Stories by Ieyre

Christmas 1979—danger, secrets, lies and their shared history loom large over the Blacks' first Yuletide season as a reunited family. While life as a fugitive proves bleaker—and more boring—than Regulus could have imagined, a botched espionage mission at Malfoy Manor draws Sirius deeper into the Black family web. [Sequel to 'In the Black']

December, 1966. After a long time abroad, Alphard Black returns to Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place for the dreaded annual Black Family Christmas party, and finds an unlikely kindred spirit in his seven-year-old nephew—in whom he already sees a spark needed to keep the family fire burning.

Regulus survives the cave and goes to his older brother for help. He strikes a deal with Dumbledore: the Horcrux in exchange for his family's protection. Sirius, meanwhile, is faced with his toughest mission yet: managing his estranged parents, who find they like having both their sons back and are prepared to use all their cunning to make this temporary family reunion permanent.

A dying Orion Black stumbles upon his rebellious older son in St. Mungo's, nursing injuries sustained in his work for the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius is the last person he thought would have to tell his father his two sons are fighting on opposite sides of a war.

He might've been the single greatest disappointment of her teaching career—but she could never sit idly by in the face of wasted potential. Six conversations between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black, 1976-1996.

AU of 3A. Operation: Save Henry takes a darker and stranger turn when Rumplestiltskin's mother stakes a claim in the complex custody battle over her great-grandson. Dark Family drama, Swanfire, Charmingstiltskin family shenanigans all around!

When Palpatine moves Empire Day to Naboo, Darth Vader is forced to confront a past he thought better buried. Admiral Piett becomes the reluctant confidante of the Emperor, caught in the middle of a deadly Sith cat-and-mouse mind game. Meanwhile, Luke returns to his mother's home world to pay his respects, unaware of the grave danger he is in. [Sequel to 'In Loco Pirates']

A down-on-his-luck Hondo Ohnaka manages to capture the unicorn of all bounties-Luke Skywalker, which sends Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith, on a painfully familiar trip to the planet Florrum to collect his prize. The failed negotiations leave Vader in the awkward position of being stuck in a besieged bunker with his son and a pirate who tells too many 'amusing' Clone Wars stories.

In the back of his mind, The Dark One can't shake off the feeling that Henry sees more than he should, but with the boy taking such a keen interest in his past and forging a bond with his grandfather in particular...well, it's hard for him to say 'no', isn't it? Rumple and Pan!Henry, in between 309 and 310, parental love in its most loving and most toxic dysfunctional explored.

[When the king is at the center of the board, one must draw the rook into play to reduce his vulnerability.] Peter Pan goes to see how his old friend Rumplestiltskin is doing after the squid ink Neal used wears off for them both. Coda to "Nasty Habits," Angsty!Gold and Manipulative!WayTooPersonal!Pan, mentions of Belle and Baelfire.

One of the first things that Baelfire learned from Peter Pan was that you never tried to join his games after they began. Pan comes to see a captured Neal, and hear out his attempts to talk his way into tagging "in." Written largely before 3X04 aired, a now AU take on Pan and Neal's first meeting in the Neverland of present day.

On the final voyage of his life, nothing astounds Gold more than how easy it is to converse with his traveling companions. Takes place aboard the Jolly Roger during the trip to Neverland, Rumplestiltskin shares an important conversation about the past with his five companions. [Four: Snow] She never thought there was something it would be easier to talk about with Gold than David.

As the world ends, Rumplestiltskin watches with the detached circumspection of a man who has lost everything. He was nothing and he will return to nothing, and he has no one to blame for it but himself-not even Fate. 2x22, Gold's thoughts upon learning of his son's fate. Major angst.

Belle and Baelfire both get sucked through the bean hole portal into an unknown land. With only desolate wasteland stretching for miles around they are left with nothing to do but have a much needed chat about the man they both, sometimes against their better judgement, love. AU, Written pre-2x21.

Gold came for his son but stayed for the scotch...and to hear about his son. Emma and Mr. Gold have a late night chat in Mary Margaret's apartment about his love life, her magic and fate in general, and play a game she and Neal made up when they were on the road. Emma/Gold friend-mentorship, Bae/Emma/Rumple awkwardness.

I'm going to marry you." He was just stating a fact that he knew to be true, and Padme contemplates obliquely what that means, years later. Darker A/P drabble, Inspired by TPM novelization.

The Dark Lord of the Sith contemplates what sets Wrenga Jixton apart--and why he keeps him around. Vader-introspection with a twist.

“Nothing has changed between us, Ursa…” A bereft mother and wife is captured and returned to her home, the palace of the Fire Nation, on her husband's wish. But to what purpose...? PostDOBS, Ursai.