Allura cares deeply for her paladins. However, she cant help but find their species bizarre, disturbing, and sometimes downright horrifying the more she learns about them. Random oneshots and drabbles based around those "Aliens find humans weird or scary" theories from Tumblr because I have no self-restraint. Suggestions welcome. Latest Chapter: What Are Sleep-overs?

All about Grunt.

For Shepard, death is just another technicality (AU, Shakarian).

A series of one-shots set in a universe where Vader turned double agent for the Rebellion about three years after ROTS, and Leia is now his primary contact with the Rebellion. New: The Slave Who Makes Free. Meanwhile, on Tatooine... (Or, in which we learn that Luke and Anakin have more of a connection than either of them yet realize.)

Post Season 3 - The strongest are those who can get back up with the bitter taste of defeat still fresh in their mouths. Ruby and her new team are trying to save as many as they can while they wait for Cinder's next move. But Cinder has a new weapon in store for the huntsmen in training. And this weapon wears a familiar face... :: JaunexPyrrha, eventual JaunexRuby

Primarch Adrien Victus makes some observations about the Commander and his subordinate, Vakarian, during his time aboard the Normandy.

What Jane Shepard is and was. According to everyone else, of course.

Ten billion people over here die, so twenty billion over there can live. After the war, there are pieces to pick up, and lives to rebuild. And even with the Reapers gone, nothing is easy.

Slumped in the common room, sweaty and gross, it started simply with: "No offense guys, but right now I'd kill you all for a chocolate bar."

We all know the story of Lily Evans and James Potter. She hated him, and he loved her. Watch her anger, and love for him grow through the years. Watch him win her heart. With bad pick-up lines.

Humanity never developed FTL. The Prothean archives contained no technology, no Element Zero, just a warning. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy for two thousand years, restricted to their only system, how will humanity have changed when they first meet the Turians? AU, alternate history of humanity and First Contact.

Sequel to And the Meek Shall Inherit the Galaxy. On hiatus while author recovers from medical emergency.

SEQUEL TO UNREQUITED SNOWFALL. The trial of Draco Malfoy was the most controversial of the year. Most felt that he ought to be thrown into Azkaban for his crimes, the other half passionately believed it was wrong to lock up an eighteen year old boy for choices he'd been forced to make under duress. Hermione Granger never expected the trial to take a turn like this. DMHG.

Garrus Vakarian doesn't like it when people pull a gun on his girlfriend. Especially when they're her ex-lovers. ME3, One-shot. NOT for Shenko fans.

"To the Sol Alliance and all of Humanity, greetings. I am Harbinger and I have traveled across the galaxy to meet you." Shepard wasn't the first to reach the Catalyst, eons ago, someone else did and they chose synthesis, embedding the desire in the Reapers. They've searched for organics to merge with ever since and now they've found them. AU, First Contact, Humans / Reapers

It's a rainy day and Katara's professor would absolutely kill her if she got her papers wet, so she heads into the nearest building for protection. The building happens to be a small teahouse, and a cute guy named Zuko happens to be working there. Modern AU Zutara oneshot.

AU. Humanity makes First Contact with the galaxy peacfully, and the resulting technological and cultural exchanges successfully obliterate next to all Renegade beliefs the species holds. This is the world of Mass Effect where the human race is one made up virtually entirely of idealists. Inspired by College Fool's Renegade Reinterpretations.

The best way to create peace is through dance. Or: Zuko struggles not to offend the visiting daughter of a major world power. Through dance. Modern AU Zutara.

While Natasha was undercover pretending to work for him, Tony always wondered why she didn't fall for him. She didn't swoon at his feet like all the other women. Was there already a man in her life? It took all the events of 'The Avengers' to happen before he finally figured it out. Post Avengers. Told from the POV of the hilarious Tony Stark. Rated T to be safe. R&R!

Will the Normandy's favourite double-act ever realise their potential as a couple? Let's find out. Kenneth/Gabriella

The woman I once was felt sadness, felt guilt, felt regret. I felt none of those things. Post-ME3 Control Ending.

When the Fuhrer is too busy for an important meeting in a foreign country, the duty slips down to one Roy Mustang. Reluctant to send one of his most talented dogs into dangerous land alone, Bradley decrees that he shall have a travelling partner; Edward Elric. Just when Roy thought the situation couldn't get worse, it was decided Edward would have to go in the guise of Roy's SON.

Of course the Scotts knew their little boys were... different. One of them was blue, for Pete's sake.

It's not like you expected her to break up with him or anything. / Eventual Jake/Amy

It's a known fact between the entire staff at the Fire Lord's Palace, that Fire Lord Zuko has nightmares. They're ones that keep him screaming, so loudly, that everyone within his entire wing can hear some sort of the noise. They think it's from worries about the Nation, or memories about the war, but no one guesses that at least twice a week, Zuko dreams about losing a girl.

Doctor John Chesterton has just landed the job of his dreams with the rather mysterious Torchwood. On his first day, he accidentally gets rather lost and is subsequently saved by the beautiful Rose Tyler, leading him to find the girl of his dreams as well. First AU in the Gingerbread Houses series.

It almost became a running joke, to see how often and how creative she could get to enter his apartment, and how long it would take him to notice she was there or did something.

Sam and Steve have been traversing Europe looking for Bucky. Not everyone is convinced it isn't an open invitation road trip.

With Steve and Natasha watching his back, Bucky believed he could reconcile the man he was and the man he was becoming. Set Post-The Winter Soldier.

post 1x22. something bad goes down (or, jake dies and amy's left to deal and the author is terribly sorry)

(CA:WS Spoilers) When Natasha arrives at the river, the Winter Soldier is pushing his hands into Steve's bleeding stomach, and he keeps repeating, "I know him."

Or five times Jake wants his partner to say something and the one time she does. Rated for language.

A prompt I got from tumblr: "Jake x Amy: The first 'I love you'."

Five times the words "we're not dating" comes out of Amy Santiago's mouth, and one time it doesn't.

He's always needed her at his back, but there's more to her role now, her steady hands leading his, drawing paths before him to make sure he doesn't falter in the dark. – Royai, post-Brotherhood AU where Roy doesn't get his eyesight back.

The intensity of the close bond between the Winchester brothers inspires envy, awe, admiration, longing and even suspicion in outsiders. A series of stories told by individuals after unforgettable encounters with Sam and Dean.

One shot, sleepover trope. Amy has been losing sleep and Jake has a solution.

. . .and that one time when Anakin had to wake up a rather tired Ahsoka Tano. sleepy!Skyguy and sleepy!Snips

"I can't. I can't make the choice, but I don't have to. Because she can. And I hate to do it, I hate to force the decision on her, but it's killing me, and I have to... So it's her choice, and one tiny, selfish part of me dares to hope that she'll say no." What two Doctors were thinking on Bad Wolf Bay.

Sometimes she wonders if it's really worth it. LeoCalypso, after the war with Gaea. Calypso-centric.

Killian Jones learns to cuddle

Immediately postwar. Katara is dead. But that doesn't mean she's gone. Join Zuko as he struggles through day to day life as Fire Lord with his very own phantom menace. Zutara. Oneshot.

He's been making jokes about their mutual attraction since day one, he can't blame her for hoping that she can do the same and lighten the mood. Still, it hurts. Because they both know that even though it did start out as their usual banter, it meant more to him. - CS OS post-3x05

"His lips were burning." Killian's thoughts immediately after the kiss. [Spoilers for 3.05 sneak peek]

Shepard is distracted. So is Garrus. Awkwardness ensues.

During a Reddit AMA, Raphael Sbarge confirmed my suspicions he narrated a Disney vacation planning DVD. So naturally it came up on tumblr that Kaidan should take everyone to Disney World. OP delivers. This fic will give you cavities. I don't even know how it happened. Forgive me? Rating for language only, because Jack. Otherwise it's as rated G as it gets.

When Kai Leng sends a mocking message to Shepard's terminal after the commander's defeat on Thessia, the crew decide that a little spammy revenge is in order.

Shepard has a very specific plan to test her flexibility against Garrus's reach. Miranda does not approve. A birthday present for the wonderful Reyavie.

Legion had no idea what it was getting itself into when it agreed to join Shepard's team. A series of one-shots detailing its gradual development from machine into teammate, crew member, and friend.

Sometimes when she pondered too much, she thought that with a flick of her wrist, just a bit of bloodbending, she could straighten Aang's stance or get Momo to sit still… Set between 318 and 319, this is how Zuko became synonymous with Katara's sanity. -Oneshot-

In the wake of the breach collapse, Mako and Raleigh heal...and desperation makes an enemy more dangerous.

ME3 AU: With the galaxy ending all around him, Garrus finally decides to go after what he wants. Too bad Shepard's too dense to realize that's her.

Hakoda realizes that he lost his children when they became heroes, and he lashes out at the wrong person. What follows is a stern warning.

Any other day Roy would have glanced about for Major Hawkeye, expecting her at his back, keeping them both going — but today was different. Today was the beginning of Eastern Command's week long war. [Roy/Riza]

Legion watches a vid at movie night and is immersed in the world of fiction. Specifically A.I. fiction. Shepard learns that this new outlet might be giving the geth some questions about its own existence and about its place in the universe. One-Shot.

What happens when a jealous ex finds out Caskett are a couple. Just some fluff to make us feel good about our pair.

He wears the armor she died in. One-shot Legion/FemShep friendship.

What began as a series of harmless pranks aboard the Normandy quickly escalated into something way over the team's heads. Just how does April Fool's Day on Commander Shepard's ship go down? Rated for language.

"Volunteering is not allowed, dear." —How Prim and Peeta win the Hunger Games, how Prim and Haymitch defeat the Quarter Quell, how Prim becomes the face of the rebellion, and how everything turns out the same in the end. (Previously titled The Precious Little Girl Who Glowed.)

Minerva McGonagall knew the exact moment when she realized that Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger were meant for each other. One-shot, 8th Year fluff. D/Hr.

It's been years since the Sol System Battle; years since the Reapers suddenly laid down their arms and began working for peace. But Garrus Vakarian has never much trusted peace...especially not in the face of everything he lost that day. Three-part miniseries exploring some of the consequences of the "Control" ending; Garrus/FemShep with largely Paragon path implied.

Upon learning of the human concept of Valentine's Day, Garrus asks Shepard to meet him on the Citadel, hoping to finally establish their relationship. But when he realizes he's not the only one she has plans with that day, he embarks on a personal (and highly inappropriate) mission to eliminate his perceived rivals.

Years after the end of the Reaper War, Shepard's crew is interviewed about her relationship with Garrus.

Garrus learns why Shepard paints her face, and then he shows her the turian way.

You have one (1) new message at your private terminal, Shadow Broker.

A determined and slightly immortal Rose Tyler battles back to her Doctor, but coming home is harder than she thought. A reunion fic set post-Doomsday and assuming the Rose Tyler parts of S4 don't exist.

"After a few seconds, they were separated forcefully. Starfire gasped for breath and saw Speedy flying across the room. Robin stood between them, his fists clenched at his sides." When Starfire admits to Speedy that she has been having some trouble with a certain Boy Wonder, he helps as best as he knows how. RobStarSpeedy... but really just RobStar

Peeta and Katniss were in school together long before they were reaped for the Hunger Games. What thoughts did Peeta have about her over the years? R&R

Shepard finds herself reliving the last few years, from the beacon on Eden Prime to the battle on Earth. Again, and again, and again. How much can she change? How much should she change? M for language, occasional sexual situations.

Two lives, running side by side. Two phantoms, from the future that never was.

What's this about letting Kaidan get away with Horizon? What is?

You'll never be alone, she'd said. She lied. Post-ME3. Very dark.

"Unlike his Catnip, his specialty isn't the immediate, quick-release arrow. It's the snare, which requires more strategy and patience. But his snares never fail. And one way or another, he'll trap his Catnip into his heart." Winner of Starvation's September monthly challenge: Arrows.

What Shepard might not realize is, she'll never be alone, either. There are already people looking down. Shakarian. Post-ME3 Destroy.

What begins as a simple trip to retrieve extra cleaning supplies for his mother turns into something more for Dudley, something even he can't explain. He still hasn't forgotten what the Dementors showed him the previous summer, and he's beginning to think that maybe they were right after all. Oneshot.

After getting into a fight with Zuko the night before his wedding to Mai, Katara starts to come to the painful realization that in order to truly be happy, that you first must learn to be happy with yourself. A story about a journey of self-discovery. Written for Zutara Week: Seasons.

Post ME3- A peaceful family moment between the once reluctant asari and her poetic krogan husband as they raise their girls on Tuchanka.

Zutara Week 2012, Day 3: Transcend. Zutara from Aang's perspective from their time at Ember Island up until his actual acceptance

He curls around her body when she sleeps, all lanky arms and reckless abandon; Natasha shouldn't have expected anything less. LokiNatasha, oneshot

The Avengers might clash like crazy, but when one of them is hurt, the others are there. And Steve realizes they're like one huge dysfunctional –but loving- family.

Hazing!Verse 11: The Avengers are turned into kids by a soft-science de-aging serum, silliness ensues. -Tinyvengers! Crack-

This, then, is how they save one another.

"I've lost her...But I was so hoping she would come back to me." How Gale gave up on Katniss. One-shot.

Hazing!Verse 12: There's a surprise attack at a hot springs and the team, deprived of their usual weapons, must learn to improvise. -MacGyvengers!, Crack!-

They don't become a team overnight. First they have to eat shawarma, watch movies, and play rock, paper, scissors.

After a mission gone wrong, Natasha is left in a coma and Clint writes letters to her; in hope that she can hear. "Dear Natasha..."

What if Natasha had been the one compromised and put under Loki's mind control instead of Clint? Movieverse. [HIATUS. No plans to complete.]

A small gift prompts Legion to go on a small quest of discovery. Rated T to be safe.

The crew's favorite things.

They're yin and yang, two sides to the same coin. But in this one thing, he wishes they were not so different.

Mordin and Kirrahe exchange a short series of letters. Set during the events of Mass Effect 2.

It's been a few weeks since the Avengers were brought together, and sleep still isn't easy to come by.

Some days, the fight kicks your ass - but that doesn't meant you give up on it. They fought as hard as they could, just hoping it would be enough. OR: Clint, Natasha, and Tony are surrounded by enemy forces with reinforcements too far away to help. Whump.

The Avengers meet their match in the privacy of their own kitchen. Spoiler-free humourous crack fic!

Set Post-ME3 where Shepard chooses Control. A hundred years after the Reaper War, a Turian ship captained by the grandson of Garrus Vakarian comes across a derelict Reaper inhabited by a hologram of Commander Shepard.

Dying is easy. Living is hard. She hoped she wouldn't have to do it alone. Shepard/Vakarian.

ME2. It's Shepard's birthday. Grunt finds out.

Forget Commander Shepard and Admiral Anderson; being responsible for organizing the construction of a doomsday device with that many zany races and organizations, Admiral Steven Hackett is clearly the true, most long-suffering hero of Mass Effect 3.

AKA 'I Know'. The Beach Scene happened, but with one difference: the bullet hit Charles one inch to the side, saving his legs. A few months later, Erik returns - and Charles greets him in a FAR less than loving way - in the beginning...

"Are you still you when the only person who knows you is gone?" Six months after the war, Gale reflects on his best friend. Oneshot.

"Just this one time," Thresh says, his eyes tearing up when he remembers the little girl he treated as a sister, "I let you go." He remembers Rue's smile. "For the little girl."

Kinkmeme prompt: In one universe, Erik left Charles. In another, he stayed. So what happens when the two Eriks get switched? "At first, Erik thinks he's dreaming. Then he realizes that this is Charles. Who is not paralyzed. And KISSING him."

To Shepard, being with Garrus was worth the headache. Literally. Kink meme fill. Garrus/FemShep. Fluff with lots of biology humor.

"I am a pure-blood. But why do I feel like I'm the filthiest and lowest of all?" There was just much too pain involved. Draco Malfoy realizes the greatest mistake of his life.

'"They tore her apart and then wiped me out of her mind to send me a message. To mess up my life. To break..." he trailed off. Blaise nodded his head with understanding. "To break your heart," he finished for him.' Dramione. One-shot.

It's Raven who finds the single flaw in his theory, and asks the innocent question that changes everything. "When you say no more hiding, Erik, do you mean that for everyone? Even . . . Charles?"

Beckett takes Castle with her to a therapy session with Dr. Burke. Secrets are spilled.

Nine months ago she gave him up at the behest of his daughter - choosing to break herself in order to free him. As dumb ideas go it's the worst one ever. ***Finalist for 'Best Romance' in the 2012 Castle Fan Fiction Awards.***

Draco was broken. Nothing was going to fix him. That was what he wanted. He wanted to make himself inhuman – cold, and unfeeling. Maybe it would help him get things done. He was broken. And he was the one who broke himself. /ONESHOT

A species without Paragons is one with a sad and terrible history. Humanity enters a very different First Contact War, and Mass Effect as you know it will change. Warning: this fic may make you rage and wish genocidal retributions against aliens.

Ozai sent Zuko to serve in the Home Guard, rather than risk Iroh's influence with Zuko roaming the world looking for the Avatar. When love for family comes to be at odds with love for people, however, one or the other must break.

Some things are best forgotten.

"She's not worth it." He nodded slowly, looking up to his professor. "Was Potter's mother?" With those words, he left the room, his robes flowing behind him. one-sided DHr, implied HHr.

Hermione was always the better soldier than Harry.

She would always be untouchable, she would always be for the greater good, always high above him, and right then he just couldn't take it anymore. He had to tell someone because in that moment he realized something. Eureka, he found it. DracoXHermione

ME2- Tali notices Commander Shepard behaving strangely and fearing Cerberus influence enlists the other members of the original Normandy crew to investigate. Garrus, Tali, Joker, Chakwas and Shepard.

One Shot. They aren't children. He can see the blood that lingers beneath their fingernails, and all the world will see is a brother fighting his brother for power. Mirrorverse/AU.

Kate questions her relationship with Josh. Castle answers her questions about his marriages. And somewhere in between, Kate realizes that sometimes you just have to look at what's in front of you.

Hermione sleeps for four days. One, two, three, four. On the fifth day...

Fathers are supposed to protect there children, not born them. At least, that's what Hakoda thinks.

Piandao didn't know Sokka had a father. Hakoda didn't know Sokka had a teacher.

"The universe changed around me while I slept, and I've fought hard to catch up." Walking into hell? Well, at least she knew who had her back. Garrus/Fem!Shep, mentions Kaidan/Fem!Shep. Rated for language, little bit of sexuality. ME2 Spoilers.

The story follows Tali'Zorah as she interacts with the engineering crew. She soon finds a unlikely friendship with a master thief.

Gale's POV of the Hunger Games. His heart breaks and his anger burns as he watches Katniss fight, hurt, and love.

Future Fic. Myles and Beckett Fowl have never been that close to their older brother, having long since left Fowl Manor to begin his own Empire. But what happens when they discover their older brother's little secret? Contains Arty/Holly romance.

One Shot. Sokka isn't special. He's extraordinary.

"You have to love all the facets of their soul, or your love is pointless." A Story of the Girl Who Bends Blood and the Boy Who Loves Her. –Zutara; semi AU; giftfic for dancingqueensillystring-

Several years post ROTJ, Lord Vader finds himself with a new role to fill-Grandpa. Extremely AU. If you've ever wanted to see Vader vs. Toddler, this is your story. : Humorous longshot. Cover courtesy of LV Writers image library.

After Bespin and before Endor, Darth Vader is shocked to discover that Luke and Leia are twins. He's even more shocked when Imperial Intelligence reports that Organa and Skywalker are, erm, a tad closer than previously suspected. Humor, mild AU.

Hermione is a sister to Harry, a mother to Rose and Hugo, a wife to Ron...and a Legilimens and Unspeakable. She is also very, very angry. A look at a Hermione who developed the instincts she evidenced with Marietta and Umbridge. AU, but canon-compliant.

Voldemort avoided death as a spirit for 13 years. Strangely, he couldn't avoid a bus. One Shot.

Six times Iroh accurately read Zuko's heart, and one time he didn't. ZukoxKatara. One shot.

Almost. She had almost been his.

After the end of the war, a young Earth Kingdom herbalist named Song receives a strange letter. Who could she possibly know in the Fire Nation?

Maybe, just maybe, they were never that different to begin with. A friendship of ice and silver in twenty truths.

Third and Final Part of the Azula Redemption Trilogy: Because you are Azula, and you aren't willing to let it all end like this.

"Of course it's missing something vital. That's the point." Dennis Creevey takes up his brother's camera after the war.

COMPLETE "Get off Hermione, or I will kill you." Voldemort looked up at Harry, his human features rapidly unfurling revealing the old Tom Riddle. "Kill me then."A TRHG story.

She was always waiting for him. Oneshot stand alone. Adult situations.

Draco Malfoy mourns Hermione Granger the only way a spoiled rich kid knows how. Told from Narcissa Malfoy's POV. Oneshot. Complete.

Jane returns from Gateshead more in love with Mr. Rochester than ever. After struggling with her feelings through a fortnight of dubious calm, she finally reaches breaking point on Midsummer Eve... just hours before Rochester proposes.

On her wedding day, Leia finds that childhood dreams change, but never wholly die. Sometimes they may even be resurrected. [Something of a sequel to Fragments of Elegy, but can easily stand on its own. Slightly AU if you consider the EU canon.]

He never expected that there would be a time when he would envy the poorest wizard of all time. He had everything, everything he wanted... except her. HG/DM