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Some major changes in life happen in the matter of moments--or in a heartbeat. Will Sirius and Remus acknowledge that they already have what they didn't even know they wanted? SB/RL.

It was insane. It was stupid. But he had to do it. Severus Snape knew he would never be able to live without knowing. It all came down to her. Lily.

The thing he’ll remember most vividly is the leaves. [Sirius/Lily. Plenty of Angst. Part One of "The Heart’s Progress", a series of vignettes]

They're in their twenties now, out of school, but they still have the same spirited sarcasm they always had. Read an interview in The Time-Turner newspaper about the infamous Marauders and their activities...along with other things.

Even if we think we are prepared, sometimes the most unlikely person makes us realise otherwise, as Regulus finds out. No ships.

Sirius Black is not jealous. Of course not. Not at all. He just doesn't like the way Angela's newest admirer keeps looking at her and drooling... Well, maybe he is a little jealous.

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." --Buddha

A/U fic in which Remus has an identical twin brother he hasn't seen since they were children. At Sirius' insistence, Remus visits his twin at St. Mungo's. Love, innocence, and the price of war.

"Regulus can't bring himself to let go of the horcrux. It masquerades as a heavy locket, and its engraving presses against his palm as his fingers tense around the metal, his skin accepting the imprint of its patterns." Regulus meets Sirius for the last time.

Tricked into falling through the veil, Harry finds himself in an alternate dimension where the first war continues to rage and people he thought he had lost are alive and well. Harry thought killing Voldemort would take a matter of days this time. He was wrong. H/G.

One ran. One pursued. And one tried to understand. There was one night. There were three men. There was one emotion.

It's 1981 and Barty Crouch Jr. is desperate for word from or about Regulus Black. Hint of Barty/Regulus.

James and Lily enjoy a night of fun before the birth of their first child and the Dark times ahead.

A look into the life of the Order, and the lives involved in the first war. Their love, their losses, and the trials of their youthful union, parenting and friendships. Not Chronological.

Tomorrow, the doors will open and the people will rise and you will see me standing next to James. And I will look you and smile. And you will walk down that aisle one step at a time. And you will know that this is right. [Sirius/Lily. Part Three of The Heart’s Progress, a series of vignettes]

Regulus Black expected to die when he betrayed Voldemort, but things don't always go as planned. AU.

One day, Sirius comes back to his flat to find the protective wards removed, blood on the carpet and his family nowhere in sight. He has to choose whether to be James Potter's friend first, or his wife's husband and his son's father. SBOC. A sequel to Till Life Do Us Part.

Sirius Black never knew that baby-sitting little Harry could be so dangerous, so deadly, so--mortifying. For him, at least. After all, his Animagus was supposed to be a frightening dog, not a cute, cuddly teddy bear.

She wants a cucumber sandwiches today. It’s a quirk of hers. She eats them several times a week. [Sirius/Lily. Part Two of "The Heart’s Progress", a series of vignettes]

Add together one ladies' man, one Quidditch player, one extremely caring individual and one soon to be traitor. Mix them together with one imaginative idiot, one fiery red head, one scarily intelligent Ravenclaw and one blonde artist. Make sure to stir counterclockwise until trouble occurs and you are dealing with one of the best loved 'gangs' in Hogwarts' History. In Things Aren't Always Black and White we follow the story of four boys, the marauders, and four equally troublesome girls. We see them deal with their first encounters of love, sorrow, heartache and Death Eaters. How will these eight soon to be order members cope with the ordeals that life throws at them?

Bellatrix tapped her long fingernails on the arm of her chair like heartbeats. (Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange gen)

It is the spring of 1980, and Remus Lupin is forced to live somewhere he once swore he'd never set foot or paw. He discovers something there that will change his life forever.

Hufflepuffs aren't the only ones who can be loyal.

On Sirius, in wartime. Five very different careers.

Sirius waits for James in the Hog's Head, and James has just discovered something incredible.

"I'm a Dursley now, not an Evans." Petunia goes through love, life, and death. A tracing of her evolution from her wedding day to the morning that Harry arrives on her doorstep. L/J, Vernon/Petunia, coarse language. Can be read with 'Enharmonic' or as a standalone.

Harry's first Christmas. James and Lily have an argument. Will they make up in time, or will Christmas--and their lives--be ruined?

We all know about the events on Privet Drive on the day after Voldemort’s initial defeat, but what happened at Hogwarts? Here is the story from an “ickle firstie’s” perspective. Missing Moment one-shot.

As the Death Eaters grow more powerful, even criminals must choose sides. A talented cat burglar finds a better use for her skills.

Sirius Black comes up with a plan to save James and Lily Potter's life. The consequences of this are far-reaching...

A thoughtful conversation under the stars.

Department of Magical Law Enforcement official Andrew Ketterly hoped to avoid the war against the Death Eaters, but Voldemort had other plans. The first story in a murder mystery series set during the first Voldemort War.

It's 1979 and Bellatrix waits for Regulus.

They're just kids, thrust into a world where death and destruction are becoming far too common. And while they struggle to survive and somehow grow up, they discover true fear, and the courage inside us all.

Halloween 1981. The last day of James' life. What's going through his head just before the attack on Godric's Hollow?

Pre-Azkaban; Remus has a work now. But it is an illegal one, because he's a werewolf; he works in "club", trades money for sex. The only way for him to earn money. He doesn't like doing it, but it's his only choice. Sirius notices and foils Remus; so Remus has no idea whatever to think of Sirius. He likes to ignore the fact that he's still in love with him. But Sirius only uses him. Or does he?

Can you keep a secret? I suppose it matters little if you can. I am a marked man and my days are numbered, so it's only a matter of time before they come for me.

Fresh from Hogwarts and newly initiated into the Death Eaters, Regulus Black has found work as an attache for the ambassador to the USSR. What he discovers abroad becomes his first step away from the Death Eaters and toward the knowledge Voldemort would rather remain hidden from even his cloest followers.

When a baby and a dog are forced to live together, the dog is always the afflicted one. Padfoot has to learn that by his own bitter experience: Caine has just been born. A sequel to Baby on Board.

Sirius learns the hard way: don't drink and channel-surf. A bit of humor with Sirius, James, Lily, and a certain science-fiction television show.

Remus Lupin has lost everyone he cared for to Voldemort. Lily and James were killed, Peter died fighting, Harry has been taken to live with his aunt, and Sirius- Sirius Black betrayed them all. Now Remus must face his first transformation alone.

WARNING: OC Abundance. No one expected the end of October in 1981 to be any calmer than the rest of the year had been. Just, no one had expected James and Lily to die either, so who knows.

"Becca, he says they've got the best potion master in the world and he could easily help her, the Dark Lord need only ask it. And he'd do it for free. Becca, it's the best chance for her." He grew quiet. "The only chance for her. If I'm right..." He didn't finish his sentence. When faced with the loss of his child...a man will do anything to save the infant's life...even join up with the wrong side.

The borders have been crossed. "Where I come to an end and you begin, I do not know."

Lilith Smithers is the daughter of a whore. Severus has just been hired at Hogwarts as the Potions Teacher. When they come together they will change each other's world.

There are so many things Sirius should have done. Remus/Sirius in 1981.

A look at Alice and Frank Longbottom's life together while they helped the Order fight Voldemort. Cameos from Baby Neville, Augusta, and Moody.

Remus Lupin remembers his greatest love and greatest regret. During the first war against Voldemort, both sides took extreme measures to guarantee their safety and success. Here is one.

Everyone needs love; even those with the darkest of hearts. This story of love for Lord Voldemort with many a twist and turn.

While on vacation with Sirius, Remus has to learn how to live in the moment for the dark days ahead.

Mrs Black is snogging Caradoc Dearborn on his last Order mission. Written for Fiction Alley Park's Valentine's Day OTP challenge 2005.

During Voldemort's first attempt at power, two old friends meet in Granada. But something isn't quite right.

"Remus doesn't really like alcohol, but these nights it's become necessity" The First War. The world is crumbling down, taking Remus and Sirius's relationship along. So what is left?

Narcissa Black falls through the ice on the lake, Severus Snape is tormented as always, and Lucius Malfoy shows that there is such a thing as Slytherin loyalty. Everyone skates on very thin ice before the first war.

In 1981, on the eve of Voldemort's fall, a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin form an unlikely bond.

Regulus Black is R.A.B. His descent into fear, madness, and death as he continues on with his hopeless mission. Regulus was just a lion from the stars sorted into a Slytherin snake, but in the end, none of that mattered.

Regulus visits Horace Slughorn for tea and advice, and even though he doesn't get the answers he wants, they're the ones he most needs.

Regulus Black has seven days to die.

A companion fic to my other story, Laws of Motion, set after the second part of the first chapter. Lucius Malfoy and Andromeda Black are engaged. We know they won't end up together. But there was a time when even they thought they would.

How could it have come to this? How did we fall so far? It is the day after Christmas, and while the rest of the world is returning to normalcy after the holiday, one man isn't feeling very cheerful. The holidays have only allowed him to remember the pain and loss of the previous year, though he tries desperately to forget those memories. But as a fresh blanket of snow has covered the ground, he decides to take a walk to clear his mind, and at the same time, he decides to take a chance; he allows himself to just remember.

After Peter, James, and Lily are murdered, Remus struggles to take a hold on his life again. Broken-hearted about Sirius' betrayal, he decides to write a letter to his far away lover to heal some of the wounds.

Regulus trembles, gripping his wand whiteknuckled. ... The sick feeling in his stomach is no more than just the heat affecting him, the sweat on his palms is the same. Warning: contains death and violence.

Somewhere on the north coast of Wales lies a little village, forsaken and miserable. When the wind is in from the sea, it carries with it terrible scream and a mist that chills the bone, and sometimes, sometimes you can see the ghost of lights flickering on the dead island of Abercasden.

Regulus Black faced death in order to bring about the Dark Lord's demise, but a house-elf's disobedience creates a world very different from the one we know. The First War continues and the Order must defeat Voldemort without the help of a chosen one. AU

Hogwarts' Defense professor is out and Dumbledore needs a stand-in for a few days. The only problem is that the one person willing to do it is Sirius Black.

Peter has been convinced it is important to join.

Lily's eleventh birthday, her worst ever... They day she was forced to choose between her sister and her magic within.

Sirius Black comes back to his flat to look for a forgotten object and witnesses the most traumatic event in his life: Lily Evans' bridal shower! Oh, did I mention that he witnesses it from inside the wardrobe?

Remus feels isolated by his friends during the first war, and it takes running into Severus at a bar to make him feel anywhere near all right.

As a war they never asked to be a part of rages around them, Sirius and Remus begin to suspect each other as things start to slowly change. Five unadultered angsty drabbles.

A deceptively typical evening in the Potter household at Godric's Hollow.

Frank Longbottom and fellow Auror Alice Belby talk after Frank uses an Unforgivable Curse for the first time.

The Lestranges would do anything for Lord Voldemort. Anything at all. Bellatrix/Rodolphus, disturbing.

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." ~Walt Whitman

Barred from becoming an Auror because of his family name, a young man becomes an informant in the Death Eaters for the Ministry, to earn his right to become an Auror. When his idealistic views of the world is shattered; when Death Eaters become his friends, and Aurors are the crueler ones in an endless war, he start to question his loyalty to the Ministry.

It is right before the murder of Lily and James, and Remus is beginning to feel the tensions of being suspected as the spy.

One night will always be remembered in the world of Harry Potter. There was one night that started it all --- a Dark Lord was defeated, a friendship was broken, and a child was left an orphan, yet hailed as a hero at the same time. The night of All Hallow's Eve is recounted once again in this tale.

"Late at night, she thinks of her." - Molly and Bellatrix remember.

How can you tell you've found the right person unless you sample a few? Sirius plays the field and Remus tries to forget.

Regulus Black learns there is more to becoming a Death Eater than receiving the Dark Mark.

Most crashes are dramatic and sudden. Then, there are others that are soft and take time, like that of the fall of the House of Nott. After the birth of her son, Theodore, Ella Nott learns of her husband's true work. But that is only the beginning. There on, the Dark Lord vanishes. And then, only time can tell until her time is up. Such a fall will never come around for centuries, as that of Ella Nott and the Nott family.

At the start of Voldemort’s first rise, Minerva McGonagall must come to terms with the reality of being a Hogwarts professor during war.

Peter and Alice are on an Order mission, but will the memory of their night together ruin it all?

Narcissa reflects on what happened the night that changed everything and dreams of what her son will become.

A father's desperate, helpless plea...when there's no one else to turn to, turn to God. Companion piece to So Dear to My Heart.

Nearing the end of his final year at Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy, the young, aristocratic Slytherin, chooses to embark on a path his father has treaded. Sneaking out of the school under the eyes of that Mudblood-loving headmaster, Lucius goes to join Dumbledore’s enemy — the Dark Lord Voldemort. He believes he has made the right decision in following this path, but will he make it through all of the tests and obstacles that the Dark Lord demands of him? Will he receive the Dark Mark and prove himself worthy of joining the elite group of followers who call themselves the Death Eaters?

All that remained was a box full of memories. (Remus/Sirius)

A story retracing the events before the Potters died to when Sirius Black was sentenced to Azkaban - Remus Lupin, facing challenges, comes forward to the Ministry with certain suspicions of certain friends. It all began during sixth year when....

When Bellatrix Black awoke in the middle of the night, there was only one who would understand and ease her worries. The teenage Bellatrix and Rodolphus have a nightly talk about their dreams for the future.

A sort of stream-of-consciousness short story from Sirius's POV on the night Lily and James were murdered. It was inspired by the combination of Hagrid's and Fudge's stories about that night in PoA, when I started wondering what Sirius was thinking.

A Prewett/Weasley family one-shot set during and after the first war. Before she was a Weasley, Molly was a Prewett with two brothers... brothers she loved... brothers she lost... brothers she remembers...

[One shot. Peter centric] There are two choices that can be made, and both basically amount to 'lose everything'. What do you do; save your own life, or die to protect your friends? Either way, you know you're condemned. This is a version of Peter Pettigrew's joining the Dark Lord - what would make a loyal fellow to betray his friends? He was a Marauder; he must have been decent before his crimes soured everybody's memories of him. He must have had a motivation, and here's an idea of what it could have been.

I can hear people outside. Their footsteps and voices, screams, it all echoes off the wall. And inside my head. I can still remember his manic laughter. That horrible cackle. He thinks I’m dead.

Dumbledore had grown accustomed to hearing news of former pupils being captured and sent to Azkaban, but being Flooed and informed that his own brother had been arrested for performing improper charms on a goat was an entirely different matter.