The Secret Hours
Somewhere in the world, dawn is always breaking. Dark nights, old fears, and just a bit of hope. Severus and Minerva remember. PG-13.

To Stand Together
"To stand together, always, no matter how few of us remained, that was what we swore." Severus and Minerva, together at the end. PG-13.

The Best of Hands
He will see that she is in the best of hands... Minerva McGonagall is transfered to St. Mungo's by an unusual road. Snape/McGonagall. PG-13.

The Knowing
The Order of the Phoenix is bound together by the things they know, bound by secrets, dreams, and nightmares. Sometimes friends and lovers, but always allies, their strength is in the knowing. Moody/Tonks, Snape/McGonagall, Lupin/Black. PG-13.

Visiting Hours
In St. Mungo's, Minerva McGonagall receives a visitor with dreadful news. Snape/McGonagall. PG.

The Sword of the Dark Lord
Bellatrix Black Lestrange knows exactly who and what she is. PG-13.

Kiss of Darkness
"This night, I will be given the Dark Mark. The first woman so honored..." Bellatrix stands amongst the Death Eaters. PG-13.

Bloodrights
Bellatrix was born to rule. PG.

The Silver Screen
She would ask, Bellatrix thought, the strangest questions. PG.

Lost And Found
Bellatrix does not know loss as others do. PG.

What Love Is
She has one light in a world gone dark. Moody/Penelope Clearwater. R.

True Family
There is family, and then there is true family. Penelope remembers. PG-13.

A Weekend In Hogsmeade
She finds she likes the village better this way, without the hoards of Hogwarts students mobbing it. Or perhaps it's just the company. Moody/Penelope Clearwater. PG-13.

Skin Deep
Penelope Clearwater has no idea she is beautiful. PG-13.

Winds of Change
"He is changing. And gods help him if they ever truly realize it." Severus Snape is not who he was. Snape/McGonagall. PG.

Dance of Memory
She remembers her last dance, the Yule Ball of her seventh year, when it had seemed that no one was with who they wanted to be. Least of all her. Moody/Penny.

Dreaming A Winter's Night
"Every Auror- even every apprentice- knows the sound of a ward going off. There is no mistaking that sound, or where it has come from." Penny remembers in dreams. Penny/Moody.

The War Diaries
"Nobody thought the second war would start with the death of a Hufflepuff." Susan Bones on the Second War, Aurors, and family.

Beginnings: The Auror's Journal
I've been told, advised more than once, not to do this. To make no marks and to leave no records.

Religion: The Auror's Journal
When we are young, we are taught things and expected to believe them, to take them into our hearts and hold them true.

Love: The Auror's Journal
Sometimes, love is everything. Moody/Penny.

Fear: The Auror's Journal
I was sixteen when the Chamber of Secrets was opened.

Trading Places: The Auror's Journal
All of the people she could be, if she were anyone else.

Flawed: The Auror's Journal
Sometimes I look in the mirror and see nothing but flaws.

Old Ghosts
She doesn't speak of them much, or even think of them very often these days, but there are times when the ghosts of her childhood come back to her.

Thankful
She is thankful for a surprising number of things, given the state of her world. Moody/Penny.

Ever After
She didn't always believe in happy endings. Moody/Penny.

Beyond Skin
What is beauty? Is it physical, does it go beyond skin?

The Question Of Trust
The question of trust is one to which each Auror must find their own answers.

Auror's Oath
She knows the words to this oath by heart. Moody/Penny.

Never Was, Never Will Be
All she ever wanted was what everyone else took for granted.

Always Alone
Penelope Clearwater was always alone.

Auror Blue
Blue has always been Penelope Clearwater's favorite color.

Not Invulnerable
You are not invulnerable, old man, he tells himself. You are not unbreakable.

Necessary Lies
"You're going to be fine," he tells the students who lay dying upon the battlefields.

A Simple Gesture
He will always remember that day, the hour and the moment when his life changed forever- the day in which his world was transformed. Moody/Penny.

Auror's Justice
For Alastor Moody, catching Bellatrix Lestrange and her allies became an obsession.

Faith
Moody has cursed his gods more times than he can easily count, but mostly in his youth, before he really understood that faith was not always easy.

What A Year It's Been
For Moody, this year has broken all of the rules.

Beauty
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. No one's ever seen it when they look at him, not that he'd expect them to.

For A Wish
Moody tells his students to be careful what they wish for. They seldom listen, of course.

A Bad Year
Nightmares, fears and memories, a few more scars for his collection. Parting gifts from Barty Crouch, the younger.

Treasured
The thing Moody's realized about treasured possessions over the years is that they make easy, tempting targets.

Never Again
It wasn't what he would call an even trade.

Flaws
Moody knows his flaws.

The Badge
In the spring of 1965, Alastor Moody's mentor tells him, "You'll do."

Summer Bright, Winter Dark
This is how it might have been, if Alastor Moody still believed in miracles.

In The Dark
Moody stares into the dark for hours, desperately seeking any sign of light.

Standing Stones
It is 1981, and the wizarding world teeters on the brink of destruction. Haunted by loss and betrayal, a young Minerva McGonagall would have closed herself off from the world, had it not been for Severus Snape. As the comfort of an old friend develops into something more, the two become lovers, keeping old secrets and new while working to aide Albus Dumbledore in his fight against Voldemort. But neither Minerva nor Severus knows that their world is about to be turned upside down... R.
Chapter 1 /Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9 / Chapter 10 / Chapter 11 /

Lost Bastion
Two years after Harry Potter graduates Hogwarts, Voldemort stands at the edge of victory, and Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix is greatly tested when Dumbledore himself falls to the Death Eaters. But like the Phoenix of their knightly order, they arise from the ashes, Minerva McGonagall steps forward to take his place, and fighting at her side is Severus Snape, a Severus Snape who has stood for the last time amongst Voldemort's forces. Snape/McGonagall. PG-13.
Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8