Your prospects are limited when you don't exist, but Sang Sorenson has been getting by as a cashier in a grocery store after dropping out of high school. Most days, she's just glad to have some independence, but she's been drifting through her life for two years, too alone to realize she's lonely. Then, late one Sunday night someone comes through her line with more apple pie than one man should be able to eat. The next day, she finds herself helping a young girl with a ...delicate purchase that the girl's older brother and his friend can't handle. And after a close call at home, she seeks help at a diner that recently opened down the street. It's been over a year since the Blackbourne team shattered into three separate teams, and they've all been dealing with the aftermath of a broken family. Though the new Lee and Taylor teams have done well for themselves, things just aren't the same. Then Sean stops by a little mom-and-pop grocery store after a long shift and discovers their bakery section. Kota and Nate take Jess bra shopping, and the cutest girl they've ever seen intervenes when they are less than helpful. And Luke finally meets someone who values pancakes as much as he does...possibly more. And it's barely even Tuesday. ~oOo~ This is a reverse harem fanfic based on C.L. Stone's Ghost Bird series. Be warned, I don't do trigger warnings on individual chapters and this is a Ghost Bird story: there is physical and emotional abuse, implied and overt; there are nine men interested in one woman (#whychoose) and sometimes each other; and the language used is appropriate for mature readers only. Not my circus, not my monkeys. I don't own any of these characters, The Academy, or Charleston, SC. I'm not making any money off of this. Liberties were taken with the legal and medical professions, but I tried to be as accurate as possible.

Sang wasn't left to her family to grow weak and afraid, no, The Academy made sure of that. Rescued at ten, Sang is brought to a division of the Academy that very few know of. She's trained to be an Assassin, to kill at the whim of the Academy. Sent to help out a team that seems to be getting no where in South Carolina, Sang meets a couple of men that shake her very thoughts to their core. Will they render her mission? Or help her in the long run?

Sang only knows life inside the white walls. She only knows two names, her true name, 005, and the name she is given by the men that run the experiments on her. Songbird. Because of how much she sings, she is known by Sang. After something happens, one of their experiments gone bad at age five, she develops powers. Powers she can't control, powers she doesn't want. Powers to move things, to set things on fire, to see things that shouldn't be there. But she finally escapes after setting the entire facility on fire. She lives on the streets for two years, before one afternoon, she begins running from one of the creatures she sees. She runs into the team on a mission to follow someone, when the creature attacks. Left with a choice, she chooses to sacrifice her safety and save one of the members of the team. And you know once you enter a certain teams life, they just won't let you go. - Took a bit of inspiration from Stranger Things, so I don't own anything from Stranger Things not the Academy.

The Blackbourne/Toma team have been at Ashley Waters for 3 weeks to try and get a hold on an underground fight club that someone at the school has started. During a family meeting the entire team receives an email on their school emails informing them that they are targets for an Ashley Waters sick school tradition but what is even more strange is the sender of the email themselves. Will they be able to save the sender? Or will the sender save them? Six months ago Sang Sorenson's mother became to sick to beat her anymore, instead she sold her into an underground fight club that requires her to fight weekly. Sang has been the top fighter for 2 months now and the fighters are starting to play dirty, she knows shes going to die so she decides to end it all. After latest fight she catches wind of a plot to hurt some of the new students and teachers in 2 weeks on 'FRIDAY FALL'. She decides before she ends her life she will help them. She warns them but now they want to help her. To bad it's too late for her. Or is it? *Disclaimer* All these characters are owned by CL Stone. This is just my plot. *Disclaimer* Mature content! Suicidal thoughts. Abuse. Eventual sexual content.

He was her small protector, she was his light. They were each others most guarded secret. Owen and Sang grew up together. They were as close as two best friends could be. Well, as close as they could be with keeping their abuse secret from each other. It's never really a secret when Sang and Owen both knew something was wrong. They could see it in each others eyes, and the bruises that had the same excuses. Owen couldn't protect her at home, just like he couldn't protect his mother, but he made it his job to protect her at school. Without warning, Owen moves away, and vanishes without saying goodbye to his little darling, and when he comes back to look for her a few years later, she had vanished as well. Sang went from being Owen's secret light, to his secret Ghostbird. What happens when fate intervenes 10 years later and 21 year old Sang meets the boys while interning with Dr Roberts at the Academy Hospital? Is Sang still the same? Or did not having a protector anymore change her? What happens when she meets the mysterious Mr. B? **In this fanfic, the Ashley Waters mission never happens and Owen, Sean and Sang are all 21. everyone else is 19 and 20. **Title and story plot goes to the amazing @savinggoddess!!** I do NOT own any of the Ghostbird or any other academy characters, they all belong to the wonderful C L Stone! I just own any non-academy characters I come up with. **Rated mature to protect from mirror sites