So This Is Romance by Gilpin25

[gilpin25]

Title: So This Is Romance …
Author: gilpin25
Rating and Warnings: R (Not very fluffy romance or language at times)
Prompts: Thing: Veritaserum; Place: Ministry of Magic; Time: A Day of Discovery; Genre: Romance
Word Count: 10,130
Summary: War gets in the way of absolutely everything, or so it seems. Especially a rather complicated relationship...
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[gilpin25]

So glad you liked this because I got off on the wrong foot with it, felt as if I was doing a salvage job, and then wrote one scene which made me feel differently about the whole thing ... and meant I had to go back and totally re-jig the 'author-wrote-this-in-foul-mood' section. By the end, I was rather fond of it, but wondered if anyone else would be.

The idea behind it was to concentrate on the difficulties of having a relationship when work/war gets in the way, rather than the usual oft-explored R/T problems, although one or two of them still managed to get into it. I was also in lots of minds about what to do with the Veritaserum, but it seemed a nice twist to have everyone tell the truth because of the circumstances, and because they wanted to, rather than because they'd taken it. (Especially as you seem to become a bit robotic when you've had it, which wasn't particularly romantic;)) And I do seem keen to write that R/T-on-a-mission-one, so Melvyn's story was a good excuse to get everyone into the ministry.

I'm sorry about the starry ceiling. I needed something very romantic, and it just seemed perfect for them. Although I would quite like to see Remus get a beach into her bedroom, LOL? I did debate having Remus get cramp in his foot for half an hour, while Tonks read a book, for real realism, but decided I'd need another 10,000 words. And I'm glad you enjoyed the smutty part, because I don't get to write that very much, and it was fun to practise!

Thank you for the lovely comments - much appreciated. :) And especially for the very cuddly Akira The Don, LOL.