Stories by amerikanka

A singer who won't sing and is terrified of any kind of commitment. A wizard who doesn't have a wand and is still healing mentally from twelve years in prison. A world growing darker each passing day that Voldemort gets stronger. Set in autumn 1995, Emmeline and Sirius struggle to understand what they have lost, take shelter in what they are, and fight to become something more.

Six months post-battle, Lavender lives a quiet life with Seamus as she struggles with her new wolfish instincts and the mental and physical scars from her attack and the war. But with a rogue werewolf on the loose and the Ministry passing laws against her kind, how long can her life stay quiet? And can Seamus keep her safe from the rogue, or keep from hurting her himself? COMPLETE!

Marlene McKinnon is confident and self-assured. Regulus Black is not. It's an unlikely relationship that he reflects on as he watches her die. (now updated with a chapter from Marlene's perspective!)

"In every life there comes a day of reckoning, a time when unsettled scores demand their retribution." Gideon reflects on the life of Marlene McKinnon, the woman made of fire, passion, and raw righteous fury directed right at the hearts of those would would murder innocents.

After the final battle, Hestia Jones wanders the hall of Hogwarts looking for one last way to put aside her grief. When she comes to the realization that she is the last one of her friends from the first Order, she needs a little help to come to terms with the fact that she still has a life beyond war.

No one in the DA has never had it easy, but as Hannah Abbott finds out, Seamus Finnigan takes the stress of it harder than he lets on.

Fleur Delacour gets a visitor in need of some advice and reassurance after the first Battle of Hogwarts.

Hestia Jones is terrified of rodents. It takes a classmate who has a bit more sympathy for them to help her understand that they might not be the creatures of horror and fear she thinks they are.

Being beaten up and almost killed by a gang of kids is a good catalyst for thinking about who you've become in life. Regulus Black uses this experience to reflect on the one woman he can't get out of his head.

Katniss: "In seventy-four years, we have had exactly two. Only one is still alive." Tam Rory is seventeen the day she volunteers for the Hunger Games, taking the place of a girl she doesn't even know. This is the story of the first District Twelve Victor.

The correspondence of Marlene and Regulus over a five year period, through the horror and terror of a war neither of them want. References a few of my other fics, but not enough that you need to read them first. Enjoy.

Gideon drops off a letter for Marlene and she's very reluctant to let him go... after all, the night is cold and she'd be a terrible friend if she let him freeze, so really, it's a matter of conscience that he has to stay.

My life is nothing extraordinary, or daring, or heroic, or self-sacrificing, but I have lived through war and fear and I have seen the light of hope. My name is Emm, and this my story, from my childhood to my death. Formerly A Gauntlet To Fate.

On her first date since the war ended, Lavender can't get up the courage to bare her scars to the world. Seamus decides to help her change that.

He's in a room full of crazy people but he's not, because if he were crazy he would know it. She's here also but it must be for the same reason, to protect people, because she's not crazy. She can't be, because she's his Alice and he would know that too.

An insight into the world of Rabastan Lestrange as he reflects on his family and the other pureblood houses, including the one his brother married.

When the Order gets the news of Regulus Black's death, Marlene doesn't think that Sirius is taking it the right way. She enlightens him on things he never expected about his brother.

Frank and Alice Longbottom have survived the war. The last thing they expected was a quiet night at home to turn into one of terror. 2nd place in the HPFC Shakespeare Quotes Challenge!

Bad dreams keep more than one person up at night, and old scars never really fade.

She was meant to dance and sing, not be a warrior. He used to joke with the world, and now he just laughs in death's face, damn the consequences. But when the battle's won, Lavender and Seamus learn that there's more to life then what they've become.