"It's very easy to be number one: find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does." -Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air There are those naturally better than you. No matter how hard you work, you can't change that. Your talents do not always coincide with passions and your passions do not always coincide with your talents. Nonetheless, talent is something you make bloom. Instinct is something you polish. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Always running, always on the move, Alchemy Jones has returned from almost seventy years of hiding from her true identity. After too many tragedies, countless false identities and fake passports, she finally settles down in Washington D.C. When the famous Captain America discovers that his best friend is still alive after all this time, he reaches out and finds her. As if fate was not ready to let the world's first female superhero give up, Steve Rogers' director, Nick Fury, is killed by a mysterious assassin and Jones is suddenly pulled back into the world of avenging. The same person who hired the assassin to kill Fury, unleashes Helicarriers that threaten to murder a few million at a time. Jones is forced to put on her black face paint and use her sword again- unknowingly about to be reunited with someone she thought to be dead. [Book Two|CA WS|Bucky Barnes Fanfic|All Rights Belong To Marvel|Homophobes Stay Clear|Cover Credits Belongs To @AnjaTheFabUnicorn For Her Remarkable And Stunning Covers]

The year is 1945, the world is at war and no one can escape the tragedies that come from the inhuman acts of violence and murder. With the Nazi-backed HYDRA organization growing stronger and stronger, some fear it is the end. Only really known in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, Alchemy Jones is the daughter of a brilliant doctor and is studying the human body to defy women stereotypes. By a lucky chance, Jones is recruited to help a German scientist create a super-human serum to end the shortage of men for war. Alongside longtime friends, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, Jones is given a gift and intends to use it wisely- even if it costs her everything she loved and has learned to love. [Book One|CA TFA|Bucky Barnes Fanfic|All Rights Belong To Marvel|Cover Credit To @AnjaTheFabUnicorn|I KNOW IT SAYS THE WINTER SOLDIER WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES]

Motel 6- where you may find cockroaches in the showers, questionable food in the vending machine, and maybe, possibly, some love along the way. © Copyright 2017. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced, displayed, modified or distributed without the express prior written permission of the copyright holder. For permission, contact _HakunaMatata_ on Wattpad.com.

With the exception of Mirabella Plunkett in the 1800s, the idea of merfolk and wizarding kind mingling together was unheard of, and otherwise, considered to be taboo. Born to a mermaid and wizard, Nixie Dover is believed to be the first of her kind, half-landish, half-seavish. The morning of her birth, things go awry when her mother is suddenly taken away and forced into exile by seavish matriarchy, leaving her to be raised by her father alone on land. For the next eleven years, Nixie is raised as a witch, however, life is far from simple. For as long as she can remember, the waters outside of her home call to her. Her father seems drawn to the waves as well, staring at them every morning as if he is waiting for someone. However, the answers start to unravel when her mother reappears and reveals herself to be a mermaid. Suddenly, the stares and whispers that Nixie has heard throughout her childhood make sense. She is a half-breed, stuck between two worlds where she feels like an outsider. To add to the chaos, Nixie receives her acceptance letter to none other than Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Determined to blend in and hopefully make some friends, Nixie attempts to hide her lineage, but she can only hide who she really is for so long. Especially when a boy by the name of Sirius Black seems so utterly determined to be part of her world. Initially, Nixie believes him to be nothing but trouble, but as time progresses, he proves to be much more than a troublemaker. Together, they must face the hardships of growing up, fighting for what they believe in, and hopefully, surviving a war. [Book 1 of Nixie Dover] [Companion book to Tightly Knit] [Cover by cendriia]

Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs certainly feel quite accomplished after completing what they dub as the Marauder's Map. A map designed to show every classroom, hall, corridor, and even secret passageway of the Hogwarts Castle but also capable of identifying every person, ghost, and poltergeist roaming about. Or so they thought. It takes Elspeth Hayes casually strolling down the corridor one afternoon for the boys to realise that she's not showing up on the map and they want to figure out why. But Elspeth is not about to give away her secrets so easily, after all, a girl has to have her secrets to keep the boys on their toes.

❝I think-I think I'm in love. I know it sounds crazy, but I really think she's the one.❞ ••••• Naomi Serdeys is peculiar, that was for sure. Despite being friendly, Naomi always has her head in the clouds. For that, people tend to stay away from the pretty blonde. With no family and a terminal illness, poor Naomi believes she's reached the end. Even though she's quite kind to others, she feels that life just doesn't want to return the favour. Though, there is something about the lollipop-obsessed girl that seems to draw in four special boys. Four marauders. ••••• Marauders era Sirius Black love story Sirius x OC

A late-night encounter, the mysterious death of a loved one, a weapon hunted by both heroes and villains, an unwanted partnership, secrets, hatred, lust, love, betrayal. None of this had been what you were expecting when leaving your apartment that night. Cover art: @tgomeyes For those of you who have gone through many different bookworm stages in your lives, you might notice that I took some inspiration (primarily in the first couple of chapters), from the NA novel, House of Earth and Blood. Although the stories will be very different, I figured I'd point it out in case people take notice.

"at the sight of the words 'I love you' the desire to stay alive had welled up in him" - george orwell, 1984. a dazai osamu x reader

At the age of nine, everyone Quinn loved was taken away from her - murdered because of something her father had done years before. She's been surviving on her own for almost ten years with no home or family to go back to. Until one day a hundred kids fall from the sky. Quinn is captured by the kids, thinking she is a danger to them all. But they are yet to realise one very important fact: they both are facing the same enemy. The Grounders. [the 100; season one] © theaeden 2015