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Author has written 88 stories for Harry Potter, X-Men: The Movie, Sailor Moon, Record of Lodoss War, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, StarTrek: Deep Space Nine, Naruto, and Game of Thrones.

Hello and welcome. I write stories. It's lots of fun.

I love snippets, and I tend to lean toward brief glimpses into exhilarating but quiet, sometimes ugly, examples of human nature. Characters. It's all about the characters.

I check for reviews at unhealthy intervals. Please help me stop.

Bonus points if you can pick out which pieces I write while drunk. Heads-up, it will be most of them. Thanks for reading, and please enjoy.


Credit for my "Interlocking" cover photo goes to foleypdx. Many thanks for the permission to use it. I am in love with her other Krem/Harding pieces. Go see her other awesome stuff here.

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My Final Failure by SteveGarbage reviews
"How many times have I tried? The past cannot be undone. All that I fought for, all that I betrayed, and what have I wrought?" - A father who cannot let go. A story of the failures of Gereon Alexius.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,578 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/1/2015 - Dorian, Trevelyan, Felix - Complete
These Old Bones by Hahren Hatana reviews
"She still thinks he is a Good Boy. She still loves him, even though his joints ache and cause him pain. She still loves him, even though his ears do not hear like they used to, and even though he cannot run as long or as far. She still loves him, even though he is old and weary." An exploration of coping with old age and mortality from the perspective of Kael, Meran's Mabari.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Family - Chapters: 4 - Words: 10,322 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 39 - Follows: 15 - Updated: 2/20/2015 - Published: 1/25/2015 - Zevran A., Mahariel, OC - Complete
White Blank Page by LoquaciousQuark reviews
Anders stumbles across Hawke and Fenris in a private moment and confronts some unwelcome truths. Justice is no help at all. Hawke/Fenris, complete.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,421 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 106 - Follows: 4 - Published: 2/13/2012 - [Fenris, Hawke] Anders - Complete
Lacrimosa by LoquaciousQuark reviews
This is how it ends: quietly, rain-soaked, and without glory. Warning: Character death. Hawke/Fenris, complete.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,060 - Reviews: 61 - Favs: 122 - Follows: 14 - Published: 12/7/2011 - [Fenris, Hawke] - Complete
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A Violence Done Most Kindly reviews
"There is an old sort of magic to sacrifice, after all." - Jon and Sansa. Stark is a house of many winters.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 4 - Words: 22,073 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 45 - Follows: 66 - Updated: 11/9/2019 - Published: 10/24/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S., Arya S., Bran S.
Bruises reviews
"This frantic haze will lift one day, and they will part – perhaps slowly, perhaps with waning affection. Like a bruise, the stain of their lust will fade until her flesh is free of him entirely. Like he'd never been there at all." - Jon and Sansa. They carry the ache with them.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,925 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 27 - Follows: 10 - Published: 8/23/2019 - Brienne of Tarth, Jon S., Sansa S., Bran S. - Complete
What Grows in Winter reviews
"There are too many years ahead to think of the years before." - Jon and Sansa. Through the years of a harsh winter, they tend their love.
Game of Thrones - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,244 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 48 - Follows: 15 - Published: 7/30/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
Ghosts in Our Bed reviews
"They will take their time. They will learn to wean the frost from their bones." - Jon and Sansa. She comes to his bed one night and somehow never leaves.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,092 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 88 - Follows: 17 - Published: 7/8/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
Wool and Tallow reviews
"She has always been his lady sister, even when she wasn't, and he can never want for more. Bastards learn early to bury their desires, and he is – he well and truly is a bastard, because – blood or not – only bastards could crave like this. Could love like this." - Jon and Sansa, Season 8 AU. After the Battle of Winterfell, the mending begins in earnest.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 16,947 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 96 - Follows: 60 - Updated: 6/19/2019 - Published: 5/31/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S., Arya S., Bran S. - Complete
To Exhale reviews
He looks at her one last time and – and oh – she would walk with him in that godswood, she would cloak him night after night, she would swear her affection into his skin and drink his moans. She would hold him to her beneath a wolf's moon and make him a Stark – make him hers. (Except he already is – and this, perhaps, is the cruelest truth of all.) - Jon/Sansa. To love, to lose.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,146 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 29 - Follows: 9 - Published: 5/8/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S., Arya S., Bran S. - Complete
Pelt of Furs reviews
"At some point, it all becomes blurred. This line between them, this world around them, this war raging through them. At some point, it just whittles down to his chest breathing against hers, his fingers along her skin, her mouth at his ear. 'I would wait for you, Jon, if you asked me to.' And it's the truest thing she's ever known." - Jon and Sansa. What they will never say.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,128 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 40 - Follows: 17 - Published: 5/3/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
At the Start (At the End) reviews
'Why did you come here tonight, Jon' Maybe it was pointless to come in the first place. Maybe nothing changes. (Maybe everything changes.) - Jon and Sansa. What it means to remember.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,746 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 53 - Follows: 19 - Published: 4/23/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
Brine on the Tongue reviews
They pause, afternoon light shifting in through her window like an accusation – a slant of clarity against their panting forms. "Then leave." (He doesn't.) - Jon and Sansa. What breeds in a house of wolves.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,471 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 47 - Follows: 22 - Published: 4/17/2019 - Daenerys T., Jon S., Sansa S., Arya S. - Complete
The Warmth of Wolves reviews
"He should have known something was wrong when Ghost whined at her feet, his nose nuzzling into her abdomen. Castle Black sees its first miscarriage, and so does Jon." - Jon and Sansa. When Ramsay leaves Sansa with more than just scars and Jon finds something he thought he lost.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,887 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 83 - Follows: 32 - Published: 4/15/2019 - Brienne of Tarth, Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
Dark in Bloom reviews
"His gravity wavers, the axis of his world tilted to the measure of her lips." - Jon and Sansa. The stain of desire bleeds slowly between them.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,570 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 54 - Follows: 19 - Published: 4/2/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
The Dread of Winter reviews
"Jon's chest heaves, once – long and slow – like he's trying to reign in something more than just his breath. 'Sansa.' She steps toward him once more." - Jon and Sansa. When truth has its day.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,697 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 35 - Follows: 11 - Published: 3/25/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S. - Complete
Crook and Hollow reviews
"In truth, they were Summer children once – Jon and Sansa. But not all those touched by cold fly South for the Winter." - Jon and Sansa. When the white winds blow.
Game of Thrones - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,213 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 33 - Follows: 10 - Published: 2/21/2019 - Jon S., Sansa S., Arya S. - Complete
Rocks and Shoals reviews
"Some people have always given just a little too much than was wise. Looking at Kolyat now, Oriana figured he knew that, too. So yeah, anger like that was familiar. Anger like that reminded you how utterly, stupidly mortal it all was." - In a post-war galaxy, Kolyat and Oriana found each other when they went looking for themselves.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 9 - Words: 52,717 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 16 - Updated: 2/14/2019 - Published: 7/3/2016 - Oriana L., Kolyat K., A. Bailey, OC
Moiety reviews
"The harsh line of her back is like a scream." - 100 word drabbles. Wide range of characters, pairings, genres.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 50 - Words: 5,901 - Reviews: 78 - Favs: 20 - Follows: 21 - Updated: 2/8/2019 - Published: 8/30/2015
Midnight, in C Minor reviews
At the dark hour, the world resets - but some things stay constant. [Sasuhina drabble series.]
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 8 - Words: 4,025 - Reviews: 106 - Favs: 107 - Follows: 93 - Updated: 2/8/2019 - Published: 9/5/2018 - Sasuke U., Hinata H.
Smokescreen reviews
"It means dust collecting on kunais that should never be given to rust, and a flak jacket forgotten in the bottom drawer, and a wife (wife, he thinks these days, because how could she not be?) who will one day lose all remembrance of why such things are important." - Yamanaka Ino and Nara Shikamaru. She is losing her mind while he is losing her.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 17,514 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 58 - Follows: 26 - Updated: 1/21/2019 - Published: 12/4/2018 - Sakura H., Ino Y., Shikamaru N., Chōji A. - Complete
Love Goes (Like This) reviews
"Sasuke is looking at her father, and then he is bowing, the line of his back like the angle of a kunai (one she is too dutiful to dodge), and she is reminded that this is not a wedding." - Hyuuga Hinata and Uchiha Sasuke. From first to last.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,479 - Reviews: 69 - Favs: 271 - Follows: 60 - Published: 8/8/2018 - Sasuke U., Hinata H. - Complete
Cenozoic reviews
"He pants against her lips, the space between them like a chasm and he reminds himself – this is not how it's supposed to happen." - Hatake Kakashi and Yuuhi Kurenai. The dawn of an era.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,459 - Reviews: 14 - Favs: 45 - Follows: 14 - Published: 8/2/2018 - Kakashi H., Kurenai Y., Mirai S. - Complete
The Scent of Snow reviews
"You will not join her," he breathes decidedly in the space between them. The space that is slowly closing. This is him not pretending anymore." - Hyuuga Hinata and Uchiha Sasuke. Just outside their windowsill, heartbreak still hangs heavy.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,851 - Reviews: 27 - Favs: 111 - Follows: 34 - Published: 6/24/2018 - Sasuke U., Hinata H. - Complete
Carrion reviews
"They were all lost the moment they pressed their bloodied thumbprints to dusty scrolls and sealed their names away. This is the sacrifice of all shinobi." - Yamanaka Ino and Hyuuga Neji. Sometimes they take the corpses home with them.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,419 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 51 - Follows: 7 - Published: 5/10/2018 - Ino Y., Neji H., Hinata H., Shikamaru N. - Complete
Silent, (Blaring) reviews
"When she looks back up, eyes wide, his subtle plea ushering a taut quiet between them, she finds he is already moving to stand, and before she can mourn anything more, her cup clatters to the table, tea spilling in a fine arc, and she – she is already gone." - Hyuuga Hinata, Sabaku no Gaara, Uzumaki Naruto. The loved and the leaving, from root to sky.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,473 - Reviews: 29 - Favs: 93 - Follows: 18 - Published: 3/15/2018 - Naruto U., Hinata H., Gaara - Complete
Madly reviews
"It is only easier for a time, and then, it suddenly isn't." - Hyuuga Hinata goes blind. Uchiha Sasuke goes mad. Some lies remain unseen.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,640 - Reviews: 30 - Favs: 123 - Follows: 37 - Published: 2/1/2018 - Sasuke U., Hinata H., Hanabi H. - Complete
Come to Collect reviews
"Somehow, she figured indifference would hurt less on a face that wasn't Sasuke's. She discovers too late that she is wrong." - Post-war Inuzuka Kiba and Haruno Sakura. Reconciling what they need and what they deserve – namely each other.
Naruto - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,619 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 147 - Follows: 21 - Published: 12/6/2017 - Naruto U., Sakura H., Kiba I. - Complete
Bone-White reviews
"Here's the thing: he thinks she's beautiful. Not beautiful in the conventional Hyuuga way – because there is a Hyuuga kind of beautiful. Hanabi has it. Neji had it. It's a kind of straight-backed, hollowed-out beauty that promises to sear you if you get too close. But not Hinata." - Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Hinata. The familiarity of ghosts.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,860 - Reviews: 49 - Favs: 212 - Follows: 67 - Published: 10/5/2017 - Naruto U., Sasuke U., Hinata H. - Complete
Rust reviews
"Shepard notices it like a sudden splinter, a prickling of awareness beneath her skin, adamantly wedging itself into her periphery." - Shepard and Mordin. Love quietly realized.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,204 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 4 - Published: 9/18/2017 - J. Garson, Mordin S. - Complete
Ghost Forest reviews
"Winter has always been desolate here." - Shepard and James. What lingers after the war.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,805 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/17/2017 - J. Garson, James V. - Complete
Elegy at Draxis Major reviews
"The bones of his former comrades have long turned to dust in the wake of past eons, but memories are not quite so easy to kill as Protheans." - Javik at the fall – because rest is for the weak.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 848 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 5/3/2017 - Javik - Complete
Stain reviews
"These hands will never be clean of him." - Shepard and Thane. What stays and what goes.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,063 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 1 - Published: 4/19/2017 - J. Garson, Thane K. - Complete
For Lovers reviews
"Franky Shepard had the kind of smile that seemed always on the verge of laughter, but the kind you couldn't share in public. She had a smile for lovers." - Shepard and Kaidan – sore muscles, tender hearts.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,026 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 2 - Published: 4/11/2017 - J. Garson, Kaidan A. - Complete
Sonder reviews
"He tells no one that he cries out her name in sleep." - A series of 100 word drabbles, a collection of glimpses into the lives of all our favorite characters from Thedas. Wide range. Multiple pairings and genres.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 22 - Words: 2,584 - Reviews: 21 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 2/10/2017 - Published: 12/30/2015
Cranes' Wings reviews
"The axis of Shepard's world now spins around just two simple things: the boy she wants, and the baby she doesn't." - Shepard in the early days.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,078 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 3 - Published: 1/10/2017 - J. Garson, D. Anderson, OC - Complete
Take Root reviews
"She will not last. Not like metal and not like rock and not like the eddies of dust and light that birth stars." - Shepard and Kaidan - holding on.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 788 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 10 - Published: 1/4/2017 - J. Garson, Kaidan A. - Complete
Just Fine reviews
"'Oh, shove it,' Traynor answers between firing on incoming troopers. 'I did not sign up for this. I'm tapping out. I'm tapping out right now.' Shepard chuckles over the line." - Shepard and Traynor. Love (or something like it) in a firefight.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,916 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 19 - Follows: 3 - Published: 1/1/2017 - J. Garson, Garrus V., Liara T'Soni, Samantha T. - Complete
Tender Things reviews
"Nothing beautiful has ever existed between their two worlds." - Kira and Ziyal. The space in-between.
StarTrek: Deep Space Nine - Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,481 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 5 - Published: 12/3/2016 - E. Garak, Kira N., T. Ziyal - Complete
They Dry Themselves, Eventually reviews
"She screams when the nurses try to raise the shutters. She screams at many things, they tell him." - Shepard and Anderson after Akuze. Survival was never a sure, solid thing.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,462 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 20 - Follows: 5 - Published: 11/7/2016 - J. Garson, D. Anderson - Complete
Fortune reviews
"'That one,' she said suddenly, her chopsticks pinning down a still-wrapped cookie in the middle of his pile. 'That's your fortune, buddy.'" - Chinese food and confessions. A day in the life of James and Shepard.
Mass Effect - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,786 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 7 - Published: 10/11/2016 - J. Garson, James V. - Complete
Rotted from Misuse reviews
"She remembers – all too starkly and intimately – how she had loved this woman once." - Jack and Miranda. What time wears away.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,469 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 4 - Published: 10/10/2016 - Miranda L., Jack - Complete
Tell Me a Story reviews
"'Tell me something true.'" - Hawke and Fenris. The art of storytelling.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,695 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 4 - Published: 9/15/2016 - Isabela, Merrill, Fenris, unknown 1 - Complete
Blood or Not reviews
"A galaxy won and bled for and none of it – none of it – hers to pass on." - The struggles of post-war domesticity in the Shepard-Alenko household.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Humor/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,524 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 9 - Published: 8/29/2016 - J. Garson, Kaidan A. - Complete
Anything Goes reviews
One-shots and drabbles of varying genres. Ensemble cast. Expect healthy doses of angst. Chapter Twelve summary: "As the monastery billows smoke and ash and clouds of blood-tinged cinders behind them, Samara remembers her blue-eyed daughters."
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 12 - Words: 10,607 - Reviews: 55 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 8/9/2016 - Published: 6/15/2015
Numerology reviews
"He halts her with his hand on her wrist, fingers curling around her pulse point. Everything but her heart stops." - Keiji and Kasumi. Their love by numbers, vignette-style.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,382 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 1 - Published: 7/8/2016 - Kasumi G. - Complete
North reviews
"'I…I don't know what's wrong with me anymore. And I don't know how to get right. I don't…know.' She finds that in her breathless release of half-panic half-rage, her hands have found themselves curled tight in his coat and her tears are hot along her lids, though unspent." - Shepard tries to find her way in the aftermath of Aratoht.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,210 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 4 - Published: 6/5/2016 - J. Garson, Thane K. - Complete
Whitewood reviews
"They have each born enough marks in this life that it should be no difficult thing to yield their flesh to each other." - Merrill and Isabela. The long stretch between land and sea.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,047 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 10 - Published: 5/15/2016 - Isabela, Merrill - Complete
Tossing 'Em Back reviews
"Life's just too short to be serious all the time.' 'Our lives you mean.' 'Cheers to that.' He throws a smirk her way and the two clink bottles." - While several beers deep, Joker and Shepard talk Reapers versus the galaxy's finest fauna, the stages of drunkenness, and forgiveness.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,288 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 2 - Published: 5/4/2016 - J. Garson, Joker - Complete
Scar Tissue reviews
"He steps toward her. And instantly, she is falling over the ledge – a frozen, feather-soft corpse. The water rises up to meet her." - Alistair and Elyssia love each other in a world with no mercy for such love.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,557 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 11 - Published: 4/30/2016 - Alistair, Amell - Complete
Bet of Hearts reviews
"'I win though,' she teases, her fingers curling at the base of his fringe. He holds her tighter. 'You always win,' he answers into her skin." - From the very beginning, it was always a competition between Shepard and Garrus. The contest for each other's hearts was no exception.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,932 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 56 - Follows: 8 - Published: 4/25/2016 - J. Garson, Garrus V. - Complete
Shepard Sees the Sky reviews
"'Garrus…' 'You can't tell me you haven't thought about it before. Getting her back.'" - Garrus and Kaidan finally get down to the barebones of loving Commander Shepard when they think she isn't listening. Hint: she is.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,376 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 51 - Follows: 7 - Published: 4/20/2016 - J. Garson, Garrus V., Kaidan A. - Complete
Take-Backs reviews
"Kolyat stares at the necklace for a long moment, and Oriana begins to worry that he might just strangle her with it, but then he's reaching out an expectant palm. 'Give it here.' She pulls it protectively against her chest. 'No. You gave it to me.'" - Kolyat and Oriana. The perils of gift-giving.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,148 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 4 - Published: 4/11/2016 - Oriana L., Kolyat K. - Complete
Riptide reviews
"Shepard glances from the window back to him as a mischievous grin breaks across her face. 'I'm busting you out of this joint, Thane,' she whispers roguishly, hooking a thumb over her shoulder to indicate her intent." - Shepard and Thane have never been the kind to waste away on hospital beds.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,846 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 28 - Follows: 5 - Published: 3/31/2016 - J. Garson, Garrus V., Thane K. - Complete
To the Victor reviews
"A sound brewed in his chest that was not quite a growl and not quite a sigh. 'You cheated,' he breathed lowly, but it wasn't with accusation. There was the slight hint of amusement to his smoke-lined voice. And then deeper, almost hidden, a lace of danger to his words." - Thane and Shepard's war of the heart was decided well before it even began.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,666 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 33 - Follows: 6 - Published: 3/28/2016 - J. Garson, Thane K. - Complete
Phantom Heart reviews
"'Got to love these bionic limbs.' Her fingers brush over the last of her own skin, before the stump of her thigh turns into smooth metal and carbon fiber. She misses it sometimes, the leg she lost in the war." - Kaidan and Shepard share their phantom pain beneath the stars.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,589 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 1 - Published: 3/24/2016 - J. Garson, Kaidan A. - Complete
Liars reviews
"And then a shuddering exhale leaves him. Quaking and tear-laced. If Shepard could look she would see the hand covering his eyes and the tremble to his shoulders. She would see in his face that he lied. He always has." - Thane and Shepard. They never knew the truth could hurt this much.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,341 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 2 - Published: 3/23/2016 - J. Garson, Thane K. - Complete
Ill Moon reviews
"He silences the quake of her lips with his own needful mouth. They kiss, and they kiss, and they drown." - When the end comes, it is not without grace. Thane and Shepard swear to meet in the after.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,260 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 3 - Published: 2/24/2016 - J. Garson, Thane K. - Complete
Palm to Palm reviews
"They breathe together and imagine a world where nothing beautiful ever dies and hearts are never shattered. A world where their hands could intertwine and it would be enough." - Shepard and Kaidan learn to love again. A story of reconciliation, of one hand reaching for another.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,001 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 16 - Follows: 3 - Published: 2/11/2016 - J. Garson, Kaidan A. - Complete
Mercurial reviews
"'Hey, Lola' 'Hmm' 'Marry me.' Shepard lifted a brow his way and leveled him with a piqued look. 'No.'" - In the midst of the Reaper War, James Vega proposes to Shepard, unsuccessfully. Thus begins his wooing of the commander in earnest.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,474 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 29 - Published: 2/5/2016 - J. Garson, Kaidan A., James V. - Complete
The Sea Swallows Her Whole reviews
"It is a sad, savage thing that blooms in her chest." - Thane and Shepard. A tale of drowning.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,694 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 4 - Published: 1/21/2016 - J. Garson, Thane K. - Complete
Together reviews
"She thinks of all the threats they've faced and all the battles they've endured. She thinks of all the weight that years of fighting have leveled on their backs. She shifts her gaze to the booth and finds Garrus staring back at her, his gaze questioning." - In the final days before the battle for Earth, Shepard takes it back to the beginning, one last time.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,324 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 4 - Published: 1/15/2016 - J. Garson, Garrus V., Ashley W., Tali'Zorah - Complete
Sheparding Men reviews
"Our lives are never lived rightly unless they are lived urgently, powerfully, lived with faces turned toward the sun." - A war-battered Shepard learns about love from the different men in her life. Memory. Passion. Constancy. These are the gifts they gave her.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 16 - Words: 95,690 - Reviews: 143 - Favs: 33 - Follows: 58 - Updated: 1/4/2016 - Published: 3/28/2014 - J. Garson, Garrus V., Kaidan A., Thane K.
Too Late reviews
"He thinks of her dark eyes slipping shut as he calls to her, her mouth tipping open as though to scream or cry or moan, but it is only blood that comes out. He thinks of the terror that clawed through his chest when she had stopped breathing." - Fenris discovers the weight of his own feelings for Hawke at the same time he realizes some things might come too late.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,920 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/29/2015 - Fenris, unknown 1 - Complete
Hold Tight reviews
"There is a momentary pause and then Kenneth's voice is coming over the line again, tight and harsh. 'Get out of there, Gabby.' 'No, I can still – ' 'I don't care, get the hell out of there'" - Being a Normandy engineer is dangerous work.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,228 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 16 - Follows: 3 - Published: 12/3/2015 - Joker, EDI, Gabby D., Ken D. - Complete
Permanence reviews
"Smirking, Jack picked up the needle once more, and the even buzzing warned Miranda to the incoming pain. This time she didn't wince. 'Maybe I should tattoo 'property of Cerberus' or 'paid for in full' on your ass.'" - Jack and Miranda in mildly domestic bliss. If you squint.
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,642 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 3 - Published: 11/30/2015 - Miranda L., Jack - Complete
No Scar Worse reviews
"He is silent for a long moment, his touch ghosting over her skin, and then he is looking into her eyes, his voice a low hum in his throat. 'And I wasn't there.' He says it with the weight of guilt she cannot fathom."
Mass Effect - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,411 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 36 - Follows: 11 - Published: 11/7/2015 - J. Garson, Garrus V. - Complete
What He Will Never Know reviews
"'I only wanted to be free,' he repeats, this time a hopeless exhale. This time with the knowledge that there may be no such thing." - Madness, blood, and freedom. The story of Jowan's dark descent.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 11,221 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 10/31/2015 - Published: 10/28/2015 - Surana, Isolde G., Jowan, Lily - Complete
It Goes In Pieces reviews
"She keeps the sheet in her grasp, just past her knees, her knuckles white in their grip. She turns her gaze to the chambermaid and swallows thickly before speaking. 'Get the healer.' It is a strained whisper." - Anora loses more than a child with each miscarriage. The story of her barren life through the years.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,914 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 2 - Published: 8/24/2015 - Alistair, Anora, Cailan T. - Complete
Reckoned from One Midnight to the Next reviews
"Grief is not something you can lay to rest beside your bed at night and take back up in the morning. It is always there. Festering while you sleep. It stays. It lingers. It bleeds into your days until your world is rife with it." - Kaidan in the aftermath of Shepard's death over Alchera. A tale of heartache and healing in two parts.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 11,823 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 8 - Updated: 8/19/2015 - Published: 8/14/2015 - J. Garson, Kaidan A., OC - Complete
Made For It reviews
"She wants the world to tremble at her presence. To know she has touched it." - Mhairi has always known what she was made for. But the world is an unfeeling place for such dreams, and Mhairi's earnestness does not get her anything but a cold and unmarked grave.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,714 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 3 - Published: 7/28/2015 - Brosca, Mhairi - Complete
Interlocking reviews
"This is the beginning. The start. This is how they fit." – Krem and Harding find each other in a world torn apart. A story told in brief glimpses.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 42 - Words: 51,344 - Reviews: 360 - Favs: 166 - Follows: 135 - Updated: 7/7/2015 - Published: 1/13/2015 - Iron Bull, Krem, Scout Harding - Complete
Whiskey and November reviews
"'It's the end times, Jack,' she whispers breathlessly through the raging hail of gunfire and explosions around them. Just below in the valley lies their death, or their freedom. 'You ready'" - On the frontlines of London, Jack and Miranda contemplate the end of things. A not-quite-love story in three parts.
Mass Effect - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 3 - Words: 14,689 - Reviews: 32 - Favs: 36 - Follows: 14 - Updated: 6/4/2015 - Published: 5/26/2015 - Miranda L., Jack - Complete
Stillbirth reviews
"He does not know how to live this life when everything in him is telling him that it is lost. He reaches for a past that does not want him anymore." - Nathaniel Howe discovers what dying really means.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,709 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 3 - Published: 2/20/2015 - Mahariel, Nathaniel H., Sigrun - Complete
Afterimage reviews
"'This will not end well,' he pants heatedly into her neck." - Hawke and Fenris discover the danger of desire. Done for the February challenge of the Dragon Age Fanfiction Writers facebook page.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,493 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 2 - Published: 2/3/2015 - Fenris, unknown 1 - Complete
Middle of Nobody reviews
"At night, the loss is harder. Crushed, crying, craving. How do you learn to stop loving?" – Blackwall and the Inquisitor learn to live in the aftermath.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,710 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 27 - Follows: 3 - Published: 1/5/2015 - Cole, Blackwall, Sera, Lavellan - Complete
Touch reviews
"Nothing seems right in the world unless they are holding each other."
X-Men: The Movie - Rated: T - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,973 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 50 - Follows: 9 - Published: 12/29/2014 - Storm/Ororo M., Logan/Wolverine - Complete
Mead and Magic reviews
"Fenris frowned. 'You had not told me she was a mage.' 'He has a thing with mages.'" – Hawke, Fenris and Inquisitor Lavellan talk shop.
Dragon Age - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,905 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 60 - Follows: 7 - Published: 12/27/2014 - Fenris, unknown 1, Inquisitor, Lavellan - Complete
The Last Rite reviews
"There is only stone. Tall, cavernous holds of rock and tunnel and deep, still quiet. She must remind herself that this is where she will breathe her last. There will be no sun to warm her when she dies." After twenty eight years of the taint, the Deep Roads finally call to her. This is goodbye.
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,528 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 37 - Follows: 7 - Published: 10/25/2014 - Alistair, Sten, Zevran A., Tabris - Complete
Smoke and Embers reviews
"'I want the Arishok's blood on my blades.' She swallows and pulls a deep breath through her nose, soot-filled and heavy with rage." The night is long and bloody when Kirkwall burns and Hawke finds something she hadn't before.
Dragon Age - Rated: M - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,048 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 2 - Published: 9/30/2014 - Merrill, Varric T., Fenris, unknown 1 - Complete
Secret Burdens reviews
He thought he was the only one. He had no idea.
X-Men: The Movie - Rated: M - English - Drama - Chapters: 25 - Words: 74,558 - Reviews: 263 - Favs: 211 - Follows: 171 - Updated: 5/20/2014 - Published: 11/23/2008 - Storm/Ororo M., Logan/Wolverine - Complete
The Wild Dark reviews
"This is Fenris. This is Fenris ready to be in it. Knee-deep and muddied and inescapable."
Dragon Age - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 5 - Words: 26,910 - Reviews: 47 - Favs: 69 - Follows: 35 - Updated: 3/13/2014 - Published: 11/22/2012 - Fenris, unknown 1 - Complete
Hand in Hand reviews
Several short glimpses into Parn and Deed's life in the years following the OVA. From cuteness to angst, and not in chronological order. "Her voice was soft and soothing, her fingers tender on his skin as she pulled his face forward and placed her lips upon his."
Record of Lodoss War - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 6 - Words: 4,700 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 11/22/2012 - Published: 6/21/2012 - Complete
This Isn't Me reviews
"There's nothing uglier than self-righteousness. And we were rife with it." - She hadn't left the hospital in 14 months. This wasn't the Hermione she remembered being.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 13,697 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 11/9/2011 - Published: 12/13/2010 - Hermione G.
She Can Love You Too reviews
No, here was not Crystal Tokyo. That was a week ago. The day they buried the Queen.
Sailor Moon - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,277 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 1 - Published: 2/23/2010 - Chibiusa T./Rini/Sailor Chibi (Mini) Moon, Mamoru C./Darien S./Tuxedo Kamen - Complete
What To Say reviews
Looking at Harry like this stilled the words in her throat.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,667 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 7 - Updated: 2/21/2008 - Published: 11/23/2007 - Hermione G., Harry P. - Complete
One Day, One Day reviews
Pansy never thought she'd be waiting her whole life.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,651 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/8/2007 - Pansy P. - Complete
Dreamcatcher reviews
She was like water. Only, she never thought herself so.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,490 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 4 - Published: 11/28/2007 - Molly W. - Complete
Hermione's Hero reviews
It’s easy to immortalize someone when they’re everything you’re not.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,189 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 16 - Follows: 2 - Published: 11/25/2007 - Hermione G., Sirius B. - Complete
As He Lay Dying reviews
As he lay dying, this is what he remembers.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,593 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/25/2007 - Ron W. - Complete
Why She Wears Red reviews
Her reasons were too many and her words too few.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,266 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/23/2007 - Ginny W. - Complete
Need reviews
She comes here every night. Draco found her on this one.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,074 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 2 - Published: 11/23/2007 - Hermione G., Draco M. - Complete