Stories by Lirazel

Malcolm Reynolds is a fan of all seven.

Can you tell me, is this love that I'm seeing? - One by one, the people in Buffy and Spike's lives try to add up the obvious. - Buffy/Spike

Being good is harder than she thought it would be. Elle/Adam

Three girls Dean Winchester will never understand: Lyla Garrity, River Tam, Cordelia Chase. xovers with Friday Night Lights, Firefly, and Angel.

Molly and Micah, before and after. futurefic

He's the perfect toy. [ElleAdam]

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Dean Winchester knows the power of blood. [Dean and Lenore and Bloodlust]

“No matter what he does, no matter how many years pass, no matter how the world changes, he cannot escape them.” Remus Lupin and the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black

There will be no scar this time. [SamSarah]

The one time Dean’s not on watch, and all hell breaks loose. [preseries, Deancentric]

Because scars don’t disappear just because darkness is defeated. [RHr postDH oneshot]

“Seemed like the thing to do,” he says, because he knows how to die. He’s had practice. [Five times Malcolm Reynolds died.] [preseries to postBDM]

You think of the one thing you never learned, not really, though you’d thought the lesson mastered long ago. [Hermione, Ron, and all the things left unsaid] [HBP]

“It is as though the triangle has collapsed, and without him, they do not know how to relate to each other.” RHr angsty oneshot

Companion. The Alliance. The Black. Scars. The words mean completely different things to each of them. MalInara oneshot

“Being who he was, it really wasn’t a decision at all.” A Percy oneshot

“Magic had a thousand flavors, a thousand hues, but none could give him peace.” Harry, post7th year oneshot

“And this is your life, the only one you’ve ever known, the only one you could imagine, the only one you would ever want.” Future fic, oneshot.

“There isn’t any music.” Oneshot, Mal’s POV, preRayne

“The cure for anything is saltwater—sweat, tears or the sea.” – Isak Dinesea

“Everyone is a color, you know, every single person. It’s a scientific fact.” Character sketch collection featuring just about everyone.

“There are scars, of course, but no one else notices.” Ginny Weasley deals with the aftermath of the Chamber. PostCoS oneshot

Andromeda and her daughter navigate their way through bloodstains and transformations.

For him, magic was comfort. For her, it was mystery. Now it is tainted and all they have is each other. BillFleur oneshot

“Stars aren’t stars until there’s nothing between you and them.” River oneshot set during Bushwacked.

Sirius and Nymphadora and 12 Grimmuald Street. You can never really escape your cages. OotP oneshot.

Why would she decide to attack Jayne out of the blue one day? River has her reasons, of course, of which reason knows not. Ariel oneshot.

“For the first time in her life, she feels like a whore.” Inara oneshot, postOiS, preBDM. MalInara implied

“The dinosaurs have been living under her bed for some time now.” Zoë finds a way to heal. PostBDM oneshot

“Sometimes at night, she swears she hears her whispering.” Kaylee oneshot, postBDM.

This is like a hotel room, where you live out of your suitcase, knowing in a few days you’ll get to go home. Oneshot.

“Somehow you all always knew that you would end up back here.” PostHogwarts oneshot RHr, HG

“Dragons are fire and color and barelycontained power and ancientness and something else he can never put into words.” Charlie oneshot

“It is about the time that you finish washing the last dish that you realize that you can hear the clock ticking.” Molly alone in the Burrow. Oneshot.

If we could only see ourselves as others see us and then add up all the evidence. RHr oneshot, postHBP

“Together they are too much knowledge, all the same memories, almost completely Black as they never are with anyone else.” Sirius and Andromeda, the night before he runs away.

“There is no day anymore.” The Order fights on, searching for hope anywhere it may be found. postHBP vignette

The rest of the seventh year Gryffindors have their own battles to fight. A series of very short postHBP vignette/character sketches

She’s found that she can do nothing by halves. postHBP oneshot, RHr.

Life is a multiplicity now, or so it seems. postHBP Trio vignette.

Do you feel seventeen? the hero asks. I don’t feel seventeen, the princess says. Well, me neither, the knight allows. They have always been who they are. PostHBP oneshot.

When all you can remember is cold and weariness and fear, and you have no idea where you're going, all barriers seem insignificant. RHr oneshot.