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Abandon the search for truth. Settle for a good fantasy.
-Anonymous, and why I write and read

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
-Oscar Wilde, and why I read what I read

All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy, and why I write what I write

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
-Jerome K. Jerome, and why I love the fandom as much as I do

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The light by your bed burns brightly, and in the silence of the room you flip the page of a book, but the black ink bleeds into the paper and the lines blur into meaningless jumble.

You stop to rub your temples and you fetch another cup of tea.

You sip, and the aroma nudges your senses awake, so you resume waiting for him to come home, with alcohol in his breath and the marks of other men on his skin. You open the book.

Nothing still makes sense.

It is late, and you are as blind as the night.
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Title: Salvation by Slytherin
Author: [info]slumber
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~8,700
Warnings: Nothing, really. Plot, probably, and a disappointing lack of darkness.
Summary: All Terry Boot wants to do is author a book and perhaps rewrite history as wizarding society remembers it, but the Slytherins just won't cooperate. When a civil war erupts and Terry's only chance of escape involves working with a poorly-acronymed rebel group and an army of questionable professionals to take down the largest magical empire in the world, is his potential bestseller really worth all the trouble? (Theodore/Blaise, Draco/Terry, shades of Draco/Theodore.)
Disclaimers: If I owned Harry Potter, it wouldn't be about Harry Potter. Made up facts and figures derived from actual facts and figures found in Wikipedia.
Notes: Though the Slytherins were nowhere in the Battle of Hogwarts in the book, JKR has stated in later interviews that they were, so I've taken that for fact. This was written for [info]mr_mercutio during the recently concluded [info]hpvalensmut, originally posted here. Much thanks and love to [info]ccharlotte for the beta.


Salvation by Slytherin )

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Title: Un Crimine in Tre Atti (A Crime in Three Acts)
Fandom: Harry Potter (barely :|)
Pairing: Roger/Blaise (hints of Blaise/Theodore)
Rating: R
Word Count: 350 words
Summary: Il Seduzione. La Relazione. Il Tradimento.
Additional Notes: Because things sound better in another language, hee. Written for [info]ccharlotte, though most of the inspiration for it came from her too. :P Happy Birthday! Here's to more random plotting, Roger and Blaise, growing old!, and eee, graduating and grad school! (See you in August! :D:D:D)


Atto I: Il Seduzione

It starts with a playful comment, like it always does. It follows through with a wink here, another smirk there, like it always has. But his eyes linger a second longer and you catch him then, and where you would not have pushed, you do.

(Cat-got-the-mouse grin, voice lowered to a murmur.) "Like what you see?"

Where he might have backed out, he doesn't.

(Tongue wetting full lips.) "Maybe."

Where you meant to keep your distance, you don't.

(Hips now dangerously close, lips moving against his ear.) "But you do, don't you?"

Where he would have said no--

(The softest, traitorous hitch of breath.) "Goddammit, Roger."

He doesn't.

The rest here. )

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Title: Definitions
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Roger/Various
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 710 words
Summary: Roger Davies and his various love interests. :|
Additional Notes: Part of the [info]fanfic100 challenge, for the prompt Heart, I suppose. (In retrospect, I should probably have signed up for Roger Davies instead of Ravenclaws.) Written for [info]ccharlotte.

The scrawny boy grew up, filled out, lost the stammer in his speech, charmed irreprehensibly, teased mercilessly, walked back into your world not like he had a right to be in it, but like he knew enough to turn it inside out.  )

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Title: The Benefit
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Roger/Blaise
Rating: PG
Word Count: 350 words
Summary: It is a benefit. It is always a benefit.
Additional Notes: Belongs to the [info]fanfic100 challenge under prompt Diamond. Written for [info]ccharlotte. Forgive me for the crappy title. :|

Introductions are unnecessary. )

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Title: Five Things That Roger Davies Never Did
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Roger/Blaise
Rating: PG
Word Count: 525
Summary: See title. :|
Additional Notes: Written for [info]ccharlotte, and written also for [info]fanfic100, under the prompt If.

Roger rolls the name on his tongue, contemplating it during practice, in class, as he catches glimpses of avoidant olive-green eyes across the Great Hall, along dungeon corridors and Hogsmeade weekends. )

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Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Fandom: HP
Pairing: none, really?
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400 words
Summary: Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.
Additional Notes: For [info]fanfic100, for the prompt Fall. Title, chapter titles and general inspiration taken from Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". Written from [info]ccharlotte's prompts: autumn, colour, subtle kissing--which I completely forgot. Shit. Sorry. :\

Eden sank into grief )

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Title: This Charming Man
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Roger/Blaise
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 580 words
Summary: Play. Pause. Fast Forward. Rewind.
Additional Notes: Written for [info]ccharlotte. *kisses* Also for [info]fanfic100, for the prompt Who?

'Must have been amazing,' she muses nonchalantly, turning the page of her Potions text. )

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Title: Cordially Invited
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Theodore, slight mentions of Blaise/Roger
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2,991 more or less
Summary: [SPOILERISH] Highlight to read: Takes place years after the war. Blaise's mother is engaged to Theodore's father, and everyone gets busy with wedding preparations. More or less.
Additional Notes: Dedicated to [info]starflowers, from whom I stole Grayson, Kalan, and Theodore. *kisses* Lissa, I really don't know what else to add besides gratuitous shagging. :| Much love to [info]ccharlotte, who editted and lent me Isabella. :D I take full blame for the title. :|

The society pages should have warned him. )

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Epilogue )

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Title: Undercurrents
Pairing: Blaise/Terry
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 1700 words
Warnings: Language, Possible Parenthesis Abuse
Summary: Terry's fifth year is terrible--he isn't prefect, there's some stupid defense club going around, and all Hogwarts Houses are a disgrace, among other things.
Additional Notes: Originally titled TerryFic, but later scrapped because Terry would spork me for being a dork. :| It's subtle slash and it alludes more than anything. Subject to editing. Concrit is welcome, thanks.
Edit: For [info]fanfic100, for the prompt And.

God, sometimes Ravenclaws were such UTTER snobs. )

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Pairing: Blaise/Hermione
Rating: PG-13
Additional Notes: Drawn for [info]lindsical, based on a request she made for some art exchange community. Um. I don't draw at all, and this is the first time I've tried colouring anything using Photoshop, so if Linds likes, the B&W version is here for colouring. *kisses to Linds*


Click for Blaise/Hermione )

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Title: Premonitions
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Theodore, very very subtle hint of Draco/Theodore
Word Count: 100 words
Rating: PG
Additional Notes: Written for [info]ccharlotte, who prodded and whined. :D Prompted by "Hogwarts era, best friendship/slight sexual tones :|" and "with colour playing a role :|" Also, forgive the title, I was being rushed. :|


One day, when they were older, they'd realise.

In between sheets of forest green, Blaise will wake to quiet gasps and soft cries, the sound of muffled demands and the whisper of a name that isn’t his, and then he’d realise.

With a craving for red wine, Theodore will turn to find Blaise’s head on his shoulder, and then, to the crescendo of Act Three, Scene Two and the soft breathing of the boy sleeping against him, he’d realise.

One day they’d realise, but until then Blaise shifts restlessly in his bed and Theodore tugs at his formal-black collar impatiently.

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Title: The Smart One
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Padma
Word Count: 100 words
Rating: R
Additional Notes: I realised I haven't posted anything in a while, whoops. But anyway, yeah. I liked Padma/Blaise, and this was how I saw it.
Edit: For [info]fanfic100, for the prompt Shade.


Padma had always been the smart one, knowing that there were plenty of gray areas in war, so she kept her options open.

And they were open when Blaise Zabini's eyes locked with hers one day, open when Blaise asked her out, open still when he kissed her, and when his hands made her shiver and his tongue made her moan, so when he'd asked--

It was the smart thing to do.

It wasn't until years later, after she'd killed her own sister and Azkaban became home that she realised it was she who'd been played the fool all along.

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Title: In The Shadows
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Theodore
Length: 200 words
Rating: PG15
Warnings: None
Summary: What the rest of Hogwarts doesn't know.
Additional Notes: For [info]tastes_of_ink. *smooches and loves upon* Merry Christmas from my Blaise to your Theodore. <3


He glances at you from across the library table, nodding toward your book. The two of you sit alone in a corner of the library, separate from all the others.

It's because you're both Slytherins, they whisper.

You don't speak when Malfoy taunts Potter, even when the rest of your Housemates laugh along. Instead you stand a little way to the back of the crowd, and you catch his eye, and the two of you say nothing.

It's because you're the quiet ones, they say.

It's the final match of the year, and the Quidditch Cup is again a few points away from your team. Students fill the bleachers, cheering teams on and waving flags in House colours. Nobody notices that neither of you are watching with the rest of them.

It's because you both live in the shadows, they reason.

Behind closed doors, in lonely rooms and quiet dorms, he kisses you and you hold him. He moans passion into your lips, you shiver within his arms. Nobody knows that you love tangling your fingers into his hair, nobody sees the way your body arches under his touch.

It's because you're each other's and no one else's, you think.

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Title: Slytherin Affairs
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Blaise
Length: 100 words
Rating: PG
Additional Notes: For [info]sailorsimba, who prompted me with "party". And posting it now because this is when they celebrate Christmas. :P Happy Christmas, love! <3


Like all Slytherin affairs, it starts late.

He strolls in unapologetically, wearing navy blue robes and a pretty young heiress on his arm.

He nods coolly from where he stands. Their eyes lock for a split-second.

Like all Slytherin affairs, it ends promptly.

The guests mingle by the ballroom, leaving in small groups.

He comes back from the lavatory twenty minutes late, hair combed back and winning Italian charms put on to soothe his impatient date.

He barely turns his blond head to watch as they leave the hall.

Like all Slytherin affairs, nobody talks about what happens in between.

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Title: It Takes a Slytherin
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Seamus
Length: 300 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Summary: Blaise rants, Theodore plots, and Seamus gets lucky.
Author's Note: For [info]treeperson, who requested Blaise/Seamus. Also, because I can write more than 100 words, really. ;)

It Takes A Slytherin )

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Title: Like Every Flavour Beans, Only Better
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Draco, Blaise/various
Rating: none
Word Count: 1900
Summary: Blaise is a whore, and Draco would like to know what's going on.
Additional Notes: Written for [info]qo_ficexchange back in 2004. Have just gotten around to posting it now, but I'm backdating because I don't actually want to show people the way to fic I wrote four years ago. :|

The first time Draco walked in on Blaise with someone was during fourth year, after the Yule Ball. )

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Edit: The Terry/Justin is also for [info]fanfic100, for the prompt Triangle.

Hullo, these are all for [info]sailorsimba on the occasion of her birthday last week. The greeting came on time, unfortunately the presents didn't. *snuggles and loves anyway*

And in no particular order:

Zacharias/Harry: Justin )

Terry/Justin: Michael )

Blaise/Theodore: Draco )

Pansy/Ginny: Hermione )

Draco/Blaise: Theodore )

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Title: In A Yellow Wood
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Blaise/Theodore
Rating: PG13 to R, maybe
Warnings: Angst, (allusion to) Character Death
Summary: I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence / Two roads diverged in a wood and I / I took the one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference

In A Yellow Wood )

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Title: Faces of Love: Three Vignettes
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: R/Hr, D/B!B, HP/SB & RL
Rating: R for the third vignette
Warnings: Slash, Het
Summary:

There are three vignettes here. )

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