Or, five weddings that never happened (and one that almost did.)

In the quiet darkness of his apartment, he wonders if he'll ever accomplish something.

Santa and June in the years between nonary games.

The missing nine, that Akane counts in years.

This isn’t the first time Akane Kurashiki has woken somewhere unfamiliar with a headache and stiff joints and no memory of how she got there.

Akane wakes up in a cell and has to escape with an unexpected ally.

"Phi kicked off their third anniversary dinner by burning herself four times." Akane and Phi will celebrate their anniversary come hell or high water.

You did what you had to do. (Non-route specific.)

Izaya and Namie try this thing called cohabitation.

Celty invites Shizuo to go look for aliens.

Fifty years after V-E Day, America visits some of his boys who never made it home.

He didn't understand how someone like Marilyn, who was the focus of so much love, could feel so all alone.

A conversation over tea.

Pegasus recreates the story of his love, once, twice, thrice.

On a Friday night, Ryou catches the train and rides an hour out to the wealthy suburb surrounding Versailles, where Isis and Rishid have asked him to ‘housesit’. What ensues is movies, crepes, and The Game of Life.

A short angsty Kaiba brothers story.

Marufuji Ryou, before he was Kaiser.

Futurefic. Shikamaru takes an ANBU mission, and whether he succeeds or not, it's not going to end well.

Sai and art lessons.

His father had fifty wives and his father's father had fifty wives and all the fathers before him had half a hundred wives of their own.

Kimblee has long been bending circumstances to his advantage.

Renji would write poems, if he could.

Every now and then, Renji gets caught up in the moment and loses sight of his goals. And every time, he gets a reminder of what he's missing in his life.

Five birthdays Rukia never celebrated, and one she just might.

Sometimes butterflies don't die.

Orihime, Tatsuki and Umbrella-san against the world. Three is a better number than two.

In the aftermath of the Zero Requiem, Suzaku and Kallen do what they do best.

In which everyone assumes it's because of some kind of fetish and Kallen inflicts property damage and bodily harm.

The things C.C. dreams.

"I’m not going to marry you."

What he wants from her.

And one thing he didn't.

Viceroy Nunnally receives a late night visitor.

Home is where your things are. Rolo and Lelouch, haunted by ghosts.

The dead timeline lives on, and Katsuya Suou stubbornly persists in it. His brother is determined to do better.

Lisa thought she could just erase her past. Turns out, the ugly parts of yourself only stand out more the more you try to avoid them.

Graduation day.

Argilla grows up in the shadow of the woman who she was and yet was not.

A black hole appears in Antarctica and grows day by day, consuming everything in its path. Russian scientist Zelenin is invited on a U.N. expedition into the hole. She accepts, though not without concerns.

Ritsuko’s hand was warmer than she could have foreseen. Misato kept her hand atop hers for an overlong moment, if only to make good on the gesture, before she retracted it and wiped the small film of moisture that had accumulated on her palm onto the counter.

[Misato and Ritsuko try their hands at friendship, again.]

"Here, there was a collection of scenes, mainly pertaining to what happened to Our Protagonist, between the time he entered into UN custody and the time that the final hearings began." Post-Third Impact, Shinji faces his strangest trial yet: providing witness testimony in the case against the defense organization known as NERV.

Now, right now, in SEELE’s wreck of a hospital ward, smelling the rot of the place, the rot of the world, like Hiroshima, like Nagasaki, like hell itself had swallowed up—everything—Mari breathes in blood and breathes out poetry.

The story of the end of the world, told in two parts.

Hyuga Makoto is the most pessimistic optimist in all of NERV, according to Aoba. Unfortunately he also has all the willpower of a heroin addict when it comes to the central cause.

“We’re here to discuss a better world,” says Sudo, quietly, after a moment. Slowly, Satomi’s fists unclench; slowly, Komori sheathes his knife. “A world where those who live are those who have earned the right to live.”

“Oh, God,” says Bungo, and drops his face into his hands. “No offence, Sudo-kun, but I knew you were too good to be true.”

(Before they had their shadow dragons, and before they were a team, and before they had a plan - they were all still just as fucking weird.)

She's not broken; she's misassembled.

“You remind me of a poem I can’t remember, and a song that may never have existed, and a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to.”

A-drei is assigned to sit in the back row during his first week at Karlstein.

flowers can still bloom in winter.

An "accidental" meeting in which Rosa is both offended and hit on: otherwise known as an average Tuesday.

“But why me? Wouldn’t Calem be better suited for this grand opportunity?”

She can’t help but notice the way her voice poisons her two most favorite words in the universe.

(your name is serena descartes and you are not a queen. au: serena joins team flare.)

fatherlyshipping, villainspe. 110 words.

"I was not the one who confessed to the wrong girl," Crystal snipes, watching Gold flinch.

"I can't possibly be good at everything, can I? I am human too, you know. Majestically flawed."

The summer is her favorite season.

For Satoshi, the root of obsession is love.

He thinks of her as his, but doesn't allow her the pleasure of a vice-versa.

"Aren't you going to wish me 'good luck'?" — AU, where Mayaka falls for Houtarou instead of Satoshi in middle school.

He keeps buying white dresses for her birthday.

In some other place, a little boy takes his turn drowning in the river.