Stories by jtav

Commander Shepard gets a look at the life he might have had, and Miranda gets a look at him.

Asami is an orphan. So is Mako. But some families are found and fear isn't the end.

Sarah Williams meets Commander Shepard at the Memorial Wall. He is both less and more than she expected. Past Shepard/Ash.

Asami and Mako want to visit. Korra doesn't want them to see an invalid. Another of Katara's patients provides perspective.

Asami's father died when she was six. Since taking over Future Industries, she's devoted herself to justice for the downtrodden. Making things more...equal. For Korra, it's love at first sight. A pity no one told her how this balance thing was supposed to work. Equalist!Asami AU.

"She didn't have to ask which children he meant. The students of Grissom Academy weren't the first she had sent to their deaths, nor the last. Just the ones that haunted her the most. It was the day she had realized how broken the universe was and how nothing could fix it."

AU. Hades won't make the same mistake. He won't lose Zelena.

Samantha knows she isn't Shepard's first love. Shep/Traynor, past Shep/Thane.

Asami lost her boyfriend and her company. Mako became the thing he hated most. But when a colonel with plans for a "pure" Earth Kingdom wants Asami to build a weapon with the potential to change the face of warfare, they might be the only ones who can save Gaoling.

Mako and Asami need a break.

As Korra battles the Colossus, she realizes what it means to be the Avatar.

"Carriage rides in the moonlight might be romantic, but they weren't the truth. He couldn't keep her safe, and she couldn't provide for his every material need. What was left when the story was over?" Mako and Asami's sixth-month anniversary offers both disappointment and a new beginning.

Shepard chooses Synthesis. Right?

Mako hasn't felt human since the fire.

Mako wonders if he'll ever fit into Asami's world. Asami doesn't care.

Asami isn't sure who she can trust. Mako would like it to be him.

Four years after an epidemic leaves them both widowed, Mako and Asami try to move on.

Mako isn't a hero. Masami but primarily a Mako character study.

A missing Future Industries employee leads Asami and Mako to a town Asami would rather forget-and a vicious pirate. They tell themselves they're too battered to be heroes, but sometimes the storybook figures are real. Or, Asami gets a chance to be Zorro, Mako gets one last adventure, and both get a second chance at love. Masami with incidental mentions of canon pairings.

Korra sits with Katara as she dies. Life, love and death tangle together for the Avatar.

Korra has Mako. That doesn't mean she wants to lose Asami. Korra/Asami friendship after Book 1.

"Sometimes it requires the kind of fight you can win with your glove. And sometimes it requires a fight with yourself."The United Republic wants to take Kuvira's bending and they want Asami's help.

Avatar Korra, age thirty-five.

Late nights and guilty consciences before Harmonic Convergence.

Asami is trapped in the Spirit World. The only way out is enligtenment.

Mako is falling back into love with Asami. But it would be foolish to make the same mistake again. Or, Mako and Asami try to get Tu his job back and Asami ponders dating after Korra.

A year after the battle with Zaheer, Asami is trapped in her grief. Mako helps.

Korra will try anything to heal, but summoning Asami to her side is a step too far. Until a spirit attack in a remote village leaves her no choice. In the stories, true love's kiss is enough. But this is no story.

"You're like the Fire Lord in that story. You know the one. A spirit curses the Fire Lord, makes him look like an owl-bear, banishes him, and declares he'll only return to normal if he can find a girl who loves him even when he looks like that. Asami is your sailor's daughter. You're going to use her."

Mild AU. A crash in the Si Wong Desert reunites Korra and Asami much sooner than planned. Sometimes healing others is the best way to heal yourself. Korrasami.

The day before Harmonic Convergence, Asami gives Korra new reason to fight. Or, in which Korra appreciates Asami's brain. Korrasami pre-slash.

Rowena Hawke visits Anders after her mother's death, Justice wants to change the world, and Anders tries to keep his mind intact.

Centuries after the Reaper War, a little girl hears the story of Matthias Shepard's and Miranda Lawson's reunion and farewell. Control ending.

Miranda licks her wounds after Sanctuary. Liara provides perspective.

Oleg Petrovsky is offered a chance to leave Cerberus by his old student. Unrequited Petrovsky/Miranda.

Commander Shepard has a few questions about the Lazarus Project. Maybe there's more to the man than Miranda's dossier says.

"And for the more romantic, she was the princess in the tower brought forth into the modern age, isolated and alone, waiting only for her prince to come. Somehow he doubted ft any of these groups knew or cared to know that she climbed trees." Oleg Petrovsky, meet Miranda Lawson.

When Miranda hits a brick wall with the Alliance, both she and Shepard are left wondering whether they really want a normal life.

The Shadow Broker did what she had to do.

Matt asks Miranda to marry him.

"Don't try to paint yourself as some kind of noble martyr." Matthias Shepard accepts the surrender of Oleg Petrovsky.

Months after being crippled on the Suicide Mission, Miranda returns to Omega to help her old mentor get the station under control. Petrovsky could be just what she needs and together they could do the impossible-change Omega.

"I taught you to obey a man who followed the very opposite of the ideals I taught you. I didn't serve humanity. I betrayed it." Oleg Petrovsky confronts his former student. Spoilers for Omega.

Christopher Shepard is a man who does what he has to for the mission, and Omega and what lies beyond just became his only hope of ending the war. But for Miranda, the battle is more personal: save the man who taught her what it was to serve humanity.

Alex has blown up more things in the lab than on the battlefield. But Miranda's plan to save him from indoctrination is risky, even by his standards. When a beautiful woman breaks into an Alliance facility to save your life, well how can a man refuse? Especially considering their unfinished business.

Miranda receives a nighttime visitor-and a proposition. EC Control ending.

Miranda leaned over her desk. "What if you could demystify the biggest black box of all? What if you could study these benevolent Reapers, discover how they think and what they can do? To know how to fight them if they ever stop being friendly?"

Thessia was not at all the intellectual paradise Miranda hoped for after leaving Earth. But she may find her equal in the most unlikely of places. And perhaps more than that.

Kaidan was supposed to keep an eye on Miranda. But that was before he was left with an empathic link to the crew. Now he and Miranda have the same goal: discover what the Crucible did to them.

Rachel has always been the hero the galaxy needed, but malfunctioning implants force her to place her life in the hands of Miranda Lawson once more. A Cerberus officer on an Alliance ship. What could possibly go wrong?

"You have a chance to find her, and she has a chance to save you." A flash of green light changed the galaxy forever. Matthias Shepard has a promise to keep. Miranda has a world to rebuild. Together, they might find a happy ending.

"Do me a favor? Keep an eye on Oriana for me?" Many people have died under Lawrence Shepard's command, but only one haunts him. All that remains is to honor her last wish. What he didn't bargain for was love. That and Miranda's return from the grave.

All Lawrence Shepard wants is for Miranda's ghost to leave him be and defeat Cerberus and the Reapers. But in a world where a corpse can be transformed back into a man and AIs can fall in love, the lines between living and dead can be blurry. ME3 spoilers

Sixteen-year-old Matthias Shepard only wants two things: to be a great artist and stay sane. Not to be a biotic superweapon. Fate-and Miranda Lawson-have other plans.

The Reaper War is fought on many fronts. Matthias Shepard fights to unite a fractured galaxy. Miranda Lawson works to bring Cerberus down from within. The path to happily ever after is hard-assuming it even exists.

Thirty years after the Reaper War, Miranda has it all: money, power and a beautiful daughter. She lacks one thing only: the ability to keep her past private. Liara/Miranda

Liara had always wanted to lose her virginity to someone who loved her-not to Miranda in a one night stand before the end of the world. Fate can be very strange.

Miranda is not accustomed to being stood up. Especially when the competition is a Keeper.

We believed Reaper technology wasn't magic and could be understood, that it was essential we not rest on our technological laurels. Now we're tasked with studying the Collector base. Nothing worth doing is easy or safe. But we can't afford failure.

Miranda's plan is simple: teach Liara how to survive as an information broker in exchange for her memories of Shepard. Facing her inner demons and her attraction to Liara are not part of that plan. Repost. Abandoned.

Liara and Miranda await test results that could change their future forever.

"This all she wants. This is all she can have." A small gift provokes great uncertainty.

Miranda has seen Kaidan exposed, raw and vulnerable. It's only fair he turns the tables.

Sequel to Confined. Miranda might be back on the Normandy, but the suicide mission cost her everything she once held dear. If she can't have happiness, she'll take pleasure. Now to convince Kaidan...

Kaidan is none too fond of the fact that Miranda Lawson has free reign to wander around the ship as she pleases. If only there were some way to keep her under control... Mild ME3 spoilers.

Commander Shepard shouldn't want Miranda Lawson, as she is eager to remind him. Dubcon, dark.

Miranda deals with the consequences of her relationship with Liara and her doubts about Cerberus. Sequel to Last Night of the World.

A botched surgery left Shepard's scars permanent. And the only woman who hasn't run screaming is the one who wanted to put a control chip in his head. Lovely. A series of short stories.

Miranda wishes she were helpless to save Shepard. This was worse. A post-Arrival vignette.

Miranda reminisces. Liara has an offer.

There's nothing Miranda Lawson hates more than the rogue agents who give Cerberus a bad name. But the divide isn't as sharp as she'd like to believe.

"I told you that it had once been customary to allow soldiers about to go into battle to spend the night with whoever they wished." Miranda prepares to face the Collectors. Liara provides the only comfort she can.

AU. Evey father wants the best for his child. Miranda's father simply has grander plans than most. Persistence of Memory universe.

The Lazarus Project presents infinite possibilities, particularly for its director.

Miranda's father considers his dynasty, his daughter, and the man in her life. Darkfic.

The assault on the Collector base is imminent. Miranda deals with her anxieties the only way she knows how.

Liara wrestles with her guilt at handing Shepard to Cerberus. She and Miranda discuss their next steps. Spoilers for Redemption.

Akuze, Chasca, Teltin. Tragedies all, but Cerberus had nothing to do with them. Miranda had nothing to do with them. Right?

Harry learns Luna knows something about Horcruxes, and her price for the information is that Harry keep in touch. He soon learns that not all enemies can be fought and even Luna has secrets.

An ambush by the Death Eaters leaves Hermione alone and injured in London. Percy takes her in out of guilt, and both find themselves entangled in the Order's resistance. Not all wars are fought on the battlefield. Reposted.

Harry wants to go to the Quidditch championship. Luna has other plans. Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood.

After Cedric's death, Viktor makes Hermione an offer.

No one humiliates Tom Marvolo Riddle. Ever.

The true story of the joint Christmas gift. Written for rs games.

Luna overhears the Trio making Horcrux hunting plans. She insists Harry keep in touch with those he's leaving behind and gives him a stone that will allow people to communicate in their dreams. She might just be the only person who can keep Harry sane.

Ten-year-old Ginny searches for a pet, but finds Neville Longbottom.

AU. Cedric and Teddy make a vow to reform the Centaur Liaison Office, but the price may be more than they can bear.

The Triwizard judges select the hostages for the second task.

The night before he is to break into Gringotts, Harry can’t sleep. Luna provides some unexpected comfort. Implied HPLL

Cedric Diggory has some very unusual assistance during the Triwizard Tournament. A series of vignettes. CDLL

Ginny grieves over Fred's death. Harry ponders their relationship. Is it only a good time he wants from her? Can he overcome his aversion to weepy females for her sake? More importantly, does he want to?

AU. "Most boys confine themselves to throwing a punch in these situations Your way is much more interesting." Harry loses his temper at Slughorn's party.

Oliver seems to be the only one who notices that all is still not well with Ginny Weasley. A disastrous Quidditch practice provides a chance to help.

How did Peter Pettigrew come to be in Gryffindor?

Harry looks into a Pensieve and discovers Luna was tortured during her stay at Malfoy Manor. He decides to make it up to her.