39Slowly, In Time » The 5th of October, a chapter for this day over ten years and what Dramione are doing. Starting off with a sexual encounter where nothing is certain, and chance meeting after chance meeting, as well as throwing Blaise Zabini in the mix, is time really enough for them?

14 Worlds » Severus and Luna, drawn together in many circumstances, in different worlds and different timelines; lightness and darkness are drawn to one another. 'Loving her is not his job. Crushing her is his job, and he fails.' / 'Still, she knows a lost soul when she sees one. Merlin knows, she is one.' / 'Everyone has a coping mechanism and maybe they have become each other's.'

11 This 'They kiss and they kiss and all that he feels is complete - this boy is everything. He is a mess and a masterpiece all in one human. As pathetic as he knows it is, his chest swells with the thought that he could take /this/ for the rest of his life.'

11 Shipwreck 'What a mistake. Broken people are broken people, and he is a lot of shards of one big broken mess that she can't fix - that he doesn't even want her to fix. She stares at her front door, willing him to knock despite even the thought of his name making her throat feel thick with poison.'

1 Homesick 'Maybe so many left because she was too much for them. Too jagged, too soft, too many paradoxes to be confined to one person. He can see that she is difficult to love, but not for him. To love Lily Potter is easier than breathing, than sleeping, than anything.'

1 Gone 'Icy claws of panic crawl through her body and eventually grip her by the lungs. She gasps heavily and constantly, attempting to draw some air into her lungs. All she can think is that she just wants to hear his voice - his voice and his voice only, and she isn't going to be able to think straight or breathe properly until she does.' Voldemort has died, and Bellatrix is broken.

7 Slowly, then all at once 'But this is his life, he tells himself then and he tells himself again when he meets her properly for the first time. She is beautiful - he's always known that much, but her olive eyes are so empty. His heart twinges for the first time in years when she shakes his hand, out of guilt or fear or something else, he does not know.'

2Nothing and Everything » One: Daphne/Blaise: 'Hollow shells, they cling to each other's every fiber. Barely living, barely breathing, except for one another.' Two: Ginny/Draco: 'She is as much unbearable as she is the blood in his veins. At some point her flames harnessed him, and he's been paying for it ever since.'

1 Light in The Dark 'She is always there to catch his tears. It is always messy. Hestia is never afraid to tell the truth, she is never afraid of him like everybody else. Somehow she loves him despite the shadows that live inside of him, and loving her is easier than breathing for him.'

2Lucky Stars » Daily advent notes from Blaise to Daphne on the lead up to Christmas.