Excerpt: The Talk (4900 words, rated M, Albus/Scorpius)
Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2biSixA at August 18, 2016 at 11:01AM
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On the train, they shared a compartment with other members of the Hogwarts LGBT club. Connor O'Mannan and Kavi Singh leaned against the train’s window, holding hands as they watched the countryside go by, exchanging occasional shy kisses. A girl lay with her head in her girlfriend’s lap, checking her phone, now that they were away from Hogwarts’ technology-disrupting influence, every now and then reading out something to make the other girl giggle.
Albus and Scorpius spent most of the trip wrapped up in one another, oblivious to everything except each other.
“It’s going to be so hard not to kiss you goodbye at the station,” sighed Albus.
“I know. I’m sorry,” said Scorpius. “I promise I’ll tell Dad soon. I just don’t want to come out to him by snogging my boyfriend in front of him on Platform 9 ¾. I’ll make it up to you later.”
Albus gave him a concerned look. “You think he’ll be OK about everything?”
Scorpius shrugged. “Probably. Eventually. I don’t think he’ll try to stop us seeing each other, anyway.”
“You know if things get weird you can always come visit,” Albus reminded him. “And even if things don’t get weird, I hope you will.”
Scorpius squeezed him tightly. “Of course I will. You think I could stay away from you until September? I’d die!”
Albus chuckled. “Well, don’t do that. I’d miss you. I’d hate to have to go back to wanking all by myself. It just wouldn’t be the same.”
“No, we definitely can’t have that,” laughed Scorpius, kissing him.
- excerpt from The Talk, by @picascribit
Can I just stop and appreciate for a moment how lovely it is to be writing characters who live in the 21st century? I mean I love writing the Marauders, and I will never stop, but it’s just so great to be able to casually refer to Hogwarts having an LGBT club because of course it would.
picascribit:
On the train, they shared a compartment with other members of the Hogwarts LGBT club. Connor O'Mannan and Kavi Singh leaned against the train’s window, holding hands as they watched the countryside go by, exchanging occasional shy kisses. A girl lay with her head in her girlfriend’s lap, checking her phone, now that they were away from Hogwarts’ technology-disrupting influence, every now and then reading out something to make the other girl giggle.
Albus and Scorpius spent most of the trip wrapped up in one another, oblivious to everything except each other.
“It’s going to be so hard not to kiss you goodbye at the station,” sighed Albus.
“I know. I’m sorry,” said Scorpius. “I promise I’ll tell Dad soon. I just don’t want to come out to him by snogging my boyfriend in front of him on Platform 9 ¾. I’ll make it up to you later.”
Albus gave him a concerned look. “You think he’ll be OK about everything?”
Scorpius shrugged. “Probably. Eventually. I don’t think he’ll try to stop us seeing each other, anyway.”
“You know if things get weird you can always come visit,” Albus reminded him. “And even if things don’t get weird, I hope you will.”
Scorpius squeezed him tightly. “Of course I will. You think I could stay away from you until September? I’d die!”
Albus chuckled. “Well, don’t do that. I’d miss you. I’d hate to have to go back to wanking all by myself. It just wouldn’t be the same.”
“No, we definitely can’t have that,” laughed Scorpius, kissing him.
- excerpt from The Talk, by @picascribit
Can I just stop and appreciate for a moment how lovely it is to be writing characters who live in the 21st century? I mean I love writing the Marauders, and I will never stop, but it’s just so great to be able to casually refer to Hogwarts having an LGBT club because of course it would.