Stories by Lady Altair

Patchwork Hearts by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

What wonder can be worked with needle and thread?

Heart Knows Truth by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Hestia Jones during the First War. You'll live this moment again, and somewhere you already know that.

Terminus by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The fall has come to a sudden end.

Off Into the Sunset by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

If there were such things as endings, so few would be happy.

Last Dance by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

His last dance. Her last kiss. A collection of lasts from the first Order of the Phoenix.

Picking Lilies by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

He finds nothing of her in the world until she is gone from it, until he knows with soul-crushing certainty that the flash of red hair he catches in Diagon will never be hers, never again.

Three Days by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

That’s how long she goes, in the flurry of victory, without feeling anything at all.

Dated 2 May, 1998 by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Severus Snape's last letter is not to anyone important.

Dust Underfoot by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

It seems rather tragic, that he will never see how golden he truly is, will never see himself as anything but Black. Written for Cuban Sombrero Gal as part of the Reviews Lounge Ficathon!

Kicking Down Castles by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

His dreams are too lowly to be castles in the air. Draco Malfoy and remedial Muggle Studies, the summer after the war.

to be young by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Because even when there's a war, even when the sky is falling and you're so much older than you are, you still find the time.

If Only by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

A young Albus Dumbledore wishes for all the wrong things.

Lessons by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Two men mourn on James and Lily's wedding day.

Chase This Light by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Draco Malfoy needs something extraordinary.

Songbirds and Silk by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

A man with a head injury is a poet indeed. Seamus Finnegan confesses love, accidentally.

Gone Grey by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

If you'll be color, I'll see nothing else.

Free If You Dare by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

She really is freedom and flash and dangerous reckless youth, and he loves her down to the tread on her tires. Sirius Black dares.

Kin and Broken Crystal by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

When Andromeda came to him the night before graduation, her eyes bright with excitement and rebellion and plans, Ted Tonks said no.

Life in Black and White by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

1977 is anything but black and white for Hestia Jones, apprentice Juriswitch. The first of the Death Eater trials commences in a world that doesn't yet know the meaning of Lord Voldemort's ascent.

Wonders by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Lily Potter wishes her love could do wonders.

Fiction and Hollywood Heartbreak by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

She cries over muggle fairytales, when she can't even cry at funerals any longer.

Halflife by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Where were you when your life was half over? Six stories, six days, six lives at the summit.

Halfhearted by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Patented Daydream Charms and spun-sugar realities...George Weasley and Katie Bell in St. Mungo's after the war.

Merry and Bright by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Twelve Christmases in wartime. Things might be broken, but they can still shine. Oneshots, various characters, pairings, and eras.

Falling Out by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

When it was gone she couldn’t even say she let it go because it was nothing so intentional as that. Drabble.

Twelve Grimmauld Place by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

It's a good house for lonely people.

A Gift Freely Given by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The world remembers a martyr, a painted icon with a golden halo. Lily Potter wasn’t that.

The Spare Princess by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Half-blood servant Walden Macnair has had a faulty prize thrown into his lap; the frail society daughter, Evangeline Prince. The courtship and marriage of a half-blood monster and the fragile, pureblood princess who wasn't good enough for anyone else.

Pride in the Fall by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Her edges were still sharp when they were broken and maybe it was a gift...Marlene McKinnon is a jack o'lantern. For the RL Halloween Challenge.

1000 by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

We build our own Heaven of a thousand little joys. A series of vignettes on the members of the first Order of the Phoenix. Four: Caradoc Dearborn

Magic by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

You're not young enough anymore to believe that all you need is love. A MuggleMagic marriage in the second person.

No Sense in Heaven by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Caradoc Dearborn was not a man who would dwell on dreams and dead possibility; "He loved you, Hestia, don't think he didn't." Oneshot.

Bluebell Burn by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The sky was brighter yesterday. MarleneMcKinnonxGideonPrewett

Must Be Genetic by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Five: No one really wondered why Toby Dursley's Potions marks took such a dramatic turn for the better after a detention in an abandoned dungeon. When she told Albus that the Angel of Potions sang to her, she was only half-joking. Next-gen, one-shots.

The Butterfly Path by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Marlene McKinnon comes to Gideon Prewett three times, but she's never the same, and he only loves the one he threw away. MATURE.

Quality of Mercy by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Marlene McKinnon nearly kills Bellatrix Lestrange one spring-bright April afternoon, and Sirius Black nearly lets her.

Golden Sutures by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The world is a great song, perfectly written, and it is no lament. Five things Dorcas Meadowes believes. Drabble.

Eight in the Morning by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The first fifteen minutes of a not-quite-ordinary morning in the Auror's Department for Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. "Really, what were ex-girlfriends and ex-Slytherins with itchy wand hands when there were monster children and pregnant wives at home?"

In Pieces by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Three conversations between Tom Riddle and Death. "I toss aside what is weak, it is not worthy of me."

Defy by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Sirius, Marlene, and the motorbike: defying death, gravity, and muggle traffic laws. After all, better to jump than to fall.

For Now by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The Phoenixes know nothing if not how to say goodbye. Seven farewells that were and weren't.

Finding Silver by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

There are a lot of silver linings to be had. Percy Weasley's trying to find his. PercyxAudrey

Unfortunate Reality by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The wizarding world has a hundred names for Sirius Black, all of them hissed, spat, sneered in disgust. A reflection on the treachery that saved the world. Drabble.

Between the Lines by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

There are many tales to be told between the golden threads of the Black Family tree. A series of one-shots: woe and tragedy, happy endings, and all that comes between in life.

I Ask Only This by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

My little dove,' she croons to her baby, 'it can be repaired.' Barty Crouch's mother picks up the pieces.

je regrette rien by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Seven times Peter Pettigrew's conscience nearly caught up with him.

In Ashes by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

December, 1981. The Order of the Phoenix adjourns.

Paper Love by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Gideon Prewett learns to let go.

Light As She Goes by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Not many will find her name on any memorial, not many will remember. She's just a nameless, anonymous casualty, but even in her last moments, Lisa Turpin can't regret.
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Cauterize by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

"Of course it's missing something vital. That's the point." Dennis Creevey takes up his brother's camera after the war.

In Dreams, We Live by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Twelve times Marlene McKinnon hid from the world, and one time it found her.

When the Free Summer Comes by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The empty spaces, the quiet where there should be voices are like scars, too, ugly rents of malformed healing, and they're more painful than the ones she wears inlaid in her flesh. Lavender Brown drabble.

1979 by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

It would have been a good year...12 months Fabian Prewett never lived.

Like January Rain by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

The new year falls and shatters at Dorcas’ feet with the arrival of Sirius Black on her doorstep. She falls and shatters, too, but only on the inside, and she closes her eyes so he can't see. Drabble.

Red Ink Remains by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

To the girl in the card shop in Ottery St. Catchpole, Fred Weasley was never anyone more than a nice young man who made her laugh one day, but even that's worth remembering.
Adam dreams, just for a moment, every time he dies.

Mourning Bride and Mulberry by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

They bury her two weeks shy of her twentyeighth birthday, and she doesn't look herself. Funeral flowers thread the air and it is only in death that Marlene McKinnon does not smell of ash. DARK ONESHOT.

Beyond Tears by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Her mind reels over the tenses, her son is past and there’s no present tense to be had for him but “Cedric Diggory is dead.” Samantha Diggory's grief is beyond tears.

Show Me Dragons by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Lavender Brown cries when she realizes she is no longer innocent enough to touch a unicorn. Victory comes at a price, and Lavender pays in ruined flesh and stolen goodbyes. Lavender BrownCharlie Weasley

Worth Saving by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

He's just about to leave, to go and fight and maybe not return, when he turns to look, just one more time, at the beautiful mess he'd made of his life. Kingsley Shacklebolt, before the Battle of Hogwarts, wonders: We're all human, aren't we?

A Good Way to Fall by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

How Alastor Moody came to use his flask, and six other drabbles on the man before MadEye.

Yew and the Sea by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

A witch cursed to always be abandoned by those she loves, a vengeful Sea, an errant young man, and a shipwrecked prince. A 'write your own fairytale' assignment for my Fairytales as Literature module.

To Loathe the Twilight Moon by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Nineteen years before Lily Potter died to save her son, Silvia Lupin tried. The short and tragic human life of Remus John Lupin, 1960 1962. Oneshot.

This Is My Family by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Without a plan is something Percy Weasley had rarely been until lately, but speechless is something he never was until Penny stumbled over the word 'pregnant' and immediately dissolved into tears. Set during DH, oneshot.

Stick Birds by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Penny wrote fairy tales with bespectacled knights who wielded pens and paperwork and formerstatueprincesses with proofreading skills beyond compare. Percy Weasley will write his Pennyprincess a happy ending if he has to pen it in his own blood. ONESHOT

What Bravery Is by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

We cannot all be brave in the same ways: A year under the Carrows for Lavender Brown of Gryffindor, Padma Patil of Ravenclaw, Susan Bones of Hufflepuff, and Daphne Greengrass of Slytherin. Eventual FourShot. [Chapter 4, Daphne Greengrass: Fair Lady]

Stars Fall by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

A post DH AU in three parts. We all craft our own happy endings. Even in the best of all possible worlds, romances decay and constellations fall from the sky, but Remus Lupin will pin them back up in a world that has already forgotten what he sacrificed.

A First and Last Christmas by Firelight by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

A small part of Molly that cannot weep any longer can only be glad that Frederick Fabian Weasley has finally met his namesake, and another part can only worry what they're getting up to. Sister story to White Satin For Mourning, ONESHOT.

To Be Haunted by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Jon and Mary Price live a life oddly free of curiosity, missing a piece of themselves they don't even remember. Twenty years before Hermione bewitched her parents, Dorcas Meadowes had the same idea.

Never Quite A Fairytale by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Living a fairytale would be easy if happy endings were free. Regulus Black will play the hero anyway, just this once. DH spoilers.

White Satin For Mourning by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

That Fabian Prewett and his brother died like heroes is little consolation to a girl who will never wear her wedding dress. How Fabian Prewett's watch came into Molly's possession and why she saved it for Harry. DH Spoilers.

One Last Lullaby by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

Andromeda sings one last lullaby to her daughter. DH spoilers.

The Final Form of Love by Lady Altair Stale Result (Last seen: )

We are saved by hope, faith, and love, but most of all by forgiveness. DH spoilers within