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[luinrina]

Title: Across the Pumpkin
Category: Marauder Era
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: None
Summary:

Everyone is on Christmas holidays, only Sirius and Lily are left at Hogwarts. And when one is locked out of the common room with someone else, what else to do than to talk?

[fg_weasley]

Title: Between the Hopefull and the Damned
Rating: 6th-7th years
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Link:Many is the bond between the hopefull and the damned.*
Summary:

Green is the colour of her kind.

“You’re home late. What have you been doing?”

You smile, the gesture speaking more than any words you will say. “A playful game, Rodolphus.” You pause, look to your husband for a moment before finishing, “Having a bit of fun toying with Lucius Malfoy.”

Quickness of the eye deceives the mind.

“And did you win this game, Bella?”

“Oh yes, I’ve won. I always win.”

Many is the bond between the hopefull and the damned.

Excerpt:

“Why isn’t your husband doing this, Bellatrix?”

You pause for a moment, let your breath tickle his lips and watch him shudder. You bring your eyes to meet his, a piercing gaze that you know he feels down to his bones. With slithering movements like a snake he cannot see or catch, your hand moves between the two of you. He gasps; his eyes widen and cloud over with lust and desire – lust and desire that is not for his wife, but for you instead. His eyes close as he falls into it and you smile in satisfaction.

Looking away, you move your lips close to his ear and hear him groan before you whisper, “Why isn’t your wife, Lucius?”

*lyric from Green Is The Colour by Pink Floyd

[luinrina]

Title: Divided
Category: Marauder Era
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: None
Summary:

Anne and Peter have been friends since they can remember. They saw themselves more as siblings than simply friends, promising each other to always stay together.

Can this promise be held, or will a years-long friendship break over the words uttered by a neutral force?

[Sainyn Swiftfoot]

Title: Secrets
Category: One Floo Over the Fwooper's Nest
Rating: 6th-7th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Summary:

She only now understands that a hospital holds secrets, a husband holds secrets, and yes, she would have to hold secrets-- this secret and every other one till her very last breath, not telling a soul.

[one-shot. Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy.]

This is Sainyn Swiftfoot of Hufflepuff house submitting for the Bookbasilisk summer challenge (Extra Credit: One Floo Over the Fwooper's Nest)

[luinrina]

Title: Whispers From Azkaban
Category: Gift of Gab (challenge entries) --> General
Rating: 3rd-5th Years
Warnings: None
Summary:

Azkaban, the place everyone fears – with good cause. Silence is omnipresent.
Yet, sometimes, whispers bring ease to the brooding mind:

A spark of hope in the everlasting darkness.

Title: Sage
Category: One Flew Over The Fwooper's Nest (challenge entries) --> Post-Hogwarts
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: Character Death
Summary:

Susan and Philippe Bones Gardien find a box with lots of letters below the floorboards of their living room and want to find out who wrote them. They discover a family tragedy while in the middle of a journey towards their own adventure: the arrival of their first child.

[ElectronicQuillster]

Title: The Fog Will Cast a Certain Shade
Rating: 6th-7th Years
Warnings: Character Death, DH Spoilers, Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations
Summary: Sequel to 'The Watch Unwinds Until It Stops.'
The Black brothers' lives continue to unfold in unexpected directions. For Regulus, his final year at Hogwarts will bring many difficult decisions about life, friends, family, love, and the war that is going on behind the scenes.
Link: Chapter Two: Something's Caught in the Bushes, Someone's Left us a Note

A few moments later, Alphard leans forward, resting his elbows on his knees. “I’m not wrong, am I? This is a family problem.”

Regulus doesn’t confirm or deny it.

[fg_weasley]

Title: Echoes of a Distant Time
Rating: 6th-7th years
Warnings: Abuse, Sexual Situations, Strong Profanity, Violence
Link: I am nothing more than an echo of my former self.
Summary:

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light*

For Rodolphus Lestrange, the past is but an echo of a fading memory.

Excerpt:

The sight has you laughing, your cackle ringing through the room, but it does not stop the Longbottoms. They do not even flinch, as though they do not notice you or I or any of us at all. It is as though we are not here. Even they are not here, not anymore.

When your laughter subsides, your eyes find mine, and your grin is wild and proud. I share your smile and reach for your hand. It almost feels like so many years ago, when it was you and I together, connected. I can feel it, that long forgotten, lost connection. So strong is it now that I almost do not even notice the entrance of new and unwanted wizards.

For I am lost in the sea of my past, a past I thought you had forgotten.

*lyrics from Echoes by Pink Floyd.

[luinrina]

Story: Shining Through Blackness
Chapter: Chapter Fifteen - Sentinel
Category: Historical
Rating: 6th-7th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Summary:

Isla was born into a well-known and respected family: the Blacks. She grew up with their traditions and was proud to be who she was – until she met someone who showed her that what she knew was not the only world.

Follow a young witch through her teenage years and discover how a traditional one will change and rebel against what she believed was the only truth.

[fg_weasley]

Title: Poppy Seeds
Chapter: Three - Withdrawal: Heavier Than Hell
Rating: 6th - 7th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Substance Abuse, Mild Profanity
Link: But the echo of her heroin faded with each passing minute.
Summary:

His drug of choice? Lily Evans.

Her drug of choice? Sirius Black.

It was enough to tease him, almost to make the need worse, but he needed more. He wasn’t thinking anymore; not about James, or about himself, or even about what he was about to do. Only that he wanted – needed – to do it. And when he looked up, finally turned his head, he could see in her eyes that fire. She needed it too.

And that was it. Suicide.

This was not a crush. This was not lust. And this most certainly was not love.

This was an agonizing, bone-crushing, physical addiction.

And what a sweet, slippery slope it was.

Excerpt:

He could feel the ghost of her drug racing through him, reminding him of what he was missing. He wanted it. He wanted her. Watching her, watching her skin, he wanted to reach out and touch her, let the drug engulf him again.

But that shoulder angel was growing stronger and louder, using any tools at its disposal. James’ hurt face haunted Sirius’ thoughts even as he sat there longing to touch Lily Evans.

But she was right there. Right in front of him, taunting him. The devil hissed in his ear a sweet whisper of encouragement.

[fg_weasley]

Title: Poppy Seeds
Chapter: Epilogue - Remission: A Beatutiful Natural Disaster
Rating: 6th - 7th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Substance Abuse, Mild Profanity
Link: "The question is - where do we go from here? The answer is - life."
Summary:

His drug of choice? Lily Evans.

Her drug of choice? Sirius Black.

It was enough to tease him, almost to make the need worse, but he needed more. He wasn’t thinking anymore; not about James, or about himself, or even about what he was about to do. Only that he wanted – needed – to do it. And when he looked up, finally turned his head, he could see in her eyes that fire. She needed it too.

And that was it. Suicide.

This was not a crush. This was not lust. And this most certainly was not love.

This was an agonizing, bone-crushing, physical addiction.

And what a sweet, slippery slope it was.

Excerpt:

Something fiery erupts inside her (his skin is everywhere, everywhere on hers, and it is a fire that races through her entire body in a delicious way as he touches her, loves her, f*cks her, claims her – makes them one again), but she can’t pin down one emotion. Lust, need, desire, arousal, love, jealousy, pain, burn, loss – all of them, all at once. Lily reaches out a hand to touch the one he is resting on the table, and at the contact his other hand stills and his body tenses. She feels the familiar pull for a fleeting moment before she moves her hand and it dies away.

So many words rush to be first out of her mouth that they all get lodged in her throat and nothing comes out at all. She opens her mouth, can’t decide which words to let leak through the dam, and closes it again. Her eyes flick away from Sirius to look out the window as the sun slips under the horizon, the sky a beautiful canvas of pink, purple, and orange. Closing her eyes, she commits the entire scene to her memory; the image of the most beautiful sunset as the backdrop on the scene of Lily Evans sitting with the most beautiful person.

Together, she and him, they are the most beautiful natural disaster.