My Shipper Heart Is Calling To You

The scribbled digits have burnt in his pocket for two years, and Dean had almost died tonight. Tied up and gagged with a blade to his throat, he had only thought of Sam.

He’d thought of the last time he’d seen him: furious and beautiful, shoving belongings into a duffle.

Dean still doesn’t know how he let him leave that night, but he had, and now he hasn’t heard Sam’s voice in two years.

“Hello?”

Dean’s knuckles go white around the phone. His body aches, his knees go weak, and he wants to cry.

“Sam,” he says, finally. It feels unreal to speak his name.

“Who’s calling please?” There’s a twinge of impatience in Sam’s voice. It’s deeper than Dean remembers.

“It’s me,” Dean manages, his heart hammering painfully in his chest.

The way Sam says his name on the other end isn’t soft, nor is it happy. It’s just a sigh of surprised worry. “Dean. Is it – is it dad?”

Dean feels like an inconvenience, an embarrassment. “No, he’s. He’s alive. We’re both fine.”

A moment of silence, then a slightly confused: “Oh. Good. That’s, uh, that’s good.”

There’s a curious voice in the background on the other end. Light. Soft.

A girl’s voice.

Dean’s heart seems to stop when Sam murmurs: “No one, babe. Just give me a second.”

Just like that, Dean knows. Sam never intended to keep what they once had. Hands finding each other under blankets in the backseat, stolen kisses in motel rooms and soft promises made beneath fireworks.

Sam never wanted it forever, he only wanted something while he waited for a girl like the one he keeps on the other end, and Dean is a fucking fool for ever thinking he could keep something as beautiful as Sam.

Dean hangs up the phone, slowly and deliberately. He stares at the parking lot outside the booth. The moon is still full when Dean realizes he is an offhanded ‘no one’ to his only one. 

His forever one.

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Colours of Potter 1/50  ↳ Sonam Kapoor as Rowena Ravenclaw

“Whatever the history books tell you, don’t listen to them. Racism has always been present in the Wizarding World, perhaps even more so than the muggle world. It is just the privilege of the white that they don’t have to see it. We don’t have that privilege. 

My initial research has revealed little of where this discrimination came from. Our people have been scrubbed from many of the records. Wizards travel much more than muggles do, but they think anyone they meet with skin darker than their own is “savage” and “uneducated”. They think their magic is better than anyone else’s.

They insist their Latin and Anglo Saxon spells are better than the Sanskrit spells that I know. They don’t understand that wands were made in Egypt long before white people had their hands on them. Two-way mirrors, flying carpets, astrology. All these things come from the lands these white people label as “backward”. They are so close-minded.

My father brought me to this country as a child. I was not even five years old. He had wanderlust after my mother had died and a thirst for knowledge. He thought there was much to learn from this small country. And there is! I do love it here. I love the harsh landscape, the mist that descends on the glens, the waves crashing on the rocks at the coast. As much as I long for India, I have fallen in love with this tiny place where my father brought me. This is why I suggested we build the castle near here.

I helped build this school to open young wizards’ and witches’ minds. No child is born racist. That’s what they say. I do believe that most of the time. I want to squash prejudice before it has the chance to take hold in their impressionable minds. I want to broaden their horizons. I want them to explore what they can do, and test and question what they think they know! They shouldn’t just be taught spells from their parents’ lap.

We have taken on such a huge task. These children are in our hands so we spent so long designing the school. It is our pride and joy. I spent hours designing the ever-changing floor plan, the secret passageways and the moving staircases. It inspires our students to be creative too. They can not only explore the castle here, but explore themselves.  

There are two things that press constantly against my mind. One is the future of the school. After we are gone, will the castle fall to ruins? It is my dream for the legacy to last forever: generations of children being educated here. Finding a home, as Godric, Helga, Salazar and I all found. The second, which is much more important, is Salazar’s view on those from muggle families. The others and I are unsettled by him. I can feel the cracks forming in our relationship but I simply cannot let this go. I will not tolerate this kind of discrimination in the heart of the school. Who knows what it will lead to?

God knows what discrimination has led to in the past. I reverently hope that history will not repeat itself – but humans… we never seem to learn.”

No magic whatsoever. Just awesome canon parallels in AU settings. In case you are hesitant, I’ve included the fic summaries to entice you.

DRAMIONE RECS:

The Scavengers* - After an unexpected moment causes Draco & Hermione to realize a steamy, mutual attraction, keeping things hidden from their friends becomes the least of their concerns. Secrets from a bloodstained past begin to unravel, and something diabolical stalks the haunted grounds of Rowling University. Something that has its twisted sights set on Hermione.

Through The Window, We Go - When Draco Malfoy, a suburban thug with nothing better to do than cause trouble and run from the police, climbs through his next door neighbor’s window in hopes of hiding away he finds himself dodging thrown books and accusations from a very disgruntled Hermione Granger. And, despite heated arguments over right and wrong, Draco is tempted to steal Hermione’s heart away.

For The World Has Passed Away - Draco Malfoy is trapped in an engagement to a woman he does not love, but on a fateful voyage to America, he meets another woman who will change his life and show him that love is worth dying for.

the clock is slow - saying no to this wasn’t an option.

TOMIONE RECS:

Hack It!* - Voldemort is the brilliant, ruthless heir of a crumbling criminal empire. Amateur computer hacker Hermione Granger has to do volunteer work at Azkaban Prison, or else her dream of going to Duke is taking a one-way ticket down the toilet. But as Hermione learns this handsome murderer has more in common with her than she thinks, the rising mob war becomes the least of her worries…

Have A Nice Day! - Tom Riddle: secret, brilliant heir to the biggest company in the world, VoldeMart. Hermione Granger: sent to his prestigious school on full scholarship because VoldeMart outsourced her parents’ jobs to China. Bridges burn. Sparks fly.

Nightingale - Brilliant student and prospective MI5 recruit Hermione Granger is inadvertently thrown back in time by a top-secret government experiment- Right into the lap of aspiring bio-engineer Tom Riddle, who she knows in her time as the man whose dangerous ambition will herald a nation’s ruin…

The Scientist - Attraction builds between Hermione and her best friend’s older brother, yet she can’t tear her mind from the mysterious puzzle that is her critical theory professor: Dr. Riddle.

Witch - She turns back to look at him and he reaches out to take her - but their hands never touch.

Exposed - It wasn’t supposed to be like this. She was not supposed to be stuck in a cave with Professor Tom Riddle.

Tomione is kinda my dirty little secret ship bc it’s my crackship so yeah.. I compiled a short list of my fav Tomione fics and if you have any recommendation or other favs, just let me know!

Completed

Nightmare by ProvocativeEnvy

Tied for Last by Speechwriter

Broken Hearts on Canvas by ImmortalObession

Carpe Diem by BertieBott

Ultima Ratio by Winterblume

A Fine Line Between Love and Hate by Radiant Innocence

Have a Nice Day! by Speechwriter

Shared Flame by LadyMiya

Century Maker by EmerTheAwesome

His by ShadowGlove

Restricted by Flaignhan

Somewhere in Time by SerpentInRed

Darkened Desire by Radiant Innocence

Daddy Dearest by ImmortalObsession

Entwined by SerpentInRed

Work In Progress or Possibly Abandoned

Please, Save Me by winterblume

Little Intern by iyoopyup

Bad Romance by uchiha.s

The Task by ImmortalObsession

Kill Time, Injure Eternity by Svelte Rose

Right Place, Wrong Time? by Shan84

Drink From My Cup by Dadaismo

Other Fics Recs: [ Dramione || Theomione || Blamione ]