What if Duv had never joined the Imperial Service?

Even six months after the Mandate of Heaven fell upon another, the river runs foul all its length, no matter how they dredge it for corpses, or poison.

On the eve of a world at war, seven families gather for an annual holiday tradition and it's up to an elderly J.D. Dunne to tell them how it all got started.

Susan made a different choice, years ago. Harry Dresden vanishes from Chicago. Somewhere else, somewhere secret, a wizard learns to be a father.

Years later, someone from Harry's old life manages to track him down and finds him with the daughter he's worked so hard to keep unknown and safe.
[AU, Gen fic, warning for character death ]

The fall of the house of Frank and Helen

Not-quite SF (think: game AIs and technological singularity). Probably the most gratuitously intellect-taxing fic on the vast internets in which the plot is "[chara] gets hit by a Mack truck, everyone is sad". ^^; Written for the Blind Go Guessing Challenge (September 2006), where people were kind enough to say kind things about it.

They are a society unto themselves, even in death. It's almost a religion. [Turkfic]

Months ago, Harry Potter seduced Lucius Malfoy in order to gain access to his secrets for Dumbledore. Now, as he lies dying after the final battle against Voldemort, he has to confront the Malfoys one last time.

Summary: Braska's pilgrimage ends in the Calm Lands, when he defeats Sin with the Final Summoning. It doesn't end like this. (But it might have.)

By the end of your sophomore year of high school, you're pretty sure that Sunnydale High is haunted.

Sesshomaru stood stone still in the field, sniffing and searching. Rin was late. This was not like her; if there was one trait that he had passed onto her from his time with her, it was a strict adherence to punctuality. This meant either one of two things: she forgot to come, or something was preventing her from coming. The taiyoukai knew that Rin would not have forgotten him; therefore something was wrong. His logic never failed.

In case of zombies, please use the stairs.

[Adam/Kris, adult, explicit, horror-movie violence and consequences -- caveat lector!]
Megan had been calling them zombies from the get-go; after the third one, while Adam was busy puking his guts all over the sidewalk, she went around to all of them and hissed, "Listen, they're zombies, do you get it?"

in which Sam is dead, and Dean is broken

In a hundred years, they will be honored. An evolution of ghosts.

Years after the apocalypse, Dean gets saved again.

Dean/the Vessel
Warning: Post-series. Character death.
Summary: I know why Castiel let me remember you. Not all who wander are lost. Not all who are lost, wander.

He rode into our valley six years after the end of the war. I was just a kid, sitting on the fence and watching the dusty road that wound down from the blue-grey mountains, waiting for something to happen. Nothing ever seemed to happen back then, especially not to an eleven-year-old girl.

Bob and Harry in the morgue, just not how you’d expect it

3 things that didn't happen [lousy formatting]

The remains of Ichabod Crane dreamed sometimes, of a world where the Lady Archer's bullet did not pierce his heart but was caught between the pages of a book of spells.

He never thought he would live a long life.

Codes: McKay, Sheppard/McKay
Rating: R
Summary: They woke up brand new.
[Seriously, this is the creepiest thing I've read in the fandom, ever]

Summary: There's just one problem with Lionel's convincing the world that Lex is insane.

An AU ending for 'What About Bob?' Events at the morgue take a wrong turning.
Warnings: Angst. Major character deaths.

A novel following Neville and the D.A. through the 7th year at Hogwarts under the reign of Snape and the Carrows. [Fairly well written, and the only complete "year seven at Hogwarts" fic I've found, but it's definitely darker than the books are.]

SLASH :: AU :: Dubious Consent :: LM/HP :: AD/SS (implied) :: When starts the beginning of forever?

Dumbledore has a plan to keep Severus and the boy safe. Rated R, for language and content.

Smallville/Spiderman the Movie crossover: It's instant, like the click of a camera, a moment out of time captured and preserved. Even if he doesn't know why until now.

Up in Care-a-lot, plans were in motion. The levels of caring in the wizarding world had dropped drastically, and even the children were having more trouble to care with each year that progressed. A meeting was called for all the Care Bears.

I have--a lot of people. samdonne issued the challenge back in January for a Dean meets John Sheppard that I couldn't--quite--get out of my head when I asked for prompts, which means I hit a record of answring four of my own prompts.

by kat Allison

neville/snape, fic of Resonant's Transfigurations

There is a gravestone in Arlington National Cemetery. It sits watch over an empty grave, and there is a vine with small blue flowers, one the gardeners can't identify from any book, twining up its side.

Harry finds himself shunned by the other Slytherins, except one. [Teenage Snape died in the Shrieking shack and is haunting the castle.]