I should have felt bad. I should have thought, you know, "poor guy" or something, first of his own species he's seen on Earth that didn't have slugs in their heads and we didn't even know if they'd survive the trip back home, "poor guy." What I actually felt was a stab of – something, white-hot not-quite-anger, eating away at my insides, making me feel sick. (Post-38, Ax/Marco)

"Ax, what do you know about –" "Do you speak French?" Ax interrupted. (Ax resents certain reoccurring questions. Cassie and Jake defuse a potential Situation.)

Now listen: false hope isn't useless. False hope has played its part in getting us all through plenty of situations that were totally free of authentic hope. (A brief interlude during Book #25: The Extreme)

Rachel was looking at the table as she spoke, instead of at me. "I wasn't fully morphed. I didn't need to be. I could have crushed her. I probably could have even killed her in my own human body." She looked up then. To see if I was shocked, maybe. I realized I wasn't. Not really. (Postscript for Book 19: The Departure. Cassie and Rachel have a conversation over lunch at the mall.)

The Man in the Golden Suit does not tire. [Narcoleptic Moist von Lipwig. Bear with me, and imagine a great big question mark after the "Angst" label.]

No matter which thing he worries about, it never quite feels right. Sirius Black has escaped and Remus is terrified that he's going to be an awful teacher; there are lessons to plan and Remus wants to curl up under his desk and scream. And everything about Hogwarts takes him back to something. (Or: Remus Lupin is having a very strange week.)

Maybe it was ridiculous. I don't know. I mean, I don't watch the people around me to keep track of who's been hurt and whether or not they're acting like it. But I figured a Yeerk on the lookout for the Andalite Bandits just might. [Marco POV]

A look at how one Vorta's survival might have changed everything - or nothing. \\ AU, spoilers abound.

The line between 'doctor' and 'friend' is one Karin likes to think she has learned how to walk. [Set in ME2, immediately after the mission through the Omega 4 Relay. Just a little moment between Dr. Chakwas and Joker.]

Friendship is a decision. A way to spend time that they all know is limited. It's a choice to make, he's learned, and plenty of them don't. "So the marks on your bucket, are they kills, or missions, or what?" / / Waxer and Boil, from pre-canon up to Innocents of Ryloth. Rated for violence. Warnings listed within.

Post-Zurich. Spoiler warning. Herc ponders the significance of labels. Arthur slips on wet pavement.

[Post-Zurich. Spoiler warning.] Carolyn and Arthur have a difficult conversation. It takes a few years to finish.

Carolyn considers her options. Post-Zurich. Major spoilers.

As long as everyone else believes you're absolutely fine, you're absolutely fine. (Or: Douglas and Carolyn have a conversation. About Herc. And Douglas.) / Set sometime before the finale.

Memory is a funny thing. "Nobody volunteers to be a volunteer, Snicket. They drag us away by our ankles."

Post-movie. Groot remembers something important.

"It probably won't kill me." In the pause that follows this proclamation, and in the interest of open communication between friends, she adds, "Right away." [Post-movie.]

Gamora prefers the nightmares that solidify. [Post-movie.]

The thing is, he thinks he might owe Drax an apology. The other thing is, he doesn't do apologies. [Post-movie.]

The sick feeling never really goes away. It spikes and it wanes and during the waning periods it becomes a background noise that you learn to live with. When it spikes, you take your guns apart, one by one or first-step-by-first-step, until it starts to die down. [For an anon who prompted Rocket dealing with OCD. Warnings inside.]