What would happen if there was a slight change in the family tapestry of The Most Ancient and Noble House of Black? Specifically, four years before the birth of a certain Sirius Orion Black III, a little baby girl was welcomed into the world. She was the epitome of all things Black. She was talented and powerful; which made her special; and hence, favoured. Her name? Lyra Cassiopeia Black. How much would the story change if Padfoot had a loving and caring older sister who acted as his everything? Answer: A lot. Marauders' Era AU Copyrighted @2019 © All Rights Reserved Book cover and aesthetics made by me. However, I do not own any of the images used.

📖 Disclaimer ⚠️ I do not own The Walking Dead or any of its characters - all rights belong to AMC and the original creators. ⚠️ I only own my OC, Ava Monroe. ⚠️ Please note: Since I don't have a real-life picture for Ava, I'll be using an anime-style image as a stand-in. Thank you for understanding 🤭. --- 📖 Summary The world ended in blood, death, and fire. Ava Monroe - tall, blonde, curvy, once a soldier and now a doctor - never thought her path would cross with Rick Grimes, the man she saved in the hospital the night the world fell apart. From the moment he opened his eyes, she became tied to his fight for survival. But Rick wasn't the only one drawn to her. The Dixon brothers - Merle with his dangerous charm and Daryl with his quiet fire - both found something in Ava worth fighting for. And Lori, bitter and jealous, will do anything to tear Ava down. This story follows the same events as the TV show - every walker, every bloody battle, every loss. Nothing is skipped. But with Ava in the group, everything changes. Love, loyalty, jealousy, betrayal... and when Ava discovers she's pregnant, survival takes on a whole new meaning. Protecting her baby and the people she loves in a broken world will push her beyond every limit. This is The Walking Dead you know - the gore, the heartbreak, the danger - but this time, Ava Monroe walks with them. --- 📖 Rating 🔞 This fanfiction is rated Mature for: Graphic gore and violence (walkers & battles) Adult romance themes Pregnancy storyline Strong language Lori bashing (jealousy/character conflict)

June Gomez has lost everyone she's ever loved and survived the end of the world. When she stumbles across a group, she's determined to prove herself as a valuable member as well as claw her way to a leadership position. She wasn't exactly looking for romance, but it found her. --This story is a slow burn-- it will not jump into the romance right away. Now Completed ***I only own June Gomez and any other characters I choose to add later on**** #1 in rickgrimes- June 22, 2021 (WOOOO!!!!!) #1 in TWDFANFIC- July 3, 2021 #2 in THEWALKINGDEAD- August 25, 2021 #1 in TWDFAMILY- September 8, 2021 #1 in CARLGRIMES- September 8, 2021 #1 in RICKGRIMES- October 14, 2021 #1 in THEWALKINGDEAD - November 15, 2023

Elena Monroe was supposed to be starting nursing school. Eighteen, driven, grieving-but healing. Her father had passed from leukemia a year earlier, and all she wanted was to make him proud. Then the world ended. She and her mother packed up the car with her little sister Ivy, hoping to escape Georgia and reach the safety of Atlanta. But what started as a desperate plan shattered on the roadside-when her mother suffered a heart attack behind the wheel. With no emergency services, no help, and only a few months of first aid training, Elena was forced to make an impossible choice. She buried the woman who raised her and drove away with a shell-shocked eleven-year-old in the passenger seat. Gridlock stopped them just outside the city. Walkers flooded the highway. And Elena-bleeding, exhausted, and breaking-stumbled across a group of strangers: Shane Walsh. Lori and Carl Grimes. Carol, Sophia, and Ed Peletier. They took her in. Protected her. Called her strong. But Elena never felt strong. Just awake when everyone else was still dreaming. The quarry became a fragile safe haven. Ivy found laughter again. Elena found purpose. But in a world where everyone turns after death, she'll soon learn... she's not like the rest. In a world built on death, what happens to the girl who won't rot?

Aurora's life had always been about survival, each day a quiet battle against fear and pain. When her stepfather was finally arrested, she thought the fight was over. But leaving one dangerous world meant stepping into another-one she didn't fully understand. Now, she's living with seven older brothers she barely knows, their lives a tangle of secrets and shadows they never speak of. Their house is loud, protective, and filled with rules she's afraid to break. For Aurora, it's a new kind of survival. For her brothers, it's a chance to keep her safe-no matter what it takes.

~ The Walking Dead ~ Having certain skills gave you an advantage in the world. Phoebe Grimes knew this from a young age and worked up to fit her families legacy of being in some position of law, going all the way back to her great great grandfather who was a General in the war, to her brother Rick who was a Sheriff's Deputy. At 25 she had worked for the FBI under The Behavioral Analysis Unit for two years now being one of the youngest Agents to join. Although these skills didn't stop her brother from getting shot on the job and end up into a coma...These skills also didn't prepare her for the end of the world...Or did they? Because in this dead world people are brutal, it's survival of the fittest now and along the way Phoebe will find friends new and old. She'll meet a rival or two and she will find peace and comfort in more ways than a house. But will the skills that gained her the dream job of a life time help her when the world ends? Will survival just become second nature to her? Or will she bite off more then she can chew? #1 TWDfanfic 18/12/23 #2 DarylDixonfanfic 18/12/23 #1 MerleDixon 15/2/24 #1 CarlGrimes 2/3/24 #1 Sophiapeletier 12/5/24, 28/1/25 #1 AndrewLincoln 14/5/24 #1 Archery 08/09/24 #1 TWDCast 2/10/24, 8/12/24 #1 Glennrhee 28/1/25 #1 Grimes 20/6/25 #1 BowandArrow 15/7/25 #1 DarylDixon 19/8/25

noun: one who returns, especially from the dead or a long absence They lost her once. They'll burn the world to get her back. Cecilia Bonetti has spent her life locked away in a care home - isolated, overlooked, and surviving in silence. What she doesn't know is that five powerful men have been searching for her since the day she vanished... and they're her brothers. As the feared leaders of the Bonetti mafia, they believed Cecilia was gone forever. Until now. But blood has memory. And when sunshine slips into their dark world, even the coldest hearts begin to crack. They'll fight to keep their composure - ruthless, untouchable - but with Cecilia back, staying cold might be the hardest battle they've ever faced.

Solienne (n.) - a name evoking sunlight after ruin; the quiet resilience of something lost, yet still burning. Isabella Moretti was kidnapped when she was three years old. She doesn't remember the brothers who loved her. And they don't know the girl she's become. Living under a new name in a quiet city, Isabella is a survivor-sharp-eyed, secretive, and always prepared to run. But when she transfers to a prestigious academy, two of the school's most feared students take notice: Antonio and Francesco Moretti. Cold, calculating, untouchable-until now. They don't know why they're drawn to her. Why she feels like something familiar. Why their guarded silence begins to crack around her laugh, her pain, her presence. They have no idea she's the sister they've mourned for years. And Isabella? She has no idea she's walking straight back into the family that never stopped searching. Solienne is a story of blood that remembers, even when memory doesn't-of lost things finding their way home, and love that endures even when the truth is buried in silence.

⚠️ CHAPTER 41+ ARE PAID CONTENT VIA KO-FI ⚠️ ── ─ ┈┈┈┄┄╌╌ The De Luca brothers reign supreme in the underworld, holding dominion over the ruthless realm of the Italian Mafia. They are cold, merciless, driven by madness, their loyalty solely to blood. Yet, their lives take an unexpected turn when they discovered their thirteen years old little sister. *** "When she was choking me, is that... love?" she whispered, her voice barely audible, each word trembling as if afraid to leave her lips. Her eyes, wide and glassy, searched mine desperately, seeking a truth that she couldn't grasp amidst the fog of confusion and despair that clouded her mind. My heart seethed with rage, a torrent of emotions crashing against the walls of my restraint, threatening to betray the stoic facade I had carefully constructed. I wanted to scream, to shake her out of this misguided belief. Hestia, my little sister, stared back at me. Her innocence tainted by the cruel hands of someone who had twisted the meaning of love into something unrecognizable. She couldn't differentiate the painfully obvious truth, the clear distinction between love and control, kindness and cruelty. It was as if the very essence of her spirit was being suffocated, just as her breath had been. ── ─ ┈┈┈┄┄╌╌ [⚠️ Chapter 41+ are paid content via Ko-fi ⚠️] ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This story contains sensitive and potentially distressing themes, including abuse, sexual assault, rape, psychological trauma, and mature content. Note: - Update: Random - Cover by Canva © 2026 [CherylZielle]. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute the story without permission.

Emilia Morelli's world shatters when she's told her mother has died. Left with no family, well at least none that she knows of, she's pulled into a system that sees her as just another case. She's alone and unsure of herself. But far away, there are men who have been searching for her. Men who share her name. Men who are feared by the world. They've spent years looking for the little girl who was taken from them. Now that they've found her, they'll stop at nothing to bring her home. Emilia doesn't know them. She doesn't know the truth. And she has no idea that her life is about to change forever.