The Cruelest Months by gehayi - This one's on the Black family, and it stabs me in the hard with each read. All the pieces are set in the seventies and the eighties, so they're all Andromeda, Bellatrix, Sirius, Regulus and Narcissa, in alternating tales that somehow make some of the most villified and/or invisible (take your pick) characters all too human and lovely and flawed. My heart breaks especially in the Andromeda and Narcissa bits, where each of them are dealing with bringing babies... read more
