Day 10 - Team Moon - Fic: Watching Stars Collide
Team: Moon
Title: Watching Stars Collide
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Smoking, quite a bit of swearing, drowning your feelings in tea or hard liquor, as well as the usual warnings for general first war misery, [canonical] character death & unjust imprisonment.
Word Count: 16,919
Summary: Remus and Sirius, a flat in the colder seasons of 1981, and how ( Read more... )
Title: Watching Stars Collide
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Smoking, quite a bit of swearing, drowning your feelings in tea or hard liquor, as well as the usual warnings for general first war misery, [canonical] character death & unjust imprisonment.
Word Count: 16,919
Summary: Remus and Sirius, a flat in the colder seasons of 1981, and how ( Read more... )
The dialogue is fantastic--I love sharp, witty banter and comebacks, even if they're just as simple as a 'fuck off'. You captured that boyish bravado wonderfully, yet I felt every jolt and ache and stab and twinge that they did. The downward spiral they were on was written so clearly, laid out in such a manner that it all seemed so natural and obvious why they didn't trust each other at the end.
And then... their reunion and the awkwardness of learning each other all over again and working through everything...
"Even when they were happy, they weren’t, because Remus didn’t understand how to want something without being too afraid to touch, and Sirius wasn’t sure how to love gently enough not to destroy, and together they’d made such a ruin of it Remus isn’t sure now how they managed to stay together at all, let alone thought they’d liked it... This summarised their relationship, both in your story and in my mind and heart. Absolutely perfect!
You also nailed so many of my head canon things: Sirius in boots, the pups smoking, Sirius cursing in front of baby Harry and always apologising, Sirius' restlessness and moodiness... The bit about Sirius and the plasters made me chuckle.
Such a well-written, fantastic story. Kudos!
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