Fic: ...yet your eyes cover my skin - for pavlablack

[huldrejenta]

Title: ...yet your eyes cover my skin
Author: huldrejenta
Recipient: pavlablack
Rating: R
Contents or warnings (highlight to view): *none *
Word count: ~ 4,900
Summary: Voldemort was conquered once and for all in 1981, and his followers were all sent to Azkaban. Years later, justice was done when some of them got released. But being free isn’t always what it’s cracked

Comments

[laroseminuit]

Oh, we were walking on the knife's edge of tragedy here. I was literally biting my lip raw the whole way through, terrified this might end in tears. Thank goodness it is Christmas and we are really having a good run of happier endings this year in Small Gifts.

Too many beautiful bits to quote back, I htink, or I would end up copy-pasting the whole thing. BUt in particular, I loved this: Then years later they fell in love, their hearts and lives were already so deeply entwined it seemed one couldn’t exist without the other. Their love was old love, from the very day they leaned in for their first, breathless kiss. Never fumbling or searching. What they yearned for was already there. and this: “Then I’d like to wake up. You know. Wake up for real. ..." because it just perfectly emphasized the dream-like quality of the whole piece.

Also, the whole section when Remus is reacting to the things people said to him about his friends after the events of 1981? Wonderful. That's exactly what people would have said and his reactions/triggered memories are just so exactly Remus. I had to read that part twice, it was so good.

[huldrejenta]

Thank goodness it is Christmas and we are really having a good run of happier endings this year in Small Gifts.
Yes! I love hopeful endings, and I couldn't leave everything too angsty.

Thank you so much for your lovely words!
The section with the voices in Remus' head and what people were saying, was the first section I wrote for this piece. So it set the mood for the rest of the story.