Drabble meme.
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Put iTunes or equivalent media player on random.
3. For each song that plays, write something related to the theme you picked inspired by the song. You have only the time frame of the song: no planning beforehand: you start when it starts, and no lingering afterward; once the song is over, you stop writing. (No fair skipping songs either; you have to take what comes by chance!)
4. Do 5 of these, then post. (Though I thought it was ten. It doesn't really matter. But there are ten.)
Instead of a character, pairing or fandom I picked Godric's Hollow. Some might say I just obstinate but I call it free-thinking.
Under the cut you'll find some gen, some slash and even some het. Some of them are a bit angsty. Some of them are not.
Contains spoilers for the whole Harry Potter series.
Rating is G - PG. Maybe PG-13 for certain implications.
1, God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols (James, Sirius)
They roam through the halls, seemingly oblivious to the looks from the condescending and the envious. What do those people know anyway, with their normal, mediocre lives. They don't know how it feels like to be truly invisible (“You two are the most non-invisible people I know.”, Remus says, “That's not even a word.”, James retorts.) or to run as fast as you can through a forest with a werewolf for company or how it feel when you know that this truly is magic as it most wonderful.
Time is now and now might very well be all there ever is.
2, I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters (Dumbledore)
He can feel the restlessness burning in his veins. Unrelenting. Unforgiving. Faint noises are coming from the house. She will be sad when he leaves but there is nothing here for him any more and a whole world out there. So much he still not knows and so many arts he has still not conquered. He's planning to be gone this time tomorrow.
3, Secret Love - Nicos (Lily (James))
She's not sure how it happened. There was a meeting and he had cracked a joke and made the prefects laugh. She made a note to scold him later but instead she realised that she was smiling too and that dislike she once felt wasn't there any more.
The weeks passed and there was another meeting. Afterwards when the two of them were the only ones left he looked her into her eyes and she realised what a perfect shade of hazel his own was.
She waited despite herself but he never asked her out again.
He's asleep now in the armchair. Harry is asleep in his arms and she still not sure how it happened.
4, Please Don't Let It Go - HIM (Godric (Godric/Salazar))
It's a matter of time but still he fights the inevitable. The other will leave, the other have to leave if this school of theirs will have a chance to live. A chance to grow and prosper. Helga knows it too but she leaving it up to them. To him and a part of him is grateful but another part hate her for it.
He wonders if the other will ever know that it's because of the school's needs. Not his, nor Helga's, own and if he knows that there's nothing that he has ever needed more.
5, Helpless - Neil Young (The Last Waltz) (Grindelwald)
The window is small, just a narrow opening in the stone walls. He can still see the stars through it, it's a comfort on the long dark nights and one of the few things that makes the nights different than the days.
He looks up at them now in his solitude and almost feel like crying. There has been years since he has cried and he don't know why he should start now. They were after all getting old.
He thinks of the letters that will not come any more and of the person, his own usurper, that would surely do. He takes a strange comfort in that thought.
It's been so long but maybe the wait will soon come to an end. He smiles.
6, Leaves That Are Green - Simon And Garfunkel (James (Sirius, Remus))
He watches them, constantly, worryingly. He watches them struggle with their families, with the full moon and the prejudices. The struggle and the conquering and he couldn't be any prouder, though he's not sure if it's his place to be proud.
He sits alone at his mother bedside, she fell asleep a while ago and she probably won't wake up 'till the morning.
He sits for a while still, unable to make himself leave and wonders with a guilty twist in his stomach if he's strong enough to carry both their sorrow and his own.
(Sirius would have told him yes.)
7, Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (live) (James/Lily)
She's glad that he's a pure-blood. Glad that it might offer a little, last bit of protection even though she knows it probably won't. I'm a blood traitor he says, I've been a blood traitor since I was born a Potter and I haven't done anything to rectify the situation and she nods because she already knows this because that's his ring she wearing on her finger and she feels a bit guilty again. As if he could sense it he adds: Long before you Lily and she nods, she already knows this too and wraps one arm around his neck, pressing her lips against his skin and she can feel his blood pulsating under it and under her other hand she can feel his heart beat.
Alive and steady. Alive and strong.
8, Vampire Heart - HIM (Salazar/Godric)
” - and then he said; 'I'll promise I'll just take a little. It probably won't hurt, maybe just sting a bit' but I wasn't still comfortable with the thought of my blood being someone's food and, you know, I just don't trust that he would be able to stop once he gets started and where are you going?”
Exasperated, Salazar gestures, quite dramatically, towards the door. Godric looks affronted.
”Seriously? I'm not some damsel in distress Sal. I can hold my own against a vampire or two.”
”I know, I'm just... Nobody gets to suck on your neck but me!”
9, Making Believe - Volbeat (Dumbledore/Grindelwald)
Years has passed and he just can't ignore what is happening down on mainland Europe any more. He knows others have expected him to make his move for months, maybe years now but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
He had left in a hurry, and he himself had started his path of retribution, a path he'll follow the rest of his life but he still waits for the other's return. For a letter. Just a sign that says that he loved him too.
10, Up Around The Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Godric, Salazar)
It's a beautiful place. The grass is green and the lake looks clear. If he couldn't feel his own heart pounding madly in his chest as he throws himself on the ground he would have wondered if this was Heaven. He looks to his right, at Salazar who lies panting beside him, a split lip marring his face.
”Looking good Black Eye” he says and smile a smile that get interrupted by a wince as his lip protests.
”Shut up Split Lip.” Godric retorts good-naturedly and smiles. ”That. Was bloody brilliant.”
Notes:
2. Put iTunes or equivalent media player on random.
3. For each song that plays, write something related to the theme you picked inspired by the song. You have only the time frame of the song: no planning beforehand: you start when it starts, and no lingering afterward; once the song is over, you stop writing. (No fair skipping songs either; you have to take what comes by chance!)
4. Do 5 of these, then post. (Though I thought it was ten. It doesn't really matter. But there are ten.)
Instead of a character, pairing or fandom I picked Godric's Hollow. Some might say I just obstinate but I call it free-thinking.
Under the cut you'll find some gen, some slash and even some het. Some of them are a bit angsty. Some of them are not.
Contains spoilers for the whole Harry Potter series.
Rating is G - PG. Maybe PG-13 for certain implications.
1, God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols (James, Sirius)
They roam through the halls, seemingly oblivious to the looks from the condescending and the envious. What do those people know anyway, with their normal, mediocre lives. They don't know how it feels like to be truly invisible (“You two are the most non-invisible people I know.”, Remus says, “That's not even a word.”, James retorts.) or to run as fast as you can through a forest with a werewolf for company or how it feel when you know that this truly is magic as it most wonderful.
Time is now and now might very well be all there ever is.
2, I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters (Dumbledore)
He can feel the restlessness burning in his veins. Unrelenting. Unforgiving. Faint noises are coming from the house. She will be sad when he leaves but there is nothing here for him any more and a whole world out there. So much he still not knows and so many arts he has still not conquered. He's planning to be gone this time tomorrow.
3, Secret Love - Nicos (Lily (James))
She's not sure how it happened. There was a meeting and he had cracked a joke and made the prefects laugh. She made a note to scold him later but instead she realised that she was smiling too and that dislike she once felt wasn't there any more.
The weeks passed and there was another meeting. Afterwards when the two of them were the only ones left he looked her into her eyes and she realised what a perfect shade of hazel his own was.
She waited despite herself but he never asked her out again.
He's asleep now in the armchair. Harry is asleep in his arms and she still not sure how it happened.
4, Please Don't Let It Go - HIM (Godric (Godric/Salazar))
It's a matter of time but still he fights the inevitable. The other will leave, the other have to leave if this school of theirs will have a chance to live. A chance to grow and prosper. Helga knows it too but she leaving it up to them. To him and a part of him is grateful but another part hate her for it.
He wonders if the other will ever know that it's because of the school's needs. Not his, nor Helga's, own and if he knows that there's nothing that he has ever needed more.
5, Helpless - Neil Young (The Last Waltz) (Grindelwald)
The window is small, just a narrow opening in the stone walls. He can still see the stars through it, it's a comfort on the long dark nights and one of the few things that makes the nights different than the days.
He looks up at them now in his solitude and almost feel like crying. There has been years since he has cried and he don't know why he should start now. They were after all getting old.
He thinks of the letters that will not come any more and of the person, his own usurper, that would surely do. He takes a strange comfort in that thought.
It's been so long but maybe the wait will soon come to an end. He smiles.
6, Leaves That Are Green - Simon And Garfunkel (James (Sirius, Remus))
He watches them, constantly, worryingly. He watches them struggle with their families, with the full moon and the prejudices. The struggle and the conquering and he couldn't be any prouder, though he's not sure if it's his place to be proud.
He sits alone at his mother bedside, she fell asleep a while ago and she probably won't wake up 'till the morning.
He sits for a while still, unable to make himself leave and wonders with a guilty twist in his stomach if he's strong enough to carry both their sorrow and his own.
(Sirius would have told him yes.)
7, Cover Me - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (live) (James/Lily)
She's glad that he's a pure-blood. Glad that it might offer a little, last bit of protection even though she knows it probably won't. I'm a blood traitor he says, I've been a blood traitor since I was born a Potter and I haven't done anything to rectify the situation and she nods because she already knows this because that's his ring she wearing on her finger and she feels a bit guilty again. As if he could sense it he adds: Long before you Lily and she nods, she already knows this too and wraps one arm around his neck, pressing her lips against his skin and she can feel his blood pulsating under it and under her other hand she can feel his heart beat.
Alive and steady. Alive and strong.
8, Vampire Heart - HIM (Salazar/Godric)
” - and then he said; 'I'll promise I'll just take a little. It probably won't hurt, maybe just sting a bit' but I wasn't still comfortable with the thought of my blood being someone's food and, you know, I just don't trust that he would be able to stop once he gets started and where are you going?”
Exasperated, Salazar gestures, quite dramatically, towards the door. Godric looks affronted.
”Seriously? I'm not some damsel in distress Sal. I can hold my own against a vampire or two.”
”I know, I'm just... Nobody gets to suck on your neck but me!”
9, Making Believe - Volbeat (Dumbledore/Grindelwald)
Years has passed and he just can't ignore what is happening down on mainland Europe any more. He knows others have expected him to make his move for months, maybe years now but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
He had left in a hurry, and he himself had started his path of retribution, a path he'll follow the rest of his life but he still waits for the other's return. For a letter. Just a sign that says that he loved him too.
10, Up Around The Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Godric, Salazar)
It's a beautiful place. The grass is green and the lake looks clear. If he couldn't feel his own heart pounding madly in his chest as he throws himself on the ground he would have wondered if this was Heaven. He looks to his right, at Salazar who lies panting beside him, a split lip marring his face.
”Looking good Black Eye” he says and smile a smile that get interrupted by a wince as his lip protests.
”Shut up Split Lip.” Godric retorts good-naturedly and smiles. ”That. Was bloody brilliant.”
Notes:
Re#5. Yes L, you are partly to blame for this. Or get half the credit, whichever way you want to look at it.
Re#8. I view these characters a certain way and this is not it. This, however, is a song meme so it's okay.^^
Re#10. Part of this scene, i.e. the injuries and the dialouge, was originally planned to be part of a oneshot I'm writing. It might still be included.