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Title:Out in the street
Author: SugarAnnie
Format: Drabble
Rating & Warnings: PG13, I think(slight allusion to sexual issues)
Prompts: Christmas Crackers
Word Count: 330
Summary: Maybe it had not been the best idea, after all, to go and do the Christmas shopping only one week before it was Christmas...
Author’s Notes: Sorry this is so short. I intended to write more, but could not think of something good. Also, my second prompt will hopefully become some kind of sequel, as soon as I get inspired.
Maybe it had not been the best idea, after all, to go and do the Christmas shopping only one week before it was Christmas. And to go into Muggle London made it all only worse. The streets were so full of people that Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks had to walk very closely together and cling onto one another, in order not to be separated by the crowds around them. Not that either of them minded very much.
“Look, over there.” Tonks said, pointing at a display that could just be seen through the window of a small shop, which was decorated with artificial snow. “Christmas crackers.” She added.
“You know, my grandmother - dad’s mother - always brought them over to our house when I was a child. She probably thought that it was something her wizard son would not be able to show to his wife and daughter.”
He laughed. “She had never seen the kind of Christmas crackers wizards use, had she?”
“Of course she had not. She was a Muggle, after all. Dad always felt bad about not being able to let her and his siblings into his “new” life, but he also definitely didn’t want to be arrested for breaking the Statute of Secrecy, just for some Christmas amusement.”
“So, do you want to buy some? Of the Muggle kind, you know?”
She looked over the display on which small packages of the Christmas crackers were arranged.
“No, I don’t think we really need them.” She said.
“But I’ll ask dad to buy some and bring them over when wehave children.”
She looked up at him, and saw that he was smiling back at her.
“I think I have a good idea about what we could do in that respect once we’re done with the shopping.”
The couple turned away from the display and walked away, into the crowd on the street. And both were secretly glad that they could blame their red cheeks on the cold.
Author: SugarAnnie
Format: Drabble
Rating & Warnings: PG13, I think(slight allusion to sexual issues)
Prompts: Christmas Crackers
Word Count: 330
Summary: Maybe it had not been the best idea, after all, to go and do the Christmas shopping only one week before it was Christmas...
Author’s Notes: Sorry this is so short. I intended to write more, but could not think of something good. Also, my second prompt will hopefully become some kind of sequel, as soon as I get inspired.
Maybe it had not been the best idea, after all, to go and do the Christmas shopping only one week before it was Christmas. And to go into Muggle London made it all only worse. The streets were so full of people that Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks had to walk very closely together and cling onto one another, in order not to be separated by the crowds around them. Not that either of them minded very much.
“Look, over there.” Tonks said, pointing at a display that could just be seen through the window of a small shop, which was decorated with artificial snow. “Christmas crackers.” She added.
“You know, my grandmother - dad’s mother - always brought them over to our house when I was a child. She probably thought that it was something her wizard son would not be able to show to his wife and daughter.”
He laughed. “She had never seen the kind of Christmas crackers wizards use, had she?”
“Of course she had not. She was a Muggle, after all. Dad always felt bad about not being able to let her and his siblings into his “new” life, but he also definitely didn’t want to be arrested for breaking the Statute of Secrecy, just for some Christmas amusement.”
“So, do you want to buy some? Of the Muggle kind, you know?”
She looked over the display on which small packages of the Christmas crackers were arranged.
“No, I don’t think we really need them.” She said.
“But I’ll ask dad to buy some and bring them over when wehave children.”
She looked up at him, and saw that he was smiling back at her.
“I think I have a good idea about what we could do in that respect once we’re done with the shopping.”
The couple turned away from the display and walked away, into the crowd on the street. And both were secretly glad that they could blame their red cheeks on the cold.