcissa's wedding night.
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The Substitute
Harry Potter (Lucius/Narcissa, Lucius/Tonks, Severus/Tonks Angst)
A desperate Lucius brokers a deal with the Order to get his family away from the war, allowing Tonks to infiltrate the Manor in Narcissa's place. Living as Narcissa leaves Tonks floundering to hang on to her own identity, and the ray of light she is beginning to find in Snape. Living with a constant reminder of the wife he may never see again leaves Lucius floundering, too. Goes AU immediately after the Battle of Astronomy Tower. Mature.
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Awake
Harry Potter (Lucius/Narcissa Angst Vignette)
Narcissa will make sure Lucius hangs on to his mind in Azkaban - whatever it takes.
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Want You To Want Me
Harry Potter (Lucius/Tonks NC17 Vignette)
Tonks is hell-bent on seducing Lucius, in the name of the greater good. Lucius is hell-bent on letting her, in the name of his own. They both get more than they bargained for. More porn than plot, but there's a relationship arc in there, as well. Sons of July missing scene, but stands alone.
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Sons of July
Harry Potter (Severus/Narcissa, Lucius/Tonks novella)
Narcissa and Lucius found friendship in their arranged marriage, and love outside it with Severus and Tonks - spies with divided loyalties, both. Their secret loves and loyalties would, quite by accident, add the final layer to the force that might bring down the Dark Lord once and for all. Canon compliant-ish to Astronomy Tower (liberties taken, especially with dates). Told in three acts:
Act 1: The Hidden Third. Narcissa's pregnancy leads to soul searching - about the dilution of a Pureblood family, the extinction of the Houses of Malfoy and Black, and the triple defiance of the three in concealing their child's nature from their own Dark master.
Act 2: Maîtresse-en-titre. After years of indulging Narcissa and Severus, oblivious to the mastery of romantic love, Lucius learns first-hand about the craziness and folly of loving the wrong person. This one is Nymphadora Tonks, the spy sent to betray him.
Act 3: The Sons Of July. Severus hears a new prophecy, and learns of a fourth Son of July. In the final battle, Nymphadora, Lucius, Severus and Narcissa are reunited - but none have the full picture, and sacrifices will be needed along the way.
Kill to be Kind
Harry Potter (Lucius/Tonks Angst Vignette)
As the Second War comes to a head, two lying lovers find themselves on opposite sides in a world where murder is sometimes the most loyal act of all. AU battle scene.
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Between Worlds
Harry Potter (Ginny/Myrtle crackpot humour)
All Moaning Myrtle ever wanted was a little girlfriend. Fifty years later, she finally got one. Crackpot Chamber of Secrets missing scene, non-explicit underage fumblings.
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Fair Fight
Harry Potter (SSHG Humour)
Snape is a reluctant war hero, and the witches come a-courting. To his bemusement, one of them is Hermione Granger. Humour.
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Two of a Kind
Harry Potter (Lucius/Tonks)
The four stages of grief are shock, anger, denial and acceptance. Or: After the war, two unlikely widows find a way to keep on standing. AU, Lucius/Tonks, R, novella (about 35K).
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I Enjoy You
Harry Potter (SS/HG)
At a Hogwarts function a few years after the war, Hermione uses a willing Snape to make Ron jealous. At least, that's the way it starts. Just a sweet harmless 300-word ficlet. Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, vignette, G.
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Vigil
Harry Potter (SS/HG)
He was just her professor. She was just a schoolgirl with a crush. Then he saved them all. A moment by a lonely grave. Snape, Hermione Granger, vignette, PG.
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How It Happened Doesn't Matter
Harry Potter (SS/HG)
AU postwar Severus Snape/Hermione Granger novella. An adult Hermione knew sex was a weapon of war. She prepared for it on her own terms, and when it came, reshaped it by her will into something to end the war. What she didn't bargain on were the choices she would lose when the battle was done. Mature, content warning for references to sexual coercion.
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The Good Wife
Harry Potter - Lucius/Narcissa
In this post-OOTP Lucius/Narcissa piece, Narcissa was the perfect trophy wife - until her perfect world fell apart. PG-13.
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It Takes A Pragmatist
Harry Potter - Slytherins, Deathly Hallows
In this Deathly Hallows missing scene/challenge fic, Slytherin House is huddled in the dungeon. A portrait of the newly dead Snape appears on the wall. Mentions of Narcissa and Draco. PG.
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Five Memories That Might Have Changed The War
Harry Potter - Snape/Lily
In this Snape/Lily piece, we learn that the chasms within Severus were even bigger than Harry knew. PG.
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Apologies, Surrender, and Other Things A Malfoy Does Not Do
Harry Potter - Lucius/Narcissa
Postwar ficlet. Lucius doesn't apologise. PG.
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The Red and the Dead
Harry Potter - Malfoys Ficlet
In this challenge drabble, Lucius, Narcissa, and Draco think about the ways it all went wrong. PG, but dark.
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The Kindness of Women
Harry Potter - Snape/Lily, Snape/Tonks
The search for identity, and the ways in which people collide. Snape/Lily, Snape/Tonks. Mature.
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Devil You Know
Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows, Draco and Luna
In this Draco/Luna friendship piece, Draco flees the hell that is his home and finds refuge in the dungeon. PG.
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The Space Between
Harry Potter - Snape/Lily
Lily meets Snape in the space between life and death. PG.
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Unbreakable
Harry Potter - Snape/Lily, Snape/Narcissa
In this Snape/Lily, Snape/Narcissa piece, Narcissa reciprocates Snape's Unbreakable Vow with one of her own. Mature.
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Between Worlds
Harry Potter - Ginny/Myrtle
In this old Chamber of Secrets comedic slashy tie-in, Ginny finds that death isn't so bad after all. Mature-ish.
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The Host (Unfinished)
Harry Potter - Humour
In this old unfinished humour piece, a spell gone wrong sees a very grumpy pregnant Slytherin Housemaster. PG.
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Terminator/Sarah Connor Chronicles
Goode And Evil
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
How Andy Goode became Billy Wisher. Set during J-Day. PG-13, but beware of dark imagery including references to suicide.
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War
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Derek reflects that if Sarah were a man, they'd have a knock-out, dragdown fistfight and be done with it. She might be amenable to that, but he isn't. Set after Desert Cantos. NC17 for sexual content.
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Unfinished Business
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
It occurs to him that Sarah will never tell him about all the good that could come from what happened to Riley. Sometimes her persistent angst about their rising body count gets on his nerves, but not tonight. Sarah/Derek one-shot set during This Is The Day Part II. R for sexual references.
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Five Times Sarah Connor Sold Her Body To Save The World (and One Time She Didn't)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
A dark exploration of Sarah's journey of survival and utility, told in six vignettes. To 1x03 The Turk. NC17 for adult concepts, brief references to sexual violence, and dark themes.
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Cold Comfort
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
It took resuscitation paddles, impromptu surgery, and a head full of drugs, but Sarah finally came clean with a few hard truths. Derek didn't bargain on facing a few of his own. Derek Reese POV, To The Lighthouse alt-universe post-ep. PG13, trigger warnings for discussion of rape.
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Fearful Symmetry
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
He sees steel and prettiness in the woman, and his brother in her son. This is how Kyle's story ends, he thinks. Ends, and begins. Derek Reese POV, Queen's Gambit one-shot. PG.
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Convergence
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Sarah never got a chance to tell John she wasn't dying - that they had family still. But she knew what she had to do to save all of them, and the world. Set after Born to Run. Sarah/Derek, NC17.
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The Lives and Loves of Derek Reese and Somewhere To Belong
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Loves from different timelines collide. Set after Desert Cantos and This Is The Day Part 2. Sarah/Derek, Mature.
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The Promise
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
She made him promise never to choose her over John, but the promise was a lie. Sarah/Derek.
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A Tale Of Two John Connors
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
He was born at Pescadero State Hospital in 1994. The only coherent word his mother uttered before he was taken from her was "John."
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It's About The Connection
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
After Charley's death, Derek and Sarah rebuild their family. Mature.
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Four Seconds (Give or Take A Nano)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Unpicking a timeline is difficult. You have to be precise. Post-ep for Born to Run.
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Devil You Know
Harry Potter
For Draco, Luna is the lesser of two evils. Missing scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Five Things That Might Have Happened To Chola Chickadee
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
In this timeline, Chola is chickadee to Carlos Salceda and sometime errand girl for the Connors. But what about all the others?
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Haceldama
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Everyone dies for John. Post-ep for Adam Raised A Cain.
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The Gigolo of Dejalo
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles/X Files Crossover
Challenge fic for a crossover Christmas challenge. Sarah Connor encounters a Krycek-shaped blast from the past. Spoilers to Mr Ferguson and all of XF.
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Attachment Theory
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Catherine Weaver and the key behaviours of the maternal bond. Spoilers to Tower Is Tall.
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The Ticket
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Charley Dixon has lost his ticket. Charley/Sarah angst, spoilers to Dungeons & Dragons.
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Cataclysm
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
This James Ellison character study traces his path from sceptic to believer. Season 1 spoilers.
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Haven, CSI, Tin Man and Misc
Valentine's Day Drabbles
Multifandom - Haven, Tin Man, TSCC, Imagine Me & You
In The Spoils, TSCC's Sarah reflects on Derek's gun during Adam Raised A Cain. In Troubling Thoughts, Haven's Audrey wonders whether her new lover might be Troubled. In Another Kind Of Courtship, Tin Man's Glitch accepts Azkadelia's rejection as a foregone conclusion, and in Woollens, Imagine Me And You's Rachel finds that fluffy clothes from Luce aren't just warm, they're downright hot.
Knowing
Haven
The creature known in this time as Lucy Ripley prepares for the circle to close. Spoilers for Season 1. PG for dark themes. Blink-and-miss-it suggestion of Audrey/Duke, easily ignored if that's not your thing.
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Confident Extravagance
CSI: Grissom/Sara Angst
They loved her while they had the chance. CSI's Grissom faces the loss of Sara in a Living Doll post-ep, based on Dead Doll spoilers at the time.
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X Files
Tell Me A Story
X Files Krycek/Diana Angst
"They told each other stories, little lies to make it all okay." Shades of Krycek/Marita and Mulder/Diana.
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The Cold White Room
X Files Krycek/Diana Angst
Christmas is cold for the lonely. Angsty vignette set at Christmas during Season 6. Shades of Krycek/Marita and Mulder/Diana.
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The Slender Line
X Files Experimental CSM Angst
The descent into madness, marked by fathers and sons and the days of the dead.
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Before
X Files Knowle/Shannon 155 words
It seems to her that her life is divided into before and after. 155 words.
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[XFVCU-fic] Before I Walk On Fire
X Files NC17 Follmer/Wainwright Angst
An elaboration of a scene in Prism. This can be read on its own, although it does work best in context. "Her longings disturb her, and they mark her with inhumanity more than the ridges on the back of her neck, but when she feels them, she feels alive."
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[XFVCU] 1x07 Prism
X Files XFVCU Casefile
A killer with a penchant for games poses a challenge to the entire team - and a crisis for one of their number.
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[XFVCU-fic] Other Duties
X Files Follmer/Reyes Catacomb missing scene
New light is shed on an old grief. Tiny 375 word missing scene.
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[XFVCU] 1x04 Catacomb
X Files XFVCU Casefile
An abandoned monastery. A demented mystic. Another agent's mess. A hell of a lot of bodies.
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Like Glowing Embers
X Files Knowle/Shannon R vignette
"You're a stranger. And yet you know me better than anyone." Follow-up story to Caro de carne mea, but stands alone.
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Caro de carne mea
X Files Knowle/Shannon NC17 vignette
In this pre-XF moment, Shannon learns the identity of her counterpart. "It occurs to you that it was an act of war - an assault waged on loneliness and need."
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The Beginning Of The Long Goodbye
X Files Follmer/Reyes NIHT II post-ep
A bittersweet moment between Brad and Monica. "Brad Follmer was a habit she needed to break."
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Midnight In The Firing Line
X Files Post-series casefile mythology
Eighteen months after The Truth, the X files are up and running again, with the old players in a new formation.
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Evolution
X Files Knowle/Shannon post-col vignette.
As the lights go out over a dying world, the spark of human life lives on.
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Don't Stop Swaying
X Files Knowle/Shannon angst. NIHT 2 post-ep.
She thinks she can live with the way the wind keeps changing, as long as she keeps on swaying.
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Act Of Contrition
X Files Knowle/Shannon angst. Eschaton missing scene
She always comes back. Eschaton missing scene, Shannon POV.
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I Believe
X Files Krycek/Marita post-col angst
On faith, friendship, love, loss, grief, fear, honour, dignity, and truth. A speech delivered to the tattered remnant.
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Three Times A Lady
X Files Doggett/Fowley NC17 Challenge Fic
In which Deslea takes a Season 8 character and a character who died in Season 7, puts them together in Season 9, and foreshadows Season 8's canonical Season 9 pairing, all without breaking the universe's time-space continuum. Also, Doggett gets laid. NC17.
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The Lone Hand
X Files The Beginning post-ep
Early in their partnership, Jeffrey and Diana reach an understanding.
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Wonderment
X Files William post-ep vignette
She will wonder. A brief glimpse into the world of Mrs Van De Kamp, the woman who adopted William. An experiment in future tense.
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Hybrid Kisses
X Files Knowle/Shannon Pre-XF Vignette
It's 1983. Good friends. Good wine. The night before the change. Knowle/Shannon UST.
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Eschaton
X Files Knowle/Shannon Mythology Novella
You don't have to be mortal to love. You don't have to be human to feel. Novella spanning the pre-XF period, through the series and beyond. Angst, romance, mythfic, pre-XF, post-col, Knowle POV. Recommended at Musea.
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The Visitor
X Files Post-col vignette. Birthday fic for KristenK2.
Post-col Skinner-centric vignette for Kristen. Skinner, serving time after the war, has a visitor. Existence spoilers, shades of Krycek/Marita. PG.
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A Family Affair
X Files Weird-ass Krycek/Marita parody crossover
"Do come in," Morticia said. "Mind the booby-traps." Alex and Marita looked at one another and shared a moment of understanding. Clearly, their neighbours were their kind of people. Enigmatic Doctor recommended. PG.
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The Hubris Of Theodora
X Files Knowle/Shannon post-series angst
"She was Theodora. He was her Justinian, pure of heart, but weak of mind and spirit." A short, rather strange post-modern legend written for a challenge. The Truth post-ep, PG.
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Restitution
X Files Krycek/Marita *R* Novella
Sometimes, to face the future, you have to face the past. Novella spanning the period from Herrenvolk to The Truth. Angst, romance, mythfic, resfic, references to rape. Recommended at Museans.
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Down With The Marked
X Files Knowle/Shannon NIHT II post-ep.
"He doesn't love her - not the way the humans mean it. But he's marked with her, and she with him." A moment between Knowle and Shannon after NIHT II. Knowle POV. Recommended by The Other Side and Bright Shiny Objects.
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whisperjack
X Files Jump The Shark post-ep. Yves POV.
"She watches the world through barred windows and thinks of raising little Jimmys and teaching them a better way. It seems so...inadequate. So miserable a contribution to a fight she can no longer bear to lead." PG.
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27 February 2013: In Mark of Cain, Narcissa Malfoy learns a secret about her husband that turns the tables on their lifeless marriage, and in Garden of Memories, she and Lucius defend each other and their marriage from the Dark Lord, risking everything they've worked to save.
20 December 2012: In Witch Break A Vow, Astoria Greengrass learns that sometimes there are no good choices, only ones that contain the damage.
23 October 2012: In Silver Starlight and Golden Wine, Narcissa's wedding night is a journey of trust. It's a standalone moment in the Blue Vial universe, but it can be read on its own. Meanwhile, in Folie A Deux (Madness of the Two), Voldemort and Bellatrix lead each other deeper into madness.
14 October 2012: In Under Your Skin, a small piece of unashamed Hallowe'en fluff, seventeen-year-old Tonks flirts shamelessly with her Potions Professor. Snape gives as good as he gets. Also added Want You To Want Me, a standalone Sons of July missing scene, in which Tonks seduces a willing Lucius for her own ends - but both get more than they bargained for.
22 September 2012: In Of Vials Blue and Shades of Grey, Narcissa knows there is another woman, but learning who and why makes for hard choices to bring them all through. Narcissa POV on The Blue Vial. Also, in Spoken For, we meet the Pureblood children of Hogwarts whose marriages have already been arranged when they arrive.
8 September 2012: In The Blue Vial, Lucius offers Tonks a choice between an easy death and the means to endure the torture he has been instructed to inflict on her. The resulting revilement/sympathy between them will be both their comfort and their imprisonment for the rest of their lives. Also posting a major update to The Substitute (half as long again) and minor edits to Two Of A Kind: Yule Interlude.
12 June 2012: In The Substitute, Lucius and Tonks enter a marriage of convenience to facilitate Narcissa and Draco's escape, and facilitate her infiltration of the Death Eaters. It soon becomes a folie a deux - for them, and for Snape as well. Tonks is torn between who she is and who she pretends to be.
8 May 2012: In Sons of July, the arranged marriage and deep friendship between Lucius and Narcissa sets the scene for the Dark Lord's last stand. They and their private loves, spies Nymphadora and Severus, all have secrets, and sacrifices will be needed along the way. Meanwhile, in Awake, Narcissa draws on her every reserve to help her imprisoned husband hang on to his mind.
7 April 2012: In Kill To Be Kind, an AU battle scene set at Malfoy Manor, Lucius and Tonks debate the relative merits of loving and killing one another. Also, I've revived an old story, Between Worlds, which I took down at one time in response to fandom developments that no longer appear to be at issue. In this crackpot Chamber of Secrets missing scene, Moaning Myrtle meets a ghost who isn't quite dead yet. Non-explicit underage fumblings and humour ensue.
4 January 2012: In Two Of A Kind: A Yuletide Interlude, Andromeda comes to terms with her flight from her family of origin, against the backdrop of Nymphadora's and Lucius' growing attachment. Meanwhile, in Fair Fight, a humour SSHG piece, Snape is a reluctant war hero, and the witches come a-courting. To his bemusement, Hermione is one of them.
8 December 2011: In Part 4 of Two Of A Kind, Tonks allows herself to see who Remus really was, while the final chapter sees both Lucius and Tonks make their peace with their lost loves and face their future together.
15 October 2011: Part 3 of Two Of A Kind sees Harry Potter's Lucius torn between the wife he lost and the woman he loves now.
2 October 2011: A site overhaul, a new Harry Potter theme, and special pages for some of the other collections (especially TSCC, which is on the backburner but not forgotten).
1 October 2011: I've restored my translations page, and added a Chinese translation of I Enjoy You with thanks to Joanne. :)
26 September 2011: In the postwar ficlet I Enjoy You, Hermione uses a willing Snape to make Ron jealous, only to find she's happy right where she is. Meanwhile, Two of a Kind Part 1 and Part 2, an AU postwar novella, sees Lucius and Tonks widowed and finding their way through grief together. (Work in progress).
28 August 2011: In Vigil, Hermione takes a moment by a lonely grave, to reflect on the schoolgirl crush who became her hero.
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