"You should tell him, you know," a familiar voice softly said from behind her. "I know you love him." "Remus," she began turning around to face her friend, "You know I can't do that. He's my best friend, and h-he's in love with his perfect Lily-flower," Elsie sighed as tears began forming in her eyes. "But, Elsie... you don't see the way he looks at you, he-," his sentence was cut off by the girl with tears running down her face. "I don't see how he looks at me, but I see how he looks at her! And, t-that's enough to know that I will n-never be good enough to be with h-him," she snapped through stifled words. "But why don't you just tell him? Why don't you let yourself have a chance at happiness for once?" he asked stepping forwards, wiping her cheeks with his thumbs. "Because...loving him is a losing game. Either way, I'm the one getting hurt," Elsie whispered, falling into the arms of the boy in front of her. SLOW BURN {extended summary inside} (All characters, plots, and aspects of this story belonging to the Harry Potter Universe are credited to JK Rowling.)

❝ 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬. ❞ 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑. Adhara Walburga Black learned this lesson at a very young age. Her childhood was filled with adventure and excitement. She felt like the luckiest little girl in the world, to have brothers who loved and defended her. But luck has the tendency to run out. The last thing Adhara thought of was romance. However, in the end, she came to realize that true love always finds you, even if you try to avoid it. This is Adhara's story; filled with friendship, family, love and tragedy. 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: #1 in rosier - 12/22/2020 #1 in evanrosier - 12/29/2020 #1 in georgeweasley - 1/5/2021 #1 in houseofblack - 4/7/2021

haywire: ˈheɪwʌɪə/ adjective informal adjective: haywire 1. erratic; out of control 2. the story of the next gen gang as told by me ( highest ranking in fanfiction: #483 ! - i think )

Thanatophobia: The fear of Death [Regulus Black X OC] Regulus Black spent his whole life being afraid, but nothing could scare Avalon Potter, not even him. [Marauders era] "You spend your whole life running from death and he'll be determined to catch up," she said, her hazel eyes burning holes into his, "but if you slow down, just maybe he will to."

"Juliet, no one else can know that you're a Greyback." Juliet Fletcher. A normal girl, by the looks of it. Only the select few knew her identity of a werewolf and her true last name of Greyback. She succeeded in hiding a dark family past with a smile, but her walls come tumbling down as soon as her older brother, Fenrir, comes back to bite. Remus Lupin. Plagued with his "furry little problem" by none other the Juliet's brother, unknown to him. When Juliet falls weak, not even Remus expected that he'd be the one to build her back up. But as her walls come tumbling down, so do her life-changing secrets. And when Remus is finally brought out of the dark, it alters their friendship forever. © beauxbatonism 2019 Cover by @harrybinghams

❝So we've got Messrs Padfoot, Prongs, Moony and Wormtail ... and Madam Despa-three-toe. What the fuck, Exie, WHY?!❞ ❝My Animagus is a three-toed sloth! It's hilarious, put it on the fucking map, Black.❞ ▬▬▬▬ Nobody was quite sure how the Marauders came to be (although Exie Attia would like to take full credit for inviting James and Sirius into the group after an intense game of Gobstones). Whilst the boys had big dreams and would work days and nights to get it, Exie liked to think of herself as the mellow one especially because sometimes she literally couldn't keep her eyes open. Some people loved them, one person REALLY didn't but Exie Attia wouldn't change it for the world. With Fourth Year rolling around, Exie expected life to stay blissfully stagnant but that was just wishful thinking. After the shocking discovery that, despite sounding like the start of a bad joke, combining a narcoleptic with stressful Animagus training might not be the best idea, Exie finds herself excluded for the first time in, well ... ever. But even this might have been okay had a certain tantalising redhead not caught her eye... Yeah, Fourth Year might not go that well. [CREDIT TO JANICE SUNG FOR COVER ART]

"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee!" "Why would I sting like a Bee? then I would die!" ❁I'm terrible at descriptions lol❁ ❁Marauders era❁ ❁Book 1❁

Cassiopeia Black, twin to Sirius Black, daughter to Walburga and Orion Black. Cassiopeia has never been one for discriminating against muggles, muggleborns, etc. The complete opposite to her family, except a select few. Her and Sirius are the family disappointments, the rebellious two. The thing is, Cassiopeia is nowhere near as rebellious as her family seem to think. [marauders era] [trigger warning: themes of abuse, assault, foul language]

𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐒 | ❝ 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐈 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆. ❞ the past can cage you, make you its prisoner behind stone cold bars, the spectres of what one could never be staring you in the face, nowhere to run from them. and the past may also set you free, as the carefree air hits your lungs, you turn around and realise you have left your worries far behind, now that the truth is at last revealed. the past will haunt us, and only by looking it in the eyes, we may finally find peace. [ next generation harry potter ] [ fem! oc x james s. potter multi! oc x multi! oc ] [ originally est. 2015 brought back in sept. 30, 2020. ]

What if Peter was never a marauder? What if the 4th Marauder was a sassy blonde by the name of Ellie Greengrass? "Sirius. You are the Sir Padfoot to my Lady Greengrass. The Bonnie to my Clyde-" "Why am I Bonnie!? I want to be the guy!" "You're Bonnie. Just deal with it. Now shut up and let me tell you how much I love you, you stupid mutt." *slow updates* [Sirius x OC] [Marauders Era] [AU]