straightforwardly | 253 | fic recs, hit and run edition

A trio of fic recs:

you make a really good girl (as girls go) (A:tLA, Azula/Yue, 38K)
“Oh spirits,” Azula says, grinning widely. The Water Tribe is full of idiots. “You don’t want to marry Zuko, he’s useless. Also, he’s already engaged.”

“He is?” Yue blinks at her.

“Of course he is, he’s going to be the Fire Lord, he’s been engaged since he was twelve,” Azula says. A useless Fire Lord who she’s going to have to prop up, if not outright usurp, but Fire Lord all the same.

The things she does for this family, she swears.

iron sharpens iron (Harry Potter, Hermione/OFC, WIP updating regularly—currently at 17K, 4/19 chapters)
In a Wizarding world with a subtly altered political balance, the Triwizard Tournament is still coming back to Britain, Voldemort is still rising, and Bertha Jorkins is still missing. In the midst of these events, a fourteen year-old girl with Tom Riddle's face enrolls herself in Hogwarts as a transfer student. Her reasons for coming to Britain are a mystery, but to those who recognize her as Bellatrix Lestrange's missing daughter, the bigger question is where, and with who, she's spent the last thirteen years.

The River, the Woods (Naruto, Haku & Zabuza & Kimimaro, 10K)
Haku is willing, a thousand times over, to die for Zabuza. But that doesn't mean anyone else is allowed to die. Not on his watch.