FIC: It Was Not Love

[featherxquill]

Title: It Was Not Love (Until It Became Impossible To Be Anything But)
Author: shyath
Pairing: Lily/Narcissa
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: #34. Lily/Narcissa (Marauders Era), ‘I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,/or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off./I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,/in secret, between the shadow and

Comments

[cranky__crocus]

...as they lay spent next to each other, limbs tangled with the intimacy of familiarity and routine...
Lovely line. Some fantastic imagery in this fic!

...the barely there but more than adequately sharp thorns that cemented Lily as a rose in Narcissa’s mind instead of her namesake.
Going to admit to having a 'thing' for rose comparisons in people. I like to think that Lily would have to be a bit more of a rose to have handled being in love with James and still caring toward Severus. Also, loving the idea of a deviation from script and how it throws the two off.

I love this young Narcissa, who is not yet entirely sure of herself - unsure enough that even her denial is leaning toward realisation. I love that Lily is the barbed one, egging her on.

I will join RealSnape, if only because I can always do with a bit of fluff: Fluffy Bunnies R Us.

♥
Kiwi


We put the 'fun' in dysfunctional.

[shyath]

*squees* I have to say, I responded to the comment above yours without looking at yours and I made the same (similar) observation - well, here, I'll quote it - "I've always imagined Lily to be a bit of a spitfire, I mean, she had to put up with the likes of James and Sirius, right?" Whee!

Thanks so much for the kind words and Part 2 (aka the fluffy to the angst) will be uploaded sometime this coming week (since RL has demanded my attention)!