She burns white-hot, a dying supernova, for a mere second - and then it's gone, back to a reduced shadow (light?) of its former self.

one day might never come but one day i'll lose this love / / alina and aleksander

Before Alina, Zayi was hand picked by the Darkling to invade the royals and secure the throne. But when it was most important for her to succeed, she failed, causing a horrible backlash of power to destroy her Grisha power and herself. Now known as the Lost One and working for the leader of rebel privateers, Zayi is doing all she can to save the Sun Summoner from her fate.

Alina has been gone for sixteen years. Finally he has found her. What will he do when he finds out the reason she ran?

Can you say that the brush of lips under a tree in the middle of the night is a real kiss?

Nikolai brushes them away carefully and moves closer to Alina, squatting in front of her; she thinks he's going to kiss her, and maybe she wants to—the last time they kissed, they were in war, so long ago—but all he does is cup her cheek with his hand. She wants to draw back, she wants to lean in. Nikolai brushes her scar with his thumb, carefully. "Does it hurt?" he asks.

Portal song "Want You Gone" parody featuring the great Prince Nikolai and Mal from the Grisha Trilogy. (WARNING: SPOILERS PEOPLE)

Alina didn't run because she trusted the Darkling. One shot.

The Darkling has many things to teach his little Sun Summoner. Alina proves to be an apt pupil. Kinky sex ensues.

Forty years before there was a Sun Summoner, there was a Tidemaker who the True Sea spoke to. Tormented by tragedy, she looks to return to the rest of the world, but will the Darkling teach her how to love or how to hate? And once he's through with her, will she ever be able to love again?

Nikolai Lantsov, now the king of Ravka, is bored. More than that, he is lonely. His family dead and Alina with another man, he decides he needs to become Sturmhond again in hopes of rekindling his inner fire. So, in the dead of winter he sets out on his newest vessel, the Penguin, in search of adventure. Because, after all, anything worth doing always starts out as a terrible idea.

A series of one-shots featuring two of our favorite Grisha characters. :) Alina moves in across the street from Aleksander, and immediately, she decides she can't stand him. Eventually, however, he grows to become her drug: dark, addicting, and just a bit bad for her.

The year of 1920 was a life changing year. Alina Starkov was happy to get married to her childhood sweetheart, Mal, but there marriage isn't all that it seems. Mal has pulled away and isn't happy. A new case he is working on thrusts Alina into the dangerous world of underground crime. Where she becomes the fascination of a man known as The Darkling.

Entry 54: My mission to get Ana Kuya to let me take online courses for school is still in its early stages. I've never wanted to not go to school more than now, only because a) there are two new students who can't seem to leave me alone b) Mal is absolutely no help whatsoever c) both of said transfer students are extremely tempting and d) cafeteria food is simply disgusting. [AU]

Alina solves Dr. Morozova's "impossible" equation and get his attention in more ways than one. Modern AU.

Weeks after the darklings death Alina has become hopeful that he faked his death. She has left everyone she had once believed to love in search for the man she had fallen for and nothing will stop her. Not even death as it's a constant shadow trying to take hold of her with every step she takes. Alina will do anything to find the man she loves no matter what will happen in the end.

Zoya and Harshaw are representatives of Ravka at a formal event but Harshaw fails to live up to Zoya's attire expectation

It started when she was handed over as a tool. And it wasn't supposed to be anything more. She was going to make her look pretty: that was her job. So she didn't know having anything to do with the king or getting to know the queen was part of the job.

So much great potential was what Ana Kuya had said to her but what Alina didn't know was that 'great potential' was about pleasuring men for money, but if it was what made Ana happy then Alina would do as she wished. Living most of her life in a whore house, can Alina free herself from the invisible chains that Ana has on her or can a mysterious man unravel the truth for her?

He had known one thing:he'd needed her at first.But the little Sun Summoner has made him despise his heart,made him want what he can't have. And now the Darkling has to find a way to bring Alina back and convince her to rule side by side with him,while still holding on to his beliefs*this is my take on the Darkling's POV throughout the series.I might change the plot,too, later*

An undeniable pull exists between Alina Starkov and the Darkling. After fleeing the winter fete, she finds herself cold, alone, and undeniably lost. So after shoving Baghra's warnings to the back of her mind, she makes her way back to the Little Palace and is immediately whisked away on the hunt for Morozova's stag.

Alina Starkov does not love the Darkling because love is not a never ending cycle of cat-and-mouse games and cruel taunting and the angry clash of lips on lips. [ Darklina drabble ] [ Rated T because it's Darklina ]

Alina and Nikolai decide to paint a table. It turns out to be ruddy mess of a monstrosity. (Based on an insinuated scene at the end of the third book).

After nearly killing Alina in the training rooms, Zoya is summoned to see the Darkling.

An AU set after the winter fete of Shadow and Bone. Alina and the Darkling journey north in pursuit of Morozova's herd. But what was meant to be an uneventful detour has its own surprises.