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Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Draco
Title: Eclipse
Author:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mijan/PhoenixSong
Characters: Harry, Draco
Prompt: 16. Teamwork
Rating: R
Length: Epic. About 282,000 words. For reference, OotP was about 257,000.
Brief summary: The most exceptional thing about this fic is the character development. From sworn enemies trying to kill each other, no holds barred, to I-don't-like-you-but-I-guess-I-can-tolerate-you, to friends, to... The author makes use of all of those 671 pages in Word to make sure each step is clearly built up to and believable. Even when they're fighting, the sheer knack each has for getting under the other's skin, the fire and passion they can draw out, is incredible. They make each other think, examine why they believe what they believe. The difference in Draco especially as he gets out from under his father's nose is spectacularly drawn. This is one of my favorite fics, full stop. Set aside an afternoon and immerse yourself in this beauty.
"How did I ruin anything? For someone who you stabbed, captured, and handed over to Voldemort, I'd say that I've been inhumanly kind to you! I was trying to help you! From what I could tell, we're both up against Voldemort, and you're scared stiff! I happen to know what that's like. Obviously you don't."
"You have NO idea what it's like for me right now!"
"Fine, Malfoy. Next time you're at the point of tears, remind me to be a heartless bastard to you! Apparently that's how you people function around here!"
Draco stomped his foot in frustration, hot emotions pulsing behind his eyes again. "That's exactly what I need! You just don't get it!"
"Well, fuck, Malfoy. Explain it to me then, because for once, you're right. I don't get it."
[...]
"I've been taught to stand on my own, not to feel anything. You're the only person who could pull emotion out of me that I couldn't stop, but as long as that was anger, I was still safe. You just broke down the only defense that I had, Potter. In three bloody days, you destroyed me."
Harry's jaw hung loosely as he listened to Draco's ranting.
[...]
"As long as you were pushing at me, I could still hate you. But no, you had to go and turn into a human being on me. Had to become real. Fuck, you even decided to be nice. All of a sudden, you forced me to actually feel. I have no defense against that. Now, I've got nothing, no walls, no safeties... nothing to defend me against The Dark Lord."
He laughed bitterly. "It's almost ironic. I bring you here to your death, and you just as effectively kill me."
Link to the story: http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/PhoenixSong/Eclipse/
Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Draco
Title: The Pitfalls of Alcohol Abuse (or, The Thing With the Thing That Never Happened to Harry Potter)
Author:stellabelle
Characters: Harry, Draco
Prompt: 43. Denial
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium (5000)
Brief summary: If, you know, a 600 page plotty epic of death threatening at every turn isn't your thing, well, there's always alcoholic!Harry to ease your suffering. This is a much shorter fic and it's funny like a funny funny thing. I've got a bit of a weakness for funny stories, and this one just. Wins at life. Oh, indenial!Harry. With his Smirnoff. ♥
Denial, as it turned out, was a much better tactic than alcohol abuse. With denial, Harry could simply pretend that nothing had ever happened. With booze, he sometimes had disturbing thoughts about making out with certain skinny blond things and. And.
Yes. Definitely a much better tactic.
Besides, he didn’t remember anything from that night. Did not. Remember. A single. Thing. Absolutely, positively not. He didn’t remember the thing with the tie or the thing with the tongue or the thing with the. Thing.
The thing with the thing, Harry decided, was going to haunt him for the rest of his life. Except for the fact that he wasn’t thinking of it. Because he wasn’t. Thinking of it.
Link to the story:http://www.livejournal.com/users/stellabelle/49963.html#cutid1
Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Draco
Title: Eclipse
Author:
mijan/PhoenixSongCharacters: Harry, Draco
Prompt: 16. Teamwork
Rating: R
Length: Epic. About 282,000 words. For reference, OotP was about 257,000.
Brief summary: The most exceptional thing about this fic is the character development. From sworn enemies trying to kill each other, no holds barred, to I-don't-like-you-but-I-guess-I-can-tolerate-you, to friends, to... The author makes use of all of those 671 pages in Word to make sure each step is clearly built up to and believable. Even when they're fighting, the sheer knack each has for getting under the other's skin, the fire and passion they can draw out, is incredible. They make each other think, examine why they believe what they believe. The difference in Draco especially as he gets out from under his father's nose is spectacularly drawn. This is one of my favorite fics, full stop. Set aside an afternoon and immerse yourself in this beauty.
"How did I ruin anything? For someone who you stabbed, captured, and handed over to Voldemort, I'd say that I've been inhumanly kind to you! I was trying to help you! From what I could tell, we're both up against Voldemort, and you're scared stiff! I happen to know what that's like. Obviously you don't."
"You have NO idea what it's like for me right now!"
"Fine, Malfoy. Next time you're at the point of tears, remind me to be a heartless bastard to you! Apparently that's how you people function around here!"
Draco stomped his foot in frustration, hot emotions pulsing behind his eyes again. "That's exactly what I need! You just don't get it!"
"Well, fuck, Malfoy. Explain it to me then, because for once, you're right. I don't get it."
[...]
"I've been taught to stand on my own, not to feel anything. You're the only person who could pull emotion out of me that I couldn't stop, but as long as that was anger, I was still safe. You just broke down the only defense that I had, Potter. In three bloody days, you destroyed me."
Harry's jaw hung loosely as he listened to Draco's ranting.
[...]
"As long as you were pushing at me, I could still hate you. But no, you had to go and turn into a human being on me. Had to become real. Fuck, you even decided to be nice. All of a sudden, you forced me to actually feel. I have no defense against that. Now, I've got nothing, no walls, no safeties... nothing to defend me against The Dark Lord."
He laughed bitterly. "It's almost ironic. I bring you here to your death, and you just as effectively kill me."
Link to the story: http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/PhoenixSong/Eclipse/
Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Draco
Title: The Pitfalls of Alcohol Abuse (or, The Thing With the Thing That Never Happened to Harry Potter)
Author:
stellabelleCharacters: Harry, Draco
Prompt: 43. Denial
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium (5000)
Brief summary: If, you know, a 600 page plotty epic of death threatening at every turn isn't your thing, well, there's always alcoholic!Harry to ease your suffering. This is a much shorter fic and it's funny like a funny funny thing. I've got a bit of a weakness for funny stories, and this one just. Wins at life. Oh, indenial!Harry. With his Smirnoff. ♥
Denial, as it turned out, was a much better tactic than alcohol abuse. With denial, Harry could simply pretend that nothing had ever happened. With booze, he sometimes had disturbing thoughts about making out with certain skinny blond things and. And.
Yes. Definitely a much better tactic.
Besides, he didn’t remember anything from that night. Did not. Remember. A single. Thing. Absolutely, positively not. He didn’t remember the thing with the tie or the thing with the tongue or the thing with the. Thing.
The thing with the thing, Harry decided, was going to haunt him for the rest of his life. Except for the fact that he wasn’t thinking of it. Because he wasn’t. Thinking of it.
Link to the story:http://www.livejournal.com/users/stellabelle/49963.html#cutid1
