When Catherine Ross is sent to live with her Uncle after her mother passes, she tries to make the best of it. All too soon, the little girl is forced to grow up and she learns life isn't easy or fair. Abandonment and abuse sour her view on life. But can one person truly change everything? A forbidden best friend is all she has in this world. Can it survive Edgar Ross? Jack/OC.

Times are changing, people come and go without hellos or goodbyes, and the things that used to be valuable no longer seem to matter at all. Jack and Effie have never concerned themselves with the greater good, but now it's clear that heroism has chosen them in spite of this. With the world spinning out of control around them, will they manage to hold onto each other?

Short birth story oneshot. Belle and Adam welcome their first child with the help of their castle servant friends.