Stories by opalish

Of Hyuuga Hinata. "I am so not helping them with the hand-holding," Hanabi sighed. "Seriously." SasuHina cracktastic oneshot.

Scorpius really should have listened to his father's numerous and dire warnings about the Potter clan. Harry feels his pain. Gen crackfic WIP, yo. Seriously, so cracky.

The first time Shindo willingly brings up Sai without being goaded into it, they're playing a casual game at the salon.

Akira might have even felt a little touched by Shindo's staunch faith in his sportsmanship, if they hadn't been talking about their hypothetical mutant powers.

Ichikawa laughs until she chokes, and Akira suddenly understands why Shindo spends so much of his time yelling at people to stop hitting him already. Slight HikaruAkira.

Crack oneshot. Malcolm Baddock fails at office warfare, and Harry teaches his desk to speak.

Part of being Head Auror is tracking down potential future heroes and villains and giving them a good talking-to. Harry really wishes he'd known this ahead of time. Multi-crossover crackfic WIP.

Table manners are not your enemy, Ikkaku." Rated for 11th Division-ness.

Harry has some rather questionable parenting methods. And he may or may not be responsible for Draco Malfoy's receding hairline. NextGen crackfic oneshot!

Harry's straight, he really is. Unfortunately, no one believes it but him. HarryLunaBlaise crackfic AHOY.

The true story of how Harry and Ginny's kids got their names. Really, it's all Snape's fault. Crackfic oneshot.

After the war, Neville and Harry meet up to mock people and get drunk. It's a good life. Post-DH oneshot crackfic.

Harry thinks Ginny's getting bored. Ginny thinks she's not nearly bored enough, really. Also, there may or may not be gerbils. PostDH HarryGinny crackfic oneshot.

Ginny's not like Harry. She doesn't get to talk to the dead. PostDH oneshot.

Teddy Lupin's parents are dead, but he still finds traces of them in the oddest places. Oneshot, slight TeddyVictoire.

Harry and Draco find ways to keep the hate alive. Albus Severus and Scorpius approve. NextGen oneshot crackfic ahoy!

Sam, McKay, three tall, handsome, muscular nannies, and a baby destined to become a socially inept, emotionally stunted supergenius. Why yes, this is SamMcKay. Ish.

WashZoe drabble. In which there is basking, and Wash's dinosaurs face imminent doom.

Every October, Harry visits the grave. PostHBP oneshot.

Heroes don't get fairytale endings, and rainbows eventually fade to grey. HarryGinny oneshot.

Harry's an idiot, and Ginny helps save the world without even trying. PostHBP HarryGinny oneshot.

Harry runs into some trouble while searching for Slytherin's locket. Trouble named Annabelle Jones. Oneshot crackfic, and I make no apologies!

The first time Blaise kissed him, Harry bolted. PostHBP slashtastic oneshot.

Harry had never heard the Second War referred to as a bit of unpleasantness before, and he found that it was almost…reassuring. Zabini didn’t care about him and he didn’t care about Zabini, and he didn’t have to bother hiding. HarryBlaise slash.

Buying a raffle ticket to fund SPEW was one thing, but being the prize was another thing entirely, and why, exactly, was he friends with Hermione in the first place? HPDM oneshot.

Harry's done being a hero, but Snape may just be a god. Harry, Hermione, and a sky full of clouds. Oneshot.

A man, Mal thinks, shouldn’t ought to get so turned around and dizzy, not on account of a woman. MalRiver oneshot, postBDM.

It's Harry's fifteenth birthday, and he can't help realizing that nothing ever really changes.

He doesn’t see red when he finally catches up with Professor Snape.

Life after death in the wizarding world. HarryGinny.

How Harry defeated the Dark Lord. 'Flounce, little veela! Flounce like the wind.' PostHBP HarryGinny oneshot.

PostHBP, Harry has a plan. He also has a concussion and a close encounter of the Slytherin kind. This will not end well.

After Miranda, River comforts Zoe. 'Wound's still open,' River murmurs, 'but now it's disinfected.'

Love is just another madness that afflicts River Tam. Mostly MalRiver.

He almost writes the letter three times. Regulus and the truth.

During HBP, HarryGinny oneshot. Because no matter how much I love HG, that Monster in Harry's chest was totally lame.

PostHBP oneshot. 'He’s never been mine, not really. I don’t think a hero can belong to just one person.' HarryGinny, RemusSirius, RemusTonks.

PostHBP, HarryGinny. Ginny Weasley was on a mission, and she was bloody well going to succeed.

PostHBP, Ron's POV. 'I swear, Harry’s turned me into a right Hufflepuff.'

Harry Potter has once again showcased his pathological need for attention by writing and publishing a completely uninformative pamphlet on the Dark Arts. Utterly useless rubbish. – The Daily Prophet

Onesided CedricHarry, Hermione's POV. What's smart isn't always what's best.

When Dumbledore told him that death was the next great adventure, Harry hadn’t thought he’d meant it quite so literally. PostHBP.

Harry Potter was about to receive the Order of Merlin, First Class, and he was not best pleased. PostHBP HarryGinny oneshot.

PostHBP, oneshot. In which Ginny angsts over Harry's absence, Fred and George are complete prats, and weaponry is employed to fight brotherly oppression. HarryGinny.

Harry Potter disappeared from Privet Drive when he was six years old. Now, ten years later, he's been found...and he's not about to be anyone's hero. ON HIATUS.

And he spirals down, down and deeper down, forgetting and forgotten, but always, always, something brings him back. Oneshot of Sirius in Azkaban.

After all, dreams can be forgotten, pushed aside, left behind...but they never die.

HBP spoilers and NevilleBlaise slash. Longbottom liked him, Blaise was certain of it. The adorably shy...no, the stupidly incompetent...no, the...the...

LilyJames. 'How about this: you go to the dance as my date, and I won't try to eat your brain.'

RonHermione. And perhaps books have souls after all, and perhaps they can die...

HBP spoilers, HarryGinny, and RonHermione. Harry's return home after Voldemort's defeat doesn't go quite as expected. Warning: bad jokes and pointlessness ahead.

She has Arthur, but he doesn't understand, can't understand what it's like to feel your entire world slip through your fingers and shatter on the ground.

Regulus wishes, sometimes, that he had the nerve to be like Sirius, to defy their parents and make his own way through life.

Are you saying my plans aren't good? Jack demanded, stung. No respect. He got no respect at all.

Merope isn't sure, at first, why she keeps going back to Tom Riddle.

Regulus in present tense. Choices make us who we are, and freedom is a choice. HBP spoilers.

Beware: HBP spoilers and nonfluffy HarryGinny. Denial's just a river in Egypt, and she doesn't need him at all.

HBP spoilers, and RonHermione. Some words are never spoken.

They don't speak, but the silence is comfortable, rich with understanding and support. Post HBP. HarryGinny, HarryOC, GinnyNeville.

There was a tender amusement in Remus' voice when he mentioned Harry that made Tonks' insides feel all gushy, like chocolate left out too long in the sun. She tried to remind herself sternly that she was an auror, tough and rough and mean. RS, RT.

But it had been Arthur who won her heart, and Arthur who kept it. She'd been beautiful, yes, but she'd never had eyes for anyone but the gawky redheaded Weasley boy with his awkward, lopsided smile. MollyArthur fluff.

Sirius' POV There will be sunlight, when he is free.

Sometimes, Remus hates the moon. He hates the deceptive way it glows, all purity and innocence. He hates the pretense, how the moon can make the night seem less cold, less deadly.

Luna's POV. 'Sometimes, I wish others could see life the way I do.'

...as those who refuse to see. Dumbledore visits Petunia the summer after Harry's fifth year. Oneshot.

It's terribly easy, in the end, to decide to lose himself in his reflection. Harry and the Mirror of Erised, mentions of RHr.

When Harry hates, he does so with a passion.

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Neville.

Daniel's account of his time on SG-1. - Am very young, apparently. And very stupid, according to race desperately in need of hair care.

Ginny never regrets loving Harry.

Harry's feet continued to carry him towards Snape's office, while his mind was battered relentlessly by comments such as, 'I'm sure kissing Snape would be wonderful, even if he doesn't brush his teeth' and 'you know what they say about men with big noses'

Thus begins Vera Potter's time at Hogwarts... Continuation of Pet Names and Role Models.

SamJack, set in a future season. Daniel has a phone call to make. Warning: major character death.

RHr. I wonder, as Ron slides an arm around my waist and pulls me tighter against his side, if Harry will need us anymore, now that Voldemort is gone.

This is a blatant parody of Mary Sue fics. -- Mary Sue is headed to Hogwarts...but nothing goes the way she expects. One-shot.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with growing up in a cupboard is that it gets you used to living in a cage. - Harry's POV. One-shot.

HPSS slash. How Severus Snape saved Harry Potter, and how Harry Potter fell in love with a greasyhaired, bignosed, sallowskinned git.

Nothing worth having comes easy, and maybe romance isn't quite what it seems. HarryGinny oneshot.

When Vera Potter was five years old, she found her role model. No one expected it to be Severus Snape. HarryGinny fluff fic, set after Hogwarts.

He's won the war. He's won the war and vanquished the villain, and he can't remember why he bothered.

Harry and Ginny on Sirius' birthday, post OotP. Everything about him was forbidding and unyielding. He had the air of a griffin ready to spring.

BillHarry slash. Ginny was the first to recognize the signs. The reddened cheeks, the sidelong glances, the funny little smiles...

HGSS. A quirk of Snape's lips, an arch of his eyebrows, a tilt of Hermione's head... They were holding their own conversation the whole meeting through, without saying a word. Harry's POV.

HarryGinny fluff. Ginny decides her seven year old daughter needs a pet name. The daughter in question is less than pleased.

AU: Voldemort was a bit more cautious. So were the Potters. And now Harry's got a whole new load of problems. Slytherin!Harry with a number of twists.

Lying pale and vulnerable in an infirmary bed, Harry Potter had never looked less like a hero, and Ginny Weasley had never loved him more. Mentions of RHr and NL.

HarryGinny fluff. It's Ginny's eighteenth birthday, and has Harry got a surprise for her! Of course, this being Harry, he gets it all wrong... There's some minor RHr as well.

HarryGinny angst. Excerpt: And that's why I, Harry Potter, the Man Who Defeated Voldemort, am being sentenced to Azkaban for the next two years.

HarryGinny fluff. Growing up, Ginny always wanted to be like her brothers.

Ron and McGonagall play a game of chess. Ron loses his temper, Gryffindor loses points, and McGonagall loses a few comforting illusions. But maybe something's gained in the end... Slight RHr.

HPSB. Yes, that means this is HarrySirius slash. Sirius is dead, and Harry remembers. Dark.

Harry has a letter to write, a decision to make, and a life to abandon...or possibly reclaim. Set Post-Hogwarts. One-shot.

Dumbledore learns something rather disturbing about Hogwarts' resident werewolf. Onesided HPRL. Yes, that means it's slashy.

HarryGinny fluff. Scheming!Zacharias. She grinned, looking absolutely stunning in the moonlight. 'I love you, you utter moron. Now kiss me.'

Harry knows that a prayer is a wish that won't ever be granted. One-shot.

Severus Snape was, by nature, a man of obsession. Onesided HPSS, rated for language.

If there was one sin, Ginny later decided, one unforgivable sin shared by the world, it was that no one saw Harry. Not Ron, not Hermione, and until that moment, not her.

HPSS. ...because you know, when you hurt, that you're alive. You know, if you're bleeding, that you can fight. And you know that what you have, what you have isn't weak, isn't golden...

Loony Luna has a simple little story to tell, about The Hero and The Villain. A teeny bit of HG. 'The Hero always wins because, in the end, he has the most to lose.'

RHHr...yes, it's a Trio threesome. Hermione's POV. 'He doesn't laugh often. He normally doesn't even smile anymore, unless he's alone with Ron and me.'

...in the end, only two bodies remain untouched by the fire: and neither shall live...

She knew what he wanted she'd planned on it, expected it. Because Ginny Weasley understood love, and so she understood Harry.

Ginny's POV. I remember when I first saw him, and I thought that he had the most beautiful green eyes, eyes that glowed like emeralds.

DMHP Draco Malfoy knew better. He'd loved the boy, after all. But Draco could never have loved the legend.

Did you laugh when he died? o0o Harry's pissed. Snape's amused.

A boy lives in a cupboard, a strange, pale boy with green eyes and a wistful smile. Dumbledore's thoughts on Harry from PSSS through OotP. Manipulative!Dumbledore

Nothing good can come, when you've no happy memories.

Set during Heroes Part 2: Sam and Daniel have a little talk about loss and love and words left unsaid.

Just what was Daniel so passionate about when he asked Jack that infamous question in Window of Opportunity? Now you know.

Warning: horribly, terribly corny. SG1's guys contemplate Sam.

Remus Lupin as a child. His mother muses. One-shot.

1st Season, PostEmancipation: SG1, meet Jonas Hansen.

The differences between the fairer gender and the stinkier. Or, the differences between women and men. Or Sam with PMS

Epilogue to Descent. Sam and Jonas have a little talk about love, duty, honor, and Jack O'Neill.