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Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Gilt in Silver and Gold

by Araceil

It started with a wretched scream from a Death Eater, a burst of accidental magic so powerful it flung away the people holding him down.It started with an unknown spell and a potion bottle and a desperate cutting curse from an unknown wizard trying to save him, it started with a blood sacrifice and a gargled mispronounced spell from an accidentally half-decapitated head, and a broken bottle exploding at his feet.And the world heaved around them.Harry Potter vanished in the plume of burning potion fumes, a burst of golden smoke that engulfed him so suddenly he hadn't the chance to move.It started with the death of Voldemort and the one person in the entire damn world that wanted to save him for his own sake following on his heels, and the unspoken left to hang between them, and the single sliver of soul that knew love through him. Harry had no idea where he was, just that he was under attack. He didn't intend to irrevocably alter the timeline. He didn't intend to draw attention to himself at Hogwarts. He didn't intend to get the attention of Tom Riddle. But he did it anyway.

Teen 30k words 6 / ? ch In progress 3.9k kudos

(but that's canon anyway) · Action/Adventure · Canon Typical Racism · Drama· +24 more

Marvel Cinematic Universe+2

SignsLanguage of Love

by SteeleHoltingOn

Sarah Rogers wasn't supposed to teach her son, Steven, the finger language of the Deaf. She couldn't have known the profound influence it would have on his life.

Teen 5.7k words 6 ch Complete 3.3k kudos

Sign Language · Deaf Clint Barton · Pre-Serum Steve Rogers · Pre-World War II· +3 more

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Pro Potentia - For Power

by MarlasSett

He'd been wandering London for weeks when he sees him. The pale faced child with wispy black hair, skinny shoulders covered in threadbare clothing. He’s soft in the way children are, but amidst the gaggle of little bodies sheltered within the battered gates, he stands with the air of a man grown. Marek glanced at the pinned sign that read ‘Wool’s Orphanage’ and then back at the child. He had seen this boy before, with Evelyn, who insisted on marathoning the films every year, who liked to regale him with stories about the characters. This boy was Voldemort.

Teen 68k words 21 / ? ch In progress 2.5k kudos

1930s · 1940s · Adoption · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence· +17 more

Captain America (Movies)+1

More than Country (More than God)

by togina

There are men, the Commandos know, that you can trust at your back. (And there are perverts that you want to keep far, far away.) The problem is: what if they're the same man?

Teen 3.5k words 1 ch Complete 1.5k kudos

Period Typical Attitudes · Period-Typical Homophobia · Period-Typical Racism · Period-Typical Slurs· +1 more

Lizzie Bennet Diaries+2

Armistice

by TheBasilRathbone

1940s AU - The war is over, and she hasn't heard from Darcy in weeks. Since she'd found out about George Wickham, they have been writing letters constantly. But it had come to a sudden, abrupt end. She fears the worst, until a tip from Jane brings her to the train station on an early Wednesday morning, waiting to greet the returning soldiers.

Teen 4.7k words 2 ch Complete 1.4k kudos

1940s · WWII · Alternate Universe · War· +1 more

Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)+2

season of mists

by athoughtfox

All that week, she launders school uniforms, searches out pens and books, packs cases. The children move around the house like projections: perfect, moving, talking copies of themselves. She watches them, trying to feel for the thing she is missing, like the last step in the dark. For if you leave a child unwatched and unguarded, the fair folk will come and snatch them away to dance forever in their rings, and in your cradle they will leave one of their own. - In which you cannot leave the lands of magic unmarked. An expansion on 'mrs pevensie on her children, autumn 1940'

General 860 words 1 ch Complete 1.4k kudos

WWII · The Blitz · Post-LWW · in which mrs pevensie gets four children back who are not quite what she sent away

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan+2

Acheron

by Eridans

Nico was resilient.He was ten and ninety. His birth certificate most likely read ‘presumed dead’. There was no one left in the world from his time who would remember him. He didn’t know anything that happened during World War II, only that they lost. Mamma was dead. So was Nonno and Nonna.Even Bianca.The river Lethe may have tried to take his memories of a past that Nico had no intention of losing, but nothing could ever take away the devastation he felt as his world crashed around him in this day and age.(Nico had stubbornness in spades, and children of Hades were well renowned for their bitterness.) -----------SEQUEL TO LETHE

General 55k words 14 ch Complete 1.3k kudos

italian!nico di angelo · culture shocked!nico di angelo · angry as hell!nico di angelo · AU· +3 more

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan+2

Lethe

by Eridans

He's ten and ninety simultaneously, his mother was murdered and his sister is a stranger. He's got a deck of cards that he holds onto like a lifeline and an Italian-English dictionary that's old as hell and crumbling, but it's not as old as he is, and that makes him laugh. The River Lethe was supposed to take away their memories, but Nico remembers his past, his days at home, the times he spent with his sister and mother at parades Mussolini hosted, where Maria sang the national anthem. The river tried to take away everything Nico cherished, and it could have been pure desperation or grief that made him remember his past. Nico didn't know. -----------SEQUEL 'ACHERON' POSTED.

General 21k words 8 ch Complete 999 kudos

culture shocked!nico di angelo · italian!nico di angelo · AU · WWII· +1 more

Captain America - All Media Types+1

Cousin

by togina

Aunt Lucy keeps insisting they'll grow into it, but Steve still isn't sure you can grow into someone's cousin. He thinks maybe you have to be born cousins. "Oh, child," Aunt Lucy says, laughing. "You were."

General 1.5k words 1 ch Complete 933 kudos

1920s · WWII