fic rec: Bothersome Things by Snegurochka (Teddy/Percy)
Bothersome Things by Snegurochka
(Teddy/Percy)
pg-13, 9.9k
This story is excellent. First off, we've got one of the rarest rare pairs I've seen (and NG-CG, yay!) but I was totally sold on them, all 'yes, they totally belong together, little sweet muffins*'. So, Percy and Teddy totally like-like each other and turn into these blushing, stammering messes when they're around each other but neither is making a move. All of a sudden, Charlie's back in town and trying to (tap that young ass) seduce Teddy, who's not completely averse.
The story is great, and the POV choice is so interesting yet readable. Albus is the official narrator (using a second person point of view and his informal and pretty entertaining style of speech); it switches between him and Teddy/Percy (third person with traditionally styled writing)--the presence of the latter explained by Albus as "what Teddy told me later, and Teddy's a Hufflepuff for God's sake. Those bastards wouldn't tell a lie even if they were paid in edible gold underpants" (See? Entertaining).
I don't want to say too much else about the story itself, cause it's fantastic and flangsty and you should totally read it, but I do love Percy's little chest monster speech. Like the story itself, it's pretty awesome.
*I once had a boyfriend when I was young and thought I was, like, so cool and hardcore, and I sarcastically asked if I could call him sugar muffin; he said yes and I just had no idea what to do with that
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