Valerie Swan knew she never belonged in the city. She only stayed in Seattle because of her job as Detective with SPD. But the dense forests, a misty solitude, and a quiet rustic charm is what called to her. So when her niece Bella moves in with her older brother Charlie and a new Detective role opens up with Forks Police Department, she can't turn down the opportunity. There's been a string of animal attacks that call for an expert hand in investigating. And with a population as close-knit as Forks, everyone is rattled. Val is determined to help her brother, Chief Swan, solve the case. Not long after her arrival, Bella nearly gets crushed by a car in the parking lot of her high school. She and Charlie rush from work to Forks Community Hospital. And that's when she meets him. Carlisle Cullen. The lead physician tending to her niece. There's something about him. Something irresistibly charming. It's a magnetic pull she can't shake. He's impossibly handsome and alluring in a way that unnerves her. And he can't seem to take his eyes off of her either. Not in a way that makes her feel seen, but in a way that makes her feel like prey. It's not a soft gaze he offers her. It's dark and hungry. Valerie quickly learns there is something brewing in the small town, begging to be unraveled.

For nineteen years, Annabella, known by everyone as Bella, grew up with two men she could always rely on: her father, Henry, and Zaack, his father's best friend... Ever since her mother passed away from cancer when Bella was only five years old, Zaack had always been there. Protective, reassuring, almost like a second father. Then, overnight, he left. Two years. A military mission classified as top secret. No calls. No explanations. During his absence, Bella went through the hardest moments of her life, and the person she needed the most was no longer there. Today, Zaack is finally back. But their reunion is nothing like what they had imagined. Between anger, wounds, guilt, and secrets, the years have changed everything... especially them.

── .✦ may i kiss your scars? steve harrington x fem!oc season two to five rankings: #1 madelyncline #1 hawkins

"It's for the case." "Well. If it's for the case I guess I have to." A short story about y/n and Hotch ending up in awfully awkward situations, he's your superior and you're new. But if it's for the case you have no choice left, you just pray it doesn't need to go further.

At twenty years old, Olivia serves as an apprentice diplomat in the British Foreign Office, navigating the expectations of her noble family and the delicate politics of the Crown. She is disciplined, loyal, and determined to fulfil her duty to her country. Her life follows a predictable path, until a posting to Oxford brings her face to face with Sherlock Holmes, her first love, a nerve agent that could kill entire cities, and a conspiracy that reaches into the Holmes family itself. Caught between the man who challenges everything she thought she had resolved and the man who has quietly become essential to her, Olivia must decide what she is willing to risk, professionally, personally, and in the careful architecture of the life she has spent years building. This story is also being posted on AO3, the chapters are structured a little differently there, and I'm uploading one episode a week. If you want to read it on AO3 as well, you can find it by searching my user, @GolfAddict, or by looking up the title. Thank you for supporting it wherever you choose to read, it really means a lot. Mycroft Holmes x OC James Moriarty x OC Sherlock Holmes X OC

A heart murmur is the secret sound beneath the steady rhythm - the quiet confession the heart makes when it can no longer beat in silence. Not loud enough to alarm, but impossible to ignore once heard.

In which an ex-pirate turned bar maid, with the most beautiful voice in the East Blue, meets Straw Hat captain, Monkey D. Luffy, and finds herself a pirate yet again. Sailing the vast seas in search of the One Piece, Ren finds the family she never had and something more with a green-haired swordsman.

They enlisted together. Same day. Same office. Same nervous jokes that slowly died the closer they got to the yellow footprints. L/N, Cope, and McCaffey-three names about to be stripped down into uniforms, numbers, and expectations they didn't fully understand yet. Boot camp wasn't about who you were before. It was about who survived after. L/N knew that going in. She wasn't naive. She didn't expect it to be easy and she definitely didn't expect it to be fair. What she didn't expect was how much distance could exist between people standing only a few yards apart-or how silence could feel heavier than shouting. Sgt. Sullivan was never meant to matter to her. He was a Drill Instructor for the male platoons. Untouchable. Unreachable. A presence she'd only glimpse across training grounds or hear echoed through the chaos of someone else getting corrected. He was regulation, discipline, control. A line clearly drawn. And she was just a recruit. But boot camp had a way of crossing paths that weren't supposed to cross. Of testing rules as much as it tested bodies. Of forcing people to feel things they had no right to act on. This wasn't a love story that started with choice. It started with proximity. With restraint. With everything unsaid. And somewhere between Guam memories, breaking recruits, and becoming Marines- Lines began to blur. DISCLAIMER: This is an ongoing AU fanfiction. Sullivan's sexuality is not explicitly defined and may evolve as the story continues, as I'm still deciding the direction of his character arc. #1 in Bootcamp #1 in Boots #1 in Cope #1 in Sgtsullivan #1 in Sgtsullivanboots

Alice and Frank Longbottom didn't have just one child, they also had a daughter. Erika Vivienne Longbottom, Rika to only a few, unlike her brother, does not see the good in the world. She trusts no one, not even her friends, always alert, reserved, and silent. But her silences are not timid or fearful they are calculated. All her coldness stems from what happened to her parents, their madness caused by an unforgivable curse, and their stay at St. Mungo's. After all, who has ever seen a Longbottom in Slytherin? Her brother Neville is a shy Gryffindor, in his sixth year, while she is in her final year. But this will be a year of changes: a young man will cross the threshold of the Great Hall. A young professor, Tom Riddle, cold and distant, with a dedication to the Dark Arts. A series of punishments, secrets, hidden fears, and a bit of tension could bring the two dangerously close...

In Hawkins, Indiana, nothing stays the same for long-especially when your little brother goes missing and your life turns upside down. Sabrina "Bina" Byers has always worn a mask of perfection: the popular girl, the one everyone notices, the one no one associates with the quiet, brooding Byers family. But when tragedy strikes, that mask begins to crack, revealing the fiercely loyal, stubborn, and fearless girl beneath. Steve Harrington has always been the charming, confident guy at school-the friend everyone leans on, the boy who never takes life too seriously. He and Bina have known each other for years, but their friendship has always been complicated: teasing, frustrating, and somehow comforting all at once. As Hawkins falls into chaos, Bina and Steve are forced to confront the things they've never said, the feelings they've tried to ignore, and the bond that has been there all along. From heart-wrenching moments of fear and loss to quiet, stolen glances and undeniable sparks, their friendship slowly evolves into something neither of them can deny. Time After Time is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers story about loyalty, courage, and realizing that sometimes, the person you've been standing beside all along is the one who has always had your heart.