A/N: This is a little idea I got a little while ago, that started with the Bourne crossover. It never really morphed into anything other than a drabble, but I did get other ideas, which led to this series. I'm very hesitant about posting this, but I decided to put up what I had and see how people like it. So please, tell me if it's good or bad. What the crossover is should be in the chapter title, but I'll also put it in an A/N just in case.


Will loved to sit on public benches, cat daemon on his lap, watching the crowd pass. He would travel all over the world, and look at the varied daemons that passed by to take his mind off the ache in his heart - the ache that hadn't gone away since he'd had to leave Lyra. He would sit with slightly lowered eyes and flip through an encyclopedia of animal species as the people around him went along with their lives, ignorant of the daemons that had loyally followed them since birth. He studied countless books on animals, and loved matching descriptions in books to the daemons in order to find the little clues they gave to the personality of the one they followed.

He was sitting at Waterloo Station, London, when he saw the grey snake, twining between her person's feet, slithering rapidly from side to side to keep up with the man's determined pace. As the snake slide along, its head constantly swayed from side to side, tongue flickering in and out of sight. It hissed at one of the passing daemons, front fangs gleaming with venom. The man was much like the snake that followed him, hiding sharp eyes and deadly violence behind a thin veil of normalcy.