Stories by our dancing days

Seven Weasleys who weren't Sorted into Gryffindor, and one who wasn't Sorted at all. / next-gen collection. COMPLETE.

James always fought like he was running out of time. / James dies. But first, he has to watch the next day in the lives of his three best friends. It's a shame that his dead guides won't stay properly dead.

... because, for the love of Peeta, the Reaping Ball is an inanimate object, and some people just need to be told thus. / A drabble series to fanfiction.

"You've fallen into that slow-paced monotony of coffee in the mornings and waking up in the same bed with the same hands curled over your body like weeds. It is boring and stifling and one day you swear you will choke." Sirius, Lily and drowning in nicotine. / for hpfc.

"She swallowed every last drop of poison dripping from his lips. The poison sounded like cancer." They are explosive. / next gen collection.

He can tell you what orphans look like. And murderers. And soldiers. And mothers. But he won't. / the deaths of thirteen order members, and a study in scars.

it was always you, and him, and moons and stars and a wolf - and a dog - and dorms and curtains and murmurs and bandaging up wounds that will not - that will mark. always. / freeverse.

"She's drowning herself in amber Firewhiskey and tears and he's just another nail in her coffin. In this universe, Snow White doesn't wake up." Princesses don't always need saving, and princes aren't always willing to save them, anyway. / James, Lily, and stepping into the dark. for ella & hpfc.

"There are precisely three seconds between Remus murmuring I love you and the bullet hitting his chest." Remus, Sirius, and the five times that Muggle execution wasn't better at all. / wolfstar au. for sylvie.

"He predicts something about a train-crash girl and a trail of broken hearts, but then flits to Nargles and magic and daydreaming and Lily is glad he never speaks the truth." / Lily Potter has had them all, and she made their hearts go pop! one-shot. lilylunaeveryone.

/ you rise higher, higher, until you are immortal, engraved onto each other's souls like ink tattoos and heart break. / James, Sirius, and painting over scars. freeverse, for ella & hpfc.

Some nights, as they lie between sheets that have been white-washed and faded and hang too loosely, they realise that things like gods and angels don't exist - they are humans and they are fragile and they are flawed. / James, Sirius, and their fall from the heavens. for ella & hpfc.

He wasn't porcelain like poor little Daphne, but fragile and invincible in the way one is when their toes are balanced on the edge of the Astronomy Tower. "I'm sorry." / All Draco has is metal and shadows. au.

He leaves kisses like track marks, and paints you like a canvas, and still you can't bring yourself to care. / James, Narcissa, and living forever. freeverse.

You want to write a symphony about the way her eyelids flutter when she's dreaming. / Molly, Roxanne and waltzing alone. for allie & hpfc.

"Sometimes, you think it is something to do with halos and paintbrushes and the way she smiles when she's sad." All Lucy wants is immortality. / a next-gen one-shot.

"There is a boy. And he isn't just waiting for his reason to breathe; he is waiting for his oxygen." Merlin's story is not over yet. / An obscure re-telling of Albion's return.

Tick tock, tick tock. Time is running out fast, and ladies, gentlemen, we need to start the countdown. / poem collection. complete.

"My love pounds in my head, like a bullet through a drum. Have you ever heard a beat louder, love?" Lily, Scorpius, and catching falling stars. / freeverse, for kaia.

Albus, Scorpius, and learning that glass wings don't always hold you up. / for ella & hpfc.

For some reason, Remus, the talented, eccentric, heart-transplant patient, thinks he can save them. Lily. James. Peter. Sirius. Everyone. But fate's not finished with him yet, and your usual romance just won't cut it. / muggle au. won best adventure story in l&l's 2012 genre awards.

...And the punch line is for their ears only. / When Greg started yet another drugs bust, he expected the decomposing ears and infuriating detective, but not the war hero husband leaning against the kitchen counter. Johnlock AU.

"The machine stutters at him, words caught in the wires. Albus doesn't try to say anything at all." Albus, Nicolas, and falling in love too young (and too late). / edited. au, avec many an oscar wilde quote.

Narcissa, James, and trying to stand tall when the world is turning upside down. au. / drabble series.

"You aren't a heavenly angel (far from it, love) and yet when you jump from the rooftops, you still expect your wings to save you." Remus, Sirius and believing in fairytales. / freeverse.

(If you treat them like corpses, of course they will die.) - James, Dominique, and a devil's waltz. / au freeverse.

but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns to grow in a cemetery. / next-gen freeverse collection, for hpfc.

"Sometimes, Lily says, "Rosie, I don't want to die. It hurts to leave." But then she thinks, sometimes it hurts to become." Lily, Rose, and becoming their own. / for gamma.

"Five days. 120 hours. 7200 minutes. 432000 seconds. It's been 432000 seconds since they announced the end of the world, and I don't think I've moved from this window." Their days are numbered. / Remus, Sirius, and 432067 seconds left to live. for paula. [winner of the january fan-favourite awards and best overall angst story on hpfc.]

"Tell me you broke my spine so you could bind together all the pages of our book, so we wouldn't lose a word." Just tell me you love me. / Albus, Scorpius, and drawing stars on their wrists where the scars should be. winner of best tragedy story on hpfc.

"The leaves settled, leaving two girls holding hands outside a world they couldn't hope to understand." Lily, Roxanne, and being too young to fall, or fall in love. / for paulie.

"Darling, Rose, you aren't quite ready for your close-up - you're scared of what you'll find." Rose Weasley, Scorpius Malfoy, and living in the headlines. / freeverse, for chocolat kisses.

"And Ginny; poor little Ginny who stood up to all the men who tried to beat her down. She wears believer like a shroud around her shoulders." Their labels don't define them. / Harry, Ginny, and living in the shadows. au, for allie.

/it would be the perfect crime... if i stole your heart, and you stole mine./ Harry Potter, Charlie Weasley, and everybody in between. drabble collection.

"Some nights, Remus thinks of hospital beds and his mother's sobs and his father's careful, arrogant indifference. He thinks of childhood and playing hide and seek with the moon." Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and building up castles. / for sylvie.

"Neither of them are perfect, and neither of them pretend to be, but Justin's shy and Luna's hiding. They're never going to work, but they could." Justin, Luna, and dancing with the devil on their backs. / for maddie.

"Georgie boy, you won't ever be him, but did you ever really want to be? Fred's dead, after all, and darling, you've always thrived more down here on earth." Fred, George, and treading the line between not caring and caring too much. / For Zoe.

"She awoke to a crying child with a blood red scar, and a dead husband lying on their welcome mat." Lily Potter, Moonlight Sonata and picking up the pieces. / au, for PSdancer54 and hpfc.

He found the girl who didn't know she lost. / Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and spearmint toothpaste. freeverse, for jannice sace.

"Crowns don't always sparkle, love, as they rust and they crack and they get lost with time, because Albania is far and the heart is heavy, and weary eyes give up searching." Hermione, Ginny, and autumn nights. / For david noklevername.

"Each story is the same; she is Hermione and he is Ron, and they always die too young." / a reincarnation story. for Fire the Canon.

"Because it's always been Seamus and Dean, but now it's Seamus-and-Dean, joined forever and hanging on by their fingertips." / for ella.

"And you are a pseudo-prince, forgotten in the wake of another fairytale. But no matter; he was never going to be anything but the villain anyhow." Cedric Diggory, Barty Crouch Jr. and keeping the stars apart. / for paulie.

"Narcissa Malfoy, a doll with loose fittings and button eyes; a robot programmed badly." Narcissa, Lily, and the hearts of machines. / freeverse.

"And though they don't live happily ever after, they do live, after, and they're maybe even happy. And it's better than any other fairytale, because it's them." / a series of unrelated drabbles.

"Brace yourself, Freddie. We're about to start the freefall." / James, Fred, John Keats, and falling through the years. [winner of the taylor swift competition.]

Everyone else is in technicolour, while Remus and Sirius are still in black and white and grey. / The metaphorical death of Remus Lupin and his black-and-white world. [won best hurt/comfort story in l&l's 2012 genre awards.]

You are Juliet Capulet, sitting on your throne of gems and lies, and when he waltzes in, with his sword of ruby and heart of stone, who are you to say, "No?" / freeverse.

Harry Potter; defined by a scar and a certificate that reads orphan. / Character-death.

"You've tried so hard to follow the path of the angels that you've forgotten you don't have wings." / If Moriarty had tried a different approach. - Sherlock Holmes, James Moriarty and the fall. character-death.

"Because if one thing is wholly tragic, and beautiful, then it is the mirror at the back of that little shop in Diagon Alley. And its owner, of course." / One-shot on the deaths and lives of the Weasley twins.

You're Cinderella in your party dress; hair down, eyes burning, but you're searching for your nightgown, 'cause your feet hurt from dancing, baby, and don't you know it wasn't supposed to go like this? / freeverse.

You've got them twisted 'round your little finger, while your other fingers are curled around the trigger. / victoire freeverse collection.

"The world has gone mad, Harry. Or was it always like this, and only you noticed? I don't know." / Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy and running out of time. au.

The metal man forgot that his heart couldn't beat. / freeverse.

"Friends are the family you can choose for yourself." / The Marauders, and the families they never had.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the symphony of a lifetime, but wouldn't you like to listen a little longer?" / A different look at five of the most intricate characters in the series.

They gain so much and lose it all, and maybe that's what middle-aged means. / A series of drabbles, based around the idea of turning middle-aged.

Girls called Drew aren't content to wait in towers. / freeverse.

"Goodbye, Ethan," she murmurs, that fire still in her foolish eyes, a hard set to her jaw and a defiance in the shape of her stance. Katie is a fighter, and she doesn't even know it. / ethankatie.

"Rose, dear, your name's in lights; but it's our name too." / freeverse collection.

In this story, there's no adventure, no dashing hero, but there is love. And maybe that's an adventure in itself. / JPLE, RLSB, MMPP. for the hpfc 'rashamon' challenge.

"Tragic men can't stand happy endings." A tale of four young men and one old mirror. / freeverse.

Don't you know that Alice was mad? / RemusSirius drabble.

As she stands amongst dust and debris and bodies and blood, Minerva McGonagall reflects on the wars that brought them there. / Drabble.

Darling, honey, you were meant to live forever, and ever, and don't you know that she's just another girl who doesn't belong in Neverland? / unrequited lilyjames, wendypeter drabble.

"We could so easily be clichéd, you know," James said, when they were both lying on their too-small double bed, sharing a cigarette and staring up at the smoke-stained ceiling. The night outside was dark, and so was the world, but at that moment, neither of them cared. / dark!lily/dark!james. au.

"Narcissa, dear, don't you realise that stars go out with a bang, and flowers just... wilt." / freeverse.

He was Harry Potter, a boy who, once upon a time, played hero, and entered the footnotes of history. / drabble.

"And Remus Lupin - well, he just loved her." / 20 things you never knew about Nymphadora Tonks.

"Being screwed over by fate and destiny and other crappy deities who decide you need a little bit of happiness now and again; that is your life in a nutshell." / remussirius freeverse.

Re-mus Lu-pin. Noun. A creature or being who knows only hate or suffering. Synonyms: ghost, puppet, werewolf, corpse... Marauder. / Remus and walking the line.

"Well; you're never going to fly if you don't jump first." / A letter to say, 'Just in case'.

They say stars that shine twice as bright burn half as long, but Draco isn't going to give up just yet. / Four drabbles on the death of Draco Malfoy.

"There's treatments and medicines and white rooms and doctors, sure, but there's no cure. Insanity's curious like that." / Percy Jackson is slowly going insane, and all Annabeth can do is watch.

Chained forever to hope and darkened walls; you are bound for eternity. But not to each other. / Squeacher like no other. freeverse.

The musings of a boy chained to a wall. Character study.

They are brothers until the day they die, side by side, because not even their sister, Molly, could imagine a fate where one Prewett brother would be without the other. / Character drabble.

"They are, they are, children in love. This is their disorder." / Even the Marauders aren't perfect. T for triggers and/or sensitive topics.

And though the weight is heavy on your heart, and victory tastes more like tears than lipgloss, you figure it doesn't get better than this. freeverse.

Molly Weasley is a blank canvas and, well, Victoire's an artist. / freeverse.

"You're caught in the ring, but what boy doesn't want to join the circus?" / A look at five of the most intricate characters in the series.

Only the good die young, but the best live forever, Tommy boy. / freeverse.

/"But the war-" a trail of kisses, a dance of fingertips, "-is not yet-" a meeting of tongues, a joining of hands, "-won." / For m&mwp. Guaranteed to be the oddest thing you read today.

Glass slippers cut your feet, darling, and mirrors don't talk back. They aren't shatterproof, either. / freeverse, for m&mwp.

/When Neville awoke, alone again, a Muggle post-it note had been stuck to his forehead. It read, 'The guilt trip's not working, Professor. I like sleeping down here.'/ for m&mwp.

Five times Sirius Black made the headlines.

"Why won't - why won't - why won't you kiss me?" / lilyteddy.

"Destiny," she scoffs, "a petty idea. I never particularly cared for it. Destiny is all for heroes and princesses; too unreal. Fate, on the other hand, is in reference to a whole matter of things. Villains, for one thing. The losers, for another." / au.

Because, in a way, all Potters are destined for greatness; Slytherin, or not. / au.

Also known as the alphabet according to Harry J. Potter, Ronald B. Weasley and Hermione J. Granger. To be read with caution, and an emergency portkey. Preferably not in the shape of a cup.

Did you want a boy, like me; a normal boy, with ADHD and undone shoelaces and a bad math grade? Did you ever just want Percy Jackson?

And oh, tick tock, another white pawn falls - snapped in half, scattered across the board like pieces of broken glass. She is swept away and forgotten, for the most part. That is how the game is played.

It will be eight months, three days, seven hours and roughly ten minutes before they see each other again; they don't know that yet. So Seamus begs Dean not to leave. / Dean, Seamus, and fighting a war too young.

Lily Evans has a habit of losing things, but they always have a way of coming back to her in the end. / lilyjamesdrabble.

"Apparently you hated flying but fell in love with a Quidditch player, and were scared of heights, but still took Astronomy. Because you were always a hero, Mrs Potter." / Luna Lovegood thinks of her hero.

Darling; I think your throne's been overturned. / daphneharry poem.

Sweetheart, sometimes dreams are supposed to stay between the pages. / freeverse.

"There were times when he would bloody himself, tear himself apart in hatred for her. Now, he curls up in the corner and whimpers." / Some nights, the moon regrets.

You can break the pinky, darlin', but you can't break the promise; that's a given. / freeverse.

In the Afterlife, Draco returns to the Room of Hidden Things, where he belongs, and waits for someone to find him.

She walks away from the crime scene in her ruby high heels, and the red bed sheets bid her goodnight, and whisper, "Down with the bloody red queen." / freeverse.

"It is hours later, after nobody comes to find her, when Madam Pince gently - shockingly - removes the book from Lily's loose fingertips and whispers in her ear for her to go to her dormitory now. Lily nods, and walks away, and Madam Pince feels a hint of regret, because children should be allowed to mourn." / Lily Evans reflects.

"Either you'll put me into Slytherin, or I'll turn you into a common sock!" / Six-parter. The sorting of the Marauders, plus two.

Children are not born evil, and once upon a time, the Black sisters were exactly that; children.

They told her she was lovely Fleur, charming Fleur, beautiful Fleur, darling Fleur - what if she didn't want to be? What if she wanted to just be Fleur? / billfleur.

Then, last but not least, comes the final brigade, hearts ablaze and eyes on fire, backing out of the trenches to face No Man's Land where the coffin lays. / next-gen freeverse.

Are they so different, really? / Poem.

Follow your lines to the letter - (Critics hate improvisation.) / freeverse.

She could've been the angel and people would whisper about her, saying, "That's the girl who saved Severus Snape." / freeverse.

"She loved her cold, hard beauty, all angles and smirks and hair as wild and as black as her heart. She never wished for Dromeda's sweet, brown eyes or Cissy's princess-blonde hair. Not Bella; she was the belladonna, and she liked it that way." / 20 things you never knew about Bellatrix Lestrange.

"The mirror breaks and you find that your blood isn't as blue as the people at school led you to believe. Huh." / freeverse.

"Thing is, the king of hearts can't shine quite so bright if all you have is diamonds." / Poker isn't a game for the faint-hearted. freeverse.

"The first time he performed an Unforgivable, he threw up all over Andy's shoes." / 20 things you never knew about Sirius Black.

"He'll go back to being Remus Lupin - tiptoeing around the girl he used to love." / remuslily, lilyjames freeverse.

Lily Potter takes a gamble, to remain forever twenty-one. / Drabble based on motherhood.

The day before his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter was captured from the suburbs of Surrey, England, and now, with the help of his "superhero" friends, he has to find the nerve to escape. And things tend to explode when Harry gets brave. / au. on hiatus.

"Bellatrix decided that, as she couldn't use magic, their father's wand was good enough to poke through her sister's eye. Not in. Through." / 20 things you never knew about Andromeda Tonks.

"She had been a Ravenclaw, did you know?" / Revenge is a funny thing.

The young heroes of the world have to grow up some day. / Percy, Annabeth and fighting the tide.

He is Icarus; he will fly. / remustonks drabble.

You think you'd make a lovely corpse, if you died young enough. / twisted drewpiper freeverse.

Obsessive love is still love, after all. / Seven pairings. Seven endings. One type of love.

All three of them were insane, off their heads, mad. But Remus always said that all the best people are.

Bethany Granger almost wished that she could have a Jean, or an Emma, or a Lucy, rather than her Hermione. Almost.

The posters around the school fade slightly. They crinkle at the edges, curl up at the corners. Yellow with age and negligence. "Has anyone seen Regulus Black?" / freeverse.

In another life, perhaps they might've won. / A what-if story.

In some obscure way, Alice Longbottom attempts to figure it out. / alicefrank, hints of alicemadhatter. drabble.

for you and I are past our dancing days. / drabble collection.

"Despite what he claims later, Sirius does not leave in a flash of fury and fireworks as his personality suggests." / Different snapshots from the life of Sirius Black.

Their relationship is one of Muggle cigarettes and obsession. / rodolphusbellatrix.

James was dead. / Drabble.

It's not real love; just a silly little pretend thing that people claim to be true. It isn't. Honest. / jamesnarcissa.

"Narcissa used to want to be a Muggle princess, like the ones in the fairytales Andy secretly read to her. Druella broke her tiara when she was six." / 20 things you never knew about Narcissa Malfoy.

Sometimes she cries, for those who die in her walls. / drabble.

Why Hogwarts parents' evenings were scrapped, why Minerva McGonagall was eternally grateful, and exactly why no one since has dared to asked her what the point of Transfiguration is.

When Patience Pettigrew received a finger - just that, a finger - in return for her son's life, she did not cry.

Did it make her less of a mother if she, in all her glory, lived? / freeverse.

Because children aren't born evil; cowards don't play at playgrounds and sinners don't buy lollipops. You don't get on the express train outta Hell to be bought by the Devil. / freeverse.

It was quite funny how Albus was always the favourite, and yet they cried harder at James' funeral than they would've done at his. / The five deaths of the Potters.

Exactly how Delilah Finnigan told her husband she was a witch, and exactly how Michael Finnigan took it.

Rose and Scorpius bring in the new year with fireworks, engagements to Hugo, thinking, stargazing and, of course, kisses. / when 2011 comes to a close.

"You know, Prongs, your kid hasn't turned out half bad." ... "Why thanks, Padfoot. I'd say the same about yours, but even if you had one, all the inbreeding would've done a number on the blighter and the words just wouldn't have been heartfelt." / The Marauders meet again.

"Mr Black, this is supposed to be an un-biased, just commentary." ... "If you wanted that, Minnie, you should have hired a Hufflepuff."

He meets her on a train to Quebec, of all places. "I'm not a hero," she tells him with a wave of her hand. "Simply a little bit heroic." / Luna, Rolf, and the beginning.

"They're children, Albus," she says wearily, sitting down opposite him. "What were you thinking?"/ Emmeline Vance reflects.

They pretended that Sirius didn't suspect Remus and that Remus didn't suspect Sirius. They pretended that they hadn't started to forget what Peter looked like, and they pretended that James wasn't starting to drown his troubles in the bottom of a glass too big to be called a shot. / The short life of Lily Potter.

But right now, the Death Eaters don't care what her smile looks like. They don't care if she's brave. / The death and life of Parvati Patil.

You see only three perfect purebloods in formal robes, and you don't think for a second that they will all rebel, one day, in the name of love.

"The faded envelope said simply, Sirius." / A letter from Regulus, in remembrance of his brave, invincible Gryffindor dork of a brother.

Live long, Harry. It's more than your parents got.

"You look so much like him, you know." "That's not an answer, Dad." "To what, Fred?" Me. / Fred, George, and the art of remembering,

A story of blushing Professors and young love. / lilyjames.

It turned out better than expected, in the end. The Sorting Hat had accepted that. / Who said you belong to only one house?

"I want you to remember the trivial things that made our dead special. I want you to remember their quirks, and their faults, and everything that made the men, women and children who died here today memorable." / au.

Harry said, "Here's my life - take it or leave it." And they took it; they took it all, because they couldn't let him live knowing there was a better world out there for him, with a change of a name and transfiguration spell. He was supposed to be their hero. / au.

What is in a name? / Neville and realising that not being the Boy Who Lived is a god-send in the end.

A re-imagining of Lavender Brown. / Drabble.

He had to make sure she was dead. / Dark!Gale. Re-done.

Sequel to the 27th Games. The victor has been chosen, the chess Game is over. At least, that's what they all thought. Now, watch her fly as those around her fall. Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the show. / *Novel - COMPLETE*

Maybe, one day, she would speak, and he would speak words that mattered.

"She would have been good with pepper." Once upon a time, somebody, somewhere, mentioned a cannibal from District 6 - Titus. And he doesn't want to lose. / T for mentions of cannibalism.

The 27th Hunger Games are over, the victor has been chosen. Now, he has to deal with the loss of his fellow pawns. Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the show. *Novel- COMPLETE*