KR Drabble Night, Feb 14, 2004
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amanuensis1The theme was "Inappropriate Valentines." (Actually, it was that, and something about telling MeLi to keep her hands in her OWN lap, but, we kinda blithely flouted that rule a lot. ^_^) These mostly have the implication that they take place on Valentine's Day, though I didn't spell it out, most of the time.
Arthur/Percy. The worst day of the year. (challenge by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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The tea has gone cold, but Arthur sips at it, knowing the visit will last only as long as the tea does. "You know your mother wouldn't say a word. If you came home. Not a word of recrimina--"
"No, Dad."
Arthur falls silent.
"I won't come home," says Percy, "unless we can be like we were."
And Arthur does not even have to hear the emphasis on we to know what he means.
"Percy. Don't--"
"I miss it."
Arthur is horrified to find himself thinking: what can it hurt. It's not like it isn't anything that hasn't happened before. And Molly would be happy to have him home.
He stands. "I'll be going, then."
"Please, Dad."
"How can you think I can bring you back to our home for that?"
Percy steps closer. "We could...find somewhere else."
No, no point in blaming the Ministry.
Arthur's own fault.
Albus/Neville: Valentine's Day and polyjuice potion don't always mix
"No excuses! No!" Albus holds up a forbidding finger. "I don't want to hear another word! Stealing storeroom materials, unauthorised brewing of Polyjuice Potion, sexual molestation--"
"It was only a kiss!" shrills the boy.
"Silence! Professor Snape has been triply insulted by your actions. The first two I could have overlooked, but the last...!"
The boy sucks in his lower lip.
Albus stands. "Take down your trousers."
"W-what?"
"I will not expel you, neither will I do anything that will interfere with your becoming a fully-trained wizard. That, I have promised. Yet I must have something to satisfy Professor Snape. You will show him these marks, afterward. Take down your trousers and lie across my knee."
The boy's green eyes are huge, even as he complies. "B-but, Headmaster--I--you--I'm--I'm not Harry Potter!"
Albus rolls his eyes. "Do you think I don't know that, Mr. Longbottom?"
CRACK.
Snape/Harry: Give him what he wants and watch him cut himself on it.
"Goddamit, Severus. What are you, my fucking valet?"
"I haven't any idea what you mean."
"Stop telling me where I can find fresh towels in your bathroom. Stop telling me that you know I have early classes tomorrow. All that shite that just tells me how badly you want me out of your bed every night."
"Really, Harry. I thought the arrangement satisfied you. We both agreed to remain discreet..."
"I don't want to be ignored by you when we're out of this room! I'm not talking about flowers and singing Valentines in the Great Hall, but dammit, I want you to make fucking eye contact! I...oh, forget it! You'll probably find some way of doing that just to the letter so that it pisses me off, too!"
Severus slides into the middle of the bed when he is gone, and sleeps.
Youth. So volatile.
Harry will be back. Tomorrow.
Remus/Harry. First line challenge: "There was a special potion..." A/N: This is doggerel, and it isn't remotely GOOD doggerel. But it's what popped into my head when the first line came up, and I had to work in 15 min. and obey the word count and...gah. Sigh. No more excuses.
There was a special potion,
And there was a special boy,
And he loved a special werewolf
But the werewolf played it coy.
So the boy prepared the potion
As a token of his love.
And when the moon had risen,
Looming in the sky above,
The werewolf felt no turmoil
But was happy and at peace.
Which meant his thoughts turned ribald
For some other wild release!
So when the boy came creeping
Like some stealthy fog-like cat
The werewolf smelled and heard him
And had jumped his bones like that!
So there's your happy ending!
Kiss the two of them good night--
Oh, my, you both are shameless!
Harry? Remus? Douse the light!
Arthur/Percy. The worst day of the year. (challenge by
nimori)The tea has gone cold, but Arthur sips at it, knowing the visit will last only as long as the tea does. "You know your mother wouldn't say a word. If you came home. Not a word of recrimina--"
"No, Dad."
Arthur falls silent.
"I won't come home," says Percy, "unless we can be like we were."
And Arthur does not even have to hear the emphasis on we to know what he means.
"Percy. Don't--"
"I miss it."
Arthur is horrified to find himself thinking: what can it hurt. It's not like it isn't anything that hasn't happened before. And Molly would be happy to have him home.
He stands. "I'll be going, then."
"Please, Dad."
"How can you think I can bring you back to our home for that?"
Percy steps closer. "We could...find somewhere else."
No, no point in blaming the Ministry.
Arthur's own fault.
Albus/Neville: Valentine's Day and polyjuice potion don't always mix
"No excuses! No!" Albus holds up a forbidding finger. "I don't want to hear another word! Stealing storeroom materials, unauthorised brewing of Polyjuice Potion, sexual molestation--"
"It was only a kiss!" shrills the boy.
"Silence! Professor Snape has been triply insulted by your actions. The first two I could have overlooked, but the last...!"
The boy sucks in his lower lip.
Albus stands. "Take down your trousers."
"W-what?"
"I will not expel you, neither will I do anything that will interfere with your becoming a fully-trained wizard. That, I have promised. Yet I must have something to satisfy Professor Snape. You will show him these marks, afterward. Take down your trousers and lie across my knee."
The boy's green eyes are huge, even as he complies. "B-but, Headmaster--I--you--I'm--I'm not Harry Potter!"
Albus rolls his eyes. "Do you think I don't know that, Mr. Longbottom?"
CRACK.
Snape/Harry: Give him what he wants and watch him cut himself on it.
"Goddamit, Severus. What are you, my fucking valet?"
"I haven't any idea what you mean."
"Stop telling me where I can find fresh towels in your bathroom. Stop telling me that you know I have early classes tomorrow. All that shite that just tells me how badly you want me out of your bed every night."
"Really, Harry. I thought the arrangement satisfied you. We both agreed to remain discreet..."
"I don't want to be ignored by you when we're out of this room! I'm not talking about flowers and singing Valentines in the Great Hall, but dammit, I want you to make fucking eye contact! I...oh, forget it! You'll probably find some way of doing that just to the letter so that it pisses me off, too!"
Severus slides into the middle of the bed when he is gone, and sleeps.
Youth. So volatile.
Harry will be back. Tomorrow.
Remus/Harry. First line challenge: "There was a special potion..." A/N: This is doggerel, and it isn't remotely GOOD doggerel. But it's what popped into my head when the first line came up, and I had to work in 15 min. and obey the word count and...gah. Sigh. No more excuses.
There was a special potion,
And there was a special boy,
And he loved a special werewolf
But the werewolf played it coy.
So the boy prepared the potion
As a token of his love.
And when the moon had risen,
Looming in the sky above,
The werewolf felt no turmoil
But was happy and at peace.
Which meant his thoughts turned ribald
For some other wild release!
So when the boy came creeping
Like some stealthy fog-like cat
The werewolf smelled and heard him
And had jumped his bones like that!
So there's your happy ending!
Kiss the two of them good night--
Oh, my, you both are shameless!
Harry? Remus? Douse the light!
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Date: 2004-02-15 12:34 pm (UTC)I read the Arthur/Percy.
and you have killed me. I can't read the others- because I will be have waking daydreams of this convesration, and the images from this.
Will comment better later, as i am now full of the Guh.
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Date: 2004-02-15 12:52 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, they were both delicious!
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Date: 2004-02-15 01:00 pm (UTC)Actually, it was hysterical; I imagine Sirius (not dead, dammit) writing it and slipping it under their door.
Loved the other too, esp. the second which boggled my brain. =)
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Date: 2004-02-15 01:09 pm (UTC)*worships you, as always*
*builds a Shrine to Amy in her bedroom*
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Date: 2004-02-15 01:51 pm (UTC)--*is speechless*
I'd done a drabble along similar lines (http://aeristerra.com/switchknife/fiction/suchlove.htm) once, but it failed spectacularly in comparison to this. Wow.
Thank you SO MUCH for this. Arthur/Percy has always made scary sense to me, and here you prove it. Theirincestuousguiltyloveissocanon.
And I want to know, terribly, terribly, how it started.
Oh, please.
Write that. Please.
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Date: 2004-02-15 03:42 pm (UTC)#4 -- I'm still giggling over this. Poetry doesn't have to be deep to be charming, and this was CHARMING! I love it.
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Date: 2004-02-15 03:52 pm (UTC)I find the second quite worrying, actually.
*raises an eyebrow*
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:45 am (UTC)The second one was rather disturbing and I went O_O while reading it, but I loved it anyway. *snick*
Great job, thanks for writing these.
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Date: 2004-02-16 06:04 am (UTC)Arthur/Percy: Ouch. Perfect. I have to agree with others: in says so much in so few words, every sentence adds something to the relationship between Arthur and Percy. Percy, lonely at the Ministry, wanting Arthur back. Arthur, eager to please Molly, and perhaps deep down wanting things back the way they were, in spite of being horrified at himself. Percy, trying to blackmail Arthur, but when he starts to walk away -- pleading. Oh, he feels so lonely. And the two last lines. Oh, those hurt.
Albus/Neville: is it completely weird that it's actually Snape I'm feeling sorry for, here? Probably. Oh, but my mind is trying to reconstruct the scene. I can so see Harry!Neville trying to kiss Snape. Triply insulted, indeed. Half the fun of the drabble is that we don't know how, exactly, Snape reacted. Was he disgusted by Harry!Neville's approach? Or did he actually like it, does he have a secret crush on Harry, and did he want it to happen -- only to find it was Neville? (I imagine, in that case, Dumbledore must have barged in just in time, before Snape actually killed Neville.) The first half of the drabble is written in such a way that I can't help but wonder about this. And poor Neville, after all. Well, at least he got his kiss. OK, now I'm giggling about the expression "sexual molestation" being applied to Snape. *snort*
Snape/Harry: Aww. The interaction between them feels so natural -- we immediately get a feel for their relationship. But it's the two last lines, of course. Snape's cool vs Harry's hurt feelings. Aww. Poor Harry.
Harry/Remus: very amusing. Especially the two last lines made me laugh. :-)
I liked them all, but the two first ones are definitely my favourites.
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Date: 2004-02-16 08:44 am (UTC)You'll have to ask Snape about his reaction in the second (but he was pretty furious for SOME reason, definitely! ^_^) but, don't worry about Harry's hurt feelings in the third--they'll be smooching in the packed Great Hall before long, I'm sure of it.
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Date: 2004-02-16 12:37 pm (UTC)Albus/Neville: LOL
Take down your trousers and lie across my knee."
The boy's green eyes are huge, even as he complies. "B-but, Headmaster--I--you--I'm--I'm not Harry Potter!"
Am I reading something that's not there or are Neville implying that Harry are used to this treatment from Albus? And how does he know? Because Snape pushed him away telling him that he should be ashamed of cheating on the Headmaster? (Smut wish: Neville shows Snape his marks. Snape inspects them. Thoroughly. ;) )
Snape/Harry:
Severus slides into the middle of the bed when he is gone, and sleeps.
One of the best descriptions of a character I have read. It says so much and makes Harry's long rant seem, well, immature ;)
Remus/Harry: *grins* What is it with you and poetry in any form? The last line made me laugh.
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Date: 2004-02-16 01:53 pm (UTC)And I think the reason for Neville's protests is just that he's still polyjuiced as Harry, and thinks that he needs to protest before he subjects himself to this treatment--as if it matters. If he thought about it he'd know that it didn't matter; he's still gonna get whapped. But Dumbledore's words about not letting him fail confuse him--it sounds to him as if Dumbledore thinks he's Harry, and he thinks he'd better make sure that's not why he's getting punished this unpleasantly first...
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Date: 2004-02-16 02:04 pm (UTC)I love the first one because it is really just so very, extremely sad. Sad, and creepy and messed up and unhappily dysfunctional and talk about Arthur being in a rock and a hard place with this whole thing. Takes a whole new spin on the whole reason why they aren’t talking, and that’s just, like. Wah. Percy, I am so feeling the Percy-pity. I love how you wrote Arthur, he reads like a tired, wary, grown-up Ron, which is exactly as I’ve always thought him to be. <3
Albus/Neville...NEVILLE!!! *runs in and saves him* Grrr! I! Just, GRRR!!! My Dumbledore-hate has come back tenfold! Poor Neville, I really, really feel for the kid in this. Like, just. CREEPY. Unless…Albus is just a polyjuiced Snape...hmmmmm! *ponders* Or! Maybe Albus is being all petty and jealous, ohhhhhhhhh!! I love open-ended ficlets like these, they always have so many different and varying outcomes. All in all –poor Neville!
Spaz!Harry cracks me up so badly. I adore his hissy fits when they’re all unrestrained and directed at Snape especially. This was such a good and interesting read! Harry’s all wanting and demanding and needy but nothing is ever right, and I love how patiently Snape is taking it. Good Snape (did I just say that? It’s your fault! *snuggles*). The best is this line -- You'll probably find some way of doing that just to the letter so that it pisses me off, too!
--tee hee! That just cracks me up. They love is in the mid-stages, it has room to grow. Aww.
And ohmigod! You wrote a poem! And it rhymes! And it has a beat and it makes sense (it does!) and good lord, woman, is there anything you can’t do??
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Date: 2004-02-16 05:15 pm (UTC)And I think the Neville/Dumbledore was all about the Snapledore, definitely! "Don't. Kiss. My BOYFRIEND." But the question is, was Snape pissed at being rudely kissed, or at being rudely kissed by someone he thought was Harry, or was he okay with it until he found out it wasn't Harry? Hee.
I think I like calling him Spaz!Harry better than Angry!Harry or AllCaps!Harry. It's funniest!
And I promise better poetry in the future. But I won't make a habit out of poetry 'cuz others do it WAY better, hee.
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Date: 2004-02-16 08:15 pm (UTC)The doggerel! I don't generally for poetry, but I like humor and this was humorous. And sweet, I think. Will place this in memories, as I will likely wish to read the poem in the future.
Well done!
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