Fic: Christmas in London Town for solidbaby!

[closet_zebra]

Title: Just This.
Author: closet_zebra
Recipient: solidbaby [But she sadly seems to be deleted now?!! :(]
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 2010
Summary: Remus spends a few Christmassy days in London with Mr. Sirius Black. :)
Author's notes: Christmas in London, Fingerless gloves and Christmas 70s pop songs were the prompts. This fluffy, snowy little fic is the result. I hope

Comments

[brighty18]

This is absolutely adorable and I love the way that you make Sirius' excitement so palpable. He has this wonderful, almost dog-like enthusiasm, and his happiness is contagious. The problem is though, that on that train, sat in one of those cheap red seats, probably getting biscuit crumbs in their lap is the one thing that makes Sirius go from the coolest boy in the room to the kind of boy who needs a pocket organiser and a fire engine red lunch box. The boy with soft hair in the colour of too-many-times-washed blond and that slightly sarcastic smile.
That feels VERY Sirius to me.

Yet, none of it matters, because Remus’ smile warms him through and he feels terribly romantic and all grown up to be all alone in a big city with the boy of his dreams.
How true that is! You capture that sense of excitement (both holiday excitement and the thrill of having time to themselves) very nincely. In fact, you capture that marvelous cusp of boyhood and maturity exceedingly well, and make the reader very much feel what Sirius does.

He doesn’t want Christmas everyday. It’d be too much to handle Remus like this all year. He doesn’t want Christmas everyday because he’d miss Remus’ summer freckles and his skinny legs when they wear shorts in the hot weather. He wants this, everyday, this feeling of safety and love that is almost startling and doesn’t quite feel right at his age. He wants them, him and Remus, against the world like a couple of rascals, eating cookies and dodging the rain. He wants this.

***sighs***