Devil's Cub, Mary and Vidal's wedding night. She remembered, suddenly, the hard pressure of his hand on her throat. The look on his face across the dinner table. The silky terrifying note in his voice. It's only Vidal, she told herself firmly, trying to make herself smile confidently back up at him. Vidal is safe.

Returning home for a year, Bella struggles both with chances lost and taken and what to do with the last one she'll ever have. It's more complicated than she'd ever imagined. Raw, realistic and messy, this isn't the typical JxB. Takes place 8 years after BD wedding.

She hears his voice in there, just for a second – just in the instant between not existing and coming home. And that's when she knows, however delirious it may make her feel, that he's still out there. / Post-"Endgame." Wally/Artemis, with some others.

Contact with others is a basic human need to stave off the loneliness. My entry to the Hope Springs Eternal Contest.

Artemis, under the influence of an unknown gas released by Poison Ivy's plants infused with Wotan's magic, has a dream about the future she shares with the world's most irritating speedster. But was it really a dream after all?

Based on Georgette Heyer's Sylvester. A year after their unusual courtship, Sylvester and Phoebe are happily married and expecting their first child. Sylvester, however, hasn't given up his high-handed ways, and Phoebe remains as independent as ever.