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    When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.

    Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story.

    Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH. No slash, no romance. NOW COMPLETE!

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    16 May 2026

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    Just before his eleventh birthday, Harry is found in a dark London alleyway. He is subsequently taken to stay in the home of one Severus Snape until he begins Hogwarts. Harry isn't quite sure what possessed him to agree to this arrangement, and Severus has no intention of allowing Potter's unfortunate progeny to get under his skin, but this is a Severitus fic, we all know how it ends.

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    02 May 2026

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    30 Apr 2026

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    Kalina was tired of being a shadow. Operation after operation failed because she couldn't get involved directly. She had eyes and ears.

    What she needed were hands.

    And there was a particular pair of hands she had in mind. A child's pair of green hands, already dexterous despite his young age. Those hands were adept at teasing blocks from behind couch cushions and scrawling the correct answers on every assignment, but they grasp at other hands far too often.

    He'd require testing. Refinement. But she'd spent so long as just whispers in ears, she could sink a few years into training her hands. She'd hedged enough bets. It was time for an investment.

    A Kalina kidnaps/trains Riz AU. Ft. newsies, conspiracies, violence, ACAB, manipulation, grief, and a metric ton of crime.

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    26 Jan 2026

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    The secret to surviving is simple. It’s the execution that poses problems.

    Don’t die.

    It’s that easy.


    auri knows people, and that's how she can tell; astarion is deeply, deeply fucked up.

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    23 Feb 2025