[ABS] Antares (Body and Soul) || Chapter listing
It struck me the other day that I neglected to post anything about Antares once I'd actually gotten through writing it. I may be more proud of this one than the others, though not by much. Perhaps it's because it demanded every bit of creativity I had left within me (which after F&H wasn't much).
Summary: Sequel to Flesh and Heartstrings, part three of The Light and The Dark.
Maybe what we are and what we need, they're different things. - Nonbeliever, London Grammar
Everything is supposed to be great - the war is over, Voldemort's dead, and they've been accepted into the Auror Academy. But Draco is stuck with the pressure and the panic, haunted by past mistakes and ghosts he tells himself he wants to forget but can't. Gruesome attacks begin, making everyone wonder just how much a person can really change.
And then to top it all off, there's this damn blood oath, hellbent on making everything so much more difficult, causing chaos and confusion and making Gryffindors entirely too accommodating and accepting.
It may just be the thing that saves him.
Antares {Body and Soul)
- post-war fic, EWE, Draco-centric
- DM/HP/GW because why not; still some lovely SS/NM thrown in for good measure
- main players: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Severus Snape, Narcissa Malfoy, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Minerva McGonagall + a cadre of OC Aurors
- TRIGGER WARNINGS: gore, violence, PTSD, alcohol/drug use, torture
- Rating: M for mature - explicit sexuality, violence, gore, profanity
UPDATED 04.17.2023 || Complete || AO3 UPLOAD IN PROGRESS
Chapter 1 - There's no place like home
Chapter 2 - A sleepless malice
Chapter 3 - Battle wounds
Chapter 4 - Washed in the blood
Chapter 5 - Show your hand
Chapter 6 - Our new celebrity
Chapter 7 - For old time's sake
Chapter 8 - Moves and countermoves
Chapter 9 - Ribbons in the sky
Chapter 10 - Tenderhearted
Chapter 11 - Shrapnel
Chapter 12 - Freefall
Chapter 13 - The lies we tell ourselves
Chapter 14 - Break the glass
Chapter 15 - Leave my body, lose my mind
Chapter 16 - Retreat
Chapter 17 - Something's electric in your blood
Chapter 18 - Will you chase me in my dreams?
Chapter 19 - A fear of feeling
Chapter 20 - Morning light
Chapter 21 - Back from the edge
Chapter 22 - Fickle game
Chapter 23 - Hell to the righteous ones
Chapter 25 - It's torture to love you
Chapter 26 - Nervous in a way that can't be named
Chapter 27 - A rush of blood to the head
Chapter 28 - And all of the fish, let them flounder
Chapter 29 - They say don't open old wounds
Chapter 30 - The shadow that you see at night
Chapter 31 - That which we are, we are
Chapter 32 - Holy water cannot help you now
Chapter 33 - Stranglehold, a god machine
Chapter 34 - Maybe what we are and what we need are different things
Chapter 35/Epilogue - And we'll always be together, from the end to the start
Summary: Sequel to Flesh and Heartstrings, part three of The Light and The Dark.
Maybe what we are and what we need, they're different things. - Nonbeliever, London Grammar
Everything is supposed to be great - the war is over, Voldemort's dead, and they've been accepted into the Auror Academy. But Draco is stuck with the pressure and the panic, haunted by past mistakes and ghosts he tells himself he wants to forget but can't. Gruesome attacks begin, making everyone wonder just how much a person can really change.
And then to top it all off, there's this damn blood oath, hellbent on making everything so much more difficult, causing chaos and confusion and making Gryffindors entirely too accommodating and accepting.
It may just be the thing that saves him.
Antares {Body and Soul)
- post-war fic, EWE, Draco-centric
- DM/HP/GW because why not; still some lovely SS/NM thrown in for good measure
- main players: Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Severus Snape, Narcissa Malfoy, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Minerva McGonagall + a cadre of OC Aurors
- TRIGGER WARNINGS: gore, violence, PTSD, alcohol/drug use, torture
- Rating: M for mature - explicit sexuality, violence, gore, profanity
UPDATED 04.17.2023 || Complete || AO3 UPLOAD IN PROGRESS
Chapter 1 - There's no place like home
Chapter 2 - A sleepless malice
Chapter 3 - Battle wounds
Chapter 4 - Washed in the blood
Chapter 5 - Show your hand
Chapter 6 - Our new celebrity
Chapter 7 - For old time's sake
Chapter 8 - Moves and countermoves
Chapter 9 - Ribbons in the sky
Chapter 10 - Tenderhearted
Chapter 11 - Shrapnel
Chapter 12 - Freefall
Chapter 13 - The lies we tell ourselves
Chapter 14 - Break the glass
Chapter 15 - Leave my body, lose my mind
Chapter 16 - Retreat
Chapter 17 - Something's electric in your blood
Chapter 18 - Will you chase me in my dreams?
Chapter 19 - A fear of feeling
Chapter 20 - Morning light
Chapter 21 - Back from the edge
Chapter 22 - Fickle game
Chapter 23 - Hell to the righteous ones
Chapter 25 - It's torture to love you
Chapter 26 - Nervous in a way that can't be named
Chapter 27 - A rush of blood to the head
Chapter 28 - And all of the fish, let them flounder
Chapter 29 - They say don't open old wounds
Chapter 30 - The shadow that you see at night
Chapter 31 - That which we are, we are
Chapter 32 - Holy water cannot help you now
Chapter 33 - Stranglehold, a god machine
Chapter 34 - Maybe what we are and what we need are different things
Chapter 35/Epilogue - And we'll always be together, from the end to the start