Title: All The Stars

Summary: A series of unrelated drabbles and ficlets based on the Lunar Chronicles.

Disclaimer: I am not Marissa Meyer and make no profit from any of what I am posting.


1. Cinder: Looking Back

Sometimes she sits on her balcony, watching over Luna or peering at Earth when it's visible.

Iko joins her too, on most days, a snack or drink in tow. Cinder changes out of their formal gowns, adopting a familiar pair of cargo pants, or jeans and for a few hours, she pretends to be herself again. The girl who grew up in the Commonwealth- a nobody.

It's only in these sessions that she talks and laughs without thinking twice about it. When she has crumbs on her cheeks or drops something on her lap she doesn't fear criticism. She can put her hair up in a simple, but familiar, pony or have her cyborg parts on display unafraid of the wary eyes the Ministers turns towards her.

Had she not been Princess Selene, Cinder wonders if this is what her every day would have been like. No Kai, no Scarlet or Thorne. Maybe Peony would have been there too, sometimes, gushing about balls or falling in love.

But mostly, it would have just been Cinder with Iko, relaxing after a days worth of hard work. She can see it, sometimes, the small shop they'd have bought. The absence of responsibility too, with not a care in the world about anyone other than Iko and herself.

Sometimes Cinder wishes for that alternate universe. At others, she can't believe she ever wanted it.

She has friends now that she would have never met then. Levana might have taken over Earth. Kai may have (would have) been dead. She would have no cousin in Winter or best friends who looked out for her.

Cinder would have been a different person, sure. She would have looked up at the moon each night instead of staring down at the earth. But she won't give up her new life for anything in the world.


This is my first attempt at posting a TLC fanfic (even if it is just a bunch of unrelated drabbles) so I'm pretty excited about this!

Any requests/ thoughts? PLEASE let me know! :)