Title: from infinity
Ship: various
Rating: R
Word Count: ~600
Summary: They are defined so easily.
FROM INFINITY
. . .
i.
She had beautiful skin, long limbs with pale fabric stretched across bones. His fingertips danced across her skin to catch an ankle or a wrist and knead until his little limp victim was unsure if she was experiencing pain or pleasure.
Bill still remembers the look of his nymphet’s arched body, her spine pressing hard against the snow-colored landscape of her back.
"Oh, Bill," she would murmur in her small, girlish voice from behind a long, lank curtain of dancing fire-red hair.
incest n. sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry legally.
ii.
Her eyes were vivid and brown and they glimmered when she was busy, her tiny hands flicking her wand or turning the pages of an old library book on an obscure branch of magic.
She was quick and skilled with her hands, and they moved deftly on Luna’s skin, Hermione’s touch would leave a wake of goose bumps on her skin as it would on Ron’s.
fornication n. 1. voluntary sexual intercourse engaged in by an unmarried person.
2. worship of gods.
iii.
He is 'the Chosen One.' He is 'the Boy Who Lived.' He is 'the fifth champion.' Harry Potter is the fanciable, sullen boy of seventeen who has a prophecy and a tragic history tied to him. He can play Quidditch and fight Death Eaters and shag any girl he chooses.
Sometimes, when Ron is not thinking, he becomes immune to the touch of the bushy-haired witch beside him and he imagines himself with titles so grand as 'youngest seeker in a century.'
deuteragonist n. the character second in importance to the protagonist.
iv.
He looked tearstained and vulnerable, trembling pink lips and strands of soiled blonde hair stuck to his forehead. He cried. He apologized.
The Dark Lord allowed Draco to watch his father in his most sickening condition, and green light burst with the cries of a wife-and-mother nearby.
patricide n. the act of murdering one’s father.
v.
She will never notice him, she is forever hopelessly mumbling charms and hoping somebody, anybody else will notice. Red-hair-green-eyes-pale-skin.
Perfect. Lily Evans. L.E. Evans. Mudblood. Mr. and Mrs. Severus Snape.
(He wishes.)
want vt. A lack of the necessities of life; poverty; destitution.
vi.
Fear spreads disease-like, the long arms of Inferi are sick with it; contagious. X equals black-holes and zero all down the line, and everything is futile, even lifting a finger to signal that you are still breathing because the bodies are a jumbled mess of mangled limbs and oddly-colored wounds.
Black cloaks swing.
epidemic adj. prevalent and spreading rapidly among many individuals in a community at the same time.
vii.
Sometimes she changes to look like Sirius to please her lover, for there is nothing that she wouldn’t do because she loves him so, and on occasion, Remus longs to hungrily for his friend that he cries into Nymphadora’s shoulder, because, yes, he knows that the death cannot be undone.
Nymphadora (only he can call her that, she reasons) holds him until he finishes weeping and she fades to herself again.
love n. a strong, usually passionate, affection of one person for another, based in part on sexual attraction.
viii.
"Half past mortal peril last time I checked."
Fred lounges back into his seat and glimpses wearily at order forms.
time n. 1. indefinite, unlimited duration in which things are considered as happening in the past, present, or future; every moment there has ever been or ever will be.
2. the entire period of existence of the known universe; finite duration, as distinguished from infinity.