Short one shots, not drabbles, of various eras, character and genres. - Because life's all jigsaw pieces, they just don't always fit -

She was dramatic. He was dynamic. She was precise. He was impulsive. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart require time.

A compilation of mostly 100-word drabbles, though some are longer, of different moments involving Harry and Ginny.

Santa used a Sharpie. EPILOGUE.

Bonus scenes that were cut from All Over Again. Do NOT need to read this to understand AOA, but really MUST read All Over Again to get this! Got it? D

She doesn't know what will be worse to her mom – potentially sleeping with your boyfriend at a party or running off with him to New York City in the middle of the night.

The greatest works of literature sit on her countless bookshelves and each one is fiction, with the exception of his. Lit.

Fourshot. "Listen, you cow, I don't like you." He said rather abruptly. She gave a shrug. "I know you don't. I really don't give a toss what you think of me." "Feeling's mutual." JPLE, LilyxSirius friendship. Seventh year. T for language. Complete.

"James Potter, is it possible that you're not quite currently alone?" "Why yes, Padfoot, it is." In which Sirius hears things he would rather not. LE/JP

"I want to marry you," James interrupted, completely matter-of-fact. I sat up so quickly I almost fell off the bed. James reached out a hand to steady me, his eyes never leaving mine. "Wh-what?" I stammered, heart pounding. L/J, Lily's POV

James comes up with a nickname.

Love is like a fistfight. No matter who draws first, you both end bloody. Lily/James.

"You are overwhelmed by the transience of your life—November and a place to call home seem far away." Lit. Post-series.

Lily has a very serious problem. It won't be long before her problem notices. Lily/James, 7th year.

L/J. The Aha Moment: a point in time when something finally clicks. Everyone realizes that there's something more between James and Lily, though it takes some people longer than others. James has always been a slow learner.

"you were right; it is what it is, you- me. What it is, is never over." - Post Series One-shot: Three years since Jess last saw Rory. How much could things have really changed? Not that much, if they still always come back to each other. Lit

Mary isn't fond of Christmas and she takes it out on her coworkers until a special witness restores her faith in the season. Mostly gen with a little romantic bonus at the end. Christmas story #6. One-shot.

A series of first kisses. A few different scenarios. For Megsy42's First Kiss Challenge in the HPFFCF. Remus/Sirius. Rated T in case.

Five Logan/Veronica kisses we never saw. Pre-series to post-series.

Lily finds James after a particularly grueling Quidditch practice. LJoneshot ::Mature::

James Potter is fighting so many battles, and he is tired of it. It seems that fighting so quickly turns to losing.

Though they've "known" each other for years, it takes Lily Evans and James Potter several moments to truly connect. *Complete*

Veronica and Logan go on a stake-out. Set one month after the Series Finale. One-shot.

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.

Lily Evans needs a minute to figure something out - and it's a little hard to think straight around James Potter. L/J one-shot.

Lily Evans has finally figured out that she fancies James Potter. But instead of happiness and sunshine and passionate snogging, there's a lot of mysterious Comfort Caramels and wallowing in the kitchens. An L/J one-shot.

A short alternative for the throne room scene near the end of The Last Olympian. Percabeth - One shot. Kinda fluffy.

It started out as a simple quest - he wanted to see her smile again. That alarmingly beautiful, incandescent smile. But over time, it turned into something more. An L/J one-shot.

"I should have known that a magical lift was only going to cause trouble. And here I thought that an inanimate object couldn't pose a threat to my sanity - which was a ridiculous assumption. Obviously." L/J

LJ ONESHOT. While attempting to take an evening walk, Lily runs into her favorite Marauder. Misunderstandings and heated snogs ensue.

"You don't know me at all," Lily murmured into his lips, and shifted her weight without warning, sending them stumbling backwards until James's back hit wall. "You think you do, but you don't." L/J

He shares most things with her, but not everything.

"He has, he figures after consideration, always loved her. Everyone needs a tragic flaw. He wonders if he was hers. But life doesn't fit together so perfectly, and he doesn't think so." The transition from ghost to flesh. Literati.

Post WOCD - AU-ish. Just because Lynn's still alive - Logan wondered which he’d prefer: padded cell or straightjacket?

Semi-stream of consciousness, Logan's POV, after Lilly dies but before the pilot. Logan keeps telling himself he hates Veronica even though he doesn't . AKA Logan's obsession with Veronica in the first season.

Veronica maps out the abuse on Logan's body. AU from S1.

AU. Fluffy, smushy futurefic. There's not actually a wedding.

Others are innocence and naivety that burns her skin and slits her throat; absolution that tastes like poison in his mouth. LoVe

It would start at her cheeks and then spread all over her face, deepening in colour to a rose or soft cherry, spilling over her high cheekbones and washing over her neck, until it slipped over her collarbones and into her school robes. JPLE One-Shot.

Jess, on the road, begins to write. Drabble-ish fragments of his journey. Rated for language

There's a million shades of gray in between love and hate, and James and Lily discover them all. JPLE.

Without Lily Evans there was no James Potter. And without James Potter there was no Lily Evans. JPLE, One-Shot.

A determined Lily. Stuttering James. Add a shower, smirks, and kisses, and there is your fun. Seventh Year.

They live at the top of a spiral to hell—- for Nanaho-hime —-the Quidditch team and the war.

One-shot. "She’s pretending to pay attention to the professor, but in fact she’s staring at him." She is simply entranced by him, and she can't deny the fact that she finds him fascinating. Lily and James.

P/O. "He matches his fingers tenderly to the bruises on her neck." Oneshot.

L/J. It's easy to say that the Prefect's bath is his favorite place in the world lately.

HOW. MANY. TIMES. HAVE. I. TOLD. YOU. TO. NOT. PICK. ME. UP? Lily/James. Hogwarts-Style One-Shot.

He hopes she hates him. LilyJames. Twoshot.

Back from his road-trip, Josh thinks about politics. And Sam. Episode tag for 4.1-2 "20 Hours in America".

she started to like this James. This James was interesting. This James demanded more than a mutually superficial relationship. This James drew her attention." Lily falls for James - One shot.

The first time he touches her, really touches her with any intent she’s 17 and half dead from the Stitches’ hands.

Of all the things they did together, the game was their favorite. Oneshot. Tony/Ziva.

He asks if she would dance with him, and she says yes. To him, it was rebellion; to her it was revenge. Yet, unexpectedly for both of them, it turns out to be something much, much more than that. And now there is no turning back. Scorpius/Rose oneshot

Post-Premiere, so spoilers for Truth and Consequences. Just a one-shot centred around the Tony/Ziva interaction in Somalia, with similar flashbacks to the show just without the humourous relief . Read and review please!

In the aftermath of Aliyah, Tony and the team cope with Ziva's assumed betrayal and abandonment, but not everything is as it seems. What they find will unravel a web of secrets spanning the globe. Eventually Tony/Ziva.

River is having a good day. Mal and the others find her version of fun a mite worrisome.

This thing that they’ve been doing, it’s got him all tied up in knots. SamAinsley

Years later they somehow meet in that same old expected way. LoVe.

Bones tries to hide her reaction to the gravedigger incident until something happens that forces it out in the open. Episode tag for Aliens in a Spaceship.

Peter slaved over a three-course defense with a side of warning.

LJ Fluff.“Do you know me now?” James whispered. He looked up slowly to meet her eyes. Lily looked at him ferociously back and wrapped her arms tentatively, but firmly, around his neck. She leaned in to sigh into his mouth, “Not yet.” R&R?

A series of Marauder shorts based on daily prompts told from varying points of view. Lily/James 7th year

A missing scene from "Don't Cry for Me, Albuquerque." CONTAINS SPOILERS!

“Sometimes,” she murmured after a pause, “I get up in the middle of the night, after everyone has gone to sleep, and I sit around down here.” He didn’t have the heart to tell her that she was the only one who ever could sleep around here.

Tears, pains, fractures, breaks. Either him or her in pieces, very nearly shattered. Then, the other would come bearing incredible patience and superglue. And they’d never speak of it again. M/M

LJ: "Somehow, it went from being an aching nothing to an overwhelming amount of this, and she realises that when it comes to him, nothing can ever be a healthy medium, especially not the way she feels." Read and review?

“He never says what he needs.” “He needs you,” Mary adds in. Your eyes narrow as your pace quickens. “Never,” you sneer.

Things are different aboard Serenity, too many secrets remain unspoken, and neither Mal nor Inara can sleep. Post-BDM. Mal/Inara oneshot.

One might beg to differ, but his is indeed after all, only human. He muses about his assistant often and in depth.

You and me and the measure of a man in six words—- for the Hemingway Six challenge—- the hurt never stops, does it?

Ziva doesn't give up a single secret. At least until Tony comes to the rescue.

Ziva and Tony's similar childhoods might lead them to a similar conclusion. Oneshot, spoilers through "Aliyah." Somewhat random...

Lily comes home after completing her last term at Hogwarts, dreading the prospect of living in the empty, transformed house of her childhood. Hardly one night passes, however, when she realizes she won't be as alone as she thought.

They come together in pain, as she always imagined they would.”

“He stays at the gravesite with the blonde woman, grieving with her their mutual loss, and she stands back, observing him, grateful that she still has the opportunity to do so.”

This isn’t them, this unconsidered abandon - at least, that's what she wants to tell herself.

Lily's falling through a dark hole. She doesn't want to believe that her parent's are dead. Only one person can help her out of the hole she is slowly digging herself. That someone just happens to be her stalker.

Lily winked at James, splashing in every puddle. He caught onto her game and chased after her, falling and landing in a gigantic mud puddle. “Come on, Lily. Give me a hug.” Lily James. Rainstorms. Mud puddles. Flirting. And fluff. One-shot. COMPLETE

What is Logan thinking from Pilot to WCD? An inside look on how Logan feels about the LoVe relationship.

She's tempestuous and argumentative, he's charming and charismatic; well, doesn't this story sound familiar? Five times James and Lily don't fall in love, and one time they do.

She wanted simple. But she wanted complicated too. Set a few months in the future from "Aliyah"

He makes no sense, and you hate it, but you can't hate him because every once in a while, this decent person shines through. And in a lot of ways, that just makes it all worse. A reflection of James Potter.

Don't you dare, James." Somehow, only Lily's Marauder could completely destroy her mother's kitchen and still come off as a sweetheart and a perfect boyfriend. Included: walrus-in-a-tie and peanut allergies. And James being adorable. Lily's POV. Oneshot.

As if Slughorn wasn't bad enough already, now you'll never be able to see him again without spontaneously combusting from shame.

This is just the kind of thing that happens when life decides to punish you.

Lily muses on the Marauders, inadvertently attracting unwanted attention from everyone's favorite Head boy.

Josh wants to do something for Leo. Set during Santos Admin Please review

Caught in the act of trying to learn how to waltz, James's dancing troubles result in some interesting consequences. LJ.oneshot

My tag for Mayhem on the Cross. I love this show!

Sam's auditioning for Sesame Street, The President's drinking iced tea, C.J.'s got cats, the cherry blossom is out, Donna's away and Josh is having trouble focussing. A post-series one shot with a little help from the Dixie Chicks.

The things Josh and Donna did and didn't do, throughout and after the series

It's something he refuses to let go because it defines who he is and what he has become. Post 1x22.

Tony and Ziva finally cross the line—it doesn’t happen like Ziva thought it would. Tony/Ziva fluff.

One-shot. After a busy evening, James goes to Sirius’s house to collect his son.

Mal ain't believed in God in a long time. Today don't seem likely to be the day he starts again...A job goes south. Mal/Inara implied.

Donna gets ready for her new life in Washington. Post Election Day J/D

Malcolm Reynolds is a fan of all seven.

Love maybe all you need, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to want. Mal/Inara, Post BDM

LJ. "They didn’t do it out of love. They were not in love, nor did they want to be. They barely knew each other. None of this was romantic, not even close. What they had together was purely business." R&R?

Logan's left Neptune, but a shock to Veronica's heart leads her to follow him cross-country. LoVe. Just a warning, the first chapter has character death, but I promise there's a happy ending.

AU: The fabulous four all react in different ways when they discover that Logan is dating Hannah Griffith, but it is Veronica who finds herself coming to a conclusion which may change their lives, and their friendship, forever. LoVe.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Veronica Mars wakes up on the day of her graduation from Hearst College. LoVe. ONESHOT. No specific spoilers. Please read and review!

Sirius and Lily share a conversation on a snowy day. A silly, fluffy oneshot about two friends. No SL romance, post-marriage.

Could a poker game be all that's needed to get Veronica to confront what's really going on between herself and Logan? Futurefic, post series.

Veronica wakes up after partying with 'chocolate cake'. Written as a ONESHOT for VM Santa as a gift to Annie-Oakley over on livejournal.

Two Christmases in Logan Echolls' life. Some angst; ends practically fluffy. Logan/Veronica

Ten men in Veronica's life. And Logan. ,,, Rated M because it goes into Cassidy's mind for 100 words.

Spell engineering has never been so complicated than when an afternoon of trying and trialing leaves James and Lily in an interesting position. LJ-oneshot.

On the first anniversary of Aaron Echolls death, Veronica and Logan decide to finally set their issues to rest, at the Echolls’ cabin, with six of their nearest and dearest friends.

This is a very long oneshot, broken into four chapters, set after 3.15. Logan buys a fixer-upper house and needs help making improvements. There is some Logan/Parker but this fic is all about the LoVe.

“What did you want to do with you’re life, when you were younger?” “I wanted to end up in a mental asylum.” “Talk to me Logan.” “I don’t have anything to talk about.”

In the aftermath of the war, more than one son brings a new partner home for approval. The question on everyone's lips is "Who?" Percy/Audrey, Draco/Astoria, George/Angelina, Luna/Rolf, Hannah/Neville ... For everyone who wondered what JKR was thinking...

A few months after the Inauguration, Sam inherits a beach house. Fine. Not as much inherits as. . .buys.

Harry has some rather questionable parenting methods. And he may or may not be responsible for Draco Malfoy's receding hairline. NextGen crackfic oneshot!

She keeps blaming herself for leaving, but it can not change anything. Veronica/Logan.

James and Sirius. "Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy that he thinks his booty is fly?" An inside look at one of the closest friendships the world will know.

But when they were together, they reached a semblance of normal and that's all either of them ever needed. Will/Kate, PostSeries

Along the way, they solve more murders. But mostly, they grow old together. boothbrennan, one shot

Five sentences Sirius Black never said. Oneshot written for the Five Things challenge on HPFC.

Under the emerald stars, they went to war to bring them down... Lily & James, when it comes to picking sides and defying Dark Lords- since isn't that what they do everyday? Three times they chose to challenge You-Know-Who.

She laughs, and Logan has never seen anything so beautiful in his life, even if it’s nothing but a damn cliché. Logan/Veronica post season three.

Veronica goes on a college visit to Mexico City. Set a new weeks after Papa's Cabin. Veronica/Logan

Neptune breaks its sons. Logan, Cassidy, Dick, Weevil, Duncan.

This was written for her lovelyheart over at Live Journal. It's an epilogue of sorts to the series. How it all ended up in my head. Review are love, kids!

Logan loves therapy. - Logancentric AU end of Season 1

Jed didn't fall in love with Abbey until the summer after their sophmore year. Pre- and post-series, only vague spoilers.

L/J. She's almost to the library when a hand grabs her wrist and yanks her into what appears to be an empty classroom. It is. They've been here before. She's intimately acquainted with the desk nearest the door. But it's a good thing she's not honest.

If you let the crumbs fall on your lips, maybe you'll let me help you clean up. SamAinsley

A look at Will/Kate, CJ/Danny and Josh/Donna post-tomorrow. Based on The Postal Service's Brand New Colony.

Five kisses after the war. Oneshot. R/Hr, G/A, S/L, N/L, H/G.

L/J. He wants to wipe clean the possibility of her death, wants to annihilate the mere thought of it, wants to make it disappear, to turn her into his own eternity. "You are forever."

L/J. It's not all sunshine and rainbows in the Gryffindor common room.

L/J. The darkness makes this easier to say, the cadence of his heartbeat lulling me into a relative safety, and it rolls off my tongue like the most powerful kind of magic. "I love you."

L/J. Kissing James Potter in the middle of the common room is wrong, so wrong, but Lily gives up. She hasn't slept in two days and her brain is obviously delirious, so she releases hold of it and it clicks off like a light switch. Nox.

You don’t just proclaim your hate for a person for six years and then suddenly go up to that person and say "Hey! You’ve suddenly become quite fancy-able with your wonderful personality and lovely bum, so why don’t we go snog like mad?" LEJP. One shot.

Veronica gets some devastating news and realizes that life is too short for regrets. She wants to mend some relationships starting with one in particular. Futurefic that takes place two years after the series finale. LoVe

Josh and Donna fly off intot he sunset- heres what CJ , Danny, Santos and Helen think of that! review please! D/CJ J/D

It’s a flight to Hawaii?” “No.” “Its not?” “No it is not. Its two flights to Hawaii.” Sam is back. D/J

"Of course it's missing something vital. That's the point." Dennis Creevey takes up his brother's camera after the war.

Four short moments in my idea of the post-series finale time-line. Generally fluffy LoVe.

She accepted that she had feelings for Ron when he was kidnapped by Sirius Black. She knew she loved him when he gave her a bottle of awful perfume for Christmas and she actually used it...

Inara tells Mal how the Operative got her to make the wave. Unabashed fluff - probable one shot. Please read and review. Disclaimer: I own nothing. All hail Joss!

Spoilers through 3-09 "Spit and Eggs." Four Christmases of LoVe, begins pre-series.

PG-13. Mal/Inara after the movie. Not the whys as much as the what. Also, Kaylee/Simon to keep my fluff muse well-fed and happy.

Sixteen, she reminds herself, was a long time ago. RoryJess, post-series

In which Rose and Scorpius are dating, Ron is vaguely homicidal, Hermione is practical, Draco is weary, Lily and Hugo are unsurprised, and Albus wants to collect his money. oneshot ScorpiusRose

Post-Serenity – A possible course of events that might transpire if Captain Reynolds and Miss Serra had the opportunity for uninterrupted talking and/or arguing. Unapologetic and unmitigated sappiness.

They bury her two weeks shy of her twentyeighth birthday, and she doesn't look herself. Funeral flowers thread the air and it is only in death that Marlene McKinnon does not smell of ash. DARK ONESHOT.

It happens because she’s stupid. Because she’s a stupid kind of crazy and somehow okay with breaking all her own rules.

Inara gives up. Set after the Big Damn Movie.

We cannot all be brave in the same ways: A year under the Carrows for Lavender Brown of Gryffindor, Padma Patil of Ravenclaw, Susan Bones of Hufflepuff, and Daphne Greengrass of Slytherin. Eventual FourShot. [Chapter 4, Daphne Greengrass: Fair Lady]

Then something unusual, something strange, comes from nothing at all. Amie, Damien Rice. 7th year LilyJames ONE SHOT.

He bends down beside where she is sitting on the bed and kisses her knee, her shin, the instep of her foot. It’s the only way he knows. Her tears roll onto his arm.

It's the little things, really. [Lit]

Because there is always someone to depend on to help fight the demons. SiriusRemus. Slash, a tad unhappy at times.

PostDH, Remus is greeted with a frighteningly cheerful Sirius. [You're making eternity sound like a bordello.] No slash, One Shot.

In which Ron and Hermione try to get some alone time in a broom cupboard, Harry and Ginny have the exact same idea, and everyone begins to realize the war is finally over. [RHr with a side of HG, DH spoilers abound]

Basically, it was all Ron's fault for pointing him out. Rose x Scorpius, Post Deadly Hallows

DHspoilers. On his seventeenth birthday, Teddy Lupin is forced to face a message from beyond the grave, and a cake with his face on it. It was enough to make anyone hide at the bottom of the garden, Harry thought.

Witches are born without lifelines. [Serafina Pekkala and Lee Scoresby and mortality]

Sometimes, he thinks they would make a good story...Jess does not start stories with once upon a time. [Lit implied]

“I want you to marry me. Soon. And I’m proposing to you. Right now, ring me damned. It all be damned. Just…marry me.” Lily proposes to James. JPLE. ONESHOT.

Maybe it only spanned 61 days and the length of a California town. But lives were ruined, and more than a little blood was shed. And there’s a reason Logan can’t get that summer out of his mind. [LoVe]

After graduating from college, Logan and Veronica vacation in London. LV, AU post2.22 no S3, written for the 'where in the world is Veronica Mars' challenge vmtruechallenge on LJ, v. schmoopy

Mal and Inara have a lot of unanswered questions.

The time goes by fast as the words spill across the pages, in a tangled web of want and hurt of two teenagers in a town too small for the epic tale they unfold between them. [FutureLiterati]

[Lit] He had to remind himself that they were not the same. They’d broken each other too many times for that.

After Miranda, Inara finds herself with several problems to deal with, including a revoked membership and a stubborn Rim pirate...

Mal:Inara. Post:Miranda. Simon makes an observation and Mal pays a late night visit to our resident companion.

PostBDM. Mal makes a delivery on a familiar moon. Inara reflects. MI. PG13

‘Mal,’ she said, and then she stopped when he raised his hand to her face. His fingers were trembling.

From their very first year, Lily and James' lives were entangled in the Wizarding War. Yet, in the midst of war, the most important thing is life, not death. Lily, James, Sirius and all their friends struggle to protect what is most precious.

ONESHOT: What will happen when James finds Lily attacking Snape? RR please!

AU. During a trip to Colorado on winter break from college, will Logan and Veronica finally realize their mutual attraction?

In the end, it all comes down to the moments we choose to live or don’t. Complete

Literati. Change is inescapable. One week. Seven days. A relationship comes together. Timing sequel.

Slight futurefic. This is a crossover between Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Veronica Mars. Santalamb Xmas gift for krilymcc.

Lilly Kane is six feet under, your mother tucked you in one night then disappeared, and you’re on life support.

Mal and Inara romance. Missing scene from BDM and after. What force is strong enough to make a Companion admit she loves and thaw the heart of a lonely Browncoat.

He saved your life, he thinks you’re saving his. And for a while, you could live off that, rest comfortably in inertia. But now everything is progressing and pushing forward and it can’t be a summer fling in October.

MalInara oneshot. Angsty, as usual

Logan, Veronica, The Roof. This short piece is my first attempt at VM writing.

Logan is going to get drunk. With each kiss from the Absolut bottle's biting mouth he thinks of a new reason.

Post 'War Stories'. Mal's recovering, Inara's frustrated

Seventh year of Lily and James, the Marauders, and living in the shadow of Voldemort. Mostly LJ. Different from other stories because it's not just HATE vs LOVE. My first fanfic and the story is worthy of a better summary than this.

A deadly virus breaks out in the United States that revives the dead and turns everyone into zombies. The West Wing staff tries to hold it together.

LupinTonks: In this moment, everything has changed.

Three words Donna never thought she's hear Josh say no not those three, well not only those three. Post Transition

A case of selfinflicted laryngitis leads to some interesting repercussions for Lily Evans. LJ oneshot

Molly and Huck Ziegler are eight years old, and while their memories of their father may not be correct exactly, neither are they wrong. Molly and Huck POVs a few years after the leak fallout.

He loved her, and this wasn't right. But Right turned left at the first corner instead of the second, so he's running a but late. OneShot, set after Donut Run. LoVe. Rating for the F word.

Six First Kisses – six vignettes showing some different possibilities for Mal and Inara’s first kiss. Set premovie.

Sirius wants to cheer up James. James wants to kiss Lily. Lily wants to murder Remus. And Remus just wants the marauders to leave his girlfriend alone. Unlikely as these things may seem...in a world where toads could be vampires, anything is possible.

The world marches off to war, as it does every so often. Ginny watches it go.

Family barbecues take on a whole new meaning. Josh, Donna, future fluff.

Future Lit. Late nights, warmed up food, a shoebox apartment. She wouldn’t have it any other way. complete

Love me for stupid reasons. I like those most. One-Part Future Lit