Gabett



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Rec 6

    Tags
    Summary

    It isn’t that you can’t understand. In another lifetime, you’d probably approach this differently. You’re sure that you have. There’s a faint sense memory of vat fluid, of Dys smiling and at peace, of the last sleep before becoming something else entirely. Even if you don’t always join him, you know you aren’t always angry. Sometimes you’re sincerely happy for him.

    It’s hard to be patient and forgiving when just last week, you were helpless to do more than hold a man’s hand while he died of a heart attack that a biobed could’ve easily prevented. It seems that even you have your limits.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,089
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    7
    Kudos:
    19
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    138

    22 Jul 2026

  2. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    Harry is captured by wizards and brought to a castle. The wizards are obnoxious, but there's a lovely wood nearby which is quaintly named the "Forbidden" Forest. Harry thinks that's adorable.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    95,446
    Chapters:
    15/15
    Collections:
    6
    Comments:
    603
    Kudos:
    6,594
    Bookmarks:
    853
    Hits:
    94,381

    09 Jul 2026

  3. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    “I must not have heard you correctly, Headmaster,” Severus said flatly.

    “You did, my boy. This isn’t only a favour to me, you understand.”

    “But there must be trust," Severus insisted. "A bond… or some sort of relationship between mentor and pupil for Occlumency to be taught correctly! The only bond the brat and I share is one of mutual loathing.”

    “Now, Severus, you are an adult and a Hogwarts professor. Surely, you can find a way to mend broken bridges.”

    Broken bridges? Broken bridges? There had never been a "bridge" to begin with! Not with Potter, the carbon copy of his school bully, who spoke, acted, believed himself so superior to anyone else he might as well be the second coming of his father. There had always only been damp planks slogging down a river which separated them on two opposite banks. No bridge to speak of.
    OR
    Summer of Fifth Year. Dumbledore decides Harry should begin Occlumency immediately. Harry and Snape start seeing a lot of each other. Neither is thrilled, especially when they begrudgingly realise that maybe, possibly, perhaps, they might have more in common than they thought.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    93,996
    Chapters:
    26/26
    Collections:
    7
    Comments:
    811
    Kudos:
    3,576
    Bookmarks:
    1,002
    Hits:
    80,847

    04 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 46

    Words:
    10,814
    Works:
    4
    Bookmarks:
    46

    18 Jun 2026

  5. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    It’s May 1979 and the Order has just apprehended a pair of mysterious wizards who look remarkably like a Potter and a Malfoy. Naturally, James Potter and Sirius Black are called in to identify the strangely familiar strangers and determine their backgrounds and loyalties.

    (This would be a lot easier if their captives weren’t convinced everyone they talk to is dead. It would also be easier if they didn’t spend half their bloody time bickering.)

    **

    “Just ask them questions only they would know the answer to,” Malfoy suggests.

    “There’s not a single thing that I know about either of them from the first war that any old Death Eater couldn’t find out.”

    “How is that possible?” Malfoy huffs. “He’s your father!”

    “Am I or am I not famously an orphan?” Potter snarls.

    **

    Русский перевод: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49365862/chapters/124574398
    中文翻译: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49899721

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    19,328
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Collections:
    53
    Comments:
    1,375
    Kudos:
    48,465
    Bookmarks:
    10,093
    Hits:
    536,910

    17 Jun 2026