A piece of the universe more fit for princes and kings

Title: The Art of Flying
Date: April 30, 2003
First posted at: hpdrabble
Length: 425 words
Rating: PG
Warning: None. Some sadness, maybe.
Pairing: Mention of Ron/Hermione, a tiny bit
Notes: I was actually surprised that I never brought this over to my old fic journal -- I remember liking it when I wrote it.

( The Art of Flying )

Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prints
Date: February 3, 2005
Rating: PG
Warnings: None, except for bad grammar-based humour
Notes: When the title of HBP was first released, and did not contain the dash in Half-Blood, a bunch of us joked about how you could have half a blood prince, etc., and it was pretty funny, or at least I thought it was. Antosha started it.

Why, yes, I am archiving my old fics, thank you for asking.

( Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prints )

Title: Our Time in Eden
Words: 968
Pairing: Dani Beck/Michael Dooley
Rating: PG
Warning: Just angst. And vague case-y stuff. Spoilers for SVU 8x08 "Cage."

( Our Time in Eden )

Title: Back When I Knew Everything
Pairing: Dana/Lara
Rating: PG
Warning: Nothing, really. Some angsting ahoy.
Spoilers: For up through 3x03, "Lobsters."
Notes: There are two sides to every story, and the truth is somewhere in the middle." Lara, Dana, and Alice rant.

( Back When I Knew Everything )

Title: Walk of Faith (the In Time remix)
Rating: PG
Pairing: gen, if you can believe that. Neville's family.
Summary: Great Uncle Algie can’t wait for his grand-nephew to show promise as a wizard. Unfortunately, that may just take time.
Notes: Written as a remix of vissy's story Walk of Faith in the Remix Redux III challenge. That was about three months ago, and I just forgot to archive it here. Whoops.

( Walk of Faith (the In Time remix) )

Title: Someone Tell This Photograph
Fandom: New York Journal
Pairing: The usual, Will/Noel, Aileen/Justin
Rating: PG
Notes: Written for thieving_gypsy in that "write a drabble/fic with the first line of someone else's fic" meme. 'Cause I can never resist a good fic-y meme.

Title from Ani. I would have used the "you'll look like a photograph of yourself taken from far, far away" line, but I already titled a fic with that. Oops.

( Someone Tell This Photograph )

Title: On Sleepless Nights
Fandom: Thoroughbred, by Joanna Campbell
Pairing: Brad/Ashleigh ... well, sort of
Rating: PG
Notes: Written for onesyrinx, who requested "a Brad/Ashleigh fic" in the fandom drabble challenge. She is eeeevil, I say. Eeeeeevil.

Characters are Joanna Campbell's. Emily and Mrs. Townsend are mine, because I am intensely curious about what happened to "Townsend's daughter" who used to trail-ride Dominator before she got married, and Brad's other parent, who sent Caro the flowers after the car accident.

I've kept Brad and Lavinia's son as Ross, because until book #24 came out, his name was Ross - then he magically turned into Parker, and I've always resented that. Laura Townsend only appears in ACM, which I prefer to most of the new-generation canon, but in that way the story is AU.

( On Sleepless Nights )

Title: Friends and Lovers
Fandom: The L Word
Pairing: Unreq-Alice/Shane
Rating: PG
Notes: Written for feverishbm, who requested "Alice/Shane, with Alice sad at some point that whatever she has with Shane will never be more." in the fandom drabble challenge. ~400 words.

( Friends and Lovers )

Title: In the Genes
Originally posted at: hp100 and hp100uncut
Characters: Hermione's parents and that younger sister who never made it into the books
Rating: PG
Notes: This drabble grew out of my cranky feelings about the newest update to JKR's website, in which she states that magic is a dominant and resilient gene. Scientifically, there is no way a child can express a dominant gene if neither of her biological parents do. Which brings me to the question of Hermione ...

She's apologized dozens of times over the years. She's said she's sorry with flowers, tears, and sex. She knows it was a mistake, one that she never plans to repeat. What more does he want?

Jane still remembers the look on his face when he found that website, stating that magical ability is a dominant and resilient gene. Michael was never great shakes at science, and she watched him for a full minute, hoping it wouldn't compute. But it did. His eyes—blue, unlike their firstborn daughter's—fell like shooting stars, and he began to cry.

As far as she knows, he's never told Hermione. Jane doubts that will fool her for long, since their daughter reads anything and everything, wizarding or otherwise, that she can get her hands on. But for now, it seems to be working.

After Hermione went to Hogwarts—after the undeniable knowledge of her ability came out—they had another child, a daughter. Olivia is four years old now. Jane knows that this baby will never show any signs of magic, and every day she hugs her younger daughter and prays that she is enough to make Michael forgive her.

Title: After It All
Fandom: ny_journal
Pairing: Will/Brian, Tess/Jacob, Aileen
Rating: PG or PG-13, maybe
Notes: This makes me feel very fangirl, but this was written for thieving_gypsy for that recent song-drabble-meme. I've been fascinated by the NYJ RPG for forever, and especially by the Fosters. I'm sure all the other characters have the same kind of multilayered backstory, but I really like Will and Aileen.

( After It All )

Title: My Name is Not Voldie
Rating: PG
Warning: None
Pairing: None
Date: July 2003
Author's Note: I meant for this to be a humorfic, but as usually happens (and as happened with Harry Potter and the Pathetic Excuse for a Wizard), some serious/angst/drama snuck in anyway. So this isn't nearly as gratuitously stupid as I planned it to be, but it's pretty pointless anyway.

( My Name is not Voldie )

Title: Ribbons
Rating: PG
Warning: None
Pairing: There's an implied het pairing, sort of.
Date: July 2003
Author's Note: This is a fic with no point really, except that the first and last lines came to me and it wanted to be longer than a drabble. A bit of a peek inside Minerva McGonagall's head, throughout OotP. McGonagall loves and hates, at the same time.

( Ribbons )

Title: Seer Blood
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Date: July 2003
Length: 385 words
First posted at: hpdrabble

( Seer Blood )

Title: Reflection
Fandom: Return to Oz, the movie
Rating: PG
Warning, pairing: None
Date: July 2003
Author's Note: This movie was and still is one of my favourite kid movies, and it used to (and still does) scare me rather a bit.

( Reflection | noitcelfeR )

Title: Like the Sky
Fandom: The Saddle Club and Pine Hollow book series, by Bonnie Bryant
Rating: PG
Pairings: Lisa Atwood/Piper Sullivan, Lisa Atwood/Alex Lake, and Lisa Atwood/Skye Ransom
Date: July 2003
Author's Note: Explanations for this one are going to be confusing. Set during The Saddle Club #67, Summer Horse, but with a very, very quick look ahead to Pine Hollow #3, Reining In. Specifically, this story begins on page 85 of Summer Horse. Think of it as an unseen part of chapter 7.

( Like the Sky )

Title: Harry Potter and the Pathetic Excuse for a Wizard
Rating: PG
Warning: You mean aside from what passes for humour? None.
Pairing: None
Date: June 30, 2003
Author's Note: This really isn't nearly as hilarious as I thought it was when the idea came to me, but I sort of like it anyway. As anyone who reads my original fic will tell you, I don't really write humour, and as a result this is attempting to be humour with a touch of my usual depressing-ness.
Set during GoF, specifically Chapter Thirty-Two: Flesh, Blood, and Bone. You'll recognize the introductory lines. The rather lengthy title was inspired by a passing comment on mieko_belle's livejournal, that OotP might as well have been titled Harry Potter and the Really Nasty Headache.

( Harry Potter and the Pathetic Excuse for a Wizard )

Title: Mirrors
Rating: PG
Warning: Femslash, but not really
Pairing: Krum/Hermione, unrequited-Ginny/Hermione, unreq-Ron/Hermione, unreq-Neville/Hermione (boy, everyone sure likes Hermione)
Date: June 22, 2003
Author's Note: Many thanks to paranoidkitten for the Katie Bell/Cho Chang. This story begins right after this line from GoF:
"I can't," said Ginny, and she went scarlet too. "I'm going with – with Neville. He asked me when Hermione said no, and I thought … well … I'm not going to be able to go otherwise, I'm not in fourth year." She looked extremely miserable. "I think I'll go and have dinner," she said, and she got up and walked off to the portrait hole, her head bowed.

( Mirrors | srorriM )

Title: Turning to Gray
Rating: PG
Warning: The barest hint of slash
Pairing: Harry/Cho. And some other stuff.
Date: June 21, 2003 – written after a first reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Author's Note: This story grew out of the following excerpt from the book:
"I heard you last night," said Dudley breathlessly. "Talking in your sleep. Moaning."
"What d'you mean?" Harry said again, but there was a cold, plunging sensation in his stomach. He had revisited the graveyard last night in his dreams.
Dudley gave a harsh bark of laughter then adopted a high-pitched, whimpering voice. "'Don't kill Cedric! Don't kill Cedric!' Who's Cedric – your boyfriend?"
"I – you're lying – " said Harry automatically. But his mouth had gone dry. He knew Dudley wasn't lying – how else would he know about Cedric?

( Turning to Gray )

Title: Morning
Rating: PG
Warning: Character death. Hermione's narrating.
Pairing: Um ... it's a secret.
Date: May 2003
Length: 396 words

( Morning )

Title: The "When Pigs Fly!" Collection
Author's Notes: This is a series of drabbles that I wrote for my first hp100 challenge – "When Pigs Fly!" Naturally, the theme was to create the most OOC characters that you could. I liked some of them more than others, so here they are. All 100 words. All for Ravenclaw.
Date: April 2003
First posted at: hp100

( When Pigs Fly )