Some love stories are successful and happy. Most end in tragedy. Some children are saved. More children die. Orphans sometimes aren't accidents but by design. Career victors can be noble. Outlier victors can be treacherous. Sometimes people are far too mixed to divide in to easy categories of heroes or villains. The story of the 73 victors that preceded the 74th games. (15/73)

Hello, I'm Cade Valentine, the son of Comus Valentine and now inheritor of his father's infamous club: Valentinos. This club, famed for its wild Victor parties, have been in my family for decades, and with it brings lots of stories. Ones that I delve into deeper and attempt to chronicle one by one. After all, each Victor has a story and I will attempt to tell their stories.

And the good and the bad, because victors are not always what you think they are. The 75th until the 160th; trilogy companion.

Former title: 52. "Not everything is at it seems, and not everyone can be trusted... but that doesn't mean we can't try to make the world a better place." A collection of experimental stories exploring different aspects of the Guertena Art Museum and viewing the different events under a new light. After 15 Paintings: He notices the variation in style over and over again

Light is dead and the world has moved on. Everything has started to slip back to as it was. But the lives of some people have been changed beyond repair. What happened to Light's family, the task force, and Near once the reign of Kira was over?

It started with a spark. The Girl on Fire fanned the flames of revolution and changed the face of Panem forever. 100 fanfics from before, during, and after the events in The Hunger Games trilogy. Stories about trauma and resilience, love and hate, and life and death. A mix of drabbles, vignettes, and one-shots based on multiple Hunger Games characters. {LiveJournal Fanfic100.}

After choosing to sacrifice Chloe for the sake of Arcadia Bay, a sequence of events makes Max get much closer to Warren. How will their relationship develop from there? (This fanfiction is a humble attempt to write a slow paced Grahamfield story. Any comments are welcome!)

In this universe, Vivien and Ben get a divorce after the affair. Violet is forced to move into the infamous Murder House with her dad after a long custody battle. Tate still plans on going through with his promise to deliver a baby to Nora - only choosing the path of seduction. A few simple changes have the ability to alter the course of fate.

She had a brother, once. Sayu-centric.

Sebastian/Elizabeth. 25 word prompts. Short and long drabbles of all shapes and sizes that explore the inexplicable relationship of Sebastian Michaelis and Elizabeth E.C. Midford.

A year later, she's figured it out.

No one chooses to become an urban legend - no, by a series of unfortunate events they simply end up that way. oneshot.

[Collection of oneshots] A girl's heart is broken by a man she doesn't even know, a child craves for friends at the expense of her sanity, and a coward forever on the run from his feelings. The Gallery cackles in amusement as it watches. Will it ever shut up, you ask? Well, not when there's still so much more to see.

Instead of moving into the Murder House when Violet is a teenager, the Harmon family makes their move when she is a mere four years old. Following her life as she ages, growing into the young adult we all know and love, she comes across many conflicts that only a dead, blonde, murderous, yet still somehow incredibly loving and gentle, sociopath knows how to fix.

Just a glimpse was all he needed, a glimpse of who Jude could have been.

Violet finds a book of names, overthinks, watches like a creepy stalker, and tries to get some peace and quiet. Violate one-shot.

When a new family moves into the Murder House, Tate doesn't think they will last long. He has no idea how wrong he is. Or how drastically his afterlife is about to change...

The Capitol fell in November. [Or, Panem before, during, and after the war; through the eyes of the Peacekeepers who swore to protect it.] (SYOP?)

Usually on the first few weeks of autumn I find that German's sky has almost the perfect orange tint to it, and I would think of you. Of the time I'll spend with you eating cakes, listening to your rant and all else.

Her wooden boarders and flaking paint sag with loneliness that threatens to swallow her whole.

Kishitani Shinra's born about a generation or two earlier.

Seeing Max's life packed into boxes scattered throughout the room stops Warren's heart as if it's been clenched into his fist. There's too much finality in seeing her clothes, posters, and papers packed neatly into boxes and shoved aside. This is real and in one day, she will be sleeping in another state, far out of his reach.

Over five million seconds have passed since he last saw her smile and he's starting to forget what she looks like when she does. Warren doesn't know when it will be okay, it definitely isn't right now, but he knows that time whittles away at everything. Part Two of Seconds.

Matsuda tells Sayu the truth about her brother, the truth about what he had to do. The others told him telling her would be cruel, but believing Light's lies…at least he would want to know the truth.

President Coriolanus Snow is beginning to reach the end of his tether, Seneca Crane can no longer stomach the Capitol's injustice, and the Sixty-Ninth Hunger Games just might be the undoing of them both. [SYOT Closed!]

This is a series of Rudgar and Sascha ficlets that were inspired by a conversation with a friend and her headcanons. Although told as separate stories, all actually relate and connect to one another. My friend's headcanon for Sascha is that he's a young boy. Please enjoy the stories!

Nella moves into The Murder House, intending on turning it into a funeral home. The ghosts of the house take a shining to her...some more than others. Tate/OC

In the wake of a family tragedy, Victor remembers a happier time. One-shot.

Constance witnessing the death of her one perfect son, and the aftermath.

A story of love through the years, told by an outsider. (OC, slow development, after The Promise of Reunion ending)

[She seemed both motherly and vulnerable and whilst Violet felt a little intimidated by her elaborate appearance, the woman tugged on her heartstrings.] Violet meets Nora Montgomery in person and the two bond over a series of encounters. (Warning: unconventional pairing.)

"Nothing ain't safe anymore." She may have won the Hunger games, but the real games are far from over. Today is just the beginning.

(Murder House) What does it mean to be dead in house that won't let you die? What if the house hasn't been sold in a while? There are times Ben is at peace, when it's like really dying. But they never last long. (Rated for safety, nothing too bad really).

The Task Force returns to Japan to attend the funeral for their chief Soichiro Yagami. There they reunite with Sayu and Sachiko again. Guilt stricken Light has conflicting thoughts on whether he should stop right there or continue on his goal to make a crime-free utopia. One-Shot

Billie Dean Howard's life in the Murder House in quick snapshots.

Four things that she was to him, and the things that he learns.

"Not everything is black and white. You realize this, and a part of you wishes you'd known that a long time ago so it could prepare you for what's to come. Your brother is Kira, and now that you know, there is no going back." On Sayu Yagami's deathbed, she meets a Shinigami. This Shinigami isn't Ryuk; in fact, it's a visitor that she's been expecting for quite some time.

Hadn't it been for that dazzling smile of hers, he would have never married that spoiled, selfish, nagging, pestering, unbearable little bitch that was Nora Montgomery, née Hamilton.

It's the end of the world, and nobody feels fine. :: Vignette, written for 12 stories LJ comm, prompt "death".

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda.

a tale of bombs, a boy, and inheritance / the rise of the first president of panem. —for irma for the caesar's palace secret santa & winner of the caesar's palace monthly challenge

She was old enough to realize that the world was falling down around her. /War from the eyes of a child. Written for Caesar's Palace's Monthly Oneshot Challenge. For Lils.

Light Yagami dies alone in a warehouse and is reborn as a Shinigami. This is not exactly a good thing.

She's found that if she turns off all the lights and immerses herself in darkness, before lying in bed and shutting her eyes, she can still see the way his face screws up when he screams for her to let him stay. She really doesn't think that he would care anymore—she hasn't seen him cry in a long time.

AU. He's an enemy of the Districts, a fugitive of the Capitol, and currently living under her roof. Things are about to get complicated. Katniss x Seneca

"She blows a kiss weakly in the coffin's direction." For the Caesar's Palace October Oneshot Challenge.

They were together, forget the rest. violetxtate

A series of several tiny shorts I wrote about different Murder House characters, characters who were either very minor or who didn't seem to have much depth on the show. Some take place before death and some take place after. Peek into their minds. These are their voices.

Little insights at the 74th Hunger Games, the Quarter Quell, and the Mockingjay war through Katniss daemon, Lykaios.

He lives in a tower. The deeper you work, the more important you are. The ones that live on the highest floor are most likely to be bombed. Seventy-five years before the Katniss Everdeen even entered the arena, there was a Rebellion. Seven months in life of a brother and sister living in District Thirteen during the Dark Days, where up is down and down is up. For Nami.

And this is what happens when you're dead.

"It's chaos outside. People are dead or undead, and here he is, not answering her calls." Tate, Violet and the zombie apocalypse. AU. Multichapters.

He finds it difficult to dream in prison, mostly because it is difficult to sleep. - written for AHS exchange Round 1 on livejournal

"It must be selfish to think of saving herself at someone else's expense, but she doesn't mind. Better them than her." Mags-centric. Second place winner of Starvation's October prompt: fallen and forgotten.

It is tragic. But the House is full of tragic things.

"As a child she had wanted to grow wings, large strong ones like those of the gulls. Sometimes, when she closed her eyes, she could feel the rush of the ocean breeze against her fingertips, and hear the rolling waves from way below. White wings for freedom, after all." Written for Caesar's Palace Colour Challenge - prompt White

She catches him in the backyard, dozing off in the gazebo, the sunlight reflecting off his golden hair and the hint of a smile on the pink of his lips. A worn copy of a collection of Byron's poems and plays lies forgotten across his lap, the page folded where he'd been before he drifted off. This is when she likes him best. / Moments with Violet and Tate that we missed.

They're a suited King, Queen, Jack set. They're Aces strung together. One type of different things or different types of one thing.

There are noises and glimpses of things that she notices. It's much less intimidating than that first time, the only time before when she walked into the house blitzed, amped up on diet pills and a half gram of cocaine.

She's delightfully spiteful and, for awhile, it's enough. Until it isn't.

Little Tate shares a secret with Nora. The secrets only get darker and deadlier as Tate grows. This is a collection of scenes that reveal how Tate got swallowed by the darkness. Rated M for sexual content / language.

The house worked in sevens too. All the extras had passed, slowly, fading away into nothingness. Maybe that had been the point from the beginning. To narrow the playing field down to the seven of them. Post-finale. Oneshot.

"Let's go trick-or-treating." Her tone is casual and Tate opens his mouth to laugh, but shuts it when he catches her expression and realizes she might really want to. / Gift Fic for ScarlettWoman710.

"I'm sorry you're not happy, anymore." He says it like an afterthought, it's the most truthful he thinks he's been in a long time, honest and simple. Gift Fic for ohyellowbird.

"Because in her head, she's wondering if that's the way she's going to become. Like Maria, roaming this house for all of eternity. Look at what he did to me." Violate drabble series.

"She had had the air of remoteness that children, especially impish children, retain for some time after brushing through death" –Nabokov

Gift fic for BLEACHstardust. The ghosts of murder house play hide and seek to pass the time. Violet finds something she wasn't looking for.

/It will never be the kind of perfection that everyone else desires because they're stuck in time with their desires that will never be fulfilled; but it's perfection nonetheless, the blackest kind./ Or, running in circles, eternity at its darkest.

You are now in the Murder House. Welcome to the Murder House. You do not get to leave the Murder House.

Violet Harmon has been dead five years, and she finally knows the truth about the house. Rated M for language, kinks and smut. Violate.

There are stories, people and moments behind the crayons that colour their lives. These are those the quiet moments that won't get mentioned in the history books. Various pairings and people. For Caesar's Palace.

How can you fix something when you yourself are already beyond repair?

People watched as the city burned. People watched as their Capitol turned to ruins around them. And it seemed as if the entire Capitol population saw red as bullets sliced into the chest of a girl in a lemon coat. —for the Caesar's Palace prompt, 'yellow'.

Mikami reflects on his status as the prophet and yet he remembers Takada burning alive and he knows that God's daughter has yellow eyes. AU Post Light Victory

After the warehouse, Mikami spends ten days in jail with his own thoughts.

Nine years after Light Yagami's death Matsuda finds himself on Sayu's doorstep speaking to her son.

How hard would you fight, to live again? Character sketch of Teru Mikami.

There was a girl Hamish wanted to marry, a long time ago. He can no longer remember her name.

The most important thing Ryuk learned watching Light Yagami was how to follow the rules to the letter and still break them.

Living with failure was never part of the plan.

Ryuk’s favourite equation. It means the death of boredom, the only death that actually matters. Gift fic for Computerfreak101

Once the bullets have rained down and the funeral procession has cleared out, Matsuda, dressed in a tired black suit and equally tired eyes, remembers that he had liked Light Yagami.

Full Title: Sketches - In Which Mikami Teru Finds Himself A God Who Falls Asleep On The Job // Ten drabbles focusing on Mikami Teru and his eccentricities in devotion, psychosis, and neurosis. Set at various points in the series.

Just some observations made on the characters in River's Edge—namely Layne.

A library is the perfect place to get the Madame's memories going, or in the case of a certain shinigami, make new ones.

Mikami's mother tries to deal with her son. Oneshot.

No one told him the pain never goes away. Grell/Madam

For a young Grell Sutcliffe, being mistaken for human was more than he could bear.

Any normal person would not stare dumbfounded at a woman as he simultaneously wondered if any dandruff was hidden underneath her jet-black hair. Mikami Teru/Misora Naomi.

Misa loves Light, even when she doesn't.

A short compilation of musings and drabbles about Mikami. Bad memories, strange sensations and his true inner workings.

In which Ms. Mikami feels her life is inadequate when compared to Sachiko’s seemingly perfect one.

Why does it always rain at funerals? Matsuda and Aizawa attend Light Yagami's memorial service with mixed feelings. Hopefully no one will ever discover the secret that the investigation team plans to take to their own graves. ONESHOT post end of series

What happens when two fated people never meet?

Out, out, brief candle--etc. But Teru Mikami's life doesn't really forget itself and Teru Mikami himself remembers more than he wants to for as long as he possibly can. Six mornings. Five belong to him.

She cannot forget about him, no matter how hard she tries. ** Mikami x Takada.

Prison used to be where you waited to get out. Now everyone's on death row. Then Kira gets it, but now Matt's stuck with this goddamn lunatic he's too lazy to hate. AU divergent from chapter 99. Vague undertones of MelloMatt, MattMikami. Ish.

24th January 2010. Teru Mikami's last conversation with Kiyomi Takada.

Takes place btn Page 107 and 108. In which a funeral is conducted, and illusions must be left to lie in peace. Oneshot.

No man creates himself in isolation, and no mother intends her child to be a monster. A story of the Yagami family.

It does not come naturally to dogs to cleanly break a captured rat's neck with a shake of their head; you must train them not to gore and maul and leave alive their rodent quarry. Willard hates being alone at night in the office with Cathryn.