7 Works by steph_k
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Over the clanking of trunks being loaded on trolleys and the cacophonous babbling of children greeting parents, two brothers sat silently in a quickly-emptying train. The younger one was terrified, knew that the only thing waiting for himself and his brother was disaster. He held onto his brother’s sleeve with a white-knuckle grip, chewing on the inside of his lips until he tasted blood. The older had spent the ride pretending he was fine, that his life at school was as he liked it and that his life at home was something better than hell. The only thing that grounded him was the sound of his baby brother’s shallow breaths and the knowledge that he was still alive to take them. He intended to make sure his brother stayed breathing for however long he damn-well chose to, even if he had to buy that freedom with his own life.
“Do you remember the plan?” the older asked.
“Yes,” the younger nodded.
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In which Sirius goes home and Regulus does not. The prodigal son returnith, and all that.Series
- Part 3 of Sirius Black and the Heart of the Lion
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To be fair, Evan had woken on the wrong side of the bed that morning just to see two Black brothers readying for their days instead of one. Like that was just a thing that they did all the time. Like it was just a thing that happens.
Evan would like to stress that Sirius Black sleeping over with Regulus was not a thing that happens. Had literally never happened.
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Wherein we get to meet some Slytherins, eat some breakfast, confuse the entirety of Hogwarts (students and professors alike), and some snakes slither into the lion's den without invitation.Series
- Part 2 of Sirius Black and the Heart of the Lion
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His breath hitched just a touch at the way Sirius was so carelessly devoted to those that he loved, like it was as easy as breathing, and wondered not for the first time if he was somehow adopted. But Andromeda’s secret smirk and Alphard’s cheeky winks behind their mother's back and even Narcissa when she put away the polished perfection long enough to smile at her baby cousins, all flashed like a film reel in Regulus’ mind and banished the thought as soon as it flitted by. In any case, they were all so inbred that they were visibly, painfully, related.
Choosing to grab onto his brother’s love instead their family’s cruelty, Regulus took a chance.
“I need help,”
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Sirius has lost everything in the wake of The Prank. The thing is, when you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. Truthfully, Sirius would have sacrificed it all the second that Regulus asked him for help, regardless. But his already being at rock bottom made this next bit much easier.Series
- Part 1 of Sirius Black and the Heart of the Lion
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Absolutely Not by steph_k
Fandoms: Legacies (TV 2018), The Originals (TV), The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
14 Jan 2024
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“So he’s after the boy?” Elijah confirmed, and Hope gave him a hesitant nod.
“Well, I could kill the boy," her father supplied, as if that was at all helpful, "That would solve the problem, would it not?”
“Yeah... But then I’d have a dead boyfriend,”
“It would solve two problems, then. Even better,”
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OR: Legacies, but with more Mikaelsons (and a not dead Klaus, Hayley, and Elijah)Series
- Part 2 of Absolutely Not
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Vasilissa Dragomir was good at many things. She was good at healing the injured. She was good at pretending to tolerate the majority of the Courtiers she’s surrounded with more often than she would like. She was exceptionally good at pretending she didn’t miss her best friend like she’d miss a limb, and was happy to spit insults about the girl she felt betrayed her when she ran away from their world.
But, it would seem, that Lissa had a limit to how low she was willing to stoop in order to hang onto that particular grudge. Turns out the systematic slaughter of literal children was her hard limit. Who would’ve guessed?
OR: The Council ruled to lower the graduation age for all Dhampir and Lissa now has to swallow the bitter pill of asking her ex best friend for help.
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The sequel that almost nobody actually asked for... (If you haven't read Is It Over Now?, you probably won't follow this)Series
- Part 2 of Suburban Legends
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“Love fades. Mine has,”
It was like a car crash and a ship wreck and a category five hurricane all rolled into one. She’d been holding her breath for so long that it was only natural that darkness began to creep along the edges of her vision, of her entire world. She’d only lasted this long because she had never known how to give up. Had never known how to let go. Huh. Guess that’s the last thing Dimitri Belikov will ever teach her.
Rose disappeared that day. Like a ghost in the night, she’d fled, and nobody had seen her since. Bruises, tears, laughter... a few hundred takeout coffees later, she’d made a life in the four years she’d been gone. She’d found a purpose greater than herself and a family of monsters that matched her own. It would have taken a miracle to pull her back into that swirling vortex. It would have taken catastrophe. It would have taken a perfect storm of circumstances to convince Rose Hathaway to ever set foot back behind those, or any wards again.
Well, actually, it just took a phone call...
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- Part 1 of Suburban Legends
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The Whole Heart-Ripping, Murder-y Thing by steph_k
Fandoms: The Originals (TV), The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
08 May 2023
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“Hope is her father’s daughter,” Hayley confirmed, not quite able to keep the smile from the corners of her eyes, “She is brave and cocky and prideful and kind of an asshole, sometimes, even at eight-years-old. If we don’t fix this, one day my daughter will try to do it herself and who knows what kind of collateral damage that will throw at this city? At this family?"
OR: How the Mikaelsons and Co. fixed their messes WITHOUT white oak, thank you very much.
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- Part 1 of Absolutely Not