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DOUBLE DRABBLE: Eyes Wide and Wise
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hp_halloween. To be honest, doing all that offering and requesting now that the fest is on AO3 looks like so much work, and I know I won't be sad when there's no gift fic written for me. I've always enjoyed reading a lot of double drabbes, giving a chance to any character, any pairing, any writer.
You can find all the 47 new Halloweeny/spooky/autumny 200-word works in this AO3 collection.
Here's one of the two treats I wrote this time:
Title: Eyes Wide and Wise
Author: paulamcg
Pairing: Ginny/Luna, pre-femslash, or rather friendship
Summary: In October 1993 Ginny is haunted by the previous year's horrors. Luna can see it and knows what can be soothing.
Word Count: 200
Rating: G
Notes: This was written for DandelionConstellation at HP Halloween.
Read here on AO3,
or right here:
Eyes Wide and Wise
The carved pumpkin next to the greenhouse door grimaces to Ginny. She hates these ever darker mornings, and Halloween! What's fun about all the spooky stuff?
Shrill crowing pierces her... brain! She's back in her nightmare, with one of the cockerels threshing against her chest.
“You don't like cocks?” A girl's voice, oddly both unheeding and tender, drives the horrific clamor away.
“No. Yes! I didn't mean...” Her hands strangled them, but... “Did you hear it?”
Was the sound not only in her head, where everything the evil wizard made her do keeps haunting her?
“A cock's greeting to the dawn, yes. But I can see it scared you. Made you relive something terrifying.”
Are Luna's eyes, wide and wise, invading her mind in the way Riddle did?
No, gentle fingers caress cautiously her hands, which she, hunching, has lifted to her ears. Luna's only interpreted her posture.
“Let's skip Herbology!” Luna says. “You can do without the mandrakes' screaming today.
“We'll find what's soothing. Golden Flutterflies that dance down from birches. And Professor Lupin. If you talk to him about what happened last year with the Chamber, he'll listen, and prove that we can be strong, and stronger together.”
hp_halloween. To be honest, doing all that offering and requesting now that the fest is on AO3 looks like so much work, and I know I won't be sad when there's no gift fic written for me. I've always enjoyed reading a lot of double drabbes, giving a chance to any character, any pairing, any writer. You can find all the 47 new Halloweeny/spooky/autumny 200-word works in this AO3 collection.
Here's one of the two treats I wrote this time:
Title: Eyes Wide and Wise
Author: paulamcg
Pairing: Ginny/Luna, pre-femslash, or rather friendship
Summary: In October 1993 Ginny is haunted by the previous year's horrors. Luna can see it and knows what can be soothing.
Word Count: 200
Rating: G
Notes: This was written for DandelionConstellation at HP Halloween.
Read here on AO3,
or right here:
Eyes Wide and Wise
The carved pumpkin next to the greenhouse door grimaces to Ginny. She hates these ever darker mornings, and Halloween! What's fun about all the spooky stuff?
Shrill crowing pierces her... brain! She's back in her nightmare, with one of the cockerels threshing against her chest.
“You don't like cocks?” A girl's voice, oddly both unheeding and tender, drives the horrific clamor away.
“No. Yes! I didn't mean...” Her hands strangled them, but... “Did you hear it?”
Was the sound not only in her head, where everything the evil wizard made her do keeps haunting her?
“A cock's greeting to the dawn, yes. But I can see it scared you. Made you relive something terrifying.”
Are Luna's eyes, wide and wise, invading her mind in the way Riddle did?
No, gentle fingers caress cautiously her hands, which she, hunching, has lifted to her ears. Luna's only interpreted her posture.
“Let's skip Herbology!” Luna says. “You can do without the mandrakes' screaming today.
“We'll find what's soothing. Golden Flutterflies that dance down from birches. And Professor Lupin. If you talk to him about what happened last year with the Chamber, he'll listen, and prove that we can be strong, and stronger together.”