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Squee! [livejournal.com profile] notuilion just showed up one day and said, "Here, since you were whimpering that you didn't have time, here are all your KR drabbles, all coded and ready for upload to your website." !!!!!!!!

So, dear [livejournal.com profile] notuilion, I offered you a drabble as thanks; you said, "I like Lucius," so I went to this week's Dictionary Drabble on Beloved Enemies. I went for a sort of abstract version of the word's definition. Hope you like!


The word:
florilegium: a collection of excerpts; an anthology of short pieces.



Title: Short Stories. 500 words. Harry/Lucius.




Ten objects on a table.

Lucius does not quite hold his breath as the boy stares at them. It looks so very like the memory game of old. And oh, it is a memory game, but nothing like the one most are familiar with.

He does not dare to look at Voldemort as Potter touches the first item.

A white owl feather.

--"Consider it a birthday present, child," says Lucius Malfoy, smiling as Harry takes the owl's cage from him, too overcome to speak--

A remembrall.

--"Father thinks you'd make a fine Seeker," says Draco Malfoy, tossing it in the air. "Go on, give it a try!" Harry's best friend gives the glass sphere a healthy throw, and Harry is already off after it--

A thick emerald green jumper.

--"these wet things off you before you freeze..." and strong hands are pulling the rain-soaked jumper over Harry's head, and wrap a throw about his shoulders, still warm from the hearth--

A water-warped black book with a ragged hole through the middle.

--"can try again some other day, Harry." Lucius puts the ruined book upon the small table next to his armchair, and draws Harry onto his lap--

Splinters from a broomstick.

--"never mind what it cost me," Harry says fiercely, refusing to be moved from Lucius's hospital bedside. "I got you out of there and you're going to be all right and that's what matters"--

A square of worn parchment with nothing written upon it.

--Harry bends low, and whispers, "The Dark Lord will rise again," and the blank parchment becomes a map--

An empty butterbeer bottle.

--"enough of that for one night," Lucius says, but he's smiling, and Harry says, "Haven't either," and he's never felt so bold as he leans in close to the older man--

A tiny gold hourglass on a chain.

--"can't have you losing either sleep or study time to come here at night, now can I?" says Lucius, and Harry sits up, letting the sheet fall to his waist as he reaches for it--

A golden egg.

--"how to open it, then take what's inside and put it on. And wait for me." Lucius leans closer. "Naked, of course. And don't you dare touch yourself." Harry shivers--

A long, thin black quill with an unusually sharp point.

--on his thigh, right there, not more than an inch from his cock, and Harry doesn't know whether it will be the point or the feather edge this time, and it doesn't matter, as long as Lucius doesn't stop, doesn't stop, doesn't stop--

Harry looks up from the table, and moves around it to stand before Lucius.

Touches his shoulder lightly and kisses him. "I've missed you. When did I get here? I can't quite remember."

Voldemort chuckles. "Nicely done, my friend. Very well, you may keep him."

Potter's head tucked comfortably under his chin, Lucius smiles.



-fin

Date: 2003-12-13 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com
I'll tell you: I'm okay using the logic of, "Voldie's trying to get this prophecy; he needs to know what the prophecy says about Potter; he's not just going to kill the kid off until he knows whether he has another part to play." I know he tried to off him at the end of OotP but that was more an in-anger thing, more a this-will-devastate-Dumbledore thing. At least that's the way I'm playing it. For fanfiction, anyway.

Date: 2003-12-14 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loony-moony.livejournal.com
At least that's the way I'm playing it. For fanfiction, anyway.

Oh?Are you playing it otherwise in another place? :D

Hmmm...I thought Voldemort knew the entire prophecy by the time OotP enters the timeline. Dumbledore doesn't know better than him, save for the force only Harry can wield, or can wield very strongly. I just don't think Voldemort would do something as foolish as giving Harry to Lucius as a prisoner/slave of any kind in the OotP timeline, he'd want him out of his way, as fast as he can. Without him Voldemort's way to victory would be much easier.

Date: 2003-12-14 09:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com
Nah, nah, Voldie doesn't know it. That's why he's trying to get it, to hear all of it. Why Bellatrix is so horrified when she finds out it's been smashed.

But it makes sense for V. to think that killing Harry is probably going to be at the end of his goals. Just...maybe he should play it safe until he knows, that's what I'm thinking.

Date: 2003-12-14 11:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loony-moony.livejournal.com
But didn't Sybil say the prophecy first to him and then to Dumbledore? *is a canon nag*

Date: 2003-12-14 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com
If memory serves, Sybil said the prophecy to Dumbledore. Half of it--but not all of it--was heard by Voldemort's spy.

Date: 2003-12-14 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loony-moony.livejournal.com
Damn, need to check canon again. Do you by any chance remember who was the spy? I don't believe it's Peter.

Date: 2003-12-14 12:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com
I think that's one of the secrets we don't know yet!

Date: 2003-12-14 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loony-moony.livejournal.com
Heh? Oh god....*hangs head in hands*

OMG that icon! Chanslash!fish! *stares at it*

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