Ethan wakes up after the explosion at the end of RE 8. With the disembodied whispers of the people the Romanian Megamycete had absorbed over the years, he runs from multiple greedy companies after his bioweapon DNA, and befriends the townspeople from outside and around the one that had a large suspicious cult in it once, now turned nearly completely to ash. And all he can hope for is to possibly see Rose, Mia, and maybe Chris again. Oh and the Duke shows up there and here too.

(TH#5)"And maybe in the end, in spite of all we said, all we did, all we met, we are only thoughts that evaporate into the effervescent whirlwind of time." Cole Winters is a perfect example of high school done right; star quarterback, good-looking, popular, he has the whole package. Things couldn't possibly go wrong. He lives for the present with no certainty on the future or anything it holds. Grace Loving is terminally ill. She's been cancer-free, but it can't be gone forever. She knows it. Everybody knows it. And it's only a matter of time before she bites it. But to maximize her living expectancy, her parents bring her to a well-known doctor operating a hospital just outside of Heart, North Carolina, where she finds her new home and, ultimately, Cole Winters. It's not love at first sight. It's not even love at fourth sight. But as they're thrown together in odd and unsavory circumstances, it becomes a battle between love and the desire not to hurt or be hurt, and the realization that in life you cannot have one without the other.

(TH#8) "The thing about pain, is, everybody suffers different. Everybody is always hurting. And nobody ever wants to do anything about it." After the accident that changed her life forever, all Ruby Harding wants is to disappear. And then her mother puts her in a camp for the socially inept, and it's the last thing she's able to do. But when her past comes back to haunt her, Ruby has to fight tooth and nail to keep it from defeating her again, even if it means confronting the very things that keep her up at night. However, along her journey of faith and healing, Ruby stumbles upon a truth that threatens everything she's believed for the last two years. A truth so large and so dangerous it stands to change the entire game. With a free-spirited Skyler Richardson by her side, Ruby delves back into the past in an attempt to uncover what truly happened that fateful night. Unfortunately for her, the reality is something not everyone is ready to face. And her problems are only beginning.

Ah yes, yet another fandom that has grabbed me around the neck and pulled along with it. And with fandoms comes headcanons and one shots. This should be fun.

(TH#1.5) "They live inside us all, those little demons clawing and ripping their way up your body. Normally, you can hold them back. You can box them up. But sometimes, sometimes, you lose. Everybody loses eventually. Eventually, everybody falls to them." After the suicide of her mother, clinically depressed Jemma Knight finds herself shipped off to start over in the quaint town of Heart, North Carolina. Alone and grieving, it's the last thing she wants, but probably the only thing she needs. Jacob Hall hides his struggle behind a flawless facade. At school he's whoever he wants to be; charming, the star basketball player, confident. At home he's nothing but a forgotten son taking care of a little brother with the help of a nanny that replaces his carefree mother. When an eccentric English teacher pairs the two together on a semester-long project, they have no choice but to get to know each other. Getting along will be the toughest feat, but as they discover, it's okay to be a little broken inside. And it's okay to be a little sad. Because the world is imperfect, and life is imperfect, but that doesn't meant they can't find something close to perfect with each other.

"We love when we are hurt, when we are sad, when we are happy. We love when it seems like the only thing to do. We love when it makes no sense. We love because we want to find somebody with an emptiness that matches ours, so we can be whole again. But most of all, we love because deep down inside of us, we believe the more love we give, the more we spread around, can somehow liberate this world from evil and misery. And maybe it can. Maybe it can't. The only solution I can see is to keep on loving, every day, all the time, and see where it takes us." A compilation of True Heart series one shots.

(TH#2)After a traumatic bullying experience and an almost fatal mistake, Emmalyn Hall moves with her family to Heart, North Carolina in hopes the same magic that healed her parents can possibly mend her as well. She moved to forget the memories of that horrible night, but she finds it's not as easy as she thought. Rhys Richardson is a lost soul stuck in an imperfect household. With an estranged mother, a workaholic father, and dozens of women amateurishly filling the maternal role in turn, his life is a chaotic mess. On the surface, they're exact opposites. Deep down, no two people could be more alike. And with that comes undeniable chemistry. But when nightmares from Emma's past come back to haunt her, one question remains: is it ever too late to love and forgive?