They may be headmaster and pupil on the surface, but it's obvious to the trained eye that there are many more layers than that.

A series of one-shots, around 5-8k words each, these will be short storylines and moments that could've, but didn't, happen in the books, so slightly departing from canon events. All featuring Dumbledore as mentor figure to Harry, all hurt/comfort with family themes. First one is alternate take on HBP cave scene, astronomy tower, and aftermath.

Harry never could have predicted how much his life would change after making a surprising discovery at the Dursley household the summer before Second Year. The young wizard returns to school looking for answers, and ends up finding a whole lot more. Snape/Harry mentor fic. No slash.

Albus Dumbledore is searching for something that he lost long ago. He enlists Severus' help, who agrees to help in between his attempts to stay alive. What they discover will change their lives, forever. About as AU as you can possibly get.

Being Hogwarts' new headmaster is no safeguard from the Dark Lord's fury: it is up to Minerva to help Severus get through the night, a moral dilemma which she would have gladly foregone.

When Harry finds himself at the black gates of Hogwarts two weeks into his summer holiday, no one is more surprised than Harry himself. AU. Dumbledore/Harry mentor fic. Angst.

Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape hold several private conversations using their pieces of enchanted parchment.

AU. When Albus Dumbledore visits Wool's Orphanage and sees the terror and rage in Tom Riddle, he decides he cannot leave the boy without a mentor. On the one hand, he may never make a Light wizard of him; on the other hand, he will keep him from going down the path of the Dark. Twoshot. COMPLETE.

catharsis (noun): purification or purgation of emotions (as pity and fear) primarily through art Or, Gregor goes to college, writes some letters, and discovers he still has a thing or two to learn about tragedies.

After Harry's boggart appears as his Uncle Vernon, Professor Lupin takes him for a chat with Headmaster Dumbledore, and then everything changes. Complete. One shot.

Mirror Man tells House things he doesn't want to hear.

First in a series of canon-based stories, which will follow Harry Potter from the summer before COS through Hogwarts. When Harry returns to the Dursleys after the events of PS, his summer gets off to a terrible start. Albus intervenes, taking Harry back to the castle. Come see how multiple POVs and changing relationships slowly shape Harry's world! Mentorship; Training; Adventure.

After the disastrous end to his fifth year, Harry is back at No. 4, Privet Drive for the summer. With grief and the pressure of the prophecy weighing him down, Harry struggles to keep going, but this time he is not left to suffer alone. As his 6th year progresses, can Harry's friends and mentors show him that he still has something worth fighting for?

During the summer before sixth year, Harry finds an injured bat in the garden and decides to try to heal it...and an unwilling Snape learns just what kind of a person Harry Potter really is. No slash.

What if Harry never answered Dumbledore's letter in the summer before 6th year? What if he just wanted to be left alone? When Harry ignores the headmaster's attempt to contact him, Dumbledore decides to check on him anyway. What he sees shocks him. Is he up for the challenge of putting Harry back together again?

Still reeling from previous events, Harry Potter enters his sixth year under the weight of his many burdens. With Dumbledore now playing a greater role in his life, they must work together to overcome the deep connection Harry shares with the Dark Lord or else risk sacrificing Harry's sanity before the Prophecy can be fulfilled. A/U-6th year

How word spreads of Kutner's suicide. Rated for character death, oneshot.

What if Molly Weasley had persuaded Severus to stay for dinner after an Order Meeting in OotP? A look at how he and others may have reacted. Attempt at IC angsty Snape.

Jem followed Will more than once. Night after night, he would walk with Will, a silent companion in the dark. Then came the last time; when Will stopped walking, and Jem could not remain silent any longer.

"We have to stop meeting like this." Five times Will and Jem meet at a wedding.

Will, Jem thinks, is like a disease. Slash, first time, pre-series.

Will fits perfectly there, inside of the very thing that that makes him stand up, and he can't help but think 'our souls are knit.'

[Complete] One-Shot. What if, during the Christmas holidays of Harry's sixth year, Dumbledore did take Harry to visit the Graveyard at Godric's Hollow?

You taste like blood, he says. Will/Jem. For Dicey.

Hell is made of the spaces that Jem Carstairs left behind.

Takes place after the events of One Day, One Room. Cuddy begins to suspect that House was abused as a child.

A Wilson/Chase friendship story. Originally posted to LJ in August 2006. Wilson and Chase share something; House is determined to find out what.

She tells him thank you with the pretty side of her face and he tells her he's sorry. / Four times Sophie almost told Jem she loved him. Oneshot, for Project PULL.

House diagnoses the aftereffects of a coping mechanism. S7 AU, sidestepping OOC serial womanizing; House/Chase friendship/mentorship. Rating for discussion of non-sexual mature content.

Dumbledore locks Harry and Snape in the Room of Requirement. Harry's magic works, and Snape's doesn't. Will they kill each other? No slash.

"The best way to be remembered is to be a tragedy." Slight Will/Jem if you squint with your shipping glasses on. Drabble.

/:that trail of bloody fingerprints you always leave behind you:/ Monsters are not born. They are forged as weapons, and Jonathan Morgenstern is the mightiest of them all. Or, eight things you never really knew about demons and their kin. ::complete::

Life sharply interrupts Harry's grief - with Albus's love and guidance, he must resist Voldemort's reign of terror and strike fear into the Dark Lord. Hostile villagers, time-travelers and trickery dominate a sixth year like nothing you've ever seen.

After a Death Eater meeting, Snape returns damaged. Dumbledore tries to soothe his injuries and pains.

Self-sacrifice doesn't mean a lot when you don't know who you are.

Of all the lesser passions, they like fighting most. They'd kill for the thrill of first love. HouseChase

The last thing Chase needs in his life is dreams of House--unfortunately, they don't seem to be stopping. S4 AU, House/Chase

Chase was a precocious little tyke, wasn't he?

After receiving an alarming amount of owls regarding Harry, Dumbledore decides to pay the teen a personal visit. On the Weasleys' cellar steps, they discuss Sirius, the prophecy, and how best to avoid tickling a sleeping dragon the summer after Year 5.

This isn't the kind of thing he usually does, but he's not considering the alternative. Post-ep ficlet for "Brave Heart." House/Chase friendship/mentorship; some father/son implications.

House deals, or doesn't deal, with the aftermath of Kutner's death. House and various pairings.

Snape’s dark mark is returning & his fate is as uncertain as his complex relationship with Dumbledore who offers tea, laughter & Occlumency lessons. Will Snape’s nearly fatal return to Vol in GoF push these two apart or pull them together? ADSS Pre SLASH

Spoilers for 'Simple Explanation'. At the bottom of House's trash can are three tiny balls of crinkled paper. A fourth is folded in House's front pocket.

Wilson has a panic attack in the men's bathroom. Set soon after H&H

Harry is still angry but this year he has a person to blame. A secret trunk, a kitten with a secret and an secret potion. I've been told this isn't complete. It is a complete year at Hogwarts as are the books so I considered it Complete.

Aftermath of 'Last Resort'. Chase and Kutner have a talk.

House is having some serious bad luck. Errant baseballs, falling telephone poles, collapsing balconies, leaking gas lines... And if that wasn't enough, who the hell picked Chase to be the knight in shining armor? 30 Days and Nights of House/Chase

The events of "Wilson's Heart" affected more people than just House and Wilson. Seven three-hundred word flash fics from the POVs of Cuddy and House's teams.

Chase has gotten it together since being fired, and House is complicating his life, whether Chase likes it or not. House/Chase, if House gets his way. Now with 80% less angst and 50% more snark. Updates courtesy of 30 Days and 30 Nights of House/Chase.

House/Thirteen friendship fic. House is in pain. Thirteen helps. Some House/Cuddy, Thirteen/Cuddy.

Why Severus Snape hates being ill

House/Cameron. Set post Human Error and goes AU.

Severus Snape goes back in time with one mission: to kill his younger self. The reason? So Lily Evans can live the life that she deserves. Because if he were dead, if he had never told Lord Voldemort the prophecy, then she would still be alive.

Disgusted by Tobias Snape’s cruelty and motivated by his love for Severus, Albus decides to take action. AD-SS slash.

Angsty oneshot. Post ep 4.8. After the new ducklings knock House out and run tests on him, someone stops by his office with news.

Chase is used to being second best. Sort of a HouseChase father son by the end. One shot.

Dumbledore and Harry find their peace at King's Cross. This is my version of what I would have liked to see happen in Chapter 35 of Deathly Hallows. Warning: Book 7 spoilers.

Tag to “Love Hurts.” At the end of that disastrous date, House takes Cameron home. House/Cameron

Sixth year AU, written pre HBP. When Harry appears at the Welcoming Feast wearing a glamor only Snape notices, Snape decides to find out what the glamor is hiding. His investigation leads to a number of shocking revelations about both Harry and himself.

Spoilers for DH. Another oneshot to add to the burgeoning collection as a followup to Deathly Hallows. A certain portrait through the years.

Severus Snape stands, quite literally, on the precipice between heaven and hell when he finds himself greeted by Albus Dumbledore—and his thoughts on life, love, and Lily.

BOOK 7 SPOILERS! When Snape wakes beyond death, he finds more than one person waiting to greet him.

Chase has a migraine. House is nice. oneshot ChasexHouse

“If I tell you to leave me and save yourself, you will do as I tell you?”...“I I can’t, Professor.” With only hours left, Dumbledore must help Harry come to terms with his destiny.

Why did House want to go to the places mentioned in Fetal Position? And why didn't he go? A ficlet made up of 100word drabbles on where he didn't go and where he ended up.

How do you know it's bad if you have nothing to compare it to? Takes place after One Day, One Room and contains spoilers thru Season 3. Warnings: Profanity, mention of child abuse, Kafka, and pillow forts

A series of short pieces chronicle the reaction of staff and patients at PPTH after the confrontation between House and Chase at the end of Finding Judas with emphasis on the strained relationship between House and Chase themselves.

House and Chase have their first encounter after the events of Finding Judas.

Follows the relationship between Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape. To the song For Good from the Broadway musical Wicked.

Severus Snape returns to Hogwarts after the Death Eaters reconfigure in GoF. Little does he know that there are two professors waiting for him. Compatible with The Easter Holiday or The Burdens of a Lioness timeline.

Chase does something nice for House. House, naturally, has to find out why. Or that's what he says when Wilson asks him how it started. HouseChase festive fluff.

COMPLETE. Was Dumbledore really stupid to trust Snape? HALF BLOOD PRINCE COMPLIANT and STILL pretty much CANON as of Deathly Hallows.

Severus Snape has tried everything, but he can't seem to get rid of a migraine. He finds help in an unlikely place. Rated just to be safe. An AU one shot.

Just how did Chase manage to make it where no other fellow had gone before.

The rift between House and Chase comes to an end.

Albus Dumbledore sets three requirements for Severus Snape's entry into the Order of the Phoenix.

The Hogwarts staff is exhausted. A staff meeting is called, but the fatigue of Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin, and Severus Snape begins to catch up to them. A one shot during the first school term of HBP.

After a particularly rough night of answering letters from the ministry, Severus Snape is worn out and exhausted. He finds comfort in the care of a certain headmaster. Kind of a long oneshot. Meant to be like a fatherson relationship.

The Dark Mark has made a suspicious reappearance on Severus Snape’s arm, prompting Albus Dumbledore to make a potentially deadly vow. Set during GoF. ADSS slash.

Severus adapts to a life in which he is not alone. (Sequel to Beginning to Rest. Slash: SS/AD. Complete.)